linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 11/13] selftests/resctrl: Convert ctrlgrp & mongrp to pointers

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Message-ID: <578d0b55-c51a-49d1-8f54-989215a3a4b8@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 08:20:23 -0700
From: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>,
	<linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Babu Moger
	<babu.moger@....com>, Maciej Wieczór-Retman
	<maciej.wieczor-retman@...el.com>
CC: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/13] selftests/resctrl: Convert ctrlgrp & mongrp to
 pointers

Hi Ilpo,

On 3/11/2024 6:52 AM, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> The struct resctrl_val_param has control and monitor groups as char
> arrays but they are not supposed to be mutated within resctrl_val().
> 
> Convert the ctrlgrp and mongrp char array within resctrl_val_param to
> plain const char pointers and adjust the strlen() based checks to
> check NULL instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h   | 4 ++--
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrlfs.c | 8 ++++----
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h
> index 52769b075233..54e5bce4c698 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h
> @@ -89,8 +89,8 @@ struct resctrl_test {
>   */
>  struct resctrl_val_param {
>  	char		*resctrl_val;
> -	char		ctrlgrp[64];
> -	char		mongrp[64];
> +	const char	*ctrlgrp;
> +	const char	*mongrp;
>  	char		filename[64];
>  	unsigned long	mask;
>  	int		num_of_runs;
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrlfs.c b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrlfs.c
> index 79cf1c593106..dbe0cc6d74fa 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrlfs.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrlfs.c
> @@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ static int create_grp(const char *grp_name, char *grp, const char *parent_grp)
>  	 * length of grp_name == 0, it means, user wants to use root con_mon
>  	 * grp, so do nothing
>  	 */

Could you please confirm that the comments are still accurate?

> -	if (strlen(grp_name) == 0)
> +	if (!grp_name)
>  		return 0;
>  


Reinette