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-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/sun4i_can.txt36
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cpsw.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hip04-net.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-dsaf.txt49
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-mdio.txt22
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-nic.txt47
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/l2tp.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt43
10 files changed, 210 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/sun4i_can.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/sun4i_can.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..84ed1909df76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/sun4i_can.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+Allwinner A10/A20 CAN controller Device Tree Bindings
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible: "allwinner,sun4i-a10-can"
+- reg: physical base address and size of the Allwinner A10/A20 CAN register map.
+- interrupts: interrupt specifier for the sole interrupt.
+- clock: phandle and clock specifier.
+
+Example
+-------
+
+SoC common .dtsi file:
+
+ can0_pins_a: can0@0 {
+ allwinner,pins = "PH20","PH21";
+ allwinner,function = "can";
+ allwinner,drive = <0>;
+ allwinner,pull = <0>;
+ };
+...
+ can0: can@01c2bc00 {
+ compatible = "allwinner,sun4i-a10-can";
+ reg = <0x01c2bc00 0x400>;
+ interrupts = <0 26 4>;
+ clocks = <&apb1_gates 4>;
+ status = "disabled";
+ };
+
+Board specific .dts file:
+
+ can0: can@01c2bc00 {
+ pinctrl-names = "default";
+ pinctrl-0 = <&can0_pins_a>;
+ status = "okay";
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cpsw.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cpsw.txt
index a9df21aaa154..676ecf62491d 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cpsw.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cpsw.txt
@@ -30,6 +30,13 @@ Optional properties:
- dual_emac : Specifies Switch to act as Dual EMAC
- syscon : Phandle to the system control device node, which is
the control module device of the am33x
+- mode-gpios : Should be added if one/multiple gpio lines are
+ required to be driven so that cpsw data lines
+ can be connected to the phy via selective mux.
+ For example in dra72x-evm, pcf gpio has to be
+ driven low so that cpsw slave 0 and phy data
+ lines are connected via mux.
+
Slave Properties:
Required properties:
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hip04-net.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hip04-net.txt
index 988fc694b663..d1df8a00e1f3 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hip04-net.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hip04-net.txt
@@ -32,13 +32,13 @@ Required properties:
Required properties:
-- compatible: should be "hisilicon,hip04-mdio".
+- compatible: should be "hisilicon,mdio".
- Inherits from MDIO bus node binding [2]
[2] Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/phy.txt
Example:
mdio {
- compatible = "hisilicon,hip04-mdio";
+ compatible = "hisilicon,mdio";
reg = <0x28f1000 0x1000>;
#address-cells = <1>;
#size-cells = <0>;
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-dsaf.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-dsaf.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..80411b2f0490
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-dsaf.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+Hisilicon DSA Fabric device controller
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible: should be "hisilicon,hns-dsaf-v1" or "hisilicon,hns-dsaf-v2".
+ "hisilicon,hns-dsaf-v1" is for hip05.
+ "hisilicon,hns-dsaf-v2" is for Hi1610 and Hi1612.
+- dsa-name: dsa fabric name who provide this interface.
+ should be "dsafX", X is the dsaf id.
+- mode: dsa fabric mode string. only support one of dsaf modes like these:
+ "2port-64vf",
+ "6port-16rss",
+ "6port-16vf".
+- interrupt-parent: the interrupt parent of this device.
+- interrupts: should contain the DSA Fabric and rcb interrupt.
+- reg: specifies base physical address(es) and size of the device registers.
+ The first region is external interface control register base and size.
+ The second region is SerDes base register and size.
+ The third region is the PPE register base and size.
+ The fourth region is dsa fabric base register and size.
+ The fifth region is cpld base register and size, it is not required if do not use cpld.
+- phy-handle: phy handle of physicl port, 0 if not any phy device. see ethernet.txt [1].
+- buf-size: rx buffer size, should be 16-1024.
+- desc-num: number of description in TX and RX queue, should be 512, 1024, 2048 or 4096.
