linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] RDMA/mlx5: return the EFAULT per ibv_advise

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Message-ID: <fb1c7505-62d3-a64e-4c57-170f9f5f86a4@fujitsu.com>
Date:   Thu, 26 Aug 2021 01:18:47 +0000
From:   "lizhijian@...itsu.com" <lizhijian@...itsu.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        "lizhijian@...itsu.com" <lizhijian@...itsu.com>
CC:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        "dledford@...hat.com" <dledford@...hat.com>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RDMA/mlx5: return the EFAULT per ibv_advise_mr(3)



On 26/08/2021 01:28, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 05:44:43PM +0800, Li, Zhijian wrote:
>> convert to text and send again
>>
>>
>> Hi Jason & Leon
>>
>> It reminds me that ibv_advise_mr doesn't mention ENOENT any more which value the API actually returns now.
>> the ENOENT cases/situations returned by kernel mlx5 implementation is most likely same with EINVALL as its manpage[1].
>>
>> So shall we return EINVAL instead of ENOENT in kernel side when get_prefetchable_mr returns NULL?
> No, the man page should be fixed
thanks a lot, i have submitted a RP to rdma-core https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core/pull/1048

Thanks
Zhijian

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> Jason
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