Merge branch 'dsa-docs'

Vladimir Oltean says:

====================
Update DSA documentation

These are some updates of dsa.rst, since it hasn't kept up with
development (in some cases, even since 2017). I've added Fixes: tags as
I thought was appropriate.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 303 insertions, 60 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst
index ed7fa76e7a40..d742ba6bd211 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst
@@ -503,26 +503,108 @@ per-port PHY specific details: interface connection, MDIO bus location, etc.
 Driver development
 ==================
 
-DSA switch drivers need to implement a dsa_switch_ops structure which will
+DSA switch drivers need to implement a ``dsa_switch_ops`` structure which will
 contain the various members described below.
 
-``register_switch_driver()`` registers this dsa_switch_ops in its internal list
-of drivers to probe for. ``unregister_switch_driver()`` does the exact opposite.
+Probing, registration and device lifetime
+-----------------------------------------
 
-Unless requested differently by setting the priv_size member accordingly, DSA
-does not allocate any driver private context space.
+DSA switches are regular ``device`` structures on buses (be they platform, SPI,
+I2C, MDIO or otherwise). The DSA framework is not involved in their probing
+with the device core.
+
+Switch registration from the perspective of a driver means passing a valid
+``struct dsa_switch`` pointer to ``dsa_register_switch()``, usually from the
+switch driver's probing function. The following members must be valid in the
+provided structure:
+
+- ``ds->dev``: will be used to parse the switch's OF node or platform data.
+
+- ``ds->num_ports``: will be used to create the port list for this switch, and
+  to validate the port indices provided in the OF node.
+
+- ``ds->ops``: a pointer to the ``dsa_switch_ops`` structure holding the DSA
+  method implementations.
+
+- ``ds->priv``: backpointer to a driver-private data structure which can be
+  retrieved in all further DSA method callbacks.
+
+In addition, the following flags in the ``dsa_switch`` structure may optionally
+be configured to obtain driver-specific behavior from the DSA core. Their
+behavior when set is documented through comments in ``include/net/dsa.h``.
+
+- ``ds->vlan_filtering_is_global``
+
+- ``ds->needs_standalone_vlan_filtering``
+
+- ``ds->configure_vlan_while_not_filtering``
+
+- ``ds->untag_bridge_pvid``
+
+- ``ds->assisted_learning_on_cpu_port``
+
+- ``ds->mtu_enforcement_ingress``
+
+- ``ds->fdb_isolation``
+
+Internally, DSA keeps an array of switch trees (group of switches) global to
+the kernel, and attaches a ``dsa_switch`` structure to a tree on registration.
+The tree ID to which the switch is attached is determined by the first u32
+number of the ``dsa,member`` property of the switch's OF node (0 if missing).
+The switch ID within the tree is determined by the second u32 number of the
+same OF property (0 if missing). Registering multiple switches with the same
+switch ID and tree ID is illegal and will cause an error. Using platform data,
+a single switch and a single switch tree is permitted.
+
+In case of a tree with multiple switches, probing takes place asymmetrically.
+The first N-1 callers of ``dsa_register_switch()`` only add their ports to the
+port list of the tree (``dst->ports``), each port having a backpointer to its
+associated switch (``dp->ds``). Then, these switches exit their
+``dsa_register_switch()`` call early, because ``dsa_tree_setup_routing_table()``
+has determined that the tree is not yet complete (not all ports referenced by
+DSA links are present in the tree's port list). The tree becomes complete when
+the last switch calls ``dsa_register_switch()``, and this triggers the effective
+continuation of initialization (including the call to ``ds->ops->setup()``) for
+all switches within that tree, all as part of the calling context of the last
+switch's probe function.
+
+The opposite of registration takes place when calling ``dsa_unregister_switch()``,
+which removes a switch's ports from the port list of the tree. The entire tree
+is torn down when the first switch unregisters.
+
+It is mandatory for DSA switch drivers to implement the ``shutdown()`` callback
+of their respective bus, and call ``dsa_switch_shutdown()`` from it (a minimal
+version of the full teardown performed by ``dsa_unregister_switch()``).
+The reason is that DSA keeps a reference on the master net device, and if the
+driver for the master device decides to unbind on shutdown, DSA's reference
+will block that operation from finalizing.
+
+Either ``dsa_switch_shutdown()`` or ``dsa_unregister_switch()`` must be called,
+but not both, and the device driver model permits the bus' ``remove()`` method
+to be called even if ``shutdown()`` was already called. Therefore, drivers are
+expected to implement a mutual exclusion method between ``remove()`` and
+``shutdown()`` by setting their drvdata to NULL after any of these has run, and
+checking whether the drvdata is NULL before proceeding to take any action.
+
+After ``dsa_switch_shutdown()`` or ``dsa_unregister_switch()`` was called, no
+further callbacks via the provided ``dsa_switch_ops`` may take place, and the
+driver may free the data structures associated with the ``dsa_switch``.
 
