netdev - Re: [net-next 00/54][pull request] Using dev_kfree/consume_skb_any for functions called in multiple contexts

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Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:49:51 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, mpm@...enic.com, satyam.sharma@...il.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 00/54][pull request] Using dev_kfree/consume_skb_any
 for functions called in multiple contexts

On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 22:58 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> These changes are a result of walking through the network drivers
> supporting netpoll and verifying the code paths that netpoll can cause
> to be called in hard irq context use an appropriate flavor of
> kfree_skb.  Either dev_kfree_skb_any or dev_consume_skb_any.
> 
> Since my last pass at this I have become aware of the small differences
> between dev_kfree_skb_any and dev_consume_skb_any.
> net/core/drop_monitor.c reports the dev_kfree_skb_any as a drop and
> while being quite about the second.  With the weird twist that
> dev_kfree_skb is unintuitively consume_skb.
> 
> As netpoll now calls the napi poll function with budget == 0, pieces of
> a drivers the napi poll function that don't run when budget == 0 have
> been ignored.
> 
> The most interesting change is to the atl1c which tried unsuccesfully to
> tell one of it's functions which context it is called in so that it
> could call dev_kfree_skb_irq or dev_kfree_skb as appropriate.  I have
> just removed the extra parameter and called dev_consume_skb_any.
> 
> At 54 separate changes I will post each change as a separate patch (so
> they can be reviewed) but for general sanity sake I have gathered them
> all into a git branch for easy acces.
> 
> David when you are satisified with these changes please pull:
> 
>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/net-next.git master
> 
> Hopefully this will allow me to forget this class of error when dealing
> with netpoll.


Perfect, thanks Eric.

(the minor issues can be addressed later in a single followup)

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>


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