On 7/10/23 15:32, Mina Almasry wrote:
Add an interface for the user to notify the kernel that it is done reading the NET_RX dmabuf pages returned as cmsg. The kernel will drop the reference on the NET_RX pages to make them available for re-use. Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@xxxxxxxxxx> ---
+ for (i = 0; i < num_tokens; i++) { + for (j = 0; j < tokens[i].token_count; j++) { + struct page *pg = xa_erase(&sk->sk_pagepool, + tokens[i].token_start + j); + + if (pg) + put_page(pg); + else + /* -EINTR here notifies the userspace + * that not all tokens passed to it have + * been freed. + */ + ret = -EINTR;
Unless I'm missing something, this type of error reporting is unrecoverable -- userspace doesn't know how many tokens have been freed.
I think you should either make it explicitly unrecoverable (somehow shut down dmabuf handling entirely) or tell userspace how many tokens were successfully freed.
--Andy