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| 47 | 47 | * A. IP checksum related features |
| 48 | 48 | * |
| 49 | 49 | * Drivers advertise checksum offload capabilities in the features of a device. |
| 50 | − * From the stack's point of view these are capabilities offered by the driver, | |
| 51 | − * a driver typically only advertises features that it is capable of offloading | |
| 50 | + * From the stack's point of view these are capabilities offered by the driver. | |
| 51 | + * A driver typically only advertises features that it is capable of offloading | |
| 52 | 52 | * to its device. |
| 53 | 53 | * |
| 54 | 54 | * The checksum related features are: |
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| 63 | 63 | * TCP or UDP packets over IPv4. These are specifically |
| 64 | 64 | * unencapsulated packets of the form IPv4|TCP or |
| 65 | 65 | * IPv4|UDP where the Protocol field in the IPv4 header |
| 66 | − * is TCP or UDP. The IPv4 header may contain IP options | |
| 66 | + * is TCP or UDP. The IPv4 header may contain IP options. | |
| 67 | 67 | * This feature cannot be set in features for a device |
| 68 | 68 | * with NETIF_F_HW_CSUM also set. This feature is being |
| 69 | 69 | * DEPRECATED (see below). |
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| 79 | 79 | * DEPRECATED (see below). |
| 80 | 80 | * |
| 81 | 81 | * NETIF_F_RXCSUM - Driver (device) performs receive checksum offload. |
| 82 | − * This flag is used only used to disable the RX checksum | |
| 82 | + * This flag is only used to disable the RX checksum | |
| 83 | 83 | * feature for a device. The stack will accept receive |
| 84 | 84 | * checksum indication in packets received on a device |
| 85 | 85 | * regardless of whether NETIF_F_RXCSUM is set. |
| 86 | 86 | * |
| 87 | 87 | * B. Checksumming of received packets by device. Indication of checksum |
| 88 | − * verification is in set skb->ip_summed. Possible values are: | |
| 88 | + * verification is set in skb->ip_summed. Possible values are: | |
| 89 | 89 | * |
| 90 | 90 | * CHECKSUM_NONE: |
| 91 | 91 | * |
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| 115 | 115 | * the packet minus one that have been verified as CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. |
| 116 | 116 | * For instance if a device receives an IPv6->UDP->GRE->IPv4->TCP packet |
| 117 | 117 | * and a device is able to verify the checksums for UDP (possibly zero), |
| 118 | − * GRE (checksum flag is set), and TCP-- skb->csum_level would be set to | |
| 118 | + * GRE (checksum flag is set) and TCP, skb->csum_level would be set to | |
| 119 | 119 | * two. If the device were only able to verify the UDP checksum and not |
| 120 | − * GRE, either because it doesn't support GRE checksum of because GRE | |
| 120 | + * GRE, either because it doesn't support GRE checksum or because GRE | |
| 121 | 121 | * checksum is bad, skb->csum_level would be set to zero (TCP checksum is |
| 122 | 122 | * not considered in this case). |
| 123 | 123 | * |
| 124 | 124 | * CHECKSUM_COMPLETE: |
| 125 | 125 | * |
| 126 | 126 | * This is the most generic way. The device supplied checksum of the _whole_ |
| 127 | − * packet as seen by netif_rx() and fills out in skb->csum. Meaning, the | |
| 127 | + * packet as seen by netif_rx() and fills in skb->csum. This means the | |
| 128 | 128 | * hardware doesn't need to parse L3/L4 headers to implement this. |
| 129 | 129 | * |
| 130 | 130 | * Notes: |
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| 153 | 153 | * from skb->csum_start up to the end, and to record/write the checksum at |
| 154 | 154 | * offset skb->csum_start + skb->csum_offset. A driver may verify that the |
| 155 | 155 | * csum_start and csum_offset values are valid values given the length and |
