On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 10:11:41AM -0400, Mark Michelson wrote: > On 06/13/2018 11:29 PM, Han Zhou wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 3:37 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote: > >> > >>To make ovn-controller recompute incrementally, we need accurate > >>dependencies for each function that reads or writes a table. It's > >>currently difficult to be sure about these dependencies, and certainly > >>difficult to maintain them over time, because there's no way to actually > >>enforce them. > >> > >>This commit experiments with an approach that allows for fairly > >>fine-grained access control within ovn-controller to tables and columns. > >>It's based on generating a new version of the IDL data structures for each > >>case where we want different access control. All of these data structures > >>have the same format, but the columns that a given piece of code is not > >>supposed to touch are renamed to discourage programmers from using them, > >>e.g. they're given names suffixed with "__accessdenied". (This means > >>that there is no runtime overhead to the access control since it only > >>requires a cast to convert between the regular and restricted versions.) > >>In addition, when a columns is supposed to be read-only, functions for > >>modifying the column are not supplied. > >> > >>This commit only tries out this experiment for a single file within > >>ovn-controller, the BFD implementation (mostly because that's > >>alphabetically first, no other real reason). It would require a little > >>more work to apply it everywhere, but it's probably not a huge deal. > >> > >>Comments? > >> > >>CC: Han Zhou <zhou...@gmail.com> > >>Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> > >>--- > >> ovn/controller/automake.mk | 5 + > >> ovn/controller/bfd-vswitch-idl.def | 21 ++++ > >> ovn/controller/bfd.c | 20 ++-- > >> ovn/controller/bfd.h | 8 +- > >> ovn/controller/ovn-controller.c | 13 ++- > >> ovsdb/ovsdb-idlc.in | 223 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >++++++- > >> 6 files changed, 268 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) > >> create mode 100644 ovn/controller/bfd-vswitch-idl.def > >> > > > >I wanted to have a quick test but it didn't pass the compile: > >In file included from ovn/controller/bfd.c:17:0: > >ovn/controller/bfd.h:19:44: fatal error: ovn/controller/bfd-vswitch-idl.h: > >No such file or directory > > Here's a different datapoint in the same category. > > I got a slightly different error when I tried to compile. > ovn/controller/bfd-vswitch-idl.h was auto-generated and everything worked up > until the very end: > > "The following files are in git but not the distribution: > ovn/controller/bfd-vswitch-idl.def" > > The make command I ran was `make sandbox SANDBOXFLAGS="--ovn"` > > I tried running `make distclean` then reconfiguring, but this didn't help. > > For comparison, Han, these are my software versions, in case that might be > why auto-generation worked for me but not you: > gcc version is 7.3.1 > make version is 4.2.1 > autoconf version is 2.69
I've fixed that locally now. It needed EXTRA_DIST += ovn/controller/bfd-vswitch-idl.def. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev