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<title>net: dsa: introduce preferred_default_local_cpu_port and use on MT7530</title>
<updated>2023-06-20T08:40:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>olteanv@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2023-06-17T06:26:48+00:00</published>
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Since the introduction of the OF bindings, DSA has always had a policy that
in case multiple CPU ports are present in the device tree, the numerically
smallest one is always chosen.

The MT7530 switch family, except the switch on the MT7988 SoC, has 2 CPU
ports, 5 and 6, where port 6 is preferable on the MT7531BE switch because
it has higher bandwidth.

The MT7530 driver developers had 3 options:
- to modify DSA when the MT7531 switch support was introduced, such as to
  prefer the better port
- to declare both CPU ports in device trees as CPU ports, and live with the
  sub-optimal performance resulting from not preferring the better port
- to declare just port 6 in the device tree as a CPU port

Of course they chose the path of least resistance (3rd option), kicking the
can down the road. The hardware description in the device tree is supposed
to be stable - developers are not supposed to adopt the strategy of
piecemeal hardware description, where the device tree is updated in
lockstep with the features that the kernel currently supports.

Now, as a result of the fact that they did that, any attempts to modify the
device tree and describe both CPU ports as CPU ports would make DSA change
its default selection from port 6 to 5, effectively resulting in a
performance degradation visible to users with the MT7531BE switch as can be
seen below.

Without preferring port 6:

[ ID][Role] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5][TX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec   374 MBytes   157 Mbits/sec  734    sender
[  5][TX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec   373 MBytes   156 Mbits/sec    receiver
[  7][RX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.81 GBytes   778 Mbits/sec    0    sender
[  7][RX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.81 GBytes   777 Mbits/sec    receiver

With preferring port 6:

[ ID][Role] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5][TX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.99 GBytes   856 Mbits/sec  273    sender
[  5][TX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.99 GBytes   855 Mbits/sec    receiver
[  7][RX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.72 GBytes   737 Mbits/sec   15    sender
[  7][RX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.71 GBytes   736 Mbits/sec    receiver

Using one port for WAN and the other ports for LAN is a very popular use
case which is what this test emulates.

As such, this change proposes that we retroactively modify stable kernels
(which don't support the modification of the CPU port assignments, so as to
let user space fix the problem and restore the throughput) to keep the
mt7530 driver preferring port 6 even with device trees where the hardware
is more fully described.

Fixes: c288575f7810 ("net: dsa: mt7530: Add the support of MT7531 switch")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arınç ÜNAL &lt;arinc.unal@arinc9.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;florian.fainelli@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Since the introduction of the OF bindings, DSA has always had a policy that
in case multiple CPU ports are present in the device tree, the numerically
smallest one is always chosen.

The MT7530 switch family, except the switch on the MT7988 SoC, has 2 CPU
ports, 5 and 6, where port 6 is preferable on the MT7531BE switch because
it has higher bandwidth.

The MT7530 driver developers had 3 options:
- to modify DSA when the MT7531 switch support was introduced, such as to
  prefer the better port
- to declare both CPU ports in device trees as CPU ports, and live with the
  sub-optimal performance resulting from not preferring the better port
- to declare just port 6 in the device tree as a CPU port

Of course they chose the path of least resistance (3rd option), kicking the
can down the road. The hardware description in the device tree is supposed
to be stable - developers are not supposed to adopt the strategy of
piecemeal hardware description, where the device tree is updated in
lockstep with the features that the kernel currently supports.

Now, as a result of the fact that they did that, any attempts to modify the
device tree and describe both CPU ports as CPU ports would make DSA change
its default selection from port 6 to 5, effectively resulting in a
performance degradation visible to users with the MT7531BE switch as can be
seen below.

Without preferring port 6:

[ ID][Role] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5][TX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec   374 MBytes   157 Mbits/sec  734    sender
[  5][TX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec   373 MBytes   156 Mbits/sec    receiver
[  7][RX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.81 GBytes   778 Mbits/sec    0    sender
[  7][RX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.81 GBytes   777 Mbits/sec    receiver

With preferring port 6:

[ ID][Role] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5][TX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.99 GBytes   856 Mbits/sec  273    sender
[  5][TX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.99 GBytes   855 Mbits/sec    receiver
[  7][RX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.72 GBytes   737 Mbits/sec   15    sender
[  7][RX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.71 GBytes   736 Mbits/sec    receiver

Using one port for WAN and the other ports for LAN is a very popular use
case which is what this test emulates.

