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2008-12-08dccp: Remove obsolete parts of the old CCID interfaceGerrit Renker
The TX/RX CCIDs of the minisock are now redundant: similar to the Ack Vector case, their value equals initially that of the sysctl, but at the end of feature negotiation may be something different. The old interface removed by this patch thus has been replaced by the newer interface to dynamically query the currently loaded CCIDs. Also removed are the constructors for the TX CCID and the RX CCID, since the switch "rx <-> non-rx" is done by the handler in minisocks.c (and the handler is the only place in the code where CCIDs are loaded). Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-08netdevice: Kill netdev->privWang Chen
This is the last shoot of this series. After I removing all directly reference of netdev->priv, I am killing "priv" of "struct net_device" and fixing relative comments/docs. Anyone will not be allowed to reference netdev->priv directly. If you want to reference the memory of private data, use netdev_priv() instead. If the private data is not allocted when alloc_netdev(), use netdev->ml_priv to point that memory after you creating that private data. Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-05Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c
2008-12-05nl80211: relicense nl80211.h under the ISCLuis R. Rodriguez
We have a few BSD/ISC licensed userspace applications which include nl80211.h from the kernel. To avoid legal ambiguity for usage of the header file in these projects we rather simply relicense the header file under the ISC. We've received consent from all contributors to it. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net> Acked-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Acked-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Acked-by: Colin McCabe <colin@cozybit.com> Acked-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Cc: johannes@sipsolutions.net Cc: altape@eden.rutgers.edu Cc: luisca@cozybit.com Cc: mb@bu3sch.de Cc: jouni.malinen@atheros.com Cc: colin@cozybit.com Cc: javier@cozybit.com Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05nl80211: Add frequency configuration (including HT40)Jouni Malinen
This patch adds new NL80211_CMD_SET_WIPHY attributes NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ and NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_SEC_CHAN_OFFSET to allow userspace to set the operating channel (e.g., hostapd for AP mode). Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-03atm: 32-bit ioctl compatibilityDavid Woodhouse
We lack compat ioctl support through most of the ATM code. This patch deals with most of it, and I can now at least use BR2684 and PPPoATM with 32-bit userspace. I haven't added a .compat_ioctl method to struct atm_ioctl, because AFAICT none of the current users need any conversion -- so we can just call the ->ioctl() method in every case. I looked at br2684, clip, lec, mpc, pppoatm and atmtcp. In svc_compat_ioctl() the only mangling which is needed is to change COMPAT_ATM_ADDPARTY to ATM_ADDPARTY. Although it's defined as _IOW('a', ATMIOC_SPECIAL+4,struct atm_iobuf) it doesn't actually _take_ a struct atm_iobuf as an argument -- it takes a struct sockaddr_atmsvc, which _is_ the same between 32-bit and 64-bit code, so doesn't need conversion. Almost all of vcc_ioctl() would have been identical, so I converted that into a core do_vcc_ioctl() function with an 'int compat' argument. I've done the same with atm_dev_ioctl(), where there _are_ a few differences, but still it's relatively contained and there would otherwise have been a lot of duplication. I haven't done any of the actual device-specific ioctls, although I've added a compat_ioctl method to struct atmdev_ops. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-03can: Fix CAN_(EFF|RTR)_FLAG handling in can_filterOliver Hartkopp
Due to a wrong safety check in af_can.c it was not possible to filter for SFF frames with a specific CAN identifier without getting the same selected CAN identifier from a received EFF frame also. This fix has a minimum (but user visible) impact on the CAN filter API and therefore the CAN version is set to a new date. Indeed the 'old' API is still working as-is. But when now setting CAN_(EFF|RTR)_FLAG in can_filter.can_mask you might get less traffic than before - but still the stuff that you expected to get for your defined filter ... Thanks to Kurt Van Dijck for pointing at this issue and for the review. Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net> Acked-by: Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.dijck@eia.be> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-02Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c drivers/net/smc91x.c
2008-12-02Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (30 commits) MAINTAINERS: add netdev to ATM ATM: horizon, fix hrz_probe fail path pppol2tp: Add missing sock_put() in pppol2tp_release() net: Fix soft lockups/OOM issues w/ unix garbage collector macvlan: don't broadcast PAUSE frames to macvlan devices Phonet: fix oops in phonet_address_del() on non-Phonet device netfilter: ctnetlink: fix GFP_KERNEL allocation under spinlock sungem: Fix PCS_MIICTRL register write in gem_init_phy(). net: make skb_truesize_bug() call WARN() net: hp-plus uses eip_poll net/wireless/reg.c: fix bad WARN_ON in if statement ath5k: disable beacon filter when station is not associated ath5k: fix Security issue in DebugFS part of ath5k ath9k: correct expected max RX buffer size ath9k: Fix SW-IOMMU bounce buffer starvation mac80211 : Fix setting ad-hoc mode and non-ibss channel iwlagn: fix DMA sync phylib: Add Vitesse VSC8221 SGMII PHY rose: zero length frame filtering in af_rose.c bridge: netfilter: fix update_pmtu crash with GRE ...
2008-12-02Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: alim15x3: fix sparse warning ide: remove dead code from drive_is_ready() ide: fix build for DEBUG_PM ide: respect current DMA setting during resume ide: add SAMSUNG SP0822N with firmware WA100-10 to ivb_list[] amd74xx: workaround unreliable AltStatus register for nVidia controllers ide: fix the ide_release_lock imbalance
2008-12-02nfsd: fix vm overcommit crash fix #2Junjiro R. Okajima
The previous patch from Alan Cox ("nfsd: fix vm overcommit crash", commit 731572d39fcd3498702eda4600db4c43d51e0b26) fixed the problem where knfsd crashes on exported shmemfs objects and strict overcommit is set. But the patch forgot supporting the case when CONFIG_SECURITY is disabled. This patch copies a part of his fix which is mainly for detecting a bug earlier. Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junjiro R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-02amd74xx: workaround unreliable AltStatus register for nVidia controllersBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
It seems that on some nVidia controllers using AltStatus register can be unreliable so default to Status register if the PCI device is in Compatibility Mode. In order to achieve this: * Add ide_pci_is_in_compatibility_mode() inline helper to <linux/ide.h>. * Add IDE_HFLAG_BROKEN_ALTSTATUS host flag and set it in amd74xx host driver for nVidia controllers in Compatibility Mode. * Teach actual_try_to_identify() and drive_is_ready() about the new flag. This fixes the regression caused by removal of CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ config option in 2.6.25 and using AltStatus register unconditionally when available (kernel.org bugs #11659 and #10216). [ Moreover for CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y (which is what most people and distributions use) it never worked correctly. ] Thanks to Remy LABENE and Lars Winterfeld for help with debugging the problem. More info at: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11659 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10216 Reported-by: Remy LABENE <remy.labene@free.fr> Tested-by: Remy LABENE <remy.labene@free.fr> Tested-by: Lars Winterfeld <lars.winterfeld@tu-ilmenau.de> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-12-01lib/idr.c: fix rcu related race with idr_findManfred Spraul
2nd part of the fixes needed for http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11796. When the idr tree is either grown or shrunk, then the update to the number of layers and the top pointer were not atomic. This race caused crashes. The attached patch fixes that by replicating the layers counter in each layer, thus idr_find doesn't need idp->layers anymore. Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Clement Calmels <cboulte@gmail.com> Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net> Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-01epoll: introduce resource usage limitsDavide Libenzi
It has been thought that the per-user file descriptors limit would also limit the resources that a normal user can request via the epoll interface. Vegard Nossum reported a very simple program (a modified version attached) that can make a normal user to request a pretty large amount of kernel memory, well within the its maximum number of fds. To solve such problem, default limits are now imposed, and /proc based configuration has been introduced. A new directory has been created, named /proc/sys/fs/epoll/ and inside there, there are two configuration points: max_user_instances = Maximum number of devices - per user max_user_watches = Maximum number of "watched" fds - per user The current default for "max_user_watches" limits the memory used by epoll to store "watches", to 1/32 of the amount of the low RAM. As example, a 256MB 32bit machine, will have "max_user_watches" set to roughly 90000. That should be enough to not break existing heavy epoll users. The default value for "max_user_instances" is set to 128, that should be enough too. This also changes the userspace, because a new error code can now come out from EPOLL_CTL_ADD (-ENOSPC). The EMFILE from epoll_create() was already listed, so that should be ok. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use get_current_user()] Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-01Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev * 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: libata: blacklist Seagate drives which time out FLUSH_CACHE when used with NCQ [libata] pata_rb532_cf: fix signature of the xfer function [libata] pata_rb532_cf: fix and rename register definitions ata_piix: add borked Tecra M4 to broken suspend list
2008-12-01Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: IB/mlx4: Fix MTT leakage in resize CQ IB/ehca: Fix problem with generated flush work completions IB/ehca: Change misleading error message on memory hotplug mlx4_core: Save/restore default port IB capability mask
2008-12-01libata: blacklist Seagate drives which time out FLUSH_CACHE when used with NCQTejun Heo
Some recent Seagate harddrives have firmware bug which causes FLUSH CACHE to timeout under certain circumstances if NCQ is being used. This can be worked around by disabling NCQ and fixed by updating the firmware. Implement ATA_HORKAGE_FIRMWARE_UPDATE and blacklist these devices. The wiki page has been updated to contain information on this issue. http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Known_issues Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-11-30Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: Allow architectures to override copy_user_highpage() [ARM] pxa/palmtx: misc fixes to use generic GPIO API ARM: OMAP: Fixes for suspend / resume GPIO wake-up handling [ARM] pxa/corgi: update default config to exclude tosa from being built [ARM] pxa/pcm990: use negative number for an invalid GPIO in camera data ARM: OMAP: Typo fix for clock_allow_idle ARM: OMAP: Remove broken LCD driver for SX1 [ARM] 5335/1: pxa25x_udc: Fix is_vbus_present to return 1 or 0 [ARM] pxa/MioA701: bluetooth resume fix [ARM] pxa/MioA701: fix memory corruption.
2008-11-30Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: irq.h: fix missing/extra kernel-doc genirq: __irq_set_trigger: change pr_warning to pr_debug irq: fix typo x86: apic honour irq affinity which was set in early boot genirq: fix the affinity setting in setup_irq genirq: keep affinities set from userspace across free/request_irq()
2008-11-30remove __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_PTRACEChristoph Hellwig
All architectures now use the generic compat_sys_ptrace, as should every new architecture that needs 32bit compat (if we'll ever get another). Remove the now superflous __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_PTRACE define, and also kill a comment about __ARCH_SYS_PTRACE that was added after __ARCH_SYS_PTRACE was already gone. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-30hotplug_memory_notifier section annotationAl Viro
Same as for hotplug_cpu - we want static notifier_block in there in meminitdata, to avoid false positives whenever it's used. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-30meminit section warningsAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-28mlx4_core: Save/restore default port IB capability maskJack Morgenstein
Commit 7ff93f8b ("mlx4_core: Multiple port type support") introduced support for different port types. As part of that support, SET_PORT is invoked to set the port type during driver startup. However, as a side-effect, for IB ports the invocation of this command also sets the port's capability mask to zero (losing the default value set by FW). To fix this, get the default ib port capabilities (via a MAD_IFC Port Info query) during driver startup, and save them for use in the mlx4_SET_PORT command when setting the port-type to Infiniband. This patch fixes problems with subnet manager (SM) failover such as <https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1183>, which occurred because the IsTrapSupported bit in the capability mask was zeroed. Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2008-11-28phy: power management supportGiuseppe Cavallaro
This patch adds the power management support into the physical abstraction layer. Suspend and resume functions respectively turns on/off the bit 11 into the PHY Basic mode control register. Generic PHY device starts supporting PM. In order to support the wake-on LAN and avoid to put in power down the PHY device, the MDIO is aware of what the Ethernet device wants to do. Voluntary, no CONFIG_PM defines were added into the sources. Also generic suspend/resume functions are exported to allow other drivers use them (such as genphy_config_aneg etc.). Within the phy_driver_register function, we need to remove the memset. It overrides the device driver owner and it is not good. Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-28Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6 Conflicts: net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
2008-11-27Allow architectures to override copy_user_highpage()Russell King
