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Merge branch 'fib-notifier-event-replay'
Jiri Pirko says:
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ipv4: fib: Replay events when registering FIB notifier
Ido says:
In kernel 4.9 the switchdev-specific FIB offload mechanism was replaced
by a new FIB notification chain to which modules could register in order
to be notified about the addition and deletion of FIB entries. The
motivation for this change was that switchdev drivers need to be able to
reflect the entire FIB table and not only FIBs configured on top of the
port netdevs themselves. This is useful in case of in-band management.
The fundamental problem with this approach is that upon registration
listeners lose all the information previously sent in the chain and
thus have an incomplete view of the FIB tables, which can result in
packet loss. This patchset fixes that by dumping the FIB tables and
replaying notifications previously sent in the chain for the registered
notification block.
The entire dump process is done under RCU and thus the FIB notification
chain is converted to be atomic. The listeners are modified accordingly.
This is done in the first eight patches.
The ninth patch adds a change sequence counter to ensure the integrity
of the FIB dump. The last patch adds the dump itself to the FIB chain
registration function and modifies existing listeners to pass a callback
to be executed in case dump was inconsistent.
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v3->v4:
- Register the notification block after the dump and protect it using
the change sequence counter (Hannes Frederic Sowa).
- Since we now integrate the dump into the registration function, drop
the sysctl to set maximum number of retries and instead set it to a
fixed number. Lets see if it's really a problem before adding something
we can never remove.
- For the same reason, dump FIB tables for all net namespaces.
- Add a comment regarding guarantees provided by mutex semantics.
v2->v3:
- Add sysctl to set the number of FIB dump retries (Hannes Frederic Sowa).
- Read the sequence counter under RTNL to ensure synchronization
between the dump process and other processes changing the routing
tables (Hannes Frederic Sowa).
- Pass a callback to the dump function to be executed prior to a retry.
- Limit the dump to a single net namespace.
v1->v2:
- Add a sequence counter to ensure the integrity of the FIB dump
(David S. Miller, Hannes Frederic Sowa).
- Protect notifications from re-ordering in listeners by using an
ordered workqueue (Hannes Frederic Sowa).
- Introduce fib_info_hold() (Jiri Pirko).
- Relieve rocker from the need to invoke the FIB dump by registering
to the FIB notification chain prior to ports creation.
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Signed-off-by: 
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>