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2023-08-18Documentation/ABI: Fix typosBjorn Helgaas1-1/+1
Fix typos in Documentation/ABI. The changes are in descriptions or comments where they shouldn't affect use of the ABIs. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814212822.193684-2-helgaas@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-02-10net: add sysfs attribute to control napi threaded modeWei Wang1-0/+15
This patch adds a new sysfs attribute to the network device class. Said attribute provides a per-device control to enable/disable the threaded mode for all the napi instances of the given network device, without the need for a device up/down. User sets it to 1 or 0 to enable or disable threaded mode. Note: when switching between threaded and the current softirq based mode for a napi instance, it will not immediately take effect if the napi is currently being polled. The mode switch will happen for the next time napi_schedule() is called. Co-developed-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Co-developed-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Co-developed-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-11-02docs: ABI: sysfs-class-net: fix a typoMauro Carvalho Chehab1-1/+1
clas->class Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4bba2a1592df5a9435c8d4757a9abf20246e2a99.1604312590.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-10-30docs: ABI: cleanup several ABI documentsMauro Carvalho Chehab1-19/+42
There are some ABI documents that, while they don't generate any warnings, they have issues when parsed by get_abi.pl script on its output result. Address them, in order to provide a clean output. Reviewed-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com> # for fpga-manager Reviewed-By: Kajol Jain<kjain@linux.ibm.com> # for sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_gpci and sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7 Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> #for IIO Acked-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> # for Habanalabs Acked-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> # for sysfs-bus-papr-pmem Acked-by: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com> # for catpt Acked-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Acked-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> # for rbd Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5bc78e5b68ed1e9e39135173857cb2e753be868f.1604042072.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-04-20net: Add testing sysfs attributeAndrew Lunn1-0/+13
Similar to speed, duplex and dorment, report the testing status in sysfs. Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-10-26Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdmaLinus Torvalds1-0/+18
Pull rdma updates from Jason Gunthorpe: "This has been a smaller cycle with many of the commits being smallish code fixes and improvements across the drivers. - Driver updates for bnxt_re, cxgb4, hfi1, hns, mlx5, nes, qedr, and rxe - Memory window support in hns - mlx5 user API 'flow mutate/steering' allows accessing the full packet mangling and matching machinery from user space - Support inter-working with verbs API calls in the 'devx' mlx5 user API, and provide options to use devx with less privilege - Modernize the use of syfs and the device interface to use attribute groups and cdev properly for uverbs, and clean up some of the core code's device list management - More progress on net namespaces for RDMA devices - Consolidate driver BAR mmapping support into core code helpers and rework how RDMA holds poitners to mm_struct for get_user_pages cases - First pass to use 'dev_name' instead of ib_device->name - Device renaming for RDMA devices" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma: (242 commits) IB/mlx5: Add support for extended atomic operations RDMA/core: Fix comment for hw stats init for port == 0 RDMA/core: Refactor ib_register_device() function RDMA/core: Fix unwinding flow in case of error to register device ib_srp: Remove WARN_ON in srp_terminate_io() IB/mlx5: Allow scatter to CQE without global signaled WRs IB/mlx5: Verify that driver supports user flags IB/mlx5: Support scatter to CQE for DC transport type RDMA/drivers: Use core provided API for registering device attributes RDMA/core: Allow existing drivers to set one sysfs group per device IB/rxe: Remove unnecessary enum values RDMA/umad: Use kernel API to allocate umad indexes RDMA/uverbs: Use kernel API to allocate uverbs indexes RDMA/core: Increase total number of RDMA ports across all devices IB/mlx4: Add port and TID to MAD debug print IB/mlx4: Enable debug print of SMPs RDMA/core: Rename ports_parent to ports_kobj RDMA/core: Do not expose unsupported counters IB/mlx4: Refer to the device kobject instead of ports_parent RDMA/nldev: Allow IB device rename through RDMA netlink ...
