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2010-02-03macvlan: allow multiple driver backendsArnd Bergmann
This makes it possible to hook into the macvlan driver from another kernel module. In particular, the goal is to extend it with the macvtap backend that provides a tun/tap compatible interface directly on the macvlan device. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-03net: maintain namespace isolation between vlan and real deviceArnd Bergmann
In the vlan and macvlan drivers, the start_xmit function forwards data to the dev_queue_xmit function for another device, which may potentially belong to a different namespace. To make sure that classification stays within a single namespace, this resets the potentially critical fields. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-16macvlan: add GRO bit to features maskPatrick Mullaney
Allow macvlan devices to support GRO. Signed-off-by: Patrick Mullaney <pmullaney@novell.com> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-03netdevice: provide common routine for macvlan and vlan operstate managementPatrick Mullaney
Provide common routine for the transition of operational state for a leaf device during a root device transition. Signed-off-by: Patrick Mullaney <pmullaney@novell.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-29Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/ieee802154/fakehard.c drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c drivers/net/e1000e/phy.c drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
2009-11-26macvlan: export macvlan mode through netlinkArnd Bergmann
In order to support all three modes of macvlan at runtime, extend the existing netlink protocol to allow choosing the mode per macvlan slave interface. This depends on a matching patch to iproute2 in order to become accessible in user land. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-26macvlan: implement bridge, VEPA and private modeArnd Bergmann
This allows each macvlan slave device to be in one of three modes, depending on the use case: MACVLAN_PRIVATE: The device never communicates with any other device on the same upper_dev. This even includes frames coming back from a reflective relay, where supported by the adjacent bridge. MACVLAN_VEPA: The new Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) mode, we assume that the adjacent bridge returns all frames where both source and destination are local to the macvlan port, i.e. the bridge is set up as a reflective relay. Broadcast frames coming in from the upper_dev get flooded to all macvlan interfaces in VEPA mode. We never deliver any frames locally. MACVLAN_BRIDGE: We provide the behavior of a simple bridge between different macvlan interfaces on the same port. Frames from one interface to another one get delivered directly and are not sent out externally. Broadcast frames get flooded to all other bridge ports and to the external interface, but when they come back from a reflective relay, we don't deliver them again. Since we know all the MAC addresses, the macvlan bridge mode does not require learning or STP like the bridge module does. Based on an earlier patch "macvlan: Reflect macvlan packets meant for other macvlan devices" by Eric Biederman. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-26macvlan: cleanup rx statisticsArnd Bergmann
We have very similar code for rx statistics in two places in the macvlan driver, with a third one being added in the next patch. Consolidate them into one function to improve overall readability of the driver. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-23macvlan: fix gso_max_size settingPatrick McHardy
gso_max_size must be set based on the value of the underlying device to support devices not using the full 64k. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-17macvlan: Precise RX stats accountingEric Dumazet
With multi queue devices, its possible that several cpus call macvlan RX routines simultaneously for the same macvlan device. We update RX stats counter without any locking, so we can get slightly wrong counters. One possible fix is to use percpu counters, to get precise accounting and also get guarantee of no cache line ping pongs between cpus. Note: this adds 16 bytes (32 bytes on 64bit arches) of percpu data per macvlan device. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-13vlan/macvlan: propagate transmission state to upper layersPatrick McHardy
Both vlan and macvlan devices usually don't use a qdisc and immediately queue packets to the underlying device. Propagate transmission state of the underlying device to the upper layers so they can react on congestion and/or inform the sending process. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-08net: Support specifying the network namespace upon device creation.Eric W. Biederman
There is no good reason to not support userspace specifying the network namespace during device creation, and it makes it easier to create a network device and pass it to a child network namespace with a well known name. We have to be careful to ensure that the target network namespace for the new device exists through the life of the call. To keep that logic clear I have factored out the network namespace grabbing logic into rtnl_link_get_net. In addtion we need to continue to pass the source network namespace to the rtnl_link_ops.newlink method so that we can find the base device source network namespace. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
2009-10-28net: add a list_head parameter to dellink() methodEric Dumazet
Adding a list_head parameter to rtnl_link_ops->dellink() methods allow us to queue devices on a list, in order to dismantle them all at once. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-03macvlan: add multiqueue capabilityEric Dumazet
