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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:45:36 -0700
From: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>
To: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>, Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>,
Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 01/14] devlink: define enum for attr types of
dynamic attributes
On 06 Mar 12:05, Simon Horman wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 06:12:14PM -0800, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
>> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>
>>
>> Devlink param and health reporter fmsg use attributes with dynamic type
>> which is determined according to a different type. Currently used values
>> are NLA_*. The problem is, they are not part of UAPI. They may change
>> which would cause a break.
>>
>> To make this future safe, introduce a enum that shadows NLA_* values in
>> it and is part of UAPI.
>>
>> Also, this allows to possibly carry types that are unrelated to NLA_*
>> values.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>
>> ---
>> Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml | 23 ++++++++++++++++++
>> include/uapi/linux/devlink.h | 17 ++++++++++++++
>> net/devlink/health.c | 17 ++++++++++++--
>> net/devlink/param.c | 30 ++++++++++++------------
>> 4 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml
>> index 09fbb4c03fc8..e99fc51856c5 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml
>> +++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml
>> @@ -202,6 +202,29 @@ definitions:
>> name: exception
>> -
>> name: control
>> + -
>> + type: enum
>> + name: dyn_attr_type
>> + entries:
>> + -
>> + name: u8
>> + value: 1
>> + -
>> + name: u16
>> + -
>> + name: u32
>> + -
>> + name: u64
>> + -
>> + name: string
>> + -
>> + name: flag
>> + -
>> + name: nul_string
>> + value: 10
>> + -
>> + name: binary
>> + -
^^^^^^^ extra empty type..
>
>Hi Saeed,
>
>Thanks for these patches.
>
>Unfortunately the above seems to cause ynl-regen to blow up.
Thanks Simon, good catch, there was an extra empty type added by mistake,
see above, will remove in V2.
>I don't know why, but I see:
>
> $ ./tools/net/ynl/ynl-regen.sh
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/home/nipa/net-next/wt-1/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py", line 3074, in <module>
> main()
> ~~~~^^
> File "/home/nipa/net-next/wt-1/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py", line 2783, in main
> parsed = Family(args.spec, exclude_ops)
> File "/home/nipa/net-next/wt-1/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py", line 954, in __init__
> super().__init__(file_name, exclude_ops=exclude_ops)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> File "/home/nipa/net-next/wt-1/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/lib/nlspec.py", line 462, in __init__
> jsonschema.validate(self.yaml, schema)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/jsonschema/validators.py", line 1307, in validate
> raise error
> jsonschema.exceptions.ValidationError: None is not of type 'object'
>
> ...
>
>Perhaps I need a newer version of jsonschema?
>
>
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/devlink.h b/include/uapi/linux/devlink.h
>> index 9401aa343673..8cdd60eb3c43 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/devlink.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/devlink.h
>> @@ -385,6 +385,23 @@ enum devlink_linecard_state {
>> DEVLINK_LINECARD_STATE_MAX = __DEVLINK_LINECARD_STATE_MAX - 1
>> };
>>
>> +/**
>> + * enum devlink_dyn_attr_type - Dynamic attribute type type.
>
>Perhaps this relates to auto-generation.
>But I think the Kernel doc should also document the enum values:
>DEVLINK_DYN_ATTR_TYPE_U8, ...
>
>> + */
>> +enum devlink_dyn_attr_type {
>> + /* Following values relate to the internal NLA_* values */
>> + DEVLINK_DYN_ATTR_TYPE_U8 = 1,
>> + DEVLINK_DYN_ATTR_TYPE_U16,
>> + DEVLINK_DYN_ATTR_TYPE_U32,
>> + DEVLINK_DYN_ATTR_TYPE_U64,
>> + DEVLINK_DYN_ATTR_TYPE_STRING,
>> + DEVLINK_DYN_ATTR_TYPE_FLAG,
>> + DEVLINK_DYN_ATTR_TYPE_NUL_STRING = 10,
>> + DEVLINK_DYN_ATTR_TYPE_BINARY,
>> + __DEVLINK_DYN_ATTR_TYPE_CUSTOM_BASE = 0x80,
>> + /* Any possible custom types, unrelated to NLA_* values go below */
>> +};
>> +
>> enum devlink_attr {
>> /* don't change the order or add anything between, this is ABI! */
>> DEVLINK_ATTR_UNSPEC,
>
>...
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