- 02 Dec, 2016 29 commits
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Hadar Hen Zion authored
Adding support to a new tc_action_ops. get_dev is a general option which allows to get the underline device when trying to offload a tc rule. In case of mirred action the returned device is the mirred (egress) device. Signed-off-by: Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Hadar Hen Zion authored
Instead of providing many arguments to fl_hw_{replace/destroy}_filter functions, just provide cls_fl_filter struct that includes all the relevant args. This patches doesn't add any new functionality. Signed-off-by: Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Hadar Hen Zion authored
Check skip_hw flag isn't set before calling fl_hw_{replace/destroy}_filter and fl_hw_update_stats functions. Replace the call to tc_should_offload with tc_can_offload. tc_can_offload only checks if the device supports offloading, the check for skip_hw flag is done earlier in the flow. Signed-off-by: Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Hadar Hen Zion authored
Creating a difference between two possible cases: 1. Not offloading tc rule since the user sets 'skip_hw' flag. 2. Not offloading tc rule since the device doesn't support offloading. This patch doesn't add any new functionality. Signed-off-by: Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Florian Westphal authored
Eric says: "By looking at tcpdump, and TS val of xmit packets of multiple flows, we can deduct the relative qdisc delays (think of fq pacing). This should work even if we have one flow per remote peer." Having random per flow (or host) offsets doesn't allow that anymore so add a way to turn this off. Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Florian Westphal authored
jiffies based timestamps allow for easy inference of number of devices behind NAT translators and also makes tracking of hosts simpler. commit ceaa1fef ("tcp: adding a per-socket timestamp offset") added the main infrastructure that is needed for per-connection ts randomization, in particular writing/reading the on-wire tcp header format takes the offset into account so rest of stack can use normal tcp_time_stamp (jiffies). So only two items are left: - add a tsoffset for request sockets - extend the tcp isn generator to also return another 32bit number in addition to the ISN. Re-use of ISN generator also means timestamps are still monotonically increasing for same connection quadruple, i.e. PAWS will still work. Includes fixes from Eric Dumazet. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David S. Miller authored
Manish Rangankar says: ==================== Add QLogic FastLinQ iSCSI (qedi) driver. This series introduces hardware offload iSCSI initiator driver for the 41000 Series Converged Network Adapters (579xx chip) by Qlogic. The overall driver design includes a common module ('qed') and protocol specific dependent modules ('qedi' for iSCSI). This is an open iSCSI driver, modifications to open iSCSI user components 'iscsid', 'iscsiuio', etc. are required for the solution to work. The user space changes are also in the process of being submitted. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/open-iscsi The 'qed' common module, under drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/, is enhanced with functionality required for the iSCSI support. This series is based on: net tree base: Merge of net and net-next as of 11/29/2016 Changes from RFC v2: 1. qedi patches are squashed into single patch to prevent krobot warning. 2. Fixed 'hw_p_cpuq' incompatible pointer type. 3. Fixed sparse incompatible types in comparison expression. 4. Misc fixes with latest 'checkpatch --strict' option. 5. Remove int_mode option from MODULE_PARAM. 6. Prefix all MODULE_PARAM params with qedi_*. 7. Use CONFIG_QED_ISCSI instead of CONFIG_QEDI 8. Added bad task mem access fix. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Yuval Mintz authored
This patch adds out of order packet handling for hardware offloaded iSCSI. Out of order packet handling requires driver buffer allocation and assistance. Signed-off-by: Arun Easi <arun.easi@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <yuval.mintz@cavium.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Yuval Mintz authored
This adds the backbone required for the various HW initalizations which are necessary for the iSCSI driver (qedi) for QLogic FastLinQ 4xxxx line of adapters - FW notification, resource initializations, etc. Signed-off-by: Arun Easi <arun.easi@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <yuval.mintz@cavium.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
