kernel/linux.git/include/linux/netpoll.h, branch v6.6.132

net: netpoll: Individualize the skb pool

2025-11-24T09:30:10+00:00

[ Upstream commit 221a9c1df790fa711d65daf5ba05d0addc279153 ] The current implementation of the netpoll system uses a global skb pool, which can lead to inefficient memory usage and waste when targets are disabled or no longer in use. This can result in a significant amount of memory being unnecessarily allocated and retained, potentially causing performance issues and limiting the availability of resources for other system components. Modify the netpoll system to assign a skb pool to each target instead of using a global one. This approach allows for more fine-grained control over memory allocation and deallocation, ensuring that resources are only allocated and retained as needed. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241114-skb_buffers_v2-v3-1-9be9f52a8b69@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Stable-dep-of: 49c8d2c1f94c ("net: netpoll: fix incorrect refcount handling causing incorrect cleanup") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

netpoll: Use rcu_access_pointer() in netpoll_poll_lock

2024-12-09T09:32:12+00:00

[ Upstream commit a57d5a72f8dec7db8a79d0016fb0a3bdecc82b56 ] The ndev->npinfo pointer in netpoll_poll_lock() is RCU-protected but is being accessed directly for a NULL check. While no RCU read lock is held in this context, we should still use proper RCU primitives for consistency and correctness. Replace the direct NULL check with rcu_access_pointer(), which is the appropriate primitive when only checking for NULL without dereferencing the pointer. This function provides the necessary ordering guarantees without requiring RCU read-side protection. Fixes: bea3348eef27 ("[NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects.") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Reviewed-by: Michal Kubiak Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241118-netpoll_rcu-v1-2-a1888dcb4a02@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netpoll: add net device refcount tracker to struct netpoll

2021-12-07T00:06:02+00:00

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netpoll: Remove unused inline function netpoll_netdev_init()

2020-07-15T14:45:25+00:00

commit d565b0a1a9b6 ("net: Add Generic Receive Offload infrastructure") left behind this, remove it. Signed-off-by: YueHaibing Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netpoll: netpoll_send_skb() returns transmit status

2020-05-08T01:11:07+00:00

Some callers want to know if the packet has been sent or dropped, to inform upper stacks. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netpoll: move netpoll_send_skb() out of line

2020-05-08T01:11:07+00:00

There is no need to inline this helper, as we intend to add more code in this function. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netpoll: remove dev argument from netpoll_send_skb_on_dev()

2020-05-08T01:11:07+00:00

netpoll_send_skb_on_dev() can get the device pointer directly from np->dev Rename it to __netpoll_send_skb() Following patch will move netpoll_send_skb() out-of-line. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netpoll: allow cleanup to be synchronous

2018-10-20T00:01:43+00:00

This fixes a problem introduced by: commit 2cde6acd49da ("netpoll: Fix __netpoll_rcu_free so that it can hold the rtnl lock") When using netconsole on a bond, __netpoll_cleanup can asynchronously recurse multiple times, each __netpoll_free_async call can result in more __netpoll_free_async's. This means there is now a race between cleanup_work queues on multiple netpoll_info's on multiple devices and the configuration of a new netpoll. For example if a netconsole is set to enable 0, reconfigured, and enable 1 immediately, this netconsole will likely not work. Given the reason for __netpoll_free_async is it can be called when rtnl is not locked, if it is locked, we should be able to execute synchronously. It appears to be locked everywhere it's called from. Generalize the design pattern from the teaming driver for current callers of __netpoll_free_async. CC: Neil Horman CC: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: Debabrata Banerjee Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netpoll: make ndo_poll_controller() optional

2018-09-24T04:55:24+00:00

As diagnosed by Song Liu, ndo_poll_controller() can be very dangerous on loaded hosts, since the cpu calling ndo_poll_controller() might steal all NAPI contexts (for all RX/TX queues of the NIC). This capture can last for unlimited amount of time, since one cpu is generally not able to drain all the queues under load. It seems that all networking drivers that do use NAPI for their TX completions, should not provide a ndo_poll_controller(). NAPI drivers have netpoll support already handled in core networking stack, since netpoll_poll_dev() uses poll_napi(dev) to iterate through registered NAPI contexts for a device. This patch allows netpoll_poll_dev() to process NAPI contexts even for drivers not providing ndo_poll_controller(), allowing for following patches in NAPI drivers. Also we export netpoll_poll_dev() so that it can be called by bonding/team drivers in following patches. Reported-by: Song Liu Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Tested-by: Song Liu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman