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[5.12.227.87]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id x6sm3957737edl.67.2021.01.08.08.32.42 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 08 Jan 2021 08:32:43 -0800 (PST) From: Vladimir Oltean To: "David S . Miller" , Jakub Kicinski Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn , Florian Fainelli , Cong Wang , Stephen Hemminger , Eric Dumazet , George McCollister , Oleksij Rempel , Jay Vosburgh , Veaceslav Falico , Andy Gospodarek , Arnd Bergmann , Taehee Yoo , Jiri Pirko , Florian Westphal , Nikolay Aleksandrov , Pravin B Shelar , Sridhar Samudrala , Saeed Mahameed Subject: [PATCH v5 net-next 16/16] net: mark ndo_get_stats64 as being able to sleep Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 18:31:59 +0200 Message-Id: <20210108163159.358043-17-olteanv@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 In-Reply-To: <20210108163159.358043-1-olteanv@gmail.com> References: <20210108163159.358043-1-olteanv@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org From: Vladimir Oltean Now that all callers have been converted to not use atomic context when calling dev_get_stats, it is time to update the documentation and put a notice in the function that it expects process context. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean --- Changes in v5: None. Changes in v4: None. Changes in v3: None. Changes in v2: Updated the documentation. Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst | 8 ++++++-- Documentation/networking/statistics.rst | 9 ++++----- net/core/dev.c | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst index 5a85fcc80c76..944599722c76 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst @@ -64,8 +64,12 @@ ndo_do_ioctl: Context: process ndo_get_stats: - Synchronization: dev_base_lock rwlock. - Context: nominally process, but don't sleep inside an rwlock + Synchronization: + none. netif_lists_lock(net) might be held, but not guaranteed. + It is illegal to hold rtnl_lock() in this method, since it will + cause a lock inversion with netif_lists_lock and a deadlock. + Context: + process ndo_start_xmit: Synchronization: __netif_tx_lock spinlock. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/statistics.rst b/Documentation/networking/statistics.rst index 234abedc29b2..ad3e353df0dd 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/statistics.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/statistics.rst @@ -155,11 +155,10 @@ Drivers must ensure best possible compliance with Please note for example that detailed error statistics must be added into the general `rx_error` / `tx_error` counters. -The `.ndo_get_stats64` callback can not sleep because of accesses -via `/proc/net/dev`. If driver may sleep when retrieving the statistics -from the device it should do so periodically asynchronously and only return -a recent copy from `.ndo_get_stats64`. Ethtool interrupt coalescing interface -allows setting the frequency of refreshing statistics, if needed. +Drivers may sleep when retrieving the statistics from the device, or they might +read the counters periodically and only return in `.ndo_get_stats64` a recent +copy collected asynchronously. In the latter case, the ethtool interrupt +coalescing interface allows setting the frequency of refreshing statistics. Retrieving ethtool statistics is a multi-syscall process, drivers are advised to keep the number of statistics constant to avoid race conditions with diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 30facac95d5e..afd0e226efd4 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -10409,6 +10409,8 @@ int __must_check dev_get_stats(struct net_device *dev, const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops; int err = 0; + might_sleep(); + if (ops->ndo_get_stats64) { memset(storage, 0, sizeof(*storage)); err = ops->ndo_get_stats64(dev, storage); -- 2.25.1