 Switch configuration
 --------------------
 
-- ``tag_protocol``: this is to indicate what kind of tagging protocol is supported,
-  should be a valid value from the ``dsa_tag_protocol`` enum
+- ``get_tag_protocol``: this is to indicate what kind of tagging protocol is
+  supported, should be a valid value from the ``dsa_tag_protocol`` enum.
+  The returned information does not have to be static; the driver is passed the
+  CPU port number, as well as the tagging protocol of a possibly stacked
+  upstream switch, in case there are hardware limitations in terms of supported
+  tag formats.
 
-- ``probe``: probe routine which will be invoked by the DSA platform device upon
-  registration to test for the presence/absence of a switch device. For MDIO
-  devices, it is recommended to issue a read towards internal registers using
-  the switch pseudo-PHY and return whether this is a supported device. For other
-  buses, return a non-NULL string
+- ``change_tag_protocol``: when the default tagging protocol has compatibility
+  problems with the master or other issues, the driver may support changing it
+  at runtime, either through a device tree property or through sysfs. In that
+  case, further calls to ``get_tag_protocol`` should report the protocol in
+  current use.
 
 - ``setup``: setup function for the switch, this function is responsible for setting
   up the ``dsa_switch_ops`` private structure with all it needs: register maps,
@@ -535,7 +617,17 @@ Switch configuration
   fully configured and ready to serve any kind of request. It is recommended
   to issue a software reset of the switch during this setup function in order to
   avoid relying on what a previous software agent such as a bootloader/firmware
-  may have previously configured.
+  may have previously configured. The method responsible for undoing any
+  applicable allocations or operations done here is ``teardown``.
+
+- ``port_setup`` and ``port_teardown``: methods for initialization and
+  destruction of per-port data structures. It is mandatory for some operations
+  such as registering and unregistering devlink port regions to be done from
+  these methods, otherwise they are optional. A port will be torn down only if
+  it has been previously set up. It is possible for a port to be set up during
+  probing only to be torn down immediately afterwards, for example in case its
+  PHY cannot be found. In this case, probing of the DSA switch continues
+  without that particular port.
 
 PHY devices and link management
 -------------------------------
@@ -635,26 +727,198 @@ Power management
   ``BR_STATE_DISABLED`` and propagating changes to the hardware if this port is
   disabled while being a bridge member
 
