netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: fix handling of upper half of STATS_TYPE

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Message-ID: <20190529131053.GB13966@t480s.localdomain>
Date:   Wed, 29 May 2019 13:10:53 -0400
From:   Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>
To:     Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@...vas.dk>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <Rasmus.Villemoes@...vas.se>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: fix handling of upper half of
 STATS_TYPE_PORT

Hi Rasmus, Andrew,

On Wed, 29 May 2019 06:42:53 +0000, Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@...vas.dk> wrote:
> On 28/05/2019 15.44, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 01:17:10PM +0000, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> >> Currently, the upper half of a 4-byte STATS_TYPE_PORT statistic ends
> >> up in bits 47:32 of the return value, instead of bits 31:16 as they
> >> should.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@...vas.dk>
> > 
> > Hi Rasmus
> > 
> > Please include a Fixes tag, to indicate where the problem was
> > introduced. In this case, i think it was:
> > 
> > Fixes: 6e46e2d821bb ("net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Fix u64 statistics")
> > 
> > And set the Subject to [PATCH net] to indicate this should be applied
> > to the net tree.
> 
> Will do.
> 
> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c b/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c
> >> index 370434bdbdab..317553d2cb21 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c
> >> @@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ static uint64_t _mv88e6xxx_get_ethtool_stat(struct mv88e6xxx_chip *chip,
> >>  			err = mv88e6xxx_port_read(chip, port, s->reg + 1, &reg);
> >>  			if (err)
> >>  				return U64_MAX;
> >> -			high = reg;
> >> +			low |= ((u32)reg) << 16;
> >>  		}
> >>  		break;
> >>  	case STATS_TYPE_BANK1:
> > 
> > What i don't like about this is how the function finishes:
> > 
> >        	}
> >         value = (((u64)high) << 32) | low;
> >         return value;
> > }
> > 
> > A better fix might be
> > 
> > -		break
> > +		value = (((u64)high) << 16 | low;
> > +		return value;
> 
> Why? It's odd to have the u32 "high" sometimes represent the high 32
> bits, sometimes the third 16 bits. It would make it harder to support an
> 8-byte STATS_TYPE_PORT statistic. I think the code is much cleaner if
> each case is just responsible for providing the upper/lower 32 bits,
> then have the common case combine them; . It's just that in the
> STATS_TYPE_BANK cases, the 32 bits are assembled from two 16 bit values
> by a helper (mv88e6xxx_g1_stats_read), while it is "open-coded" in the
> first case.

Here "low" and "high" are u32 and refer to the upper and lower halves
of the u64 returned value. For a 4-byte STATS_TYPE_PORT value, the
second read refers to the bits 31:16, thus belongs to (the upper half
of) the lower half of the 64-bit returned value, i.e. "low".

The current return value is correct, as well as your patch.


Thanks,
Vivien