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From: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Catherine Sullivan <csully@google.com>,
	David Awogbemila <awogbemila@google.com>,
	Dimitris Michailidis <dmichail@fungible.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Hans Ulli Kroll <ulli.kroll@googlemail.com>,
	Jeroen de Borst <jeroendb@google.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, oss-drivers@corigine.com,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/2] net: Use u64_stats_fetch_begin_irq() for stats fetch.
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 11:55:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YwyNDi3p72DBvZ/3@corigine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220825113645.212996-3-bigeasy@linutronix.de>

On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 01:36:45PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 32bit-UP u64_stats_fetch_begin() disables only preemption. If the
> reader is in preemptible context and the writer side
> (u64_stats_update_begin*()) runs in an interrupt context (IRQ or
> softirq) then the writer can update the stats during the read operation.
> This update remains undetected.
> 
> Use u64_stats_fetch_begin_irq() to ensure the stats fetch on 32bit-UP
> are not interrupted by a writer. 32bit-SMP remains unaffected by this
> change.

Thanks,

for the NFP driver portion:

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>

      reply	other threads:[~2022-08-29  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20220825113645.212996-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de>
2022-08-25 11:36 ` [PATCH net 2/2] net: Use u64_stats_fetch_begin_irq() for stats fetch Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2022-08-29  9:55   ` Simon Horman [this message]

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