virtio-net: fix a race on 32bit arches
authorEric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Tue, 5 Jun 2012 22:35:24 +0000 (22:35 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <[email protected]>
Mon, 11 Jun 2012 03:23:20 +0000 (20:23 -0700)
commit83a27052c3376793bc879e00e6e6805d6fb7aab9
tree5ee6d28233be328ac9f14ad0f0aa674a498b28d2
parent7dbb491878a2c51d372a8890fa45a8ff80358af1
virtio-net: fix a race on 32bit arches

commit 3fa2a1df909 (virtio-net: per cpu 64 bit stats (v2)) added a race
on 32bit arches.

We must use separate syncp for rx and tx path as they can be run at the
same time on different cpus. Thus one sequence increment can be lost and
readers spin forever.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
drivers/net/virtio_net.c