This is already using the %pM printf extension; might as well also use %ph to make the code smaller. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
When CONFIG_INET is disabled, the new selftest results in a link error: drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/mlx5_core.o: In function `mlx5e_test_loopback': en_selftest.c:(.text.mlx5e_test_loopback+0x2ec): undefined reference to `ip_send_check' en_selftest.c:(.text.mlx5e_test_loopback+0x34c): undefined reference to `udp4_hwcsum' This hides the specific test in that configuration. Fixes: 0952da79 ("net/mlx5e: Add support for loopback selftest") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Daniel Borkmann authored
After 326fe02d ("net/mlx4_en: protect ring->xdp_prog with rcu_read_lock"), the rcu_read_lock() in bpf_prog_run_xdp() is superfluous, since callers need to hold rcu_read_lock() already to make sure BPF program doesn't get released in the background. Thus, drop it from bpf_prog_run_xdp(), as it can otherwise be misleading. Still keeping the bpf_prog_run_xdp() is useful as it allows for grepping in XDP supported drivers and to keep the typecheck on the context intact. For mlx4, this means we don't have a double rcu_read_lock() anymore. nfp can just make use of bpf_prog_run_xdp(), too. For qede, just move rcu_read_lock() out of the helper. When the driver gets atomic replace support, this will move to call-sites eventually. mlx5 needs actual fixing as it has the same issue as described already in 326fe02d ("net/mlx4_en: protect ring->xdp_prog with rcu_read_lock"), that is, we're under RCU bh at this time, BPF programs are released via call_rcu(), and call_rcu() != call_rcu_bh(), so we need to properly mark read side as programs can get xchg()'ed in mlx5e_xdp_set() without queue reset. Fixes: 86994156 ("net/mlx5e: XDP fast RX drop bpf programs support") Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Soheil Hassas Yeganeh authored
Only when ICMP packets are enqueued onto the error queue, sk_err is also set. Before f5f99309 (sock: do not set sk_err in sock_dequeue_err_skb), a subsequent error queue read would set sk_err to the next error on the queue, or 0 if empty. As no error types other than ICMP set this field, sk_err should not be modified upon dequeuing them. Only for ICMP errors, reset the (racy) sk_err. Some applications, like traceroute, rely on it and go into a futile busy POLLERR loop otherwise. In principle, sk_err has to be set while an ICMP error is queued. Testing is_icmp_err_skb(skb_next) approximates this without requiring a full queue walk. Applications that receive both ICMP and other errors cannot rely on this legacy behavior, as other errors do not set sk_err in the first place. Fixes: f5f99309 (sock: do not set sk_err in sock_dequeue_err_skb) Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David S. Miller authored
Thomas Graf says: ==================== bpf: BPF for lightweight tunnel encapsulation This series implements BPF program invocation from dst entries via the lightweight tunnels infrastructure. The BPF program can be attached to lwtunnel_input(), lwtunnel_output() or lwtunnel_xmit() and see an L3 skb as context. Programs attached to input and output are read-only. Programs attached to lwtunnel_xmit() can modify and redirect, push headers and redirect packets. The facility can be used to: - Collect statistics and generate sampling data for a subset of traffic based on the dst utilized by the packet thus allowing to extend the existing realms. - Apply additional per route/dst filters to prohibit certain outgoing or incoming packets based on BPF filters. In particular, this allows to maintain per dst custom state across multiple packets in BPF maps and apply filters based on statistics and behaviour observed over time. - Attachment of L2 headers at transmit where resolving the L2 address is not required. - Possibly many more. v3 -> v4: - Bumped LWT_BPF_MAX_HEADROOM from 128 to 256 (Alexei) - Renamed bpf_skb_push() helper to bpf_skb_change_head() to relate to existing bpf_skb_change_tail() helper (Alexei/Daniel) - Added check in __bpf_redirect_common() to verify that program added a link header before redirecting to a l2 device. Adding the check to lwt-bpf code was considered but dropped due to massive code required due to retrieval of net_device via per-cpu redirect buffer. A test case was added to cover the scenario when a program directs to an l2 device without adding an appropriate