Re: [PATCH net-next] page_pool: add debug for release to cache from wrong CPU

[Dragos Tatulea]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 04:18:27PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Sep 2025 09:25:31 +0000 Dragos Tatulea wrote:
> > > The patch seems half-baked. If the NAPI local recycling is incorrect
> > > the pp will leak a reference and live forever. Which hopefully people
> > > would notice. Are you adding this check just to double confirm that
> > > any leaks you're chasing are in the driver, and not in the core?  
> >
> > The point is not to chase leaks but races from doing a recycle to cache
> > from the wrong CPU. This is how XDP issue was caught where
> > xdp_set_return_frame_no_direct() was not set appropriately for cpumap [1].
> > 
> > My first approach was to __page_pool_put_page() but then I figured that
> > the warning should live closer to where the actual assignment happens.
> > 
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/e60404e2-4782-409f-8596-ae21ce7272c4@xxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> Ah, that thing. I wonder whether the complexity in the driver-facing 
> xdp_return API is really worth the gain here. IIUC we want to extract
> the cases where we're doing local recycling and let those cases use
> the lockless cache. But all those cases should be caught by automatic
> local recycling detection, so caller can just pass false..
>
This patch was simply adding the debugging code to catch the potential
misuse from any callers.

I was planning to send another patch for the xdp_return() API part
once/if this one got accepted. If it makes more sense I can bundle them
together in a RFC (as merge window is coming).

Thanks,
Dragos