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Currently, buffers holding individual queue statistics are allocated when the device is opened. If an ibmvnic interface is hotplugged or initialized but never opened, an attempt to get statistics with ethtool will result in a kernel panic. Since the driver allocates a constant number, the maximum supported queues, of buffers, these can be allocated during device probe and freed when the device is hot-unplugged or the module is removed. Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.