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[RFC,v7,09/19] Ignore room skb_reserve() when device is using external buffer.

Message ID 1275732899-5423-9-git-send-email-xiaohui.xin@intel.com
State RFC, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Commit Message

Xin, Xiaohui June 5, 2010, 10:14 a.m. UTC 
From: Xin Xiaohui <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>

Make the skb->data and skb->head from external buffer
to be consistent, we ignore the room reserved by driver
for kernel skb.

Signed-off-by: Xin Xiaohui <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yu <yzhao81new@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
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 include/linux/skbuff.h |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 5ff8c27..193b259 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -1200,6 +1200,15 @@  static inline int skb_tailroom(const struct sk_buff *skb)
  */
 static inline void skb_reserve(struct sk_buff *skb, int len)
 {
+	/* Since skb_reserve() is only for an empty buffer,
+	 * and when the skb is getting external buffer, we cannot
+	 * retain the external buffer has the same reserved space
+	 * in the header which kernel allocatd skb has, so have to
+	 * ignore this. And we have recorded the external buffer
+	 * info in the destructor_arg field, so use it as indicator.
+	 */
+	if (skb_shinfo(skb)->destructor_arg)
+		return;
 	skb->data += len;
 	skb->tail += len;
 }