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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	edumazet@google.com, moshe@nvidia.com, saeedm@nvidia.com,
	idosch@nvidia.com, petrm@nvidia.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 10/11] devlink: introduce dump selector attr and use it for per-instance dumps
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 09:02:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZMn/he9LEorV97uy@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230801085301.3501fbbb@kernel.org>

Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 05:53:01PM CEST, kuba@kernel.org wrote:
>On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 08:42:09 +0200 Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> >> >Also - do you know of any userspace which would pass garbage attrs 
>> >> >to the dumps? Do we really need to accept all attributes, or can
>> >> >we trim the dump policies to what's actually supported?    
>> >> 
>> >> That's what this patch is doing. It only accepts what the kernel
>> >> understands. It gives the object types (as for example health reporter)
>> >> option to extend the attr set to accept them into selectors as well, if
>> >> they know how to handle them.  
>> >
>> >I'm talking about the "outer" policy, the level at which
>> >DEVLINK_ATTR_DUMP_SELECTOR is defined.  
>> 
>> I don't follow :/ Could you please describe what exactly do you mean and
>> want to see? Thanks!
>
>It's a bit obscured by the macros, but AFAICT you pass
>devlink_nl_policy for the dumps, while the _only_ attribute
>the kernel will interpret is DEVLINK_ATTR_DUMP_SELECTOR
>and its insides.

True, you are correct.
Anyway with the split ops generation, this is going to be narrowed down,
so possiblem garbage is ignored.
Thanks!


  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-02  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-20 12:18 [patch net-next v2 00/11] devlink: introduce dump selector attr and use it for per-instance dumps Jiri Pirko
2023-07-20 12:18 ` [patch net-next v2 01/11] devlink: parse linecard attr in doit() callbacks Jiri Pirko
2023-07-20 12:18 ` [patch net-next v2 02/11] devlink: parse rate attrs " Jiri Pirko
2023-07-20 12:18 ` [patch net-next v2 03/11] devlink: introduce __devlink_nl_pre_doit() with internal flags as function arg Jiri Pirko
2023-07-20 12:18 ` [patch net-next v2 04/11] devlink: convert port get command to split ops Jiri Pirko
2023-07-20 12:18 ` [patch net-next v2 05/11] devlink: convert health reporter " Jiri Pirko
2023-07-20 12:18 ` [patch net-next v2 06/11] devlink: convert param " Jiri Pirko
2023-07-20 12:18 ` [patch net-next v2 07/11] devlink: convert trap " Jiri Pirko
2023-07-20 12:18 ` [patch net-next v2 08/11] devlink: introduce set of macros and use it for split ops definitions Jiri Pirko
2023-07-25 17:38   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-31 12:21     ` Jiri Pirko
2023-07-31 16:57       ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-08-01  6:41         ` Jiri Pirko
2023-07-20 12:18 ` [patch net-next v2 09/11] devlink: convert rest of the iterator dumpit commands to split ops Jiri Pirko
2023-07-20 12:18 ` [patch net-next v2 10/11] devlink: introduce dump selector attr and use it for per-instance dumps Jiri Pirko
2023-07-25 18:40   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-31 12:47     ` Jiri Pirko
2023-07-31 17:03       ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-08-01  6:42         ` Jiri Pirko
2023-08-01 15:53           ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-08-02  7:02             ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2023-07-20 12:18 ` [patch net-next v2 11/11] devlink: extend health reporter dump selector by port index Jiri Pirko
2023-07-25 18:48   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-31 12:52     ` Jiri Pirko
2023-07-31 17:06       ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-08-01  6:49         ` Jiri Pirko
2023-08-01 15:56           ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-08-02  7:04             ` Jiri Pirko
2023-07-20 13:55 ` [patch net-next v2 00/11] devlink: introduce dump selector attr and use it for per-instance dumps Petr Machata
2023-07-20 14:27   ` Jiri Pirko
2023-07-20 14:51     ` Petr Machata
2023-07-25  8:07 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-07-25  8:36   ` Paolo Abeni
2023-07-25 15:29     ` Jiri Pirko
2023-07-25 16:39       ` Paolo Abeni

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