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2012-05-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial updates from Jiri Kosina: "As usual, it's mostly typo fixes, redundant code elimination and some documentation updates." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (57 commits) edac, mips: don't change code that has been removed in edac/mips tree xtensa: Change mail addresses of Hannes Weiner and Oskar Schirmer lib: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer net: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer arm/m68k: Change mail address of Sebastian Hess i2c: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer net: Fix tcp_build_and_update_options comment in struct tcp_sock atomic64_32.h: fix parameter naming mismatch Kconfig: replace "--- help ---" with "---help---" c2port: fix bogus Kconfig "default no" edac: Fix spelling errors. qla1280: Remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware() call remoteproc: remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware() qla2xxx: Remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware() call. aic94xx: Get rid of redundant NULL check before release_firmware() call tehuti: delete redundant NULL check before release_firmware() qlogic: get rid of a redundant test for NULL before call to release_firmware() bna: remove redundant NULL test before release_firmware() tg3: remove redundant NULL test before release_firmware() call typhoon: get rid of redundant conditional before all to release_firmware() ...
2012-05-17drivers/net: delete all code/drivers depending on CONFIG_MCAPaul Gortmaker
The support for CONFIG_MCA is being removed, since the 20 year old hardware simply isn't capable of meeting today's software demands on CPU and memory resources. This commit removes any MCA specific net drivers, and removes any MCA specific probe/support code from drivers that were doing a dual ISA/MCA role. Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-05-16Documentation/networking/ieee802154: update MAC chapteralex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com
Update the documentation according to latest changes. Signed-off-by: Alexander Smirnov <alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-15tokenring: delete all remaining driver supportPaul Gortmaker
This represents the mass deletion of the of the tokenring support. It gets rid of: - the net/tr.c which the drivers depended on - the drivers/net component - the Kbuild infrastructure around it - any tokenring related CONFIG_ settings in any defconfigs - the tokenring headers in the include/linux dir - the firmware associated with the tokenring drivers. - any associated token ring documentation. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-05-14batman-adv: README cleanupsSven Eckelmann
- Add routing_algo - Remove date from README: The date has to be updated when a patch touches the README. Therefore, nearly every feature will modify this date. It can happens quite often that not only one feature is currently in development or waiting on the mailinglist. This creates merge conflicts when applying a patchset. The date itself doesn't provide any additional information when this file is only available in a release tarball or as part of a SCM repository. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-05-08netfilter: bridge: optionally set indev to vlanPablo Neira Ayuso
if net.bridge.bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged sysctl is enabled, bridge netfilter removes the vlan header temporarily and then feeds the packet to ip(6)tables. When the new "bridge-nf-pass-vlan-input-device" sysctl is on (default off), then bridge netfilter will also set the in-interface to the vlan interface; if such an interface exists. This is needed to make iptables REDIRECT target work with "vlan-on-top-of-bridge" setups and to allow use of "iptables -i" to match the vlan device name. Also update Documentation with current brnf default settings. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Acked-by: Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-05-07Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/param.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rx.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie-rx.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h Resolved the iwlwifi conflict with mainline using 3-way diff posted by John Linville and Stephen Rothwell. In 'net' we added a bug fix to make iwlwifi report a more accurate skb->truesize but this conflicted with RX path changes that happened meanwhile in net-next. In e1000e a conflict arose in the validation code for settings of adapter->itr. 'net-next' had more sophisticated logic so that logic was used. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-02tcp: change tcp_adv_win_scale and tcp_rmem[2]Eric Dumazet
tcp_adv_win_scale default value is 2, meaning we expect a good citizen skb to have skb->len / skb->truesize ratio of 75% (3/4) In 2.6 kernels we (mis)accounted for typical MSS=1460 frame : 1536 + 64 + 256 = 1856 'estimated truesize', and 1856 * 3/4 = 1392. So these skbs were considered as not bloated. With recent truesize fixes, a typical MSS=1460 frame truesize is now the more precise : 2048 + 256 = 2304. But 2304 * 3/4 = 1728. So these skb are not good citizen anymore, because 1460 < 1728 (GRO can escape this problem because it build skbs with a too low truesize.) This also means tcp advertises a too optimistic window for a given allocated rcvspace : When receiving frames, sk_rmem_alloc can hit sk_rcvbuf limit and we call tcp_prune_queue()/tcp_collapse() too often, especially when application is slow to drain its receive queue or in case of losses (netperf is fast, scp is slow). This is a major latency source. We should adjust the len/truesize ratio to 50% instead of 75% This patch : 1) changes tcp_adv_win_scale default to 1 instead of 2 2) increase tcp_rmem[2] limit from 4MB to 6MB to take into account better truesize tracking and to allow autotuning tcp receive window to reach same value than before. Note that same amount of kernel memory is consumed compared to 2.6 kernels. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-02tcp: early retransmitYuchung Cheng
This patch implements RFC 5827 early retransmit (ER) for TCP. It reduces DUPACK threshold (dupthresh) if outstanding packets are less than 4 to recover losses by fast recovery instead of timeout. While the algorithm is simple, small but frequent network reordering makes this feature dangerous: the connection repeatedly enter false recovery and degrade performance. Therefore we implement a mitigation suggested in the appendix of the RFC that delays entering fast recovery by a small interval, i.e., RTT/4. Currently ER is conservative and is disabled for the rest of the connection after the first reordering event. A large scale web server experiment on the performance impact of ER is summarized in section 6 of the paper "Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP”, IMC 2011. http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2011/docs/p155.pdf Note that Linux has a similar feature called THIN_DUPACK. The differences are THIN_DUPACK do not mitigate reorderings and is only used after slow start. Currently ER is disabled if THIN_DUPACK is enabled. I would be happy to merge THIN_DUPACK feature with ER if people think it's a good idea. ER is enabled by sysctl_tcp_early_retrans: 0: Disables ER 1: Reduce dupthresh to packets_out - 1 when outstanding packets < 4. 2: (Default) reduce dupthresh like mode 1. In addition, delay entering fast recovery by RTT/4. Note: mode 2 is implemented in the third part of this patch series. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-27net: doc: merge /proc/sys/net/core/* documents into one placeShan Wei
All parameter descriptions in /proc/sys/net/core/* now is separated two places. So, merge them into Documentation/sysctl/net.txt. Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-16Documentation: Fix typo in multiple files in DocumentationMasanari Iida
Correct multiple spelling typo in Documentation. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Reported-by: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-04-12Merge branch 'master' into for-davemJohn W. Linville
Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-testmode.c net/wireless/nl80211.c
2012-04-12Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
2012-04-11batman-adv: export claim tables through debugfsSimon Wunderlich
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-04-11batman-adv: add basic bridge loop avoidance codeSimon Wunderlich
This second version of the bridge loop avoidance for batman-adv avoids loops between the mesh and a backbone (usually a LAN). By connecting multiple batman-adv mesh nodes to the same ethernet segment a loop can be created when the soft-interface is bridged into that ethernet segment. A simple visualization of the loop involving the most common case - a LAN as ethernet segment: node1 <-- LAN --> node2 | | wifi <-- mesh --> wifi Packets from the LAN (e.g. ARP broadcasts) will circle forever from node1 or node2 over the mesh back into the LAN. With this patch, batman recognizes backbone gateways, nodes which are part of the mesh and backbone/LAN at the same time. Each backbone gateway "claims" clients from within the mesh to handle them exclusively. By restricting that only responsible backbone gateways may handle their claimed clients traffic, loops are effectively avoided. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-04-10mac80211: set HT channel before associationJohannes Berg
