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<title>linux-stable.git/include/linux/netdevice.h, branch v6.11.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>netdevice: define and allocate &amp;net_device _properly_</title>
<updated>2024-07-12T01:11:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Lobakin</name>
<email>aleksander.lobakin@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-10T11:30:28+00:00</published>
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In fact, this structure contains a flexible array at the end, but
historically its size, alignment etc., is calculated manually.
There are several instances of the structure embedded into other
structures, but also there's ongoing effort to remove them and we
could in the meantime declare &amp;net_device properly.
Declare the array explicitly, use struct_size() and store the array
size inside the structure, so that __counted_by() can be applied.
Don't use PTR_ALIGN(), as SLUB itself tries its best to ensure the
allocated buffer is aligned to what the user expects.
Also, change its alignment from %NETDEV_ALIGN to the cacheline size
as per several suggestions on the netdev ML.

bloat-o-meter for vmlinux:

free_netdev                                  445     440      -5
netdev_freemem                                24       -     -24
alloc_netdev_mqs                            1481    1450     -31

On x86_64 with several NICs of different vendors, I was never able to
get a &amp;net_device pointer not aligned to the cacheline size after the
change.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin &lt;aleksander.lobakin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel &lt;przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240710113036.2125584-1-leitao@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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In fact, this structure contains a flexible array at the end, but
historically its size, alignment etc., is calculated manually.
There are several instances of the structure embedded into other
structures, but also there's ongoing effort to remove them and we
could in the meantime declare &amp;net_device properly.
Declare the array explicitly, use struct_size() and store the array
size inside the structure, so that __counted_by() can be applied.
Don't use PTR_ALIGN(), as SLUB itself tries its best to ensure the
allocated buffer is aligned to what the user expects.
Also, change its alignment from %NETDEV_ALIGN to the cacheline size
as per several suggestions on the netdev ML.

bloat-o-meter for vmlinux:

free_netdev                                  445     440      -5
netdev_freemem                                24       -     -24
alloc_netdev_mqs                            1481    1450     -31

On x86_64 with several NICs of different vendors, I was never able to
get a &amp;net_device pointer not aligned to the cacheline size after the
change.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin &lt;aleksander.lobakin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel &lt;przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240710113036.2125584-1-leitao@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ethtool: move firmware flashing flag to struct ethtool_netdev_state</title>
<updated>2024-07-04T22:45:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Edward Cree</name>
<email>ecree.xilinx@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-03T12:18:49+00:00</published>
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Commit 31e0aa99dc02 ("ethtool: Veto some operations during firmware flashing process")
 added a flag module_fw_flash_in_progress to struct net_device.  As
 this is ethtool related state, move it to the recently created
 struct ethtool_netdev_state, accessed via the 'ethtool' member of
 struct net_device.

Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Edward Cree &lt;ecree.xilinx@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubiak &lt;michal.kubiak@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240703121849.652893-1-edward.cree@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit 31e0aa99dc02 ("ethtool: Veto some operations during firmware flashing process")
 added a flag module_fw_flash_in_progress to struct net_device.  As
 this is ethtool related state, move it to the recently created
 struct ethtool_netdev_state, accessed via the 'ethtool' member of
 struct net_device.

Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Edward Cree &lt;ecree.xilinx@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubiak &lt;michal.kubiak@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240703121849.652893-1-edward.cree@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: move ethtool-related netdev state into its own struct</title>
<updated>2024-06-29T01:53:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Edward Cree</name>
<email>ecree.xilinx@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-27T15:33:46+00:00</published>
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net_dev-&gt;ethtool is a pointer to new struct ethtool_netdev_state, which
 currently contains only the wol_enabled field.

Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Edward Cree &lt;ecree.xilinx@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel &lt;przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/293a562278371de7534ed1eb17531838ca090633.1719502239.git.ecree.xilinx@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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net_dev-&gt;ethtool is a pointer to new struct ethtool_netdev_state, which
 currently contains only the wol_enabled field.

Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Edward Cree &lt;ecree.xilinx@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel &lt;przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/293a562278371de7534ed1eb17531838ca090633.1719502239.git.ecree.xilinx@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ethtool: Veto some operations during firmware flashing process</title>
<updated>2024-06-28T09:48:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Danielle Ratson</name>
<email>danieller@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-27T14:08:52+00:00</published>
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Some operations cannot be performed during the firmware flashing
process.

