Hi guys,

>> This patch make no sense. Nothing stops compiler or CPU to write
>> ->page into memory before ->page_dma .
>>
>
>I thought that too,but  the call to dma_map... is a call to functon.
>Shouldn't force the compiler the make things in order. Or maybe the
>assignment to rxb->page_dma can be reordered... I am not really sure.

[MV] In that case I'll explicitly add barriers here and elsewhere...there is a 
race condition here and it needs to be resolved.

Thanks,
Meenakshi
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