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    net: mvneta: use per_cpu stats to fix an SMP lock up · 74c41b04
    willy tarreau authored
    Stats writers are mvneta_rx() and mvneta_tx(). They don't lock anything
    when they update the stats, and as a result, it randomly happens that
    the stats freeze on SMP if two updates happen during stats retrieval.
    This is very easily reproducible by starting two HTTP servers and binding
    each of them to a different CPU, then consulting /proc/net/dev in loops
    during transfers, the interface should immediately lock up. This issue
    also randomly happens upon link state changes during transfers, because
    the stats are collected in this situation, but it takes more attempts to
    reproduce it.
    
    The comments in netdevice.h suggest using per_cpu stats instead to get
    rid of this issue.
    
    This patch implements this. It merges both rx_stats and tx_stats into
    a single "stats" member with a single syncp. Both mvneta_rx() and
    mvneta_rx() now only update the a single CPU's counters.
    
    In turn, mvneta_get_stats64() does the summing by iterating over all CPUs
    to get their respective stats.
    
    With this change, stats are still correct and no more lockup is encountered.
    
    Note that this bug was present since the first import of the mvneta
    driver.  It might make sense to backport it to some stable trees. If
    so, it depends on "d33dc73 net: mvneta: increase the 64-bit rx/tx stats
    out of the hot path".
    
    Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
    Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarArnaud Ebalard <arno@natisbad.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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