For example:

- Port must be down during the whole flashing process to avoid packet loss
  while committing reset for example.

- Writing to EEPROM interrupts the flashing process, so operations like
  ethtool dump, module reset, get and set power mode should be vetoed.

- Split port firmware flashing should be vetoed.

In order to veto those scenarios, add a flag in 'struct net_device' that
indicates when a firmware flash is taking place on the module and use it
to prevent interruptions during the process.

Signed-off-by: Danielle Ratson &lt;danieller@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Some operations cannot be performed during the firmware flashing
process.

For example:

- Port must be down during the whole flashing process to avoid packet loss
  while committing reset for example.

- Writing to EEPROM interrupts the flashing process, so operations like
  ethtool dump, module reset, get and set power mode should be vetoed.

- Split port firmware flashing should be vetoed.

In order to veto those scenarios, add a flag in 'struct net_device' that
indicates when a firmware flash is taking place on the module and use it
to prevent interruptions during the process.

Signed-off-by: Danielle Ratson &lt;danieller@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ethtool: provide customized dim profile management</title>
<updated>2024-06-26T00:15:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heng Qi</name>
<email>hengqi@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-21T10:13:51+00:00</published>
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The NetDIM library, currently leveraged by an array of NICs, delivers
excellent acceleration benefits. Nevertheless, NICs vary significantly
in their dim profile list prerequisites.

Specifically, virtio-net backends may present diverse sw or hw device
implementation, making a one-size-fits-all parameter list impractical.
On Alibaba Cloud, the virtio DPU's performance under the default DIM
profile falls short of expectations, partly due to a mismatch in
parameter configuration.

I also noticed that ice/idpf/ena and other NICs have customized
profilelist or placed some restrictions on dim capabilities.

Motivated by this, I tried adding new params for "ethtool -C" that provides
a per-device control to modify and access a device's interrupt parameters.

Usage
========
The target NIC is named ethx.

Assume that ethx only declares support for rx profile setting
(with DIM_PROFILE_RX flag set in profile_flags) and supports modification
of usec and pkt fields.

1. Query the currently customized list of the device

$ ethtool -c ethx
...
rx-profile:
{.usec =   1, .pkts = 256, .comps = n/a,},
{.usec =   8, .pkts = 256, .comps = n/a,},
{.usec =  64, .pkts = 256, .comps = n/a,},
{.usec = 128, .pkts = 256, .comps = n/a,},
{.usec = 256, .pkts = 256, .comps = n/a,}
tx-profile:   n/a

2. Tune
$ ethtool -C ethx rx-profile 1,1,n_2,n,n_3,3,n_4,4,n_n,5,n
"n" means do not modify this field.
$ ethtool -c ethx
...
rx-profile:
{.usec =   1, .pkts =   1, .comps = n/a,},
{.usec =   2, .pkts = 256, .comps = n/a,},
{.usec =   3, .pkts =   3, .comps = n/a,},
{.usec =   4, .pkts =   4, .comps = n/a,},
{.usec = 256, .pkts =   5, .comps = n/a,}
tx-profile:   n/a

3. Hint
If the device does not support some type of customized dim profiles,
the corresponding "n/a" will display.

If the "n/a" field is being modified, -EOPNOTSUPP will be reported.

Signed-off-by: Heng Qi &lt;hengqi@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240621101353.107425-4-hengqi@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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The NetDIM library, currently leveraged by an array of NICs, delivers
excellent acceleration benefits. Nevertheless, NICs vary significantly
in their dim profile list prerequisites.

Specifically, virtio-net backends may present diverse sw or hw device
implementation, making a one-size-fits-all parameter list impractical.
On Alibaba Cloud, the virtio DPU's performance under the default DIM
profile falls short of expectations, partly due to a mismatch in
parameter configuration.

I also noticed that ice/idpf/ena and other NICs have customized
profilelist or placed some restrictions on dim capabilities.

Motivated by this, I tried adding new params for "ethtool -C" that provides
a per-device control to modify and access a device's interrupt parameters.

