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Message-ID: <20120503154142.GB27671@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 18:41:43 +0300
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] net: add skb_orphan_frags to copy aside frags with
destructors
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 03:56:09PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> This should be used by drivers which need to hold on to an skb for an extended
> (perhaps unbounded) period of time. e.g. the tun driver which relies on
> userspace consuming the skb.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>
> Cc: mst@...hat.com
Right. But local sockets queue at socket forever as well.
I think this should be called in skb_set_owner_r?
This might somewhat penalize speed for local clients in the name
of correctness but these are rare so being correct is
more important I think.
Also, mactap can get this when running in bridge mode, right?
> ---
> drivers/net/tun.c | 1 +
> include/linux/skbuff.h | 11 ++++++++
> net/core/skbuff.c | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> 3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
> index bb8c72c..b53e04e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/tun.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
> @@ -415,6 +415,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t tun_net_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
> /* Orphan the skb - required as we might hang on to it
> * for indefinite time. */
> skb_orphan(skb);
> + skb_orphan_frags(skb, GFP_KERNEL);
>
> /* Enqueue packet */
> skb_queue_tail(&tun->socket.sk->sk_receive_queue, skb);
> diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
> index ccc7d93..9145f83 100644
> --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
> +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
> @@ -1711,6 +1711,17 @@ static inline void skb_orphan(struct sk_buff *skb)
> }
>
> /**
> + * skb_orphan_frags - orphan the frags contained in a buffer
> + * @skb: buffer to orphan frags from
> + * @gfp_mask: allocation mask for replacement pages
> + *
> + * For each frag in the SKB which has a destructor (i.e. has an
> + * owner) create a copy of that frag and release the original
> + * page by calling the destructor.
> + */
> +extern int skb_orphan_frags(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask);
> +
> +/**
> * __skb_queue_purge - empty a list
> * @list: list to empty
> *
> diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
> index 945b807..f009abb 100644
> --- a/net/core/skbuff.c
> +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
> @@ -697,31 +697,25 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_morph(struct sk_buff *dst, struct sk_buff *src)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(skb_morph);
>
> -/* skb_copy_ubufs - copy userspace skb frags buffers to kernel
> - * @skb: the skb to modify
> - * @gfp_mask: allocation priority
> - *
> - * This must be called on SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY skb.
> - * It will copy all frags into kernel and drop the reference
> - * to userspace pages.
> - *
> - * If this function is called from an interrupt gfp_mask() must be
> - * %GFP_ATOMIC.
> - *
> - * Returns 0 on success or a negative error code on failure
> - * to allocate kernel memory to copy to.
> +/*
> + * If uarg != NULL copy and replace all frags.
> + * If uarg == NULL then only copy and replace those which have a destructor
> + * pointer.
> */
> -int skb_copy_ubufs(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> +static int skb_copy_frags(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> + struct ubuf_info *uarg)
> {
> int i;
> int num_frags = skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags;
> struct page *page, *head = NULL;
> - struct ubuf_info *uarg = skb_shinfo(skb)->destructor_arg;
>
> for (i = 0; i < num_frags; i++) {
> u8 *vaddr;
> skb_frag_t *f = &skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i];
>
> + if (!uarg && !f->page.destructor)
> + continue;
> +
> page = alloc_page(GFP_ATOMIC);
> if (!page) {
> while (head) {
> @@ -739,11 +733,16 @@ int skb_copy_ubufs(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> head = page;
> }
>
> - /* skb frags release userspace buffers */
> - for (i = 0; i < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; i++)
> + /* skb frags release buffers */
> + for (i = 0; i < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; i++) {
> + skb_frag_t *f = &skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i];
> + if (!uarg && !f->page.destructor)
> + continue;
> skb_frag_unref(skb, i);
> + }
>
> - uarg->callback(uarg);
> + if (uarg)
> + uarg->callback(uarg);
>
> /* skb frags point to kernel buffers */
> for (i = skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; i > 0; i--) {
> @@ -752,10 +751,41 @@ int skb_copy_ubufs(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> head = (struct page *)head->private;
> }
>
> - skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags &= ~SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY;
> return 0;
> }
>
> +/* skb_copy_ubufs - copy userspace skb frags buffers to kernel
> + * @skb: the skb to modify
> + * @gfp_mask: allocation priority
> + *
> + * This must be called on SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY skb.
> + * It will copy all frags into kernel and drop the reference
> + * to userspace pages.
> + *
> + * If this function is called from an interrupt gfp_mask() must be
> + * %GFP_ATOMIC.
> + *
> + * Returns 0 on success or a negative error code on failure
> + * to allocate kernel memory to copy to.
> + */
> +int skb_copy_ubufs(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> +{
> + struct ubuf_info *uarg = skb_shinfo(skb)->destructor_arg;
> + int rc;
> +
> + rc = skb_copy_frags(skb, gfp_mask, uarg);
> +
> + if (rc == 0)
> + skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags &= ~SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY;
> +
> + return rc;
> +}
> +
> +int skb_orphan_frags(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> +{
> + return skb_copy_frags(skb, gfp_mask, NULL);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_orphan_frags);
>
> /**
> * skb_clone - duplicate an sk_buff
> --
> 1.7.2.5
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