On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 11:44:31AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Drop switchdev_ops.switchdev_port_attr_set. Drop the uses of this field
> from all clients, which were migrated to use switchdev notification in
> the previous patches.
>
> Add a new function switchdev_port_attr_notify() that sends the switchdev
> notifications SWITCHDEV_PORT_ATTR_SET and calls the blocking (process)
> notifier chain.
>
> We have one odd case within net/bridge/br_switchdev.c with the
> SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_PORT_PRE_BRIDGE_FLAGS attribute identifier that
> requires executing from atomic context, we deal with that one
> specifically.
>
> Drop __switchdev_port_attr_set() and update switchdev_port_attr_set()
> likewise.
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com>
One small nit that you can address in a follow-up:
> @@ -67,12 +67,18 @@ int br_switchdev_set_port_flag(struct net_bridge_port *p,
> .id = SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_PORT_PRE_BRIDGE_FLAGS,
> .u.brport_flags = mask,
> };
> + struct switchdev_notifier_port_attr_info info = {
> + .attr = &attr,
> + };
> int err;
>
> if (mask & ~BR_PORT_FLAGS_HW_OFFLOAD)
> return 0;
>
> - err = switchdev_port_attr_set(p->dev, &attr);
> + /* We run from atomic context here */
> + err = call_switchdev_notifiers(SWITCHDEV_PORT_ATTR_SET, p->dev,
> + &info.info, NULL);
> + err = notifier_to_errno(err);
> if (err == -EOPNOTSUPP)
> return 0;
This check can be removed. The code below checks `err` and fails the
operation in case of error.
