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2009-03-24netlink: add NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS socket flagPablo Neira Ayuso
This patch adds the NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS socket flag. This flag can be used by unicast and broadcast listeners to avoid receiving ENOBUFS errors. Generally speaking, ENOBUFS errors are useful to notify two things to the listener: a) You may increase the receiver buffer size via setsockopt(). b) You have lost messages, you may be out of sync. In some cases, ignoring ENOBUFS errors can be useful. For example: a) nfnetlink_queue: this subsystem does not have any sort of resync method and you can decide to ignore ENOBUFS once you have set a given buffer size. b) ctnetlink: you can use this together with the socket flag NETLINK_BROADCAST_SEND_ERROR to stop getting ENOBUFS errors as you do not need to resync (packets whose event are not delivered are drop to provide reliable logging and state-synchronization). Moreover, the use of NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS also reduces a "go up, go down" effect in terms of performance which is due to the netlink congestion control when the listener cannot back off. The effect is the following: 1) throughput rate goes up and netlink messages are inserted in the receiver buffer. 2) Then, netlink buffer fills and overruns (set on nlk->state bit 0). 3) While the listener empties the receiver buffer, netlink keeps dropping messages. Thus, throughput goes dramatically down. 4) Then, once the listener has emptied the buffer (nlk->state bit 0 is set off), goto step 1. This effect is easy to trigger with netlink broadcast under heavy load, and it is more noticeable when using a big receiver buffer. You can find some results in [1] that show this problem. [1] http://1984.lsi.us.es/linux/netlink/ This patch also includes the use of sk_drop to account the number of netlink messages drop due to overrun. This value is shown in /proc/net/netlink. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-24net: Add dependent headers to trace/skb.hJosh Stone
The tracing header needs to include definitions for the macros used and the types referenced. This lets automated tracing tools like SystemTap make use of the tracepoint without any specific knowledge of its meaning (leaving that to the user). Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com> CC: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-24Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6
2009-03-23Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/ucc_geth.c
2009-03-23nefilter: nfnetlink: add nfnetlink_set_err and use it in ctnetlinkPablo Neira Ayuso
This patch adds nfnetlink_set_err() to propagate the error to netlink broadcast listener in case of memory allocation errors in the message building. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-21usbnet: support net_device_opsStephen Hemminger
Use net_device_ops for usbnet device, and export for use by other derived drivers. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-21dsa: add switch chip cascading supportLennert Buytenhek
The initial version of the DSA driver only supported a single switch chip per network interface, while DSA-capable switch chips can be interconnected to form a tree of switch chips. This patch adds support for multiple switch chips on a network interface. An example topology for a 16-port device with an embedded CPU is as follows: +-----+ +--------+ +--------+ | |eth0 10| switch |9 10| switch | | CPU +----------+ +-------+ | | | | chip 0 | | chip 1 | +-----+ +---++---+ +---++---+ || || || || ||1000baseT ||1000baseT ||ports 1-8 ||ports 9-16 This requires a couple of interdependent changes in the DSA layer: - The dsa platform driver data needs to be extended: there is still only one netdevice per DSA driver instance (eth0 in the example above), but each of the switch chips in the tree needs its own mii_bus device pointer, MII management bus address, and port name array. (include/net/dsa.h) The existing in-tree dsa users need some small changes to deal with this. (arch/arm) - The DSA and Ethertype DSA tagging modules need to be extended to use the DSA device ID field on receive and demultiplex the packet accordingly, and fill in the DSA device ID field on transmit according to which switch chip the packet is heading to. (net/dsa/tag_{dsa,edsa}.c) - The concept of "CPU port", which is the switch chip port that the CPU is connected to (port 10 on switch chip 0 in the example), needs to be extended with the concept of "upstream port", which is the port on the switch chip that will bring us one hop closer to the CPU (port 10 for both switch chips in the example above). - The dsa platform data needs to specify which ports on which switch chips are links to other switch chips, so that we can enable DSA tagging mode on them. (For inter-switch