HiperSockets allow configuring so called VNIC Characteristics (VNICC)
that influence how the underlying hardware handles packets. For VNICCs,
additional commands for getting and setting timeouts are available.
Currently, the learning VNICC uses these commands.
* Learning VNICC: If learning is enabled on a qeth device, the device
learns the source MAC addresses of outgoing packets and incoming
packets to those learned MAC addresses are received.
For learning, the timeout specifies the idle period in seconds, after
which the underlying hardware removes a learned MAC address again.
This patch adds support for the IPA commands that are required to get
and set the current timeout values for the learning VNIC characteristic.
Also, it introduces the sysfs interface that allows users to configure
the timeout.
Signed-off-by: Hans Wippel <hwippel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
HiperSocket devices allow enabling and disabling so called VNIC
Characteristics (VNICC) that influence how the underlying hardware
handles packets. These VNICCs are:
* Flooding VNICC: Flooding allows specifying if packets to unknown
destination MAC addresses are received by the qeth device.
* Multicast flooding VNICC: Multicast flooding allows specifying if
packets to multicast MAC addresses are received by the qeth device.
* Learning VNICC: If learning is enabled on a qeth device, the device
learns the source MAC addresses of outgoing packets and incoming
packets to those learned MAC addresses are received.
* Takeover setvmac VNICC: If takeover setvmac is configured on a qeth
device, the MAC address of this device can be configured on a
different qeth device with the setvmac IPA command.
* Takeover by learning VNICC: If takeover learning is enabled on a qeth
device, the MAC address of this device can be learned (learning VNICC)
on a different qeth device.
* BridgePort invisible VNICC: If BridgePort invisible is enabled on a
qeth device, (1) packets from this device are not sent to a BridgePort
enabled qeth device and (2) packets coming from a BridgePort enabled
qeth device are not received by this device.
* Receive broadcast VNICC: Receive broadcast allows configuring if a
qeth device receives packets with the broadcast destination MAC
address.
This patch adds support for the IPA commands that are required to enable
and disable these VNIC characteristics on qeth devices. As a
prerequisite, it also adds the query commands IPA command.
The query commands IPA command allows requesting the supported commands
for each characteristic from the underlying hardware.
Additionally, this patch provides users with a sysfs user interface to
enable/disable the VNICCs mentioned above.
Signed-off-by: Hans Wippel <hwippel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
commit b4d72c08b3 ("qeth: bridgeport support - basic control")
broke the support for OSM and OSN devices as follows:
As OSM and OSN are L2 only, qeth_core_probe_device() does an early
setup by loading the l2 discipline and calling qeth_l2_probe_device().
In this context, adding the l2-specific bridgeport sysfs attributes
via qeth_l2_create_device_attributes() hits a BUG_ON in fs/sysfs/group.c,
since the basic sysfs infrastructure for the device hasn't been
established yet.
Note that OSN actually has its own unique sysfs attributes
(qeth_osn_devtype), so the additional attributes shouldn't be created
at all.
For OSM, add a new qeth_l2_devtype that contains all the common
and l2-specific sysfs attributes.
When qeth_core_probe_device() does early setup for OSM or OSN, assign
the corresponding devtype so that the ccwgroup probe code creates the
full set of sysfs attributes.
This allows us to skip qeth_l2_create_device_attributes() in case
of an early setup.
Any device that can't do early setup will initially have only the
generic sysfs attributes, and when it's probed later
qeth_l2_probe_device() adds the l2-specific attributes.
If an early-setup device is removed (by calling ccwgroup_ungroup()),
device_unregister() will - using the devtype - delete the
l2-specific attributes before qeth_l2_remove_device() is called.
So make sure to not remove them twice.
What complicates the issue is that qeth_l2_probe_device() and
qeth_l2_remove_device() is also called on a device when its
layer2 attribute changes (ie. its layer mode is switched).
For early-setup devices this wouldn't work properly - we wouldn't
remove the l2-specific attributes when switching to L3.
But switching the layer mode doesn't actually make any sense;
we already decided that the device can only operate in L2!
So just refuse to switch the layer mode on such devices. Note that
OSN doesn't have a layer2 attribute, so we only need to special-case
OSM.
Based on an initial patch by Ursula Braun.
Fixes: b4d72c08b3 ("qeth: bridgeport support - basic control")
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
1. options.add_hhlen is set but never used, drop it
2. clean up no longer required forward declarations
3. delete all sorts of unused defines
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
User is not allowed to write into bridge_state sysfs file.
Fixed attribute not mislead the user
Signed-off-by: Lakhvich Dmitriy <ldmitriy@ru.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eugene Crosser <Eugene.Crosser@ru.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Forbid enabling IFF_PROMISC reflection to BRIDGEPORT when a role
is already assigned, and forbid direct manipulation of the role
when reflection mode is engaged.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eugene Crosser <Eugene.Crosser@ru.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
OSA and HiperSocket devices do not support promiscuous mode proper,
but they support "BRIDGE PORT" mode that is functionally similar.
This update introduces sysfs attribute that, when set, makes the driver
try to "reflect" setting and resetting of the IFF_PROMISC flag on the
interface into setting and resetting PRIMARY or SECONDARY bridge port
role on the underlying OSA or HiperSocket device.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eugene Crosser <Eugene.Crosser@ru.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Locking is probably unnecessary in this case, and the rest of the
qeth sysfs code does not use locks in the *_show() functions.
Remove locks from the layer2 *_show() functions in which they where
accidentally introduced.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Crosser <Eugene.Crosser@ru.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When qeth device is queried for ethtool data, hardware operation
is performed to extract the necessary information from the card.
If the card is not online at the moment (e.g. it is undergoing
recovery), this operation produces undesired effects like
temporarily freezing the system. This patch prevents execution
of the hardware query operation when the card is not online.
In such case, ioctl() operation returns error with errno ENODEV.
Reviewed-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eugene Crosser <Eugene.Crosser@ru.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <blaschka@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Introduce functions to enable and disable bridgeport address
notification feature, sysfs attributes for access to these
functions from userspace, and udev events emitted when a host
joins or exits a bridgeport-enabled HiperSocket channel.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Crosser <eugene.crosser@ru.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Introduce functions to assign roles and check state of bridgeport-capable
HiperSocket devices, and sysfs attributes providing access to these
functions from userspace. Introduce udev events emitted when the state
of a bridgeport device changes.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Crosser <eugene.crosser@ru.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Hans Wippel
Julian Wiedmann
Lakhvich Dmitriy
Eugene Crosser