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authorVladimir Oltean2021-01-09 02:01:48 +0200
committerJakub Kicinski2021-01-11 16:00:56 -0800
commitffb68fc58e9640762be891f9aebe4f5aac615ab3 (patch)
tree8c0e689efd6e284ad5ae64609be85c2f1d08678e /include/net/switchdev.h
parent3e85f580e3fc553d1ba21ac01e08659cbd0f66cc (diff)
net: switchdev: remove the transaction structure from port object notifiers
Since the introduction of the switchdev API, port objects were transmitted to drivers for offloading using a two-step transactional model, with a prepare phase that was supposed to catch all errors, and a commit phase that was supposed to never fail. Some classes of failures can never be avoided, like hardware access, or memory allocation. In the latter case, merely attempting to move the memory allocation to the preparation phase makes it impossible to avoid memory leaks, since commit 91cf8eceffc1 ("switchdev: Remove unused transaction item queue") which has removed the unused mechanism of passing on the allocated memory between one phase and another. It is time we admit that separating the preparation from the commit phase is something that is best left for the driver to decide, and not something that should be baked into the API, especially since there are no switchdev callers that depend on this. This patch removes the struct switchdev_trans member from switchdev port object notifier structures, and converts drivers to not look at this member. Where driver conversion is trivial (like in the case of the Marvell Prestera driver, NXP DPAA2 switch, TI CPSW, and Rocker drivers), it is done in this patch. Where driver conversion needs more attention (DSA, Mellanox Spectrum), the conversion is left for subsequent patches and here we only fake the prepare/commit phases at a lower level, just not in the switchdev notifier itself. Where the code has a natural structure that is best left alone as a preparation and a commit phase (as in the case of the Ocelot switch), that structure is left in place, just made to not depend upon the switchdev transactional model. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/switchdev.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/switchdev.h3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/switchdev.h b/include/net/switchdev.h
index bac7d3ba574f..cbe6e35d51f5 100644
--- a/include/net/switchdev.h
+++ b/include/net/switchdev.h
@@ -233,7 +233,6 @@ struct switchdev_notifier_fdb_info {
struct switchdev_notifier_port_obj_info {
struct switchdev_notifier_info info; /* must be first */
const struct switchdev_obj *obj;
- struct switchdev_trans *trans;
bool handled;
};
@@ -288,7 +287,6 @@ int switchdev_handle_port_obj_add(struct net_device *dev,
bool (*check_cb)(const struct net_device *dev),
int (*add_cb)(struct net_device *dev,
const struct switchdev_obj *obj,
- struct switchdev_trans *trans,
struct netlink_ext_ack *extack));
int switchdev_handle_port_obj_del(struct net_device *dev,
struct switchdev_notifier_port_obj_info *port_obj_info,
@@ -372,7 +370,6 @@ switchdev_handle_port_obj_add(struct net_device *dev,
bool (*check_cb)(const struct net_device *dev),
int (*add_cb)(struct net_device *dev,
const struct switchdev_obj *obj,
- struct switchdev_trans *trans,
struct netlink_ext_ack *extack))
{
return 0;