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* [netdevice] Add a generic concept of a "blocked link"Michael Brown2015-06-251-1/+51
| | | | | | | | | | | | When Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is used, there may be a substantial delay (tens of seconds) from the time that the link goes up to the time that the port starts forwarding packets. Add a generic concept of a "blocked link" (i.e. a link which is up but which is not expected to communicate successfully), and allow "ifstat" to indicate when a link is blocked. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [legal] Relicense files under GPL2_OR_LATER_OR_UBDLMichael Brown2015-03-021-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | These files cannot be automatically relicensed by util/relicense.pl since they either contain unusual but trivial contributions (such as the addition of __nonnull function attributes), or contain lines dating back to the initial git revision (and so require manual knowledge of the code's origin). Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Fix erroneous use of free(iobuf) instead of free_iob(iobuf)Michael Brown2014-12-121-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Avoid registering duplicate network devicesMichael Brown2014-07-301-5/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reject network devices which appear to be duplicates of those already available via a different underlying hardware device. On a Xen PV-HVM system, this allows us to filter out the emulated PCI NICs (which would otherwise appear alongside the netfront NICs). Note that we cannot use the Xen facility to "unplug" the emulated PCI NICs, since there is no guarantee that the OS we subsequently load will have a native netfront driver. We permit devices with the same MAC address if they are attached to the same underlying hardware device (e.g. VLAN devices). Inspired-by: Marin Hannache <git@mareo.fr> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Reset network device index when last device is unregisteredMichael Brown2014-07-141-2/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | When functioning as an EFI driver, drivers can be disconnected and reconnected multiple times (e.g. via the EFI shell "connect" command, or by running an executable such as ipxe.efi which will temporarily disconnect existing drivers). Minimise surprise by resetting the network device index to zero whenever the last device is unregistered. This is not foolproof, but it does handle the common case of having all devices unregistered and then reregistered in the original order. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Profile common operationsMichael Brown2014-04-271-0/+16
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Notify upper-layer drivers when RX processing is (un)frozenMichael Brown2014-03-141-0/+28
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Mark devices as open before calling open() methodMichael Brown2014-03-051-4/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When opening a VLAN device, vlan_open() will call netdev_open() on the trunk device. This will result in a call to netdev_notify(), which will cause vlan_notify() to call vlan_sync() on the original VLAN device, which will see that the trunk device is now open but the VLAN device apparently isn't (since it has not yet been flagged as open by netdev_open()). The upshot is a second attempt to open the VLAN device, which will result in an erroneous second call to vlan_open(). This convoluted chain of events then terminates harmlessly since vlan_open() calls netdev_open() on the trunk device, which just returns immediately since the trunk device is by now flagged as being already open. Prevent this from happening by having netdev_open() flag the device as open prior to calling the device's open() method, and reflagging it as closed if the open() method fails. Originally-fixed-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Add generic concept of a network device configuratorMichael Brown2013-11-051-5/+203
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | iPXE supports multiple mechanisms for network device configuration: DHCPv4 for IPv4, FIP for FCoE, and SLAAC for IPv6. At present, DHCPv4 requires an explicit action (e.g. a "dhcp" command), FIP is initiated implicitly upon opening a network device, and SLAAC takes place whenever a RA happens to be received. Add a generic concept of a network device configurator, which provides a common interface to triggering configuration and to reporting the result of the configuration process. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Make all net_driver methods optionalMichael Brown2013-11-011-7/+13
| | | | | | | | Most network upper-layer drivers do not implement all three methods (probe, notify, and remove). Save code by making all methods optional. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Add find_netdev_by_index()Michael Brown2013-10-211-0/+18
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Add concept of a network device indexMichael Brown2013-09-031-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | IPv6 link-local socket addresses require some way to specify a local network device. We cannot simply use a pointer to the network device, since a struct sockaddr_in6 may be long-lived and has no way to hold a reference to the network device. Using a network device index allows a socket address to cleanly refer to a network device without worrying about whether or not that device continues to exist. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [cmdline] Accept "netX" in iPXE commandsMichael Brown2013-07-131-0/+5
| | | | | | | Allow any iPXE command expecting a network device name to accept "netX" as a synonym for "most recently opened network device". Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Add netdev_tx_defer() to allow drivers to defer transmissionsMichael Brown2013-05-011-3/+87
