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| author | Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> | 2020-05-29 21:36:40 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-06-01 11:49:23 -0700 |
| commit | 30a4e9a29ab9aadfe6c5386ae4aa396b1d2556c2 (patch) | |
| tree | 87f5fd2b34514fd7ef932ab419bcebe4320329fd /include | |
| parent | 9eefeabed6f831018c15bd7e17d34967ee34d9dd (diff) | |
| download | linux-30a4e9a29ab9aadfe6c5386ae4aa396b1d2556c2.tar.bz2 | |
devlink: Add 'control' trap type
This type is used for traps that trap control packets such as ARP
request and IGMP query to the CPU.
Do not report such packets to the kernel's drop monitor as they were not
dropped by the device no encountered an exception during forwarding.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/devlink.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/devlink.h b/include/uapi/linux/devlink.h index 16305932a950..08563e6a424d 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/devlink.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/devlink.h @@ -253,10 +253,16 @@ enum devlink_trap_action { * control plane for resolution. Trapped packets * are processed by devlink and injected to * the kernel's Rx path. + * @DEVLINK_TRAP_TYPE_CONTROL: Packet was trapped because it is required for + * the correct functioning of the control plane. + * For example, an ARP request packet. Trapped + * packets are injected to the kernel's Rx path, + * but not reported to drop monitor. */ enum devlink_trap_type { DEVLINK_TRAP_TYPE_DROP, DEVLINK_TRAP_TYPE_EXCEPTION, + DEVLINK_TRAP_TYPE_CONTROL, }; enum { |