+Address databases
+-----------------
+
+Switching hardware is expected to have a table for FDB entries, however not all
+of them are active at the same time. An address database is the subset (partition)
+of FDB entries that is active (can be matched by address learning on RX, or FDB
+lookup on TX) depending on the state of the port. An address database may
+occasionally be called "FID" (Filtering ID) in this document, although the
+underlying implementation may choose whatever is available to the hardware.
+
+For example, all ports that belong to a VLAN-unaware bridge (which is
+*currently* VLAN-unaware) are expected to learn source addresses in the
+database associated by the driver with that bridge (and not with other
+VLAN-unaware bridges). During forwarding and FDB lookup, a packet received on a
+VLAN-unaware bridge port should be able to find a VLAN-unaware FDB entry having
+the same MAC DA as the packet, which is present on another port member of the
+same bridge. At the same time, the FDB lookup process must be able to not find
+an FDB entry having the same MAC DA as the packet, if that entry points towards
+a port which is a member of a different VLAN-unaware bridge (and is therefore
+associated with a different address database).
+
+Similarly, each VLAN of each offloaded VLAN-aware bridge should have an
+associated address database, which is shared by all ports which are members of
+that VLAN, but not shared by ports belonging to different bridges that are
+members of the same VID.
+
+In this context, a VLAN-unaware database means that all packets are expected to
+match on it irrespective of VLAN ID (only MAC address lookup), whereas a
+VLAN-aware database means that packets are supposed to match based on the VLAN
+ID from the classified 802.1Q header (or the pvid if untagged).
+
+At the bridge layer, VLAN-unaware FDB entries have the special VID value of 0,
+whereas VLAN-aware FDB entries have non-zero VID values. Note that a
+VLAN-unaware bridge may have VLAN-aware (non-zero VID) FDB entries, and a
+VLAN-aware bridge may have VLAN-unaware FDB entries. As in hardware, the
+software bridge keeps separate address databases, and offloads to hardware the
+FDB entries belonging to these databases, through switchdev, asynchronously
+relative to the moment when the databases become active or inactive.
+
+When a user port operates in standalone mode, its driver should configure it to
+use a separate database called a port private database. This is different from
+the databases described above, and should impede operation as standalone port
+(packet in, packet out to the CPU port) as little as possible. For example,
+on ingress, it should not attempt to learn the MAC SA of ingress traffic, since
+learning is a bridging layer service and this is a standalone port, therefore
+it would consume useless space. With no address learning, the port private
+database should be empty in a naive implementation, and in this case, all
+received packets should be trivially flooded to the CPU port.
+
+DSA (cascade) and CPU ports are also called "shared" ports because they service
+multiple address databases, and the database that a packet should be associated
+to is usually embedded in the DSA tag. This means that the CPU port may
+simultaneously transport packets coming from a standalone port (which were
+classified by hardware in one address database), and from a bridge port (which
+were classified to a different address database).
+
+Switch drivers which satisfy certain criteria are able to optimize the naive
+configuration by removing the CPU port from the flooding domain of the switch,
+and just program the hardware with FDB entries pointing towards the CPU port
+for which it is known that software is interested in those MAC addresses.
+Packets which do not match a known FDB entry will not be delivered to the CPU,
+which will save CPU cycles required for creating an skb just to drop it.
+
+DSA is able to perform host address filtering for the following kinds of
+addresses:
+
+- Primary unicast MAC addresses of ports (``dev->dev_addr``). These are
+  associated with the port private database of the respective user port,
+  and the driver is notified to install them through ``port_fdb_add`` towards
+  the CPU port.
+
+- Secondary unicast and multicast MAC addresses of ports (addresses added
+  through ``dev_uc_add()`` and ``dev_mc_add()``). These are also associated
+  with the port private database of the respective user port.
+
+- Local/permanent bridge FDB entries (``BR_FDB_LOCAL``). These are the MAC
+  addresses of the bridge ports, for which packets must be terminated locally
+  and not forwarded. They are associated with the address database for that
+  bridge.
+
+- Static bridge FDB entries installed towards foreign (non-DSA) interfaces
+  present in the same bridge as some DSA switch ports. These are also
+  associated with the address database for that bridge.
+
+- Dynamically learned FDB entries on foreign interfaces present in the same
+  bridge as some DSA switch ports, only if ``ds->assisted_learning_on_cpu_port``
+  is set to true by the driver. These are associated with the address database
+  for that bridge.
+
+For various operations detailed below, DSA provides a ``dsa_db`` structure
+which can be of the following types:
+
+- ``DSA_DB_PORT``: the FDB (or MDB) entry to be installed or deleted belongs to
+  the port private database of user port ``db->dp``.
+- ``DSA_DB_BRIDGE``: the entry belongs to one of the address databases of bridge
+  ``db->bridge``. Separation between the VLAN-unaware database and the per-VID
+  databases of this bridge is expected to be done by the driver.
+- ``DSA_DB_LAG``: the entry belongs to the address database of LAG ``db->lag``.
+  Note: ``DSA_DB_LAG`` is currently unused and may be removed in the future.
+
+The drivers which act upon the ``dsa_db`` argument in ``port_fdb_add``,
+``port_mdb_add`` etc should declare ``ds->fdb_isolation`` as true.
+
+DSA associates each offloaded bridge and each offloaded LAG with a one-based ID
+(``struct dsa_bridge :: num``, ``struct dsa_lag :: id``) for the purposes of
+refcounting addresses on shared ports. Drivers may piggyback on DSA's numbering
+scheme (the ID is readable through ``db->bridge.num`` and ``db->lag.id`` or may
+implement their own.
+
+Only the drivers which declare support for FDB isolation are notified of FDB
+entries on the CPU port belonging to ``DSA_DB_PORT`` databases.
+For compatibility/legacy reasons, ``DSA_DB_BRIDGE`` addresses are notified to
+drivers even if they do not support FDB isolation. However, ``db->bridge.num``
+and ``db->lag.id`` are always set to 0 in that case (to denote the lack of
+isolation, for refcounting purposes).
+
+Note that it is not mandatory for a switch driver to implement physically
+separate address databases for each standalone user port. Since FDB entries in
+the port private databases will always point to the CPU port, there is no risk
+for incorrect forwarding decisions. In this case, all standalone ports may
+share the same database, but the reference counting of host-filtered addresses
+(not deleting the FDB entry for a port's MAC address if it's still in use by
+another port) becomes the responsibility of the driver, because DSA is unaware
+that the port databases are in fact shared. This can be achieved by calling
+``dsa_fdb_present_in_other_db()`` and ``dsa_mdb_present_in_other_db()``.
+The down side is that the RX filtering lists of each user port are in fact
+shared, which means that user port A may accept a packet with a MAC DA it
+shouldn't have, only because that MAC address was in the RX filtering list of
+user port B. These packets will still be dropped in software, however.
+
 Bridge layer
 ------------
 
