[PATCH 1/2] ath10k: add accounting for the extended peer statistics

[Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan]

Hi Christian,

I am also thinking, as of now there is not much use in appending
the extended peer stats (which gets periodically ) to the linked list
'&ar->debug.fw_stats.peers_extd)'  and should we get rid of the below
(and the required cleanup as well) 

list_splice_tail_init(&stats.peers_extd,
		&ar->debug.fw_stats.peers_extd);


since rx_duration is getting updated periodically to the per sta
information. Kindly let me know your thoughts about this.

regards,
shafi

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 09:56:59PM +0530, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote:
> Hello Christian,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 05:38:02PM +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> > On Wednesday, December 14, 2016 1:03:38 PM CET Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday, December 7, 2016 11:58:24 AM CET Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 10:52:45PM +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> > > > > > @@ -409,10 +410,12 @@ void ath10k_debug_fw_stats_process(struct ath10k *ar, struct sk_buff *skb)
> > > > > >  			goto free;
> > > > > >  		}
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > +		if (!list_empty(&stats.peers))
> > > > > 
> > > > > [shafi] sorry please correct me if i am wrong, for 'extended peer stats' we are checking
> > > > > for normal 'peer stats' ? Is this the fix intended, i had started a build to
> > > > > check your change and we will keep you posted, does this fix displaying
> > > > > 'rx_duration' in ath10k fw_stats.
> > > > The idea is not to queue any "extended peer stats" when there where no "peer stats" to
> > > > begin with. Because otherwise, the function is still vulnerable to OOM since the 
> > > > extended peers stats will be queued unchecked (not that this is currently a problem).
> > > 
> > > [shafi] list_splice_tail_init should still check for non-empty 'peers_extd' list
> > > and append if required ? please let me know if i am still missing something
> > Well, you can also count the entries in peers_extd and delete the old entries
> > if they start to overflow. If you want to do it differently, please go ahead.
> >
> [shafi] sorry for the delay (got stuck up with something else), I will add some prints explicitly
> and keep you posted ASAP. Since the extended peer stats gets updated periodically I
> would like to confirm the debug linked list associated to the extended peer
> stats does not overflows and potentially cause OOM.
> 
> regards,
> shafi