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<title>devlink: Implement devlink param multi attribute nested data values</title>
<updated>2026-06-13T23:16:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Saeed Mahameed</name>
<email>saeedm@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-09T04:04:48+00:00</published>
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Devlink param value attribute is not defined since devlink is handling
the value validating and parsing internally, this allows us to implement
multi attribute values without breaking any policies.

Devlink param multi-attribute values are considered to be dynamically
sized arrays of u64 values, by introducing a new devlink param type
DEVLINK_PARAM_TYPE_U64_ARRAY, driver and user space can set a variable
count of u64 values into the DEVLINK_ATTR_PARAM_VALUE_DATA attribute.

Implement get/set parsing and add to the internal value structure passed
to drivers.

This is useful for devices that need to configure a list of values for
a specific configuration.

example:
$ devlink dev param show pci/... name multi-value-param
name multi-value-param type driver-specific
values:
cmode permanent value: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7

$ devlink dev param set pci/... name multi-value-param \
		value 4,5,6,7,0,1,2,3 cmode permanent

Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed &lt;saeedm@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ratheesh Kannoth &lt;rkannoth@marvell.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260609040453.711932-5-rkannoth@marvell.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Devlink param value attribute is not defined since devlink is handling
the value validating and parsing internally, this allows us to implement
multi attribute values without breaking any policies.

Devlink param multi-attribute values are considered to be dynamically
sized arrays of u64 values, by introducing a new devlink param type
DEVLINK_PARAM_TYPE_U64_ARRAY, driver and user space can set a variable
count of u64 values into the DEVLINK_ATTR_PARAM_VALUE_DATA attribute.

Implement get/set parsing and add to the internal value structure passed
to drivers.

This is useful for devices that need to configure a list of values for
a specific configuration.

example:
$ devlink dev param show pci/... name multi-value-param
name multi-value-param type driver-specific
values:
cmode permanent value: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7

$ devlink dev param set pci/... name multi-value-param \
		value 4,5,6,7,0,1,2,3 cmode permanent

Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed &lt;saeedm@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ratheesh Kannoth &lt;rkannoth@marvell.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260609040453.711932-5-rkannoth@marvell.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>devlink: heap-allocate param fill buffers in devlink_nl_param_fill</title>
<updated>2026-06-13T23:16:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ratheesh Kannoth</name>
<email>rkannoth@marvell.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-09T04:04:47+00:00</published>
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devlink_nl_param_fill() kept two per-configuration-mode copies of
union devlink_param_value plus a struct devlink_param_gset_ctx on the
stack while building the Netlink reply. Allocate those with kcalloc()
and kzalloc_obj() instead, and route failures through a single cleanup
path so temporary buffers are always freed.

Signed-off-by: Ratheesh Kannoth &lt;rkannoth@marvell.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260609040453.711932-4-rkannoth@marvell.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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devlink_nl_param_fill() kept two per-configuration-mode copies of
union devlink_param_value plus a struct devlink_param_gset_ctx on the
stack while building the Netlink reply. Allocate those with kcalloc()
and kzalloc_obj() instead, and route failures through a single cleanup
path so temporary buffers are always freed.

Signed-off-by: Ratheesh Kannoth &lt;rkannoth@marvell.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260609040453.711932-4-rkannoth@marvell.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>devlink: pass param values by pointer</title>
<updated>2026-05-25T21:03:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ratheesh Kannoth</name>
<email>rkannoth@marvell.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-21T09:52:57+00:00</published>
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union devlink_param_value grows substantially once U64 array
parameters are added to devlink (from 32 bytes to over 264 bytes).
devlink_nl_param_value_fill_one() and devlink_nl_param_value_put()
copy the union by value in several places. Passing two instances as
value arguments alone consumes over 528 bytes of stack; combined with
deeper call chains the parameter stack can approach 800 bytes and trip
CONFIG_FRAME_WARN more easily.

Switch internal helpers and exported driver APIs to pass pointers to
union devlink_param_value rather than passing the union by value.

Reviewed-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt; # for mlxsw
Acked-by: Przemek Kitszel &lt;przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arthur Kiyanovski &lt;akiyano@amazon.com&gt; #for ena
Signed-off-by: Ratheesh Kannoth &lt;rkannoth@marvell.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260521095303.2395584-4-rkannoth@marvell.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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union devlink_param_value grows substantially once U64 array
parameters are added to devlink (from 32 bytes to over 264 bytes).
devlink_nl_param_value_fill_one() and devlink_nl_param_value_put()
copy the union by value in several places. Passing two instances as
value arguments alone consumes over 528 bytes of stack; combined with
deeper call chains the parameter stack can approach 800 bytes and trip
CONFIG_FRAME_WARN more easily.

Switch internal helpers and exported driver APIs to pass pointers to
union devlink_param_value rather than passing the union by value.

Reviewed-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt; # for mlxsw
Acked-by: Przemek Kitszel &lt;przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arthur Kiyanovski &lt;akiyano@amazon.com&gt; #for ena
Signed-off-by: Ratheesh Kannoth &lt;rkannoth@marvell.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260521095303.2395584-4-rkannoth@marvell.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>devlink: support default values for param-get and param-set</title>
<updated>2025-11-21T03:01:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Zahka</name>
<email>daniel.zahka@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-19T02:50:33+00:00</published>
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Support querying and resetting to default param values.