l2 header. (Alexei) - Prohibited access to tc_classid (Daniel) - Collapsed bpf_verifier_ops instance for lwt in/out as they are identical (Daniel) - Some cosmetic changes v2 -> v3: - Added real world sample lwt_len_hist_kern.c which demonstrates how to collect a histogram on packet sizes for all packets flowing through a number of routes. - Restricted output to be read-only. Since the header can no longer be modified, the rerouting functionality has been removed again. - Added test case which cover destructive modification of packet data. v1 -> v2: - Added new BPF_LWT_REROUTE return code for program to indicate that new route lookup should be performed. Suggested by Tom. - New sample to illustrate rerouting - New patch 05: Recursion limit for lwtunnel_output for the case when user creates circular dst redirection. Also resolves the issue for ILA. - Fix to ensure headroom for potential future L2 header is still guaranteed ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Thomas Graf authored
Adds a series of tests to verify the functionality of attaching BPF programs at LWT hooks. Also adds a sample which collects a histogram of packet sizes which pass through an LWT hook. $ ./lwt_len_hist.sh Starting netserver with host 'IN(6)ADDR_ANY' port '12865' and family AF_UNSPEC MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.253.2 () port 0 AF_INET : demo Recv Send Send Socket Socket Message Elapsed Size Size Size Time Throughput bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec 87380 16384 16384 10.00 39857.69 1 -> 1 : 0 | | 2 -> 3 : 0 | | 4 -> 7 : 0 | | 8 -> 15 : 0 | | 16 -> 31 : 0 | | 32 -> 63 : 22 | | 64 -> 127 : 98 | | 128 -> 255 : 213 | | 256 -> 511 : 1444251 |******** | 512 -> 1023 : 660610 |*** | 1024 -> 2047 : 535241 |** | 2048 -> 4095 : 19 | | 4096 -> 8191 : 180 | | 8192 -> 16383 : 5578023 |************************************* | 16384 -> 32767 : 632099 |*** | 32768 -> 65535 : 6575 | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Thomas Graf authored
Registers new BPF program types which correspond to the LWT hooks: - BPF_PROG_TYPE_LWT_IN => dst_input() - BPF_PROG_TYPE_LWT_OUT => dst_output() - BPF_PROG_TYPE_LWT_XMIT => lwtunnel_xmit() The separate program types are required to differentiate between the capabilities each LWT hook allows: * Programs attached to dst_input() or dst_output() are restricted and may only read the data of an skb. This prevent modification and possible invalidation of already validated packet headers on receive and the construction of illegal headers while the IP headers are still being assembled. * Programs attached to lwtunnel_xmit() are allowed to modify packet content as well as prepending an L2 header via a newly introduced helper bpf_skb_change_head(). This is safe as lwtunnel_xmit() is invoked after the IP header has been assembled completely. All BPF programs receive an skb with L3 headers attached and may return one of the following error codes: BPF_OK - Continue routing as per nexthop BPF_DROP - Drop skb and return EPERM BPF_REDIRECT - Redirect skb to device as per redirect() helper. (Only valid in lwtunnel_xmit() context) The return codes are binary compatible with their TC_ACT_ relatives to ease compatibility. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Thomas Graf authored
A route on the output path hitting a RTN_LOCAL route will keep the dst associated on its way through the loopback device. On the receive path, the dst_input() call will thus invoke the input handler of the route created in the output path. Thus, lwt redirection for input must be done for dsts allocated in the otuput path as well. Also, if a route is cached in the input path, the allocated dst should respect lwtunnel configuration on the nexthop as well. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Thomas Graf authored
orig_output for IPv4 was only set for dsts which hit an input route. Set it consistently for locally generated traffic as well to allow lwt to continue the dst_output() path as configured by the nexthop. Fixes: 25368623 ("lwt: Add support to redirect dst.input") Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David S. Miller authored
