ixgbevf: Make next_to_watch a pointer and adjust memory barriers to avoid races

This change is meant to address several race issues that become possible
because next_to_watch could possibly be set to a value that shows that the
descriptor is done when it is not.  In order to correct that we instead make
next_to_watch a pointer that is set to NULL during cleanup, and set to the
eop_desc after the descriptor rings have been written.

To enforce proper ordering the next_to_watch pointer is not set until after
a wmb writing the values to the last descriptor in a transmit.  In order to
guarantee that the descriptor is not read until after the eop_desc we use the
read_barrier_depends which is only really necessary on the alpha architecture.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Greg Rose <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Sibai Li <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]>

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