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Message-ID: <20200429054552.GB6581@nanopsycho.orion>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 07:45:52 +0200
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com,
jacob.e.keller@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] devlink: let kernel allocate region snapshot id
Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 03:42:48AM CEST, kuba@...nel.org wrote:
>Currently users have to choose a free snapshot id before
>calling DEVLINK_CMD_REGION_NEW. This is potentially racy
>and inconvenient.
>
>Make the DEVLINK_ATTR_REGION_SNAPSHOT_ID optional and try
>to allocate id automatically. Send a message back to the
>caller with the snapshot info.
>
>The message carrying id gets sent immediately, but the
>allocation is only valid if the entire operation succeeded.
>This makes life easier, as sending the notification itself
>may fail.
>
>Example use:
>$ devlink region new netdevsim/netdevsim1/dummy
>netdevsim/netdevsim1/dummy: snapshot 1
>
>$ id=$(devlink -j region new netdevsim/netdevsim1/dummy | \
> jq '.[][][][]')
>$ devlink region dump netdevsim/netdevsim1/dummy snapshot $id
>[...]
>$ devlink region del netdevsim/netdevsim1/dummy snapshot $id
>
>Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
>---
>Jiri, this is what I had in mind of snapshots and the same
>thing will come back for slice allocation.
Okay. Could you please send the userspace patch too in order to see the
full picture?
>
> net/core/devlink.c | 84 ++++++++++++++++---
> .../drivers/net/netdevsim/devlink.sh | 13 +++
> 2 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/net/core/devlink.c b/net/core/devlink.c
>index 1ec2e9fd8898..dad5d07dd4f8 100644
>--- a/net/core/devlink.c
>+++ b/net/core/devlink.c
>@@ -4065,10 +4065,65 @@ static int devlink_nl_cmd_region_del(struct sk_buff *skb,
> return 0;
> }
>
>+static int
>+devlink_nl_alloc_snapshot_id(struct devlink *devlink, struct genl_info *info,
>+ struct devlink_region *region, u32 *snapshot_id)
>+{
>+ struct sk_buff *msg;
>+ void *hdr;
>+ int err;
>+
>+ err = __devlink_region_snapshot_id_get(devlink, snapshot_id);
>+ if (err) {
>+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(info->extack,
No need to wrap here.
>+ "Failed to allocate a new snapshot id");
>+ return err;
>+ }
>+
>+ msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
>+ if (!msg) {
>+ err = -ENOMEM;
>+ goto err_msg_alloc;
>+ }
>+
>+ hdr = genlmsg_put(msg, info->snd_portid, info->snd_seq,
>+ &devlink_nl_family, 0, DEVLINK_CMD_REGION_NEW);
>+ if (!hdr) {
>+ err = -EMSGSIZE;
>+ goto err_put_failure;
>+ }
>+ err = devlink_nl_put_handle(msg, devlink);
>+ if (err)
>+ goto err_attr_failure;
>+ err = nla_put_string(msg, DEVLINK_ATTR_REGION_NAME, region->ops->name);
>+ if (err)
>+ goto err_attr_failure;
>+ err = nla_put_u32(msg, DEVLINK_ATTR_REGION_SNAPSHOT_ID, *snapshot_id);
>+ if (err)
>+ goto err_attr_failure;
>+ genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
>+
>+ err = genlmsg_reply(msg, info);
>+ if (err)
>+ goto err_reply;
>+
>+ return 0;
>+
>+err_attr_failure:
>+ genlmsg_cancel(msg, hdr);
>+err_put_failure:
>+ nlmsg_free(msg);
>+err_msg_alloc:
>+err_reply:
>+ __devlink_snapshot_id_decrement(devlink, *snapshot_id);
>+ return err;
>+}
>+
> static int
> devlink_nl_cmd_region_new(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
> {
> struct devlink *devlink = info->user_ptr[0];
>+ struct nlattr *snapshot_id_attr;
> struct devlink_region *region;
> const char *region_name;
> u32 snapshot_id;
>@@ -4080,11 +4135,6 @@ devlink_nl_cmd_region_new(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
>- if (!info->attrs[DEVLINK_ATTR_REGION_SNAPSHOT_ID]) {
>- NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(info->extack, "No snapshot id provided");
>- return -EINVAL;
>- }
>-
> region_name = nla_data(info->attrs[DEVLINK_ATTR_REGION_NAME]);
> region = devlink_region_get_by_name(devlink, region_name);
> if (!region) {
>@@ -4102,16 +4152,24 @@ devlink_nl_cmd_region_new(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
> return -ENOSPC;
> }
>
>- snapshot_id = nla_get_u32(info->attrs[DEVLINK_ATTR_REGION_SNAPSHOT_ID]);
>+ snapshot_id_attr = info->attrs[DEVLINK_ATTR_REGION_SNAPSHOT_ID];
>+ if (snapshot_id_attr) {
>+ snapshot_id = nla_get_u32(snapshot_id_attr);
>
>- if (devlink_region_snapshot_get_by_id(region, snapshot_id)) {
>- NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(info->extack, "The requested snapshot id is already in use");
>- return -EEXIST;
>- }
>+ if (devlink_region_snapshot_get_by_id(region, snapshot_id)) {
>+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(info->extack, "The requested snapshot id is already in use");
>+ return -EEXIST;
>+ }
>
>- err = __devlink_snapshot_id_insert(devlink, snapshot_id);
>- if (err)
>- return err;
>+ err = __devlink_snapshot_id_insert(devlink, snapshot_id);
>+ if (err)
>+ return err;
>+ } else {
>+ err = devlink_nl_alloc_snapshot_id(devlink, info,
>+ region, &snapshot_id);
>+ if (err)
>+ return err;
>+ }
>
> err = region->ops->snapshot(devlink, info->extack, &data);
How the output is going to looks like it this or any of the follow-up
calls in this function are going to fail?
I guess it is going to be handled gracefully in the userspace app,
right?
> if (err)
>diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/netdevsim/devlink.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/netdevsim/devlink.sh
>index 9f9741444549..ad539eccddcb 100755
>--- a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/netdevsim/devlink.sh
>+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/netdevsim/devlink.sh
>@@ -151,6 +151,19 @@ regions_test()
>
> check_region_snapshot_count dummy post-second-delete 2
>
>+ sid=$(devlink -j region new $DL_HANDLE/dummy | jq '.[][][][]')
>+ check_err $? "Failed to create a new snapshot with id allocated by the kernel"
>+
>+ check_region_snapshot_count dummy post-first-request 3
>+
>+ devlink region dump $DL_HANDLE/dummy snapshot $sid >> /dev/null
>+ check_err $? "Failed to dump a snapshot with id allocated by the kernel"
>+
>+ devlink region del $DL_HANDLE/dummy snapshot $sid
>+ check_err $? "Failed to delete snapshot with id allocated by the kernel"
>+
>+ check_region_snapshot_count dummy post-first-request 2
>+
> log_test "regions test"
> }
>
>--
>2.25.4
>
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