overflows in /proc/net/dev

[Sebastian Claßen <Sebastian.Classen@freenet-ag.de>]

Hi all...

in struct net_device_stats all members are defined as unsgined long. In
time of gigabit ethernet this takes not long to overflow. Are there any
plans to change these coutners to unsigned long long? I saw in ifconfig
source code the byte and packet counters are already defined as unsigned
long long.

I've tried the attached little patch which seems to work well. Are there
any good reasons against this changes?

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--- include/linux/netdevice.h.orig	2005-08-17 15:28:05.000000000 +0200
+++ include/linux/netdevice.h	2005-08-17 15:27:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -107,10 +107,10 @@ struct netpoll;
  
 struct net_device_stats
 {
-	unsigned long rx_packets;		/* total packets received	*/
-	unsigned long tx_packets;		/* total packets transmitted	*/
-	unsigned long rx_bytes;		/* total bytes received 	*/
-	unsigned long tx_bytes;		/* total bytes transmitted	*/
+	unsigned long long rx_packets;		/* total packets received	*/
+	unsigned long long tx_packets;		/* total packets transmitted	*/
+	unsigned long long rx_bytes;		/* total bytes received 	*/
+	unsigned long long tx_bytes;		/* total bytes transmitted	*/
 	unsigned long rx_errors;		/* bad packets received		*/
 	unsigned long tx_errors;		/* packet transmit problems	*/
 	unsigned long rx_dropped;		/* no space in linux buffers	*/
--- net/core/dev.c.orig	2005-08-17 15:29:40.000000000 +0200
+++ net/core/dev.c	2005-08-17 15:30:53.000000000 +0200
@@ -1984,8 +1984,8 @@ static void dev_seq_printf_stats(struct 
 	if (dev->get_stats) {
 		struct net_device_stats *stats = dev->get_stats(dev);
 
-		seq_printf(seq, "%6s:%8lu %7lu %4lu %4lu %4lu %5lu %10lu %9lu "
-				"%8lu %7lu %4lu %4lu %4lu %5lu %7lu %10lu\n",
+		seq_printf(seq, "%6s:%8llu %7llu %4lu %4lu %4lu %5lu %10lu %9lu "
+				"%8llu %7llu %4lu %4lu %4lu %5lu %7lu %10lu\n",
 			   dev->name, stats->rx_bytes, stats->rx_packets,
 			   stats->rx_errors,
 			   stats->rx_dropped + stats->rx_missed_errors,