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2007-07-20mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().Paul Mundt
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's c59def9f222d44bb7e2f0a559f2906191a0862d7 change. They've been BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them either. This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create() completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves, or the documentation references). Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-07-19Merge branch 'master' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 * 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (25 commits) [TG3]: Fix msi issue with kexec/kdump. [NET] XFRM: Fix whitespace errors. [NET] TIPC: Fix whitespace errors. [NET] SUNRPC: Fix whitespace errors. [NET] SCTP: Fix whitespace errors. [NET] RXRPC: Fix whitespace errors. [NET] ROSE: Fix whitespace errors. [NET] RFKILL: Fix whitespace errors. [NET] PACKET: Fix whitespace errors. [NET] NETROM: Fix whitespace errors. [NET] NETFILTER: Fix whitespace errors. [NET] IPV4: Fix whitespace errors. [NET] DCCP: Fix whitespace errors. [NET] CORE: Fix whitespace errors. [NET] BLUETOOTH: Fix whitespace errors. [NET] AX25: Fix whitespace errors. [PATCH] mac80211: remove rtnl locking in ieee80211_sta.c [PATCH] mac80211: fix GCC warning on 64bit platforms [GENETLINK]: Dynamic multicast groups. [NETLIKN]: Allow removing multicast groups. ...
2007-07-19lockdep: fixup sk_callback_lock annotationPeter Zijlstra
the two init sites resulted in inconsistend names for the lock class. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19[NET] CORE: Fix whitespace errors.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2007-07-18[NET]: move __dev_addr_discard adjacent to dev_addr_discard for readabilityDenis Cheng
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-18[NET]: merge dev_unicast_discard and dev_mc_discard into oneDenis Cheng
this two functions could share the dev->_xmit_lock acquired context. Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-18[NET]: move dev_mc_discard from dev_mcast.c to dev.cDenis Cheng
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>
2007-07-18[NET]: gen_estimator deadlock fixRanko Zivojnovic
-Fixes ABBA deadlock noted by Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>: > There is at least one ABBA deadlock, est_timer() does: > read_lock(&est_lock) > spin_lock(e->stats_lock) (which is dev->queue_lock) > > and qdisc_destroy calls htb_destroy under dev->queue_lock, which > calls htb_destroy_class, then gen_kill_estimator and this > write_locks est_lock. To fix the ABBA deadlock the rate estimators are now kept on an rcu list. -The est_lock changes the use from protecting the list to protecting the update to the 'bstat' pointer in order to avoid NULL dereferencing. -The 'interval' member of the gen_estimator structure removed as it is not needed. Signed-off-by: Ranko Zivojnovic <ranko@spidernet.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-17Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by defaultRafael J. Wysocki
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't care for the freezing of tasks at all. It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is done in this patch. The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable() function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional) change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to describe the freezing of tasks more accurately. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16Revert "[NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll."Linus Torvalds
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>
2007-07-16O_CLOEXEC for SCM_RIGHTSUlrich Drepper
Part two in the O_CLOEXEC saga: adding support for file descriptors received through Unix domain sockets. The patch is once again pretty minimal, it introduces a new flag for recvmsg and passes it just like the existing MSG_CMSG_COMPAT flag. I think this bit is not used otherwise but the networking people will know better. This new flag is not recognized by recvfrom and recv. These functions cannot be used for that purpose and the asymmetry this introduces is not worse than the already existing MSG_CMSG_COMPAT situations. The patch must be applied on the patch which introduced O_CLOEXEC. It has to remove static from the new get_unused_fd_flags function but since scm.c cannot live in a module the function still hasn't to be exported. Here's a test program to make sure the code works. It's so much longer than the actual patch... #include <errno.h> #include <error.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #include <sys/un.h> #ifndef O_CLOEXEC # define O_CLOEXEC 02000000 #endif #ifndef MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC # define MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC 0x40000000 #endif int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { if (argc > 1) { int fd = atol (argv[1]); printf ("child: fd = %d\n", fd); if (fcntl (fd, F_GETFD) == 0 || errno != EBADF) { puts ("file descriptor valid in child"); return 1; } return 0; } struct sockaddr_un sun; strcpy (sun.sun_path, "./testsocket"); sun.sun_family = AF_UNIX; char databuf[] = "hello"; struct iovec iov[1]; iov[0].iov_base = databuf; iov[0].iov_len = sizeof (databuf); union { struct cmsghdr hdr; char bytes[CMSG_SPACE (sizeof (int))]; } buf; struct msghdr msg = { .msg_iov = iov, .msg_iovlen = 1, .msg_control = buf.bytes, .msg_controllen = sizeof (buf) }; struct cmsghdr *cmsg = CMSG_FIRSTHDR (&msg); cmsg->cmsg_level = SOL_SOCKET; cmsg->cmsg_type = SCM_RIGHTS; cmsg->cmsg_len = CMSG_LEN (sizeof (int)); msg.msg_controllen = cmsg->cmsg_len; pid_t child = fork (); if (child == -1) error (1, errno, "fork"); if (child == 0) { int sock = socket (PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0); if (sock < 0) error (1, errno, "socket"); if (bind (sock, (struct sockaddr *) &sun, sizeof (sun)) < 0) error (1, errno, "bind"); if (listen (sock, SOMAXCONN) < 0) error (1, errno, "listen"); int conn = accept (sock, NULL, NULL); if (conn == -1) error (1, errno, "accept"); *(int *) CMSG_DATA (cmsg) = sock; if (sendmsg (conn, &msg, MSG_NOSIGNAL) < 0) error (1, errno, "sendmsg"); return 0; } /* For a test suite this should be more robust like a barrier in shared memory. */ sleep (1); int sock = socket (PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0); if (sock < 0) error (1, errno, "socket"); if (connect (sock, (struct sockaddr *) &sun, sizeof (sun)) < 0) error (1, errno, "connect"); unlink (sun.sun_path); *(int *) CMSG_DATA (cmsg) = -1; if (recvmsg (sock, &msg, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC) < 0) error (1, errno, "recvmsg"); int fd = *(int *) CMSG_DATA (cmsg); if (fd == -1) error (1, 0, "no descriptor received"); char fdname[20]; snprintf (fdname, sizeof (fdname), "%d", fd); execl ("/proc/self/exe", argv[0], fdname, NULL); puts ("execl failed"); return 1; } [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Fix fastcall inconsistency noted by Michael Buesch] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-14[NET]: Add ethtool support for NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM devices.Michael Chan
Add ethtool utility function to set or clear IPV6_CSUM feature flag. Modify tg3.c and bnx2.c to use this function when doing ethtool -K to change tx checksum. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14[NET]: Add macvlan driverPatrick McHardy
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>
2007-07-14[NET]: dev_mcast: add multicast list synchronization helpersPatrick McHardy
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>
2007-07-14[NET]: Add net_device change_rx_mode callbackPatrick McHardy
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>
2007-07-13Merge branch 'ioat-md-accel-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop * 'ioat-md-accel-for-linus' of git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop: (28 commits) ioatdma: add the unisys "i/oat" pci vendor/device id ARM: Add drivers/dma to arch/arm/Kconfig iop3xx: surface the iop3xx DMA and AAU units to the iop-adma driver iop13xx: surface the iop13xx adma units to the iop-adma driver dmaengine: driver for the iop32x, iop33x, and iop13xx raid engines md: remove raid5 compute_block and compute_parity5 md: handle_stripe5 - request io processing in raid5_run_ops md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async expand ops md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async read ops md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async check ops md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async compute ops md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async write ops md: common infrastructure for running operations with raid5_run_ops md: raid5_run_ops - run stripe operations outside sh->lock raid5: replace custom debug PRINTKs with standard pr_debug raid5: refactor handle_stripe5 and handle_stripe6 (v3) async_tx: add the async_tx api xor: make 'xor_blocks' a library routine for use with async_tx dmaengine: make clients responsible for managing channels dmaengine: refactor dmaengine around dma_async_tx_descriptor ...
2007-07-13dmaengine: make clients responsible for managing channelsDan Williams
The current implementation assumes that a channel will only be used by one client at a time. In order to enable channel sharing the dmaengine core is changed to a model where clients subscribe to channel-available-events. Instead of tracking how many channels a client wants and how many it has received the core just broadcasts the available channels and lets the clients optionally take a reference. The core learns about the clients' needs at dma_event_callback time. In support of multiple operation types, clients can specify a capability mask to only be notified of channels that satisfy a certain set of capabilities. Changelog: * removed DMA_TX_ARRAY_INIT, no longer needed * dma_client_chan_free -> dma_chan_release: switch to global reference counting only at device unregistration time, before it was also happening at client unregistration time * clients now return dma_state_client to dmaengine (ack, dup, nak) * checkpatch.pl fixes * fixup merge with git-ioat Cc: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-11[RTNETLINK]: rtnl_link: allow specifying initial device addressPatrick McHardy
Drivers need to validate the initial addresses in their netlink attribute validation function or manually reject them if they can't support this. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-11[RTNETLINK]: rtnl_link API simplificationPatrick McHardy
All drivers need to unregister their devices in the module unload function. While doing so they must hold the rtnl and atomically unregister the rtnl_link ops as well. This makes the rtnl_link_unregister function that takes the rtnl itself completely useless. Provide default newlink/dellink functions, make __rtnl_link_unregister and rtnl_link_unregister unregister all devices with matching rtnl_link_ops and change the existing users to take advantage of that. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-11[NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll.Olaf Kirch