Changing the channel type during operation is confusing to some drivers and will be hard to handle in multi-channel scenarios. Instead of changing the channel, set it to the right HT channel before authenticating/associating and don't change it -- just update the 20/40 MHz restrictions in rate control as needed when changed by the AP. This also fixes a problem that Paul missed in his fix for the "regulatory makes us deaf" issue -- when we couldn't use 40 MHz we still associated saying we were using 40 MHz, which could in similarly broken APs make us never even connect successfully. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-10Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
2012-04-06doc, net: Update ndo_start_xmit return type and valuesBen Hutchings
Commit dc1f8bf68b311b1537cb65893430b6796118498a ('netdev: change transmit to limited range type') changed the required return type and 9a1654ba0b50402a6bd03c7b0fe9b0200a5ea7b1 ('net: Optimize hard_start_xmit() return checking') changed the valid numerical return values. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-06doc, net: Remove instruction to set net_device::trans_startBen Hutchings
Commit 08baf561083bc27a953aa087dd8a664bb2b88e8e ('net: txq_trans_update() helper') made it unnecessary for most drivers to set net_device::trans_start (or netdev_queue::trans_start). Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-06doc, net: Update netdev operation namesBen Hutchings
Commits d314774cf2cd5dfeb39a00d37deee65d4c627927 ('netdev: network device operations infrastructure') and 008298231abbeb91bc7be9e8b078607b816d1a4a ('netdev: add more functions to netdevice ops') moved and renamed net device operation pointers. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-06doc, net: Update documentation of synchronisation for TX multiqueueBen Hutchings
Commits e308a5d806c852f56590ffdd3834d0df0cbed8d7 ('netdev: Add netdev->addr_list_lock protection.') and e8a0464cc950972824e2e128028ae3db666ec1ed ('netdev: Allocate multiple queues for TX.') introduced more fine-grained locks. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-06doc, net: Remove obsolete reference to dev->pollBen Hutchings
Commit bea3348eef27e6044b6161fd04c3152215f96411 ('[NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects.') removed the automatic disabling of NAPI polling by dev_close(), and drivers must now do this themselves. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-04stmmac: MDC clock dynamically based on the csr clock inputGiuseppe CAVALLARO
If a specific clk_csr value is passed from the platform this means that the CSR Clock Range selection cannot be changed at run-time and it is fixed (as reported in the driver documentation). Viceversa the driver will try to set the MDC clock dynamically according to the actual clock input. Signed-off-by: Deepak Sikri <deepak.sikri@st.com> Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Reviewed-by: Francesco Virlinzi <francesco.virlinzi@st.com> Reviewed-by: David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-04stmmac: re-work the internal GMAC DMA platf parametersDeepak SIKRI
This patch re-works the internal GMAC DMA parameters passed from the platform. In the past, we only passed the pbl but, with new core, other parameters can be passed and are mandatory on some platforms. New parameters are documented in stmmac.txt because this patch has an impact for many platforms. Signed-off-by: Shiraz Hashim <shiraz.hashim@st.com> Signed-off-by: Vikas Manocha <vikas.manocha@st.com> Signed-off-by: Deepak Sikri <deepak.sikri@st.com> Hacked-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-04stmmac: Define CSUM offload engine TypesDeepak SIKRI
This patch explicitly defines the CSUM offload engine type which need (not mandatory) to be passed from the platform code. STMMAC core supports two check sum offload engine types- Type-1 & Type-2. Also, there are STMMAC cores that do not have the check sum offload capabilities. The behaviour of Type-1 & Type-2 cores related to provision of checksum increases the packet length for Type-1 cores by 2, as the checksum is appended at the end of data packet and the same is made accountable in the DMA status. The STMMAC cores beyond Version-3.5 provide HW interface registers which allows the user to read the HW capabilities, while to support the previous cores the information related to HW capabilities has to be provided from the platform code. The Type-1 cores which do not have the HW register interface need this information. This patch also updates the driver's doc. Signed-off-by: Deepak Sikri <deepak.sikri@st.com> Hacked-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-03TCP: update ip_local_port_range documentationFernando Luis Vazquez Cao
