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net: mvpp2: Add TCAM entry to drop flow control pause frames
authorStefan Chulski <stefanc@marvell.com>
Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:30:17 +0000 (20:30 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 12 Jan 2021 19:16:11 +0000 (20:16 +0100)
commit73445f29575a9cdf5eacf780a8d8f42c536f9d18
tree87529426f2a7fae7c7b33a178b6f3ecc206d4098
parenta5a6dc4dc2938bd185593d1c5c40c29967b29fb4
net: mvpp2: Add TCAM entry to drop flow control pause frames

[ Upstream commit 3f48fab62bb81a7f9d01e9d43c40395fad011dd5 ]

Issue:
Flow control frame used to pause GoP(MAC) was delivered to the CPU
and created a load on the CPU. Since XOFF/XON frames are used only
by MAC, these frames should be dropped inside MAC.

Fix:
According to 802.3-2012 - IEEE Standard for Ethernet pause frame
has unique destination MAC address 01-80-C2-00-00-01.
Add TCAM parser entry to track and drop pause frames by destination MAC.

Fixes: 3f518509dedc ("ethernet: Add new driver for Marvell Armada 375 network unit")
Signed-off-by: Stefan Chulski <stefanc@marvell.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1608229817-21951-1-git-send-email-stefanc@marvell.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_prs.c
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_prs.h