links, we always use non-EtherType DSA tagging, since it has lower overhead. The CPU link uses dsa or edsa tagging depending on what the 'root' switch chip supports.) This is done by specifying "dsa" for the given port in the port array. - The dsa platform data needs to be extended with information on via which port to reach any given switch chip from any given switch chip. This info is specified via the per-switch chip data struct ->rtable[] array, which gives the nexthop ports for each of the other switches in the tree. For the example topology above, the dsa platform data would look something like this: static struct dsa_chip_data sw[2] = { { .mii_bus = &foo, .sw_addr = 1, .port_names[0] = "p1", .port_names[1] = "p2", .port_names[2] = "p3", .port_names[3] = "p4", .port_names[4] = "p5", .port_names[5] = "p6", .port_names[6] = "p7", .port_names[7] = "p8", .port_names[9] = "dsa", .port_names[10] = "cpu", .rtable = (s8 []){ -1, 9, }, }, { .mii_bus = &foo, .sw_addr = 2, .port_names[0] = "p9", .port_names[1] = "p10", .port_names[2] = "p11", .port_names[3] = "p12", .port_names[4] = "p13", .port_names[5] = "p14", .port_names[6] = "p15", .port_names[7] = "p16", .port_names[10] = "dsa", .rtable = (s8 []){ 10, -1, }, }, }, static struct dsa_platform_data pd = { .netdev = &foo, .nr_switches = 2, .sw = sw, }; Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Tested-by: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-21snap: use const for descriptorStephen Hemminger
Protocols should be able to use constant value for the descriptor. Minor whitespace cleanup as well Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-21sctp: Clean up TEST_FRAME hacks.Vlad Yasevich
Remove 2 TEST_FRAME hacks that are no longer needed. These allowed sctp regression tests to compile before, but are no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-21skb: expose and constify hash primitivesStephen Hemminger
Some minor changes to queue hashing: 1. Use const on accessor functions 2. Export skb_tx_hash for use in drivers (see ixgbe) Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-21dca: add missing copyright/license headersMaciej Sosnowski
In two dca files copyright and license headers are missing. This patch adds them there. Signed-off-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-21ipv6: reorder struct inet6_ifaddr to remove padding on 64 bit buildsRichard Kennedy
reorder struct inet6_ifaddr to remove padding on 64 bit builds remove 8 bytes of padding so inet6_ifaddr becomes 192 bytes & fits into a smaller slab. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-20net: reorder struct Qdisc for better SMP performanceEric Dumazet
dev_queue_xmit() needs to dirty fields "state", "q", "bstats" and "qstats" On x86_64 arch, they currently span three cache lines, involving more cache line ping pongs than necessary, making longer holding of queue spinlock. We can reduce this to one cache line, by grouping all read-mostly fields at the beginning of structure. (Or should I say, all highly modified fields at the end :) ) Before patch : offsetof(struct Qdisc, state)=0x38 offsetof(struct Qdisc, q)=0x48 offsetof(struct Qdisc, bstats)=0x80 offsetof(struct Qdisc, qstats)=0x90 sizeof(struct Qdisc)=0xc8 After patch : offsetof(struct Qdisc, state)=0x80 offsetof(struct Qdisc, q)=0x88 offsetof(struct Qdisc, bstats)=0xa0 offsetof(struct Qdisc, qstats)=0xac sizeof(struct Qdisc)=0xc0 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-19rtnetlink: add new value for DHCP added routesStephen Hemminger
To improve manageability, it would be good to be able to disambiguate routes added by administrator from those added by DHCP client. The only necessary kernel change is to add value to rtnetlink include file so iproute2 utility can use it. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-18netfilter: remove nf_ct_l4proto_find_get/nf_ct_l4proto_putFlorian Westphal
users have been moved to __nf_ct_l4proto_find. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-17Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2009-03-17Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/ath9k.h drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.h drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/hw.c
2009-03-17Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-2.6
2009-03-16cfg80211: add regulatory netlink multicast groupLuis R. Rodriguez
This allows us to send to userspace "regulatory" events. For now we just send an event when we change regulatory domains. We also notify userspace when devices are using their own custom world roaming regulatory domains. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-16cfg80211: move enum reg_set_by to nl80211.hLuis R. Rodriguez
We do this so we can later inform userspace who set the regulatory domain and provide details of the request. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-16cfg80211: remove REGDOM_SET_BY_INITLuis R. Rodriguez
