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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/b53.rst b/Documentation/networking/dsa/b53.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b41637cdb8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/b53.rst @@ -0,0 +1,183 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +========================================== +Broadcom RoboSwitch Ethernet switch driver +========================================== + +The Broadcom RoboSwitch Ethernet switch family is used in quite a range of +xDSL router, cable modems and other multimedia devices. + +The actual implementation supports the devices BCM5325E, BCM5365, BCM539x, +BCM53115 and BCM53125 as well as BCM63XX. + +Implementation details +====================== + +The driver is located in ``drivers/net/dsa/b53/`` and is implemented as a +DSA driver; see ``Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst`` for details on the +subsystem and what it provides. + +The switch is, if possible, configured to enable a Broadcom specific 4-bytes +switch tag which gets inserted by the switch for every packet forwarded to the +CPU interface, conversely, the CPU network interface should insert a similar +tag for packets entering the CPU port. The tag format is described in +``net/dsa/tag_brcm.c``. + +The configuration of the device depends on whether or not tagging is +supported. + +The interface names and example network configuration are used according the +configuration described in the :ref:`dsa-config-showcases`. + +Configuration with tagging support +---------------------------------- + +The tagging based configuration is desired. It is not specific to the b53 +DSA driver and will work like all DSA drivers which supports tagging. + +See :ref:`dsa-tagged-configuration`. + +Configuration without tagging support +------------------------------------- + +Older models (5325, 5365) support a different tag format that is not supported +yet. 539x and 531x5 require managed mode and some special handling, which is +also not yet supported. The tagging support is disabled in these cases and the +switch need a different configuration. + +The configuration slightly differ from the :ref:`dsa-vlan-configuration`. + +The b53 tags the CPU port in all VLANs, since otherwise any PVID untagged +VLAN programming would basically change the CPU port's default PVID and make +it untagged, undesirable. + +In difference to the configuration described in :ref:`dsa-vlan-configuration` +the default VLAN 1 has to be removed from the slave interface configuration in +single port and gateway configuration, while there is no need to add an extra +VLAN configuration in the bridge showcase. + +single port +~~~~~~~~~~~ +The configuration can only be set up via VLAN tagging and bridge setup. +By default packages are tagged with vid 1: + +.. code-block:: sh + + # tag traffic on CPU port + ip link add link eth0 name eth0.1 type vlan id 1 + ip link add link eth0 name eth0.2 type vlan id 2 + ip link add link eth0 name eth0.3 type vlan id 3 + + # The master interface needs to be brought up before the slave ports. + ip link set eth0 up + ip link set eth0.1 up + ip link set eth0.2 up + ip link set eth0.3 up + + # bring up the slave interfaces + ip link set wan up + ip link set lan1 up + ip link set lan2 up + + # create bridge + ip link add name br0 type bridge + + # activate VLAN filtering + ip link set dev br0 type bridge vlan_filtering 1 + + # add ports to bridges + ip link set dev wan master br0 + ip link set dev lan1 master br0 + ip link set dev lan2 master br0 + + # tag traffic on ports + bridge vlan add dev lan1 vid 2 pvid untagged + bridge vlan del dev lan1 vid 1 + bridge vlan add dev lan2 vid 3 pvid untagged + bridge vlan del dev lan2 vid 1 + + # configure the VLANs + ip addr add 192.0.2.1/30 dev eth0.1 + ip addr add 192.0.2.5/30 dev eth0.2 + ip addr add 192.0.2.9/30 dev eth0.3 + + # bring up the bridge devices + ip link set br0 up + + +bridge +~~~~~~ + +.. code-block:: sh + + # tag traffic on CPU port + ip link add link eth0 name eth0.1 type vlan id 1 + + # The master interface needs to be brought up before the slave ports. + ip link set eth0 up + ip link set eth0.1 up + + # bring up the slave interfaces + ip link set wan up + ip link set lan1 up + ip link set lan2 up + + # create bridge + ip link add name br0 type bridge + + # activate VLAN filtering + ip link set dev br0 type bridge vlan_filtering 1 + + # add ports to bridge + ip link set dev wan master br0 + ip link set dev lan1 master br0 + ip link set dev lan2 master br0 + ip link set eth0.1 master br0 + + # configure the bridge + ip addr add 192.0.2.129/25 dev br0 + + # bring up the bridge + ip link set dev br0 up + +gateway +~~~~~~~ + +.. code-block:: sh + + # tag traffic on CPU port + ip link add link eth0 name eth0.1 type vlan id 1 + ip link add link eth0 name eth0.2 type vlan id 2 + + # The master interface needs to be brought up before the slave ports. + ip link set eth0 up + ip link set eth0.1 up + ip link set eth0.2 up + + # bring up the slave interfaces + ip link set wan up + ip link set lan1 up + ip link set lan2 up + + # create bridge + ip link add name br0 type bridge + + # activate VLAN filtering + ip link set dev br0 type bridge vlan_filtering 1 + + # add ports to bridges + ip link set dev wan master br0 + ip link set eth0.1 master br0 + ip link set dev lan1 master br0 + ip link set dev lan2 master br0 + + # tag traffic on ports + bridge vlan add dev wan vid 2 pvid untagged + bridge vlan del dev wan vid 1 + + # configure the VLANs + ip addr add 192.0.2.1/30 dev eth0.2 + ip addr add 192.0.2.129/25 dev br0 + + # bring up the bridge devices + ip link set br0 up diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/bcm_sf2.rst b/Documentation/networking/dsa/bcm_sf2.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..dee234039e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/bcm_sf2.rst @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ +============================================= +Broadcom Starfighter 2 Ethernet switch driver +============================================= + +Broadcom's Starfighter 2 Ethernet switch hardware block is commonly found and +deployed in the following products: + +- xDSL gateways such as BCM63138 +- streaming/multimedia Set Top Box such as BCM7445 +- Cable Modem/residential gateways such as BCM7145/BCM3390 + +The switch is typically deployed in a configuration involving between 5 to 13 +ports, offering a range of built-in and customizable interfaces: + +- single integrated Gigabit PHY +- quad integrated Gigabit PHY +- quad external Gigabit PHY w/ MDIO multiplexer +- integrated MoCA PHY +- several external MII/RevMII/GMII/RGMII interfaces + +The switch also supports specific congestion control features which allow MoCA +fail-over not to lose packets during a MoCA role re-election, as well as out of +band back-pressure to the host CPU network interface when downstream interfaces +are connected at a lower speed. + +The switch hardware block is typically interfaced using MMIO accesses and +contains a bunch of sub-blocks/registers: + +- ``SWITCH_CORE``: common switch registers +- ``SWITCH_REG``: external interfaces switch register +- ``SWITCH_MDIO``: external MDIO bus controller (there is another one in SWITCH_CORE, + which is used for indirect PHY accesses) +- ``SWITCH_INDIR_RW``: 64-bits wide register helper block +- ``SWITCH_INTRL2_0/1``: Level-2 interrupt controllers +- ``SWITCH_ACB``: Admission control block +- ``SWITCH_FCB``: Fail-over control block + +Implementation details +====================== + +The driver is located in ``drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c`` and is implemented as a DSA +driver; see ``Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst`` for details on the subsystem +and what it provides. + +The SF2 switch is configured to enable a Broadcom specific 4-bytes switch tag +which gets inserted by the switch for every packet forwarded to the CPU +interface, conversely, the CPU network interface should insert a similar tag for +packets entering the CPU port. The tag format is described in +``net/dsa/tag_brcm.c``. + +Overall, the SF2 driver is a fairly regular DSA driver; there are a few +specifics covered below. + +Device Tree probing +------------------- + +The DSA platform device driver is probed using a specific compatible string +provided in ``net/dsa/dsa.c``. The reason for that is because the DSA subsystem gets +registered as a platform device driver currently. DSA will provide the needed +device_node pointers which are then accessible by the switch driver setup +function to setup resources such as register ranges and interrupts. This +currently works very well because none of the of_* functions utilized by the +driver require a struct device to be bound to a struct device_node, but things +may change in the future. + +MDIO indirect accesses +---------------------- + +Due to a limitation in how Broadcom switches have been designed, external +Broadcom switches connected to a SF2 require the use of the DSA slave MDIO bus +in order to properly configure them. By default, the SF2 pseudo-PHY address, and +an external switch pseudo-PHY address will both be snooping for incoming MDIO +transactions, since they are at the same address (30), resulting in some kind of +"double" programming. Using DSA, and setting ``ds->phys_mii_mask`` accordingly, we +selectively divert reads and writes towards external Broadcom switches +pseudo-PHY addresses. Newer revisions of the SF2 hardware have introduced a +configurable pseudo-PHY address which circumvents the initial design limitation. + +Multimedia over CoAxial (MoCA) interfaces +----------------------------------------- + +MoCA interfaces are fairly specific and require the use of a firmware blob which +gets loaded onto the MoCA processor(s) for packet processing. The switch +hardware contains logic which will assert/de-assert link states accordingly for +the MoCA interface whenever the MoCA coaxial cable gets disconnected or the +firmware gets reloaded. The SF2 driver relies on such events to properly set its +MoCA interface carrier state and properly report this to the networking stack. + +The MoCA interfaces are supported using the PHY library's fixed PHY/emulated PHY +device and the switch driver registers a ``fixed_link_update`` callback for such +PHYs which reflects the link state obtained from the interrupt handler. + + +Power Management +---------------- + +Whenever possible, the SF2 driver tries to minimize the overall switch power +consumption by applying a combination of: + +- turning off internal buffers/memories +- disabling packet processing logic +- putting integrated PHYs in IDDQ/low-power +- reducing the switch core clock based on the active port count +- enabling and advertising EEE +- turning off RGMII data processing logic when the link goes down + +Wake-on-LAN +----------- + +Wake-on-LAN is currently implemented by utilizing the host processor Ethernet +MAC controller wake-on logic. Whenever Wake-on-LAN is requested, an intersection +between the user request and the supported host Ethernet interface WoL +capabilities is done and the intersection result gets configured. During +system-wide suspend/resume, only ports not participating in Wake-on-LAN are +disabled. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/configuration.rst b/Documentation/networking/dsa/configuration.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d2934c40f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/configuration.rst @@ -0,0 +1,458 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +======================================= +DSA switch configuration from userspace +======================================= + +The DSA switch configuration is not integrated into the main userspace +network configuration suites by now and has to be performed manually. + +.. _dsa-config-showcases: + +Configuration showcases +----------------------- + +To configure a DSA switch a couple of commands need to be executed. In this +documentation some common configuration scenarios are handled as showcases: + +*single port* + Every switch port acts as a different configurable Ethernet port + +*bridge* + Every switch port is part of one configurable Ethernet bridge + +*gateway* + Every switch port except one upstream port is part of a configurable + Ethernet bridge. + The upstream port acts as different configurable Ethernet port. + +All configurations are performed with tools from iproute2, which is available +at https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/iproute2/ + +Through DSA every port of a switch is handled like a normal linux Ethernet +interface. The CPU port is the switch port connected to an Ethernet MAC chip. +The corresponding linux Ethernet interface is called the master interface. +All other corresponding linux interfaces are called slave interfaces. + +The slave interfaces depend on the master interface being up in order for them +to send or receive traffic. Prior to kernel v5.12, the state of the master +interface had to be managed explicitly by the user. Starting with kernel v5.12, +the behavior is as follows: + +- when a DSA slave interface is brought up, the master interface is + automatically brought up. +- when the master interface is brought down, all DSA slave interfaces are + automatically brought down. + +In this documentation the following Ethernet interfaces are used: + +*eth0* + the master interface + +*eth1* + another master interface + +*lan1* + a slave interface + +*lan2* + another slave interface + +*lan3* + a third slave interface + +*wan* + A slave interface dedicated for upstream traffic + +Further Ethernet interfaces can be configured similar. +The configured IPs and networks are: + +*single port* + * lan1: 192.0.2.1/30 (192.0.2.0 - 192.0.2.3) + * lan2: 192.0.2.5/30 (192.0.2.4 - 192.0.2.7) + * lan3: 192.0.2.9/30 (192.0.2.8 - 192.0.2.11) + +*bridge* + * br0: 192.0.2.129/25 (192.0.2.128 - 192.0.2.255) + +*gateway* + * br0: 192.0.2.129/25 (192.0.2.128 - 192.0.2.255) + * wan: 192.0.2.1/30 (192.0.2.0 - 192.0.2.3) + +.. _dsa-tagged-configuration: + +Configuration with tagging support +---------------------------------- + +The tagging based configuration is desired and supported by the majority of +DSA switches. These switches are capable to tag incoming and outgoing traffic +without using a VLAN based configuration. + +*single port* + .. code-block:: sh + + # configure each interface + ip addr add 192.0.2.1/30 dev lan1 + ip addr add 192.0.2.5/30 dev lan2 + ip addr add 192.0.2.9/30 dev lan3 + + # For kernels earlier than v5.12, the master interface needs to be + # brought up manually before the slave ports. + ip link set eth0 up + + # bring up the slave interfaces + ip link set lan1 up + ip link set lan2 up + ip link set lan3 up + +*bridge* + .. code-block:: sh + + # For kernels earlier than v5.12, the master interface needs to be + # brought up manually before the slave ports. + ip link set eth0 up + + # bring up the slave interfaces + ip link set lan1 up + ip link set lan2 up + ip link set lan3 up + + # create bridge + ip link add name br0 type bridge + + # add ports to bridge + ip link set dev lan1 master br0 + ip link set dev lan2 master br0 + ip link set dev lan3 master br0 + + # configure the bridge + ip addr add 192.0.2.129/25 dev br0 + + # bring up the bridge + ip link set dev br0 up + +*gateway* + .. code-block:: sh + + # For kernels earlier than v5.12, the master interface needs to be + # brought up manually before the slave ports. + ip link set eth0 up + + # bring up the slave interfaces + ip link set wan up + ip link set lan1 up + ip link set lan2 up + + # configure the upstream port + ip addr add 192.0.2.1/30 dev wan + + # create bridge + ip link add name br0 type bridge + + # add ports to bridge + ip link set dev lan1 master br0 + ip link set dev lan2 master br0 + + # configure the bridge + ip addr add 192.0.2.129/25 dev br0 + + # bring up the bridge + ip link set dev br0 up + +.. _dsa-vlan-configuration: + +Configuration without tagging support +------------------------------------- + +A minority of switches are not capable to use a taging protocol +(DSA_TAG_PROTO_NONE). These switches can be configured by a VLAN based +configuration. + +*single port* + The configuration can only be set up via VLAN tagging and bridge setup. + + .. code-block:: sh + + # tag traffic on CPU port + ip link add link eth0 name eth0.1 type vlan id 1 + ip link add link eth0 name eth0.2 type vlan id 2 + ip link add link eth0 name eth0.3 type vlan id 3 + + # For kernels earlier than v5.12, the master interface needs to be + # brought up manually before the slave ports. + ip link set eth0 up + ip link set eth0.1 up + ip link set eth0.2 up + ip link set eth0.3 up + + # bring up the slave interfaces + ip link set lan1 up + ip link set lan2 up + ip link set lan3 up + + # create bridge + ip link add name br0 type bridge + + # activate VLAN filtering + ip link set dev br0 type bridge vlan_filtering 1 + + # add ports to bridges + ip link set dev lan1 master br0 + ip link set dev lan2 master br0 + ip link set dev lan3 master br0 + + # tag traffic on ports + bridge vlan add dev lan1 vid 1 pvid untagged + bridge vlan add dev lan2 vid 2 pvid untagged + bridge vlan add dev lan3 vid 3 pvid untagged + + # configure the VLANs + ip addr add 192.0.2.1/30 dev eth0.1 + ip addr add 192.0.2.5/30 dev eth0.2 + ip addr add 192.0.2.9/30 dev eth0.3 + + # bring up the bridge devices + ip link set br0 up + + +*bridge* + .. code-block:: sh + + # tag traffic on CPU port + ip link add link eth0 name eth0.1 type vlan id 1 + + # For kernels earlier than v5.12, the master interface needs to be + # brought up manually before the slave ports. + ip link set eth0 up + ip link set eth0.1 up + + # bring up the slave interfaces + ip link set lan1 up + ip link set lan2 up + ip link set lan3 up + + # create bridge + ip link add name br0 type bridge + + # activate VLAN filtering + ip link set dev br0 type bridge vlan_filtering 1 + + # add ports to bridge + ip link set dev lan1 master br0 + ip link set dev lan2 master br0 + ip link set dev lan3 master br0 + ip link set eth0.1 master br0 + + # tag traffic on ports + bridge vlan add dev lan1 vid 1 pvid untagged + bridge vlan add dev lan2 vid 1 pvid untagged + bridge vlan add dev lan3 vid 1 pvid untagged + + # configure the bridge + ip addr add 192.0.2.129/25 dev br0 + + # bring up the bridge + ip link set dev br0 up + +*gateway* + .. code-block:: sh + + # tag traffic on CPU port + ip link add link eth0 name eth0.1 type vlan id 1 + ip link add link eth0 name eth0.2 type vlan id 2 + + # For kernels earlier than v5.12, the master interface needs to be + # brought up manually before the slave ports. + ip link set eth0 up + ip link set eth0.1 up + ip link set eth0.2 up + + # bring up the slave interfaces + ip link set wan up + ip link set lan1 up + ip link set lan2 up + + # create bridge + ip link add name br0 type bridge + + # activate VLAN filtering + ip link set dev br0 type bridge vlan_filtering 1 + + # add ports to bridges + ip link set dev wan master br0 + ip link set eth0.1 master br0 + ip link set dev lan1 master br0 + ip link set dev lan2 master br0 + + # tag traffic on ports + bridge vlan add dev lan1 vid 1 pvid untagged + bridge vlan add dev lan2 vid 1 pvid untagged + bridge vlan add dev wan vid 2 pvid untagged + + # configure the VLANs + ip addr add 192.0.2.1/30 dev eth0.2 + ip addr add 192.0.2.129/25 dev br0 + + # bring up the bridge devices + ip link set br0 up + +Forwarding database (FDB) management +------------------------------------ + +The existing DSA switches do not have the necessary hardware support to keep +the software FDB of the bridge in sync with the hardware tables, so the two +tables are managed separately (``bridge fdb show`` queries both, and depending +on whether the ``self`` or ``master`` flags are being used, a ``bridge fdb +add`` or ``bridge fdb del`` command acts upon entries from one or both tables). + +Up until kernel v4.14, DSA only supported user space management of bridge FDB +entries using the bridge bypass operations (which do not update the software +FDB, just the hardware one) using the ``self`` flag (which is optional and can +be omitted). + + .. code-block:: sh + + bridge fdb add dev swp0 00:01:02:03:04:05 self static + # or shorthand + bridge fdb add dev swp0 00:01:02:03:04:05 static + +Due to a bug, the bridge bypass FDB implementation provided by DSA did not +distinguish between ``static`` and ``local`` FDB entries (``static`` are meant +to be forwarded, while ``local`` are meant to be locally terminated, i.e. sent +to the host port). Instead, all FDB entries with the ``self`` flag (implicit or +explicit) are treated by DSA as ``static`` even if they are ``local``. + + .. code-block:: sh + + # This command: + bridge fdb add dev swp0 00:01:02:03:04:05 static + # behaves the same for DSA as this command: + bridge fdb add dev swp0 00:01:02:03:04:05 local + # or shorthand, because the 'local' flag is implicit if 'static' is not + # specified, it also behaves the same as: + bridge fdb add dev swp0 00:01:02:03:04:05 + +The last command is an incorrect way of adding a static bridge FDB entry to a +DSA switch using the bridge bypass operations, and works by mistake. Other +drivers will treat an FDB entry added by the same command as ``local`` and as +such, will not forward it, as opposed to DSA. + +Between kernel v4.14 and v5.14, DSA has supported in parallel two modes of +adding a bridge FDB entry to the switch: the bridge bypass discussed above, as +well as a new mode using the ``master`` flag which installs FDB entries in the +software bridge too. + + .. code-block:: sh + + bridge fdb add dev swp0 00:01:02:03:04:05 master static + +Since kernel v5.14, DSA has gained stronger integration with the bridge's +software FDB, and the support for its bridge bypass FDB implementation (using +the ``self`` flag) has been removed. This results in the following changes: + + .. code-block:: sh + + # This is the only valid way of adding an FDB entry that is supported, + # compatible with v4.14 kernels and later: + bridge fdb add dev swp0 00:01:02:03:04:05 master static + # This command is no longer buggy and the entry is properly treated as + # 'local' instead of being forwarded: + bridge fdb add dev swp0 00:01:02:03:04:05 + # This command no longer installs a static FDB entry to hardware: + bridge fdb add dev swp0 00:01:02:03:04:05 static + +Script writers are therefore encouraged to use the ``master static`` set of +flags when working with bridge FDB entries on DSA switch interfaces. + +Affinity