Re: [PATCH net-next 2/5] niu: fix 64 bit statistics on 32 bit platform

[Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>]

On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 13:35 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> This resolves issues with NIU driver statistics wrapping on 32 bit SMP.
> Use stats_sync wrapper for bytes and packets, and change error counters
> to natural word size (unsigned long).
[...]
>  static void niu_get_tx_stats(struct niu *np,
>  			     struct rtnl_link_stats64 *stats)
>  {
> -	u64 pkts, errors, bytes;
>  	struct tx_ring_info *tx_rings;
>  	int i;
>  
> -	pkts = errors = bytes = 0;
> -
>  	tx_rings = ACCESS_ONCE(np->tx_rings);
>  	if (!tx_rings)
> -		goto no_rings;
> +		return;
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < np->num_tx_rings; i++) {
>  		struct tx_ring_info *rp = &tx_rings[i];
> +		unsigned int start;
> +		u64 pkts, bytes;
>  
> -		pkts += rp->tx_packets;
> -		bytes += rp->tx_bytes;
> -		errors += rp->tx_errors;
> +		do {
> +			start = u64_stats_fetch_begin(&rp->syncp);
> +			pkts   = rp->tx_packets;
> +			bytes  = rp->tx_bytes;
> +		} while (u64_stats_fetch_retry(&rp->syncp, start));
> +
> +		stats->tx_packets += pkts;
> +		stats->tx_bytes   += bytes;
> +		stats->tx_errors  += rp->tx_errors;
>  	}
[...]

It looks like you also need to update release_tx_packet() where these
stats are written.

Ben.

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