macvlan devices are currently not multi-queue capable. We can do that defining rtnl_link_ops method, get_tx_queues(), called from rtnl_create_link() This new method gets num_tx_queues/real_num_tx_queues from lower device. macvlan_get_tx_queues() is a copy of vlan_get_tx_queues(). Because macvlan_start_xmit() has to update netdev_queue stats only (and not dev->stats), I chose to change tx_errors/tx_aborted_errors accounting to tx_dropped, since netdev_queue structure doesnt define tx_errors / tx_aborted_errors. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-01macvlan: Use compare_ether_addr_64bits()Eric Dumazet
To speedup ether addresses compares, we can use compare_ether_addr_64bits() (all operands are guaranteed to be at least 8 bytes long) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-01netdev: convert pseudo drivers to netdev_tx_tStephen Hemminger
These are all drivers that don't touch real hardware. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-11drivers/net/macvlan.c: fix cloning of tagged VLAN interfacessg.tweak@gmail.com
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13348 akpm: the reporter disappeared, so I typed it in again. It is not possible to make clone of tagged VLAN interface to be used as mac-based vlan interfave. How reproducible: Use any 802.1q tagged vlan interface, e.g. eth2.700 and clone it: ip link add link eth2.700 address 00:04:75:cb:38:09 macvlan0 type macvlan ip link set dev macvlan0 up ip addr add 10.195.1.1/24 dev macvlan0 So far, so good. Now try to ping anything via macvlan0: ping 10.195.1.2 Actual results: For every attempted packet tx kernel writes to console: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at net/8021q/vlan_dev.c:254 vlan_dev_hard_header+0x36/0x126 [8021q]() Hardware name: M22ES Modules linked in: arptable_filter arp_tables bridge veth macvlan arc4 ecb ppp_mppe ppp_async crc_ccitt ppp_generic slhc autofs4 sunrpc 8021q garp stp ipt_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_state nf_conntrack xt_tcpudp x_tables dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_multipath dm_mod sbs sbshc lp floppy snd_intel8x0 joydev snd_seq_dummy snd_intel8x0m snd_ac97_codec ide_cd_mod ac97_bus snd_seq_oss cdrom snd_seq_midi_event serio_raw snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss parport_pc snd_pcm parport battery 8139cp snd_timer i2c_sis96x ac button snd rtc_cmos rtc_core 8139too soundcore rtc_lib mii i2c_core pcspkr snd_page_alloc pata_sis libata sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd ehci_hcd ohci_hcd uhci_hcd [last unloaded: ip_tables] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G W 2.6.29.3 #1 Call Trace: [<c0425f48>] warn_slowpath+0x60/0x9f [<c0425f6f>] warn_slowpath+0x87/0x9f [<dffb850d>] vlan_dev_hard_header+0x0/0x126 [8021q] [<dffb8543>] vlan_dev_hard_header+0x36/0x126 [8021q] [<dffb850d>] vlan_dev_hard_header+0x0/0x126 [8021q] [<df83155d>] macvlan_hard_header+0x3c/0x47 [macvlan] [<df831521>] macvlan_hard_header+0x0/0x47 [macvlan] [<c062bf3f>] arp_create+0xef/0x1ff [<c062c08c>] arp_send+0x3d/0x54 [<c062c916>] arp_solicit+0x16c/0x177 [<c05fadd2>] neigh_timer_handler+0x227/0x269 [<c05fabab>] neigh_timer_handler+0x0/0x269 [<c042ce4d>] run_timer_softirq+0xf0/0x141 [<c0429e5a>] __do_softirq+0x76/0xf8 [<c0429de4>] __do_softirq+0x0/0xf8 <IRQ> [<c044fb67>] handle_level_irq+0x0/0xad [<c0429db7>] irq_exit+0x35/0x62 [<c04046bb>] do_IRQ+0xdf/0xf4 [<c04035a7>] common_interrupt+0x27/0x2c [<c04079c5>] default_idle+0x2a/0x3d [<c0401bb6>] cpu_idle+0x57/0x70 Macvlan driver always uses standard ethernet header length for all types of interface to which it is linked. This patch fixes this problem. Reported-by: <sg.tweak@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-29net: convert unicast addr listJiri Pirko
This patch converts unicast address list to standard list_head using previously introduced struct netdev_hw_addr. It also relaxes the locking. Original spinlock (still used for multicast addresses) is not needed and is no longer used for a protection of this list. All reading and writing takes place under rtnl (with no changes). I also removed a possibility to specify the length of the address while adding or deleting unicast address. It's always dev->addr_len. The convertion touched especially e1000 and ixgbe codes when the change is not so trivial. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> drivers/net/bnx2.c | 13 +-- drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c | 24 +++-- drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c | 14 ++-- drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h | 4 +- drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_type.h | 4 +- drivers/net/macvlan.c | 11 +- drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c | 11 +- drivers/net/niu.c | 7 +- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 7 +- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c | 6 +- drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c | 16 ++-- include/linux/netdevice.h | 18 ++-- net/8021q/vlan.c | 4 +- net/8021q/vlan_dev.c | 10 +- net/core/dev.c | 195 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- net/dsa/slave.c | 10 +- net/packet/af_packet.c | 4 +- 18 files changed, 227 insertions(+), 137 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18net: release dst entry in dev_hard_start_xmit()Eric Dumazet
One point of contention in high network loads is the dst_release() performed when a transmited skb is freed. This is because NIC tx completion calls dev_kree_skb() long after original call to dev_queue_xmit(skb). CPU cache is cold and the atomic op in dst_release() stalls. On SMP, this is quite visible if one CPU is 100% handling softirqs for a network device, since dst_clone() is done by other cpus, involving cache line ping pongs. It seems right place to release dst is in dev_hard_start_xmit(), for most devices but ones that are virtual, and some exceptions. David Miller suggested to define a new device flag, set in alloc_netdev_mq() (so that most devices set it at init time), and carefuly unset in devices which dont want a NULL skb->dst in their ndo_start_xmit(). List of devices that must clear this flag is : - loopback device, because it calls netif_rx() and quoting Patrick : "ip_route_input() doesn't accept loopback addresses, so loopback packets already need to have a dst_entry attached." - appletalk/ipddp.c : needs skb->dst in its xmit function - And all devices that call again dev_queue_xmit() from their xmit function (as some classifiers need skb->dst) : bonding, vlan, macvlan, eql, ifb, hdlc_fr Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-21net: factor out ethtool invocation of vlan/macvlan driversPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-17vlan/macvlan: fix NULL pointer dereferences in ethtool handlersPatrick McHardy
Check whether the underlying device provides a set of ethtool ops before checking for individual handlers to avoid NULL pointer dereferences. Reported-by: Art van Breemen <ard@telegraafnet.nl> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-13macvlan: Deterministic ingress packet deliveryEric Biederman
Changing the mac address when a macvlan device is up will leave the device on the wrong hash chain making it impossible to receive packets. There is no checking of the mac address set on the macvlan. Allowing a misconfiguration to grab packets from the the underlying device or another macvlan. To resolve these problems I update the hash table of macvlans when the mac address of a macvlan changes, and when updating the hash table I verify that the new mac address is usable. The result is well defined and predictable if not perfect handling of mac vlan mac addresses. To keep the code clear I have created a set of hash table maintenance in macvlan so I am not open coding the hash function and the logic needed to update the hash table all over the place. Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-13macvlan: Support creating macvlans from macvlansEric Biederman
When running in a network namespace whose only link to the outside world is a macvlan device, not being able to create another macvlan is a real pain. So modify macvlan creation to allow automatically forward a creation of a macvlan on a macvlan to become a creation of a macvlan on the underlying network device. Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-02Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c drivers/net/smc91x.c
2008-11-26macvlan: don't broadcast PAUSE frames to macvlan devicesPatrick McHardy
PAUSE frames are only relevant for the real device, broadcasting them to all macvlan devices can cause a significant load increase. Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-20netdev: add more functions to netdevice opsStephen Hemminger
This patch moves neigh_setup and hard_start_xmit into the network device ops structure. For bisection, fix all the previously converted drivers as well. Bonding driver took the biggest hit on this. Added a prefetch of the hard_start_xmit in the fast path to try and reduce any impact this would have. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-19macvlan: convert to net_device_opsStephen Hemminger
Convert to net_device_ops function table. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03drivers/net: Kill now superfluous ->last_rx stores.David S. Miller
The generic packet receive code takes care of setting netdev->last_rx when necessary, for the sake of the bonding ARP monitor. Drivers need not do it any more. Some cases had to be skipped over because the drivers were making use of the ->last_rx value themselves. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-29macvlan: add support for ethtool get settingsStephen Hemminger
If macvlan's are used, it is useful to propgate speed and other settings from underlying device up for application usage. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-22netdev: Handle ->addr_list_lock just like ->_xmit_lock for lockdep.David S. Miller
The new address list lock needs to handle the same device layering issues that the _xmit_lock one does. This integrates work done by Patrick McHardy. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-18Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt drivers/atm/Makefile drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c net/8021q/vlan.c net/iucv/iucv.c
2008-07-17netdev: Allocate multiple queues for TX.David S. Miller
alloc_netdev_mq() now allocates an array of netdev_queue structures for TX, based upon the queue_count argument. Furthermore, all accesses to the TX queues are now vectored through the netdev_get_tx_queue() and netdev_for_each_tx_queue() interfaces. This makes it easy to grep the tree for all things that want to get to a TX queue of a net device. Problem spots which are not really multiqueue aware yet, and only work with one queue, can easily be spotted by grepping for all netdev_get_tx_queue() calls that pass in a zero index. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-14macvlan: Check return of dev_set_allmultiWang Chen
allmulti might overflow. Commit: "netdevice: Fix promiscuity and allmulti overflow" in net-next makes dev_set_promiscuity/allmulti return error number if overflow happened. Here, we check the positive increment for allmulti to get error return. Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08netdev: Move _xmit_lock and xmit_lock_owner into netdev_queue.David S. Miller
Accesses are mostly structured such that when there are multiple TX queues the code transformations will be a little bit simpler. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-19rcu: split list.h and move rcu-protected lists into rculist.hFranck Bui-Huu
