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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@meta.com, max@kutsevol.com, thepacketgeek@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/5] netconsole: add support for sysdata and CPU population
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:44:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250116174405.20a0e20b@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250115-netcon_cpu-v2-3-95971b44dc56@debian.org>

On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:35:20 -0800 Breno Leitao wrote:
> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(userdata_len + sysdata_len >
> +		     MAX_EXTRADATA_ENTRY_LEN * MAX_EXTRADATA_ITEMS);
> +
> +	/* nt->sysdata_length will be used later to decide if the message
> +	 * needs to be fragmented.
> +	 * userdata_len cannot be used for it, once next sysdata append should
> +	 * start from the same userdata_len location, and only overwrite old
> +	 * sysdata.
> +	 */
> +	nt->sysdata_length = sysdata_len;

Updating nt-> fields at runtime is something we haven't done before,
right? What's the locking? We depend on target_list_lock ?

Looks like previously all the data was on the stack, now we have a mix.
Maybe we can pack all the bits of state into a struct for easier
passing around, but still put it on the stack?

  reply	other threads:[~2025-01-17  1:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-15 13:35 [PATCH net-next v2 0/5] netconsole: Add support for CPU population Breno Leitao
2025-01-15 13:35 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/5] netconsole: Rename userdata to extradata Breno Leitao
2025-01-15 13:35 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/5] netconsole: Helper to count number of used entries Breno Leitao
2025-01-15 13:35 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/5] netconsole: add support for sysdata and CPU population Breno Leitao
2025-01-17  1:44   ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2025-01-17 11:02     ` Breno Leitao
2025-01-18  2:35       ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-20 17:30         ` Breno Leitao
2025-01-20 19:06           ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-24 15:28             ` Breno Leitao
2025-01-15 13:35 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/5] netconsole: selftest: test for sysdata CPU Breno Leitao
2025-01-15 13:35 ` [PATCH net-next v2 5/5] netconsole: docs: Add documentation for CPU number auto-population Breno Leitao
2025-01-15 22:56   ` Randy Dunlap
2025-01-16  9:31     ` Breno Leitao

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