| | | | | | | | Devices with small transmit descriptor rings may temporarily run out of space. Provide netdev_tx_defer() to allow drivers to defer packets for retransmission as soon as a descriptor becomes available. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Use link-layer address as part of RNG seedMichael Brown2013-04-191-2/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | iPXE currently seeds the random number generator using the system timer tick count. When large numbers of machines are booted simultaneously, multiple machines may end up choosing the same DHCP transaction ID (XID) value; this can cause problems. Fix by using the least significant (and hence most variable) bits of each network device's link-layer address to perturb the random number generator. This introduces some per-machine unique data into the random number generator's seed, and so reduces the chances of DHCP XID collisions. This does not affect the ANS X9.82-compatible random bit generator used by TLS and other cryptography code, which uses an entirely separate source of entropy. Originally-implemented-by: Bernhard Kohl <bernhard.kohl@nsn.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Separate VLAN support from presence of VLAN-supporting driversMichael Brown2013-03-011-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some NICs (e.g. Hermon) provide hardware support for stripping the VLAN tag, but do not provide any way for this support to be disabled. Drivers for this hardware must therefore call vlan_find() to identify a suitable receiving network device. Provide a weak version of vlan_find() which will always return NULL if VLAN support has not been enabled (either directly, or by enabling a feature such as FCoE which requires VLAN support). This allows the VLAN code to be omitted from builds where the user has not requested support for VLANs. Inspired-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Add vlan_tag() to get the VLAN tag of a network deviceStefan Hajnoczi2013-03-011-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | The iBFT has a VLAN field that should be filled in. Add the vlan_tag() function to extract the VLAN tag of a network device. Since VLAN support is optional, define a weak function that returns 0 when iPXE is built without VLAN support. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Clear network device setting before unregisteringMichael Brown2012-10-241-0/+2
| | | | | | | Avoid memory leaks by clearing any (non-child) settings immediately before unregistering the network device settings block. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Do not force a poll on net_tx()Michael Brown2012-10-241-7/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Including a netdev_poll() within net_tx() can cause the net_step() loop to end up processing hundreds or thousands of packets within a single step, since each received packet being processed may trigger a response which, in turn causes a poll for further received packets. Network devices must now ensure that the TX ring is at least as large as the RX ring, in order to avoid running out of TX descriptors. This should not cause any problems; unlike the RX ring, there is no substantial memory cost incurred by increasing the TX ring size. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [legal] Update FSF mailing address in GPL licence textsMichael Brown2012-07-201-1/+2
| | | | | Suggested-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Process all received packets in net_poll()Michael Brown2012-07-041-7/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current logic is to process at most one received packet per call to net_poll(), on the basis that refilling the hardware descriptor ring should be delayed as little as possible. However, this limits the rate at which packets can be processed and ultimately ends up adding latency which, in turn, limits the achievable throughput. With temporary modifications in place to essentially remove all resource constraints (heap size increased to 16MB, RX descriptor ring increased to 64 descriptors) and a TCP window size of 1MB, the throughput on a gigabit (i.e. 119MBps) network can be observed to fall off exponentially from around 115MBps to around 75MBps. Changing net_poll() to process all received packets results in a steady 119MBps throughput. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Allow driver to preinitialise the link-layer addressMichael Brown2011-10-281-2/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Drivers are currently expected to initialise only the hardware address, with the link-layer protocol code taking care of converting this into a valid link-layer address. Some drivers (e.g. undinet) can legitimately determine both the hardware and link-layer addresses, which may differ. Allow for this situation by checking to see if the link-layer address is empty before initialising it from the hardware address. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [list] Tidy up naming convention for list_contains() and friendsMichael Brown2011-10-141-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Allow link layer to report broadcast/multicast packets via pull()Michael Brown2011-07-151-4/+8
| | | | | | | | Allow the link layer to directly report whether or not a packet is multicast or broadcast at the time of calling pull(), rather than relying on heuristics to determine this at a later stage. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [process] Pass containing object pointer to process step() methodsMichael Brown2011-06-281-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | Give the step() method a pointer to the containing object, rather than a pointer to the process. This is consistent with the operation of interface methods, and allows a single function to serve as both an interface method and a process step() method. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Allow non-completion TX errors to be recordedMichael Brown2011-06-281-7/+25
| | | | | | | | Allow TX errors to be recorded against a network device even when the packet didn't make it as far as netdev_tx(). Inspired-by: Dominik Russenberger <dominik.russenberger@terreactive.ch> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Improve detection of bugs in drivers' TX completion handlingMichael Brown2011-05-031-2/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Move high-frequency debug messages to DBGLVL_EXTRAMichael Brown2011-05-031-9/+9
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Simplify link-down status messageMichael Brown2011-03-301-3/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For devices that start in a link-down state, the user will see a message such as: [Link status: The socket is not connected (http://ipxe.org/38086001)] Waiting for link-up on net0... This is potentially misleading, since it suggests that there is a genuine problem. Add a dedicated error message for "link down", giving instead: [Link status: Down (http://ipxe.org/38086101)] Waiting for link-up on net0... Reported-by: Tal Aloni <tal.aloni.il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Mark devices as open only if opening succeedsPiotr Jaroszyński2011-03-271-3/+3
| | | | | | | netdev_close() assumes that devices that are open are on the open_list, which wasn't true if device specific opening failed. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Allow devices to indicate that interrupts are not supportedMichael Brown2011-01-251-0/+4
