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Eric Dumazet says:
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net: add preliminary netdev refcount tracking
Two first patches add a generic infrastructure, that will be used
to get tracking of refcount increments/decrements.
The general idea is to be able to precisely pair each decrement with
a corresponding prior increment. Both share a cookie, basically
a pointer to private data storing stack traces.
The third patch adds dev_hold_track() and dev_put_track() helpers
(CONFIG_NET_DEV_REFCNT_TRACKER)
Then a series of 20 patches converts some dev_hold()/dev_put()
pairs to new hepers : dev_hold_track() and dev_put_track().
Hopefully this will be used by developpers and syzbot to
root cause bugs that cause netdevice dismantles freezes.
With CONFIG_PCPU_DEV_REFCNT=n option, we were able to detect
some class of bugs, but too late (when too many dev_put()
were happening).
Another series will be sent after this one is merged.
v3: moved NET_DEV_REFCNT_TRACKER to net/Kconfig.debug
added "depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT"
to hopefully get rid of kbuild reports for ARCH=nios2
Reworded patch 3 changelog.
Added missing htmldocs (Jakub)
v2: added four additional patches,
added netdev_tracker_alloc() and netdev_tracker_free()
addressed build error (kernel bots),
use GFP_ATOMIC in test_ref_tracker_timer_func()
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211205042217.982127-1-eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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