As such, this change proposes that we retroactively modify stable kernels
(which don't support the modification of the CPU port assignments, so as to
let user space fix the problem and restore the throughput) to keep the
mt7530 driver preferring port 6 even with device trees where the hardware
is more fully described.

Fixes: c288575f7810 ("net: dsa: mt7530: Add the support of MT7531 switch")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arınç ÜNAL &lt;arinc.unal@arinc9.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;florian.fainelli@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: dsa: tag_ocelot: call only the relevant portion of __skb_vlan_pop() on TX</title>
<updated>2023-04-23T13:16:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-20T22:56:01+00:00</published>
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ocelot_xmit_get_vlan_info() calls __skb_vlan_pop() as the most
appropriate helper I could find which strips away a VLAN header.
That's all I need it to do, but __skb_vlan_pop() has more logic, which
will become incompatible with the future revert of commit 6d1ccff62780
("net: reset mac header in dev_start_xmit()").

Namely, it performs a sanity check on skb_mac_header(), which will stop
being set after the above revert, so it will return an error instead of
removing the VLAN tag.

ocelot_xmit_get_vlan_info() gets called in 2 circumstances:

(1) the port is under a VLAN-aware bridge and the bridge sends
    VLAN-tagged packets

(2) the port is under a VLAN-aware bridge and somebody else (an 8021q
    upper) sends VLAN-tagged packets (using a VID that isn't in the
    bridge vlan tables)

In case (1), there is actually no bug to defend against, because
br_dev_xmit() calls skb_reset_mac_header() and things continue to work.

However, in case (2), illustrated using the commands below, it can be
seen that our intervention is needed, since __skb_vlan_pop() complains:

$ ip link add br0 type bridge vlan_filtering 1 &amp;&amp; ip link set br0 up
$ ip link set $eth master br0 &amp;&amp; ip link set $eth up
$ ip link add link $eth name $eth.100 type vlan id 100 &amp;&amp; ip link set $eth.100 up
$ ip addr add 192.168.100.1/24 dev $eth.100

I could fend off the checks in __skb_vlan_pop() with some
skb_mac_header_was_set() calls, but seeing how few callers of
__skb_vlan_pop() there are from TX paths, that seems rather
unproductive.

As an alternative solution, extract the bare minimum logic to strip a
VLAN header, and move it to a new helper named vlan_remove_tag(), close
to the definition of vlan_insert_tag(). Document it appropriately and
make ocelot_xmit_get_vlan_info() call this smaller helper instead.

Seeing that it doesn't appear illegal to test skb-&gt;protocol in the TX
path, I guess it would be a good for vlan_remove_tag() to also absorb
the vlan_set_encap_proto() function call.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;simon.horman@corigine.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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ocelot_xmit_get_vlan_info() calls __skb_vlan_pop() as the most
appropriate helper I could find which strips away a VLAN header.
That's all I need it to do, but __skb_vlan_pop() has more logic, which
will become incompatible with the future revert of commit 6d1ccff62780
("net: reset mac header in dev_start_xmit()").

Namely, it performs a sanity check on skb_mac_header(), which will stop
being set after the above revert, so it will return an error instead of
removing the VLAN tag.

ocelot_xmit_get_vlan_info() gets called in 2 circumstances:

(1) the port is under a VLAN-aware bridge and the bridge sends
    VLAN-tagged packets

(2) the port is under a VLAN-aware bridge and somebody else (an 8021q
    upper) sends VLAN-tagged packets (using a VID that isn't in the
    bridge vlan tables)

In case (1), there is actually no bug to defend against, because
br_dev_xmit() calls skb_reset_mac_header() and things continue to work.

