tun: teach the tun/tap driver to support netpoll
authorNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:25:01 +0000 (05:25 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@conan.davemloft.net>
Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:53:10 +0000 (23:53 -0400)
commitbebd097a0af8bd6c51f50a65f3a435019b0e906a
tree22215109ca9499577da0690f84c7b691ee8e6df7
parentae6e86b7fb15520ac64513ad643de63e0b077aa5
tun: teach the tun/tap driver to support netpoll

Commit 8d8fc29d02a33e4bd5f4fa47823c1fd386346093 changed the behavior of slave
devices in regards to netpoll.  Specifically it created a mutually exclusive
relationship between being a slave and a netpoll-capable device.  This creates
problems for KVM because guests relied on needing netconsole active on a slave
device to a bridge.  Ideally libvirtd could just attach netconsole to the bridge
device instead, but thats currently infeasible, because while the bridge device
supports netpoll, it requires that all slave interface also support it, but the
tun/tap driver currently does not.  The most direct solution is to teach tun/tap
to support netpoll, which is implemented by the patch below.

I've not tested this yet, but its pretty straightforward.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Reported-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
CC: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
CC: Maxim Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
CC: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@conan.davemloft.net>
drivers/net/tun.c