netdev - Re: [PATCH v3] virtio-net: Fix probe of virtio-net on kvmtool

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Message-ID: <1678092272.631299-1-xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
Date:   Mon, 6 Mar 2023 16:44:32 +0800
From:   Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        rbradford@...osinc.com, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] virtio-net: Fix probe of virtio-net on kvmtool

On Sun, 5 Mar 2023 04:53:58 -0500, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 04:46:03PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 04:48:38 -0500 Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > Looks not the core can try to enable and disable features according to
> > > > the diff between features and hw_features
> > > >
> > > > static inline netdev_features_t netdev_get_wanted_features(
> > > >         struct net_device *dev)
> > > > {
> > > >         return (dev->features & ~dev->hw_features) | dev->wanted_features;
> > > > }
> > >
> > > yes what we do work according to code.  So the documentation is wrong then?
> >
> > It's definitely incomplete but which part are you saying is wrong?
>
> So it says:
>   2. netdev->features set contains features which are currently enabled
>      for a device.
>
> ok so far.
> But this part:
>
>   This should be changed only by network core or in
>      error paths of ndo_set_features callback.
>
> seems to say virtio should not touch netdev->features, no?

I think the "changed" here refers to the user's opening or closing a function
by network core.

If the features contain a certain function, but hw_features does not include it
means that this function cannot be modified by user.

 *	struct net_device - The DEVICE structure.
 *   [....]
 *	@features:	Currently active device features
 *	@hw_features:	User-changeable features

Thanks.

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