[PATCH v2] nvme: avoid cqe corruption when update at the same time as read

[Johannes Thumshirn]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 01:30:53PM +0100, Marta Rybczynska wrote:
> Make sure the CQE phase (validity) is read before the rest of the
> structure. The phase bit is the highest address and the CQE
> read will happen on most platforms from lower to upper addresses
> and will be done by multiple non-atomic loads. If the structure
> is updated by PCI during the reads from the processor, the
> processor may get a corrupted copy.
> 
> The addition of the new nvme_cqe_valid function that verifies
> the validity bit also allows refactoring of the other CQE read
> sequences.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marta Rybczynska <marta.rybczynska at kalray.eu>

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn at suse.de>

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