This feature bit can be used by hypervisor to indicate virtio_net device to
act as a backup for another device with the same MAC address.
VIRTIO_NET_F_BACKUP is defined as bit 62 as it is a device feature bit.
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudr...@intel.com>
---
drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 2 +-
include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h | 3 +++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 7b187ec7411e..befb5944f3fd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -2962,7 +2962,7 @@ 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_BACKUP
static unsigned int features[] = {
VIRTNET_FEATURES,
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
index 5de6ed37695b..c7c35fd1a5ed 100644
--- 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_BACKUP 62 /* Act as backup for another device
+ * with the same MAC.
+ */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX 63 /* Device set linkspeed and duplex */
#ifndef VIRTIO_NET_NO_LEGACY
--
2.14.3
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