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A qeth-l2 HiperSockets card can show switch-ish behaviour in the sense, that it can report all MACs that are reachable via this interface. Just like a switch device, it can notify the software bridge about changes to its fdb. This patch exploits this device-to-bridge-notification and extracts the relevant information from the hardware events to generate notifications to an attached software bridge. There are 2 sources for this information: 1) The reply message of Perform-Network-Subchannel-Operations (PNSO) (operation code ADDR_INFO) reports all addresses that are currently reachable (implemented in a later patch). 2) As long as device-to-bridge-notification is enabled, hardware will generate address change notification events, whenever the content of the hardware fdb changes (this patch). The bridge_hostnotify feature (PNSO operation code BRIDGE_INFO) uses the same address change notification events. We need to distinguish between qeth_pnso_mode QETH_PNSO_BRIDGEPORT and QETH_PNSO_ADDR_INFO and call a different handler. In both cases deadlocks must be prevented, if the workqueue is drained under lock and QETH_PNSO_NONE, when notification is disabled. bridge_hostnotify generates udev events, there is no intend to do the same for dev2br. Instead this patch will generate SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD_TO_BRIDGE and SWITCHDEV_FDB_DEL_TO_BRIDGE notifications, that will cause the software bridge to add (or delete) entries to its fdb as 'extern_learn offload'. Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt proposes to add "depends NET_SWITCHDEV" to driver's Kconfig. This is not done here, so even in absence of the NET_SWITCHDEV module, the QETH_L2 module will still be built, but then the switchdev notifiers will have no effect. No VLAN filtering is done on the entries and VLAN information is not passed on to the bridge fdb entries. This could be added later. For now VLAN interfaces can be defined on the upper bridge interface. Multicast entries are not passed on to the bridge fdb. This could be added later. For now mcast flooding can be used in the bridge. The card reports all MACs that are in its FDB, but we must not pass on MACs that are registered for this interface. Signed-off-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.