of user ports to CPU ports +----------------------------------- + +Typically, DSA switches are attached to the host via a single Ethernet +interface, but in cases where the switch chip is discrete, the hardware design +may permit the use of 2 or more ports connected to the host, for an increase in +termination throughput. + +DSA can make use of multiple CPU ports in two ways. First, it is possible to +statically assign the termination traffic associated with a certain user port +to be processed by a certain CPU port. This way, user space can implement +custom policies of static load balancing between user ports, by spreading the +affinities according to the available CPU ports. + +Secondly, it is possible to perform load balancing between CPU ports on a per +packet basis, rather than statically assigning user ports to CPU ports. +This can be achieved by placing the DSA masters under a LAG interface (bonding +or team). DSA monitors this operation and creates a mirror of this software LAG +on the CPU ports facing the physical DSA masters that constitute the LAG slave +devices. + +To make use of multiple CPU ports, the firmware (device tree) description of +the switch must mark all the links between CPU ports and their DSA masters +using the ``ethernet`` reference/phandle. At startup, only a single CPU port +and DSA master will be used - the numerically first port from the firmware +description which has an ``ethernet`` property. It is up to the user to +configure the system for the switch to use other masters. + +DSA uses the ``rtnl_link_ops`` mechanism (with a "dsa" ``kind``) to allow +changing the DSA master of a user port. The ``IFLA_DSA_MASTER`` u32 netlink +attribute contains the ifindex of the master device that handles each slave +device. The DSA master must be a valid candidate based on firmware node +information, or a LAG interface which contains only slaves which are valid +candidates. + +Using iproute2, the following manipulations are possible: + + .. code-block:: sh + + # See the DSA master in current use + ip -d link show dev swp0 + (...) + dsa master eth0 + + # Static CPU port distribution + ip link set swp0 type dsa master eth1 + ip link set swp1 type dsa master eth0 + ip link set swp2 type dsa master eth1 + ip link set swp3 type dsa master eth0 + + # CPU ports in LAG, using explicit assignment of the DSA master + ip link add bond0 type bond mode balance-xor && ip link set bond0 up + ip link set eth1 down && ip link set eth1 master bond0 + ip link set swp0 type dsa master bond0 + ip link set swp1 type dsa master bond0 + ip link set swp2 type dsa master bond0 + ip link set swp3 type dsa master bond0 + ip link set eth0 down && ip link set eth0 master bond0 + ip -d link show dev swp0 + (...) + dsa master bond0 + + # CPU ports in LAG, relying on implicit migration of the DSA master + ip link add bond0 type bond mode balance-xor && ip link set bond0 up + ip link set eth0 down && ip link set eth0 master bond0 + ip link set eth1 down && ip link set eth1 master bond0 + ip -d link show dev swp0 + (...) + dsa master bond0 + +Notice that in the case of CPU ports under a LAG, the use of the +``IFLA_DSA_MASTER`` netlink attribute is not strictly needed, but rather, DSA +reacts to the ``IFLA_MASTER`` attribute change of its present master (``eth0``) +and migrates all user ports to the new upper of ``eth0``, ``bond0``. Similarly, +when ``bond0`` is destroyed using ``RTM_DELLINK``, DSA migrates the user ports +that were assigned to this interface to the first physical DSA master which is +eligible, based on the firmware description (it effectively reverts to the +startup configuration). + +In a setup with more than 2 physical CPU ports, it is therefore possible to mix +static user to CPU port assignment with LAG between DSA masters. It is not +possible to statically assign a user port towards a DSA master that has any +upper interfaces (this includes LAG devices - the master must always be the LAG +in this case). + +Live changing of the DSA master (and thus CPU port) affinity of a user port is +permitted, in order to allow dynamic redistribution in response to traffic. + +Physical DSA masters are allowed to join and leave at any time a LAG interface +used as a DSA master; however, DSA will reject a LAG interface as a valid +candidate for being a DSA master unless it has at least one physical DSA master +as a slave device. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a94ddf8334 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst @@ -0,0 +1,1129 @@ +============ +Architecture +============ + +This document describes the **Distributed Switch Architecture (DSA)** subsystem +design principles, limitations, interactions with other subsystems, and how to +develop drivers for this subsystem as well as a TODO for developers interested +in joining the effort. + +Design principles +================= + +The Distributed Switch Architecture subsystem was primarily designed to +support Marvell Ethernet switches (MV88E6xxx, a.k.a. Link Street product +line) using Linux, but has since evolved to support other vendors as well. + +The original philosophy behind this design was to be able to use unmodified +Linux tools such as bridge, iproute2, ifconfig to work transparently whether +they configured/queried a switch port network device or a regular network +device. + +An Ethernet switch typically comprises multiple front-panel ports and one +or more CPU or management ports. The DSA subsystem currently relies on the +presence of a management port connected to an Ethernet controller capable of +receiving Ethernet frames from the switch. This is a very common setup for all +kinds of Ethernet switches found in Small Home and Office products: routers, +gateways, or even top-of-rack switches. This host Ethernet controller will +be later referred to as "master" and "cpu" in DSA terminology and code. + +The D in DSA stands for Distributed, because the subsystem has been designed +with the ability to configure and manage cascaded switches on top of each other +using upstream and downstream Ethernet links between switches. These specific +ports are referred to as "dsa" ports in DSA terminology and code. A collection +of multiple switches connected to each other is called a "switch tree". + +For each front-panel port, DSA creates specialized network devices which are +used as controlling and data-flowing endpoints for use by the Linux networking +stack. These specialized network interfaces are referred to as "slave" network +interfaces in DSA terminology and code. + +The ideal case for using DSA is when an Ethernet switch supports a "switch tag" +which is a hardware feature making the switch insert a specific tag for each +Ethernet frame it receives to/from specific ports to help the management +interface figure out: + +- what port is this frame coming from +- what was the reason why this frame got forwarded +- how to send CPU originated traffic to specific ports + +The subsystem does support switches not capable of inserting/stripping tags, but +the features might be slightly limited in that case (traffic separation relies +on Port-based VLAN IDs). + +Note that DSA does not currently create network interfaces for the "cpu" and +"dsa" ports because: + +- the "cpu" port is the Ethernet switch facing side of the management + controller, and as such, would create a duplication of feature, since you + would get two interfaces for the same conduit: master netdev, and "cpu" netdev + +- the "dsa" port(s) are just conduits between two or more switches, and as such + cannot really be used as proper network interfaces either, only the + downstream, or the top-most upstream interface makes sense with that model + +Switch tagging protocols +------------------------ + +DSA supports many vendor-specific tagging protocols, one software-defined +tagging protocol, and a tag-less mode as well (``DSA_TAG_PROTO_NONE``). + +The exact format of the tag protocol is vendor specific, but in general, they +all contain something which: + +- identifies which port the Ethernet frame came from/should be sent to +- provides a reason why this frame was forwarded to the management interface + +All tagging protocols are in ``net/dsa/tag_*.c`` files and implement the +methods of the ``struct dsa_device_ops`` structure, which are detailed below. + +Tagging protocols generally fall in one of three categories: + +1. The switch-specific frame header is located before the Ethernet header, + shifting to the right (from the perspective of the DSA master's frame + parser) the MAC DA, MAC SA, EtherType and the entire L2 payload. +2. The switch-specific frame header is located before the EtherType, keeping + the MAC DA and MAC SA in place from the DSA master's perspective, but + shifting the 'real' EtherType and L2 payload to the right. +3. The switch-specific frame header is located at the tail of the packet, + keeping all frame headers in place and not altering the view of the packet + that the DSA master's frame parser has. + +A tagging protocol may tag all packets with switch tags of the same length, or +the tag length might vary (for example packets with PTP timestamps might +require an extended switch tag, or there might be one tag length on TX and a +different one on RX). Either way, the tagging protocol driver must populate the +``struct dsa_device_ops::needed_headroom`` and/or ``struct dsa_device_ops::needed_tailroom`` +with the length in octets of the longest switch frame header/trailer. The DSA +framework will automatically adjust the MTU of the master interface to +accommodate for this extra size in order for DSA user ports to support the +standard MTU (L2 payload length) of 1500 octets. The ``needed_headroom`` and +``needed_tailroom`` properties are also used to request from the network stack, +on a best-effort basis, the allocation of packets with enough extra space such +that the act of pushing the switch tag on transmission of a packet does not +cause it to reallocate due to lack of memory. + +Even though applications are not expected to parse DSA-specific frame headers, +the format on the wire of the tagging protocol represents an Application Binary +Interface exposed by the kernel towards user space, for decoders such as +``libpcap``. The tagging protocol driver must populate the ``proto`` member of +``struct dsa_device_ops`` with a value that uniquely describes the +characteristics of the interaction required between the switch hardware and the +data path driver: the offset of each bit field within the frame header and any +stateful processing required to deal with the frames (as may be required for +PTP timestamping). + +From the perspective of the network stack, all switches within the same DSA +switch tree use the same tagging protocol. In case of a packet transiting a +fabric with more than one switch, the switch-specific frame header is inserted +by the first switch in the fabric that the packet was received on. This header +typically contains information regarding its type (whether it is a control +frame that must be trapped to the CPU, or a data frame to be forwarded). +Control frames should be decapsulated only by the software data path, whereas +data frames might also be autonomously forwarded towards other user ports of +other switches from the same fabric, and in this case, the