[PATCH net-next v7 0/4] virtio-net: synchronize op/admin state

[Jason Wang]

Hi All:

This series tries to synchronize the operstate with the admin state
which allows the lower virtio-net to propagate the link status to the
upper devices like macvlan.

This is done by toggling carrier during ndo_open/stop while doing
other necessary serialization about the carrier settings during probe.

While at it, also fix a race between probe and ndo_set_features as we
didn't initalize the guest offload setting under rtnl lock.

Changes since V6:

- Add fix tag

Changes since V5:

- Fix sevreal typos
- Include a new patch to synchronize probe with ndo_set_features

Changes since V4:

- do not update settings during ndo_open()
- do not try to canel config noticiation during probe() as core make
  sure the config notificaiton won't be triggered before probe is
  done.
- Tweak sevreal comments.

Changes since V3:

- when driver tries to enable config interrupt, check pending
  interrupt and execute the nofitication change callback if necessary
- do not unconditonally trigger the config space read
- do not set LINK_UP flag in ndo_open/close but depends on the
  notification change
- disable config change notification until ndo_open()
- read the link status under the rtnl_lock() to prevent a race with
  ndo_open()

Changes since V2:

- introduce config_driver_disabled and helpers
- schedule config change work unconditionally

Thanks


Jason Wang (4):
  virtio: rename virtio_config_enabled to virtio_config_core_enabled
  virtio: allow driver to disable the configure change notification
  virtio-net: synchronize operstate with admin state on up/down
  virtio-net: synchronize probe with ndo_set_features

 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 drivers/virtio/virtio.c  | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 include/linux/virtio.h   | 11 ++++--
 3 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)

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