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authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2012-07-20 09:23:07 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-06-30 20:01:33 -0700
commit1f29351617ffe827edf80ffdfdef2da3a2494f96 (patch)
tree61af1c6d0e19add8ec09856334928337276fa5e0 /include
parenta97df3f22b83742deb9191d53928641ec3befb6e (diff)
skbuff: add an api to orphan frags
commit a353e0ce0fd42d8859260666d1e9b10f2abd4698 upstream. Many places do if ((skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY)) skb_copy_ubufs(skb, gfp_mask); to copy and invoke frag destructors if necessary. Add an inline helper for this. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/skbuff.h16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 0884db3d315e..e22df7a4f1ab 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -1674,6 +1674,22 @@ static inline void skb_orphan(struct sk_buff *skb)
}
/**
+ * skb_orphan_frags - orphan the frags contained in a buffer
+ * @skb: buffer to orphan frags from
+ * @gfp_mask: allocation mask for replacement pages
+ *
+ * For each frag in the SKB which needs a destructor (i.e. has an
+ * owner) create a copy of that frag and release the original
+ * page by calling the destructor.
+ */
+static inline int skb_orphan_frags(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+ if (likely(!(skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY)))
+ return 0;
+ return skb_copy_ubufs(skb, gfp_mask);
+}
+
+/**
* __skb_queue_purge - empty a list
* @list: list to empty
*