+Offloading the bridge forwarding plane is optional and handled by the methods
+below. They may be absent, return -EOPNOTSUPP, or ``ds->max_num_bridges`` may
+be non-zero and exceeded, and in this case, joining a bridge port is still
+possible, but the packet forwarding will take place in software, and the ports
+under a software bridge must remain configured in the same way as for
+standalone operation, i.e. have all bridging service functions (address
+learning etc) disabled, and send all received packets to the CPU port only.
+
+Concretely, a port starts offloading the forwarding plane of a bridge once it
+returns success to the ``port_bridge_join`` method, and stops doing so after
+``port_bridge_leave`` has been called. Offloading the bridge means autonomously
+learning FDB entries in accordance with the software bridge port's state, and
+autonomously forwarding (or flooding) received packets without CPU intervention.
+This is optional even when offloading a bridge port. Tagging protocol drivers
+are expected to call ``dsa_default_offload_fwd_mark(skb)`` for packets which
+have already been autonomously forwarded in the forwarding domain of the
+ingress switch port. DSA, through ``dsa_port_devlink_setup()``, considers all
+switch ports part of the same tree ID to be part of the same bridge forwarding
+domain (capable of autonomous forwarding to each other).
+
+Offloading the TX forwarding process of a bridge is a distinct concept from
+simply offloading its forwarding plane, and refers to the ability of certain
+driver and tag protocol combinations to transmit a single skb coming from the
+bridge device's transmit function to potentially multiple egress ports (and
+thereby avoid its cloning in software).
+
+Packets for which the bridge requests this behavior are called data plane
+packets and have ``skb->offload_fwd_mark`` set to true in the tag protocol
+driver's ``xmit`` function. Data plane packets are subject to FDB lookup,
+hardware learning on the CPU port, and do not override the port STP state.
+Additionally, replication of data plane packets (multicast, flooding) is
+handled in hardware and the bridge driver will transmit a single skb for each
+packet that may or may not need replication.
+
+When the TX forwarding offload is enabled, the tag protocol driver is
+responsible to inject packets into the data plane of the hardware towards the
+correct bridging domain (FID) that the port is a part of. The port may be
+VLAN-unaware, and in this case the FID must be equal to the FID used by the
+driver for its VLAN-unaware address database associated with that bridge.
+Alternatively, the bridge may be VLAN-aware, and in that case, it is guaranteed
+that the packet is also VLAN-tagged with the VLAN ID that the bridge processed
+this packet in. It is the responsibility of the hardware to untag the VID on
+the egress-untagged ports, or keep the tag on the egress-tagged ones.
+
 - ``port_bridge_join``: bridge layer function invoked when a given switch port is
   added to a bridge, this function should do what's necessary at the switch
   level to permit the joining port to be added to the relevant logical
   domain for it to ingress/egress traffic with other members of the bridge.
+  By setting the ``tx_fwd_offload`` argument to true, the TX forwarding process
+  of this bridge is also offloaded.
 
 - ``port_bridge_leave``: bridge layer function invoked when a given switch port is
   removed from a bridge, this function should do what's necessary at the
   switch level to deny the leaving port from ingress/egress traffic from the
-  remaining bridge members. When the port leaves the bridge, it should be aged
-  out at the switch hardware for the switch to (re) learn MAC addresses behind
-  this port.
+  remaining bridge members.
 
 - ``port_stp_state_set``: bridge layer function invoked when a given switch port STP
   state is computed by the bridge layer and should be propagated to switch
-  hardware to forward/block/learn traffic. The switch driver is responsible for
-  computing a STP state change based on current and asked parameters and perform
-  the relevant ageing based on the intersection results
+  hardware to forward/block/learn traffic.
 
 - ``port_bridge_flags``: bridge layer function invoked when a port must
   configure its settings for e.g. flooding of unknown traffic or source address
@@ -667,21 +931,11 @@ Bridge layer
   CPU port, and flooding towards the CPU port should also be enabled, due to a
   lack of an explicit address filtering mechanism in the DSA core.
 
