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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (82 commits)
[NET]: Make sure sockets implement splice_read
netconsole: avoid null pointer dereference at show_local_mac()
[IPV6]: Fix reversed local_df test in ip6_fragment
[XFRM]: Avoid bogus BUG() when throwing new policy away.
[AF_KEY]: Fix bug in spdadd
[NETFILTER] nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c: Mistyped state corrected.
net: xfrm statistics depend on INET
[NETFILTER]: make secmark_tg_destroy() static
[INET]: Unexport inet_listen_wlock
[INET]: Unexport __inet_hash_connect
[NET]: Improve cache line coherency of ingress qdisc
[NET]: Fix race in dev_close(). (Bug 9750)
[IPSEC]: Fix bogus usage of u64 on input sequence number
[RTNETLINK]: Send a single notification on device state changes.
[NETLABLE]: Hide netlbl_unlabel_audit_addr6 under ifdef CONFIG_IPV6.
[NETLABEL]: Don't produce unused variables when IPv6 is off.
[NETLABEL]: Compilation for CONFIG_AUDIT=n case.
[GENETLINK]: Relax dances with genl_lock.
[NETLABEL]: Fix lookup logic of netlbl_domhsh_search_def.
[IPV6]: remove unused method declaration (net/ndisc.h).
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FASTCALL() is always expanded to empty, remove it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Move the ingress qdisc members of struct net_device from the transmit
cache line to the receive cache line to avoid cache line ping-pong.
These members are only used on the receive path.
Signed-off-by: Neil Turton <nturton@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Reuse the existing logic for multicast list synchronization for the
unicast address list. The core of dev_mc_sync/unsync are split out as
__dev_addr_sync/unsync and moved from dev_mcast.c to dev.c. These are
then used to implement dev_unicast_sync/unsync as well.
I'm working on cleaning up Intel's FCoE stack, which generates new MAC
addresses from the fibre channel device id assigned by the fabric as
per the current draft specification in T11. When using such a
protocol in a VLAN environment it would be nice to not always be
forced into promiscuous mode, assuming the underlying Ethernet driver
supports multiple unicast addresses as well.
Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
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Create a bit to signal that a napi_disable() is in progress.
This sets up infrastructure such that net_rx_action() can generically
break out of the ->poll() loop on a NAPI context that has a pending
napi_disable() yet is being bombed with packets (and thus would
otherwise poll endlessly and not allow the napi_disable() to finish).
Now, what napi_disable() does is first set the NAPI_STATE_DISABLE bit
(to indicate that a disable is pending), then it polls for the
NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit, and once the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit is acquired
the NAPI_STATE_DISABLE bit is cleared. Here, the test_and_set_bit()
provides the necessary memory barrier between the various bitops.
napi_schedule_prep() now tests for a pending disable as it's first
action and won't try to obtain the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit if a disable
is pending.
As a result, we can remove the netif_running() check in
netif_rx_schedule_prep() because the NAPI disable pending state serves
this purpose. And, it does so in a NAPI centric manner which is what
we really want.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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It is pointless, because everything that can make a device go away
will do a napi_disable() first.
The main impetus behind this is that now we can legally do a NAPI
completion in generic code like net_rx_action() which a following
changeset needs to do. net_rx_action() can only perform actions
in NAPI centric ways, because there may be a one to many mapping
between NAPI contexts and network devices (SKY2 is one example).
We also want to get rid of this because it's an extra atomic in the
NAPI paths, and also because it is one of the last instances where the
NAPI interfaces care about net devices.
The one remaining netdev detail the NAPI stuff cares about is the
netif_running() check which will be killed off in a subsequent
changeset.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Documentation updates for network interfaces.
1. Add doc for netif_napi_add
2. Remove doc for unused returns from netif_rx
3. Add doc for netif_receive_skb
[ Incorporated minor mods from Randy Dunlap -DaveM ]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The current napi_disable() uses msleep_interruptible() but doesn't
(and can't) exit in case there's a signal, thus ending up doing a
hot spin without a cpu_relax. Use uninterruptible sleep instead.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Remove qeth bug caused by commit:
[NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.
This is the second part of the qeth header_ops patch, since
first patch sent 10/19 has been insufficient.
Nevertheless first patch is still valid and should be kept.
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Many places get the queue_mapping field from skb to pass it to the
netif_subqueue_stopped() which will be 0 in any case.
Make the helper that works with sk_buff
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6:
pcnet32: remove private net_device_stats structure
vortex_up should initialize "err"
pcnet32: remove compile warnings in non-napi mode
pcnet32: fix non-napi packet reception
fix EMAC driver for proper napi_synchronize API
sky2: shutdown cleanup
napi_synchronize: waiting for NAPI
forcedeth msi bugfix
gianfar: fix obviously wrong #ifdef CONFIG_GFAR_NAPI placement
fs_enet: Update for API changes
gianfar: remove orphan struct.
forcedeth: fix rx-work condition in nv_rx_process_optimized() too
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[ This is kernel bugzilla 9174 "linux-2.6.23-git11 kernel panic" ]
The device in question is an IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnel, which doesn't have
any header_ops, so the crash happens in dev_parse_header when
dereferencing them.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Some drivers with shared NAPI need a synchronization barrier.
Also suggested by Benjamin Herrenschmidt for EMAC.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Fix networking code kernel-doc for newly added parameters.
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/sock.c:879): No description found for parameter 'net'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:570): No description found for parameter 'net'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:594): No description found for parameter 'net'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:617): No description found for parameter 'net'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:641): No description found for parameter 'net'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:667): No description found for parameter 'net'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:722): No description found for parameter 'net'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:959): No description found for parameter 'net'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:1195): No description found for parameter 'dev'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:2105): No description found for parameter 'n'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:3272): No description found for parameter 'net'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//net/core/dev.c:3445): No description found for parameter 'net'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git2//include/linux/netdevice.h:1301): No description found for parameter 'cpu'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Trivial fix: Swap comments for dev_put() and dev_hold() to get them
at the right place.
Typo introduced by 4fa57c9ea9f36f9ca852f3a88ca5d2f1aebbc960.
Signed-of-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Commit da3dedd9 ("[NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct
net_device objects.") changed the interface to NAPI polling. Fix up
the ibm_emac driver so that it works with this new interface. This is
actually a nice cleanup because ibm_emac is one of the drivers that
wants to have multiple NAPI structures for a single net_device.
Tested with the internal MAC of a PowerPC 440SPe SoC with an AMCC
'Yucca' evaluation board.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class
not the device instance, make them into a separate object and
save memory.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Wrap the hard_header_parse function to simplify next step of
header_ops conversion.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Add inline for common usage of hardware header creation, and
fix bug in IPV6 mcast where the assumption about negative return is
an errno. Negative return from hard_header means not enough space
was available,(ie -N bytes).
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch makes loopback_dev per network namespace. Adding
code to create a different loopback device for each network
namespace and adding the code to free a loopback device
when a network namespace exits.
This patch modifies all users the loopback_dev so they
access it as init_net.loopback_dev, keeping all of the
code compiling and working. A later pass will be needed to
update the users to use something other than the initial network
namespace.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Am Freitag, 21. September 2007 schrieb Herbert Xu:
> Please don't use LLTX in new drivers. We're trying to get rid
> of it since it's
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> 1) unnecessary;
> 2) causes problems with AF_PACKET seeing things twice.
I suggest to document that LLTX is deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch replaces all occurences to the static variable
loopback_dev to a pointer loopback_dev. That provides the
mindless, trivial, uninteressting change part for the dynamic
allocation for the loopback.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This replaces the void * parameter with a struct net_device * which
is what is actually required.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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HARD_TX_LOCK micro is a nice aggregation that could be used
in other spots. move it to netdevice.h
Also makes sure the previously superflous cpu arguement is used.
Thanks to DaveM for the suggestions.
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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It's been a useless no-op for long enough in 2.6 so I figured it's time to
remove it. The number of people that could object because they're
maintaining unified 2.4 and 2.6 drivers is probably rather small.
[ Handled drivers added by netdev tree and some missed IRDA cases... -DaveM ]
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The macro definition is bad. When calling next_net_device with
parameter name "dev", the resulting code is:
struct net_device *dev = dev and that leads to an unexpected
behavior. Especially when llc_core is compiled in, the kernel panics
at boot time.
