Re: [PATCH net-next v5 2/2] net: stmmac: use per-queue 64 bit statistics where necessary

[Guenter Roeck]

On 9/21/23 12:56, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello Guenter,
>
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 11:34:09AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 12:06:30AM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> > > Currently, there are two major issues with stmmac driver statistics
> > > First of all, statistics in stmmac_extra_stats, stmmac_rxq_stats
> > > and stmmac_txq_stats are 32 bit variables on 32 bit platforms. This
> > > can cause some stats to overflow after several minutes of
> > > high traffic, for example rx_pkt_n, tx_pkt_n and so on.
> > >
> > > Secondly, if HW supports multiqueues, there are frequent cacheline
> > > ping pongs on some driver statistic vars, for example, normal_irq_n,
> > > tx_pkt_n and so on. What's more, frequent cacheline ping pongs on
> > > normal_irq_n happens in ISR, this makes the situation worse.
> > >
> > > To improve the driver, we convert those statistics to 64 bit, implement
> > > ndo_get_stats64 and update .get_ethtool_stats implementation
> > > accordingly. We also use per-queue statistics where necessary to remove
> > > the cacheline ping pongs as much as possible to make multiqueue
> > > operations faster. Those statistics which are not possible to overflow
> > > and not frequently updated are kept as is.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Your patch results in lockdep splats. This is with the orangepi-pc
> > emulation in qemu.
> >
> > [   11.126950] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet eth0: PHY [mdio_mux-0.1:01] driver [Generic PHY] (irq=POLL)
> > [   11.127912] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet eth0: No Safety Features support found
> > [   11.128294] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet eth0: No MAC Management Counters available
> > [   11.128511] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet eth0: PTP not supported by HW
> > [   11.138990] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet eth0: configuring for phy/mii link mode
> > [   11.144387] INFO: trying to register non-static key.
> > [   11.144483] The code is fine but needs lockdep annotation, or maybe
> > [   11.144568] you didn't initialize this object before use?
> > [   11.144640] turning off the locking correctness validator.
> > [   11.144845] CPU: 2 PID: 688 Comm: ip Tainted: G                 N 6.6.0-rc2 #1
> > [   11.144956] Hardware name: Allwinner sun8i Family
> > [   11.145137]  unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x10/0x14
> > [   11.145610]  show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x90
> > [   11.145692]  dump_stack_lvl from register_lock_class+0x99c/0x9b0
> > [   11.145779]  register_lock_class from __lock_acquire+0x6c/0x2244
> > [   11.145861]  __lock_acquire from lock_acquire+0x11c/0x368
> > [   11.145938]  lock_acquire from stmmac_get_stats64+0x350/0x374
> > [   11.146021]  stmmac_get_stats64 from dev_get_stats+0x3c/0x160
> > [   11.146101]  dev_get_stats from rtnl_fill_stats+0x30/0x118
> > [   11.146179]  rtnl_fill_stats from rtnl_fill_ifinfo.constprop.0+0x82c/0x1770
> > [   11.146273]  rtnl_fill_ifinfo.constprop.0 from rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb+0xac/0x138
> > [   11.146370]  rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb from rtmsg_ifinfo+0x44/0x7c
> > [   11.146452]  rtmsg_ifinfo from __dev_notify_flags+0xac/0xd8
> > [   11.146531]  __dev_notify_flags from dev_change_flags+0x48/0x54
> > [   11.146612]  dev_change_flags from do_setlink+0x244/0xe6c
> > [   11.146689]  do_setlink from rtnl_newlink+0x514/0x838
> > [   11.146761]  rtnl_newlink from rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x170/0x5b0
> > [   11.146841]  rtnetlink_rcv_msg from netlink_rcv_skb+0xb4/0x10c
> > [   11.146925]  netlink_rcv_skb from netlink_unicast+0x190/0x254
> > [   11.147006]  netlink_unicast from netlink_sendmsg+0x1dc/0x460
> > [   11.147086]  netlink_sendmsg from ____sys_sendmsg+0xa0/0x2a0
> > [   11.147168]  ____sys_sendmsg from ___sys_sendmsg+0x68/0x94
> > [   11.147245]  ___sys_sendmsg from sys_sendmsg+0x4c/0x88
> > [   11.147329]  sys_sendmsg from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c
> > [   11.147439] Exception stack(0xf23edfa8 to 0xf23edff0)
> > [   11.147558] dfa0:                   00000000 00000000 00000003 bef9a8d8 00000000 00000000
> > [   11.147668] dfc0: 00000000 00000000 ffffffff 00000128 00000001 00000002 bef9af4a bef9af4d
> > [   11.147769] dfe0: bef9a868 bef9a858 b6f9ddac b6f9d228
> > [   11.150020] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - 100Mbps/Full - flow control rx/tx
> >
> > My apologies for the noise if this has already been reported.
>
> This seems to be the issue I reported earlier. So you might want to test
> the patch that fixed it for me:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230917165328.3403-1-jszhang@xxxxxxxxxx/

That just showed up in mainline and, yes, of course it fixes the problem.
As I said, sorry for the noise.

Guenter