With aliasing VIPT cache support, the ARM implementation of clear_user_page() and copy_user_page() sets up a temporary kernel space mapping such that we have the same cache colour as the userspace page. This avoids having to consider any userspace aliases from this operation. However, when highmem is enabled, kmap_atomic() have to setup mappings. The copy_user_highpage() and clear_user_highpage() call these functions before delegating the copies to copy_user_page() and clear_user_page(). The effect of this is that each of the *_user_highpage() functions setup their own kmap mapping, followed by the *_user_page() functions setting up another mapping. This is rather wasteful. Thankfully, copy_user_highpage() can be overriden by architectures by defining __HAVE_ARCH_COPY_USER_HIGHPAGE. However, replacement of clear_user_highpage() is more difficult because its inline definition is not conditional. It seems that you're expected to define __HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_ZEROED_USER_HIGHPAGE and provide a replacement __alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() implementation instead. The allocation itself is fine, so we don't want to override that. What we really want to do is to override clear_user_highpage() with our own version which doesn't kmap_atomic() unnecessarily. Other VIPT architectures (PARISC and SH) would also like to override this function as well. Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-11-26Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/hp-plus.c drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/recv.c net/wireless/reg.c
2008-11-26nl80211: Change max TX power to be in mBm instead of dBmJouni Malinen
In order to be consistent with NL80211_ATTR_POWER_RULE_MAX_EIRP, change NL80211_FREQUENCY_ATTR_MAX_TX_POWER to use mBm and U32 instead of dBm and U8. This is a userspace interface change, but the previous version had not yet been pushed upstream and there are no userspace programs using this yet, so there is justification to get this change in as long as it goes in before the previous version gets out. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-26rfkill: preserve state across suspendHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
The rfkill class API requires that the driver connected to a class call rfkill_force_state() on resume to update the real state of the rfkill controller, OR that it provides a get_state() hook. This means there is potentially a hidden call in the resume code flow that changes rfkill->state (i.e. rfkill_force_state()), so the previous state of the transmitter was being lost. The simplest and most future-proof way to fix this is to explicitly store the pre-sleep state on the rfkill structure, and restore from that on resume. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-26nl80211: Report max TX power in NL80211_BAND_ATTR_FREQSJouni Malinen
This is useful information to provide for userspace (e.g., hostapd needs this to generate Country IE). Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-25cfg80211/mac80211: Add 802.11d supportLuis R. Rodriguez
This adds country IE parsing to mac80211 and enables its usage within the new regulatory infrastructure in cfg80211. We parse the country IEs only on management beacons for the BSSID you are associated to and disregard the IEs when the country and environment (indoor, outdoor, any) matches the already processed country IE. To avoid following misinformed or outdated APs we build and use a regulatory domain out of the intersection between what the AP provides us on the country IE and what CRDA is aware is allowed on the same country. A secondary device is allowed to follow only the same country IE as it make no sense for two devices on a system to be in two different countries. In the case the AP is using country IEs for an incorrect country the user may help compliance further by setting the regulatory domain before or after the IE is parsed and in that case another intersection will be performed. CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY is supported but requires CRDA present. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-25DCB: fix kconfig optionJeff Kirsher
Since the netlink option for DCB is necessary to actually be useful, simplified the Kconfig option. In addition, added useful help text for the Kconfig option. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-25netdev: add HAVE_NET_DEVICE_OPSStephen Hemminger
As a concession to vendors who have to deal with one source for different kernel versions, add a HAVE_NET_DEVICE_OPS so they don't end up hard coding ifdef against kernel version. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-24tcp: add some mibs to track collapsingIlpo Järvinen
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-24tcp: Try to restore large SKBs while SACK processingIlpo Järvinen