Introduce two new devlink netlink attrs:
DEVLINK_ATTR_PARAM_VALUE_DEFAULT and
DEVLINK_ATTR_PARAM_RESET_DEFAULT. The former is used to contain an
optional parameter value inside of the param_value nested
attribute. The latter is used in param-set requests from userspace to
indicate that the driver should reset the param to its default value.

To implement this, two new functions are added to the devlink driver
api: devlink_param::get_default() and
devlink_param::reset_default(). These callbacks allow drivers to
implement default param actions for runtime and permanent cmodes. For
driverinit params, the core latches the last value set by a driver via
devl_param_driverinit_value_set(), and uses that as the default value
for a param.

Because default parameter values are optional, it would be impossible
to discern whether or not a param of type bool has default value of
false or not provided if the default value is encoded using a netlink
flag type. For this reason, when a DEVLINK_PARAM_TYPE_BOOL has an
associated default value, the default value is encoded using a u8
type.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka &lt;daniel.zahka@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119025038.651131-4-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Support querying and resetting to default param values.

Introduce two new devlink netlink attrs:
DEVLINK_ATTR_PARAM_VALUE_DEFAULT and
DEVLINK_ATTR_PARAM_RESET_DEFAULT. The former is used to contain an
optional parameter value inside of the param_value nested
attribute. The latter is used in param-set requests from userspace to
indicate that the driver should reset the param to its default value.

To implement this, two new functions are added to the devlink driver
api: devlink_param::get_default() and
devlink_param::reset_default(). These callbacks allow drivers to
implement default param actions for runtime and permanent cmodes. For
driverinit params, the core latches the last value set by a driver via
devl_param_driverinit_value_set(), and uses that as the default value
for a param.

Because default parameter values are optional, it would be impossible
to discern whether or not a param of type bool has default value of
false or not provided if the default value is encoded using a netlink
flag type. For this reason, when a DEVLINK_PARAM_TYPE_BOOL has an
associated default value, the default value is encoded using a u8
type.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka &lt;daniel.zahka@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119025038.651131-4-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>devlink: refactor devlink_nl_param_value_fill_one()</title>
<updated>2025-11-21T03:01:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Zahka</name>
<email>daniel.zahka@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-19T02:50:32+00:00</published>
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Lift the param type demux and value attr placement into a separate
function. This new function, devlink_nl_param_put(), can be used to
place additional types values in the value array, e.g., default,
current, next values. This commit has no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka &lt;daniel.zahka@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119025038.651131-3-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Lift the param type demux and value attr placement into a separate
function. This new function, devlink_nl_param_put(), can be used to
place additional types values in the value array, e.g., default,
current, next values. This commit has no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka &lt;daniel.zahka@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119025038.651131-3-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>devlink: pass extack through to devlink_param::get()</title>
<updated>2025-11-21T03:01:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Zahka</name>
<email>daniel.zahka@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-19T02:50:31+00:00</published>
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Allow devlink_param::get() handlers to report error messages via
extack. This function is called in a few different contexts, but not
all of them will have an valid extack to use.

When devlink_param::get() is called from param_get_doit or
param_get_dumpit contexts, pass the extack through so that drivers can
report errors when retrieving param values. devlink_param::get() is
called from the context of devlink_param_notify(), pass NULL in for
the extack.

Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed &lt;saeedm@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov &lt;aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka &lt;daniel.zahka@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119025038.651131-2-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Allow devlink_param::get() handlers to report error messages via
extack. This function is called in a few different contexts, but not
all of them will have an valid extack to use.

When devlink_param::get() is called from param_get_doit or
param_get_dumpit contexts, pass the extack through so that drivers can
report errors when retrieving param values. devlink_param::get() is
called from the context of devlink_param_notify(), pass NULL in for
the extack.

Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed &lt;saeedm@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov &lt;aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka &lt;daniel.zahka@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119025038.651131-2-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>devlink: Add new "max_mac_per_vf" generic device param</title>
<updated>2025-11-06T20:57:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mohammad Heib</name>
<email>mheib@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-25T13:08:58+00:00</published>
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Add a new device generic parameter to controls the maximum
number of MAC filters allowed per VF.

For example, to limit a VF to 3 MAC addresses:
 $ devlink dev param set pci/0000:3b:00.0 name max_mac_per_vf \
        value 3 \
        cmode runtime

Signed-off-by: Mohammad Heib &lt;mheib@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller &lt;jacob.e.keller@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen &lt;anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com&gt;
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Add a new device generic parameter to controls the maximum
number of MAC filters allowed per VF.

For example, to limit a VF to 3 MAC addresses:
 $ devlink dev param set pci/0000:3b:00.0 name max_mac_per_vf \
        value 3 \
        cmode runtime

Signed-off-by: Mohammad Heib &lt;mheib@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller &lt;jacob.e.keller@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen &lt;anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>devlink: Add a 'num_doorbells' driverinit param</title>
<updated>2025-09-18T01:30:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cosmin Ratiu</name>
<email>cratiu@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-16T14:11:43+00:00</published>
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This parameter can be used by drivers to configure a different number of
doorbells.

Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu &lt;cratiu@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea &lt;dtatulea@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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This parameter can be used by drivers to configure a different number of
doorbells.

Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu &lt;cratiu@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea &lt;dtatulea@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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