outermost switch +ports must decapsulate the packet. + +Note that in certain cases, it might be the case that the tagging format used +by a leaf switch (not connected directly to the CPU) is not the same as what +the network stack sees. This can be seen with Marvell switch trees, where the +CPU port can be configured to use either the DSA or the Ethertype DSA (EDSA) +format, but the DSA links are configured to use the shorter (without Ethertype) +DSA frame header, in order to reduce the autonomous packet forwarding overhead. +It still remains the case that, if the DSA switch tree is configured for the +EDSA tagging protocol, the operating system sees EDSA-tagged packets from the +leaf switches that tagged them with the shorter DSA header. This can be done +because the Marvell switch connected directly to the CPU is configured to +perform tag translation between DSA and EDSA (which is simply the operation of +adding or removing the ``ETH_P_EDSA`` EtherType and some padding octets). + +It is possible to construct cascaded setups of DSA switches even if their +tagging protocols are not compatible with one another. In this case, there are +no DSA links in this fabric, and each switch constitutes a disjoint DSA switch +tree. The DSA links are viewed as simply a pair of a DSA master (the out-facing +port of the upstream DSA switch) and a CPU port (the in-facing port of the +downstream DSA switch). + +The tagging protocol of the attached DSA switch tree can be viewed through the +``dsa/tagging`` sysfs attribute of the DSA master:: + + cat /sys/class/net/eth0/dsa/tagging + +If the hardware and driver are capable, the tagging protocol of the DSA switch +tree can be changed at runtime. This is done by writing the new tagging +protocol name to the same sysfs device attribute as above (the DSA master and +all attached switch ports must be down while doing this). + +It is desirable that all tagging protocols are testable with the ``dsa_loop`` +mockup driver, which can be attached to any network interface. The goal is that +any network interface should be capable of transmitting the same packet in the +same way, and the tagger should decode the same received packet in the same way +regardless of the driver used for the switch control path, and the driver used +for the DSA master. + +The transmission of a packet goes through the tagger's ``xmit`` function. +The passed ``struct sk_buff *skb`` has ``skb->data`` pointing at +``skb_mac_header(skb)``, i.e. at the destination MAC address, and the passed +``struct net_device *dev`` represents the virtual DSA user network interface +whose hardware counterpart the packet must be steered to (i.e. ``swp0``). +The job of this method is to prepare the skb in a way that the switch will +understand what egress port the packet is for (and not deliver it towards other +ports). Typically this is fulfilled by pushing a frame header. Checking for +insufficient size in the skb headroom or tailroom is unnecessary provided that +the ``needed_headroom`` and ``needed_tailroom`` properties were filled out +properly, because DSA ensures there is enough space before calling this method. + +The reception of a packet goes through the tagger's ``rcv`` function. The +passed ``struct sk_buff *skb`` has ``skb->data`` pointing at +``skb_mac_header(skb) + ETH_ALEN`` octets, i.e. to where the first octet after +the EtherType would have been, were this frame not tagged. The role of this +method is to consume the frame header, adjust ``skb->data`` to really point at +the first octet after the EtherType, and to change ``skb->dev`` to point to the +virtual DSA user network interface corresponding to the physical front-facing +switch port that the packet was received on. + +Since tagging protocols in category 1 and 2 break software (and most often also +hardware) packet dissection on the DSA master, features such as RPS (Receive +Packet Steering) on the DSA master would be broken. The DSA framework deals +with this by hooking into the flow dissector and shifting the offset at which +the IP header is to be found in the tagged frame as seen by the DSA master. +This behavior is automatic based on the ``overhead`` value of the tagging +protocol. If not all packets are of equal size, the tagger can implement the +``flow_dissect`` method of the ``struct dsa_device_ops`` and override this +default behavior by specifying the correct offset incurred by each individual +RX packet. Tail taggers do not cause issues to the flow dissector. + +Checksum offload should work with category 1 and 2 taggers when the DSA master +driver declares NETIF_F_HW_CSUM in vlan_features and looks at csum_start and +csum_offset. For those cases, DSA will shift the checksum start and offset by +the tag size. If the DSA master driver still uses the legacy NETIF_F_IP_CSUM +or NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM in vlan_features, the offload might only work if the +offload hardware already expects that specific tag (perhaps due to matching +vendors). DSA slaves inherit those flags from the master port, and it is up to +the driver to correctly fall back to software checksum when the IP header is not +where the hardware expects. If that check is ineffective, the packets might go +to the network without a proper checksum (the checksum field will have the +pseudo IP header sum). For category 3, when the offload hardware does not +already expect the switch tag in use, the checksum must be calculated before any +tag is inserted (i.e. inside the tagger). Otherwise, the DSA master would +include the tail tag in the (software or hardware) checksum calculation. Then, +when the tag gets stripped by the switch during transmission, it will leave an +incorrect IP checksum in place. + +Due to various reasons (most common being category 1 taggers being associated +with DSA-unaware masters, mangling what the master perceives as MAC DA), the +tagging protocol may require the DSA master to operate in promiscuous mode, to +receive all frames regardless of the value of the MAC DA. This can be done by +setting the ``promisc_on_master`` property of the ``struct dsa_device_ops``. +Note that this assumes a DSA-unaware master driver, which is the norm. + +Master network devices +---------------------- + +Master network devices are regular, unmodified Linux network device drivers for +the CPU/management Ethernet interface. Such a driver might occasionally need to +know whether DSA is enabled (e.g.: to enable/disable specific offload features), +but the DSA subsystem has been proven to work with industry standard drivers: +``e1000e,`` ``mv643xx_eth`` etc. without having to introduce modifications to these +drivers. Such network devices are also often referred to as conduit network +devices since they act as a pipe between the host processor and the hardware +Ethernet switch. + +Networking stack hooks +---------------------- + +When a master netdev is used with DSA, a small hook is placed in the +networking stack is in order to have the DSA subsystem process the Ethernet +switch specific tagging protocol. DSA accomplishes this by registering a +specific (and fake) Ethernet type (later becoming ``skb->protocol``) with the +networking stack, this is also known as a ``ptype`` or ``packet_type``. A typical +Ethernet Frame receive sequence looks like this: + +Master network device (e.g.: e1000e): + +1. Receive interrupt fires: + + - receive function is invoked + - basic packet processing is done: getting length, status etc. + - packet is prepared to be processed by the Ethernet layer by calling + ``eth_type_trans`` + +2. net/ethernet/eth.c:: + + eth_type_trans(skb, dev) + if (dev->dsa_ptr != NULL) + -> skb->protocol = ETH_P_XDSA + +3. drivers/net/ethernet/\*:: + + netif_receive_skb(skb) + -> iterate over registered packet_type + -> invoke handler for ETH_P_XDSA, calls dsa_switch_rcv() + +4. net/dsa/dsa.c:: + + -> dsa_switch_rcv() + -> invoke switch tag specific protocol handler in 'net/dsa/tag_*.c' + +5. net/dsa/tag_*.c: + + - inspect and strip switch tag protocol to determine originating port + - locate per-port network device + - invoke ``eth_type_trans()`` with the DSA slave network device + - invoked ``netif_receive_skb()`` + +Past this point, the DSA slave network devices get delivered regular Ethernet +frames that can be processed by the networking stack. + +Slave network devices +--------------------- + +Slave network devices created by DSA are stacked on top of their master network +device, each of these network interfaces will be responsible for being a +controlling and data-flowing end-point for each front-panel port of the switch. +These interfaces are specialized in order to: + +- insert/remove the switch tag protocol (if it exists) when sending traffic + to/from specific switch ports +- query the switch for ethtool operations: statistics, link state, + Wake-on-LAN, register dumps... +- manage external/internal PHY: link, auto-negotiation, etc. + +These slave network devices have custom net_device_ops and ethtool_ops function +pointers which allow DSA to introduce a level of layering between the networking +stack/ethtool and the switch driver implementation. + +Upon frame transmission from these slave network devices, DSA will look up which +switch tagging protocol is currently registered with these network devices and +invoke a specific transmit routine which takes care of adding the relevant +switch tag in the Ethernet frames. + +These frames are then queued for transmission using the master network device +``ndo_start_xmit()`` function. Since they contain the appropriate switch tag, the +Ethernet switch will be able to process these incoming frames from the +management interface and deliver them to the physical switch port. + +When using multiple CPU ports, it is possible to stack a LAG (bonding/team) +device between the DSA slave devices and the physical DSA masters. The LAG +device is thus also a DSA master, but the LAG slave devices continue to be DSA +masters as well (just with no user port assigned to them; this is needed for +recovery in case the LAG DSA master disappears). Thus, the data path of the LAG +DSA master is used asymmetrically. On RX, the ``ETH_P_XDSA`` handler, which +calls ``dsa_switch_rcv()``, is invoked early (on the physical DSA master; +LAG slave). Therefore, the RX data path of the LAG DSA master is not used. +On the other hand, TX takes place linearly: ``dsa_slave_xmit`` calls +``dsa_enqueue_skb``, which calls ``dev_queue_xmit`` towards the LAG DSA master. +The latter calls ``dev_queue_xmit`` towards one physical DSA master or the +other, and in both cases, the packet exits the system through a hardware path +towards the switch. + +Graphical representation +------------------------ + +Summarized, this is basically how DSA looks like from a network device +perspective:: + + Unaware application + opens and binds socket + | ^ + | | + +-----------v--|--------------------+ + |+------+ +------+ +------+ +------+| + || swp0 | | swp1 | | swp2 | | swp3 || + |+------+-+------+-+------+-+------+| + | DSA switch driver | + +-----------------------------------+ + | ^ + Tag added by | | Tag consumed by + switch driver | | switch driver + v | + +-----------------------------------+ + | Unmodified host interface driver | Software + --------+-----------------------------------+------------ + | Host interface (eth0) | Hardware + +-----------------------------------+ + | ^ + Tag consumed by | | Tag added by + switch hardware | | switch hardware + v | + +-----------------------------------+ + | Switch | + |+------+ +------+ +------+ +------+| + || swp0 | | swp1 | | swp2 | | swp3 || + ++------+-+------+-+------+-+------++ + +Slave MDIO bus +-------------- + +In order to be able to read to/from a switch PHY built into it, DSA creates a +slave MDIO bus which allows a specific switch driver to divert and intercept +MDIO reads/writes towards specific PHY addresses. In most MDIO-connected +switches, these functions would utilize direct or indirect PHY addressing mode +to return standard MII registers from the switch builtin PHYs, allowing the PHY +library and/or to return link status, link partner pages, auto-negotiation +results, etc. + +For Ethernet switches which have both external and internal MDIO buses, the +slave MII bus can be utilized to mux/demux MDIO reads and writes towards either +internal or external MDIO devices this switch might be connected to: internal +PHYs, external PHYs, or even external switches. + +Data structures +--------------- + +DSA data structures are defined in ``include/net/dsa.h`` as well as +``net/dsa/dsa_priv.h``: + +- ``dsa_chip_data``: platform data configuration for a given switch device, + this structure describes a switch device's parent device, its address, as + well as various properties of its ports: names/labels, and finally a routing + table indication (when cascading switches) + +- ``dsa_platform_data``: platform device configuration data which can reference + a collection of dsa_chip_data structures if multiple switches are cascaded, + the master network device this switch tree is attached to needs to be + referenced + +- ``dsa_switch_tree``: structure assigned to the master network device under + ``dsa_ptr``, this structure references a dsa_platform_data structure as well as + the tagging protocol supported by the switch tree, and which receive/transmit + function hooks should be invoked, information about the directly attached + switch is also provided: CPU port. Finally, a collection of dsa_switch are + referenced to address individual switches in the tree. + +- ``dsa_switch``: structure describing a switch device in the tree, referencing + a ``dsa_switch_tree`` as a backpointer, slave network devices, master network + device, and a reference to the backing``dsa_switch_ops`` + +- ``dsa_switch_ops``: structure referencing function pointers, see below for a + full description. + +Design limitations +================== + +Lack of CPU/DSA network devices +------------------------------- + +DSA does not currently create slave network devices for the CPU or DSA ports, as +described before. This might be an issue in the following cases: + +- inability to fetch switch CPU port statistics counters using ethtool, which + can make it harder to debug MDIO switch connected using xMII interfaces + +- inability to configure the CPU port link parameters based on the Ethernet + controller capabilities attached to it: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/509806/ + +- inability to configure specific VLAN IDs / trunking VLANs between switches + when using a cascaded setup + +Common pitfalls using DSA setups +-------------------------------- + +Once a master network device is configured to use DSA (dev->dsa_ptr becomes +non-NULL), and the switch behind it expects a tagging protocol, this network +interface can only exclusively be used as a conduit interface. Sending packets +directly through this interface (e.g.: opening a socket using this interface) +will not make us go through the switch tagging protocol transmit function, so +the Ethernet switch on the other end, expecting a tag will typically drop this +frame. + +Interactions with other subsystems +================================== + +DSA currently leverages the following subsystems: + +- MDIO/PHY library: ``drivers/net/phy/phy.c``, ``mdio_bus.c`` +- Switchdev:``net/switchdev/*`` +- Device Tree for various of_* functions +- Devlink: ``net/core/devlink.c`` + +MDIO/PHY library +---------------- + +Slave network devices exposed by DSA may or may not be interfacing with PHY +devices (``struct phy_device`` as defined in ``include/linux/phy.h)``, but the DSA +subsystem deals with all possible combinations: + +- internal PHY devices, built into the Ethernet switch hardware +- external PHY devices, connected via an internal or external MDIO bus +- internal PHY devices, connected via an internal MDIO bus +- special, non-autonegotiated or non MDIO-managed PHY devices: SFPs, MoCA; a.k.a + fixed PHYs + +The PHY configuration is done by the ``dsa_slave_phy_setup()`` function and the +logic basically looks like this: + +- if Device Tree is used, the PHY device is looked up using the standard + "phy-handle" property, if found, this PHY device is created and registered + using ``of_phy_connect()`` + +- if Device Tree is used and the PHY device is "fixed", that is, conforms to + the definition of a non-MDIO managed PHY as defined in + ``Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/fixed-link.txt``, the PHY is registered + and connected transparently using the special fixed MDIO bus driver + +- finally, if the PHY is built into the switch, as is very common with + standalone switch packages, the PHY is probed using the slave MII bus created + by DSA + + +SWITCHDEV +--------- + +DSA directly utilizes SWITCHDEV when interfacing with the bridge layer, and +more specifically with its VLAN filtering portion when configuring VLANs on top +of per-port slave network devices. As of today, the only SWITCHDEV objects +supported by DSA are the FDB and VLAN objects. + +Devlink +------- + +DSA registers one devlink device per physical switch in the fabric. +For each devlink device, every physical port (i.e. user ports, CPU ports, DSA +links or unused ports) is exposed as a devlink port. + +DSA drivers can make use of the following devlink features: + +- Regions: debugging feature which allows user space to dump driver-defined + areas of hardware information in a low-level, binary format. Both global + regions as well as per-port regions are supported. It is possible to export + devlink regions even for pieces of data that are already exposed in some way + to the standard iproute2 user space programs (ip-link, bridge), like address + tables and VLAN tables. For example, this might be useful if the tables + contain additional hardware-specific details which are not visible through + the iproute2 abstraction, or it might be useful to inspect these tables on + the non-user ports too, which are invisible to iproute2 because no network + interface is registered for them. +- Params: a feature which enables user to configure certain low-level tunable + knobs pertaining to the device. Drivers may implement applicable generic + devlink params, or may add new device-specific devlink params. +- Resources: a monitoring feature which enables users to see the degree of + utilization of certain hardware tables in the device, such as FDB, VLAN, etc. +- Shared buffers: a QoS feature for adjusting and partitioning memory and frame + reservations per port and per traffic class, in the ingress and egress + directions, such that low-priority bulk traffic does not impede the + processing of high-priority critical traffic. + +For more details, consult ``Documentation/networking/devlink/``. + +Device Tree +----------- + +DSA features a standardized binding which is documented in +``Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/dsa.txt``. PHY/MDIO library helper +functions such as ``of_get_phy_mode()``, ``of_phy_connect()`` are also used to query +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 +contain the various members described below. + +Probing, registration and device lifetime +----------------------------------------- + +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 +-------------------- + +- ``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. + +- ``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, + interrupts, mutexes, locks, etc. This function is also expected to properly + configure the switch to separate all network interfaces from each other, that + is, they should be isolated by the switch hardware itself, typically by creating + a Port-based VLAN ID for each port and allowing only the CPU port and the + specific port to be in the forwarding vector. Ports that are unused by the + platform should be disabled. Past this function, the switch is expected to be + 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. 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. + +- ``port_change_master``: method through which the affinity (association used + for traffic termination purposes) between a user port and a CPU port can be + changed. By default all user ports from a tree are assigned to the first + available CPU port that makes sense for them (most of the times this means + the user ports of a tree are all assigned to the same CPU port, except for H + topologies as described in commit 2c0b03258b8b). The ``port`` argument + represents the index of the user port, and the ``master`` argument represents + the new DSA master ``net_device``. The CPU port associated with the new + master can be retrieved by looking at ``struct dsa_port *cpu_dp = + master->dsa_ptr``. Additionally, the master can also be a LAG device where + all the slave devices are physical DSA masters. LAG DSA masters also have a + valid ``master->dsa_ptr`` pointer, however this is not unique, but rather a + duplicate of the first physical DSA master's (LAG slave) ``dsa_ptr``. In case + of a LAG DSA master, a further call to ``port_lag_join`` will be emitted + separately for the physical CPU ports associated with the physical DSA + masters, requesting them to create a hardware LAG associated with the LAG + interface. + +PHY devices and link management +------------------------------- + +- ``get_phy_flags``: Some switches are interfaced to various kinds of Ethernet PHYs, + if the PHY library PHY driver needs to know about information it cannot obtain + on its own (e.g.: coming from switch memory mapped registers), this function + should return a 32-bit bitmask of "flags" that is private between the switch + driver and the Ethernet PHY driver in ``drivers/net/phy/\*``. + +- ``phy_read``: Function invoked by the DSA slave MDIO bus when attempting to read + the switch port MDIO registers. If unavailable, return 0xffff for each read. + For builtin switch Ethernet PHYs, this function should allow reading the link + status, auto-negotiation results, link partner pages, etc. + +- ``phy_write``: Function invoked by the DSA slave MDIO bus when attempting to write + to the switch port MDIO registers. If unavailable return a negative error + code. + +- ``adjust_link``: Function invoked by the PHY library when a slave network device + is attached to a PHY device. This function is responsible for appropriately + configuring the switch port link parameters: speed, duplex, pause based on + what the ``phy_device`` is providing. + +- ``fixed_link_update``: Function invoked by the PHY library, and specifically by + the fixed PHY driver asking the switch driver for link parameters that could + not be