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With the recent mitigations against speculative execution exploits, indirect function calls are more expensive and it would be good to avoid them where possible. In the case of DSA, most switch taggers will shift the EtherType and next headers by a fixed amount equal to that tag's length in bytes. So we can use a generic procedure to determine that, without calling into custom tagger code. However we still leave the flow_dissect method inside struct dsa_device_ops as an override for the generic function. Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.