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[net,v2,2/2] net: clarify SO_DEVMEM_DONTNEED behavior in documentation

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Series [net,v2,1/2] net: fix SO_DEVMEM_DONTNEED looping too long | expand

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Commit Message

Mina Almasry Nov. 7, 2024, 9:03 p.m. UTC
Document new behavior when the number of frags passed is too big.

Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/devmem.rst | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

Comments

Stanislav Fomichev Nov. 8, 2024, 1:30 a.m. UTC | #1
On 11/07, Mina Almasry wrote:
> Document new behavior when the number of frags passed is too big.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/networking/devmem.rst | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devmem.rst b/Documentation/networking/devmem.rst
> index a55bf21f671c..d95363645331 100644
> --- a/Documentation/networking/devmem.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/devmem.rst
> @@ -225,6 +225,15 @@ The user must ensure the tokens are returned to the kernel in a timely manner.
>  Failure to do so will exhaust the limited dmabuf that is bound to the RX queue
>  and will lead to packet drops.
>  
> +The user must pass no more than 128 tokens, with no more than 1024 total frags
> +among the token->token_count across all the tokens. If the user provides more
> +than 1024 frags, the kernel will free up to 1024 frags and return early.
> +
> +The kernel returns the number of actual frags freed. The number of frags freed
> +can be less than the tokens provided by the user in case of:
> +

[..]

> +(a) an internal kernel leak bug.

If you're gonna respin, might be worth mentioning that the dmesg
will contain a warning in case of a leak?
Mina Almasry Nov. 8, 2024, 1:40 a.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 5:30 PM Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/07, Mina Almasry wrote:
> > Document new behavior when the number of frags passed is too big.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/networking/devmem.rst | 9 +++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devmem.rst b/Documentation/networking/devmem.rst
> > index a55bf21f671c..d95363645331 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/networking/devmem.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/networking/devmem.rst
> > @@ -225,6 +225,15 @@ The user must ensure the tokens are returned to the kernel in a timely manner.
> >  Failure to do so will exhaust the limited dmabuf that is bound to the RX queue
> >  and will lead to packet drops.
> >
> > +The user must pass no more than 128 tokens, with no more than 1024 total frags
> > +among the token->token_count across all the tokens. If the user provides more
> > +than 1024 frags, the kernel will free up to 1024 frags and return early.
> > +
> > +The kernel returns the number of actual frags freed. The number of frags freed
> > +can be less than the tokens provided by the user in case of:
> > +
>
> [..]
>
> > +(a) an internal kernel leak bug.
>
> If you're gonna respin, might be worth mentioning that the dmesg
> will contain a warning in case of a leak?

We will not actually warn in the likely cases of leak.

We warn when we find an entry in the xarray that is not a net_iov, or
if napi_pp_put_page fails on that net_iov. Both are very unlikely to
happen honestly.

The likely 'leaks' are when we don't find the frag_id in the xarray.
We do not warn on that because the user can intentionally trigger the
warning with invalid input. If the user is actually giving valid input
and the warn still happens, likely a kernel bug like I mentioned in
another thread, but we still don't warn.
Stanislav Fomichev Nov. 8, 2024, 3:01 a.m. UTC | #3
On 11/07, Mina Almasry wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 5:30 PM Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 11/07, Mina Almasry wrote:
> > > Document new behavior when the number of frags passed is too big.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
> > > ---
> > >  Documentation/networking/devmem.rst | 9 +++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devmem.rst b/Documentation/networking/devmem.rst
> > > index a55bf21f671c..d95363645331 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/networking/devmem.rst
> > > +++ b/Documentation/networking/devmem.rst
> > > @@ -225,6 +225,15 @@ The user must ensure the tokens are returned to the kernel in a timely manner.
> > >  Failure to do so will exhaust the limited dmabuf that is bound to the RX queue
> > >  and will lead to packet drops.
> > >
> > > +The user must pass no more than 128 tokens, with no more than 1024 total frags
> > > +among the token->token_count across all the tokens. If the user provides more
> > > +than 1024 frags, the kernel will free up to 1024 frags and return early.
> > > +
> > > +The kernel returns the number of actual frags freed. The number of frags freed
> > > +can be less than the tokens provided by the user in case of:
> > > +
> >
> > [..]
> >
> > > +(a) an internal kernel leak bug.
> >
> > If you're gonna respin, might be worth mentioning that the dmesg
> > will contain a warning in case of a leak?
> 
> We will not actually warn in the likely cases of leak.
> 
> We warn when we find an entry in the xarray that is not a net_iov, or
> if napi_pp_put_page fails on that net_iov. Both are very unlikely to
> happen honestly.
> 
> The likely 'leaks' are when we don't find the frag_id in the xarray.
> We do not warn on that because the user can intentionally trigger the
> warning with invalid input. If the user is actually giving valid input
> and the warn still happens, likely a kernel bug like I mentioned in
> another thread, but we still don't warn.

In this case, maybe don't mention the leaks at all? If it's not
actionable, not sure how it helps?
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devmem.rst b/Documentation/networking/devmem.rst
index a55bf21f671c..d95363645331 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/devmem.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/devmem.rst
@@ -225,6 +225,15 @@  The user must ensure the tokens are returned to the kernel in a timely manner.
 Failure to do so will exhaust the limited dmabuf that is bound to the RX queue
 and will lead to packet drops.
 
+The user must pass no more than 128 tokens, with no more than 1024 total frags
+among the token->token_count across all the tokens. If the user provides more
+than 1024 frags, the kernel will free up to 1024 frags and return early.
+
+The kernel returns the number of actual frags freed. The number of frags freed
+can be less than the tokens provided by the user in case of:
+
+(a) an internal kernel leak bug.
+(b) the user passed more than 1024 frags.
 
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