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Vladimir Oltean ffb68fc58e 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 91cf8eceff ("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>
2021-01-11 16:00:56 -08:00
arch Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-01-08 12:05:11 -08:00
block SCSI fixes on 20210101 2021-01-01 12:58:07 -08:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto crypto: ecdh - avoid buffer overflow in ecdh_set_secret() 2021-01-03 08:35:35 +11:00
Documentation dt-bindings: net: dsa: sf2: add BCM4908 switch binding 2021-01-09 19:18:10 -08:00
drivers net: switchdev: remove the transaction structure from port object notifiers 2021-01-11 16:00:56 -08:00
fs poll: fix performance regression due to out-of-line __put_user() 2021-01-08 11:06:29 -08:00
include net: switchdev: remove the transaction structure from port object notifiers 2021-01-11 16:00:56 -08:00
init Revert "init/console: Use ttynull as a fallback when there is no console" 2021-01-08 11:02:18 -08:00
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mm mm: make wait_on_page_writeback() wait for multiple pending writebacks 2021-01-05 11:33:00 -08:00
net net: switchdev: remove the transaction structure from port object notifiers 2021-01-11 16:00:56 -08:00
samples ARM: SoC drivers for v5.11 2020-12-16 16:38:41 -08:00
scripts gcc-plugins: fix gcc 11 indigestion with plugins... 2021-01-06 15:08:23 -08:00
security Provide a fix for the incorrect handling of privilege 2020-12-24 14:08:43 -08:00
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tools selftests: mptcp: add the MP_PRIO testcases 2021-01-09 18:18:44 -08:00
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virt ARM: 2020-12-20 10:44:05 -08:00
.clang-format RDMA 5.10 pull request 2020-10-17 11:18:18 -07:00
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.mailmap RDMA 5.11 pull request 2020-12-16 13:42:26 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-12-11 22:29:38 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
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Makefile Linux 5.11-rc2 2021-01-03 15:55:30 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.