netdev - Re: [PATCH] b44: add 64 bit stats

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Date:	Fri, 20 Jul 2012 22:22:40 -0400
From:	Kevin Groeneveld <kgroeneveld@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] b44: add 64 bit stats

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Kevin Groeneveld <kgroeneveld@...il.com> wrote:
>> In fact all network drivers should use the _bh version.
>> Could you send a patch for all of them, based on net-next tree ?
>
> Sure, I can work on that.  It should be a relatively easy thing to
> update.  I can probably send a patch within the next couple days.

As I have been working on the patch I have been trying convince myself
that each case I change actually needs the _bh version of the
functions instead of blindly changing them.  So far I have found the
following where the change seems to make sense:

drivers/net/dummy.c
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-main.c
drivers/net/loopback.c
drivers/net/virtio_net.c
net/bridge/br_device.c

The only two other places in the networking code that use
u64_stats_fetch_begin/u64_stats_fetch_retry are:

net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c

Do these need to be updated as well?  Looking at these files quickly
and with my limited knowledge of the kernel I am not sure if they
update the stats in a BH context or not.

Kevin
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