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2008-02-28[IPV4]: Use proc_create() to setup ->proc_fops firstWang Chen
Use proc_create() to make sure that ->proc_fops be setup before gluing PDE to main tree. Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-07[IPV4]: route: fix crash ip_route_inputPatrick McHardy
ip_route_me_harder() may call ip_route_input() with skbs that don't have skb->dev set for skbs rerouted in LOCAL_OUT and TCP resets generated by the REJECT target, resulting in a crash when dereferencing skb->dev->nd_net. Since ip_route_input() has an input device argument, it seems correct to use that one anyway. Bug introduced in b5921910a1 (Routing cache virtualization). Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-31[IPV4] route cache: Introduce rt_genid for smooth cache invalidationEric Dumazet
Current ip route cache implementation is not suited to large caches. We can consume a lot of CPU when cache must be invalidated, since we currently need to evict all cache entries, and this eviction is sometimes asynchronous. min_delay & max_delay can somewhat control this asynchronism behavior, but whole thing is a kludge, regularly triggering infamous soft lockup messages. When entries are still in use, this also consumes a lot of ram, filling dst_garbage.list. A better scheme is to use a generation identifier on each entry, so that cache invalidation can be performed by changing the table identifier, without having to scan all entries. No more delayed flushing, no more stalling when secret_interval expires. Invalidated entries will then be freed at GC time (controled by ip_rt_gc_timeout or stress), or when an invalidated entry is found in a chain when an insert is done. Thus we keep a normal equilibrium. This patch : - renames rt_hash_rnd to rt_genid (and makes it an atomic_t) - Adds a new rt_genid field to 'struct rtable' (filling a hole on 64bit) - Checks entry->rt_genid at appropriate places :
2008-01-31[NET]: should explicitely initialize atomic_t field in struct dst_opsEric Dumazet
All but one struct dst_ops static initializations miss explicit initialization of entries field. As this field is atomic_t, we should use ATOMIC_INIT(0), and not rely on atomic_t implementation. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETNS]: Routing cache virtualization.Denis V. Lunev
Basically, this piece looks relatively easy. Namespace is already available on the dst entry via device and the device is safe to dereferrence. Compare it with one of a searcher and skip entry if appropriate. The only exception is ip_rt_frag_needed. So, add namespace parameter to it. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETNS]: Add namespace parameter to ip_route_output_key.Denis V. Lunev
Needed to propagate it down to the ip_route_output_flow. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETNS]: Add namespace parameter to ip_route_output_flow.Denis V. Lunev
Needed to propagate it down to the __ip_route_output_key. Signed_off_by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETNS]: Add namespace parameter to __ip_route_output_key.Denis V. Lunev
This is only required to propagate it down to the ip_route_output_slow. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETNS]: Add namespace parameter to ip_route_output_slow.Denis V. Lunev
This function needs a net namespace to lookup devices, fib tables, etc. in, so pass it there. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETNS]: Add namespace parameter to ip_dev_find.Denis V. Lunev
in_dev_find() need a namespace to pass it to fib_get_table(), so add an argument. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETNS]: Add netns parameter to fib_select_default.Denis V. Lunev
Currently fib_select_default calls fib_get_table() with the init_net. Prepare it to provide a correct namespace to lookup default route. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETNS]: Pass correct namespace in ip_rt_get_source.Denis V. Lunev
ip_rt_get_source is the infamous place for which dst_ifdown kludges have been implemented. This means that rt->u.dst.dev can be safely dereferrenced obtain nd_net. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETNS]: Pass correct namespace in ip_route_input_slow.Denis V. Lunev
The packet on the input path always has a referrence to an input network device it is passed from. Extract network namespace from it. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETNS]: Add netns parameter to fib_lookup.Denis V. Lunev
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPV4]: Enable use of 240/4 address space.Jan Engelhardt
This short patch modifies the IPv4 networking to enable use of the 240.0.0.0/4 (aka "class-E") address space as propsed in the internet draft draft-fuller-240space-00.txt. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETNS][DST] dst: pass the dst_ops as parameter to the gc functionsDaniel Lezcano
The garbage collection function receive the dst_ops structure as parameter. This is useful for the next incoming patchset because it will need the dst_ops (there will be several instances) and the network namespace pointer (contained in the dst_ops). The protocols which do not take care of the namespaces will not be impacted by this change (expect for the function signature), they do just ignore the parameter. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETNS]: Add netns parameter to inet_(dev_)add_type.Eric W. Biederman
The patch extends the inet_addr_type and inet_dev_addr_type with the network namespace pointer. That allows to access the different tables relatively to the network namespace. The modification of the signature function is reported in all the callers of the inet_addr_type using the pointer to the well known init_net. Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPV4]: Remove unsupported DNAT (RTCF_NAT and RTCF_NAT) in IPV4Rami Rosen
- The DNAT (Destination NAT) is not implemented in IPV4. - This patch remove the code which checks these flags in net/ipv4/arp.c and net/ipv4/route.c. The RTCF_NAT and RTCF_NAT should stay in the header (linux/in_route.h) because they are used in DECnet. Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[INET]: Avoid an integer divide in rt_garbage_collect()Eric Dumazet
Since 'goal' is a signed int, compiler may emit an integer divide to compute goal/2. Using a right shift is OK here and less expensive. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPV4] net/ipv4: Use ipv4_is_<type>Joe Perches
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPV4]: Switch users of ipv4_devconf(_all) to use the pernet onePavel Emelyanov
