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| author | Ben Hutchings | 2011-09-03 00:23:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Ben Hutchings | 2012-01-27 01:10:45 +0100 |
| commit | 1cb345220f135dcca24f01cc04cbb97a8242d419 (patch) | |
| tree | 059ec907cd50bd10114bd942d0ffbfa7fd080aa2 /drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.h | |
| parent | sfc: Use new names for MC shared memory layout constants (diff) | |
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sfc: Hold efx_nic::stats_lock while reading efx_nic::mac_stats
efx_nic::stats_lock is used to serialise stats updates, but each
reader was dropping it before it finished reading efx_nic::mac_stats.
If there were concurrent stats reads using procfs, or one using procfs
and one using ethtool, an update could race with a read. On a 32-bit
system, the reader could see word-tearing of 64-bit stats (32 bits of
the old value and 32 bits of the new).
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
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