net: page_pool: hide page_pool_release_page()

There seems to be no user calling page_pool_release_page()
for legit reasons, all the users simply haven't been converted
to skb-based recycling, yet. Previous changes converted them.
Update the docs, and unexport the function.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230720010409.1967072-4-kuba@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst b/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst
index 873efd97f82280..0aa850cf4447c3 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ replacing dev_alloc_pages().
 
 API keeps track of in-flight pages, in order to let API user know
 when it is safe to free a page_pool object.  Thus, API users
-must run page_pool_release_page() when a page is leaving the page_pool or
-call page_pool_put_page() where appropriate in order to maintain correct
-accounting.
+must call page_pool_put_page() to free the page, or attach
+the page to a page_pool-aware objects like skbs marked with
+skb_mark_for_recycle().
 
 API user must call page_pool_put_page() once on a page, as it
 will either recycle the page, or in case of refcnt > 1, it will
@@ -87,9 +87,6 @@ a page will cause no race conditions is enough.
   must guarantee safe context (e.g NAPI), since it will recycle the page
   directly into the pool fast cache.
 
-* page_pool_release_page(): Unmap the page (if mapped) and account for it on
-  in-flight counters.
-
 * page_pool_dev_alloc_pages(): Get a page from the page allocator or page_pool
   caches.
 
@@ -194,7 +191,7 @@ NAPI poller
             if XDP_DROP:
                 page_pool_recycle_direct(page_pool, page);
         } else (packet_is_skb) {
-            page_pool_release_page(page_pool, page);
+            skb_mark_for_recycle(skb);
             new_page = page_pool_dev_alloc_pages(page_pool);
         }
     }