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We currently push everyone to use padding to align 64b values
in netlink. Un-padded nla_put_u64() doesn't even exist any more.
The story behind this possibly start with this thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20121204.130914.1457976839967676240.davem@davemloft.net/
where DaveM was concerned about the alignment of a structure
containing 64b stats. If user space tries to access such struct
directly:
struct some_stats *stats = nla_data(attr);
printf("A: %llu", stats->a);
lack of alignment may become problematic for some architectures.
These days we most often put every single member in a separate
attribute, meaning that the code above would use a helper like
nla_get_u64(), which can deal with alignment internally.
Even for arches which don't have good unaligned access - access
aligned to 4B should be pretty efficient.
Kernel and well known libraries deal with unaligned input already.
Padded 64b is quite space-inefficient (64b + pad means at worst 16B
per attr vs 32b which takes 8B). It is also more typing:
if (nla_put_u64_pad(rsp, NETDEV_A_SOMETHING_SOMETHING,
value, NETDEV_A_SOMETHING_PAD))
Create a new attribute type which will use 32 bits at netlink
level if value is small enough (probably most of the time?),
and (4B-aligned) 64 bits otherwise. Kernel API is just:
if (nla_put_uint(rsp, NETDEV_A_SOMETHING_SOMETHING, value))
Calling this new type "just" sint / uint with no specific size
will hopefully also make people more comfortable with using it.
Currently telling people "don't use u8, you may need the bits,
and netlink will round up to 4B, anyway" is the #1 comment
we give to newcomers.
In terms of netlink layout it looks like this:
0 4 8 12 16
32b: [nlattr][ u32 ]
64b: [ pad ][nlattr][ u64 ]
uint(32) [nlattr][ u32 ]
uint(64) [nlattr][ u64 ]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jiri moved version to legacy specs in commit 0f07415ebb78 ("netlink:
specs: don't allow version to be specified for genetlink").
Update the documentation.
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231016214540.1822392-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Add documentation for recently added genetlink-legacy schema attributes.
Remove statements about 'work in progress' and 'todo'.
Signed-off-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230825122756.7603-4-donald.hunter@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Add a definition for sub-type to the protocol spec doc and a description of
its usage for C arrays in genetlink-legacy.
Signed-off-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
I relicensed Netlink spec code to GPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause but
we still put a slightly different license on the uAPI header
than the rest of the code. Use the Linux-syscall-note on all
the specs and all generated code. It's moot for kernel code,
but should not hurt. This way the licenses match everywhere.
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Fixes: 37d9df224d1e ("ynl: re-license uniformly under GPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause")
Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
I was intending to make all the Netlink Spec code BSD-3-Clause
to ease the adoption but it appears that:
- I fumbled the uAPI and used "GPL WITH uAPI note" there
- it gives people pause as they expect GPL in the kernel
As suggested by Chuck re-license under dual. This gives us benefit
of full BSD freedom while fulfilling the broad "kernel is under GPL"
expectations.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230304120108.05dd44c5@kernel.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230306200457.3903854-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Pretty much all families use value: 1 or reserve as unspec
the first entry in attribute set and the first operation.
Make this the default. Update documentation (the doc for
values of operations just refers back to doc for attrs
so updating only attrs).
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To avoid having to repeat the entire definition of an attribute
(including the value) use the Attr object from the original set.
In fact this is already the documented expectation.
Fixes: be5bea1cc0bf ("net: add basic C code generators for Netlink")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We have a bit of documentation about the internals of Netlink
and the specs, but really the goal is for most people to not
worry about those. Add a practical guide for beginners who
want to poke at the specs.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Add documentation about the upcoming Netlink protocol specs.
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
