linux-toradex.git/net/core/net-sysfs.c, branch v3.18.3 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules net: do not name the pointer to struct net_device net 2014-07-25T06:33:55+00:00 WANG Cong xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com 2014-07-23T23:09:10+00:00 6b53dafe23fd1f1228c7dd9b8a1323e757966160 "net" is normally for struct net*, pointer to struct net_device should be named to either "dev" or "ndev" etc. Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
"net" is normally for struct net*, pointer to struct net_device
should be named to either "dev" or "ndev" etc.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net: add name_assign_type netdev attribute 2014-07-15T23:12:01+00:00 Tom Gundersen teg@jklm.no 2014-07-14T14:37:22+00:00 685343fc3ba61a1f6eef361b786601123db16c28 Based on a patch by David Herrmann. The name_assign_type attribute gives hints where the interface name of a given net-device comes from. These values are currently defined: NET_NAME_ENUM: The ifname is provided by the kernel with an enumerated suffix, typically based on order of discovery. Names may be reused and unpredictable. NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE: The ifname has been assigned by the kernel in a predictable way that is guaranteed to avoid reuse and always be the same for a given device. Examples include statically created devices like the loopback device and names deduced from hardware properties (including being given explicitly by the firmware). Names depending on the order of discovery, or in any other way on the existence of other devices, must not be marked as PREDICTABLE. NET_NAME_USER: The ifname was provided by user-space during net-device setup. NET_NAME_RENAMED: The net-device has been renamed from userspace. Once this type is set, it cannot change again. NET_NAME_UNKNOWN: This is an internal placeholder to indicate that we yet haven't yet categorized the name. It will not be exposed to userspace, rather -EINVAL is returned. The aim of these patches is to improve user-space renaming of interfaces. As a general rule, userspace must rename interfaces to guarantee that names stay the same every time a given piece of hardware appears (at boot, or when attaching it). However, there are several situations where userspace should not perform the renaming, and that depends on both the policy of the local admin, but crucially also on the nature of the current interface name. If an interface was created in repsonse to a userspace request, and userspace already provided a name, we most probably want to leave that name alone. The main instance of this is wifi-P2P devices created over nl80211, which currently have a long-standing bug where they are getting renamed by udev. We label such names NET_NAME_USER. If an interface, unbeknown to us, has already been renamed from userspace, we most probably want to leave also that alone. This will typically happen when third-party plugins (for instance to udev, but the interface is generic so could be from anywhere) renames the interface without informing udev about it. A typical situation is when you switch root from an installer or an initrd to the real system and the new instance of udev does not know what happened before the switch. These types of problems have caused repeated issues in the past. To solve this, once an interface has been renamed, its name is labelled NET_NAME_RENAMED. In many cases, the kernel is actually able to name interfaces in such a way that there is no need for userspace to rename them. This is the case when the enumeration order of devices, or in fact any other (non-parent) device on the system, can not influence the name of the interface. Examples include statically created devices, or any naming schemes based on hardware properties of the interface. In this case the admin may prefer to use the kernel-provided names, and to make that possible we label such names NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE. We want the kernel to have tho possibilty of performing predictable interface naming itself (and exposing to userspace that it has), as the information necessary for a proper naming scheme for a certain class of devices may not be exposed to userspace. The case where renaming is almost certainly desired, is when the kernel has given the interface a name using global device enumeration based on order of discovery (ethX, wlanY, etc). These naming schemes are labelled NET_NAME_ENUM. Lastly, a fallback is left as NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, to indicate that a driver has not yet been ported. This is mostly useful as a transitionary measure, allowing us to label the various naming schemes bit by bit. v8: minor documentation fixes v9: move comment to the right commit Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
Based on a patch by David Herrmann.

The name_assign_type attribute gives hints where the interface name of a
given net-device comes from. These values are currently defined:
  NET_NAME_ENUM:
    The ifname is provided by the kernel with an enumerated
    suffix, typically based on order of discovery. Names may
    be reused and unpredictable.
  NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE:
    The ifname has been assigned by the kernel in a predictable way
    that is guaranteed to avoid reuse and always be the same for a
    given device. Examples include statically created devices like
    the loopback device and names deduced from hardware properties
    (including being given explicitly by the firmware). Names
    depending on the order of discovery, or in any other way on the
    existence of other devices, must not be marked as PREDICTABLE.
  NET_NAME_USER:
    The ifname was provided by user-space during net-device setup.
  NET_NAME_RENAMED:
    The net-device has been renamed from userspace. Once this type is set,
    it cannot change again.
  NET_NAME_UNKNOWN:
    This is an internal placeholder to indicate that we yet haven't yet
    categorized the name. It will not be exposed to userspace, rather
    -EINVAL is returned.

