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[RFC] vhost: fix barrier pairing

Message ID 20100511172633.GA9091@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Michael S. Tsirkin May 11, 2010, 5:26 p.m. UTC
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diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index e69d238..14fa2f5 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -1035,7 +1035,10 @@  int vhost_add_used(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, unsigned int head, int len)
 /* This actually signals the guest, using eventfd. */
 void vhost_signal(struct vhost_dev *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
 {
-	__u16 flags = 0;
+	__u16 flags;
+	/* Flush out used index updates. */
+	smp_mb();
+
 	if (get_user(flags, &vq->avail->flags)) {
 		vq_err(vq, "Failed to get flags");
 		return;