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| 14-Jun-2019 |
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> |
Merge tag 'v5.2-rc4' into mauro
We need to pick up post-rc1 changes to various document files so they don't get lost in Mauro's massive RST conversion push.
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| 10-Jun-2019 |
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> |
Merge tag 'v5.2-rc4' into spi-5.3
Linux 5.2-rc4
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| 09-Jun-2019 |
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
Merge 5.2-rc4 into char-misc-next
We want the char/misc driver fixes in here as well.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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| 03-Jun-2019 |
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
Merge 5.2-rc3 into tty-next
We want the tty/serial fixes in here as well.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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| 03-Jun-2019 |
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
Merge 5.2-rc3 into staging-next
We need the staging fixes in here as well.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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| 03-Jun-2019 |
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
Merge 5.2-rc3 into usb-next
we want the USB fixes in here as well.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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| 02-Jun-2019 |
Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux
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| 01-Jun-2019 |
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> |
Merge tag 'kvm-ppc-fixes-5.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc into kvm-master
PPC KVM fixes for 5.2
- Several bug fixes for the new XIVE-native code. - Replace kvm
Merge tag 'kvm-ppc-fixes-5.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc into kvm-master
PPC KVM fixes for 5.2
- Several bug fixes for the new XIVE-native code. - Replace kvm->lock by other mutexes in several places where we hold a vcpu mutex, to avoid lock order inversions. - Fix a lockdep warning on guest entry for radix-mode guests. - Fix a bug causing user-visible corruption of SPRG3 on the host.
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| 28-May-2019 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo-5.2-20190528' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent
Pull perf/urgent fixes:
BPF:
Jiri Olsa:
- Fixup determination of en
Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo-5.2-20190528' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent
Pull perf/urgent fixes:
BPF:
Jiri Olsa:
- Fixup determination of end of kernel map, to avoid having BPF programs, that are after the kernel headers and just before module texts mixed up in the kernel map.
tools UAPI header copies:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
- Update copy of files related to new fspick, fsmount, fsconfig, fsopen, move_mount and open_tree syscalls.
- Sync cpufeatures.h, sched.h, fs.h, drm.h, i915_drm.h and kvm.h headers.
Namespaces:
Namhyung Kim:
- Add missing byte swap ops for namespace events when processing records from perf.data files that could have been recorded in a arch with a different endianness.
- Fix access to the thread namespaces list by using the namespaces_lock.
perf data:
Shawn Landden:
- Fix 'strncat may truncate' build failure with recent gcc.
s/390
Thomas Richter:
- Fix s390 missing module symbol and warning for non-root users in 'perf record'.
arm64:
Vitaly Chikunov:
- Fix mksyscalltbl when system kernel headers are ahead of the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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| 28-May-2019 |
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> |
Merge tag 'v5.2-rc2' into patchwork
Merge back from upstream into media tree, as there are some patches merged upstream that has pontential of causing conflicts (one actually rised a conflict alread
Merge tag 'v5.2-rc2' into patchwork
Merge back from upstream into media tree, as there are some patches merged upstream that has pontential of causing conflicts (one actually rised a conflict already).
Linux 5.2-rc2
* tag 'v5.2-rc2': (377 commits) Linux 5.2-rc2 random: fix soft lockup when trying to read from an uninitialized blocking pool tracing: Silence GCC 9 array bounds warning ext4: fix dcache lookup of !casefolded directories locking/lock_events: Use this_cpu_add() when necessary KVM: x86: fix return value for reserved EFER tools/kvm_stat: fix fields filter for child events KVM: selftests: Wrap vcpu_nested_state_get/set functions with x86 guard kvm: selftests: aarch64: compile with warnings on kvm: selftests: aarch64: fix default vm mode kvm: selftests: aarch64: dirty_log_test: fix unaligned memslot size KVM: s390: fix memory slot handling for KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION KVM: x86/pmu: do not mask the value that is written to fixed PMUs KVM: x86/pmu: mask the result of rdpmc according to the width of the counters x86/kvm/pmu: Set AMD's virt PMU version to 1 KVM: x86: do not spam dmesg with VMCS/VMCB dumps kvm: Check irqchip mode before assign irqfd kvm: svm/avic: fix off-by-one in checking host APIC ID KVM: selftests: do not blindly clobber registers in guest asm KVM: selftests: Remove duplicated TEST_ASSERT in hyperv_cpuid.c ...