The explanation of ip_local_port_range in Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt contains several factual errors: - The default value of ip_local_port_range does not depend on the amount of memory available in the system. - tcp_tw_recycle is not enabled by default. - 1024-4999 is not the default value. - Etc. Clean up the mess. Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-03-30Documentation: replace install commands with softdepsLucas De Marchi
Install commands should not be used to specify soft dependencies among modules. When loading modules it's much better to have a softdep that modprobe knows what's being done than having to fork/exec another instance of modprobe to load the other module. By using a softdep user has also an option to remove the dependencies when removing the module (and if its refcount dropped to 0) Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-30Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.confLucas De Marchi
Usage of /etc/modprobe.conf file was deprecated by module-init-tools and is no longer parsed by new kmod tool. References to this file are replaced in Documentation, comments and Kconfig according to the context. There are also some references to the old /etc/modules.conf from 2.4 kernels that are being removed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-21Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security Pull security subsystem updates for 3.4 from James Morris: "The main addition here is the new Yama security module from Kees Cook, which was discussed at the Linux Security Summit last year. Its purpose is to collect miscellaneous DAC security enhancements in one place. This also marks a departure in policy for LSM modules, which were previously limited to being standalone access control systems. Chromium OS is using Yama, and I believe there are plans for Ubuntu, at least. This patchset also includes maintenance updates for AppArmor, TOMOYO and others." Fix trivial conflict in <net/sock.h> due to the jumo_label->static_key rename. * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (38 commits) AppArmor: Fix location of const qualifier on generated string tables TOMOYO: Return error if fails to delete a domain AppArmor: add const qualifiers to string arrays AppArmor: Add ability to load extended policy TOMOYO: Return appropriate value to poll(). AppArmor: Move path failure information into aa_get_name and rename AppArmor: Update dfa matching routines. AppArmor: Minor cleanup of d_namespace_path to consolidate error handling AppArmor: Retrieve the dentry_path for error reporting when path lookup fails AppArmor: Add const qualifiers to generated string tables AppArmor: Fix oops in policy unpack auditing AppArmor: Fix error returned when a path lookup is disconnected KEYS: testing wrong bit for KEY_FLAG_REVOKED TOMOYO: Fix mount flags checking order. security: fix ima kconfig warning AppArmor: Fix the error case for chroot relative path name lookup AppArmor: fix mapping of META_READ to audit and quiet flags AppArmor: Fix underflow in xindex calculation AppArmor: Fix dropping of allowed operations that are force audited AppArmor: Add mising end of structure test to caps unpacking ...
2012-03-20Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina: "It's indeed trivial -- mostly documentation updates and a bunch of typo fixes from Masanari. There are also several linux/version.h include removals from Jesper." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (101 commits) kcore: fix spelling in read_kcore() comment constify struct pci_dev * in obvious cases Revert "char: Fix typo in viotape.c" init: fix wording error in mm_init comment usb: gadget: Kconfig: fix typo for 'different' Revert "power, max8998: Include linux/module.h just once in drivers/power/max8998_charger.c" writeback: fix fn name in writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle() comment header writeback: fix typo in the writeback_control comment Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation tpm_tis: fix tis_lock with respect to RCU Revert "media: Fix typo in mixer_drv.c and hdmi_drv.c" Doc: Update numastat.txt qla4xxx: Add missing spaces to error messages compiler.h: Fix typo security: struct security_operations kerneldoc fix Documentation: broken URL in libata.tmpl Documentation: broken URL in filesystems.tmpl mtd: simplify return logic in do_map_probe() mm: fix comment typo of truncate_inode_pages_range power: bq27x00: Fix typos in comment ...
