Greetings,
I recently tried running netconsole via a vlan interface without luck,
and decided to do something about it (see patch below).
My interfaces look like this:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:5E:28:3C:2E
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:11763760878 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13800040335 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3453951528686 (3.1 TiB) TX bytes:7086425530052 (6.4 TiB)
Interrupt:169
eth0.20 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:5E:28:3C:2E
inet addr:vvv.xxx.yyy.zzz Bcast:ggg.hhh.iii.jjj Mask:255.255.252.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:11759883828 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13800040452 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3194985806767 (2.9 TiB) TX bytes:6975984645540 (6.3 TiB)
Trying to load netconsole fails miserably :
[root@server root]# modprobe netconsole
netconsole=@/eth0,[email protected]/00:04:23:BF:D9:62
FATAL: Error inserting netconsole
(/lib/modules/2.6.17.8/kernel/drivers/net/netconsole.ko): Invalid argument
[root@server root]# modprobe netconsole
netconsole=@/eth0.20,[email protected]/00:04:23:BF:D9:62
FATAL: Error inserting netconsole
(/lib/modules/2.6.17.8/kernel/drivers/net/netconsole.ko): Invalid argument
And results in this in dmesg :
netconsole: interface eth0
netconsole: remote port 10514
netconsole: remote IP aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
netconsole: remote ethernet address 00:04:23:bf:d9:62
netconsole: no IP address for eth0, aborting
netconsole: local port 6665
netconsole: interface eth0.20
netconsole: remote port 10514
netconsole: remote IP aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
netconsole: remote ethernet address 00:04:23:bf:d9:62
netconsole: eth0.20 doesn't support polling, aborting.
The actual interface is a e1000 and supports polling just fine.
The problem is simply that netpoll won't play with eth0 since it has
no IP and it won't play with eth0.20 either since it's a vlan
interface and doesn't support polling even if the underlying device
does.
This is a problem for me since it means that several of my servers
that are configured like this won't be able to use netconsole.
So I set out to try and fix the problem by making the vlan device
support polling if the underlying device supports polling.
I have met with a resonable success in that the patch below seems to
work. With this patch I can now load netconsole for eth0.20 and log
messages are send just fine and can be recieved on the remote host.
netconsole: local port 6665
netconsole: interface eth0.20
netconsole: remote port 10514
netconsole: remote IP aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
netconsole: remote ethernet address 00:04:23:bf:d9:62
netconsole: local IP vvv.xxx.yyy.zzz
netconsole: network logging started
Now, I would very much like to get this merged, but first I would
appreciate some review of the patch. This part of the kernel is not
one I know all too well, so I may have made a number of silly mistakes.
If people would kindly take a look at the patch and point out any
problems with it so I can fix it up and arrive at a version that's
mergable, I'd greatly appreciate it.
PS. If you reply to this on the netdev list, please keep me on Cc:
since I'm only subscribed to linux-kernel.
Kind regards,
Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
---
net/8021q/vlan.c | 5 +++++
net/8021q/vlan_dev.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -upr linux-2.6.18-rc5-git2-orig/net/8021q/vlan.c
linux-2.6.18-rc5-git2/net/8021q/vlan.c
--- linux-2.6.18-rc5-git2-orig/net/8021q/vlan.c 2006-08-31 10:07:08.000000000
+0200
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc5-git2/net/8021q/vlan.c 2006-08-31 16:34:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
* Add HW acceleration hooks - David S. Miller <[email protected]>;
* Correct all the locking - David S. Miller <[email protected]>;
* Use hash table for VLAN groups - David S. Miller <[email protected]>
+ * Add NETPOLL support - Jesper Juhl
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
@@ -512,6 +513,10 @@ static struct net_device *register_vlan_
}
new_dev->hard_header_parse = real_dev->hard_header_parse;
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
+ new_dev->poll_controller = real_dev->poll_controller;
+#endif
+
VLAN_DEV_INFO(new_dev)->vlan_id = VLAN_ID; /* 1 through VLAN_VID_MASK */
VLAN_DEV_INFO(new_dev)->real_dev = real_dev;
VLAN_DEV_INFO(new_dev)->dent = NULL;
diff -upr linux-2.6.18-rc5-git2-orig/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
linux-2.6.18-rc5-git2/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
--- linux-2.6.18-rc5-git2-orig/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c 2006-06-18
03:49:35.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc5-git2/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c 2006-08-31 16:35:35.000000000
+0200
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@
* Oct 20, 2001: Ard van Breeman:
* - Fix MC-list, finally.
* - Flush MC-list on VLAN destroy.
- *
+ * Aug 31, 2006: Jesper Juhl
+ * - Add NETPOLL support.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
@@ -489,6 +490,12 @@ int vlan_dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_b
stats->tx_bytes += skb->len;
skb->dev = VLAN_DEV_INFO(dev)->real_dev;
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
+ if (irqs_disabled()) {
+ skb->dev->hard_start_xmit(skb, skb->dev);
+ return 0;
+ }
+#endif
dev_queue_xmit(skb);
return 0;
@@ -513,6 +520,12 @@ int vlan_dev_hwaccel_hard_start_xmit(str
stats->tx_bytes += skb->len;
skb->dev = VLAN_DEV_INFO(dev)->real_dev;
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
+ if (irqs_disabled()) {
+ skb->dev->hard_start_xmit(skb, skb->dev);
+ return 0;
+ }
+#endif
dev_queue_xmit(skb);
return 0;
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