The patchset change macro definition with static inline functions as
they were defined before.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch introduces NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL a flag to indicate
a network device is local to a single network namespace and
should never be moved. Useful for pseudo devices that we
need an instance in each network namespace (like the loopback
device) and for any device we find that cannot handle multiple
network namespaces so we may trap them in the initial network
namespace.
This patch introduces the function dev_change_net_namespace
a function used to move a network device from one network
namespace to another. To the network device nothing
special appears to happen, to the components of the network
stack it appears as if the network device was unregistered
in the network namespace it is in, and a new device
was registered in the network namespace the device
was moved to.
This patch sets up a namespace device destructor that
upon the exit of a network namespace moves all of the
movable network devices to the initial network namespace
so they are not lost.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch makes most of the generic device layer network
namespace safe. This patch makes dev_base_head a
network namespace variable, and then it picks up
a few associated variables. The functions:
dev_getbyhwaddr
dev_getfirsthwbytype
dev_get_by_flags
dev_get_by_name
__dev_get_by_name
dev_get_by_index
__dev_get_by_index
dev_ioctl
dev_ethtool
dev_load
wireless_process_ioctl
were modified to take a network namespace argument, and
deal with it.
vlan_ioctl_set and brioctl_set were modified so their
hooks will receive a network namespace argument.
So basically anthing in the core of the network stack that was
affected to by the change of dev_base was modified to handle
multiple network namespaces. The rest of the network stack was
simply modified to explicitly use &init_net the initial network
namespace. This can be fixed when those components of the network
stack are modified to handle multiple network namespaces.
For now the ifindex generator is left global.
Fundametally ifindex numbers are per namespace, or else
we will have corner case problems with migration when
we get that far.
At the same time there are assumptions in the network stack
that the ifindex of a network device won't change. Making
the ifindex number global seems a good compromise until
the network stack can cope with ifindex changes when
you change namespaces, and the like.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Please note that network devices do not increase the count
count on the network namespace. The are inside the network
namespace and so the network namespace tag is in the nature
of a back pointer and so getting and putting the network namespace
is unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Several devices have multiple independant RX queues per net
device, and some have a single interrupt doorbell for several
queues.
In either case, it's easier to support layouts like that if the
structure representing the poll is independant from the net
device itself.
The signature of the ->poll() call back goes from:
int foo_poll(struct net_device *dev, int *budget)
to
int foo_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
The caller is returned the number of RX packets processed (or
the number of "NAPI credits" consumed if you want to get
abstract). The callee no longer messes around bumping
dev->quota, *budget, etc. because that is all handled in the
caller upon return.
The napi_struct is to be embedded in the device driver private data
structures.
Furthermore, it is the driver's responsibility to disable all NAPI
instances in it's ->stop() device close handler. Since the
napi_struct is privatized into the driver's private data structures,
only the driver knows how to get at all of the napi_struct instances
it may have per-device.
With lots of help and suggestions from Rusty Russell, Roland Dreier,
Michael Chan, Jeff Garzik, and Jamal Hadi Salim.
Bug fixes from Thomas Graf, Roland Dreier, Peter Zijlstra,
Joseph Fannin, Scott Wood, Hans J. Koch, and Michael Chan.
[ Ported to current tree and all drivers converted. Integrated
Stephen's follow-on kerneldoc additions, and restored poll_list
handling to the old style to fix mutual exclusion issues. -DaveM ]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8797 shows that the
bonding driver may produce bogus combinations of the checksum
flags and SG/TSO.
For example, if you bond devices with NETIF_F_HW_CSUM and
NETIF_F_IP_CSUM you'll end up with a bonding device that
has neither flag set. If both have TSO then this produces
an illegal combination.
The bridge device on the other hand has the correct code to
deal with this.
In fact, the same code can be used for both. So this patch
moves that logic into net/core/dev.c and uses it for both
bonding and bridging.
In the process I've made small adjustments such as only
setting GSO_ROBUST if at least one constituent device
supports it.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Because this function is only called by unregister_netdevice,
this moving could make this non-global function static,
and also remove its declaration in netdevice.h;
Any further, function __dev_addr_discard is also just called by
dev_mc_discard and dev_unicast_discard, keeping this two functions
both in one c file could make __dev_addr_discard also static
and remove its declaration in netdevice.h;
Futhermore, the sequential call to dev_unicast_discard and then
dev_mc_discard in unregister_netdevice have a similar mechanism that:
(netif_tx_lock_bh / __dev_addr_discard / netif_tx_unlock_bh),
they should merged into one to eliminate duplicates in acquiring and
releasing the dev->_xmit_lock, this would be done in my following patch.
