Re: [PATCH] usb: gadget: rndis: don't use dev_get_stats()

["Michał Nazarewicz" <m.nazarewicz@samsung.com>]

>> From: Michal Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@samsung.com>
>>> This commit removes the call to dev_get_stats() from the
>>> gen_ndis_query_resp() function.  Since spin_lock_bh() was
>>> added to dev_txq_stats_fold() the call started causing
>>> warnings.  This is because gen_ndis_query_resp() can be
>>> (indirectly) called from rndis_command_complete() which is
>>> called with interrupts disabled.

> Le lundi 20 septembre 2010 à 11:27 -0700, David Miller a écrit :
>> The way this works is dev_get_stats() takes that "temp" object the
>> caller provides, it writes the correct statistics into it (with any
>> necessary translations), and then passes back a pointer to it.
[...]
>> Like I originally suggested, you need to rearrange the code in this
>> driver such that the gen_ndis_query_resp() work happens in a tasklet,
>> workqueue, or some other non-hardware-irq context.

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:48:47 +0200, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, maybe its a bit difficult to fix this problem for stable kernel.
>
> What we could do is assume rndis wont use a device driver that actually
> needs txq tx stats folding, and just use following interim patch ?
>
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index b9b22a3..31d5424 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -5288,6 +5288,14 @@ void dev_txq_stats_fold(const struct net_device *dev,
>  	unsigned int i;
>  	struct netdev_queue *txq;
>+	/* temporary hack : rndis calls us under hard irq */
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq())) {
> +		stats->tx_bytes   = dev->stats.tx_bytes;
> +		stats->tx_packets = dev->stats.tx_packets;
> +		stats->tx_dropped = dev->stats.tx_dropped;
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
>  	for (i = 0; i < dev->num_tx_queues; i++) {
>  		txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(dev, i);
>  		spin_lock_bh(&txq->_xmit_lock);

I think it's better to put such temporary fix inside RNDIS code.  It
seems there is no need to clutter the whole subsystem with temporary
fix.

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