netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 5/6] page_pool: add a lockdep check for recycling in hardirq

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Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2023 12:30:52 +0200
From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>
To: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com>,
 Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@...el.com>,
 Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@...wei.com>,
 Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@...com>,
 Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>,
 Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org>,
 Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 5/6] page_pool: add a lockdep check for
 recycling in hardirq

On 03/08/2023 20.20, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> From: Jakub Kicinski<kuba@...nel.org>
> 
> Page pool use in hardirq is prohibited, add debug checks
> to catch misuses. IIRC we previously discussed using
> DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE() for this, but there were concerns
> that people will have DEBUG_NET enabled in perf testing.
> I don't think anyone enables lockdep in perf testing,
> so use lockdep to avoid pushback and arguing :)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski<kuba@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin<aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>

I like this.

Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>