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| 28-May-2019 |
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> |
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next-queued
Get the HDR dependencies originally merged via drm-misc. Sync up all i915 changes applied via other trees. And get v5.2-rc2 as the baseline.
Signed-off
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next-queued
Get the HDR dependencies originally merged via drm-misc. Sync up all i915 changes applied via other trees. And get v5.2-rc2 as the baseline.
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
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| 28-May-2019 |
Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com> |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into drm-misc-next
This picks up rc2 for us as well.
Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
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| 20-May-2019 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:1) Use after free in __dev_map_entry_free(), from Eric Dumazet.
1) Use after free in __dev_map
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:1) Use after free in __dev_map_entry_free(), from Eric Dumazet.
1) Use after free in __dev_map_entry_free(), from Eric Dumazet.
2) Fix TCP retransmission timestamps on passive Fast Open, from Yuchung Cheng.
3) Orphan NFC, we'll take the patches directly into my tree. From Johannes Berg.
4) We can't recycle cloned TCP skbs, from Eric Dumazet.
5) Some flow dissector bpf test fixes, from Stanislav Fomichev.
6) Fix RCU marking and warnings in rhashtable, from Herbert Xu.
7) Fix some potential fib6 leaks, from Eric Dumazet.
8) Fix a _decode_session4 uninitialized memory read bug fix that got lost in a merge. From Florian Westphal.
9) Fix ipv6 source address routing wrt. exception route entries, from Wei Wang.
10) The netdev_xmit_more() conversion was not done %100 properly in mlx5 driver, fix from Tariq Toukan.
11) Clean up botched merge on netfilter kselftest, from Florian Westphal.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (74 commits) of_net: fix of_get_mac_address retval if compiled without CONFIG_OF net: fix kernel-doc warnings for socket.c net: Treat sock->sk_drops as an unsigned int when printing kselftests: netfilter: fix leftover net/net-next merge conflict mlxsw: core: Prevent reading unsupported slave address from SFP EEPROM mlxsw: core: Prevent QSFP module initialization for old hardware vsock/virtio: Initialize core virtio vsock before registering the driver net/mlx5e: Fix possible modify header actions memory leak net/mlx5e: Fix no rewrite fields with the same match net/mlx5e: Additional check for flow destination comparison net/mlx5e: Add missing ethtool driver info for representors net/mlx5e: Fix number of vports for ingress ACL configuration net/mlx5e: Fix ethtool rxfh commands when CONFIG_MLX5_EN_RXNFC is disabled net/mlx5e: Fix wrong xmit_more application net/mlx5: Fix peer pf disable hca command net/mlx5: E-Switch, Correct type to u16 for vport_num and int for vport_index net/mlx5: Add meaningful return codes to status_to_err function net/mlx5: Imply MLXFW in mlx5_core Revert "tipc: fix modprobe tipc failed after switch order of device registration" vsock/virtio: free packets during the socket release ...
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| 13-May-2019 |
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> |
net: Always descend into dsa/
Jiri reported that with a kernel built with CONFIG_FIXED_PHY=y, CONFIG_NET_DSA=m and CONFIG_NET_DSA_LOOP=m, we would not get to a functional state where the mock-up dri
net: Always descend into dsa/
Jiri reported that with a kernel built with CONFIG_FIXED_PHY=y, CONFIG_NET_DSA=m and CONFIG_NET_DSA_LOOP=m, we would not get to a functional state where the mock-up driver is registered. Turns out that we are not descending into drivers/net/dsa/ unconditionally, and we won't be able to link-in dsa_loop_bdinfo.o which does the actual mock-up mdio device registration.
Reported-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Fixes: 40013ff20b1b ("net: dsa: Fix functional dsa-loop dependency on FIXED_PHY") Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com> Tested-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Revision tags: v5.1, v5.1-rc7, v5.1-rc6, v5.1-rc5, v5.1-rc4, v5.1-rc3, v5.1-rc2, v5.1-rc1, v5.0, v5.0-rc8, v5.0-rc7, v5.0-rc6, v5.0-rc5, v5.0-rc4, v5.0-rc3 |
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| 15-Jan-2019 |
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> |
Merge tag 'v4.20' into for-linus
Sync with mainline to get linux/overflow.h among other things.
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| 14-Jan-2019 |
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> |
Merge tag 'v4.20' into next
Merge with mainline to bring in the new APIs.
