ofproto: Implement Nicira Extended Match flexible flow match (NXM).

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diff --git a/lib/nx-match.h b/lib/nx-match.h
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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2010 Nicira Networks.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#ifndef NX_MATCH_H
+#define NX_MATCH_H 1
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+struct cls_rule;
+struct ofpbuf;
+
+/* Nicira Extended Match (NXM) flexible flow match helper functions.
+ *
+ * See include/openflow/nicira-ext.h for NXM specification.
+ */
+
+int nx_pull_match(struct ofpbuf *, unsigned int match_len, uint16_t priority,
+                  struct cls_rule *);
+int nx_put_match(struct ofpbuf *, const struct cls_rule *);
+
+char *nx_match_to_string(const uint8_t *, unsigned int match_len);
+int nx_match_from_string(const char *, struct ofpbuf *);
+
+/* Upper bound on the length of an nx_match.  The longest nx_match (assuming
+ * we implement 4 registers) would be:
+ *
+ *                   header  value  mask  total
+ *                   ------  -----  ----  -----
+ *  NXM_OF_IN_PORT      4       2    --      6
+ *  NXM_OF_ETH_DST_W    4       6     6     16
+ *  NXM_OF_ETH_SRC      4       6    --     10
+ *  NXM_OF_ETH_TYPE     4       2    --      6
+ *  NXM_OF_VLAN_TCI     4       2     2      8
+ *  NXM_OF_IP_TOS       4       1    --      5
+ *  NXM_OF_IP_PROTO     4       2    --      6
+ *  NXM_OF_IP_SRC_W     4       4     4     12
+ *  NXM_OF_IP_DST_W     4       4     4     12
+ *  NXM_OF_TCP_SRC      4       2    --      6
+ *  NXM_OF_TCP_DST      4       2    --      6
+ *  NXM_NX_REG_W(0)     4       4     4     12
+ *  NXM_NX_REG_W(1)     4       4     4     12
+ *  NXM_NX_REG_W(2)     4       4     4     12
+ *  NXM_NX_REG_W(3)     4       4     4     12
+ *  NXM_NX_TUN_ID_W     4       8     8     20
+ *  -------------------------------------------
+ *  total                                  161
+ *
+ * So this value is conservative.
+ */
+#define NXM_MAX_LEN 192
+
+#endif /* nx-match.h */