ibmvnic: Allocate statistics buffers during probe

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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>

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Thomas Falcon 2018-02-26 18:10:56 -06:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c

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