The aim of these patches is to improve user-space renaming of interfaces. As
a general rule, userspace must rename interfaces to guarantee that names stay
the same every time a given piece of hardware appears (at boot, or when
attaching it). However, there are several situations where userspace should
not perform the renaming, and that depends on both the policy of the local
admin, but crucially also on the nature of the current interface name.

If an interface was created in repsonse to a userspace request, and userspace
already provided a name, we most probably want to leave that name alone. The
main instance of this is wifi-P2P devices created over nl80211, which currently
have a long-standing bug where they are getting renamed by udev. We label such
names NET_NAME_USER.

If an interface, unbeknown to us, has already been renamed from userspace, we
most probably want to leave also that alone. This will typically happen when
third-party plugins (for instance to udev, but the interface is generic so could
be from anywhere) renames the interface without informing udev about it. A
typical situation is when you switch root from an installer or an initrd to the
real system and the new instance of udev does not know what happened before
the switch. These types of problems have caused repeated issues in the past. To
solve this, once an interface has been renamed, its name is labelled
NET_NAME_RENAMED.

In many cases, the kernel is actually able to name interfaces in such a
way that there is no need for userspace to rename them. This is the case when
the enumeration order of devices, or in fact any other (non-parent) device on
the system, can not influence the name of the interface. Examples include
statically created devices, or any naming schemes based on hardware properties
of the interface. In this case the admin may prefer to use the kernel-provided
names, and to make that possible we label such names NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE.
We want the kernel to have tho possibilty of performing predictable interface
naming itself (and exposing to userspace that it has), as the information
necessary for a proper naming scheme for a certain class of devices may not
be exposed to userspace.

The case where renaming is almost certainly desired, is when the kernel has
given the interface a name using global device enumeration based on order of
discovery (ethX, wlanY, etc). These naming schemes are labelled NET_NAME_ENUM.

Lastly, a fallback is left as NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, to indicate that a driver has
not yet been ported. This is mostly useful as a transitionary measure, allowing
us to label the various naming schemes bit by bit.

v8: minor documentation fixes
v9: move comment to the right commit

Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-04-03T03:53:45+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2014-04-03T03:53:45+00:00 cd6362befe4cc7bf589a5236d2a780af2d47bcc9 Pull networking updates from David Miller: "Here is my initial pull request for the networking subsystem during this merge window: 1) Support for ESN in AH (RFC 4302) from Fan Du. 2) Add full kernel doc for ethtool command structures, from Ben Hutchings. 3) Add BCM7xxx PHY driver, from Florian Fainelli. 4) Export computed TCP rate information in netlink socket dumps, from Eric Dumazet. 5) Allow IPSEC SA to be dumped partially using a filter, from Nicolas Dichtel. 6) Convert many drivers to pci_enable_msix_range(), from Alexander Gordeev. 7) Record SKB timestamps more efficiently, from Eric Dumazet. 8) Switch to microsecond resolution for TCP round trip times, also from Eric Dumazet. 9) Clean up and fix 6lowpan fragmentation handling by making use of the existing inet_frag api for it's implementation. 10) Add TX grant mapping to xen-netback driver, from Zoltan Kiss. 11) Auto size SKB lengths when composing netlink messages based upon past message sizes used, from Eric Dumazet. 12) qdisc dumps can take a long time, add a cond_resched(), From Eric Dumazet. 13) Sanitize netpoll core and drivers wrt. SKB handling semantics. Get rid of never-used-in-tree netpoll RX handling. From Eric W Biederman. 14) Support inter-address-family and namespace changing in VTI tunnel driver(s). From Steffen Klassert. 15) Add Altera TSE driver, from Vince Bridgers. 16) Optimizing csum_replace2() so that it doesn't adjust the checksum by checksumming the entire header, from Eric Dumazet. 17) Expand BPF internal implementation for faster interpreting, more direct translations into JIT'd code, and much cleaner uses of BPF filtering in non-socket ocntexts. From Daniel Borkmann and Alexei Starovoitov" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1976 commits) netpoll: Use skb_irq_freeable to make zap_completion_queue safe. net: Add a test to see if a skb is freeable in irq context qlcnic: Fix build failure due to undefined reference to `vxlan_get_rx_port' net: ptp: move PTP classifier in its own file net: sxgbe: make "core_ops" static net: sxgbe: fix logical vs bitwise operation net: sxgbe: sxgbe_mdio_register() frees the bus Call efx_set_channels() before efx->type->dimension_resources() xen-netback: disable rogue vif in kthread context net/mlx4: Set proper build dependancy with vxlan be2net: fix build dependency on VxLAN mac802154: make csma/cca parameters per-wpan mac802154: allow only one WPAN to be up at any given time net: filter: minor: fix kdoc in __sk_run_filter netlink: don't compare the nul-termination in nla_strcmp can: c_can: Avoid led toggling for every packet. can: c_can: Simplify TX interrupt cleanup can: c_can: Store dlc private can: c_can: Reduce register access can: c_can: Make the code readable ... 
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Here is my initial pull request for the networking subsystem during
  this merge window:

   1) Support for ESN in AH (RFC 4302) from Fan Du.

   2) Add full kernel doc for ethtool command structures, from Ben
      Hutchings.

   3) Add BCM7xxx PHY driver, from Florian Fainelli.

   4) Export computed TCP rate information in netlink socket dumps, from
      Eric Dumazet.

   5) Allow IPSEC SA to be dumped partially using a filter, from Nicolas
      Dichtel.

   6) Convert many drivers to pci_enable_msix_range(), from Alexander
      Gordeev.

   7) Record SKB timestamps more efficiently, from Eric Dumazet.

   8) Switch to microsecond resolution for TCP round trip times, also
      from Eric Dumazet.

   9) Clean up and fix 6lowpan fragmentation handling by making use of
      the existing inet_frag api for it's implementation.

  10) Add TX grant mapping to xen-netback driver, from Zoltan Kiss.

  11) Auto size SKB lengths when composing netlink messages based upon
      past message sizes used, from Eric Dumazet.

  12) qdisc dumps can take a long time, add a cond_resched(), From Eric
      Dumazet.

  13) Sanitize netpoll core and drivers wrt.  SKB handling semantics.
      Get rid of never-used-in-tree netpoll RX handling.  From Eric W
      Biederman.

  14) Support inter-address-family and namespace changing in VTI tunnel
      driver(s).  From Steffen Klassert.

  15) Add Altera TSE driver, from Vince Bridgers.

  16) Optimizing csum_replace2() so that it doesn't adjust the checksum
      by checksumming the entire header, from Eric Dumazet.

  17) Expand BPF internal implementation for faster interpreting, more
      direct translations into JIT'd code, and much cleaner uses of BPF
      filtering in non-socket ocntexts.  From Daniel Borkmann and Alexei
      Starovoitov"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1976 commits)
  netpoll: Use skb_irq_freeable to make zap_completion_queue safe.
  net: Add a test to see if a skb is freeable in irq context
  qlcnic: Fix build failure due to undefined reference to `vxlan_get_rx_port'
  net: ptp: move PTP classifier in its own file
  net: sxgbe: make "core_ops" static
  net: sxgbe: fix logical vs bitwise operation
  net: sxgbe: sxgbe_mdio_register() frees the bus
  Call efx_set_channels() before efx->type->dimension_resources()
  xen-netback: disable rogue vif in kthread context
  net/mlx4: Set proper build dependancy with vxlan
  be2net: fix build dependency on VxLAN
  mac802154: make csma/cca parameters per-wpan
  mac802154: allow only one WPAN to be up at any given time
  net: filter: minor: fix kdoc in __sk_run_filter
  netlink: don't compare the nul-termination in nla_strcmp
  can: c_can: Avoid led toggling for every packet.
  can: c_can: Simplify TX interrupt cleanup
  can: c_can: Store dlc private
  can: c_can: Reduce register access
  can: c_can: Make the code readable
  ...
net-sysfs: expose number of carrier on/off changes 2014-03-31T20:24:52+00:00 david decotigny decot@googlers.com 2014-03-29T16:48:35+00:00 2d3b479df41a10e2f41f9259fcba775bd34de6e4 This allows to monitor carrier on/off transitions and detect link flapping issues: - new /sys/class/net/X/carrier_changes - new rtnetlink IFLA_CARRIER_CHANGES (getlink) Tested: - grep . /sys/class/net/*/carrier_changes + ip link set dev X down/up + plug/unplug cable - updated iproute2: prints IFLA_CARRIER_CHANGES - iproute2 20121211-2 (debian): unchanged behavior Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <decot@googlers.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
This allows to monitor carrier on/off transitions and detect link
flapping issues:
 - new /sys/class/net/X/carrier_changes
 - new rtnetlink IFLA_CARRIER_CHANGES (getlink)

