linux-stable.git/include/linux/netdevice.h, branch v3.5.4

netdevice: Update netif_dbg for CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG

2012-05-30T20:34:27+00:00

Make netif_dbg use dynamic debugging whenever
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG is enabled.

commit b558c96ffa53
("dynamic_debug: make dynamic-debug supersede DEBUG ccflag")
missed updating the netif_dbg variant.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: napi_frags_skb() is static

2012-05-19T06:51:00+00:00

No need to export napi_frags_skb()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Remove netdevice ec_ptr, no longer used.

2012-05-18T05:39:43+00:00

ECONET is gone, thus this can be deleted as well.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2012-05-17T02:17:37+00:00

Revert "net: maintain namespace isolation between vlan and real device"

2012-05-11T03:03:34+00:00

This reverts commit 8a83a00b0735190384a348156837918271034144.

It causes regressions for S390 devices, because it does an
unconditional DST drop on SKBs for vlans and the QETH device
needs the neighbour entry hung off the DST for certain things
on transmit.

Arnd can't remember exactly why he even needed this change.

Conflicts:

	drivers/net/macvlan.c
	net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
	net/core/dev.c

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: make GRO aware of skb->head_frag

2012-05-01T01:35:49+00:00

GRO can check if skb to be merged has its skb->head mapped to a page
fragment, instead of a kmalloc() area.

We 'upgrade' skb->head as a fragment in itself

This avoids the frag_list fallback, and permits to build true GRO skb
(one sk_buff and up to 16 fragments), using less memory.

This reduces number of cache misses when user makes its copy, since a
single sk_buff is fetched.

This is a followup of patch "net: allow skb->head to be a page fragment"

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen 
Cc: Herbert Xu 
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski 
Cc: Neal Cardwell 
Cc: Tom Herbert 
Cc: Jeff Kirsher 
Cc: Ben Hutchings 
Cc: Matt Carlson 
Cc: Michael Chan 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: addr_list: add exclusive dev_uc_add and dev_mc_add

2012-04-15T17:06:04+00:00

This adds a dev_uc_add_excl() and dev_mc_add_excl() calls
similar to the original dev_{uc|mc}_add() except it sets
the global bit and returns -EEXIST for duplicat entires.

This is useful for drivers that support SR-IOV, macvlan
devices and any other devices that need to manage the
unicast and multicast lists.

v2: fix typo UNICAST should be MULTICAST in dev_mc_add_excl()

CC: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: add generic PF_BRIDGE:RTM_ FDB hooks

2012-04-15T17:06:04+00:00

This adds two new flags NTF_MASTER and NTF_SELF that can
now be used to specify where PF_BRIDGE netlink commands should
be sent. NTF_MASTER sends the commands to the 'dev->master'
device for parsing. Typically this will be the linux net/bridge,
or open-vswitch devices. Also without any flags set the command
will be handled by the master device as well so that current user
space tools continue to work as expected.

The NTF_SELF flag will push the PF_BRIDGE commands to the
device. In the basic example below the commands are then parsed
and programmed in the embedded bridge.

Note if both NTF_SELF and NTF_MASTER bits are set then the
command will be sent to both 'dev->master' and 'dev' this allows
user space to easily keep the embedded bridge and software bridge
in sync.

There is a slight complication in the case with both flags set
when an error occurs. To resolve this the rtnl handler clears
the NTF_ flag in the netlink ack to indicate which sets completed
successfully. The add/del handlers will abort as soon as any
error occurs.

To support this new net device ops were added to call into
the device and the existing bridging code was refactored
to use these. There should be no required changes in user space
to support the current bridge behavior.

A basic setup with a SR-IOV enabled NIC looks like this,

          veth0  veth2
            |      |
          ------------
          |  bridge0 |   <---- software bridging
          ------------
               /
               /
  ethx.y      ethx
    VF         PF
     \         \          <---- propagate FDB entries to HW
     \         \
  --------------------
  |  Embedded Bridge |    <---- hardware offloaded switching
  --------------------

In this case the embedded bridge must be managed to allow 'veth0'
to communicate with 'ethx.y' correctly. At present drivers managing
the embedded bridge either send frames onto the network which
then get dropped by the switch OR the embedded bridge will flood
these frames. With this patch we have a mechanism to manage the
embedded bridge correctly from user space. This example is specific
to SR-IOV but replacing the VF with another PF or dropping this
into the DSA framework generates similar management issues.

Examples session using the 'br'[1] tool to add, dump and then
delete a mac address with a new "embedded" option and enabled
ixgbe driver:

# br fdb add 22:35:19:ac:60:59 dev eth3
# br fdb
port    mac addr                flags
veth0   22:35:19:ac:60:58       static
veth0   9a:5f:81:f7:f6:ec       local
eth3    00:1b:21:55:23:59       local
eth3    22:35:19:ac:60:59       static
veth0   22:35:19:ac:60:57       static
#br fdb add 22:35:19:ac:60:59 embedded dev eth3
#br fdb
port    mac addr                flags
veth0   22:35:19:ac:60:58       static
veth0   9a:5f:81:f7:f6:ec       local
eth3    00:1b:21:55:23:59       local
eth3    22:35:19:ac:60:59       static
veth0   22:35:19:ac:60:57       static
eth3    22:35:19:ac:60:59       local embedded
#br fdb del 22:35:19:ac:60:59 embedded dev eth3

I added a couple lines to 'br' to set the flags correctly is all. It
is my opinion that the merit of this patch is now embedded and SW
bridges can both be modeled correctly in user space using very nearly
the same message passing.

[1] 'br' tool was published as an RFC here and will be renamed 'bridge'
    http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/117664/

Thanks to Jamal Hadi Salim, Stephen Hemminger and Ben Hutchings for
valuable feedback, suggestions, and review.

v2: fixed api descriptions and error case with both NTF_SELF and
    NTF_MASTER set plus updated patch description.

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: cleanup unsigned to unsigned int

2012-04-15T16:44:40+00:00

Use of "unsigned int" is preferred to bare "unsigned" in net tree.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: fix /proc/net/dev regression

2012-04-03T21:23:23+00:00

Commit f04565ddf52 (dev: use name hash for dev_seq_ops) added a second
regression, as some devices are missing from /proc/net/dev if many
devices are defined.

When seq_file buffer is filled, the last ->next/show() method is
canceled (pos value is reverted to value prior ->next() call)

Problem is after above commit, we dont restart the lookup at right
position in ->start() method.

Fix this by removing the internal 'pos' pointer added in commit, since
we need to use the 'loff_t *pos' provided by seq_file layer.

This also reverts commit 5cac98dd0 (net: Fix corruption
in /proc/*/net/dev_mcast), since its not needed anymore.

Reported-by: Ben Greear 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Mihai Maruseac 
Tested-by:  Ben Greear 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller