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      Merge branch 'bridge-dsa-sandwiched-LAG' · c692a0be
      David S. Miller authored 
      Vladimir Oltean says:

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Better support for sandwiched LAGs with bridge and DSA

Changes in v4:
- Added missing EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
- Using READ_ONCE(fdb->dst)
- Split patches into (a) adding the bridge helpers (b) making DSA use them
- br_mdb_replay went back to the v1 approach where it allocated memory
  in atomic context
- Created a br_switchdev_mdb_populate which reduces some of the code
  duplication
- Fixed the error message in dsa_port_clear_brport_flags
- Replaced "dsa_port_vlan_filtering(dp, br, extack)" with
  "dsa_port_vlan_filtering(dp, br_vlan_enabled(br), extack)" (duh)
- Added review tags (sorry if I missed any)

The objective of this series is to make LAG uppers on top of switchdev
ports work regardless of which order we link interfaces to their masters
(first make the port join the LAG, then the LAG join the bridge, or the
other way around).

There was a design decision to be made in patches 2-4 on whether we
should adopt the "push" model (which attempts to solve the problem
centrally, in the bridge layer) where the driver just calls:

  switchdev_bridge_port_offloaded(brport_dev,
                                  &atomic_notifier_block,
                                  &blocking_notifier_block,
                                  extack);

and the bridge just replays the entire collection of switchdev port
attributes and objects that it has, in some predefined order and with
some predefined error handling logic;

or the "pull" model (which attempts to solve the problem by giving the
driver the rope to hang itself), where the driver, apart from calling:

  switchdev_bridge_port_offloaded(brport_dev, extack);

has the task of "dumpster diving" (as Tobias puts it) through the bridge
attributes and objects by itself, by calling:

  - br_vlan_replay
  - br_fdb_replay
  - br_mdb_replay
  - br_vlan_enabled
  - br_port_flag_is_set
  - br_port_get_stp_state
  - br_multicast_router
  - br_get_ageing_time

(not necessarily all of them, and not necessarily in this order, and
with driver-defined error handling).

Even though I'm not in love myself with the "pull" model, I chose it
because there is a fundamental trick with replaying switchdev events
like this:

ip link add br0 type bridge
ip link add bond0 type bond
ip link set bond0 master br0
ip link set swp0 master bond0 <- this will replay the objects once for
                                 the bond0 bridge port, and the swp0
                                 switchdev port will process them
ip link set swp1 master bond0 <- this will replay the objects again for
                                 the bond0 bridge port, and the swp1
                                 switchdev port will see them, but swp0
                                 will see them for the second time now

Basically I believe that it is implementation defined whether the driver
wants to error out on switchdev objects seen twice on a port, and the
bridge should not enforce a certain model for that. For example, for FDB
entries added to a bonding interface, the underling switchdev driver
might have an abstraction for just that: an FDB entry pointing towards a
logical (as opposed to physical) port. So when the second port joins the
bridge, it doesn't realy need to replay FDB entries, since there is
already at least one hardware port which has been receiving those
events, and the FDB entries don't need to be added a second time to the
same logical port.
In the other corner, we have the drivers that handle switchdev port
attributes on a LAG as individual switchdev port attributes on physical
ports (example: VLAN filtering). In fact, the switchdev_handle_port_attr_set
helper facilitates this: it is a fan-out from a single orig_dev towards
multiple lowers that pass the check_cb().
But that's the point: switchdev_handle_port_attr_set is just a helper
which the driver _opts_ to use. The bridge can't enforce the "push"
model, because that would assume that all drivers handle port attributes
in the same way, which is probably false.

For this reason, I preferred to go with the "pull" mode for this patch
set. Just to see how bad it is for other switchdev drivers to copy-paste
this logic, I added the pull support to ocelot too, and I think it's
pretty manageable.
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Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      c692a0be
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