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>
2007-07-10[NET]: Fix gen_estimator timer removal racePatrick McHardy
As noticed by Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>, the timer removal in gen_kill_estimator races with the timer function rearming the timer. Check whether the timer list is empty before rearming the timer in the timer function to fix this. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Acked-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NETPOLL]: Fix a leak-n-bug in netpoll_cleanup()Satyam Sharma
93ec2c723e3f8a216dde2899aeb85c648672bc6b applied excessive duct tape to the netpoll beast's netpoll_cleanup(), thus substituting one leak with another, and opening up a little buglet :-) net_device->npinfo (netpoll_info) is a shared and refcounted object and cannot simply be set NULL the first time netpoll_cleanup() is called. Otherwise, further netpoll_cleanup()'s see np->dev->npinfo == NULL and become no-ops, thus leaking. And it's a bug too: the first call to netpoll_cleanup() would thus (annoyingly) "disable" other (still alive) netpolls too. Maybe nobody noticed this because netconsole (only user of netpoll) never supported multiple netpoll objects earlier. This is a trivial and obvious one-line fixlet. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NET]: "wrong timeout value in sk_wait_data()": cleanupsAndrew Morton
- save 4 bytes - it's read-mostly. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NET]: Make some network-related proc files use seq_list_xxx helpersPavel Emelianov
This includes /proc/net/protocols, /proc/net/rxrpc_calls and /proc/net/rxrpc_connections files. All three need seq_list_start_head to show some header. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NETFILTER]: x_tables: add TRACE targetJozsef Kadlecsik
The TRACE target can be used to follow IP and IPv6 packets through the ruleset. Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu> Signed-off-by: Patrick NcHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[PKTGEN]: IPSEC supportJamal Hadi Salim
Added transport mode ESP support for starters. I will send more of these modes and types once i have resolved the tunnel mode isses. Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[PKTGEN]: Introduce sequential flowsJamal Hadi Salim
By default all flows in pktgen are randomly selected. This patch introduces ability to have all defined flows to be sent sequentially. Robert defined randomness to be the default behavior. Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[PKTGEN]: Centralize packet overhead trackingJamal Hadi Salim
Track the extra packet overhead for VLAN tags, MPLS, IPSEC etc Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NET]: Fix secondary unicast/multicast address count maintenancePatrick McHardy
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>
2007-07-10[CORE] Stack changes to add multiqueue hardware support APIPeter P Waskiewicz Jr
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>
2007-07-10[NET]: Fix TX checksum feature checkHerbert Xu
This patch fixes a boolean error in the new TX checksum check that causes bogus TSO packets to be generated. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NET]: dev: secondary unicast address supportPatrick McHardy
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>
2007-07-10[NET]: dev_mcast: switch to generic net_device address listsPatrick McHardy
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>
2007-07-10[NET]: dev: introduce generic net_device address listsPatrick McHardy
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>
2007-07-10[NET]: dev_mcast: unexport dev_mc_uploadPatrick McHardy
dev_mc_add/dev_mc_delete take care of uploading the list when necessary and thats the only interface other code should use. Also remove two incorrect calls in DECnet. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NET]: IPV6 checksum offloading in network devicesStephen Hemminger
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>
2007-07-10[RTNETLINK]: Fix rtnetlink compat attribute patchPatrick McHardy
Sent the wrong patch previously. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[RTNETLINK]: Add nested compat attributePatrick McHardy
Add a nested compat attribute type that can be used to convert attributes that contain a structure to nested attributes in a backwards compatible way. The attribute looks like this: struct { [ compat contents ] struct rtattr { .rta_len = total size, .rta_type = type, } rta; struct old_structure struct; [ nested top-level attribute ] struct rtattr { .rta_len = nest size, .rta_type = type, } nest_attr; [ optional 0 .. n nested attributes ] struct rtattr { .rta_len = private attribute len, .rta_type = private attribute typ, } nested_attr; struct nested_data data; }; Since both userspace and kernel deal correctly with attributes that are larger than expected old versions will just parse the compat part and ignore the rest. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[SKBUFF]: Keep track of writable header len of headerless clonesPatrick McHardy
