Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5] rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats

From: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 19:40:08 -0700

On 4/18/16, 7:22 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 21:48 -0400, David Miller wrote:
>
>> And anyways, I get unaligned accesses without Roopa's changes :-/
>>
>> davem@patience:~$ ip l l
>> [3391066.656729] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[7d6c14] loopback_get_stats64+0x74/0xa0
>> [3391066.672020] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[7d6c18] loopback_get_stats64+0x78/0xa0
>> [3391066.687282] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[7d6c1c] loopback_get_stats64+0x7c/0xa0
>> [3391066.702573] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[7d6c20] loopback_get_stats64+0x80/0xa0
>> [3391066.717858] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[8609dc] dev_get_stats+0x3c/0xe0
> Yes, rtnl_fill_stats() probably has the same mistake.
>
> commit 550bce59baf3f3059cd4ae1e268f08f2d2cb1d5c
> Author: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Fri Apr 15 20:36:25 2016 -0700
>
>     rtnetlink: rtnl_fill_stats: avoid an unnecssary stats copy
>     
>     This patch passes netlink attr data ptr directly to dev_get_stats
>     thus elimiating a stats copy.
>     
>     Suggested-by: David Miller <[email-masked]>
>     Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email-masked]>
>
>
>
David, if you revert the one in rtnl_fill_stats, i will take care of the dev_get_stats in RTM_GETSTATS in v6.

thanks,
Roopa