linux/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-dsa
Vladimir Oltean 53da0ebaad net: dsa: allow changing the tag protocol via the "tagging" device attribute
Currently DSA exposes the following sysfs:
$ cat /sys/class/net/eno2/dsa/tagging
ocelot

which is a read-only device attribute, introduced in the kernel as
commit 98cdb48071 ("net: dsa: Expose tagging protocol to user-space"),
and used by libpcap since its commit 993db3800d7d ("Add support for DSA
link-layer types").

It would be nice if we could extend this device attribute by making it
writable:
$ echo ocelot-8021q > /sys/class/net/eno2/dsa/tagging

This is useful with DSA switches that can make use of more than one
tagging protocol. It may be useful in dsa_loop in the future too, to
perform offline testing of various taggers, or for changing between dsa
and edsa on Marvell switches, if that is desirable.

In terms of implementation, drivers can support this feature by
implementing .change_tag_protocol, which should always leave the switch
in a consistent state: either with the new protocol if things went well,
or with the old one if something failed. Teardown of the old protocol,
if necessary, must be handled by the driver.

Some things remain as before:
- The .get_tag_protocol is currently only called at probe time, to load
  the initial tagging protocol driver. Nonetheless, new drivers should
  report the tagging protocol in current use now.
- The driver should manage by itself the initial setup of tagging
  protocol, no later than the .setup() method, as well as destroying
  resources used by the last tagger in use, no earlier than the
  .teardown() method.

For multi-switch DSA trees, error handling is a bit more complicated,
since e.g. the 5th out of 7 switches may fail to change the tag
protocol. When that happens, a revert to the original tag protocol is
attempted, but that may fail too, leaving the tree in an inconsistent
state despite each individual switch implementing .change_tag_protocol
transactionally. Since the intersection between drivers that implement
.change_tag_protocol and drivers that support D in DSA is currently the
empty set, the possibility for this error to happen is ignored for now.

Testing:

$ insmod mscc_felix.ko
[   79.549784] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5: Adding to iommu group 14
[   79.565712] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5: Failed to register DSA switch: -517
$ insmod tag_ocelot.ko
$ rmmod mscc_felix.ko
$ insmod mscc_felix.ko
[   97.261724] libphy: VSC9959 internal MDIO bus: probed
[   97.267363] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5: Found PCS at internal MDIO address 0
[   97.274998] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5: Found PCS at internal MDIO address 1
[   97.282561] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5: Found PCS at internal MDIO address 2
[   97.289700] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5: Found PCS at internal MDIO address 3
[   97.599163] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5 swp0 (uninitialized): PHY [0000:00:00.3:10] driver [Microsemi GE VSC8514 SyncE] (irq=POLL)
[   97.862034] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5 swp1 (uninitialized): PHY [0000:00:00.3:11] driver [Microsemi GE VSC8514 SyncE] (irq=POLL)
[   97.950731] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5 swp0: configuring for inband/qsgmii link mode
[   97.964278] 8021q: adding VLAN 0 to HW filter on device swp0
[   98.146161] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5 swp2 (uninitialized): PHY [0000:00:00.3:12] driver [Microsemi GE VSC8514 SyncE] (irq=POLL)
[   98.238649] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5 swp1: configuring for inband/qsgmii link mode
[   98.251845] 8021q: adding VLAN 0 to HW filter on device swp1
[   98.433916] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5 swp3 (uninitialized): PHY [0000:00:00.3:13] driver [Microsemi GE VSC8514 SyncE] (irq=POLL)
[   98.485542] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5: configuring for fixed/internal link mode
[   98.503584] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5: Link is Up - 2.5Gbps/Full - flow control rx/tx
[   98.527948] device eno2 entered promiscuous mode
[   98.544755] DSA: tree 0 setup

$ ping 10.0.0.1
PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: seq=0 ttl=64 time=2.337 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.754 ms
^C
 -  10.0.0.1 ping statistics  -
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.754/1.545/2.337 ms

$ cat /sys/class/net/eno2/dsa/tagging
ocelot
$ cat ./test_ocelot_8021q.sh
        #!/bin/bash

        ip link set swp0 down
        ip link set swp1 down
        ip link set swp2 down
        ip link set swp3 down
        ip link set swp5 down
        ip link set eno2 down
        echo ocelot-8021q > /sys/class/net/eno2/dsa/tagging
        ip link set eno2 up
        ip link set swp0 up
        ip link set swp1 up
        ip link set swp2 up
        ip link set swp3 up
        ip link set swp5 up
$ ./test_ocelot_8021q.sh
./test_ocelot_8021q.sh: line 9: echo: write error: Protocol not available
$ rmmod tag_ocelot.ko
rmmod: can't unload module 'tag_ocelot': Resource temporarily unavailable
$ insmod tag_ocelot_8021q.ko
$ ./test_ocelot_8021q.sh
$ cat /sys/class/net/eno2/dsa/tagging
ocelot-8021q
$ rmmod tag_ocelot.ko
$ rmmod tag_ocelot_8021q.ko
rmmod: can't unload module 'tag_ocelot_8021q': Resource temporarily unavailable
$ ping 10.0.0.1
PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.953 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.787 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.771 ms
$ rmmod mscc_felix.ko
[  645.544426] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5: Link is Down
[  645.838608] DSA: tree 0 torn down
$ rmmod tag_ocelot_8021q.ko

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2021-01-29 21:24:39 -08:00

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What: /sys/class/net/<iface>/dsa/tagging
Date: August 2018
KernelVersion: 4.20
Contact: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Description:
On read, this file returns a string indicating the type of
tagging protocol used by the DSA network devices that are
attached to this master interface.
On write, this file changes the tagging protocol of the
attached DSA switches, if this operation is supported by the
driver. Changing the tagging protocol must be done with the DSA
interfaces and the master interface all administratively down.
See the "name" field of each registered struct dsa_device_ops
for a list of valid values.