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [settings] Apply settings block name in register_settings()Michael Brown2010-12-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Pass the settings block name as a parameter to register_settings(), rather than defining it with settings_init() (and then possibly changing it by directly manipulating settings->name). Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [vlan] Add support for IEEE 802.1Q VLANsMichael Brown2010-11-201-5/+7
| | | | | Originally-implemented-by: michael-dev@fami-braun.de Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Allow per-device receive queue processing to be frozenMichael Brown2010-11-201-4/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Several use cases (e.g. the UNDI API and the EFI SNP API) require access to the raw network device receive queue, and so currently use manual calls to netdev_poll() on a specific network device in order to prevent received packets from being processed by the network stack. As an alternative, provide a flag that allows receive queue processing to be frozen on a per-device basis. When receive queue processing is frozen, packets will be enqueued as normal, but will not be automatically dequeued and passed up the network stack. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Use net device name in debugging messagesMichael Brown2010-11-181-26/+27
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [list] Fix typographical error from previous commitShao Miller2010-11-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Fix typographical error from commit ea631f6 ("[list] Add list_first_entry()"). The symptom was PXELINUX 3.86 causing a stack overflow under VMware. Tested-by: Shao Miller <shao.miller@yrdsb.edu.on.ca> Signed-off-by: Shao Miller <shao.miller@yrdsb.edu.on.ca> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [list] Add list_first_entry()Michael Brown2010-11-081-10/+12
| | | | | | | | | There are several points in the iPXE codebase where list_for_each_entry() is (ab)used to extract only the first entry from a list. Add a macro list_first_entry() to make this code easier to read. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Pass both link-layer addresses in net_tx() and net_rx()Michael Brown2010-10-071-5/+10
| | | | | | | | | FCoE requires the use of fabric-provided MAC addresses, which breaks the assumption that the net device's MAC address is implicitly the source address for net_tx() and the (unicast) destination address for net_rx(). Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Report network-layer errors via network device statisticsMichael Brown2010-09-151-2/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | Errors generated by the network layer in response to received packets are liable to be lost, since nothing systematically records these errors and often the packets do not propagate far enough through the stack to impact upon user-visible processes. Improve this situation by recording network-layer errors in the network device statistics. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Add the concept of a network upper-layer driverMichael Brown2010-09-051-14/+75
| | | | | | | Add the concept of a network upper-layer driver, which can create arbitrary devices on top of network devices. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Provide a test mechanism for discarding packets at randomMichael Brown2010-07-201-1/+19
| | | | | | | | | | Setting NETDEV_DISCARD_RATE to a non-zero value will cause one in every NETDEV_DISCARD_RATE packets to be discarded at random on both the transmit and receive datapaths, allowing the robustness of upper-layer network protocols to be tested even in simulation environments that provide wholly reliable packet transmission. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [refcnt] Add ref_init() wrapper functionMichael Brown2010-06-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | Standardise on using ref_init() to initialise an embedded reference count, to match the coding style used by other embedded objects. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [libc] Enable automated extraction of error usage reportsMichael Brown2010-05-311-11/+9
| | | | | | | Add preprocessor magic to the error definitions to enable every error usage to be tracked. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [build] Rename gPXE to iPXEMichael Brown2010-04-191-8/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | Access to the gpxe.org and etherboot.org domains and associated resources has been revoked by the registrant of the domain. Work around this problem by renaming project from gPXE to iPXE, and updating URLs to match. Also update README, LOG and COPYRIGHTS to remove obsolete information. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Record whether or not interrupts are currently enabledMichael Brown2010-03-231-0/+7
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@etherboot.org>
* [netdevice] Add netdev_is_open() wrapper functionMichael Brown2010-03-231-3/+3
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@etherboot.org>
* [netdevice] Allow the hardware and link-layer addresses to differ in sizeMichael Brown2009-08-121-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | IPoIB has a 20-byte link-layer address, of which only eight bytes represent anything relating to a "hardware address". The PXE and EFI SNP APIs expect the permanent address to be the same size as the link-layer address, so fill in the "permanent address" field with the initial link layer address (as generated by register_netdev() based upon the real hardware address).
* [netdevice] Separate out the concept of hardware and link-layer addressesMichael Brown2009-08-121-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | The hardware address is an intrinsic property of the hardware, while the link-layer address can be changed at runtime. This separation is exposed via APIs such as PXE and EFI, but is currently elided by gPXE. Expose the hardware and link-layer addresses as separate properties within a net device. Drivers should now fill in hw_addr, which will be used to initialise ll_addr at the time of calling register_netdev().
* [infiniband] Add last_opened_ibdev(), analogous to last_opened_netdev()Michael Brown2009-08-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | The minimal-surprise behaviour, when no explicit SRP initiator device is specified, will probably be to use the most recently opened Infiniband device. This matches our behaviour with using the most recently opened net device for PXE, iSCSI, AoE, NBI, etc.
* [process] Make it safe to call process_add() multiple timesMichael Brown2009-08-101-0/+1
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