Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 03:42:48AM CEST, k...@kernel.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 <k...@kernel.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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