auto-negotiated, or obtained by reading the PHY registers through MDIO. + This is particularly useful for specific kinds of hardware such as QSGMII, + MoCA or other kinds of non-MDIO managed PHYs where out of band link + information is obtained + +Ethtool operations +------------------ + +- ``get_strings``: ethtool function used to query the driver's strings, will + typically return statistics strings, private flags strings, etc. + +- ``get_ethtool_stats``: ethtool function used to query per-port statistics and + return their values. DSA overlays slave network devices general statistics: + RX/TX counters from the network device, with switch driver specific statistics + per port + +- ``get_sset_count``: ethtool function used to query the number of statistics items + +- ``get_wol``: ethtool function used to obtain Wake-on-LAN settings per-port, this + function may for certain implementations also query the master network device + Wake-on-LAN settings if this interface needs to participate in Wake-on-LAN + +- ``set_wol``: ethtool function used to configure Wake-on-LAN settings per-port, + direct counterpart to set_wol with similar restrictions + +- ``set_eee``: ethtool function which is used to configure a switch port EEE (Green + Ethernet) settings, can optionally invoke the PHY library to enable EEE at the + PHY level if relevant. This function should enable EEE at the switch port MAC + controller and data-processing logic + +- ``get_eee``: ethtool function which is used to query a switch port EEE settings, + this function should return the EEE state of the switch port MAC controller + and data-processing logic as well as query the PHY for its currently configured + EEE settings + +- ``get_eeprom_len``: ethtool function returning for a given switch the EEPROM + length/size in bytes + +- ``get_eeprom``: ethtool function returning for a given switch the EEPROM contents + +- ``set_eeprom``: ethtool function writing specified data to a given switch EEPROM + +- ``get_regs_len``: ethtool function returning the register length for a given + switch + +- ``get_regs``: ethtool function returning the Ethernet switch internal register + contents. This function might require user-land code in ethtool to + pretty-print register values and registers + +Power management +---------------- + +- ``suspend``: function invoked by the DSA platform device when the system goes to + suspend, should quiesce all Ethernet switch activities, but keep ports + participating in Wake-on-LAN active as well as additional wake-up logic if + supported + +- ``resume``: function invoked by the DSA platform device when the system resumes, + should resume all Ethernet switch activities and re-configure the switch to be + in a fully active state + +- ``port_enable``: function invoked by the DSA slave network device ndo_open + function when a port is administratively brought up, this function should + fully enable a given switch port. DSA takes care of marking the port with + ``BR_STATE_BLOCKING`` if the port is a bridge member, or ``BR_STATE_FORWARDING`` if it + was not, and propagating these changes down to the hardware + +- ``port_disable``: function invoked by the DSA slave network device ndo_close + function when a port is administratively brought down, this function should + fully disable a given switch port. DSA takes care of marking the port with + ``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. + +- ``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. + +- ``port_bridge_flags``: bridge layer function invoked when a port must + configure its settings for e.g. flooding of unknown traffic or source address + learning. The switch driver is responsible for initial setup of the + standalone ports with address learning disabled and egress flooding of all + types of traffic, then the DSA core notifies of any change to the bridge port + flags when the port joins and leaves a bridge. DSA does not currently manage + the bridge port flags for the CPU port. The assumption is that address + learning should be statically enabled (if supported by the hardware) on the + 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_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 +--------------------- + +- ``port_vlan_filtering``: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge gets + configured for turning on or off VLAN filtering. If nothing specific needs to + be done at the hardware level, this callback does not need to be implemented. + When VLAN filtering is turned on, the hardware must be programmed with + rejecting 802.1Q frames which have VLAN IDs outside of the programmed allowed + VLAN ID map/rules. If there is no PVID programmed into the switch port, + untagged frames must be rejected as well. When turned off the switch must + accept any 802.1Q frames irrespective of their VLAN ID, and untagged frames are + allowed. + +- ``port_vlan_add``: bridge layer function invoked when a VLAN is configured + (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_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. + +- ``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 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. The switch hardware should be programmed with the + specified address in the specified VLAN ID in the forwarding database + associated with this VLAN ID. + +- ``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. + +Link aggregation +---------------- + +Link aggregation is implemented in the Linux networking stack by the bonding +and team drivers, which are modeled as virtual, stackable network interfaces. +DSA is capable of offloading a link aggregation group (LAG) to hardware that +supports the feature, and supports bridging between physical ports and LAGs, +as well as between LAGs. A bonding/team interface which holds multiple physical +ports constitutes a logical port, although DSA has no explicit concept of a +logical port at the moment. Due to this, events where a LAG joins/leaves a +bridge are treated as if all individual physical ports that are members of that +LAG join/leave the bridge. Switchdev port attributes (VLAN filtering, STP +state, etc) and objects (VLANs, MDB entries) offloaded to a LAG as bridge port +are treated similarly: DSA offloads the same switchdev object / port attribute +on all members of the LAG. Static bridge FDB entries on a LAG are not yet +supported, since the DSA driver API does not have the concept of a logical port +ID. + +- ``port_lag_join``: function invoked when a given switch port is added to a + LAG. The driver may return ``-EOPNOTSUPP``, and in this case, DSA will fall + back to a software implementation where all traffic from this port is sent to + the CPU. +- ``port_lag_leave``: function invoked when a given switch port leaves a LAG + and returns to operation as a standalone port. +- ``port_lag_change``: function invoked when the link state of any member of + the LAG changes, and the hashing function needs rebalancing to only make use + of the subset of physical LAG member ports that are up. + +Drivers that benefit from having an ID associated with each offloaded LAG +can optionally populate ``ds->num_lag_ids`` from the ``dsa_switch_ops::setup`` +method. The LAG ID associated with a bonding/team interface can then be +retrieved by a DSA switch driver using the ``dsa_lag_id`` function. + +IEC 62439-2 (MRP) +----------------- + +The Media Redundancy Protocol is a topology management protocol optimized for +fast fault recovery time for ring networks, which has some components +implemented as a function of the bridge driver. MRP uses management PDUs +(Test, Topology, LinkDown/Up, Option) sent at a multicast destination MAC +address range of 01:15:4e:00:00:0x and with an EtherType of 0x88e3. +Depending on the node's role in the ring (MRM: Media Redundancy Manager, +MRC: Media Redundancy Client, MRA: Media Redundancy Automanager), certain MRP +PDUs might need to be terminated locally and others might need to be forwarded. +An MRM might also benefit from offloading to hardware the creation and +transmission of certain MRP PDUs (Test). + +Normally an MRP instance can be created on top of any network interface, +however in the case of a device with an offloaded data path such as DSA, it is +necessary for the hardware, even if it is not MRP-aware, to be able to extract +the MRP PDUs from the fabric before the driver can proceed with the software +implementation. DSA today has no driver which is MRP-aware, therefore it only +listens for the bare minimum switchdev objects required for the software assist +to work properly. The operations are detailed below. + +- ``port_mrp_add`` and ``port_mrp_del``: notifies driver when an MRP instance + with a certain ring ID, priority, primary port and secondary port is + created/deleted. +- ``port_mrp_add_ring_role`` and ``port_mrp_del_ring_role``: function invoked + when an MRP instance changes ring roles between MRM or MRC. This affects + which MRP PDUs should be trapped to software and which should be autonomously + forwarded. + +IEC 62439-3 (HSR/PRP) +--------------------- + +The Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP) is a network redundancy protocol which +works by duplicating and sequence numbering packets through two independent L2 +networks (which are unaware of the PRP tail tags carried in the packets), and +eliminating the duplicates at the receiver. The High-availability Seamless +Redundancy (HSR) protocol is similar in concept, except all nodes that carry +the redundant traffic are aware of the fact that it is HSR-tagged (because HSR +uses a header with an EtherType of 0x892f) and are physically connected in a +ring topology. Both HSR and PRP use supervision frames for monitoring the +health of the network and for discovery of other nodes. + +In Linux, both HSR and PRP are implemented in the hsr driver, which +instantiates a virtual, stackable network interface with two member ports. +The driver only implements the basic roles of DANH (Doubly Attached Node +implementing HSR) and DANP (Doubly Attached Node implementing PRP); the roles +of RedBox and QuadBox are not implemented (therefore, bridging a hsr network +interface with a physical switch port does not produce the expected result). + +A driver which is able of offloading certain functions of a DANP or DANH should +declare the corresponding netdev features as indicated by the documentation at +``Documentation/networking/netdev-features.rst``. Additionally, the following +methods must be implemented: + +- ``port_hsr_join``: function invoked when a given switch port is added to a + DANP/DANH. The driver may return ``-EOPNOTSUPP`` and in this case, DSA will + fall back to a software implementation where all traffic from this port is + sent to the CPU. +- ``port_hsr_leave``: function invoked when a given switch port leaves a + DANP/DANH and returns to normal operation as a standalone port. + +TODO +==== + +Making SWITCHDEV and DSA converge towards an unified codebase +------------------------------------------------------------- + +SWITCHDEV properly takes care of abstracting the networking stack with offload +capable hardware, but does not enforce a strict switch device driver model. On +the other DSA enforces a fairly strict device driver model, and deals with most +of the switch specific. At some point we should envision a merger between these +two subsystems and get the best of both worlds. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/dsa/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ee631e2d64 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +=============================== +Distributed Switch Architecture +=============================== + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + dsa + b53 + bcm_sf2 + lan9303 + sja1105 + configuration diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/lan9303.rst b/Documentation/networking/dsa/lan9303.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e3c820db28 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/lan9303.rst @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +============================== +LAN9303 Ethernet switch driver +============================== + +The LAN9303 is a three port 10/100 Mbps ethernet switch with integrated phys for +the two external ethernet ports. The third port is an RMII/MII interface to a +host master network interface (e.g. fixed link). + + +Driver details +============== + +The driver is implemented as a DSA driver, see ``Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst``. + +See ``Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/lan9303.txt`` for device tree +binding. + +The LAN9303 can be managed both via MDIO and I2C, both supported by this driver. + +At startup the driver configures the device to provide two separate network +interfaces (which is the default state of a DSA device). Due to HW limitations, +no HW MAC learning takes place in this mode. + +When both user ports are joined to the same bridge, the normal HW MAC learning +is enabled. This means that unicast traffic is forwarded in HW. Broadcast and +multicast is flooded in HW. STP is also supported in this mode. The driver +support fdb/mdb operations as well, meaning IGMP snooping is supported. + +If one of the user ports leave the bridge, the ports goes back to the initial +separated operation. + + +Driver limitations +================== + + - Support for VLAN filtering is not implemented + - The HW does not support VLAN-specific fdb entries diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/sja1105.rst b/Documentation/networking/dsa/sja1105.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e0219c1452 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/sja1105.rst @@ -0,0 +1,445 @@ +========================= +NXP SJA1105 switch driver +========================= + +Overview +======== + +The NXP SJA1105 is a family of 10 SPI-managed automotive switches: + +- SJA1105E: First generation, no TTEthernet +- SJA1105T: First generation, TTEthernet +- SJA1105P: Second generation, no TTEthernet, no SGMII +- SJA1105Q: Second generation, TTEthernet, no SGMII +- SJA1105R: Second generation, no TTEthernet, SGMII +- SJA1105S: Second generation, TTEthernet, SGMII +- SJA1110A: Third generation, TTEthernet, SGMII, integrated 100base-T1 and + 100base-TX PHYs +- SJA1110B: Third generation, TTEthernet, SGMII, 100base-T1, 100base-TX +- SJA1110C: Third generation, TTEthernet, SGMII, 100base-T1, 100base-TX +- SJA1110D: Third generation, TTEthernet, SGMII, 100base-T1 + +Being automotive parts, their configuration interface is geared towards +set-and-forget use, with minimal dynamic interaction at runtime. They +require a static configuration to be composed by software and packed +with CRC and table headers, and sent over SPI. + +The static configuration is composed of several configuration tables. Each +table takes a number of entries. Some configuration tables can be (partially) +reconfigured at runtime, some not. Some tables are mandatory, some not: + +============================= ================== ============================= +Table Mandatory Reconfigurable +============================= ================== ============================= +Schedule no no +Schedule entry points if Scheduling no +VL Lookup no no +VL Policing if VL Lookup no +VL Forwarding if VL Lookup no +L2 Lookup no no +L2 Policing yes no +VLAN Lookup yes yes +L2 Forwarding yes partially (fully on P/Q/R/S) +MAC Config yes partially (fully on P/Q/R/S) +Schedule Params if Scheduling no +Schedule Entry Points Params if Scheduling no +VL Forwarding Params if VL Forwarding no +L2 Lookup Params no partially (fully on P/Q/R/S) +L2 Forwarding Params yes no +Clock Sync Params no no +AVB Params no no +General Params yes partially +Retagging no yes +xMII Params yes no +SGMII no yes +============================= ================== ============================= + + +Also the configuration is write-only (software cannot read it back from the +switch except for very few exceptions). + +The driver creates a static configuration at probe time, and keeps it at +all times in memory, as a shadow for the hardware state. When required to +change a hardware setting, the static configuration is also updated. +If that changed setting can be transmitted to the switch through the dynamic +reconfiguration interface, it is; otherwise the switch is reset and +reprogrammed with the updated static configuration. + +Switching features +================== + +The driver supports the configuration of L2 forwarding rules in hardware for +port bridging. The forwarding, broadcast and flooding domain between ports can +be restricted through two methods: either at the L2 forwarding level (isolate +one bridge's ports from another's) or at the VLAN port membership level +(isolate ports within the same bridge). The final forwarding decision taken by +the hardware is a logical AND of these two sets of rules. + +The hardware tags all traffic internally with a port-based VLAN (pvid), or it +decodes the VLAN information from the 802.1Q tag. Advanced VLAN classification +is not possible. Once attributed a VLAN tag, frames are checked against the +port's membership rules and dropped at ingress if they don't match any VLAN. +This behavior is available when switch ports are enslaved to a bridge with +``vlan_filtering 1``. + +Normally the hardware is not configurable with respect to VLAN awareness, but +by changing what TPID the switch searches 802.1Q tags for, the semantics of a +bridge with ``vlan_filtering 0`` can be kept (accept all traffic, tagged or +untagged), and therefore this mode is also supported. + +Segregating the switch ports in multiple bridges is supported (e.g. 2 + 2), but +all bridges should have the same level of VLAN awareness (either both have +``vlan_filtering`` 0, or both 1). + +Topology and loop detection through STP is supported. + +Offloads +======== + +Time-aware scheduling +--------------------- + +The switch supports a variation of the enhancements for scheduled traffic +specified in IEEE 802.1Q-2018 (formerly 802.1Qbv). This means it can be used to +ensure deterministic latency for priority traffic that is sent in-band with its +gate-open event in the network schedule. + +This capability can be managed through the tc-taprio offload ('flags 2'). The +difference compared to the software implementation of taprio is that the latter +would only be able to shape traffic originated from the CPU, but not +autonomously forwarded flows. + +The device has 8 traffic classes, and maps incoming frames to one of them based +on the VLAN PCP bits (if no VLAN is present, the port-based default is used). +As described in the previous sections, depending on the value of +``vlan_filtering``, the EtherType recognized by the switch as being VLAN can +either be the typical 0x8100 or a custom value used internally by the driver +for tagging. Therefore, the switch ignores the VLAN PCP if used in standalone +or bridge mode with ``vlan_filtering=0``, as it will not recognize the 0x8100 +EtherType. In these modes, injecting into a particular TX queue can only be +done by the DSA net devices, which populate the PCP field of the tagging header +on egress. Using ``vlan_filtering=1``, the behavior is the other way around: +offloaded flows can be steered to TX queues based on the VLAN PCP, but the DSA +net devices are no longer able to do that. To inject frames into a hardware TX +queue with VLAN awareness active, it is necessary to create a VLAN +sub-interface on the DSA master port, and send normal (0x8100) VLAN-tagged +towards the switch, with the VLAN PCP bits set appropriately. + +Management traffic (having DMAC 01-80-C2-xx-xx-xx or 01-19-1B-xx-xx-xx) is the +notable exception: the switch always treats it with a fixed priority and +disregards any VLAN PCP bits even if present. The traffic class for management +traffic has a value of 7 (highest priority) at the moment, which is not +configurable in the driver. + +Below is an example of configuring a 500 us cyclic schedule on egress port +``swp5``. The traffic class gate for management traffic (7) is open for 100 us, +and the gates for all other traffic classes are open for 400 us:: + + #!/bin/bash + + set -e -u -o pipefail + + NSEC_PER_SEC="1000000000" + + gatemask() { + local tc_list="$1" + local mask=0 + + for tc in ${tc_list}; do + mask=$((${mask} | (1 << ${tc}))) + done + + printf "%02x" ${mask} + } + + if ! systemctl is-active --quiet ptp4l; then + echo "Please start the ptp4l service" + exit + fi + + now=$(phc_ctl /dev/ptp1 get | gawk '/clock time is/ { print $5; }') + # Phase-align the base time to the start of the next second. + sec=$(echo "${now}" | gawk -F. '{ print $1; }') + base_time="$(((${sec} + 1) * ${NSEC_PER_SEC}))" + + tc qdisc add dev swp5 parent root handle 100 taprio \ + num_tc 8 \ + map 0 1 2 3 5 6 7 \ + queues 1@0 1@1 1@2 1@3 1@4 1@5 1@6 1@7 \ + base-time ${base_time} \ + sched-entry S $(gatemask 7) 100000 \ + sched-entry S $(gatemask "0 1 2 3 4 5 6") 400000 \ + flags 2 + +It is possible to apply the tc-taprio offload on multiple egress ports. There +are hardware restrictions related to the fact that no gate event may trigger +simultaneously on two ports. The driver checks the consistency of the schedules +against this restriction and errors out when appropriate. Schedule analysis is +needed to avoid this, which is outside the scope of the document. + +Routing actions (redirect, trap, drop) +-------------------------------------- + +The switch is able to offload flow-based redirection of packets to a set of +destination ports specified by the user. Internally, this is implemented by +making use of Virtual Links, a TTEthernet concept. + +The driver supports 2 types of keys for Virtual Links: + +- VLAN-aware virtual links: these match on destination MAC address, VLAN ID and + VLAN PCP. +- VLAN-unaware virtual links: these match on destination MAC address only. + +The VLAN awareness state of the bridge (vlan_filtering) cannot be changed while +there are virtual link rules installed. + +Composing multiple actions inside the same rule is supported. When only routing +actions are requested, the driver creates a "non-critical" virtual link. When +the action list also contains tc-gate (more details below), the virtual link +becomes "time-critical" (draws frame buffers from a reserved memory partition, +etc). + +The 3 routing actions that are supported are "trap", "drop" and "redirect". + +Example 1: send frames received on swp2 with a DA of 42:be:24:9b:76:20 to the +CPU and to swp3. This type of key (DA only) when the port's VLAN awareness +state is off:: + + tc qdisc add dev swp2 