tcp: introduce icsk->icsk_keepalive_timer

sk->sk_timer has been used for TCP keepalives.

Keepalive timers are not in fast path, we want to use sk->sk_timer
storage for retransmit timers, for better cache locality.

Create icsk->icsk_keepalive_timer and change keepalive
code to no longer use sk->sk_timer.

Added space is reclaimed in the following patch.

This includes changes to MPTCP, which was also using sk_timer.

Alias icsk->mptcp_tout_timer and icsk->icsk_keepalive_timer
for inet_sk_diag_fill() sake.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251124175013.1473655-4-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

4 files changed, 12 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
index b4eae731c9ba..4fc09f9bf25d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
@@ -739,7 +739,7 @@ void inet_csk_init_xmit_timers(struct sock *sk,
 
 	timer_setup(&icsk->icsk_retransmit_timer, retransmit_handler, 0);
 	timer_setup(&icsk->icsk_delack_timer, delack_handler, 0);
-	timer_setup(&sk->sk_timer, keepalive_handler, 0);
+	timer_setup(&icsk->icsk_keepalive_timer, keepalive_handler, 0);
 	icsk->icsk_pending = icsk->icsk_ack.pending = 0;
 }
 
@@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ void inet_csk_clear_xmit_timers(struct sock *sk)
 
 	sk_stop_timer(sk, &icsk->icsk_retransmit_timer);
 	sk_stop_timer(sk, &icsk->icsk_delack_timer);
-	sk_stop_timer(sk, &sk->sk_timer);
+	sk_stop_timer(sk, &icsk->icsk_keepalive_timer);
 }
 
 void inet_csk_clear_xmit_timers_sync(struct sock *sk)
@@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ void inet_csk_clear_xmit_timers_sync(struct sock *sk)
 
 	sk_stop_timer_sync(sk, &icsk->icsk_retransmit_timer);
 	sk_stop_timer_sync(sk, &icsk->icsk_delack_timer);
-	sk_stop_timer_sync(sk, &sk->sk_timer);
+	sk_stop_timer_sync(sk, &icsk->icsk_keepalive_timer);
 }
 
 struct dst_entry *inet_csk_route_req(const struct sock *sk,
diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_diag.c b/net/ipv4/inet_diag.c
index 9f63c09439a0..3f5b1418a610 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inet_diag.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inet_diag.c
@@ -293,11 +293,11 @@ int inet_sk_diag_fill(struct sock *sk, struct inet_connection_sock *icsk,
 		r->idiag_retrans = READ_ONCE(icsk->icsk_probes_out);
 		r->idiag_expires =
 			jiffies_delta_to_msecs(tcp_timeout_expires(sk) - jiffies);
-	} else if (timer_pending(&sk->sk_timer)) {
+	} else if (timer_pending(&icsk->icsk_keepalive_timer)) {
 		r->idiag_timer = 2;
 		r->idiag_retrans = READ_ONCE(icsk->icsk_probes_out);
 		r->idiag_expires =
-			jiffies_delta_to_msecs(sk->sk_timer.expires - jiffies);
+			jiffies_delta_to_msecs(icsk->icsk_keepalive_timer.expires - jiffies);
 	}
 
 	if ((ext & (1 << (INET_DIAG_INFO - 1))) && handler->idiag_info_size) {
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
index 7b8af2c8d03a..f8a9596e8f4d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -2873,9 +2873,9 @@ static void get_tcp4_sock(struct sock *sk, struct seq_file *f, int i)
 	} else if (icsk_pending == ICSK_TIME_PROBE0) {
 		timer_active	= 4;
 		timer_expires	= tcp_timeout_expires(sk);
-	} else if (timer_pending(&sk->sk_timer)) {
+	} else if (timer_pending(&icsk->icsk_keepalive_timer)) {
 		timer_active	= 2;
-		timer_expires	= sk->sk_timer.expires;
+		timer_expires	= icsk->icsk_keepalive_timer.expires;
 	} else {
 		timer_active	= 0;
 		timer_expires = jiffies;
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
index afbd901e610e..d2678dfd8118 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -755,12 +755,12 @@ void tcp_syn_ack_timeout(const struct request_sock *req)
 
 void tcp_reset_keepalive_timer(struct sock *sk, unsigned long len)
 {
-	sk_reset_timer(sk, &sk->sk_timer, jiffies + len);
+	sk_reset_timer(sk, &inet_csk(sk)->icsk_keepalive_timer, jiffies + len);
 }
 
 static void tcp_delete_keepalive_timer(struct sock *sk)
 {
-	sk_stop_timer(sk, &sk->sk_timer);
+	sk_stop_timer(sk, &inet_csk(sk)->icsk_keepalive_timer);
 }
 
 void tcp_set_keepalive(struct sock *sk, int val)
@@ -777,8 +777,9 @@ EXPORT_IPV6_MOD_GPL(tcp_set_keepalive);
 
 static void tcp_keepalive_timer(struct timer_list *t)
 {
-	struct sock *sk = timer_container_of(sk, t, sk_timer);
-	struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk);
+	struct inet_connection_sock *icsk =
+		timer_container_of(icsk, t, icsk_keepalive_timer);
+	struct sock *sk = &icsk->icsk_inet.sk;
 	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 	u32 elapsed;