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2014-10-02tile gxio: use better string copy primitiveChris Metcalf
Both strncpy and strlcpy suffer from the fact that they do partial copies of strings into the destination when the target buffer is too small. This is frequently pointless since an overflow of the target buffer may make the result invalid. strncpy() makes it relatively hard to even detect the error condition, and with strlcpy() you have to duplicate the buffer size parameter to test to see if the result exceeds it. By returning zero in the failure case, we both make testing for it easy, and by simply not copying anything in that case, we make it mandatory for callers to test the error code. To catch lazy programmers who don't check, we also place a NUL at the start of the destination buffer (if there is space) to ensure that the result is an invalid string. At some point it may make sense to promote strscpy() to a global platform-independent function, but other than the reviewers, no one was interested on LKML, so for now leave the strscpy() function as file-static. Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se> Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
2013-08-01tile: support multiple mPIPE shims in tilegx network driverChris Metcalf
The initial driver support was for a single mPIPE shim on the chip (as is the case for the Gx36 hardware). The Gx72 chip has two mPIPE shims, so we extend the driver to handle that case. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-01tile: support jumbo frames in the tilegx network driverChris Metcalf
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-11arch/tile: provide kernel support for the tilegx mPIPE shimChris Metcalf
The TILE-Gx chip includes a packet-processing network engine called mPIPE ("Multicore Programmable Intelligent Packet Engine"). This change adds support for using the mPIPE engine from within the kernel. The engine has more functionality than is exposed here, but to keep the kernel code and binary simpler, this is a subset of the full API designed to enable standard Linux networking only. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>