virtio_net: Introduce VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY feature bit

This feature bit can be used by hypervisor to indicate virtio_net device to
act as a standby for another device with the same MAC address.

VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY is defined as bit 62 as it is a device feature bit.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index b2647dd5d30235f4bd2f57c7e6f99703cf67625b..fe4534ee50a1cddd09f0270cbd7d604f33515cce 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -3030,7 +3030,7 @@ static struct virtio_device_id id_table[] = {
        VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_ANNOUNCE, VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ, \
        VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR, \
        VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS, \
-       VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX
+       VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX, VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY
 
 static unsigned int features[] = {
        VIRTNET_FEATURES,

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
index 5de6ed37695b9d2f5366abe6f043bfce6a5a39dc..a3715a3224c10e59b33278f6db13661805e310b9 100644 (file)
--- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@
                                         * Steering */
 #define VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR 23  /* Set MAC address */
 
+#define VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY     62    /* Act as standby for another device
+                                        * with the same MAC.
+                                        */
 #define VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX 63   /* Device set linkspeed and duplex */
 
 #ifndef VIRTIO_NET_NO_LEGACY