This is not used as we can always just assume the first regulatory domain set will _always_ be a static regulatory domain. REGDOM_SET_BY_CORE will be the first request from cfg80211 for a regdomain and that then populates the first regulatory request. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-16GRO: Move netpoll checks to correct locationHerbert Xu
As my netpoll fix for net doesn't really work for net-next, we need this update to move the checks into the right place. As it stands we may pass freed skbs to netpoll_receive_skb. This patch also introduces a netpoll_rx_on function to avoid GRO completely if we're invoked through netpoll. This might seem paranoid but as netpoll may have an external receive hook it's better to be safe than sorry. I don't think we need this for 2.6.29 though since there's nothing immediately broken by it. This patch also moves the GRO_* return values to netdevice.h since VLAN needs them too (I tried to avoid this originally but alas this seems to be the easiest way out). This fixes a bug in VLAN where it continued to use the old return value 2 instead of the correct GRO_DROP. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-16netfilter: xtables: add cluster matchPablo Neira Ayuso
This patch adds the iptables cluster match. This match can be used to deploy gateway and back-end load-sharing clusters. The cluster can be composed of 32 nodes maximum (although I have only tested this with two nodes, so I cannot tell what is the real scalability limit of this solution in terms of cluster nodes). Assuming that all the nodes see all packets (see below for an example on how to do that if your switch does not allow this), the cluster match decides if this node has to handle a packet given: (jhash(source IP) % total_nodes) & node_mask For related connections, the master conntrack is used. The following is an example of its use to deploy a gateway cluster composed of two nodes (where this is the node 1): iptables -I PREROUTING -t mangle -i eth1 -m cluster \ --cluster-total-nodes 2 --cluster-local-node 1 \ --cluster-proc-name eth1 -j MARK --set-mark 0xffff iptables -A PREROUTING -t mangle -i eth1 \ -m mark ! --mark 0xffff -j DROP iptables -A PREROUTING -t mangle -i eth2 -m cluster \ --cluster-total-nodes 2 --cluster-local-node 1 \ --cluster-proc-name eth2 -j MARK --set-mark 0xffff iptables -A PREROUTING -t mangle -i eth2 \ -m mark ! --mark 0xffff -j DROP And the following commands to make all nodes see the same packets: ip maddr add 01:00:5e:00:01:01 dev eth1 ip maddr add 01:00:5e:00:01:02 dev eth2 arptables -I OUTPUT -o eth1 --h-length 6 \ -j mangle --mangle-mac-s 01:00:5e:00:01:01 arptables -I INPUT -i eth1 --h-length 6 \ --destination-mac 01:00:5e:00:01:01 \ -j mangle --mangle-mac-d 00:zz:yy:xx:5a:27 arptables -I OUTPUT -o eth2 --h-length 6 \ -j mangle --mangle-mac-s 01:00:5e:00:01:02 arptables -I INPUT -i eth2 --h-length 6 \ --destination-mac 01:00:5e:00:01:02 \ -j mangle --mangle-mac-d 00:zz:yy:xx:5a:27 In the case of TCP connections, pickup facility has to be disabled to avoid marking TCP ACK packets coming in the reply direction as valid. echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_tcp_loose BTW, some final notes: * This match mangles the skbuff pkt_type in case that it detects PACKET_MULTICAST for a non-multicast address. This may be done in a PKTTYPE target for this sole purpose. * This match supersedes the CLUSTERIP target. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-16netfilter: xtables: avoid pointer to selfJan Engelhardt
Commit 784544739a25c30637397ace5489eeb6e15d7d49 (netfilter: iptables: lock free counters) broke a number of modules whose rule data referenced itself. A reallocation would not reestablish the correct references, so it is best to use a separate struct that does not fall under RCU. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-16netfilter: remove IPvX specific parts from nf_conntrack_l4proto.hChristoph Paasch
Moving the structure definitions to the corresponding IPvX specific header files. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-16netfilter: conntrack: don't deliver events for racy packetsPablo Neira Ayuso
This patch skips the delivery of conntrack events if the packet was drop due to a race condition in the conntrack insertion. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-16netfilter: use a linked list of loggersEric Leblond
This patch modifies nf_log to use a linked list of loggers for each protocol. This list of loggers is read and write protected with a mutex. This patch separates registration and binding. To be used as logging module, a module has to register calling nf_log_register() and to bind to a protocol it has to call nf_log_bind_pf(). This patch also converts the logging modules to the new API. For nfnetlink_log, it simply switchs call to register functions to call to bind function and adds a call to nf_log_register() during init. For other modules, it just remove a const flag from the logger structure and replace it with a __read_mostly. Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-15tcp: cache result of earlier divides when mss-aligning thingsIlpo Järvinen
