On 12/2/20 1:43 PM, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
>>> +struct ar9331_sw_priv;
>>> +struct ar9331_sw_port {
>>> +   int idx;
>>> +   struct ar9331_sw_priv *priv;
>>> +   struct delayed_work mib_read;
>>> +   struct ar9331_sw_stats stats;
>>> +   struct mutex lock;              /* stats access */
>>
>> What does the lock protect? It's only used a single time.
> 
> The ar9331_read_stats() function is called from two different contests:
> from worker over ar9331_do_stats_poll() and from user space over
> ar9331_get_stats64().
> 
> The mutex lock should prevent a race in the read modify write operations
> for in the stats->*

Makes sense!

Marc

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