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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Hold mutex while doing stats operations
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 16:02:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180103150207.GA3401@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tdfdncl.fsf@weeman.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>

On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 09:32:42AM -0500, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> writes:
> 
> > -static int mv88e6xxx_get_sset_count(struct dsa_switch *ds, int port)
> > +static int _mv88e6xxx_get_sset_count(struct dsa_switch *ds, int port)
> >  {
> >  	struct mv88e6xxx_chip *chip = ds->priv;
> >  
> > @@ -702,6 +706,19 @@ static int mv88e6xxx_get_sset_count(struct dsa_switch *ds, int port)
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> 
> We worked to remove the old underscore prefix convention. Please don't
> add it back... Simply rework the return statements of
> mv88e6xxx_get_sset_count to lock/unlock there.

Hi Vivien

That makes mv88e6xxx_get_sset_count quite complex, making it error
prone. Doing the locking in a separate function makes is very clear
the lock is held and then correctly released. So i will just rename
_mv88e6xxx_get_sset_count() to mv88e6xxx_get_sset_count_locked()

    Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-03 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-03 14:09 [PATCH net-next 0/5] Export SERDES stats via ethtool -S Andrew Lunn
2018-01-03 14:09 ` [PATCH net-next 1/5] dsa: Pass the port to get_sset_count() Andrew Lunn
2018-01-03 14:41   ` Vivien Didelot
2018-01-03 14:09 ` [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Hold mutex while doing stats operations Andrew Lunn
2018-01-03 14:32   ` Vivien Didelot
2018-01-03 15:02     ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2018-01-03 15:43       ` Vivien Didelot
2018-01-03 14:09 ` [PATCH net-next 3/5] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Allow the SERDES interfaces to have statistics Andrew Lunn
2018-01-03 14:54   ` Vivien Didelot
2018-01-03 14:09 ` [PATCH net-next 4/5] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Add helper to determining if port has SERDES Andrew Lunn
2018-01-03 15:00   ` Vivien Didelot
2018-01-03 14:09 ` [PATCH net-next 5/5] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Get mv88e6352 SERDES statistics Andrew Lunn
2018-01-03 15:31   ` Vivien Didelot
2018-01-03 17:58 ` [PATCH net-next 0/5] Export SERDES stats via ethtool -S Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-01-04 21:07   ` Andrew Lunn

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