ovs: Turn vports with dependencies into separate modules
The internal and netdev vport remain part of openvswitch.ko. Encap
vports including vxlan, gre, and geneve can be built as separate
modules and are loaded on demand. Modules can be unloaded after use.
Datapath ports keep a reference to the vport module during their
lifetime.
Allows to remove the error prone maintenance of the global list
vport_ops_list.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
index e6d7255..aecddb9 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
#include "vport-netdev.h"
int ovs_net_id __read_mostly;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ovs_net_id);
static struct genl_family dp_packet_genl_family;
static struct genl_family dp_flow_genl_family;
@@ -1764,6 +1765,7 @@
return -ENOMEM;
ovs_lock();
+restart:
dp = get_dp(sock_net(skb->sk), ovs_header->dp_ifindex);
err = -ENODEV;
if (!dp)
@@ -1795,8 +1797,11 @@
vport = new_vport(&parms);
err = PTR_ERR(vport);
- if (IS_ERR(vport))
+ if (IS_ERR(vport)) {
+ if (err == -EAGAIN)
+ goto restart;
goto exit_unlock_free;
+ }
err = ovs_vport_cmd_fill_info(vport, reply, info->snd_portid,
info->snd_seq, 0, OVS_VPORT_CMD_NEW);
@@ -2112,12 +2117,18 @@
if (err)
goto error_netns_exit;
+ err = ovs_netdev_init();
+ if (err)
+ goto error_unreg_notifier;
+
err = dp_register_genl();
if (err < 0)
- goto error_unreg_notifier;
+ goto error_unreg_netdev;
return 0;
+error_unreg_netdev:
+ ovs_netdev_exit();
error_unreg_notifier:
unregister_netdevice_notifier(&ovs_dp_device_notifier);
error_netns_exit:
@@ -2137,6 +2148,7 @@
static void dp_cleanup(void)
{
dp_unregister_genl(ARRAY_SIZE(dp_genl_families));
+ ovs_netdev_exit();
unregister_netdevice_notifier(&ovs_dp_device_notifier);
unregister_pernet_device(&ovs_net_ops);
rcu_barrier();