Currently NAT (and others) that want to modify cloned skbs copy them, even if in the vast majority of cases its not necessary because the skb is a clone made by TCP and the portion NAT wants to modify is actually writable because TCP release the header reference before cloning. The problem is that there is no clean way for NAT to find out how long the writable header area is, so this patch introduces skb->hdr_len to hold this length. When a headerless skb is cloned skb->hdr_len is set to the current headroom, for regular clones it is copied from the original. A new function skb_clone_writable(skb, len) returns whether the skb is writable up to len bytes from skb->data. To avoid enlarging the skb the mac_len field is reduced to 16 bit and the new hdr_len field is put in the remaining 16 bit. I've done a few rough benchmarks of NAT (not with this exact patch, but a very similar one). As expected it saves huge amounts of system time in case of sendfile, bringing it down to basically the same amount as without NAT, with sendmsg it only helps on loopback, probably because of the large MTU. Transmit a 1GB file using sendfile/sendmsg over eth0/lo with and without NAT: - sendfile eth0, no NAT: sys 0m0.388s - sendfile eth0, NAT: sys 0m1.835s - sendfile eth0: NAT + path: sys 0m0.370s (~ -80%) - sendfile lo, no NAT: sys 0m0.258s - sendfile lo, NAT: sys 0m2.609s - sendfile lo, NAT + patch: sys 0m0.260s (~ -90%) - sendmsg eth0, no NAT: sys 0m2.508s - sendmsg eth0, NAT: sys 0m2.539s - sendmsg eth0, NAT + patch: sys 0m2.445s (no change) - sendmsg lo, no NAT: sys 0m2.151s - sendmsg lo, NAT: sys 0m3.557s - sendmsg lo, NAT + patch: sys 0m2.159s (~ -40%) I expect other users can see a similar performance improvement, packet mangling iptables targets, ipip and ip_gre come to mind .. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[RTNETLINK]: Link creation APIPatrick McHardy
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>
2007-07-10[RTNETLINK]: Split up rtnl_setlinkPatrick McHardy
Split up rtnl_setlink into a function performing validation and a function performing the actual changes. This allows to share the modifcation logic with rtnl_newlink, which is introduced by the next patch. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-05[NETPOLL]: Fixups for 'fix soft lockup when removing module'Jarek Poplawski
>From my recent patch: > > #1 > > Until kernel ver. 2.6.21 (including) cancel_rearming_delayed_work() > > required a work function should always (unconditionally) rearm with > > delay > 0 - otherwise it would endlessly loop. This patch replaces > > this function with cancel_delayed_work(). Later kernel versions don't > > require this, so here it's only for uniformity. But Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> found: > But 2.6.22 doesn't need this change, why it was merged? > > In fact, I suspect this change adds a race, ... His description was right (thanks), so this patch reverts #1. Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-05[NET]: net/core/netevent.c should #include <net/netevent.h>Adrian Bunk
Every file should include the headers containing the prototypes for its global functions. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-05[NET] skbuff: remove export of static symbolJohannes Berg
skb_clone_fraglist is static so it shouldn't be exported. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-06-28[NETPOLL] netconsole: fix soft lockup when removing moduleJarek Poplawski
#1 Until kernel ver. 2.6.21 (including) cancel_rearming_delayed_work() required a work function should always (unconditionally) rearm with delay > 0 - otherwise it would endlessly loop. This patch replaces this function with cancel_delayed_work(). Later kernel versions don't require this, so here it's only for uniformity. #2 After deleting a timer in cancel_[rearming_]delayed_work() there could stay a last skb queued in npinfo->txq causing a memory leak after kfree(npinfo). Initial patch & testing by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-06-27[NETPOLL]: tx lock deadlock fixStephen Hemminger
If sky2 device poll routine is called from netpoll_send_skb, it would deadlock. The netpoll_send_skb held the netif_tx_lock, and the poll routine could acquire it to clean up skb's. Other drivers might use same locking model. The driver is correct, netpoll should not introduce more locking problems than it causes already. So change the code to drop lock before calling poll handler. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux.foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-06-23[NET]: Make skb_seq_read unmap the last fragmentOlaf Kirch
Having walked through the entire skbuff, skb_seq_read would leave the last fragment mapped. As a consequence, the unwary caller would leak kmaps, and proceed with preempt_count off by one. The only (kind of non-intuitive) workaround is to use skb_seq_read_abort. This patch makes sure skb_seq_read always unmaps frag_data after having cycled through the skb's paged part. Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-06-23[NET]: Re-enable irqs before pushing pending DMA requestsShannon Nelson
This moves the local_irq_enable() call in net_rx_action() to before calling the CONFIG_NET_DMA's dma_async_memcpy_issue_pending() rather than after. This shortens the irq disabled window and allows for DMA drivers that need to do their own irq hold. Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-06-23[SKBUFF]: Fix incorrect config #ifdef around skb_copy_secmarkPatrick McHardy
secmark doesn't depend on CONFIG_NET_SCHED. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-06-07[NET]: Avoid duplicate netlink notification when changing link stateThomas Graf
When changing the link state from userspace not affecting any other flags. Two duplicate notification are being sent, once as action in the NETDEV_UP/NETDEV_DOWN notification chain and a second time when comparing old and new device flags after the change has been completed. Although harmless, the duplicates should be avoided. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>