Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] net: add kcov handle to skb extensions

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Sat Nov 21 2020 - 12:40:04 EST


On Sat, 2020-11-21 at 17:52 +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
>
> Aleksandr, why was this made into an skb extension in the first place?
>
> AFAIU this feature is usually always disabled at build time.
> For debug builds (test farm /debug kernel etc) its always needed.
>
> If thats the case this u64 should be an sk_buff member, not an
> extension.

Because it was requested :-)

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20201009161558.57792e1a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

johannes