netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] net/cxgb4: Don't retrieve stats during recovery

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Message-Id: <20140123.132137.1896222826457322803.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:21:37 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shangw@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dm@...lsio.com, ben@...adent.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] net/cxgb4: Don't retrieve stats during recovery

From: Gavin Shan <shangw@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:27:35 +0800

> We possibly retrieve the adapter's statistics during EEH recovery
> and that should be disallowed. Otherwise, it would possibly incur
> replicate EEH error and EEH recovery is going to fail eventually.
> 
> The patch reuses statistics lock and checks net_device is attached
> before going to retrieve statistics, so that the problem can be
> avoided.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied.
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