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Currently, when DSA performs fast ageing on a port, 'bridge fdb' shows us that the 'self' entries (corresponding to the hardware bridge, as printed by dsa_slave_fdb_dump) are deleted, but the 'master' entries (corresponding to the software bridge) aren't. Indeed, searching through the bridge driver, neither the brport_attr_learning handler nor the IFLA_BRPORT_LEARNING handler call br_fdb_delete_by_port. However, br_stp_disable_port does, which is one of the paths which DSA uses to trigger a fast ageing process anyway. There is, however, one other very promising caller of br_fdb_delete_by_port, and that is the bridge driver's handler of the SWITCHDEV_FDB_FLUSH_TO_BRIDGE atomic notifier. Currently the s390/qeth HiperSockets card driver is the only user of this. I can't say I understand that driver's architecture or interaction with the bridge, but it appears to not be a switchdev driver in the traditional sense of the word. Nonetheless, the mechanism it provides is a useful way for DSA to express the fact that it performs fast ageing too, in a way that does not change the existing behavior for other drivers. Cc: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@nvidia.com> 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.