However, in case (2), illustrated using the commands below, it can be
seen that our intervention is needed, since __skb_vlan_pop() complains:

$ ip link add br0 type bridge vlan_filtering 1 &amp;&amp; ip link set br0 up
$ ip link set $eth master br0 &amp;&amp; ip link set $eth up
$ ip link add link $eth name $eth.100 type vlan id 100 &amp;&amp; ip link set $eth.100 up
$ ip addr add 192.168.100.1/24 dev $eth.100

I could fend off the checks in __skb_vlan_pop() with some
skb_mac_header_was_set() calls, but seeing how few callers of
__skb_vlan_pop() there are from TX paths, that seems rather
unproductive.

As an alternative solution, extract the bare minimum logic to strip a
VLAN header, and move it to a new helper named vlan_remove_tag(), close
to the definition of vlan_insert_tag(). Document it appropriately and
make ocelot_xmit_get_vlan_info() call this smaller helper instead.

Seeing that it doesn't appear illegal to test skb-&gt;protocol in the TX
path, I guess it would be a good for vlan_remove_tag() to also absorb
the vlan_set_encap_proto() function call.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;simon.horman@corigine.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: update TX path comments to not mention skb_mac_header()</title>
<updated>2023-04-23T13:16:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-20T22:56:00+00:00</published>
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Once commit 6d1ccff62780 ("net: reset mac header in dev_start_xmit()")
will be reverted, it will no longer be true that skb-&gt;data points at
skb_mac_header(skb) - since the skb-&gt;mac_header will not be set - so
stop saying that, and just say that it points to the MAC header.

I've reviewed vlan_insert_tag() and it does not *actually* depend on
skb_mac_header(), so reword that to avoid the confusion.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;simon.horman@corigine.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Once commit 6d1ccff62780 ("net: reset mac header in dev_start_xmit()")
will be reverted, it will no longer be true that skb-&gt;data points at
skb_mac_header(skb) - since the skb-&gt;mac_header will not be set - so
stop saying that, and just say that it points to the MAC header.

I've reviewed vlan_insert_tag() and it does not *actually* depend on
skb_mac_header(), so reword that to avoid the confusion.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;simon.horman@corigine.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: tag_sja1105: replace skb_mac_header() with vlan_eth_hdr()</title>
<updated>2023-04-23T13:16:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-20T22:55:59+00:00</published>
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This is a cosmetic patch which consolidates the code to use the helper
function offered by if_vlan.h.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;simon.horman@corigine.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This is a cosmetic patch which consolidates the code to use the helper
function offered by if_vlan.h.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;simon.horman@corigine.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: tag_sja1105: don't rely on skb_mac_header() in TX paths</title>
<updated>2023-04-23T13:16:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-20T22:55:58+00:00</published>
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skb_mac_header() will no longer be available in the TX path when
reverting commit 6d1ccff62780 ("net: reset mac header in
dev_start_xmit()"). As preparation for that, let's use
skb_vlan_eth_hdr() to get to the VLAN header instead, which assumes it's
located at skb-&gt;data (assumption which holds true here).

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;simon.horman@corigine.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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skb_mac_header() will no longer be available in the TX path when
reverting commit 6d1ccff62780 ("net: reset mac header in
dev_start_xmit()"). As preparation for that, let's use
skb_vlan_eth_hdr() to get to the VLAN header instead, which assumes it's
located at skb-&gt;data (assumption which holds true here).

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;simon.horman@corigine.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: tag_ksz: do not rely on skb_mac_header() in TX paths</title>
<updated>2023-04-23T13:16:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-20T22:55:57+00:00</published>
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skb_mac_header() will no longer be available in the TX path when
reverting commit 6d1ccff62780 ("net: reset mac header in
dev_start_xmit()"). As preparation for that, let's use skb_eth_hdr() to
get to the Ethernet header's MAC DA instead, helper which assumes this
header is located at skb-&gt;data (assumption which holds true here).

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;simon.horman@corigine.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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skb_mac_header() will no longer be available in the TX path when
reverting commit 6d1ccff62780 ("net: reset mac header in
dev_start_xmit()"). As preparation for that, let's use skb_eth_hdr() to
get to the Ethernet header's MAC DA instead, helper which assumes this
header is located at skb-&gt;data (assumption which holds true here).