| 156 | − * offset of the packet, however they should not attempt to validate that the | |
| 157 | − * checksum refers to a legitimate transport layer checksum-- it is the | |
| 156 | + * offset of the packet, but it should not attempt to validate that the | |
| 157 | + * checksum refers to a legitimate transport layer checksum -- it is the | |
| 158 | 158 | * purview of the stack to validate that csum_start and csum_offset are set |
| 159 | 159 | * correctly. |
| 160 | 160 | * |
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| 178 | 178 | * |
| 179 | 179 | * CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY: |
| 180 | 180 | * |
| 181 | − * This has the same meaning on as CHECKSUM_NONE for checksum offload on | |
| 181 | + * This has the same meaning as CHECKSUM_NONE for checksum offload on | |
| 182 | 182 | * output. |
| 183 | 183 | * |
| 184 | 184 | * CHECKSUM_COMPLETE: |
| 185 | 185 | * Not used in checksum output. If a driver observes a packet with this value |
| 186 | − * set in skbuff, if should treat as CHECKSUM_NONE being set. | |
| 186 | + * set in skbuff, it should treat the packet as if CHECKSUM_NONE were set. | |
| 187 | 187 | * |
| 188 | 188 | * D. Non-IP checksum (CRC) offloads |
| 189 | 189 | * |
| 190 | 190 | * NETIF_F_SCTP_CRC - This feature indicates that a device is capable of |
| 191 | 191 | * offloading the SCTP CRC in a packet. To perform this offload the stack |
| 192 | − * will set set csum_start and csum_offset accordingly, set ip_summed to | |
| 192 | + * will set csum_start and csum_offset accordingly, set ip_summed to | |
| 193 | 193 | * CHECKSUM_PARTIAL and set csum_not_inet to 1, to provide an indication in |
| 194 | 194 | * the skbuff that the CHECKSUM_PARTIAL refers to CRC32c. |
| 195 | 195 | * A driver that supports both IP checksum offload and SCTP CRC32c offload |
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| 200 | 200 | * NETIF_F_FCOE_CRC - This feature indicates that a device is capable of |
| 201 | 201 | * offloading the FCOE CRC in a packet. To perform this offload the stack |
| 202 | 202 | * will set ip_summed to CHECKSUM_PARTIAL and set csum_start and csum_offset |
| 203 | − * accordingly. Note the there is no indication in the skbuff that the | |
| 204 | − * CHECKSUM_PARTIAL refers to an FCOE checksum, a driver that supports | |
| 203 | + * accordingly. Note that there is no indication in the skbuff that the | |
| 204 | + * CHECKSUM_PARTIAL refers to an FCOE checksum, so a driver that supports | |
| 205 | 205 | * both IP checksum offload and FCOE CRC offload must verify which offload |
| 206 | − * is configured for a packet presumably by inspecting packet headers. | |
| 206 | + * is configured for a packet, presumably by inspecting packet headers. | |
| 207 | 207 | * |
| 208 | 208 | * E. Checksumming on output with GSO. |
| 209 | 209 | * |
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| 211 | 211 | * is implied by the SKB_GSO_* flags in gso_type. Most obviously, if the |
| 212 | 212 | * gso_type is SKB_GSO_TCPV4 or SKB_GSO_TCPV6, TCP checksum offload as |
| 213 | 213 | * part of the GSO operation is implied. If a checksum is being offloaded |
| 214 | − * with GSO then ip_summed is CHECKSUM_PARTIAL, csum_start and csum_offset | |
| 215 | − * are set to refer to the outermost checksum being offload (two offloaded | |
| 216 | − * checksums are possible with UDP encapsulation). | |
| 214 | + * with GSO then ip_summed is CHECKSUM_PARTIAL, and both csum_start and | |
| 215 | + * csum_offset are set to refer to the outermost checksum being offloaded | |
| 216 | + * (two offloaded checksums are possible with UDP encapsulation). | |
| 217 | 217 | */ |
| 218 | 218 | |
| 219 | 219 | /* Don't change this without changing skb_csum_unnecessary! */ |