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| author | Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> | 2026-05-12 03:46:42 -0700 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2026-05-13 18:09:13 -0700 |
| commit | f35422ed3664d2a40161c38f53ba69cb99387af7 (patch) | |
| tree | 963851e204e0cdf160db4fff0011625276d44966 /scripts/basic | |
| parent | 7bb1daff3612276357b28d0dee2a32301be97dfd (diff) | |
netconsole: move find_skb() from netpoll
find_skb() is the netconsole-specific entry into the netpoll skb
pool: every other netpoll consumer (bonding, team, vlan, bridge,
macvlan, dsa) builds its own sk_buff and never touches the pool.
With netpoll_send_udp() (its only caller) now living in netconsole,
find_skb() can join it.
Move find_skb() into drivers/net/netconsole.c as a file-static
helper, drop EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(find_skb) and remove its prototype
from include/linux/netpoll.h. find_skb() drains TX completions via
netpoll_zap_completion_queue(), which is already exported in the
NETDEV_INTERNAL namespace, so netconsole picks up
MODULE_IMPORT_NS("NETDEV_INTERNAL") to consume it.
The skb pool's lifecycle (np->skb_pool, np->refill_wq, refill_skbs(),
refill_skbs_work_handler(), skb_pool_flush()) stays in netpoll: it
is initialised in __netpoll_setup() and torn down in
__netpoll_cleanup(), both of which remain netpoll's responsibility.
The refill work queued via schedule_work(&np->refill_wq) from the
moved find_skb() runs refill_skbs_work_handler() in netpoll without
any further plumbing.
This is pure code motion: the function body is unchanged and its
sole caller (netpoll_send_udp(), already moved by an earlier patch)
keeps invoking it the same way. Pre-existing concerns about
find_skb() running from NMI/printk context (zap_completion_queue()
re-entry, skb_pool spinlocks, GFP_ATOMIC allocation, fallback skb
sizing vs. MAX_SKB_SIZE, PREEMPT_RT semantics of __kfree_skb()) are
inherited as-is and are not addressed here; they predate this
series and are out of scope. Fixing them is left for follow-up
work.
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260512-netconsole_split-v2-9-1191d14ad66d@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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