+
+[1] Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/phy.txt
+
+Example:
+
+dsa: dsa@c7000000 {
+ compatible = "hisilicon,hns-dsaf-v1";
+ dsa_name = "dsaf0";
+ mode = "6port-16rss";
+ interrupt-parent = <&mbigen_dsa>;
+ reg = <0x0 0xC0000000 0x0 0x420000
+ 0x0 0xC2000000 0x0 0x300000
+ 0x0 0xc5000000 0x0 0x890000
+ 0x0 0xc7000000 0x0 0x60000>;
+ phy-handle = <0 0 0 0 &soc0_phy4 &soc0_phy5 0 0>;
+ interrupts = <131 4>,<132 4>, <133 4>,<134 4>,
+ <135 4>,<136 4>, <137 4>,<138 4>,
+ <139 4>,<140 4>, <141 4>,<142 4>,
+ <143 4>,<144 4>, <145 4>,<146 4>,
+ <147 4>,<148 4>, <384 1>,<385 1>,
+ <386 1>,<387 1>, <388 1>,<389 1>,
+ <390 1>,<391 1>,
+ buf-size = <4096>;
+ desc-num = <1024>;
+ dma-coherent;
+};
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-mdio.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-mdio.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9940aa02b8bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-mdio.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Hisilicon MDIO bus controller
+
+Properties:
+- compatible: "hisilicon,mdio","hisilicon,hns-mdio".
+- reg: The base address of the MDIO bus controller register bank.
+- #address-cells: Must be <1>.
+- #size-cells: Must be <0>. MDIO addresses have no size component.
+
+Typically an MDIO bus might have several children.
+
+Example:
+ mdio@803c0000 {
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <0>;
+ compatible = "hisilicon,mdio","hisilicon,hns-mdio";
+ reg = <0x0 0x803c0000 0x0 0x10000>;
+
+ ethernet-phy@0 {
+ ...
+ reg = <0>;
+ };
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-nic.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-nic.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..41d19be7011e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-nic.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+Hisilicon Network Subsystem NIC controller
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible: "hisilicon,hns-nic-v1" or "hisilicon,hns-nic-v2".
+ "hisilicon,hns-nic-v1" is for hip05.
+ "hisilicon,hns-nic-v2" is for Hi1610 and Hi1612.
+- ae-name: accelerator name who provides this interface,
+ is simply a name referring to the name of name in the accelerator node.
+- port-id: is the index of port provided by DSAF (the accelerator). DSAF can
+ connect to 8 PHYs. Port 0 to 1 are both used for adminstration purpose. They
+ are called debug ports.
+
+ The remaining 6 PHYs are taken according to the mode of DSAF.
+
+ In NIC mode of DSAF, all 6 PHYs are taken as ethernet ports to the CPU. The
+ port-id can be 2 to 7. Here is the diagram:
+ +-----+---------------+
+ | CPU |
+ +-+-+-+---+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ | | | | | | | |
+ debug service
+ port port
+ (0,1) (2-7)
+
+ In Switch mode of DSAF, all 6 PHYs are taken as physical ports connect to a
+ LAN Switch while the CPU side assume itself have one single NIC connect to
+ this switch. In this case, the port-id will be 2 only.
+ +-----+---------------+
+ | CPU |
+ +-+-+-+---+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ | | service| port(2)
+ debug +------------+
+ port | switch |
+ (0,1) +-+-+-+-+-+-++
+ | | | | | |
+ external port
+
+- local-mac-address: mac addr of the ethernet interface
+
+Example:
+
+ ethernet@0{
+ compatible = "hisilicon,hns-nic-v1";
+ ae-name = "dsaf0";
+ port-id = <0>;
+ local-mac-address = [a2 14 e4 4b 56 76];
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt b/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt
index 1700756af057..aa69ccc481db 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ Introduction
The IEEE 802.15.4 working group focuses on standardization of bottom
two layers: Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical (PHY). And there
are mainly two options available for upper layers:
- - ZigBee - proprietary protocol from ZigBee Alliance
- - 6LowPAN - IPv6 networking over low rate personal area networks
+ - ZigBee - proprietary protocol from the ZigBee Alliance
+ - 6LoWPAN - IPv6 networking over low rate personal area networks
-The Linux-ZigBee project goal is to provide complete implementation
-of IEEE 802.15.4 and 6LoWPAN protocols. IEEE 802.15.4 is a stack
+The linux-wpan project goal is to provide a complete implementation
+of the IEEE 802.15.4 and 6LoWPAN protocols. IEEE 802.15.4 is a stack
of protocols for organizing Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks.
The stack is composed of three main parts:
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt
index 3ba709531adb..e6b1c025fdd8 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt
@@ -157,6 +157,16 @@ expire_quiescent_template - BOOLEAN
persistence template if it is to be used to schedule a new
connection and the destination server is quiescent.
