From: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Clark Williams <clrkwllms@kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev, Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 9/9] netconsole: move find_skb() from netpoll
Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 03:46:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260512-netconsole_split-v2-9-1191d14ad66d@debian.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260512-netconsole_split-v2-0-1191d14ad66d@debian.org>
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>
---
drivers/net/netconsole.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/netpoll.h | 1 -
net/core/netpoll.c | 28 ----------------------------
3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index 48d2670bbdef5..d804d44af87c8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
MODULE_AUTHOR("Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Console driver for network interfaces");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_IMPORT_NS("NETDEV_INTERNAL");
#define MAX_PARAM_LENGTH 256
#define MAX_EXTRADATA_ENTRY_LEN 256
@@ -1653,6 +1654,33 @@ static struct notifier_block netconsole_netdev_notifier = {
.notifier_call = netconsole_netdev_event,
};
+static struct sk_buff *find_skb(struct netpoll *np, int len, int reserve)
+{
+ int count = 0;
+ struct sk_buff *skb;
+
+ netpoll_zap_completion_queue();
+repeat:
+
+ skb = alloc_skb(len, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (!skb) {
+ skb = skb_dequeue(&np->skb_pool);
+ schedule_work(&np->refill_wq);
+ }
+
+ if (!skb) {
+ if (++count < 10) {
+ netpoll_poll_dev(np->dev);
+ goto repeat;
+ }
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ refcount_set(&skb->users, 1);
+ skb_reserve(skb, reserve);
+ return skb;
+}
+
static void netpoll_udp_checksum(struct netpoll *np, struct sk_buff *skb,
int len)
{
diff --git a/include/linux/netpoll.h b/include/linux/netpoll.h
index f986f7486cb8c..e4b8f1f91e54b 100644
--- a/include/linux/netpoll.h
+++ b/include/linux/netpoll.h
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ void __netpoll_free(struct netpoll *np);
void netpoll_cleanup(struct netpoll *np);
void do_netpoll_cleanup(struct netpoll *np);
netdev_tx_t netpoll_send_skb(struct netpoll *np, struct sk_buff *skb);
-struct sk_buff *find_skb(struct netpoll *np, int len, int reserve);
void netpoll_zap_completion_queue(void);
#ifdef CONFIG_NETPOLL
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index e4cda0aa4d488..33ab3d827a427 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -265,34 +265,6 @@ void netpoll_zap_completion_queue(void)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(netpoll_zap_completion_queue, "NETDEV_INTERNAL");
-struct sk_buff *find_skb(struct netpoll *np, int len, int reserve)
-{
- int count = 0;
- struct sk_buff *skb;
-
- netpoll_zap_completion_queue();
-repeat:
-
- skb = alloc_skb(len, GFP_ATOMIC);
- if (!skb) {
- skb = skb_dequeue(&np->skb_pool);
- schedule_work(&np->refill_wq);
- }
-
- if (!skb) {
- if (++count < 10) {
- netpoll_poll_dev(np->dev);
- goto repeat;
- }
- return NULL;
- }
-
- refcount_set(&skb->users, 1);
- skb_reserve(skb, reserve);
- return skb;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(find_skb);
-
static int netpoll_owner_active(struct net_device *dev)
{
struct napi_struct *napi;
--
2.53.0-Meta
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-12 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-12 10:46 [PATCH net-next v2 0/9] netpoll: move out netconsole-specific functions Breno Leitao
2026-05-12 10:46 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/9] netpoll: expose UDP packet builder helpers for netconsole Breno Leitao
2026-05-12 10:46 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/9] netconsole: move netpoll_send_udp() from netpoll Breno Leitao
2026-05-12 10:46 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/9] netconsole: move push_ipv6() " Breno Leitao
2026-05-12 10:46 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/9] netconsole: move push_ipv4() " Breno Leitao
2026-05-12 10:46 ` [PATCH net-next v2 5/9] netconsole: move push_eth() " Breno Leitao
2026-05-12 10:46 ` [PATCH net-next v2 6/9] netconsole: move push_udp() " Breno Leitao
2026-05-12 10:46 ` [PATCH net-next v2 7/9] netconsole: move netpoll_udp_checksum() " Breno Leitao
2026-05-12 10:46 ` [PATCH net-next v2 8/9] netpoll: rename and export netpoll_zap_completion_queue() Breno Leitao
2026-05-12 10:46 ` Breno Leitao [this message]
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