gianfar: Add I/O barriers when touching buffer descriptor ownership.
The hardware must not see that is given ownership of a buffer until it is
completely written, and when the driver receives ownership of a buffer,
it must ensure that any other reads to the buffer reflect its final
state. Thus, I/O barriers are added where required.
Without this patch, I have observed GCC reordering the setting of
bdp->length and bdp->status in gfar_new_skb. Hardware reordering
was also theoretically possible.
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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