Saeed Mahameed says: ==================== Mellanox 100G mlx5 updates 2016-11-29 The following series from Tariq and Roi, provides some critical fixes and updates for the mlx5e driver. From Tariq: - Fix driver coherent memory huge allocation issues by fragmenting completion queues, in a way that is transparent to the netdev driver by providing a new buffer type "mlx5_frag_buf" with the same access API. - Create UMR MKey per RQ to have better scalability. From Roi: - Some fixes for the encap-decap support and tc flower added lately to the mlx5e driver. v1->v2: - Fix start index in error flow of mlx5_frag_buf_alloc_node, pointed out by Eric. This series was generated against commit: 31ac1c19 ("geneve: fix ip_hdr_len reserved for geneve6 tunnel.") ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Roi Dayan authored
Handling flow encap entry should be inside tc del flow and is only relevant for offloaded eswitch TC rules. Fixes: 11a457e9b6c1 ("net/mlx5e: Add basic TC tunnel set action for SRIOV offloads") Signed-off-by: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Roi Dayan authored
Change the function that deletes offloaded TC rule to get struct mlx5e_tc_flow instance which contains both the flow handle and flow attributes. This is a cleanup needed for downstream patches, it doesn't change any functionality. Signed-off-by: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Roi Dayan authored
According to the reverse unwinding principle, on delete time we should first handle deletion of the steering rule and later handle the vlan deletion from the eswitch. Fixes: 8b32580d ("net/mlx5e: Add TC vlan action for SRIOV offloads") Signed-off-by: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Roi Dayan authored
We will never find a flow with the same cookie as cls_flower always allocates a new flow and the cookie is the allocated memory address. Fixes: e3a2b7ed ("net/mlx5e: Support offload cls_flower with drop action") Signed-off-by: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tariq Toukan authored
In Striding RQ implementation, we used a single UMR (User-Mode Memory Registration) memory key for all RQs. When the product of RQs number*size gets high, we hit a limitation of u16 field size in FW. Here we move to using a UMR memory key per RQ, so we can scale to any number of rings, with the maximum buffer size in each. Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tariq Toukan authored
In next patch we are going to create a UMR MKey per RQ, we need mlx5e_create_umr_mkey declared before mlx5e_create_rq. Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tariq Toukan authored
Add new type of struct mlx5_frag_buf which is used to allocate fragmented buffers rather than contiguous, and make the Completion Queues (CQs) use it as they are big (default of 2MB per CQ in Striding RQ). This fixes the failures of type: "mlx5e_open_locked: mlx5e_open_channels failed, -12" due to dma_zalloc_coherent insufficient contiguous coherent memory to satisfy the driver's request when the user tries to setup more or larger rings. Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> Reported-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David S. Miller authored
Neill Whillans says: ==================== net: Add support for SGMII PCS on Altera TSE MAC These patches were created as part of work to add support for SGMII PCS functionality to the Altera TSE MAC. Patches are based on 4.9-rc6 git tree. The first patch in the series adds support for the VSC8572 dual-port Gigabit Ethernet transceiver, used in integration testing. The second patch adds support for the SGMII PCS functionality to the Altera TSE driver. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Neill Whillans authored
Add support for the (optional) SGMII PCS functionality of the Altera TSE MAC. If the phy-mode is set to 'sgmii' then we attempt to discover and initialise the PCS so that the MAC can communicate to the PHY. The PCS IP block provides a scratch register for testing presence of the PCS, which is mapped into one of the two MDIO spaces present in the MAC's register space. Once we have determined that the scratch register is functioning, we attempt to initialise the PCS to auto-negotiate an SGMII link with the PHY. There is no need to monitor or manage the SGMII link beyond this, since the normal PHY MDIO will then be used to monitor the media layer. The Altera TSE MAC has only one way in which it can be configured with an SGMII PCS, and as such, this patch only looks to the phy-mode to select whether or not to attempt to initialise the PCS registers. During initialisation, we report the PCS's equivalent of a PHY ID register. This can be parameterised during the IP instantiation and is often left as '0x00000000' which is not an error. Signed-off-by: Neill Whillans <neill.whillans@codethink.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Daniel Silverstone <daniel.silverstone@codethink.co.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Stephen Agate authored