2012-03-16Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c
2012-03-13Documentation: make exists consistentYegor Yefremov
Signed-off-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-12mac80211: add auth/assoc/deauth flow diagramJohannes Berg
I've been working on some documentation, so let's add this diagram to the kernel tree where at least it has a chance of being maintained :-) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-07Documentation: Fix multiple typo in DocumentationMasanari Iida
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-03-04ppp: Replace uses of <linux/if_ppp.h> with <linux/ppp-ioctl.h>Paul Mackerras
Since all that include/linux/if_ppp.h does is #include <linux/ppp-ioctl.h>, this replaces the occurrences of #include <linux/if_ppp.h> with #include <linux/ppp-ioctl.h>. It also corrects an error in Documentation/networking/l2tp.txt, where it referenced include/linux/if_ppp.h as the source of some definitions that are actually now defined in include/linux/if_pppol2tp.h. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-03-04ppp: Move ioctl definitions from if_ppp.h to new ppp-ioctl.hPaul Mackerras
This moves the definitions of the ioctls, constants and structures relating to the ppp_generic interface to userspace out from if_ppp.h to a new file, ppp-ioctl.h. The new file has my copyright since I designed and implemented the ppp_generic interface in the late 1990s. None of the contents of this file comes from the original if_ppp.h published by Carnegie Mellon University. Of the remainder of if_ppp.h, only the PPP_MTU definition was being used, and this replaces the uses of it with PPP_MRU (which is identical). Therefore, this replaces the entire file with the single line #include <linux/ppp-ioctl.h> which clearly doesn't contain any CMU code. Thus I have removed the CMU copyright notice with its problematic advertising clause, and in fact since it's only one trivial line I have not added any other copyright notice. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-02-24net: Support RX-ALL feature flag.Ben Greear
This flag requests that network devices pass all received frames up the stack, even ones with errors such as invalid FCS (frame check sum). This will allow sniffers to see bad packets and perhaps give the user some idea how to fix the problem. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-02-24net: Support RXFCS feature flag.Ben Greear
When set on hardware that supports the feature, this causes the Ethernet FCS to be appended to the end of the skb. Useful for sniffing packets. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2012-02-04qlge: Updating Schultz LICENSE.qlge file.Sritej Velaga
Signed-off-by: Sritej Velaga <sritej.velaga@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Jitendra Kalsaria <jitendra.kalsaria@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-30drivers/net: fix up stale paths from driver reorgPaul Gortmaker
The reorganization of the driver layout in drivers/net left behind some stale paths in comments and in Kconfig help text. Bring them up to date. No actual change to any code takes place here. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> CC: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-19KEYS: Allow special keyrings to be clearedDavid Howells
The kernel contains some special internal keyrings, for instance the DNS resolver keyring : 2a93faf1 I----- 1 perm 1f030000 0 0 keyring .dns_resolver: empty It would occasionally be useful to allow the contents of such keyrings to be flushed by root (cache invalidation). Allow a flag to be set on a keyring to mark that someone possessing the sysadmin capability can clear the keyring, even without normal write access to the keyring. Set this flag on the special keyrings created by the DNS resolver, the NFS identity mapper and the CIFS identity mapper. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2011-12-26bonding: document undocumented active_slave sysfs entry.Nicolas de Pesloüan
v2, based on Jay's review. I kept the 'link must be up' part, because this is enforced in the code. Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-23packet: fix typo in packet_mmap.txtWei Yongjun
Just fixed typo of sample code in packet_mmap.txt Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-21stmmac: update the driver's documentation (Dec-2011)Giuseppe CAVALLARO
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-20net: doc: fix many typos in scaling.txtShan Wei
Fix some trivial typos. Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei88@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-12Merge branch 'batman-adv/next' of git://git.open-mesh.org/linux-mergeDavid S. Miller
2011-12-06Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
2011-12-06ipv4:correct description for tcp_max_syn_backlogPeter Pan(潘卫平)
Since commit c5ed63d66f24(tcp: fix three tcp sysctls tuning), sysctl_max_syn_backlog is determined by tcp_hashinfo->ehash_mask, and the minimal value is 128, and it will increase in proportion to the memory of machine. The original description for tcp_max_syn_backlog and sysctl_max_syn_backlog are out of date. Changelog: V2: update description for sysctl_max_syn_backlog Signed-off-by: Weiping Pan <panweiping3@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Shan Wei <shanwei88@gmail.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-03net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components.Jesse Gross
Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants. The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd, which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and translate it into packet processing rules. See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace utilities. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-11-30tcp: inherit listener congestion control for passive cnxEric Dumazet
Rick Jones reported that TCP_CONGESTION sockopt performed on a listener was ignored for its children sockets : right after accept() the congestion control for new socket is the system default one. This seems an oversight of the initial design (quoted from Stephen) Based on prior investigation and patch from Rick. Reported-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> CC: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Tested-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>