2018-09-13Documentation/ABI: document /sys/class/net/*/dev_portArseny Maslennikov1-0/+18
The sysfs field was introduced 4 years ago along with fixes to various drivers that erroneously used `dev_id' for that purpose, but it was not properly documented anywhere. See commit v3.14-rc3-739-g3f85944fe207. Signed-off-by: Arseny Maslennikov <ar@cs.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
2018-08-30ethtool: drop get_settings and set_settings callbacksMichal Kubecek1-2/+2
Since [gs]et_settings ethtool_ops callbacks have been deprecated in February 2016, all in tree NIC drivers have been converted to provide [gs]et_link_ksettings() and out of tree drivers have had enough time to do the same. Drop get_settings() and set_settings() and implement both ETHTOOL_[GS]SET and ETHTOOL_[GS]LINKSETTINGS only using [gs]et_link_ksettings(). Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-01-22net: core: Expose number of link up/down transitionsDavid Decotigny1-0/+24
Expose the number of times the link has been going UP or DOWN, and update the "carrier_changes" counter to be the sum of these two events. While at it, also update the sysfs-class-net documentation to cover: carrier_changes (3.15), carrier_up_count (4.16) and carrier_down_count (4.16) Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <decot@googlers.com> [Florian: * rebase * add documentation * merge carrier_changes with up/down counters] Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-05-26net: sysfs: Document "phydev" symbolic linkFlorian Fainelli1-0/+8
Now that we link the network device to its PHY device, document this sysfs symbolic link. Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-06bridge: change BR_GROUPFWD_RESTRICTED to allow forwarding of LLDP framesBernhard Thaler1-0/+19
BR_GROUPFWD_RESTRICTED bitmask restricts users from setting values to /sys/class/net/brX/bridge/group_fwd_mask that allow forwarding of some IEEE 802.1D Table 7-10 Reserved addresses: (MAC Control) 802.3 01-80-C2-00-00-01 (Link Aggregation) 802.3 01-80-C2-00-00-02 802.1AB LLDP 01-80-C2-00-00-0E Change BR_GROUPFWD_RESTRICTED to allow to forward LLDP frames and document group_fwd_mask. e.g. echo 16384 > /sys/class/net/brX/bridge/group_fwd_mask allows to forward LLDP frames. This may be needed for bridge setups used for network troubleshooting or any other scenario where forwarding of LLDP frames is desired (e.g. bridge connecting a virtual machine to real switch transmitting LLDP frames that virtual machine needs to receive). Tested on a simple bridge setup with two interfaces and host transmitting LLDP frames on one side of this bridge (used lldpd). Setting group_fwd_mask as described above lets LLDP frames traverse bridge. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Thaler <bernhard.thaler@wvnet.at> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-19net: add support for phys_port_nameDavid Ahern1-0/+8
Similar to port id allow netdevices to specify port names and export the name via sysfs. Drivers can implement the netdevice operation to assist udev in having sane default names for the devices using the rule: $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR{phys_port_name}!="", NAME="$attr{phys_port_name}" Use of phys_name versus phys_id was suggested-by Jiri Pirko. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Acked-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-12-03net-sysfs: expose physical switch id for particular deviceJiri Pirko1-0/+8
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Reviewed-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Acked-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks.com> Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-08-26Documentation: ABI/testing: Spelling s/calss/class/Junien Fridrick1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Junien Fridrick <linux.kernel@junien.fridrick.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-07-16net: add name_assign_type netdev attributeTom Gundersen1-0/+11
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>
2014-05-26net: sysfs: add missing phys_port_id documentationFlorian Fainelli1-0/+8
Add documentation for the phys_port_id sysfs attribute of a network device. Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-04-01net: sysfs: add Documentation entries for basic set of attributesFlorian Fainelli1-0/+199
Add sysfs attributes Documentation entries for the basic set of attributes that are exposed by a network device in /sys/class/net/<iface>/ Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>