Add support for the Vitesse VSC8572 which is functionally equivalent to the already supported VSC8574. As such, all the same handling functions are used since the VSC8572 merely has half the number of phy blocks internally. Signed-off-by: Stephen Agate <stephen.agate@uk.thalesgroup.com> Signed-off-by: Neill Whillans <neill.whillans@codethink.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Daniel Silverstone <daniel.silverstone@codethink.co.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 01 Dec, 2016 11 commits
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David S. Miller authored
Edward Cree says: ==================== sfc: defalconisation fixups A bug fix, the Kconfig change, and cleaning up a bit more unused code. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Edward Cree authored
It's no longer used now that Falcon is gone. Also remove a reference in a comment to an ioctl that doesn't exist. Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Edward Cree authored
Easy enough for Falcon users to enable it when making oldconfig. Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Edward Cree authored
Defalconisation removed one of the string arguments, but missed the corresponding %s. Fixes: 5a6681e2 ("sfc: separate out SFC4000 ("Falcon") support into new sfc-falcon driver") Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Zhang Shengju authored
Before this patch, function ndo_dflt_fdb_dump() will always return code from uc fdb dump. The reture code of mc fdb dump is lost. Signed-off-by: Zhang Shengju <zhangshengju@cmss.chinamobile.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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WANG Cong authored
netlink kernel socket is protected by refcount, not RCU. Its rcv path is neither protected by RCU. So the synchronize_net() is just pointless. Cc: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David S. Miller authored
Raju Lakkaraju says: ==================== Adding PHY MDI(X) support I updated all review comments which were given by Andrew and Florian. This series add support for PHY MDI(X), and implement it for MSCC phys. Tested on Beaglebone Black with VSC 8531 PHY. Change set: v1: - Initial patch submit the WoL and MDI-X in single set of patches v2: - Split the mdi(x) as signal set of patches. - Remove the out_unlock as suggested by Andrew. - Add mdix_ctrl parameter in "phy_device" to handle the user configure mdi(x). Proposed implementation accepted by Florian. - phydev->mdix_ctrl initialize with ETH_TP_MDI_AUTO. Ethernet controller never initialize this parameter. - Fix the mdix changes in marvell and microchip driver. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Raju Lakkaraju authored
PHY drivers to have an eth_tp_mdix_ctrl to indicate what is the configured MDI setting, and read eth_tp_mdi to indicate what is the current status, Add new parameter mdix_ctrl in phy_device structure and fix driver. Signed-off-by: Raju Lakkaraju <Raju.Lakkaraju@microsemi.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Raju Lakkaraju authored
To connect two ports of the same configuration (MDI to MDI or MDI-X to MDI-X) with a 10/100/1000 Mbit/s connection, an Ethernet crossover cable is needed to cross over the transmit and receive signals in the cable, so that they are matched at the connector level. When connecting an MDI port to an MDI-X port a straight through cable is used while to connect two MDI ports or two MDI-X ports a crossover cable must be used. Conventionally MDI is used on end devices while MDI-X is used on hubs and switches Auto MDI-X automatically detects the required cable connection type and configures the connection appropriately, removing the need for crossover cables to interconnect switches or connecting PCs peer-to-peer. Signed-off-by: Raju Lakkaraju <Raju.Lakkaraju@microsemi.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Raju Lakkaraju authored
Update the mdix and mdix_ctrl with corresponding ethtool configuration parameters. Signed-off-by: Raju Lakkaraju <Raju.Lakkaraju@microsemi.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Raju Lakkaraju authored
Add new parameter mdix_ctrl to hold the user configuration. Existing mdix maintain the current status of MDI(X) crossover performed or not. mdix_ctrl can configure either ETH_TP_MDI or ETH_TP_MDI_X orETH_TP_MDI_AUTO. Signed-off-by: Raju Lakkaraju <Raju.Lakkaraju@microsemi.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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