netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 02/12] net: page_pool: create hooks for custom page providers

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Message-ID: <20231113171058.68973860@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 17:10:58 -0500
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 02/12] net: page_pool: create hooks for custom
 page providers

On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 19:28:52 -0800 Mina Almasry wrote:
> My issue with this is that if the driver doesn't support dmabuf then
> the driver will accidentally use the pp backed by the dmabuf, allocate
> a page from it, then call page_address() on it or something, and
> crash.
> 
> Currently I avoid that by having the driver be responsible for picking
> up the dmabuf from the netdev_rx_queue and giving it to the page pool.
> What would be the appropriate way to check for driver support in the
> netlink API? Perhaps adding something to ndo_features_check?

We need some form of capabilities. I was expecting to add that as part
of the queue API. Either a new field in struct net_device or in ndos.
I tend to put static driver caps of this nature into ops.
See for instance .supported_ring_params in ethtool ops.