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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] tg3: fix meaningless hw_stats reading after tg3_halt memset 0 hw_stats
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 8:15 PM, Zumeng Chen <zumeng.chen@gmail.com> wrote:

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.h
> index 3b5e98e..6727d93 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.h
> @@ -3352,6 +3352,7 @@ struct tg3 {
> struct pci_dev *pdev_peer;
>
> struct tg3_hw_stats *hw_stats;
> + bool hw_stats_flag;

You can just add another bit to enum TG3_FLAGS for this purpose.

While this scheme will probably work, I think a better and more
elegant way to fix this is to use RCU.

> dma_addr_t stats_mapping;
> struct work_struct reset_task;
>
> --
> 2.9.3
>

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