netdev - Re: [PATCH net V5 1/2] net/sched: taprio: fix picos_per

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Date:   Thu, 28 Mar 2019 18:12:06 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Leandro Dorileo <leandro.maciel.dorileo@...el.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@...el.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        vedang.patel@...el.com, andre.guedes@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net V5 1/2] net/sched: taprio: fix picos_per_byte miscalculation

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 5:20 PM Leandro Dorileo
<leandro.maciel.dorileo@...el.com> wrote:
> +static int taprio_dev_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long event,
> +                              void *ptr)
> +{
> +       struct net_device *dev = netdev_notifier_info_to_dev(ptr);
> +       struct taprio_sched *q;
> +       struct net_device *qdev;
> +
> +       ASSERT_RTNL();
> +
> +       if (event != NETDEV_UP && event != NETDEV_CHANGE)
> +               return NOTIFY_DONE;
> +
> +       spin_lock(&taprio_list_lock);
> +       list_for_each_entry(q, &taprio_list, taprio_list) {
> +               qdev = qdisc_dev(q->root);
> +               if (qdev == dev) {
> +                       taprio_set_picos_per_byte(dev, q);
> +                       break;

Is it safe to call __ethtool_get_link_ksettings() with spinlock held?
I mean is it blocking?

Please audit all the dev->ethtool_ops->get_link_ksettings(),
I just look at a few of them, it seems good.

Thanks.