Move rcu-protected lists from list.h into a new header file rculist.h. This is done because list are a very used primitive structure all over the kernel and it's currently impossible to include other header files in this list.h without creating some circular dependencies. For example, list.h implements rcu-protected list and uses rcu_dereference() without including rcupdate.h. It actually compiles because users of rcu_dereference() are macros. Others RCU functions could be used too but aren't probably because of this. Therefore this patch creates rculist.h which includes rcupdates without to many changes/troubles. Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-08macvlan: Fix memleak on device removal/crash on module removalPatrick McHardy
As noticed by Ben Greear, macvlan crashes the kernel when unloading the module. The reason is that it tries to clean up the macvlan_port pointer on the macvlan device itself instead of the underlying device. A non-NULL pointer is taken as indication that the macvlan_handle_frame_hook is valid, when receiving the next packet on the underlying device it tries to call the NULL hook and crashes. Clean up the macvlan_port on the correct device to fix this. Signed-off-by; Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-26[NET] NETNS: Omit net_device->nd_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Introduce per-net_device inlines: dev_net(), dev_net_set(). Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists. Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-01-31[MACVLAN]: Setting macvlan_handle_frame_hook to NULL when ↵Rami Rosen
rtnl_link_register() fails. In drivers/net/macvlan.c, when rtnl_link_register() fails in macvlan_init_module(), there is no point to set it (second time in this method) to macvlan_handle_frame; macvlan_init_module() will return a negative number, so instead this patch sets macvlan_handle_frame_hook to NULL. Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[MACVLAN]: Fix thinko in macvlan_transfer_operstate()Patrick McHardy
When the lower device's carrier is off, the macvlan devices's carrier state should be checked to decide whether it needs to be turned off. Currently the lower device's state is checked a second time. This still works, but unnecessarily tries to turn off the carrier when its already off. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[MACVLAN]: Allow setting mac address while device is upPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[MACVLAN]: Remove unnecessary IFF_UP checkPatrick McHardy
Only devices that are UP are in the hash, so macvlan_broadcast() doesn't need to check for IFF_UP. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-10[MACVLAN]: Prevent nesting macvlan devicesPatrick McHardy
Don't allow to nest macvlan devices since it will cause lockdep warnings and isn't really useful for anything. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-14remove duplicate initializer (macvlan)Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-10[NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.Stephen Hemminger
Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class not the device instance, make them into a separate object and save memory. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Wrap netdevice hardware header creation.Stephen Hemminger
Add inline for common usage of hardware header creation, and fix bug in IPV6 mcast where the assumption about negative return is an errno. Negative return from hard_header means not enough space was available,(ie -N bytes). Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[ETHTOOL] Provide default behaviors for a few ethtool sub-ioctlsJeff Garzik
For the operations get-tx-csum get-sg get-tso get-ufo the default ethtool_op_xxx behavior is fine for all drivers, so we permit op==NULL to imply the default behavior. This provides a more uniform behavior across all drivers, eliminating ethtool(8) "ioctl not supported" errors on older drivers that had not been updated for the latest sub-ioctls. The ethtool_op_xxx() functions are left exported, in case anyone wishes to call them directly from a driver-private implementation -- a not-uncommon case. Should an ethtool_op_xxx() helper remain unused for a while, except by net/core/ethtool.c, we can un-export it at a later date. [ Resolved conflicts with set/get value ethtool patch... -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.Eric W. Biederman
This patch makes most of the generic device layer network namespace safe. This patch makes dev_base_head a network namespace variable, and then it picks up a few associated variables. The functions: dev_getbyhwaddr dev_getfirsthwbytype dev_get_by_flags dev_get_by_name __dev_get_by_name dev_get_by_index __dev_get_by_index dev_ioctl dev_ethtool dev_load wireless_process_ioctl were modified to take a network namespace argument, and deal with it. vlan_ioctl_set and brioctl_set were modified so their hooks will receive a network namespace argument. So basically anthing in the core of the network stack that was affected to by the change of dev_base was modified to handle multiple network namespaces. The rest of the network stack was simply modified to explicitly use &init_net the initial network namespace. This can be fixed when those components of the network stack are modified to handle multiple network namespaces. For now the ifindex generator is left global. Fundametally ifindex numbers are per namespace, or else we will have corner case problems with migration when we get that far. At the same time there are assumptions in the network stack that the ifindex of a network device won't change. Making the ifindex number global seems a good compromise until the network stack can cope with ifindex changes when you change namespaces, and the like. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14[NET]: Add macvlan driverPatrick McHardy
Add macvlan driver, which allows to create virtual ethernet devices based on MAC address. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>