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| author | Eric Dumazet | 2010-09-23 23:51:51 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller | 2010-09-26 19:04:08 -0700 |
| commit | a7855c78a24d6348e989bec616318e68c662e78b (patch) | |
| tree | 43ee591745e17569ad212be6ec3c46e58b443c0a /include | |
| parent | 83180af0b0ea166adf8249f4513beb7355f9b4c9 (diff) | |
net: loopback driver cleanup
loopback driver uses dev->ml_priv to store its percpu stats pointer.
It uses ugly casts "(void __percpu __force *)" to shut up sparse
complains.
Define an union to better document we use ml_priv in loopback driver and
define a lstats field with appropriate types.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netdevice.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index 45dcda5bfda9..01bd4c82d982 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -1050,8 +1050,10 @@ struct net_device { #endif /* mid-layer private */ - void *ml_priv; - + union { + void *ml_priv; + struct pcpu_lstats __percpu *lstats; /* loopback stats */ + }; /* GARP */ struct garp_port *garp_port; |