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i40e: stop using cmpxchg flow in i40e_set_priv_flags()

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Now that the only places which modify flags are either (a) during
initialization prior to creating a netdevice, or (b) while holding the
rtnl lock, we no longer need the cmpxchg64 call in i40e_set_priv_flags.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Jacob Keller 2018-03-16 01:26:36 -07:00 committed by Jeff Kirsher
parent f0ee70a042
commit 886ff146a7
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@ -4436,21 +4436,12 @@ flags_complete:
}
}
/* Compare and exchange the new flags into place. If we failed, that
* is if cmpxchg returns anything but the old value, this means that
* something else has modified the flags variable since we copied it
* originally. We'll just punt with an error and log something in the
* message buffer.
*
* This is the point of no return for this function. We need to have
* checked any discrepancies or misconfigurations and returned
* EOPNOTSUPP before updating pf->flags here.
/* Now that we've checked to ensure that the new flags are valid, load
* them into place. Since we only modify flags either (a) during
* initialization or (b) while holding the RTNL lock, we don't need
* anything fancy here.
*/
if (cmpxchg64(&pf->flags, orig_flags, new_flags) != orig_flags) {
dev_warn(&pf->pdev->dev,
"Unable to update pf->flags as it was modified by another thread...\n");
return -EAGAIN;
}
pf->flags = new_flags;
/* Process any additional changes needed as a result of flag changes.
* The changed_flags value reflects the list of bits that were