arp_notify: unconditionally send gratuitous ARP for NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS.

commit d11327ad6695db8117c78d70611e71102ceec2ac upstream.

NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEER is an explicit request by the driver to send a link
notification while NETDEV_UP/NETDEV_CHANGEADDR generate link
notifications as a sort of side effect.

In the later cases the sysctl option is present because link
notification events can have undesired effects e.g. if the link is
flapping. I don't think this applies in the case of an explicit
request from a driver.

This patch makes NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEER unconditional, if preferred we
could add a new sysctl for this case which defaults to on.

This change causes Xen post-migration ARP notifications (which cause
switches to relearn their MAC tables etc) to be sent by default.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[reported to solve hyperv live migration problem - gkh]
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Mike Surcouf <mike@surcouf.co.uk>
Cc: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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