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The devlink_nl_region_read_snapshot_fill is used to copy the contents of a snapshot into a message for reporting to userspace via the DEVLINK_CMG_REGION_READ netlink message. A future change is going to add support for directly reading from a region. Almost all of the logic for this new capability is identical. To help reduce code duplication and make this logic more generic, refactor the function to take a cb and cb_priv pointer for doing the actual copy. Add a devlink_region_snapshot_fill implementation that will simply copy the relevant chunk of the region. This does require allocating some storage for the chunk as opposed to simply passing the correct address forward to the devlink_nl_cmg_region_read_chunk_fill function. A future change to implement support for directly reading from a region without a snapshot will provide a separate implementation that calls the newly added devlink region operation. Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.