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This reverts commit 29578624e354f56143d92510fff33a8b2aaa2c03.
Ingo Molnar reports complete breakage with his e1000 card (no
networking, card reports transmit timeouts), and bisected it down to
this commit. Let's figure out what went wrong, but not keep breaking
machines until we do.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@oracle.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add macvlan driver, which allows to create virtual ethernet devices
based on MAC address.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The method drivers currently use to synchronize multicast lists is not
very pretty:
- walk the multicast list
- search each entry on a copy of the previous list
- if new add to lower device
- walk the copy of the previous list
- search each entry on the current list
- if removed delete from lower device
- copy entire list
This patch adds a new field to struct dev_addr_list to store the
synchronization state and adds two helper functions for synchronization
and cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Currently the set_multicast_list (and set_rx_mode) callbacks are
responsible for configuring the device according to the IFF_PROMISC,
IFF_MULTICAST and IFF_ALLMULTI flags and the mc_list (and uc_list in
case of set_rx_mode).
These callbacks can be invoked from BH context without the rtnl_mutex
by dev_mc_add/dev_mc_delete, which makes reading the device flags and
promiscous/allmulti count racy. For real hardware drivers that just
commit all changes to the hardware this is not a real problem since
the stack guarantees to call them for every change, so at least the
final call will not race and commit the correct configuration to the
hardware.
For software devices that want to synchronize promiscous and multicast
state to an underlying device however this can cause corruption of the
underlying device's flags or promisc/allmulti counts.
When the software device is concurrently put in promiscous or allmulti
mode while set_multicast_list is invoked from bottem half context, the
device might synchronize the change to the underlying device without
holding the rtnl_mutex, which races with concurrent changes to the
underlying device.
Add a dev->change_rx_flags hook that is invoked when any of the flags
that affect rx filtering change (under the rtnl_mutex), which allows
drivers to perform synchronization immediately and only synchronize
the address lists in set_multicast_list/set_rx_mode.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Keep netpoll/poll_napi from messing with the poll_list.
Only net_rx_action is allowed to manipulate the list.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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When a reference to an existing address is increased or decreased without
hitting zero, the address count is incorrectly adjusted.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Add the multiqueue hardware device support API to the core network
stack. Allow drivers to allocate multiple queues and manage them at
the netdev level if they choose to do so.
Added a new field to sk_buff, namely queue_mapping, for drivers to
know which tx_ring to select based on OS classification of the flow.
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Add support for configuring secondary unicast addresses on network
devices. To support this devices capable of filtering multiple
unicast addresses need to change their set_multicast_list function
to configure unicast filters as well and assign it to dev->set_rx_mode
instead of dev->set_multicast_list. Other devices are put into promiscous
mode when secondary unicast addresses are present.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Use generic net_device address lists for multicast list handling.
Some defines are used to keep drivers working.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Introduce struct dev_addr_list and list maintenance functions
based on dev_mc_list and the related functions. This will be
used by follow-up patches for both multicast and secondary
unicast addresses.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The existing model for checksum offload does not correctly handle
devices that can offload IPV4 and IPV6 only. The NETIF_F_HW_CSUM flag
implies device can do any arbitrary protocol.
This patch:
* adds NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM for those devices
* fixes bnx2 and tg3 devices that need it
* add NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM to ipv6 output (incl GSO)
* fixes assumptions about NETIF_F_ALL_CSUM in nat
* adjusts bridge union of checksumming computation
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Add rtnetlink API for creating, changing and deleting software devices.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch kills a little bit of code duplication between the two
variants of netif_rx_complete.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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These days the link watch mechanism is an integral part of the
network subsystem as it manages the carrier status. So it now
makes sense to allocate some memory for it in net_device rather
than allocating it on demand.
In fact, this is necessary because we can't tolerate a memory
allocation failure since that means we'd have to potentially
throw a link up event away.
It also simplifies the code greatly.
In doing so I discovered a subtle race condition in the use
of singleevent. This race condition still exists (and is
somewhat magnified) without singleevent but it's now plugged
thanks to an smp_mb__before_clear_bit.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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