On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 22:49:09 +0800 Heng Qi wrote:
> >> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DIMLIB)
> >> + if (dev->irq_moder) {
> > This may be NULL
>
>
> Do you mean dev may be null or dev->irq_moder may be null?
> The former has been excluded (see const struct ethtool_ops *ops
>
> = req_info->dev->ethtool_ops;).
>
> And we are ruling out the latter using 'if (dev->irq_moder)'.
>
> Or something else?
Hm, I must have misread something here.
> >> + nla_for_each_nested_type(nest, ETHTOOL_A_PROFILE_IRQ_MODERATION, nests,
> >> rem) {
> >> + ret = nla_parse_nested(moder,
> >> +
> >> ARRAY_SIZE(coalesce_irq_moderation_policy) - 1,
> >> + nest, coalesce_irq_moderation_policy,
> >> + extack);
> >> + if (ret)
> >> + return ret;
> >> +
> >> + if (!NL_REQ_ATTR_CHECK(extack, nest, moder,
> >> ETHTOOL_A_IRQ_MODERATION_USEC)) {
> >> + if (irq_moder->coal_flags & DIM_COALESCE_USEC)
> > There are 3 options here, not 2:
> >
> > if (irq_moder->coal_flags & flag) {
> > if (NL_REQ_ATTR_CHECK())
> > val = nla_get_u32(...);
> > else
> > return -EINVAL;
> > } else {
> > if (moder[attr_type)) {
> > BAD_ATTR()
> > return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > }
> > }
>
> Maybe we missed something.
>
> As shown in the commit log, the user is allowed to modify only
> a certain fields in irq-moderation. It is assumed that the driver
> supports modification of usec and pkts, but the user may only
> modify usec and only fill in the usec attr.
>
> Therefore, the kernel only gets usec attr here. Of course, the user
> may have passed in 5 groups of "n, n, n", which means that nothing
> is modified, and rx_profile and irq_moderation attrs are all empty.
What you describe sounds good, but it's not what the code seems to be
doing. NL_REQ_ATTR_CHECK() will set an error attribute if the attr is
not present.