Usage
========
The target NIC is named ethx.

Assume that ethx only declares support for rx profile setting
(with DIM_PROFILE_RX flag set in profile_flags) and supports modification
of usec and pkt fields.

1. Query the currently customized list of the device

$ ethtool -c ethx
...
rx-profile:
{.usec =   1, .pkts = 256, .comps = n/a,},
{.usec =   8, .pkts = 256, .comps = n/a,},
{.usec =  64, .pkts = 256, .comps = n/a,},
{.usec = 128, .pkts = 256, .comps = n/a,},
{.usec = 256, .pkts = 256, .comps = n/a,}
tx-profile:   n/a

2. Tune
$ ethtool -C ethx rx-profile 1,1,n_2,n,n_3,3,n_4,4,n_n,5,n
"n" means do not modify this field.
$ ethtool -c ethx
...
rx-profile:
{.usec =   1, .pkts =   1, .comps = n/a,},
{.usec =   2, .pkts = 256, .comps = n/a,},
{.usec =   3, .pkts =   3, .comps = n/a,},
{.usec =   4, .pkts =   4, .comps = n/a,},
{.usec = 256, .pkts =   5, .comps = n/a,}
tx-profile:   n/a

3. Hint
If the device does not support some type of customized dim profiles,
the corresponding "n/a" will display.

If the "n/a" field is being modified, -EOPNOTSUPP will be reported.

Signed-off-by: Heng Qi &lt;hengqi@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240621101353.107425-4-hengqi@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dev: Use nested-BH locking for softnet_data.process_queue.</title>
<updated>2024-06-24T23:41:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-20T13:22:00+00:00</published>
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softnet_data::process_queue is a per-CPU variable and relies on disabled
BH for its locking. Without per-CPU locking in local_bh_disable() on
PREEMPT_RT this data structure requires explicit locking.

softnet_data::input_queue_head can be updated lockless. This is fine
because this value is only update CPU local by the local backlog_napi
thread.

Add a local_lock_t to softnet_data and use local_lock_nested_bh() for locking
of process_queue. This change adds only lockdep coverage and does not
alter the functional behaviour for !PREEMPT_RT.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240620132727.660738-11-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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softnet_data::process_queue is a per-CPU variable and relies on disabled
BH for its locking. Without per-CPU locking in local_bh_disable() on
PREEMPT_RT this data structure requires explicit locking.

softnet_data::input_queue_head can be updated lockless. This is fine
because this value is only update CPU local by the local backlog_napi
thread.

Add a local_lock_t to softnet_data and use local_lock_nested_bh() for locking
of process_queue. This change adds only lockdep coverage and does not
alter the functional behaviour for !PREEMPT_RT.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240620132727.660738-11-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: softnet_data: Make xmit per task.</title>
<updated>2024-06-24T23:41:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-20T13:21:58+00:00</published>
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Softirq is preemptible on PREEMPT_RT. Without a per-CPU lock in
local_bh_disable() there is no guarantee that only one device is
transmitting at a time.
With preemption and multiple senders it is possible that the per-CPU
`recursion' counter gets incremented by different threads and exceeds
XMIT_RECURSION_LIMIT leading to a false positive recursion alert.
The `more' member is subject to similar problems if set by one thread
for one driver and wrongly used by another driver within another thread.

Instead of adding a lock to protect the per-CPU variable it is simpler
to make xmit per-task. Sending and receiving skbs happens always
in thread context anyway.

Having a lock to protected the per-CPU counter would block/ serialize two
sending threads needlessly. It would also require a recursive lock to
ensure that the owner can increment the counter further.

Make the softnet_data.xmit a task_struct member on PREEMPT_RT. Add
needed wrapper.

Cc: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Valentin Schneider &lt;vschneid@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240620132727.660738-9-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Softirq is preemptible on PREEMPT_RT. Without a per-CPU lock in
local_bh_disable() there is no guarantee that only one device is
transmitting at a time.
With preemption and multiple senders it is possible that the per-CPU
`recursion' counter gets incremented by different threads and exceeds
XMIT_RECURSION_LIMIT leading to a false positive recursion alert.
The `more' member is subject to similar problems if set by one thread
for one driver and wrongly used by another driver within another thread.

