linux/net/core/rtnetlink.c, branch v3.5

net: Convert net_ratelimit uses to net__ratelimited

2012-05-15T17:45:03Z

Standardize the net core ratelimited logging functions. Coalesce formats, align arguments. Change a printk then vprintk sequence to use printf extension %pV. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: rtnetlink notify events for FDB NTF_SELF adds and deletes

2012-04-15T17:06:04Z

It is useful to be able to monitor for FDB events in user space. This patch adds support to generate netlink events when a change is made to a device supporting the FDB ops. This brings embedded switches inline with the SW net/bridge which triggers events on FDB updates as well. Signed-off-by: John Fastabend Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: add fdb generic dump routine

2012-04-15T17:06:04Z

This adds a generic dump routine drivers can call. It should be sufficient to handle any bridging model that uses the unicast address list. This should be most SR-IOV enabled NICs. v2: return error on nlmsg_put and use -EMSGSIZE instead of -ENOMEM this is inline other usages Signed-off-by: John Fastabend Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: add generic PF_BRIDGE:RTM_ FDB hooks

2012-04-15T17:06:04Z

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

2012-04-15T16:44:40Z

Use of "unsigned int" is preferred to bare "unsigned" in net tree. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnetlink & bonding: change args got get_tx_queues

2012-04-13T17:31:00Z

Change get_tx_queues, drop unsused arg/return value real_tx_queues, and use return by value (with error) rather than call by reference. Probably bonding should just change to LLTX and the whole get_tx_queues API could disappear! Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

2012-04-10T18:30:45Z

net: Report dev->promiscuity in netlink reports.

2012-04-02T08:33:46Z

The standard ways of probing a device's promiscuity (ifi_flags, for instance) does not report the actual state of the device. This patch adds dev->promiscuity to the netlink netdevice report so that users can know for certain if the device is acting PROMISC or not. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnetlink: Stop using NLA_PUT*().

2012-04-02T08:33:42Z

These macros contain a hidden goto, and are thus extremely error prone and make code hard to audit. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h

2012-03-28T17:30:03Z

Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing it. Performed with the following command: perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*' *` Signed-off-by: David Howells