+ignore_tunneled - BOOLEAN
+ 0 - disabled (default)
+ not 0 - enabled
+
+ If set, ipvs will set the ipvs_property on all packets which are of
+ unrecognized protocols. This prevents us from routing tunneled
+ protocols like ipip, which is useful to prevent rescheduling
+ packets that have been tunneled to the ipvs host (i.e. to prevent
+ ipvs routing loops when ipvs is also acting as a real server).
+
nat_icmp_send - BOOLEAN
0 - disabled (default)
not 0 - enabled
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/l2tp.txt b/Documentation/networking/l2tp.txt
index c74434de2fa5..4650a00ed012 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/l2tp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/l2tp.txt
@@ -213,15 +213,12 @@ To create an L2TPv3 ethernet pseudowire between local host 192.168.1.1
and peer 192.168.1.2, using IP addresses 10.5.1.1 and 10.5.1.2 for the
tunnel endpoints:-
-# modprobe l2tp_eth
-# modprobe l2tp_netlink
-
# ip l2tp add tunnel tunnel_id 1 peer_tunnel_id 1 udp_sport 5000 \
udp_dport 5000 encap udp local 192.168.1.1 remote 192.168.1.2
# ip l2tp add session tunnel_id 1 session_id 1 peer_session_id 1
-# ifconfig -a
+# ip -s -d show dev l2tpeth0
# ip addr add 10.5.1.2/32 peer 10.5.1.1/32 dev l2tpeth0
-# ifconfig l2tpeth0 up
+# ip li set dev l2tpeth0 up
Choose IP addresses to be the address of a local IP interface and that
of the remote system. The IP addresses of the l2tpeth0 interface can be
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
index 476df0496686..9f9e2587b347 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
@@ -239,20 +239,20 @@ The driver should initialize the attributes to the hardware defaults.
FDB Ageing
^^^^^^^^^^
-There are two FDB ageing models supported: 1) ageing by the device, and 2)
-ageing by the kernel. Ageing by the device is preferred if many FDB entries
-are supported. The driver calls call_switchdev_notifiers(SWITCHDEV_FDB_DEL,
-...) to age out the FDB entry. In this model, ageing by the kernel should be
-turned off. XXX: how to turn off ageing in kernel on a per-port basis or
-otherwise prevent the kernel from ageing out the FDB entry?
-
-In the kernel ageing model, the standard bridge ageing mechanism is used to age
-out stale FDB entries. To keep an FDB entry "alive", the driver should refresh
-the FDB entry by calling call_switchdev_notifiers(SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD, ...). The
+The bridge will skip ageing FDB entries marked with NTF_EXT_LEARNED and it is
+the responsibility of the port driver/device to age out these entries. If the
+port device supports ageing, when the FDB entry expires, it will notify the
+driver which in turn will notify the bridge with SWITCHDEV_FDB_DEL. If the
+device does not support ageing, the driver can simulate ageing using a
+garbage collection timer to monitor FBD entries. Expired entries will be
+notified to the bridge using SWITCHDEV_FDB_DEL. See rocker driver for
+example of driver running ageing timer.
+
+To keep an NTF_EXT_LEARNED entry "alive", the driver should refresh the FDB
+entry by calling call_switchdev_notifiers(SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD, ...). The
notification will reset the FDB entry's last-used time to now. The driver
should rate limit refresh notifications, for example, no more than once a
-second. If the FDB entry expires, fdb_delete is called to remove entry from
-the device.
+second. (The last-used time is visible using the bridge -s fdb option).
STP State Change on Port
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -369,3 +369,22 @@ The driver can monitor for updates to arp_tbl using the netevent notifier
NETEVENT_NEIGH_UPDATE. The device can be programmed with resolved nexthops
for the routes as arp_tbl updates. The driver implements ndo_neigh_destroy
to know when arp_tbl neighbor entries are purged from the port.
+
+Transaction item queue
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+For switchdev ops attr_set and obj_add, there is a 2 phase transaction model
+used. First phase is to "prepare" anything needed, including various checks,
+memory allocation, etc. The goal is to handle the stuff that is not unlikely
+to fail here. The second phase is to "commit" the actual changes.
+
+Switchdev provides an inftrastructure for sharing items (for example memory
+allocations) between the two phases.
+
+The object created by a driver in "prepare" phase and it is queued up by:
+switchdev_trans_item_enqueue()
+During the "commit" phase, the driver gets the object by:
+switchdev_trans_item_dequeue()
+
+If a transaction is aborted during "prepare" phase, switchdev code will handle
+cleanup of the queued-up objects.