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r8169: fix memory corruption on retrieval of hardware statistics.
authorFrancois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 00:53:26 +0000 (01:53 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 02:34:04 +0000 (21:34 -0500)
commit287cbf416d0f72b9cb6bb467f1d55dfd8f8f99e6
tree01fd49eb19015b753a0714ed690444c3c1a42eeetree | snapshot
parent8cbdb57453a0a3cdece6e6151549ed9577357ffacommit | diff
r8169: fix memory corruption on retrieval of hardware statistics.

Hardware statistics retrieval hurts in tight invocation loops.

Avoid extraneous write and enforce strict ordering of writes targeted to
the tally counters dump area address registers.

Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Tested-by: Oliver Freyermuth <o.freyermuth@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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