During SACK processing, most of the benefits of TSO are eaten by the SACK blocks that one-by-one fragment SKBs to MSS sized chunks. Then we're in problems when cleanup work for them has to be done when a large cumulative ACK comes. Try to return back to pre-split state already while more and more SACK info gets discovered by combining newly discovered SACK areas with the previous skb if that's SACKed as well. This approach has a number of benefits: 1) The processing overhead is spread more equally over the RTT 2) Write queue has less skbs to process (affect everything which has to walk in the queue past the sacked areas) 3) Write queue is consistent whole the time, so no other parts of TCP has to be aware of this (this was not the case with some other approach that was, well, quite intrusive all around). 4) Clean_rtx_queue can release most of the pages using single put_page instead of previous PAGE_SIZE/mss+1 calls In case a hole is fully filled by the new SACK block, we attempt to combine the next skb too which allows construction of skbs that are even larger than what tso split them to and it handles hole per on every nth patterns that often occur during slow start overshoot pretty nicely. Though this to be really useful also a retransmission would have to get lost since cumulative ACKs advance one hole at a time in the most typical case. TODO: handle upwards only merging. That should be rather easy when segment is fully sacked but I'm leaving that as future work item (it won't make very large difference anyway since this current approach already covers quite a lot of normal cases). I was earlier thinking of some sophisticated way of tracking timestamps of the first and the last segment but later on realized that it won't be that necessary at all to store the timestamp of the last segment. The cases that can occur are basically either: 1) ambiguous => no sensible measurement can be taken anyway 2) non-ambiguous is due to reordering => having the timestamp of the last segment there is just skewing things more off than does some good since the ack got triggered by one of the holes (besides some substle issues that would make determining right hole/skb even harder problem). Anyway, it has nothing to do with this change then. I choose to route some abnormal looking cases with goto noop, some could be handled differently (eg., by stopping the walking at that skb but again). In general, they either shouldn't happen at all or are rare enough to make no difference in practice. In theory this change (as whole) could cause some macroscale regression (global) because of cache misses that are taken over the round-trip time but it gets very likely better because of much less (local) cache misses per other write queue walkers and the big recovery clearing cumulative ack. Worth to note that these benefits would be very easy to get also without TSO/GSO being on as long as the data is in pages so that we can merge them. Currently I won't let that happen because DSACK splitting at fragment that would mess up pcounts due to sk_can_gso in tcp_set_skb_tso_segs. Once DSACKs fragments gets avoided, we have some conditions that can be made less strict. TODO: I will probably have to convert the excessive pointer passing to struct sacktag_state... :-) My testing revealed that considerable amount of skbs couldn't be shifted because they were cloned (most likely still awaiting tx reclaim)... [The rest is considering future work instead since I got repeatably EFAULT to tcpdump's recvfrom when I added pskb_expand_head to deal with clones, so I separated that into another, later patch] ...To counter that, I gave up on the fifth advantage: 5) When growing previous SACK block, less allocs for new skbs are done, basically a new alloc is needed only when new hole is detected and when the previous skb runs out of frags space ...which now only happens of if reclaim is fast enough to dispose the clone before the SACK block comes in (the window is RTT long), otherwise we'll have to alloc some. With clones being handled I got these numbers (will be somewhat worse without that), taken with fine-grained mibs: TCPSackShifted 398 TCPSackMerged 877 TCPSackShiftFallback 320 TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKGSO 0 TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKSKBBITS 0 TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKSKBDATA 0 TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKBELOW 0 TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKFIRST 1 TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKPREVBITS 318 TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKMSS 1 TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKNOHEAD 0 TCPSACKCOLLAPSEFALLBACKSHIFT 0 TCPSACKCOLLAPSENOOPSEQ 0 TCPSACKCOLLAPSENOOPSMALLPCOUNT 0 TCPSACKCOLLAPSENOOPSMALLLEN 0 TCPSACKCOLLAPSEHOLE 12 Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-24netfilter: xtables: add missing const qualifier to xt_tgchk_paramJan Engelhardt
When entryinfo was a standalone parameter to functions, it used to be "const void *". Put the const back in. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-23eth: Declare an optimized compare_ether_addr_64bits() functionEric Dumazet
