Documentation/admin-guide/aoe/todo.rst
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/Documentation/admin-guide/aoe/todo.rst
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
Documentation/admin-guide/aoe/todo.rst- Extension
.rst- Size
- 798 bytes
- Lines
- 18
- Domain
- Support Tooling And Documentation
- Bucket
- Documentation
- Inferred role
- Support Tooling And Documentation: documentation
- Status
- atlas-only
Why This File Exists
Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.
Dependency Surface
- No C-style include directives detected by the generator.
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
TODO
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There is a potential for deadlock when allocating a struct sk_buff for
data that needs to be written out to aoe storage. If the data is
being written from a dirty page in order to free that page, and if
there are no other pages available, then deadlock may occur when a
free page is needed for the sk_buff allocation. This situation has
not been observed, but it would be nice to eliminate any potential for
deadlock under memory pressure.
Because ATA over Ethernet is not fragmented by the kernel's IP code,
the destructor member of the struct sk_buff is available to the aoe
driver. By using a mempool for allocating all but the first few
sk_buffs, and by registering a destructor, we should be able to
efficiently allocate sk_buffs without introducing any potential for
deadlock.Annotation
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / Documentation.
- Implementation status: atlas-only.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.