-- ``port_bridge_tx_fwd_offload``: bridge layer function invoked after
-  ``port_bridge_join`` when a driver sets ``ds->num_fwd_offloading_bridges`` to
-  a non-zero value. Returning success in this function activates the TX
-  forwarding offload bridge feature for this port, which enables the tagging
-  protocol driver to inject data plane packets towards the bridging domain that
-  the port is a part of. Data plane packets are subject to FDB lookup, hardware
-  learning on the CPU port, and do not override the port STP state.
-  Additionally, replication of data plane packets (multicast, flooding) is
-  handled in hardware and the bridge driver will transmit a single skb for each
-  packet that needs replication. The method is provided as a configuration
-  point for drivers that need to configure the hardware for enabling this
-  feature.
-
-- ``port_bridge_tx_fwd_unoffload``: bridge layer function invoked when a driver
-  leaves a bridge port which had the TX forwarding offload feature enabled.
+- ``port_fast_age``: bridge layer function invoked when flushing the
+  dynamically learned FDB entries on the port is necessary. This is called when
+  transitioning from an STP state where learning should take place to an STP
+  state where it shouldn't, or when leaving a bridge, or when address learning
+  is turned off via ``port_bridge_flags``.
 
 Bridge VLAN filtering
 ---------------------
@@ -697,55 +951,44 @@ Bridge VLAN filtering
   allowed.
 
 - ``port_vlan_add``: bridge layer function invoked when a VLAN is configured
-  (tagged or untagged) for the given switch port. If the operation is not
-  supported by the hardware, this function should return ``-EOPNOTSUPP`` to
-  inform the bridge code to fallback to a software implementation.
+  (tagged or untagged) for the given switch port. The CPU port becomes a member
+  of a VLAN only if a foreign bridge port is also a member of it (and
+  forwarding needs to take place in software), or the VLAN is installed to the
+  VLAN group of the bridge device itself, for termination purposes
+  (``bridge vlan add dev br0 vid 100 self``). VLANs on shared ports are
+  reference counted and removed when there is no user left. Drivers do not need
+  to manually install a VLAN on the CPU port.
 
 - ``port_vlan_del``: bridge layer function invoked when a VLAN is removed from the
   given switch port
 
-- ``port_vlan_dump``: bridge layer function invoked with a switchdev callback
-  function that the driver has to call for each VLAN the given port is a member
-  of. A switchdev object is used to carry the VID and bridge flags.
-
 - ``port_fdb_add``: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge wants to install a
   Forwarding Database entry, the switch hardware should be programmed with the
   specified address in the specified VLAN Id in the forwarding database
-  associated with this VLAN ID. If the operation is not supported, this
-  function should return ``-EOPNOTSUPP`` to inform the bridge code to fallback to
-  a software implementation.
-
-.. note:: VLAN ID 0 corresponds to the port private database, which, in the context
-        of DSA, would be its port-based VLAN, used by the associated bridge device.
+  associated with this VLAN ID.
 
 - ``port_fdb_del``: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge wants to remove a
   Forwarding Database entry, the switch hardware should be programmed to delete
   the specified MAC address from the specified VLAN ID if it was mapped into
   this port forwarding database
 
-- ``port_fdb_dump``: bridge layer function invoked with a switchdev callback
-  function that the driver has to call for each MAC address known to be behind
-  the given port. A switchdev object is used to carry the VID and FDB info.
+- ``port_fdb_dump``: bridge bypass function invoked by ``ndo_fdb_dump`` on the
+  physical DSA port interfaces. Since DSA does not attempt to keep in sync its
+  hardware FDB entries with the software bridge, this method is implemented as
+  a means to view the entries visible on user ports in the hardware database.
+  The entries reported by this function have the ``self`` flag in the output of
+  the ``bridge fdb show`` command.
 
 - ``port_mdb_add``: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge wants to install
-  a multicast database entry. If the operation is not supported, this function
-  should return ``-EOPNOTSUPP`` to inform the bridge code to fallback to a
-  software implementation. The switch hardware should be programmed with the
+  a multicast database entry. The switch hardware should be programmed with the
   specified address in the specified VLAN ID in the forwarding database
   associated with this VLAN ID.
 
-.. note:: VLAN ID 0 corresponds to the port private database, which, in the context
-        of DSA, would be its port-based VLAN, used by the associated bridge device.
-
 - ``port_mdb_del``: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge wants to remove a
   multicast database entry, the switch hardware should be programmed to delete
   the specified MAC address from the specified VLAN ID if it was mapped into
   this port forwarding database.
 
-- ``port_mdb_dump``: bridge layer function invoked with a switchdev callback
-  function that the driver has to call for each MAC address known to be behind
-  the given port. A switchdev object is used to carry the VID and MDB info.
-
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