Commit eb550f53 authored by Brett Creeley's avatar Brett Creeley Committed by Tony Nguyen

virtchnl: Use pad byte in virtchnl_ether_addr to specify MAC type

Currently, there is no way for a VF driver to specify that it wants to
change its device/primary unicast MAC address. This makes it
difficult/impossible for the PF driver to track the VF's device/primary
unicast MAC address, which is used for VM/VF reboot and displaying on
the host. Fix this by using 2 bits of a pad byte in the
virtchnl_ether_addr structure so the VF can specify what type of MAC
it's adding/deleting.

Below are the values that should be used by all VF drivers going
forward.

VIRTCHNL_ETHER_ADDR_LEGACY(0):
	- The type should only ever be 0 for legacy AVF drivers (i.e.
	  drivers that don't support the new type bits). The PF drivers
	  will track VF's device/primary unicast MAC, but this will only
	  be a best effort.

VIRTCHNL_ETHER_ADDR_PRIMARY(1):
	- This type should only be used when the VF is changing their
	  device/primary unicast MAC. It should be used for both delete
	  and add cases related to the device/primary unicast MAC.

VIRTCHNL_ETHER_ADDR_EXTRA(2):
	- This type should be used when the VF is adding and/or deleting
	  MAC addresses that are not the device/primary unicast MAC. For
	  example, extra unicast addresses and multicast addresses
	  assuming the PF supports "extra" addresses at all.

If a PF is parsing the type field of the virtchnl_ether_addr, then it
should use the VIRTCHNL_ETHER_ADDR_TYPE_MASK to mask the first two bits
of the type field since 0, 1, and 2 are the only valid values.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBrett Creeley <brett.creeley@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
parent 1a42624a
...@@ -412,9 +412,36 @@ VIRTCHNL_CHECK_STRUCT_LEN(12, virtchnl_queue_select); ...@@ -412,9 +412,36 @@ VIRTCHNL_CHECK_STRUCT_LEN(12, virtchnl_queue_select);
* PF removes the filters and returns status. * PF removes the filters and returns status.
*/ */
/* VIRTCHNL_ETHER_ADDR_LEGACY
* Prior to adding the @type member to virtchnl_ether_addr, there were 2 pad
* bytes. Moving forward all VF drivers should not set type to
* VIRTCHNL_ETHER_ADDR_LEGACY. This is only here to not break previous/legacy
* behavior. The control plane function (i.e. PF) can use a best effort method
* of tracking the primary/device unicast in this case, but there is no
* guarantee and functionality depends on the implementation of the PF.
*/
/* VIRTCHNL_ETHER_ADDR_PRIMARY
* All VF drivers should set @type to VIRTCHNL_ETHER_ADDR_PRIMARY for the
* primary/device unicast MAC address filter for VIRTCHNL_OP_ADD_ETH_ADDR and
* VIRTCHNL_OP_DEL_ETH_ADDR. This allows for the underlying control plane
* function (i.e. PF) to accurately track and use this MAC address for
* displaying on the host and for VM/function reset.
*/
/* VIRTCHNL_ETHER_ADDR_EXTRA
* All VF drivers should set @type to VIRTCHNL_ETHER_ADDR_EXTRA for any extra
* unicast and/or multicast filters that are being added/deleted via
* VIRTCHNL_OP_DEL_ETH_ADDR/VIRTCHNL_OP_ADD_ETH_ADDR respectively.
*/
struct virtchnl_ether_addr { struct virtchnl_ether_addr {
u8 addr[ETH_ALEN]; u8 addr[ETH_ALEN];
u8 pad[2]; u8 type;
#define VIRTCHNL_ETHER_ADDR_LEGACY 0
#define VIRTCHNL_ETHER_ADDR_PRIMARY 1
#define VIRTCHNL_ETHER_ADDR_EXTRA 2
#define VIRTCHNL_ETHER_ADDR_TYPE_MASK 3 /* first two bits of type are valid */
u8 pad;
}; };
VIRTCHNL_CHECK_STRUCT_LEN(8, virtchnl_ether_addr); VIRTCHNL_CHECK_STRUCT_LEN(8, virtchnl_ether_addr);
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