Behaviour of the qeth performance_stats sysfs attribute has changed
with kernel commit
b0abc4f5df76 ("s390/qeth: overhaul ethtool statistics")
that went into kernel v5.1.
Before the kernel commit
- collection of statistics was turned on and off by writing 1 or 0
- default after device activation was 0
- statistics were reset by writing 0
After the kernel commit:
- collection is always on
- attribute always reads 1
- statistics is reset by writing 1; writing 0 is a no-op
Problems of chzdev on new kernels:
chzdev cannot reset statistics ('performance_stats=1' does nothing).
'chzdev --export' always lists performance_stats.
'chzdev qeth --help-attribute performance_stats' reflects old behaviour.
This patch will do the following:
'chzdev qeth --help-attribute performance_stats' reflects new behaviour.
'chzdev --export' does not list performance_stats on new kernels.
'chzdev performance_stats=1' resets statistics on new kernels.
'chzdev performance_stats=0' still resets statistics on old kernels,
does nothing on new kernels.
Suggested-by: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
This attribute is a no-op and never provided the described functionality.
It will be removed in the 5.7 kernel release with
commit 5f4019a80839 ("s390/qeth: remove fake_broadcast attribute").
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
This patch fixes false positives when attributes are checked for
conflicts between BridgePort and VNICC.
Signed-off-by: Hans Wippel <hwippel@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Enable user to specify that a device should be configured early, that is
during the initial RAM-disk boot phase. This may be necessary, e.g. to
override auto-configuration for a device which is also applied during
that boot phase. It may also be used to manually specify devices that
are required to access the root file system, such as networking devices.
Users can mark devices as requiring early configuration by specifying
a value of 1 for the newly added internal attribute zdev:early:
# chzdev dasd-eckd 0.0.1234 -p zdev:early=1
This can be changed back by removing the attribute setting, or by
setting the attribute value to 0:
# chzdev dasd-eckd 0.0.1234 -p -r zdev:early
or
# chzdev dasd-eckd 0.0.1234 -p zdev:early=0
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Auto-configuration is the name of a new configuration target that is
supported by chzdev and lszdev besides the existing active and
persistent configuration targets. Directives created in this new
configuration are stored as udev rules in the /run/udev/rules.d
directory.
Auto-configuration directives are only in effect if there are no
directives for the same device in the user-provided persistent
configuration. This allows users to override auto-configuration
directives if necessary.
Due to the volatile nature of the /run directory, auto-configuration
directives are cleared on reboot. Therefore mechanisms that generate
auto-configuration directives must recreate them on every boot.
The lszdev tool displays auto-configuration data both in list view
as well as in detail view. Users can specify the new option --auto-conf
to only show data from this configuration target.
Mechanisms that generate automated configuration directives can use
chzdev together with the --auto-conf option to create the corresponding
udev rules.
Note: This change does not include a mechanism that generates
auto-configuration directives.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Apply some changes to existing functions and data structures to simplify
the firmware configuration file support implementation.
- Make qeth and dasd subtype objects non-static
- Change the existing helper functions for reading file contents into
memory to also support binary functions
- Move some configuration file import functions to make them available
for use in other source files
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
This patch fixes a segfault in the qeth get_layer function that occurs
when an unknown attribute is used in combination with the force option.
Signed-off-by: Hans Wippel <hwippel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch adds support for the qeth attributes that are used to
configure VNIC Characteristics.
VNIC Characteristics and BridgePort are mutually exclusive. Thus, this
patch also adds a check function for conflicting settings to the qeth
code. Also, the output when VNIC Characteristics is active is added to
the BridgePort attribute descriptions.
Signed-off-by: Hans Wippel <hwippel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, the qeth attributes that are used to configure IPv6 NDP proxy
are described as ARP proxy attributes. This patch changes the titles and
descriptions from ARP to NDP.
Signed-off-by: Hans Wippel <hwippel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit is based on the s390-tools-1.39.0 version.
Changes on top of s390-tools-1.39.0:
- Add MIT license to all source files
- Add LICENSE file
- Transform REAMDE to README.md (markdown)
- Add AUTHORS.md file
- Add CONTRIBUTING.md file
- Move changelog from README to CHANGELOG.md file
Reviewed-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
