1. 28 Dec, 2019 3 commits
    • Michal Kubecek's avatar
      ethtool: provide string sets with STRSET_GET request · 71921690
      Michal Kubecek authored
      
      Requests a contents of one or more string sets, i.e. indexed arrays of
      strings; this information is provided by ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO and
      ETHTOOL_GSTRINGS commands of ioctl interface. Unlike ioctl interface, all
      information can be retrieved with one request and mulitple string sets can
      be requested at once.
      
      There are three types of requests:
      
        - no NLM_F_DUMP, no device: get "global" stringsets
        - no NLM_F_DUMP, with device: get string sets related to the device
        - NLM_F_DUMP, no device: get device related string sets for all devices
      
      Client can request either all string sets of given type (global or device
      related) or only specific sets. With ETHTOOL_A_STRSET_COUNTS flag set, only
      set sizes (numbers of strings) are returned.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      71921690
    • Michal Kubecek's avatar
      ethtool: netlink bitset handling · 10b518d4
      Michal Kubecek authored
      
      The ethtool netlink code uses common framework for passing arbitrary
      length bit sets to allow future extensions. A bitset can be a list (only
      one bitmap) or can consist of value and mask pair (used e.g. when client
      want to modify only some bits). A bitset can use one of two formats:
      verbose (bit by bit) or compact.
      
      Verbose format consists of bitset size (number of bits), list flag and
      an array of bit nests, telling which bits are part of the list or which
      bits are in the mask and which of them are to be set. In requests, bits
      can be identified by index (position) or by name. In replies, kernel
      provides both index and name. Verbose format is suitable for "one shot"
      applications like standard ethtool command as it avoids the need to
      either keep bit names (e.g. link modes) in sync with kernel or having to
      add an extra roundtrip for string set request (e.g. for private flags).
      
      Compact format uses one (list) or two (value/mask) arrays of 32-bit
      words to store the bitmap(s). It is more suitable for long running
      applications (ethtool in monitor mode or network management daemons)
      which can retrieve the names once and then pass only compact bitmaps to
      save space.
      
      Userspace requests can use either format; ETHTOOL_FLAG_COMPACT_BITSETS
      flag in request header tells kernel which format to use in reply.
      Notifications always use compact format.
      
      As some code uses arrays of unsigned long for internal representation and
      some arrays of u32 (or even a single u32), two sets of parse/compose
      helpers are introduced. To avoid code duplication, helpers for unsigned
      long arrays are implemented as wrappers around helpers for u32 arrays.
      There are two reasons for this choice: (1) u32 arrays are more frequent in
      ethtool code and (2) unsigned long array can be always interpreted as an
      u32 array on little endian 64-bit and all 32-bit architectures while we
      would need special handling for odd number of u32 words in the opposite
      direction.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      10b518d4
    • Michal Kubecek's avatar
      ethtool: introduce ethtool netlink interface · 2b4a8990
      Michal Kubecek authored
      
      Basic genetlink and init infrastructure for the netlink interface, register
      genetlink family "ethtool". Add CONFIG_ETHTOOL_NETLINK Kconfig option to
      make the build optional. Add initial overall interface description into
      Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst, further patches will add more
      detailed information.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      2b4a8990
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