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Revision tags: v5.0-rc2, v5.0-rc1, v4.20, v4.20-rc7, v4.20-rc6, v4.20-rc5, v4.20-rc4, v4.20-rc3, v4.20-rc2, v4.20-rc1, v4.19, v4.19-rc8, v4.19-rc7, v4.19-rc6, v4.19-rc5, v4.19-rc4, v4.19-rc3, v4.19-rc2, v4.19-rc1, v4.18, v4.18-rc8, v4.18-rc7 |
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| 23-Jul-2018 |
Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> |
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next-queued
We need a backmerge to get DP_DPCD_REV_14 before we push other i915 changes to dinq that could break compilation.
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next-queued
We need a backmerge to get DP_DPCD_REV_14 before we push other i915 changes to dinq that could break compilation.
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
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Revision tags: v4.18-rc6, v4.18-rc5, v4.18-rc4, v4.18-rc3 |
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| 28-Jun-2018 |
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> |
Merge tag 'v4.18-rc2' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux into fbdev-for-next
Linux 4.18-rc2
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| 25-Jun-2018 |
James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com> |
Merge tag 'v4.18-rc2' into next-general
Merge to Linux 4.18-rc2 for security subsystem developers.
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| 22-Jun-2018 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgent
Required to queue a dependent fix.
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| 07-Jun-2018 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
1) Add Maglev hashing scheduler to IPVS, from Inju Song.
2) Lots of new TC subsystem
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
1) Add Maglev hashing scheduler to IPVS, from Inju Song.
2) Lots of new TC subsystem tests from Roman Mashak.
3) Add TCP zero copy receive and fix delayed acks and autotuning with SO_RCVLOWAT, from Eric Dumazet.
4) Add XDP_REDIRECT support to mlx5 driver, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer.
5) Add ttl inherit support to vxlan, from Hangbin Liu.
6) Properly separate ipv6 routes into their logically independant components. fib6_info for the routing table, and fib6_nh for sets of nexthops, which thus can be shared. From David Ahern.
7) Add bpf_xdp_adjust_tail helper, which can be used to generate ICMP messages from XDP programs. From Nikita V. Shirokov.
8) Lots of long overdue cleanups to the r8169 driver, from Heiner Kallweit.
9) Add BTF ("BPF Type Format"), from Martin KaFai Lau.
10) Add traffic condition monitoring to iwlwifi, from Luca Coelho.
11) Plumb extack down into fib_rules, from Roopa Prabhu.
12) Add Flower classifier offload support to igb, from Vinicius Costa Gomes.
13) Add UDP GSO support, from Willem de Bruijn.
14) Add documentation for eBPF helpers, from Quentin Monnet.
15) Add TLS tx offload to mlx5, from Ilya Lesokhin.
16) Allow applications to be given the number of bytes available to read on a socket via a control message returned from recvmsg(), from Soheil Hassas Yeganeh.
17) Add x86_32 eBPF JIT compiler, from Wang YanQing.
18) Add AF_XDP sockets, with zerocopy support infrastructure as well. From Björn Töpel.
19) Remove indirect load support from all of the BPF JITs and handle these operations in the verifier by translating them into native BPF instead. From Daniel Borkmann.
20) Add GRO support to ipv6 gre tunnels, from Eran Ben Elisha.
21) Allow XDP programs to do lookups in the main kernel routing tables for forwarding. From David Ahern.
22) Allow drivers to store hardware state into an ELF section of kernel dump vmcore files, and use it in cxgb4. From Rahul Lakkireddy.
23) Various RACK and loss detection improvements in TCP, from Yuchung Cheng.
24) Add TCP SACK compression, from Eric Dumazet.
25) Add User Mode Helper support and basic bpfilter infrastructure, from Alexei Starovoitov.
26) Support ports and protocol values in RTM_GETROUTE, from Roopa Prabhu.
27) Support bulking in ->ndo_xdp_xmit() API, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer.
28) Add lots of forwarding selftests, from Petr Machata.
29) Add generic network device failover driver, from Sridhar Samudrala.
