dpif-linux: Lookup netdev to get netdev type string.

When creating tap ports in dpif-linux, the "tap" type is treated the
same as "system", and the type is discarded. When dumping datapath
port types, this would cause "tap" type to be reported as a "system"
type.

Each time we see a port of the wrong type in bridge_reconfigure(), we
remove it and add a port with the correct configuration. This would
always occur for tap ports, causing deletion and re-creation of all tap
ports each time the bridge was reconfigured.

This patch makes dpif-linux use netdev to look up port types if the
datapath reports that they are of type OVS_VPORT_TYPE_NETDEV.

Bug #1196289.

Reported-by: James Schmidt <jschmidt@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
ovs-lib: allow non-root users to check service status

It tries to log the status operation, so although non-root
users can see the current status, the lack of permission
to write to the log results in an error message.

This changes to log only if the user has the permission to
write to the log file.

Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty@nicira.com>
tests: Re-fix a race.

Patch bf06c4fe (tests/ofproto-dpif.at: Workaround a race.), fixed a
race condition which patch 0a8763f (ofproto-dpif-upcall: Hardcode
max_idle to 1500ms.) unfixed.

Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Reported-by: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
rconn: Discover errors in rconn_run() even if rconn_recv() is never called.

rconn_recv() calls vconn_recv(), which will report a connection error and
cause rconn_recv() to disconnect the rconn.  Most rconn users regularly
call rconn_recv(), so that disconnection happens promptly.  However,
the lswitch code only calls rconn_recv() after the connection negotiates an
OpenFlow version, so a connection that failed before negotiation would
never be detected as failed.  This commit fixes the problem by making
rconn_run() also detect and handle connection errors.

The lswitch code is only used by the test-controller program, so this is
not an important bug fix.

Reported-by: Vasu Dasari <vdasari@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
ofproto-dpif.at: Avoid races in MPLS tests

Signed-off-by: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
netlink: Remove buffer from 'struct nl_dump'.

This patch makes all of the users of 'struct nl_dump' allocate their own
buffers to pass down to nl_dump_next(). This paves the way for allowing
multithreaded flow dumping.

Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
netlink: Make nl_dump_next() thread-safe.

This patch modifies 'struct nl_dump' and nl_dump_next() to allow
multiple threads to share the same nl_dump. These changes are targeted
around synchronizing dump status between multiple callers, and
allowing callers to fully process their existing buffers before
determining whether to stop fetching flows.

The 'status' field of 'struct nl_dump' becomes atomic, so that multiple
threads may check and/or update it to communicate when there is an error
or the netlink dump is finished. The low bit holds whether the final
message was seen, while the higher bits hold an errno value.

nl_dump_next() will now read all messages from the given buffer before
checking the shared error status and attempting to fetch more. Multiple
threads may call this with the same nl_dump, but must provide
independent buffers. As previously, the final dump status can be
determined by calling nl_dump_done() from a single thread.

Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
dpif: Separate local and shared flow dump state.

This patch separates the structures for thread-local flow dump state
("state") from the shared flow dump state ("iter") in dpif-linux and
dpif-netdev. Future patches will make use of this to allow multiple
threads to dump flows from the same flow dump operation.

Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
dpif: Make dpif_flow_dump_next() thread-safe.

This patch makes it the caller's responsibility to initialize a
per-thread 'state' object and pass it down to the dpif_flow_dump_next()
implementation. The implementation can expect to be called from multiple
threads with the same 'iter' and different 'state' objects.

When flow_dump_next() returns non-zero, the implementation must ensure
that subsequent calls with the same arguments also return non-zero.
Subsequent calls with the same 'iter' and different 'state' may return
zero, but should make progress towards returning non-zero.

Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
dpif: Don't synchronize flow_dump_next() status.

Recent changes to the flow_dump_next() interface have made it the
responsibility of the dpif implementation to track error status over a
flow dump operation.

This patch removes status tracking from 'struct dpif_flow_dump', allowing
multiple threads to call dpif_flow_dump_next() and track their status
independently. Even if one thread finishes processing flows for a given
iterator and state, it will not prevent other callers from processing
the remaining flows in their buffers.

After this patch, the error code that dpif_flow_dump_next() returns is
only significant for the current state and buffer. As before, the status
of the entire flow dump operation can be obtained by calling
dpif_flow_dump_done().

Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
dpif: New function flow_dump_next_may_destroy_keys().

This new function allows callers to determine whether previously
returned keys will be modified or reallocated on the next call to
dpif_flow_dump_next(). This will be used in a future commit to allow
batched flow deletion by revalidator threads.

Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>