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skbuff.h: Improve the checksum related comments 

Fixed the punctuation and some typos.
Improved some sentences with minor changes.

No change of semantics or code.

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Dexuan Cui 2020-04-05 18:59:24 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
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@ -47,8 +47,8 @@
* A. IP checksum related features
*
* Drivers advertise checksum offload capabilities in the features of a device.
* From the stack's point of view these are capabilities offered by the driver,
* a driver typically only advertises features that it is capable of offloading
* From the stack's point of view these are capabilities offered by the driver.
* A driver typically only advertises features that it is capable of offloading
* to its device.
*
* The checksum related features are:
@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
* TCP or UDP packets over IPv4. These are specifically
* unencapsulated packets of the form IPv4|TCP or
* IPv4|UDP where the Protocol field in the IPv4 header
* is TCP or UDP. The IPv4 header may contain IP options
* is TCP or UDP. The IPv4 header may contain IP options.
* This feature cannot be set in features for a device
* with NETIF_F_HW_CSUM also set. This feature is being
* DEPRECATED (see below).
@ -79,13 +79,13 @@
* DEPRECATED (see below).
*
* NETIF_F_RXCSUM - Driver (device) performs receive checksum offload.
* This flag is used only used to disable the RX checksum
* This flag is only used to disable the RX checksum
* feature for a device. The stack will accept receive
* checksum indication in packets received on a device
* regardless of whether NETIF_F_RXCSUM is set.
*
* B. Checksumming of received packets by device. Indication of checksum
* verification is in set skb->ip_summed. Possible values are:
* verification is set in skb->ip_summed. Possible values are:
*
* CHECKSUM_NONE:
*
@ -115,16 +115,16 @@
* the packet minus one that have been verified as CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY.
* For instance if a device receives an IPv6->UDP->GRE->IPv4->TCP packet
* and a device is able to verify the checksums for UDP (possibly zero),
* GRE (checksum flag is set), and TCP-- skb->csum_level would be set to
* GRE (checksum flag is set) and TCP, skb->csum_level would be set to
* two. If the device were only able to verify the UDP checksum and not
* GRE, either because it doesn't support GRE checksum of because GRE
* GRE, either because it doesn't support GRE checksum or because GRE
* checksum is bad, skb->csum_level would be set to zero (TCP checksum is
* not considered in this case).
*
* CHECKSUM_COMPLETE:
*
* This is the most generic way. The device supplied checksum of the _whole_
* packet as seen by netif_rx() and fills out in skb->csum. Meaning, the
* packet as seen by netif_rx() and fills in skb->csum. This means the
* hardware doesn't need to parse L3/L4 headers to implement this.
*
* Notes:
@ -153,8 +153,8 @@
* from skb->csum_start up to the end, and to record/write the checksum at
* offset skb->csum_start + skb->csum_offset. A driver may verify that the
* csum_start and csum_offset values are valid values given the length and
* offset of the packet, however they should not attempt to validate that the
* checksum refers to a legitimate transport layer checksum-- it is the
* offset of the packet, but it should not attempt to validate that the
* checksum refers to a legitimate transport layer checksum -- it is the
* purview of the stack to validate that csum_start and csum_offset are set
* correctly.
*
@ -178,18 +178,18 @@
*
* CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY:
*
* This has the same meaning on as CHECKSUM_NONE for checksum offload on
* This has the same meaning as CHECKSUM_NONE for checksum offload on
* output.
*
* CHECKSUM_COMPLETE:
* Not used in checksum output. If a driver observes a packet with this value
* set in skbuff, if should treat as CHECKSUM_NONE being set.
* set in skbuff, it should treat the packet as if CHECKSUM_NONE were set.
*
* D. Non-IP checksum (CRC) offloads
*
* NETIF_F_SCTP_CRC - This feature indicates that a device is capable of
* offloading the SCTP CRC in a packet. To perform this offload the stack
* will set set csum_start and csum_offset accordingly, set ip_summed to
* will set csum_start and csum_offset accordingly, set ip_summed to
* CHECKSUM_PARTIAL and set csum_not_inet to 1, to provide an indication in
* the skbuff that the CHECKSUM_PARTIAL refers to CRC32c.
* A driver that supports both IP checksum offload and SCTP CRC32c offload
@ -200,10 +200,10 @@
* NETIF_F_FCOE_CRC - This feature indicates that a device is capable of
* offloading the FCOE CRC in a packet. To perform this offload the stack
* will set ip_summed to CHECKSUM_PARTIAL and set csum_start and csum_offset
* accordingly. Note the there is no indication in the skbuff that the
* CHECKSUM_PARTIAL refers to an FCOE checksum, a driver that supports
* accordingly. Note that there is no indication in the skbuff that the
* CHECKSUM_PARTIAL refers to an FCOE checksum, so a driver that supports
* both IP checksum offload and FCOE CRC offload must verify which offload
* is configured for a packet presumably by inspecting packet headers.
* is configured for a packet, presumably by inspecting packet headers.
*
* E. Checksumming on output with GSO.
*
@ -211,9 +211,9 @@
* is implied by the SKB_GSO_* flags in gso_type. Most obviously, if the
* gso_type is SKB_GSO_TCPV4 or SKB_GSO_TCPV6, TCP checksum offload as
* part of the GSO operation is implied. If a checksum is being offloaded
* with GSO then ip_summed is CHECKSUM_PARTIAL, csum_start and csum_offset
* are set to refer to the outermost checksum being offload (two offloaded
* checksums are possible with UDP encapsulation).
* with GSO then ip_summed is CHECKSUM_PARTIAL, and both csum_start and
* csum_offset are set to refer to the outermost checksum being offloaded
* (two offloaded checksums are possible with UDP encapsulation).
*/
/* Don't change this without changing skb_csum_unnecessary! */