netdev - [net-next 02/15] ethtool: Add support for configuring PFC stall prevention in ethtool

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Date:   Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:39:12 -0700
From:   Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
To:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Inbar Karmy <inbark@...lanox.com>,
        Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Subject: [net-next 02/15] ethtool: Add support for configuring PFC stall prevention in ethtool

From: Inbar Karmy <inbark@...lanox.com>

In the event where the device unexpectedly becomes unresponsive
for a long period of time, flow control mechanism may propagate
pause frames which will cause congestion spreading to the entire
network.
To prevent this scenario, when the device is stalled for a period
longer than a pre-configured timeout, flow control mechanisms are
automatically disabled.

This patch adds support for the ETHTOOL_PFC_STALL_PREVENTION
as a tunable.
This API provides support for configuring flow control storm prevention
timeout (msec).

Signed-off-by: Inbar Karmy <inbark@...lanox.com>
Cc: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
---
 include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h | 4 ++++
 net/core/ethtool.c           | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
index 20da156aaf64..9dc63a14a747 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
@@ -217,10 +217,14 @@ struct ethtool_value {
 	__u32	data;
 };
 
+#define PFC_STORM_PREVENTION_AUTO	0xffff
+#define PFC_STORM_PREVENTION_DISABLE	0
+
 enum tunable_id {
 	ETHTOOL_ID_UNSPEC,
 	ETHTOOL_RX_COPYBREAK,
 	ETHTOOL_TX_COPYBREAK,
+	ETHTOOL_PFC_PREVENTION_TOUT,
 	/*
 	 * Add your fresh new tubale attribute above and remember to update
 	 * tunable_strings[] in net/core/ethtool.c
diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
index 157cd9efa4be..bb6e498c6e3d 100644
--- a/net/core/ethtool.c
+++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ tunable_strings[__ETHTOOL_TUNABLE_COUNT][ETH_GSTRING_LEN] = {
 	[ETHTOOL_ID_UNSPEC]     = "Unspec",
 	[ETHTOOL_RX_COPYBREAK]	= "rx-copybreak",
 	[ETHTOOL_TX_COPYBREAK]	= "tx-copybreak",
+	[ETHTOOL_PFC_PREVENTION_TOUT] = "pfc-prevention-tout",
 };
 
 static const char
@@ -2311,6 +2312,11 @@ static int ethtool_tunable_valid(const struct ethtool_tunable *tuna)
 		    tuna->type_id != ETHTOOL_TUNABLE_U32)
 			return -EINVAL;
 		break;
+	case ETHTOOL_PFC_PREVENTION_TOUT:
+		if (tuna->len != sizeof(u16) ||
+		    tuna->type_id != ETHTOOL_TUNABLE_U16)
+			return -EINVAL;
+		break;
 	default:
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
-- 
2.14.3