Linus mentioned we could try to perform long word operations, even on potentially unaligned addresses, on x86 at least. David mentioned the HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS test to handle this on all arches that have efficient unailgned accesses. I tried this idea and got nice assembly on 32 bits: 158: 33 82 38 01 00 00 xor 0x138(%edx),%eax 15e: 33 8a 34 01 00 00 xor 0x134(%edx),%ecx 164: c1 e0 10 shl $0x10,%eax 167: 09 c1 or %eax,%ecx 169: 74 0b je 176 <eth_type_trans+0x87> And very nice assembly on 64 bits of course (one xor, one shl) Nice oprofile improvement in eth_type_trans(), 0.17 % instead of 0.41 %, expected since we remove 8 instructions on a fast path. This patch implements a compare_ether_addr_64bits() function, that uses the CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS ifdef to efficiently perform the 6 bytes comparison on all capable arches. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-23dccp: Set per-connection CCIDs via socket optionsGerrit Renker
With this patch, TX/RX CCIDs can now be changed on a per-connection basis, which overrides the defaults set by the global sysctl variables for TX/RX CCIDs. To make full use of this facility, the remaining patches of this patch set are needed, which track dependencies and activate negotiated feature values. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-23irq.h: fix missing/extra kernel-docRandy Dunlap
Impact: fix kernel-doc build Fix missing & excess irq.h kernel-doc: Warning(include/linux/irq.h:182): No description found for parameter 'irq' Warning(include/linux/irq.h:182): Excess struct/union/enum/typedef member 'affinity_entry' description in 'irq_desc' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc6' into irq/urgentIngo Molnar
2008-11-21netdevice hdlc: Convert directly reference of netdev->privWang Chen
For killing directly reference of netdev->priv, use netdev->ml_priv to replace it. Because the private pvc data comes from add_pvc() and can't be allocated in alloc_netdev(). Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-20DCB: Add support for DCB BCNAlexander Duyck
Adds an interface to configure the Backward Congestion Notification (BCN) feature. In a BCN capabale network, congestion notifications from congested points out in the network can cause the end station limit the rate of a given traffic flow. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-20DCB: Add interface to query the state of PFC feature.Alexander Duyck
Adds a netlink interface for Data Center Bridging (DCB) to get and set the enable state of the Priority Flow Control (PFC) feature. Primarily, this is a way to turn off PFC in the driver while DCB remains enabled. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-20DCB: Add interface to query # of TCs supported by deviceAlexander Duyck
Adds interface for Data Center Bridging (DCB) to query (and set if supported) the number of traffic classes currently supported by the device for the two (DCB) features: priority groups (PG) and priority flow control (PFC). Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-20DCB: Add interface to query for the DCB capabilities of an device.Alexander Duyck
Adds to the netlink interface for Data Center Bridging (DCB), allowing the DCB capabilities supported by a device to be queried. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-20ixgbe: this patch adds support for DCB to the kernel and ixgbe driverAlexander Duyck
This adds support for Data Center Bridging (DCB) features in the ixgbe driver and adds an rtnetlink interface for configuring DCB to the kernel. The DCB feature support included are Priority Grouping (PG) - which allows bandwidth guarantees to be allocated to groups to traffic based on the 802.1q priority, and Priority Based Flow Control (PFC) - which introduces a new MAC control PAUSE frame which works at granularity of the 802.1p priority instead of the link (IEEE 802.3x). Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-20hippi: convert driver to net_device_opsStephen Hemminger
Convert the HIPPI infrastructure for use with net_device_ops. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-20fddi: convert to new network device opsStephen Hemminger
Similar to ethernet. Convert infrastructure and the one lone FDDI driver (for the one lone user of that hardware??). Compile tested only. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-20netdev: add more functions to netdevice opsStephen Hemminger
This patch moves neigh_setup and hard_start_xmit into the network device ops structure. For bisection, fix all the previously converted drivers as well. Bonding driver took the biggest hit on this. Added a prefetch of the hard_start_xmit in the fast path to try and reduce any impact this would have. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-20Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c include/net/mac80211.h net/phonet/af_phonet.c