netdev - Re: [Patch net-next] tcp: add a tracepoint for tcp_retransmit

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Date:   Wed, 11 Oct 2017 06:31:45 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc:     Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
        Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@...il.com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next] tcp: add a tracepoint for tcp_retransmit_skb()

On Tue, 2017-10-10 at 19:56 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:

> actually we hit that too for completely different tracing use case.
> Indeed would be good to generate socket cookie unconditionally
> for all sockets. I don't think there is any harm.
> 

Simply call sock_gen_cookie() when needed.

If a tracepoint needs the cookie and the cookie was not yet generated,
it will be generated at this point.