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;simon.horman@corigine.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: tag_ocelot: do not rely on skb_mac_header() for VLAN xmit</title>
<updated>2023-04-23T13:16:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-20T22:55:56+00:00</published>
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skb_mac_header() will no longer be available in the TX path when
reverting commit 6d1ccff62780 ("net: reset mac header in
dev_start_xmit()"). As preparation for that, let's use
skb_vlan_eth_hdr() to get to the VLAN header instead, which assumes it's
located at skb-&gt;data (assumption which holds true here).

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;simon.horman@corigine.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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skb_mac_header() will no longer be available in the TX path when
reverting commit 6d1ccff62780 ("net: reset mac header in
dev_start_xmit()"). As preparation for that, let's use
skb_vlan_eth_hdr() to get to the VLAN header instead, which assumes it's
located at skb-&gt;data (assumption which holds true here).

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;simon.horman@corigine.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: add trace points for VLAN operations</title>
<updated>2023-04-12T07:36:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-07T14:14:51+00:00</published>
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These are not as critical as the FDB/MDB trace points (I'm not aware of
outstanding VLAN related bugs), but maybe they are useful to somebody,
either debugging something or simply trying to learn more.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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These are not as critical as the FDB/MDB trace points (I'm not aware of
outstanding VLAN related bugs), but maybe they are useful to somebody,
either debugging something or simply trying to learn more.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: dsa: add trace points for FDB/MDB operations</title>
<updated>2023-04-12T07:36:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-07T14:14:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9538ebce88ffa074202d592d468521995cb1e714'/>
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DSA performs non-trivial housekeeping of unicast and multicast addresses
on shared (CPU and DSA) ports, and puts a bit of pressure on higher
layers, requiring them to behave correctly (remove these addresses
exactly as many times as they were added). Otherwise, either addresses
linger around forever, or DSA returns -ENOENT complaining that entries
that were already deleted must be deleted again.

To aid debugging, introduce some trace points specifically for FDB and
MDB - that's where some of the bugs still are right now.

Some bugs I have seen were also due to race conditions, see:
- 630fd4822af2 ("net: dsa: flush switchdev workqueue on bridge join error path")
- a2614140dc0f ("net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: flush switchdev FDB workqueue before removing VLAN")

so it would be good to not disturb the timing too much, hence the choice
to use trace points vs regular dev_dbg().

I've had these for some time on my computer in a less polished form, and
they've proven useful. What I found most useful was to enable
CONFIG_BOOTTIME_TRACING, add "trace_event=dsa" to the kernel cmdline,
and run "cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace". This is to debug more
complex environments with network managers started by the init system,
things like that.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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DSA performs non-trivial housekeeping of unicast and multicast addresses
on shared (CPU and DSA) ports, and puts a bit of pressure on higher
layers, requiring them to behave correctly (remove these addresses
exactly as many times as they were added). Otherwise, either addresses
linger around forever, or DSA returns -ENOENT complaining that entries
that were already deleted must be deleted again.

To aid debugging, introduce some trace points specifically for FDB and
MDB - that's where some of the bugs still are right now.

Some bugs I have seen were also due to race conditions, see:
- 630fd4822af2 ("net: dsa: flush switchdev workqueue on bridge join error path")
- a2614140dc0f ("net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: flush switchdev FDB workqueue before removing VLAN")

so it would be good to not disturb the timing too much, hence the choice
to use trace points vs regular dev_dbg().

I've had these for some time on my computer in a less polished form, and
they've proven useful. What I found most useful was to enable
CONFIG_BOOTTIME_TRACING, add "trace_event=dsa" to the kernel cmdline,
and run "cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace". This is to debug more
complex environments with network managers started by the init system,
things like that.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: dsa: replace NETDEV_PRE_CHANGE_HWTSTAMP notifier with a stub</title>
<updated>2023-04-09T14:35:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-06T11:42:46+00:00</published>
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There was a sort of rush surrounding commit 88c0a6b503b7 ("net: create a
netdev notifier for DSA to reject PTP on DSA master"), due to a desire
to convert DSA's attempt to deny TX timestamping on a DSA master to
something that doesn't block the kernel-wide API conversion from
ndo_eth_ioctl() to ndo_hwtstamp_set().

