netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 14/22] devlink: implement DEVLINK_CMD_REGION

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Date:   Mon, 2 Mar 2020 14:11:29 -0800
From:   Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, valex@...lanox.com, linyunsheng@...wei.com,
        lihong.yang@...el.com, kuba@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 14/22] devlink: implement DEVLINK_CMD_REGION_NEW



On 3/2/2020 9:41 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 12:22:13AM CET, jacob.e.keller@...el.com wrote:
>> +++ b/include/net/devlink.h
>> @@ -498,10 +498,16 @@ struct devlink_info_req;
>>  * struct devlink_region_ops - Region operations
>>  * @name: region name
>>  * @destructor: callback used to free snapshot memory when deleting
>> + * @snapshot: callback to request an immediate snapshot. On success,
>> + *            the data variable must be updated to point to the snapshot data.
>> + *            The function will be called while the devlink instance lock is
>> + *            held.
>>  */
>> struct devlink_region_ops {
>> 	const char *name;
>> 	void (*destructor)(const void *data);
>> +	int (*snapshot)(struct devlink *devlink, struct netlink_ext_ack *extack,
>> +			u8 **data);
> 
> Please have the same type here and for destructor. "u8 *" I guess.
> 
So, changing the destructor to take a const u8 * is problematic, because
it can then no longer directly take kfree, vfree, or kvfree.

I'd be happy to change the snapshot function so that it takes a void **
though.

Thanks,
Jake