These are scattered over the code, but almost all the "critical" places already have the proper struct net at hand except for snmp proc showing function and routing rtnl handler. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPSEC]: Make callers of xfrm_lookup to use XFRM_LOOKUP_WAITHerbert Xu
This patch converts all callers of xfrm_lookup that used an explicit value of 1 to indiciate blocking to use the new flag XFRM_LOOKUP_WAIT. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NET]: Multiple namespaces in the all dst_ifdown routines.Denis V. Lunev
Move dst entries to a namespace loopback to catch refcounting leaks. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPV4] ROUTE: Convert rt_hash_lock_init() macro into functionPavel Emelyanov
There's no need in having this function exist in a form of macro. Properly formatted function looks much better. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPV4] ROUTE: Clean up proc files creation.Pavel Emelyanov
The rt_cache, stats/rt_cache and rt_acct(optional) files creation looks a bit messy. Clean this out and join them to other proc-related functions under the proper ifdef. The struct net * argument in a new function will help net namespaces patches look nicer. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPV4] ROUTE: Collect proc-related functions togetherPavel Emelyanov
The net/ipv4/route.c file declares some entries for proc to dump some routing info. The reading functions are scattered over this file - collect them together. Besides, remove a useless IP_RT_ACCT_CPU macro. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[PATCH] IPV4 : Move ip route cache flush (secret_rebuild) from softirq to ↵Eric Dumazet
workqueue Every 600 seconds (ip_rt_secret_interval), a softirq flush of the whole ip route cache is triggered. On loaded machines, this can starve softirq for many seconds and can eventually crash. This patch moves this flush to a workqueue context, using the worker we intoduced in commit 39c90ece7565f5c47110c2fa77409d7a9478bd5b (IPV4: Convert rt_check_expire() from softirq processing to workqueue.) Also, immediate flushes (echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/flush) are using rt_do_flush() helper function, wich take attention to rescheduling. Next step will be to handle delayed flushes ("echo -1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/flush" or "ip route flush cache") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NET]: Make rtnetlink infrastructure network namespace aware (v3)Denis V. Lunev
After this patch none of the netlink callback support anything except the initial network namespace but the rtnetlink infrastructure now handles multiple network namespaces. Changes from v2: - IPv6 addrlabel processing Changes from v1: - no need for special rtnl_unlock handling - fixed IPv6 ndisc Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NET]: Modify all rtnetlink methods to only work in the initial namespace (v2)Denis V. Lunev
Before I can enable rtnetlink to work in all network namespaces I need to be certain that something won't break. So this patch deliberately disables all of the rtnletlink methods in everything except the initial network namespace. After the methods have been audited this extra check can be disabled. Changes from v1: - added IPv6 addrlabel protection Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-01-28[NET]: NET_CLS_ROUTE : convert ip_rt_acct to per_cpu variablesEric Dumazet
ip_rt_acct needs 4096 bytes per cpu to perform some accounting. It is actually allocated as a single huge array [4096*NR_CPUS] (rounded up to a power of two) Converting it to a per cpu variable is wanted to : - Save space on machines were num_possible_cpus() < NR_CPUS - Better NUMA placement (each cpu gets memory on its node) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPSEC]: Merge most of the output pathHerbert Xu
As part of the work on asynchrnous cryptographic operations, we need to be able to resume from the spot where they occur. As such, it helps if we isolate them to one spot. This patch moves most of the remaining family-specific processing into the common output code. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NET]: Eliminate duplicate copies of dst_discardHerbert Xu
We have a number of copies of dst_discard scattered around the place which all do the same thing, namely free a packet on the input or output paths. This patch deletes all of them except dst_discard and points all the users to it. The only non-trivial bit is decnet where it returns an error. However, conceptually this is identical to the blackhole functions used in IPv4 and IPv6 which do not return errors. So they should either all return errors or all return zero. For now I've stuck with the majority and picked zero as the return value. It doesn't really matter in practice since few if any driver would react differently depending on a zero return value or NET_RX_DROP. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timerPavel Emelyanov
Many-many code in the kernel initialized the timer->function and timer->data together with calling init_timer(timer). There is already a helper for this. Use it for networking code. The patch is HUGE, but makes the code 130 lines shorter (98 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-)). Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-10[IPV4] ROUTE: fix rcu_dereference() uses in /proc/net/rt_cacheEric Dumazet
In rt_cache_get_next(), no need to guard seq->private by a rcu_dereference() since seq is private to the thread running this function. Reading seq.private once (as guaranted bu rcu_dereference()) or several time if compiler really is dumb enough wont change the result. But we miss real spots where rcu_dereference() are needed, both in rt_cache_get_first() and rt_cache_get_next() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-08[IPV4] ROUTE: ip_rt_dump() is unecessary slowEric Dumazet
