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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2016-05-25 09:50:38 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-05-25 22:15:50 -0700
commit9ed17db17fb01a7be5b84558b768c091bdf8bb41 (patch)
tree43fd2851d5d3984ea4f19dabec28885e8970b61c /drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox
parent45acbac609e73991dd9c3c9b7ffd03ddb8c939ef (diff)
downloadlinux-9ed17db17fb01a7be5b84558b768c091bdf8bb41.tar.gz
net/mlx4_en: get rid of ret_stats
mlx4 uses a private struct net_device_stats in a vain attempt
to avoid races.

This is buggy because multiple cpus could call mlx4_en_get_stats()
at the same time, so ret_stats can not guarantee stable results.

To fix this, we need to switch to ndo_get_stats64() as this
method provides per-thread storage.

This allows to reduce mlx4_en_priv bloat.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Cc: Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c11
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h1
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
index bd637c4eff13..a4fc6e966505 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
@@ -1296,15 +1296,16 @@ static void mlx4_en_tx_timeout(struct net_device *dev)
 }
 
 
-static struct net_device_stats *mlx4_en_get_stats(struct net_device *dev)
+static struct rtnl_link_stats64 *
+mlx4_en_get_stats64(struct net_device *dev, struct rtnl_link_stats64 *stats)
 {
 	struct mlx4_en_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
 
 	spin_lock_bh(&priv->stats_lock);
-	memcpy(&priv->ret_stats, &priv->stats, sizeof(priv->stats));
+	netdev_stats_to_stats64(stats, &priv->stats);
 	spin_unlock_bh(&priv->stats_lock);
 
-	return &priv->ret_stats;
+	return stats;
 }
 
 static void mlx4_en_set_default_moderation(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv)
@@ -2487,7 +2488,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops mlx4_netdev_ops = {
 	.ndo_stop		= mlx4_en_close,
 	.ndo_start_xmit		= mlx4_en_xmit,
 	.ndo_select_queue	= mlx4_en_select_queue,
-	.ndo_get_stats		= mlx4_en_get_stats,
+	.ndo_get_stats64	= mlx4_en_get_stats64,
 	.ndo_set_rx_mode	= mlx4_en_set_rx_mode,
 	.ndo_set_mac_address	= mlx4_en_set_mac,
 	.ndo_validate_addr	= eth_validate_addr,
@@ -2519,7 +2520,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops mlx4_netdev_ops_master = {
 	.ndo_stop		= mlx4_en_close,
 	.ndo_start_xmit		= mlx4_en_xmit,
 	.ndo_select_queue	= mlx4_en_select_queue,
-	.ndo_get_stats		= mlx4_en_get_stats,
+	.ndo_get_stats64	= mlx4_en_get_stats64,
 	.ndo_set_rx_mode	= mlx4_en_set_rx_mode,
 	.ndo_set_mac_address	= mlx4_en_set_mac,
 	.ndo_validate_addr	= eth_validate_addr,
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
index 9a9124031fc7..bfda84df8aae 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
@@ -484,7 +484,6 @@ struct mlx4_en_priv {
 	struct net_device *dev;
 	unsigned long active_vlans[BITS_TO_LONGS(VLAN_N_VID)];
 	struct net_device_stats stats;
-	struct net_device_stats ret_stats;
 	struct mlx4_en_port_state port_state;
 	spinlock_t stats_lock;
 	struct ethtool_flow_id ethtool_rules[MAX_NUM_OF_FS_RULES];