devlink: support directly reading from region memory

To read from a region, user space must currently request a new snapshot of
the region and then read from that snapshot. This can sometimes be overkill
if user space only reads a tiny portion. They first create the snapshot,
then request a read, then destroy the snapshot.

For regions which have a single underlying "contents", it makes sense to
allow supporting direct reading of the region data.

Extend the DEVLINK_CMD_REGION_READ to allow direct reading from a region if
requested via the new DEVLINK_ATTR_REGION_DIRECT. If this attribute is set,
then perform a direct read instead of using a snapshot. Direct read is
mutually exclusive with DEVLINK_ATTR_REGION_SNAPSHOT_ID, and care is taken
to ensure that we reject commands which provide incorrect attributes.

Regions must enable support for direct read by implementing the .read()
callback function. If a region does not support such direct reads, a
suitable extended error message is reported.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/devlink.h b/include/net/devlink.h
index 074a79b8933f..02528f736f65 100644
--- a/include/net/devlink.h
+++ b/include/net/devlink.h
@@ -650,6 +650,10 @@ struct devlink_info_req;
  *            the data variable must be updated to point to the snapshot data.
  *            The function will be called while the devlink instance lock is
  *            held.
+ * @read: callback to directly read a portion of the region. On success,
+ *        the data pointer will be updated with the contents of the
+ *        requested portion of the region. The function will be called
+ *        while the devlink instance lock is held.
  * @priv: Pointer to driver private data for the region operation
  */
 struct devlink_region_ops {
@@ -659,6 +663,10 @@ struct devlink_region_ops {
 			const struct devlink_region_ops *ops,
 			struct netlink_ext_ack *extack,
 			u8 **data);
+	int (*read)(struct devlink *devlink,
+		    const struct devlink_region_ops *ops,
+		    struct netlink_ext_ack *extack,
+		    u64 offset, u32 size, u8 *data);
 	void *priv;
 };
 
@@ -670,6 +678,10 @@ struct devlink_region_ops {
  *            the data variable must be updated to point to the snapshot data.
  *            The function will be called while the devlink instance lock is
  *            held.
+ * @read: callback to directly read a portion of the region. On success,
+ *        the data pointer will be updated with the contents of the
+ *        requested portion of the region. The function will be called
+ *        while the devlink instance lock is held.
  * @priv: Pointer to driver private data for the region operation
  */
 struct devlink_port_region_ops {
@@ -679,6 +691,10 @@ struct devlink_port_region_ops {
 			const struct devlink_port_region_ops *ops,
 			struct netlink_ext_ack *extack,
 			u8 **data);
+	int (*read)(struct devlink_port *port,
+		    const struct devlink_port_region_ops *ops,
+		    struct netlink_ext_ack *extack,
+		    u64 offset, u32 size, u8 *data);
 	void *priv;
 };