clsact + tc filter add dev swp2 ingress flower skip_sw dst_mac 42:be:24:9b:76:20 \ + action mirred egress redirect dev swp3 \ + action trap + +Example 2: drop frames received on swp2 with a DA of 42:be:24:9b:76:20, a VID +of 100 and a PCP of 0:: + + tc filter add dev swp2 ingress protocol 802.1Q flower skip_sw \ + dst_mac 42:be:24:9b:76:20 vlan_id 100 vlan_prio 0 action drop + +Time-based ingress policing +--------------------------- + +The TTEthernet hardware abilities of the switch can be constrained to act +similarly to the Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (PSFP) clause specified in +IEEE 802.1Q-2018 (formerly 802.1Qci). This means it can be used to perform +tight timing-based admission control for up to 1024 flows (identified by a +tuple composed of destination MAC address, VLAN ID and VLAN PCP). Packets which +are received outside their expected reception window are dropped. + +This capability can be managed through the offload of the tc-gate action. As +routing actions are intrinsic to virtual links in TTEthernet (which performs +explicit routing of time-critical traffic and does not leave that in the hands +of the FDB, flooding etc), the tc-gate action may never appear alone when +asking sja1105 to offload it. One (or more) redirect or trap actions must also +follow along. + +Example: create a tc-taprio schedule that is phase-aligned with a tc-gate +schedule (the clocks must be synchronized by a 1588 application stack, which is +outside the scope of this document). No packet delivered by the sender will be +dropped. Note that the reception window is larger than the transmission window +(and much more so, in this example) to compensate for the packet propagation +delay of the link (which can be determined by the 1588 application stack). + +Receiver (sja1105):: + + tc qdisc add dev swp2 clsact + now=$(phc_ctl /dev/ptp1 get | awk '/clock time is/ {print $5}') && \ + sec=$(echo $now | awk -F. '{print $1}') && \ + base_time="$(((sec + 2) * 1000000000))" && \ + echo "base time ${base_time}" + tc filter add dev swp2 ingress flower skip_sw \ + dst_mac 42:be:24:9b:76:20 \ + action gate base-time ${base_time} \ + sched-entry OPEN 60000 -1 -1 \ + sched-entry CLOSE 40000 -1 -1 \ + action trap + +Sender:: + + now=$(phc_ctl /dev/ptp0 get | awk '/clock time is/ {print $5}') && \ + sec=$(echo $now | awk -F. '{print $1}') && \ + base_time="$(((sec + 2) * 1000000000))" && \ + echo "base time ${base_time}" + tc qdisc add dev eno0 parent root taprio \ + num_tc 8 \ + map 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 \ + queues 1@0 1@1 1@2 1@3 1@4 1@5 1@6 1@7 \ + base-time ${base_time} \ + sched-entry S 01 50000 \ + sched-entry S 00 50000 \ + flags 2 + +The engine used to schedule the ingress gate operations is the same that the +one used for the tc-taprio offload. Therefore, the restrictions regarding the +fact that no two gate actions (either tc-gate or tc-taprio gates) may fire at +the same time (during the same 200 ns slot) still apply. + +To come in handy, it is possible to share time-triggered virtual links across +more than 1 ingress port, via flow blocks. In this case, the restriction of +firing at the same time does not apply because there is a single schedule in +the system, that of the shared virtual link:: + + tc qdisc add dev swp2 ingress_block 1 clsact + tc qdisc add dev swp3 ingress_block 1 clsact + tc filter add block 1 flower skip_sw dst_mac 42:be:24:9b:76:20 \ + action gate index 2 \ + base-time 0 \ + sched-entry OPEN 50000000 -1 -1 \ + sched-entry CLOSE 50000000 -1 -1 \ + action trap + +Hardware statistics for each flow are also available ("pkts" counts the number +of dropped frames, which is a sum of frames dropped due to timing violations, +lack of destination ports and MTU enforcement checks). Byte-level counters are +not available. + +Limitations +=========== + +The SJA1105 switch family always performs VLAN processing. When configured as +VLAN-unaware, frames carry a different VLAN tag internally, depending on +whether the port is standalone or under a VLAN-unaware bridge. + +The virtual link keys are always fixed at {MAC DA, VLAN ID, VLAN PCP}, but the +driver asks for the VLAN ID and VLAN PCP when the port is under a VLAN-aware +bridge. Otherwise, it fills in the VLAN ID and PCP automatically, based on +whether the port is standalone or in a VLAN-unaware bridge, and accepts only +"VLAN-unaware" tc-flower keys (MAC DA). + +The existing tc-flower keys that are offloaded using virtual links are no +longer operational after one of the following happens: + +- port was standalone and joins a bridge (VLAN-aware or VLAN-unaware) +- port is part of a bridge whose VLAN awareness state changes +- port was part of a bridge and becomes standalone +- port was standalone, but another port joins a VLAN-aware bridge and this + changes the global VLAN awareness state of the bridge + +The driver cannot veto all these operations, and it cannot update/remove the +existing tc-flower filters either. So for proper operation, the tc-flower +filters should be installed only after the forwarding configuration of the port +has been made, and removed by user space before making any changes to it. + +Device Tree bindings and board design +===================================== + +This section references ``Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/nxp,sja1105.yaml`` +and aims to showcase some potential switch caveats. + +RMII PHY role and out-of-band signaling +--------------------------------------- + +In the RMII spec, the 50 MHz clock signals are either driven by the MAC or by +an external oscillator (but not by the PHY). +But the spec is rather loose and devices go outside it in several ways. +Some PHYs go against the spec and may provide an output pin where they source +the 50 MHz clock themselves, in an attempt to be helpful. +On the other hand, the SJA1105 is only binary configurable - when in the RMII +MAC role it will also attempt to drive the clock signal. To prevent this from +happening it must be put in RMII PHY role. +But doing so has some unintended consequences. +In the RMII spec, the PHY can transmit extra out-of-band signals via RXD[1:0]. +These are practically some extra code words (/J/ and /K/) sent prior to the +preamble of each frame. The MAC does not have this out-of-band signaling +mechanism defined by the RMII spec. +So when the SJA1105 port is put in PHY role to avoid having 2 drivers on the +clock signal, inevitably an RMII PHY-to-PHY connection is created. The SJA1105 +emulates a PHY interface fully and generates the /J/ and /K/ symbols prior to +frame preambles, which the real PHY is not expected to understand. So the PHY +simply encodes the extra symbols received from the SJA1105-as-PHY onto the +100Base-Tx wire. +On the other side of the wire, some link partners might discard these extra +symbols, while others might choke on them and discard the entire Ethernet +frames that follow along. This looks like packet loss with some link partners +but not with others. +The take-away is that in RMII mode, the SJA1105 must be let to drive the +reference clock if connected to a PHY. + +RGMII fixed-link and internal delays +------------------------------------ + +As mentioned in the bindings document, the second generation of devices has +tunable delay lines as part of the MAC, which can be used to establish the +correct RGMII timing budget. +When powered up, these can shift the Rx and Tx clocks with a phase difference +between 73.8 and 101.7 degrees. +The catch is that the delay lines need to lock onto a clock signal with a +stable frequency. This means that there must be at least 2 microseconds of +silence between the clock at the old vs at the new frequency. Otherwise the +lock is lost and the delay lines must be reset (powered down and back up). +In RGMII the clock frequency changes with link speed (125 MHz at 1000 Mbps, 25 +MHz at 100 Mbps and 2.5 MHz at 10 Mbps), and link speed might change during the +AN process. +In the situation where the switch port is connected through an RGMII fixed-link +to a link partner whose link state life cycle is outside the control of Linux +(such as a different SoC), then the delay lines would remain unlocked (and +inactive) until there is manual intervention (ifdown/ifup on the switch port). +The take-away is that in RGMII mode, the switch's internal delays are only +reliable if the link partner never changes link speeds, or if it does, it does +so in a way that is coordinated with the switch port (practically, both ends of +the fixed-link are under control of the same Linux system). +As to why would a fixed-link interface ever change link speeds: there are +Ethernet controllers out there which come out of reset in 100 Mbps mode, and +their driver inevitably needs to change the speed and clock frequency if it's +required to work at gigabit. + +MDIO bus and PHY management +--------------------------- + +The SJA1105 does not have an MDIO bus and does not perform in-band AN either. +Therefore there is no link state notification coming from the switch device. +A board would need to hook up the PHYs connected to the switch to any other +MDIO bus available to Linux within the system (e.g. to the DSA master's MDIO +bus). Link state management then works by the driver manually keeping in sync +(over SPI commands) the MAC link speed with the settings negotiated by the PHY. + +By comparison, the SJA1110 supports an MDIO slave access point over which its +internal 100base-T1 PHYs can be accessed from the host. This is, however, not +used by the driver, instead the internal 100base-T1 and 100base-TX PHYs are +accessed through SPI commands, modeled in Linux as virtual MDIO buses. + +The microcontroller attached to the SJA1110 port 0 also has an MDIO controller +operating in master mode, however the driver does not support this either, +since the microcontroller gets disabled when the Linux driver operates. +Discrete PHYs connected to the switch ports should have their MDIO interface +attached to an MDIO controller from the host system and not to the switch, +similar to SJA1105. + +Port compatibility matrix +------------------------- + +The SJA1105 port compatibility matrix is: + +===== ============== ============== ============== +Port SJA1105E/T SJA1105P/Q SJA1105R/S +===== ============== ============== ============== +0 xMII xMII xMII +1 xMII xMII xMII +2 xMII xMII xMII +3 xMII xMII xMII +4 xMII xMII SGMII +===== ============== ============== ============== + + +The SJA1110 port compatibility matrix is: + +===== ============== ============== ============== ============== +Port SJA1110A SJA1110B SJA1110C SJA1110D +===== ============== ============== ============== ============== +0 RevMII (uC) RevMII (uC) RevMII (uC) RevMII (uC) +1 100base-TX 100base-TX 100base-TX + or SGMII SGMII +2 xMII xMII xMII xMII + or SGMII or SGMII +3 xMII xMII xMII + or SGMII or SGMII SGMII + or 2500base-X or 2500base-X or 2500base-X +4 SGMII SGMII SGMII SGMII + or 2500base-X or 2500base-X or 2500base-X or 2500base-X +5 100base-T1 100base-T1 100base-T1 100base-T1 +6 100base-T1 100base-T1 100base-T1 100base-T1 +7 100base-T1 100base-T1 100base-T1 100base-T1 +8 100base-T1 100base-T1 n/a n/a +9 100base-T1 100base-T1 n/a n/a +10 100base-T1 n/a n/a n/a +===== ============== ============== ============== ============== |