On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 04:24:47PM +0800, Amos Kong wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 02:20:39PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 01:57:01 PM akong@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > From: Amos Kong <akong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Currently we write MAC address to pci config space byte by byte,
> > > this means that we have an intermediate step where mac is wrong.
> > > This patch introduced a new control command to set MAC address
> > > in one time.
> > >
> > > VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR is a new feature bit for compatibility.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++-------
> > > include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h | 8 +++++++-
> > > 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > > index 395ab4f..c8901b6 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > > @@ -802,16 +802,25 @@ static int virtnet_set_mac_address(struct net_device
> > > *dev, void *p) struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
> > > struct virtio_device *vdev = vi->vdev;
> > > int ret;
> > > + struct sockaddr *addr = p;
> > > + struct scatterlist sg;
> > >
> > > - ret = eth_mac_addr(dev, p);
> > > - if (ret)
> > > - return ret;
> > > -
> > > - if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC))
> > > + if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR)) {
> > > + sg_init_one(&sg, addr->sa_data, dev->addr_len);
> > > + if (!virtnet_send_command(vi, VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MAC,
> > > + VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MAC_ADDR_SET,
> > > + &sg, 1, 0)) {
> > > + dev_warn(&vdev->dev,
> > > + "Failed to set mac address by vq command.\n");
> > > + return -EINVAL;
> > > + }
> > > + } else if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC)) {
> > > vdev->config->set(vdev, offsetof(struct virtio_net_config, mac),
> > > - dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);
> > > + addr->sa_data, dev->addr_len);
> > > + }
> > > + ret = eth_mac_addr(dev, p);
> > >
> >
> > The you will the validity check in eth_mac_addr which may result a wrong mac
> > address to be set in the hardware (or is there any check in qemu) and a
> > inconsistency bettween what kernel assumes and qemu has.
> >
> > You can take a look at netvsc driver that calls eth_mac_addr() first and
> > restore the software mac address when fail to enforce it to hardware.
>
> Thanks for the catching, I will move eth_mac_addr() back to above,
> just restore addr if fail to send command.
>
> I will also use DEFINE_PROP_BIT to fix migration issue, thanks.
And clear it if running with a compat machine type.
> > Thanks
> > > - return 0;
> > > + return ret;
> > > }
>
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