* ra.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1959 commits) strparser: Add __strp_unpause and use it in ktls. rxrpc: Fix terminal retransmission connection ID to include the channel net: hns3: Optimize PF CMDQ interrupt switching process net: hns3: Fix for VF mailbox receiving unknown message net: hns3: Fix for VF mailbox cannot receiving PF response bnx2x: use the right constant Revert "net: sched: cls: Fix offloading when ingress dev is vxlan" net: dsa: b53: Fix for brcm tag issue in Cygnus SoC enic: fix UDP rss bits netdev-FAQ: clarify DaveM's position for stable backports rtnetlink: validate attributes in do_setlink() mlxsw: Add extack messages for port_{un, }split failures netdevsim: Add extack error message for devlink reload devlink: Add extack to reload and port_{un, }split operations net: metrics: add proper netlink validation ipmr: fix error path when ipmr_new_table fails ip6mr: only set ip6mr_table from setsockopt when ip6mr_new_table succeeds net: hns3: remove unused hclgevf_cfg_func_mta_filter netfilter: provide udp*_lib_lookup for nf_tproxy qed*: Utilize FW 8.37.2.0 ...
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| 04-Jun-2018 |
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> |
Merge branch 'next' into for-linus
Prepare input updates for 4.18 merge window.
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| 04-Jun-2018 |
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> |
Merge branches 'clk-warn', 'clk-core', 'clk-spear' and 'clk-qcom-msm8998' into clk-next
* clk-warn: clk: Print the clock name and warning cause
* clk-core: clk: Remove clk_init_cb typedef
* cl
Merge branches 'clk-warn', 'clk-core', 'clk-spear' and 'clk-qcom-msm8998' into clk-next
* clk-warn: clk: Print the clock name and warning cause
* clk-core: clk: Remove clk_init_cb typedef
* clk-spear: clk: spear: fix WDT clock definition on SPEAr600
* clk-qcom-msm8998: clk: qcom: Add MSM8998 Global Clock Control (GCC) driver
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David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
Merge branch 'Enable-virtio_net-to-act-as-a-standby-for-a-passthru-device'
Sridhar Samudrala says:
==================== Enable virtio_net to act as a standby for a passthru device
The main motivat
Merge branch 'Enable-virtio_net-to-act-as-a-standby-for-a-passthru-device'
Sridhar Samudrala says:
==================== Enable virtio_net to act as a standby for a passthru device
The main motivation for this patch is to enable cloud service providers to provide an accelerated datapath to virtio-net enabled VMs in a transparent manner with no/minimal guest userspace changes. This also enables hypervisor controlled live migration to be supported with VMs that have direct attached SR-IOV VF devices.
Patch 1 introduces a failover module that provides a generic interface for paravirtual drivers to listen for netdev register/unregister/link change events from pci ethernet devices with the same MAC and takeover their datapath. The notifier and event handling code is based on the existing netvsc implementation.
Patch 2 refactors netvsc to use the registration/notification framework introduced by failover module.
Patch 3 introduces a net_failover driver that provides an automated failover mechanism to paravirtual drivers via APIs to create and destroy a failover master netdev and mananges a primary and standby slave netdevs that get registered via the generic failover infrastructure.
Patch 4 introduces a new feature bit VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY to virtio-net that can be used by hypervisor to indicate that virtio_net interface should act as a standby for another device with the same MAC address.
Patch 5 extends virtio_net to use alternate datapath when available and registered. When STANDBY feature is enabled, virtio_net driver uese the net_failover API to create an additional 'failover' netdev that acts as a master device and controls 2 slave devices. The original virtio_net netdev is registered as 'standby' netdev and a passthru/vf device with the same MAC gets registered as 'primary' netdev. Both 'standby' and 'failover' netdevs are associated with the same 'pci' device. The user accesses the network interface via 'failover' netdev. The 'failover' netdev chooses 'primary' netdev as default for transmits when it is available with link up and running.
As this patch series is initially focusing on usecases where hypervisor fully controls the VM networking and the guest is not expected to directly configure any hardware settings, it doesn't expose all the ndo/ethtool ops that are supported by virtio_net at this time. To support additional usecases, it should be possible to enable additional ops later by caching the state in failover netdev and replaying when the 'primary' netdev gets registered.
At the time of live migration, the hypervisor needs to unplug the VF device from the guest on the source host and reset the MAC filter of the VF to initiate failover of datapath to virtio before starting the migration. After the migration is completed, the destination hypervisor sets the MAC filter on the VF and plugs it back to the guest to switch over to VF datapath.
