Re: [PATCH] usb: gadget: rndis: don't use dev_get_stats()

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Mon Sep 20 2010 - 14:55:26 EST


Le lundi 20 septembre 2010 Ã 11:27 -0700, David Miller a Ãcrit :
> From: Michal Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:23:04 +0200
>
> > This commit removes the call to dev_get_stats() from the
> > gen_ndis_query_resp() function. Since spin_lock_bh() was
> > added to dev_txq_stats_fold() the call started causing
> > warnings. This is because gen_ndis_query_resp() can be
> > (indirectly) called from rndis_command_complete() which is
> > called with interrupts disabled.
> >
> > While at it, this commit also changes the
> > gen_ndis_query_resp() function so that "net" local variable is
> > used instead of "rndis_per_dev_params[configNr].dev" in all
> > places this is referenced.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The way this works is dev_get_stats() takes that "temp" object the
> caller provides, it writes the correct statistics into it (with any
> necessary translations), and then passes back a pointer to it.
>
> See net/core/dev.c:dev_get_stats()
>
> You must use dev_get_stats() or else the statistics won't be properly
> converted.
>
> Like I originally suggested, you need to rearrange the code in this
> driver such that the gen_ndis_query_resp() work happens in a tasklet,
> workqueue, or some other non-hardware-irq context.

Hmm, maybe its a bit difficult to fix this problem for stable kernel.

What we could do is assume rndis wont use a device driver that actually
needs txq tx stats folding, and just use following interim patch ?

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index b9b22a3..31d5424 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -5288,6 +5288,14 @@ void dev_txq_stats_fold(const struct net_device *dev,
unsigned int i;
struct netdev_queue *txq;

+ /* temporary hack : rndis calls us under hard irq */
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq())) {
+ stats->tx_bytes = dev->stats.tx_bytes;
+ stats->tx_packets = dev->stats.tx_packets;
+ stats->tx_dropped = dev->stats.tx_dropped;
+ return;
+ }
+
for (i = 0; i < dev->num_tx_queues; i++) {
txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(dev, i);
spin_lock_bh(&txq->_xmit_lock);


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