What was required was a mechanism that did not depend on ndo_eth_ioctl(),
and what was provided was a mechanism that did not depend on
ndo_eth_ioctl(), while at the same time introducing something that
wasn't absolutely necessary - a new netdev notifier.

There have been objections from Jakub Kicinski that using notifiers in
general when they are not absolutely necessary creates complications to
the control flow and difficulties to maintainers who look at the code.
So there is a desire to not use notifiers.

In addition to that, the notifier chain gets called even if there is no
DSA in the system and no one is interested in applying any restriction.

Take the model of udp_tunnel_nic_ops and introduce a stub mechanism,
through which net/core/dev_ioctl.c can call into DSA even when
CONFIG_NET_DSA=m.

Compared to the code that existed prior to the notifier conversion, aka
what was added in commits:
- 4cfab3566710 ("net: dsa: Add wrappers for overloaded ndo_ops")
- 3369afba1e46 ("net: Call into DSA netdevice_ops wrappers")

this is different because we are not overloading any struct
net_device_ops of the DSA master anymore, but rather, we are exposing a
rather specific functionality which is orthogonal to which API is used
to enable it - ndo_eth_ioctl() or ndo_hwtstamp_set().

Also, what is similar is that both approaches use function pointers to
get from built-in code to DSA.

There is no point in replicating the function pointers towards
__dsa_master_hwtstamp_validate() once for every CPU port (dev-&gt;dsa_ptr).
Instead, it is sufficient to introduce a singleton struct dsa_stubs,
built into the kernel, which contains a single function pointer to
__dsa_master_hwtstamp_validate().

I find this approach preferable to what we had originally, because
dev-&gt;dsa_ptr-&gt;netdev_ops-&gt;ndo_do_ioctl() used to require going through
struct dsa_port (dev-&gt;dsa_ptr), and so, this was incompatible with any
attempts to add any data encapsulation and hide DSA data structures from
the outside world.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230403083019.120b72fd@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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There was a sort of rush surrounding commit 88c0a6b503b7 ("net: create a
netdev notifier for DSA to reject PTP on DSA master"), due to a desire
to convert DSA's attempt to deny TX timestamping on a DSA master to
something that doesn't block the kernel-wide API conversion from
ndo_eth_ioctl() to ndo_hwtstamp_set().

What was required was a mechanism that did not depend on ndo_eth_ioctl(),
and what was provided was a mechanism that did not depend on
ndo_eth_ioctl(), while at the same time introducing something that
wasn't absolutely necessary - a new netdev notifier.

There have been objections from Jakub Kicinski that using notifiers in
general when they are not absolutely necessary creates complications to
the control flow and difficulties to maintainers who look at the code.
So there is a desire to not use notifiers.

In addition to that, the notifier chain gets called even if there is no
DSA in the system and no one is interested in applying any restriction.

Take the model of udp_tunnel_nic_ops and introduce a stub mechanism,
through which net/core/dev_ioctl.c can call into DSA even when
CONFIG_NET_DSA=m.

Compared to the code that existed prior to the notifier conversion, aka
what was added in commits:
- 4cfab3566710 ("net: dsa: Add wrappers for overloaded ndo_ops")
- 3369afba1e46 ("net: Call into DSA netdevice_ops wrappers")

this is different because we are not overloading any struct
net_device_ops of the DSA master anymore, but rather, we are exposing a
rather specific functionality which is orthogonal to which API is used
to enable it - ndo_eth_ioctl() or ndo_hwtstamp_set().

Also, what is similar is that both approaches use function pointers to
get from built-in code to DSA.

There is no point in replicating the function pointers towards
__dsa_master_hwtstamp_validate() once for every CPU port (dev-&gt;dsa_ptr).
Instead, it is sufficient to introduce a singleton struct dsa_stubs,
built into the kernel, which contains a single function pointer to
__dsa_master_hwtstamp_validate().

I find this approach preferable to what we had originally, because
dev-&gt;dsa_ptr-&gt;netdev_ops-&gt;ndo_do_ioctl() used to require going through
struct dsa_port (dev-&gt;dsa_ptr), and so, this was incompatible with any
attempts to add any data encapsulation and hide DSA data structures from
the outside world.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230403083019.120b72fd@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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