Tested:
  - grep . /sys/class/net/*/carrier_changes
    + ip link set dev X down/up
    + plug/unplug cable
  - updated iproute2: prints IFLA_CARRIER_CHANGES
  - iproute2 20121211-2 (debian): unchanged behavior

Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <decot@googlers.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net: Add sysfs file for port number 2014-02-26T20:38:06+00:00 Amir Vadai amirv@mellanox.com 2014-02-25T16:17:50+00:00 3f85944fe207d0225ef21a2c0951d4946fc9a95d Add a sysfs file to enable user space to query the device port number used by a netdevice instance. This is needed for devices that have multiple ports on the same PCI function. Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
Add a sysfs file to enable user space to query the device
port number used by a netdevice instance. This is needed for
devices that have multiple ports on the same PCI function.

Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net-sysfs: fix comment typo 'CONFIG_SYFS' 2014-02-20T13:56:28+00:00 Paul Bolle pebolle@tiscali.nl 2014-02-09T13:07:11+00:00 80dd6eac00908a2c3e7a7c3f538ceee75c03f94f Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> 
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
net-sysfs: get_netdev_queue_index() cleanup 2014-02-14T20:46:39+00:00 Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com 2014-02-13T18:07:13+00:00 ed1acc8cd8c22efa919da8d300bab646e01c2dce Remove one inline keyword, and no need for a loop to find an index into a table. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
Remove one inline keyword, and no need for a loop to find
an index into a table.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net: fix "queues" uevent between network namespaces 2014-01-20T04:02:02+00:00 Weilong Chen chenweilong@huawei.com 2014-01-16T09:24:31+00:00 82ef3d5d5f3ffd757c960693c4fe7a0051211849 When I create a new namespace with 'ip netns add net0', or add/remove new links in a namespace with 'ip link add/delete type veth', rx/tx queues events can be got in all namespaces. That is because rx/tx queue ktypes do not have namespace support, and their kobj parents are setted to NULL. This patch is to fix it. Reported-by: Libo Chen <chenlibo@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Libo Chen <chenlibo@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Weilong Chen <chenweilong@huawei.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
When I create a new namespace with 'ip netns add net0', or add/remove
new links in a namespace with 'ip link add/delete type veth', rx/tx
queues events can be got in all namespaces. That is because rx/tx queue
ktypes do not have namespace support, and their kobj parents are setted to
NULL. This patch is to fix it.

Reported-by: Libo Chen <chenlibo@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Libo Chen <chenlibo@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Weilong Chen <chenweilong@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net-sysfs: add support for device-specific rx queue sysfs attributes 2014-01-17T07:46:06+00:00 Michael Dalton mwdalton@google.com 2014-01-17T06:23:28+00:00 a953be53ce40440acb4740edb48577b9468d4c3d Extend existing support for netdevice receive queue sysfs attributes to permit a device-specific attribute group. Initial use case for this support will be to allow the virtio-net device to export per-receive queue mergeable receive buffer size. Signed-off-by: Michael Dalton <mwdalton@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
Extend existing support for netdevice receive queue sysfs attributes to
permit a device-specific attribute group. Initial use case for this
support will be to allow the virtio-net device to export per-receive
queue mergeable receive buffer size.

Signed-off-by: Michael Dalton <mwdalton@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net: netdev_kobject_init: annotate with __init 2014-01-06T01:27:54+00:00 Daniel Borkmann dborkman@redhat.com 2014-01-06T00:20:11+00:00 a48d4bb0b08fa621439bfcc32ad2f4c4e98decfc netdev_kobject_init() is only being called from __init context, that is, net_dev_init(), so annotate it with __init as well, thus the kernel can take this as a hint that the function is used only during the initialization phase and free up used memory resources after its invocation. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
netdev_kobject_init() is only being called from __init context,
that is, net_dev_init(), so annotate it with __init as well, thus
the kernel can take this as a hint that the function is used only
during the initialization phase and free up used memory resources
after its invocation.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>