From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.olt...@nxp.com> There is a desire to standardize the counters that have previously been reported through ethtool statistics into something that can be more uniformly queried from user space. The ndo_get_stats64 are a good candidate to keep standardized counters, as well as add new ones (like RMON MIBs) but unfortunately, as things stand, migration will not be smooth sailing if the ndo_get_stats64 does not offer the same calling context as ethtool does. Namely, currently ndo_get_stats64 assumes atomic context, and this series would like to change that.
The reason why sleeping while retrieving counters would be desirable in the first place is that if we have hardware that needs to be accessed through a slow bus like SPI, or through a firmware. Today we cannot do that directly in .ndo_get_stats64, so we would have to poll counters periodically and return a cached (not up to date) copy in the atomic NDO callback. This is undesirable on both ends: more work than strictly needed is being done, and the end result is also worse (not guaranteed to be up to date). Also, retrieving counters from the hardware rather than software counters incremented by the driver is more compatible with the concept of interfaces with offload for L2 or L3 forwarding, where the CPU otherwise never has a chance to keep accurate counters for most of the traffic. I could not test most of the drivers that were modified, so the only guarantee is that make allyesconfig passes. Changes in v5: - Changed bonding and net_failover to use rcu_read_lock(). - Actually propagating errors from bond_get_stats now. Changes in v4: - Propagated errors from ndo_get_stats64. Changes in v3: - Resolved some memory leak issues in the bonding patch 10/12. Changes in v2: - Addressed the recursion issues in .ndo_get_stats64 from bonding and net_failover. - Renamed netdev_lists_lock to netif_lists_lock - Stopped taking netif_lists_lock from drivers as much as possible. Vladimir Oltean (16): net: mark dev_base_lock for deprecation net: introduce a mutex for the netns interface lists net: procfs: hold netif_lists_lock when retrieving device statistics net: sysfs: don't hold dev_base_lock while retrieving device statistics s390/appldata_net_sum: hold the netdev lists lock when retrieving device statistics parisc/led: hold the netdev lists lock when retrieving device statistics net: remove return value from dev_get_stats net: allow ndo_get_stats64 to return an int error code scsi: fcoe: propagate errors from dev_get_stats net: openvswitch: propagate errors from dev_get_stats net: propagate errors from dev_get_stats net: terminate errors from dev_get_stats net: openvswitch: ensure dev_get_stats can sleep net: net_failover: ensure .ndo_get_stats64 can sleep net: bonding: ensure .ndo_get_stats64 can sleep net: mark ndo_get_stats64 as being able to sleep Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst | 8 +- Documentation/networking/statistics.rst | 9 +- 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