Instead of adding a lock to protect the per-CPU variable it is simpler
to make xmit per-task. Sending and receiving skbs happens always
in thread context anyway.

Having a lock to protected the per-CPU counter would block/ serialize two
sending threads needlessly. It would also require a recursive lock to
ensure that the owner can increment the counter further.

Make the softnet_data.xmit a task_struct member on PREEMPT_RT. Add
needed wrapper.

Cc: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Valentin Schneider &lt;vschneid@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240620132727.660738-9-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Move dev_set_hwtstamp_phylib to net/core/dev.h</title>
<updated>2024-06-18T01:25:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kory Maincent</name>
<email>kory.maincent@bootlin.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-12T15:04:02+00:00</published>
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This declaration was added to the header to be called from ethtool.
ethtool is separated from core for code organization but it is not really
a separate entity, it controls very core things.
As ethtool is an internal stuff it is not wise to have it in netdevice.h.
Move the declaration to net/core/dev.h instead.

Remove the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL call as ethtool can not be built as a module.

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kory Maincent &lt;kory.maincent@bootlin.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240612-feature_ptp_netnext-v15-2-b2a086257b63@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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This declaration was added to the header to be called from ethtool.
ethtool is separated from core for code organization but it is not really
a separate entity, it controls very core things.
As ethtool is an internal stuff it is not wise to have it in netdevice.h.
Move the declaration to net/core/dev.h instead.

Remove the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL call as ethtool can not be built as a module.

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kory Maincent &lt;kory.maincent@bootlin.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240612-feature_ptp_netnext-v15-2-b2a086257b63@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>net: make for_each_netdev_dump() a little more bug-proof</title>
<updated>2024-06-17T12:11:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2024-06-13T21:33:16+00:00</published>
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I find the behavior of xa_for_each_start() slightly counter-intuitive.
It doesn't end the iteration by making the index point after the last
element. IOW calling xa_for_each_start() again after it "finished"
will run the body of the loop for the last valid element, instead
of doing nothing.

This works fine for netlink dumps if they terminate correctly
(i.e. coalesce or carefully handle NLM_DONE), but as we keep getting
reminded legacy dumps are unlikely to go away.

Fixing this generically at the xa_for_each_start() level seems hard -
there is no index reserved for "end of iteration".
ifindexes are 31b wide, tho, and iterator is ulong so for
for_each_netdev_dump() it's safe to go to the next element.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel &lt;przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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I find the behavior of xa_for_each_start() slightly counter-intuitive.
It doesn't end the iteration by making the index point after the last
element. IOW calling xa_for_each_start() again after it "finished"
will run the body of the loop for the last valid element, instead
of doing nothing.

This works fine for netlink dumps if they terminate correctly
(i.e. coalesce or carefully handle NLM_DONE), but as we keep getting
reminded legacy dumps are unlikely to go away.

Fixing this generically at the xa_for_each_start() level seems hard -
there is no index reserved for "end of iteration".
ifindexes are 31b wide, tho, and iterator is ulong so for
for_each_netdev_dump() it's safe to go to the next element.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel &lt;przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: core,vrf: Change pcpu_dstat fields to u64_stats_t</title>
<updated>2024-06-12T02:24:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeremy Kerr</name>
<email>jk@codeconstruct.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-07T10:25:24+00:00</published>
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The pcpu_sw_netstats and pcpu_lstats structs both contain a set of
u64_stats_t fields for individual stats, but pcpu_dstats uses u64s
instead.

Make this consistent by using u64_stats_t across all stats types.

The per-cpu dstats are only used by the vrf driver at present, so update
that driver as part of this change.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr &lt;jk@codeconstruct.com.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240607-dstats-v3-1-cc781fe116f7@codeconstruct.com.au
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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The pcpu_sw_netstats and pcpu_lstats structs both contain a set of
u64_stats_t fields for individual stats, but pcpu_dstats uses u64s
instead.

Make this consistent by using u64_stats_t across all stats types.

The per-cpu dstats are only used by the vrf driver at present, so update
that driver as part of this change.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr &lt;jk@codeconstruct.com.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240607-dstats-v3-1-cc781fe116f7@codeconstruct.com.au
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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