I noticed "ip route list cache x.y.z.t" can be *very* slow. While strace-ing -T it I also noticed that first part of route cache is fetched quite fast : recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202 GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3772 <0.000047> recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\234\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\ 202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3736 <0.000042> recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\204\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\ 202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3740 <0.000055> recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\234\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\ 202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3712 <0.000043> recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\204\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\ 202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3732 <0.000053> recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202 GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3708 <0.000052> recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202 GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3680 <0.000041> while the part at the end of the table is more expensive: recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\204\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3656 <0.003857> recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\204\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3772 <0.003891> recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3712 <0.003765> recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3700 <0.003879> recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3676 <0.003797> recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"p\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\2\0\2\0"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3724 <0.003856> recvmsg(3, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\234\0\0\0\30\0\2\0\254i\202GXm\0\0\2 \0\376\0\0\1\0\2"..., 16384}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 3736 <0.003848> The following patch corrects this performance/latency problem, removing quadratic behavior. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-07[IPV4]: Remove prototype of ip_rt_adviceDenis V. Lunev
ip_rt_advice has been gone, so no need to keep prototype and debug message. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-07[IPv4]: Reply net unreachable ICMP messageMitsuru Chinen
IPv4 stack doesn't reply any ICMP destination unreachable message with net unreachable code when IP detagrams are being discarded because of no route could be found in the forwarding path. Incidentally, IPv6 stack replies such ICMPv6 message in the similar situation. Signed-off-by: Mitsuru Chinen <mitch@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-18[NET]: Corrects a bug in ip_rt_acct_read()Eric Dumazet
It seems that stats of cpu 0 are counted twice, since for_each_possible_cpu() is looping on all possible cpus, including 0 Before percpu conversion of ip_rt_acct, we should also remove the assumption that CPU 0 is online (or even possible) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-14[NET]: rt_check_expire() can take a long time, add a cond_resched()Eric Dumazet
On commit 39c90ece7565f5c47110c2fa77409d7a9478bd5b: [IPV4]: Convert rt_check_expire() from softirq processing to workqueue. we converted rt_check_expire() from softirq to workqueue, allowing the function to perform all work it was supposed to do. When the IP route cache is big, rt_check_expire() can take a long time to run. (default settings : 20% of the hash table is scanned at each invocation) Adding cond_resched() helps giving cpu to higher priority tasks if necessary. Using a "if (need_resched())" test before calling "cond_resched();" is necessary to avoid spending too much time doing the resched check. (My tests gave a time reduction from 88 ms to 25 ms per rt_check_expire() run on my i686 test machine) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-10[NET]: Make helper to get dst entry and "use" itPavel Emelyanov
There are many places that get the dst entry, increase the __use counter and set the "lastuse" time stamp. Make a helper for this. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-10[IPV4]: Remove bugus goto-s from ip_route_input_slowPavel Emelyanov
Both places look like if (err == XXX) goto yyy; done: while both yyy targets look like err = XXX; goto done; so this is ok to remove the above if-s. yyy labels are used in other places and are not removed. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Make core networking code use seq_open_privatePavel Emelyanov
This concerns the ipv4 and ipv6 code mostly, but also the netlink and unix sockets. The netlink code is an example of how to use the __seq_open_private() call - it saves the net namespace on this private. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: sparse warning fixesStephen Hemminger
Fix a bunch of sparse warnings. Mostly about 0 used as NULL pointer, and shadowed variable declarations. One notable case was that hash size should have been unsigned. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Make the loopback device per network namespace.Eric W. Biederman
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>
2007-10-10[NET]: Dynamically allocate the loopback device, part 1.Daniel Lezcano
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>
2007-10-10[IPV4]: Convert rt_check_expire() from softirq processing to workqueue.Eric Dumazet
On loaded/big hosts, rt_check_expire() if of litle use, because it generally breaks out of its main loop because of a jiffies change. It can take a long time (read : timer invocations) to actually scan the whole hash table, freeing unused entries. Converting it to use a workqueue instead of softirq is a nice move because we can allow rt_check_expire() to do the scan it is supposed to do, without hogging the CPU. This has an impact on the average number of entries in cache, reducing ram usage. Cache is more responsive to parameter changes (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/gc_timeout and /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/gc_interval) Note: Maybe the default value of gc_interval (60 seconds) is too high, since this means we actually need 5 (300/60) invocations to scan the whole table. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.Eric W. Biederman
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>
2007-10-10[NET]: Make /proc/net per network namespaceEric W. Biederman
This patch makes /proc/net per network namespace. It modifies the global variables proc_net and proc_net_stat to be per network namespace. The proc_net file helpers are modified to take a network namespace argument, and all of their callers are fixed to pass &init_net for that argument. This ensures that all of the /proc/net files are only visible and usable in the initial network namespace until the code behind them has been updated to be handle multiple network namespaces. Making /proc/net per namespace is necessary as at least some files in /proc/net depend upon the set of network devices which is per network namespace, and even more files in /proc/net have contents that are relevant to a single network namespace. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-02[IPV4] route.c: mostly kmalloc + memset conversion to k[cz]allocMariusz Kozlowski
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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>