From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932493AbdBGWRi (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2017 17:17:38 -0500 Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:46921 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755421AbdBGWQi (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2017 17:16:38 -0500 From: Shannon Nelson To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Shannon Nelson Subject: [PATCH v2 net-next 1/9] sunvnet: make sunvnet common code dynamically loadable Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 14:12:54 -0800 Message-Id: <1486505582-76823-2-git-send-email-shannon.nelson@oracle.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.1 In-Reply-To: <1486505582-76823-1-git-send-email-shannon.nelson@oracle.com> References: <1486505582-76823-1-git-send-email-shannon.nelson@oracle.com> X-Source-IP: aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org When the sunvnet_common code was split out for use by both sunvnet and the newer ldmvsw, it was made into a static kernel library, which limits the usefulness of sunvnet and ldmvsw as loadables, since most of the real work is being done in the shared code. Also, this is simply dead code in kernels that aren't running the LDoms. This patch makes the sunvnet_common into a dynamically loadable module and makes sunvnet and ldmvsw dependent on sunvnet_common. Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson --- drivers/net/ethernet/sun/Kconfig | 8 ++++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/Kconfig index a4b40e3..a7d91da 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/Kconfig @@ -70,19 +70,23 @@ config CASSINI . config SUNVNET_COMMON - bool + tristate "Common routines to support Sun Virtual Networking" depends on SUN_LDOMS - default y if SUN_LDOMS + default m if SUN_LDOMS config SUNVNET tristate "Sun Virtual Network support" + default m depends on SUN_LDOMS + depends on SUNVNET_COMMON ---help--- Support for virtual network devices under Sun Logical Domains. config LDMVSW tristate "Sun4v LDoms Virtual Switch support" + default m depends on SUN_LDOMS + depends on SUNVNET_COMMON ---help--- Support for virtual switch devices under Sun4v Logical Domains. This driver adds a network interface for every vsw-port node diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c index 191c8ad..e03cf13 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c @@ -37,6 +37,35 @@ */ #define VNET_MAX_RETRIES 10 +#define DRV_MODULE_NAME "sunvnet_common" +#define DRV_MODULE_VERSION "1.1" +#define DRV_MODULE_RELDATE "February 3, 2017" + +static char version[] = + DRV_MODULE_NAME " " DRV_MODULE_VERSION " (" DRV_MODULE_RELDATE ")"; +MODULE_AUTHOR("David S. Miller (davem@davemloft.net)"); +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Sun LDOM virtual network support library"); +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); +MODULE_VERSION(DRV_MODULE_VERSION); + +static int __init sunvnet_common_init(void) +{ + pr_info("%s\n", version); + return 0; +} +module_init(sunvnet_common_init); + +static void __exit sunvnet_common_exit(void) +{ + /* Empty function, just here to fill the exit function pointer + * slot. In some combinations of older gcc and newer kernel, + * leaving this undefined results in the kernel marking it as a + * permanent module; it will show up in lsmod output as [permanent] + * and not be unloadable. + */ +} +module_exit(sunvnet_common_exit); + static int __vnet_tx_trigger(struct vnet_port *port, u32 start); static void vnet_port_reset(struct vnet_port *port); -- 1.7.1 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shannon Nelson Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:12:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v2 net-next 1/9] sunvnet: make sunvnet common code dynamically loadable Message-Id: <1486505582-76823-2-git-send-email-shannon.nelson@oracle.com> List-Id: References: <1486505582-76823-1-git-send-email-shannon.nelson@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <1486505582-76823-1-git-send-email-shannon.nelson@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Shannon Nelson When the sunvnet_common code was split out for use by both sunvnet and the newer ldmvsw, it was made into a static kernel library, which limits the usefulness of sunvnet and ldmvsw as loadables, since most of the real work is being done in the shared code. Also, this is simply dead code in kernels that aren't running the LDoms. This patch makes the sunvnet_common into a dynamically loadable module and makes sunvnet and ldmvsw dependent on sunvnet_common. Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson --- drivers/net/ethernet/sun/Kconfig | 8 ++++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/Kconfig index a4b40e3..a7d91da 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/Kconfig @@ -70,19 +70,23 @@ config CASSINI . config SUNVNET_COMMON - bool + tristate "Common routines to support Sun Virtual Networking" depends on SUN_LDOMS - default y if SUN_LDOMS + default m if SUN_LDOMS config SUNVNET tristate "Sun Virtual Network support" + default m depends on SUN_LDOMS + depends on SUNVNET_COMMON ---help--- Support for virtual network devices under Sun Logical Domains. config LDMVSW tristate "Sun4v LDoms Virtual Switch support" + default m depends on SUN_LDOMS + depends on SUNVNET_COMMON ---help--- Support for virtual switch devices under Sun4v Logical Domains. This driver adds a network interface for every vsw-port node diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c index 191c8ad..e03cf13 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c @@ -37,6 +37,35 @@ */ #define VNET_MAX_RETRIES 10 +#define DRV_MODULE_NAME "sunvnet_common" +#define DRV_MODULE_VERSION "1.1" +#define DRV_MODULE_RELDATE "February 3, 2017" + +static char version[] + DRV_MODULE_NAME " " DRV_MODULE_VERSION " (" DRV_MODULE_RELDATE ")"; +MODULE_AUTHOR("David S. Miller (davem@davemloft.net)"); +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Sun LDOM virtual network support library"); +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); +MODULE_VERSION(DRV_MODULE_VERSION); + +static int __init sunvnet_common_init(void) +{ + pr_info("%s\n", version); + return 0; +} +module_init(sunvnet_common_init); + +static void __exit sunvnet_common_exit(void) +{ + /* Empty function, just here to fill the exit function pointer + * slot. In some combinations of older gcc and newer kernel, + * leaving this undefined results in the kernel marking it as a + * permanent module; it will show up in lsmod output as [permanent] + * and not be unloadable. + */ +} +module_exit(sunvnet_common_exit); + static int __vnet_tx_trigger(struct vnet_port *port, u32 start); static void vnet_port_reset(struct vnet_port *port); -- 1.7.1