VNIC Characteristics (VNICC) are features of HiperSockets that define
how packets are handled by the underlying network hardware. For example,
if the VNICC flooding is configured on a qeth device, ethernet frames to
unknown destination MAC addresses are received.
Currently, there is support for seven VNICCs: flooding, multicast
flooding, receive broadcast, learning, takeover learning, takeover
setvmac, bridge invisible. Also, six IPA commands exist for configuring
VNICCs on a qeth device: query characteristics, query commands, enable
characteristic, disable characteristic, set timeout, get timeout.
This patch adds the basic code infrastructure for VNICC support to qeth.
It allows querying VNICC support from the underlying hardware. To this
end, it adds:
* basic message formats for IPA commands
* basic data structures
* basic error handling
* query characteristics IPA command support
The query characteristics IPA command allows requesting the currently
supported and currently enabled VNIC characteristics from the underlying
hardware.
Support for the other IPA commands and for the configuration of VNICCs
is added in follow-up patches together with the respective user
interface functions.
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>
add ipa return codes for Bridgeport (HiperSockets and OSA) according to
system level design.
Signed-off-by: Kittipon Meesompop <kmeesomp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
commit 76b11f8e27 ("qeth: HiperSockets Network Traffic Analyzer")
missed adding the human-readable translations when adding new RCs.
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
OSA Ethernet hardware is introducing BRIDGEPORT functionality
similar (but not identical) to HiperSockets BRIDGEPORT. This
patch makes HiperSockets BRIDGEPORT related sysfs attributes
and udev events work with OSA hardware too.
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>
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>
The existing port isolation mode 'forward' will now verify that the adjacent
switch port supports the required reflective relay (RR) mode. This patch adds
the required error handling for the cases where enabling port isolation mode
'forward' can now fail.
Furthermore, once established, we never fall back from one of the port
isolation modes to a non-isolated mode without further user-interaction.
This includes cases where the isolation mode was enabled successfully, but
ceases to work e.g. due to configuration changes at the switch port.
Finally, configuring an isolation mode with the device being offline
will make onlining the device fail permanently upon errors encountered until
either errors are resolved or the isolation mode is changed by the user to a
different mode.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Raspl <raspl@linux.vnet.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>
Remove the file name from the comment at top of many files. In most
cases the file name was wrong anyway, so it's rather pointless.
Also unify the IBM copyright statement. We did have a lot of sightly
different statements and wanted to change them one after another
whenever a file gets touched. However that never happened. Instead
people start to take the old/"wrong" statements to use as a template
for new files.
So unify all of them in one go.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Setting an invalid mac-address for a qeth layer2 device returns
with a strange error code:
# ip link set hsi1 address 00:00:00:00:00:01
RTNETLINK answers: Unknown error 18446744073709486085
Problem is caused by wrong usage of the return_code field within
structure qeth_ipa_cmd.
With this patch the ip command above returns
SIOCSIFHWADDR: Invalid argument
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
z/VM Virtual Switch Port Isolation allows guests on a VLAN UNAWARE
virtual switch to be isolated from other guests on the VSWITCH.
(See z/VM Apars VM64281 and VM64463).
The Linux qeth driver is affected, because it has to handle new
error codes introduced with the z/VM VSWITCH Port Isolation support.
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Improving debug message handling, moving ipa into messages from kernel
to dbf, some cleanups and typo fixes.
Signed-off-by: Peter Tiedemann <ptiedem@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
1. ip_list handling after deregister failure of multicast address:
If error code "MC Address not found" is returned do not re-add
multicast address to ip_list.
For other error codes readd multicast address at the end of
function qeth_delete_all_mc.
2. ip_list handling after deregister failure or normal ip address:
If error code "IP Address not found" is returned do not re-add
multicast address to ip list.
This is especially important in IP address takeover scenarios,
to enable re-takeover of a taken over IP address.
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
List of major changes and improvements:
no manipulation of the global ARP constructor
clean code split into core, layer 2 and layer 3 functionality
better exploitation of the ethtool interface
better representation of the various hardware capabilities
fix packet socket support (tcpdump), no fake_ll required
osasnmpd notification via udev events
coding style and beautification
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Hans Wippel