Corinna Vinschen <vinsc...@redhat.com> : [...] > - I'm pretty new to this stuff, so I don't understand this: > > The dma_alloc_coherent(...,GFP_KERNEL) call is not new in the code, > it's there since at least 2010. It appears to work fine in the > context of @get_ethtool_stats. Why does this not work in the context > of @ndo_get_stats64?
get_ethtool_stats is only called under RTNL, not with spinlock held. ndo_get_stats64 is called under dev_base_lock from sysfs. -- Ueimor -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
