Re: [PATCH v2 11/13] selftests/resctrl: Convert ctrlgrp & mongrp to pointers

[Reinette Chatre]

Hi Ilpo,

On 3/11/2024 6:52 AM, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> The struct resctrl_val_param has control and monitor groups as char
> arrays but they are not supposed to be mutated within resctrl_val().
> 
> Convert the ctrlgrp and mongrp char array within resctrl_val_param to
> plain const char pointers and adjust the strlen() based checks to
> check NULL instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h   | 4 ++--
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrlfs.c | 8 ++++----
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h
> index 52769b075233..54e5bce4c698 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h
> @@ -89,8 +89,8 @@ struct resctrl_test {
>   */
>  struct resctrl_val_param {
>  	char		*resctrl_val;
> -	char		ctrlgrp[64];
> -	char		mongrp[64];
> +	const char	*ctrlgrp;
> +	const char	*mongrp;
>  	char		filename[64];
>  	unsigned long	mask;
>  	int		num_of_runs;
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrlfs.c b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrlfs.c
> index 79cf1c593106..dbe0cc6d74fa 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrlfs.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrlfs.c
> @@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ static int create_grp(const char *grp_name, char *grp, const char *parent_grp)
>  	 * length of grp_name == 0, it means, user wants to use root con_mon
>  	 * grp, so do nothing
>  	 */

Could you please confirm that the comments are still accurate?

> -	if (strlen(grp_name) == 0)
> +	if (!grp_name)
>  		return 0;
>  


Reinette