Merge branch 'devlink-code-split-and-structured-instance-walk'
authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Fri, 6 Jan 2023 06:09:10 +0000 (22:09 -0800)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Fri, 6 Jan 2023 06:13:40 +0000 (22:13 -0800)
Jakub Kicinski says:

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devlink: code split and structured instance walk

Split devlink.c into a handful of files, trying to keep the "core"
code away from all the command-specific implementations.
The core code has been quite scattered until now. Going forward we can
consider using a source file per-subobject, I think that it's quite
beneficial to newcomers (based on relative ease with which folks
contribute to ethtool vs devlink). But this series doesn't split
everything out, yet - partially due to backporting concerns,
but mostly due to lack of time. Bulk of the netlink command
handling is left in a leftover.c file.

Introduce a context structure for dumps, and use it to store
the devlink instance ID of the last dumped devlink instance.
This means we don't have to restart the walk from 0 each time.

Finally - introduce a "structured walk". A centralized dump handler
in devlink/netlink.c which walks the devlink instances, deals with
refcounting/locking, simplifying the per-object implementations quite
a bit. Inspired by the ethtool code.

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230104041636.226398-1-kuba@kernel.org/
RFC: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221215020155.1619839-1-kuba@kernel.org/
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230105040531.353563-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

Trivial merge