veth: add netpoll support

It is trivial to add netpoll support to veth, since
it is not a stacked device, we don't need to setup and
clean up netpoll.

Reported-by: Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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WANG Cong 2014-06-23 15:36:02 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 13ec7a6b9d
commit bb446c19fe
1 changed files with 18 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -248,6 +248,21 @@ static void veth_dev_free(struct net_device *dev)
free_netdev(dev);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
static void veth_poll_controller(struct net_device *dev)
{
/* veth only receives frames when its peer sends one
* Since it's a synchronous operation, we are guaranteed
* never to have pending data when we poll for it so
* there is nothing to do here.
*
* We need this though so netpoll recognizes us as an interface that
* supports polling, which enables bridge devices in virt setups to
* still use netconsole
*/
}
#endif /* CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER */
static const struct net_device_ops veth_netdev_ops = {
.ndo_init = veth_dev_init,
.ndo_open = veth_open,
@ -257,6 +272,9 @@ static const struct net_device_ops veth_netdev_ops = {
.ndo_get_stats64 = veth_get_stats64,
.ndo_set_rx_mode = veth_set_multicast_list,
.ndo_set_mac_address = eth_mac_addr,
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
.ndo_poll_controller = veth_poll_controller,
#endif
};
#define VETH_FEATURES (NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_FRAGLIST | NETIF_F_ALL_TSO | \