This patch is based on the discussion initiated by Jesse on this thread. https://marc.info/?l=linux-virtualization&m=151189725224231&w=2
v12: - Tested live migration with virtio-net/AVF(i40evf) configured in failover mode while running iperf in background. Tried static ip and dhcp configurations using 'network' scripts and Network Manager. - Build tested netvsc module. Updates: - Extended generic failover module to do common functions like setting FAILOVER_SLAVE flag, registering rx-handler and linking to upper dev in the generic register/unregister handlers. This required adding 3 additional failover ops pre_register, pre_unregister and handle_frame. netvsc and net_failover drivers are updated to support these ops.
v11: - Split net_failover module into 2 components. 1. 'failover' module that provides generic failover infrastructure to register a failover instance and listen for slave events. 2. 'net_failover' driver that provides APIs to create/destroy upper netdev and supports 3-netdev model used by virtio-net. - Added documentation
v10: - fix net_failover_open() to update failover CARRIER correctly based on standby and primary states. - fix net_failover_handle_frame() to handle frames received on standby when primary is present. - replace netdev_upper_dev_link with netdev_master_upper_dev_link and handle lower dev state changes. - fix net_failver_create() and net_failover_register() interfaces to use ERR_PTR and avoid arg ** - disable setting mac address when virtio-net in STANDBY mode - document exported symbols - added entry to MAINTAINERS file
v9: Select NET_FAILOVER automatically when VIRTIO_NET/HYPERV_NET are enabled. (stephen)
v8: - Made the failover managment routines more robust by updating the feature bits/other fields in the failover netdev when slave netdevs are registered/unregistered. (mst) - added support for handling vlans. - Limited the changes in netvsc to only use the notifier/event/lookups from the failover module. The slave register/unregister/link-change handlers are only updated to use the getbymac routine to get the upper netdev. There is no change in their functionality. (stephen) - renamed structs/function/file names to use net_failover prefix. (mst)
v7 - Rename 'bypass/active/backup' terminology with 'failover/primary/standy' (jiri, mst) - re-arranged dev_open() and dev_set_mtu() calls in the register routines so that they don't get called for 2-netdev model. (stephen) - fixed select_queue() routine to do queue selection based on VF if it is registered as primary. (stephen) - minor bugfixes
v6 RFC: Simplified virtio_net changes by moving all the ndo_ops of the bypass_netdev and create/destroy of bypass_netdev to 'bypass' module. avoided 2 phase registration(driver + instances). introduced IFF_BYPASS/IFF_BYPASS_SLAVE dev->priv_flags replaced mutex with a spinlock
v5 RFC: Based on Jiri's comments, moved the common functionality to a 'bypass' module so that the same notifier and event handlers to handle child register/unregister/link change events can be shared between virtio_net and netvsc. Improved error handling based on Siwei's comments. v4: - Based on the review comments on the v3 version of the RFC patch and Jakub's suggestion for the naming issue with 3 netdev solution, proposed 3 netdev in-driver bonding solution for virtio-net. v3 RFC: - Introduced 3 netdev model and pointed out a couple of issues with that model and proposed 2 netdev model to avoid these issues. - Removed broadcast/multicast optimization and only use virtio as backup path when VF is unplugged. v2 RFC: - Changed VIRTIO_NET_F_MASTER to VIRTIO_NET_F_BACKUP (mst) - made a small change to the virtio-net xmit path to only use VF datapath for unicasts. Broadcasts/multicasts use virtio datapath. This avoids east-west broadcasts to go over the PCI link. - added suppport for the feature bit in qemu ====================
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> |
net: Introduce net_failover driver
The net_failover driver provides an automated failover mechanism via APIs to create and destroy a failover master netdev and manages a primary and standby slave ne
net: Introduce net_failover driver
The net_failover driver provides an automated failover mechanism via APIs to create and destroy a failover master netdev and manages a primary and standby slave netdevs that get registered via the generic failover infrastructure.
The failover netdev acts a master device and controls 2 slave devices. The original paravirtual interface gets registered as 'standby' slave netdev and a passthru/vf device with the same MAC gets registered as 'primary' slave netdev. Both 'standby' and 'failover' netdevs are associated with the same 'pci' device. The user accesses the network interface via 'failover' netdev. The 'failover' netdev chooses 'primary' netdev as default for transmits when it is available with link up and running.
This can be used by paravirtual drivers to enable an alternate low latency datapath. It also enables hypervisor controlled live migration of a VM with direct attached VF by failing over to the paravirtual datapath when the VF is unplugged.
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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