The results is very unlikely change every so often so we hardly need to divide again after doing that once for a connection. Yet, if divide still becomes necessary we detect that and do the right thing and again settle for non-divide state. Takes the u16 space which was previously taken by the plain xmit_size_goal. This should take care part of the tso vs non-tso difference we found earlier. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-15tcp: simplify tcp_current_mssIlpo Järvinen
There's very little need for most of the callsites to get tp->xmit_goal_size updated. That will cost us divide as is, so slice the function in two. Also, the only users of the tp->xmit_goal_size are directly behind tcp_current_mss(), so there's no need to store that variable into tcp_sock at all! The drop of xmit_goal_size currently leaves 16-bit hole and some reorganization would again be necessary to change that (but I'm aiming to fill that hole with u16 xmit_goal_size_segs to cache the results of the remaining divide to get that tso on regression). Bring xmit_goal_size parts into tcp.c Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-15tcp: consolidate paws checkIlpo Järvinen
Wow, it was quite tricky to merge that stream of negations but I think I finally got it right: check & replace_ts_recent: (s32)(rcv_tsval - ts_recent) >= 0 => 0 (s32)(ts_recent - rcv_tsval) <= 0 => 0 discard: (s32)(ts_recent - rcv_tsval) > TCP_PAWS_WINDOW => 1 (s32)(ts_recent - rcv_tsval) <= TCP_PAWS_WINDOW => 0 I toggled the return values of tcp_paws_check around since the old encoding added yet-another negation making tracking of truth-values really complicated. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-15net: reorder fields of struct socketEric Dumazet
On x86_64, its rather unfortunate that "wait_queue_head_t wait" field of "struct socket" spans two cache lines (assuming a 64 bytes cache line in current cpus) offsetof(struct socket, wait)=0x30 sizeof(wait_queue_head_t)=0x18 This might explain why Kenny Chang noticed that his multicast workload was performing bad with 64 bit kernels, since more cache lines ping pongs were involved. This litle patch moves "wait" field next "fasync_list" so that both fields share a single cache line, to speedup sock_def_readable() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-13ppp: ppp_mp_explode() redesignGabriele Paoloni
I found the PPP subsystem to not work properly when connecting channels with different speeds to the same bundle. Problem Description: As the "ppp_mp_explode" function fragments the sk_buff buffer evenly among the PPP channels that are connected to a certain PPP unit to make up a bundle, if we are transmitting using an upper layer protocol that requires an Ack before sending the next packet (like TCP/IP for example), we will have a bandwidth bottleneck on the slowest channel of the bundle. Let's clarify by an example. Let's consider a scenario where we have two PPP links making up a bundle: a slow link (10KB/sec) and a fast link (1000KB/sec) working at the best (full bandwidth). On the top we have a TCP/IP stack sending a 1000 Bytes sk_buff buffer down to the PPP subsystem. The "ppp_mp_explode" function will divide the buffer in two fragments of 500B each (we are neglecting all the headers, crc, flags etc?.). Before the TCP/IP stack sends out the next buffer, it will have to wait for the ACK response from the remote peer, so it will have to wait for both fragments to have been sent over the two PPP links, received by the remote peer and reconstructed. The resulting behaviour is that, rather than having a bundle working @1010KB/sec (the sum of the channels bandwidths), we'll have a bundle working @20KB/sec (the double of the slowest channels bandwidth). Problem Solution: The problem has been solved by redesigning the "ppp_mp_explode" function in such a way to make it split the sk_buff buffer according to the speeds of the underlying PPP channels (the speeds of the serial interfaces respectively attached to the PPP channels). Referring to the above example, the redesigned "ppp_mp_explode" function will now divide the 1000 Bytes buffer into two fragments whose sizes are set according to the speeds of the channels where they are going to be sent on (e.g . 10 Byets on 10KB/sec channel and 990 Bytes on 1000KB/sec channel). The reworked function grants the same performances of the original one in optimal working conditions (i.e. a bundle made up of PPP links all working at the same speed), while greatly improving performances on the bundles made up of channels working at different speeds. Signed-off-by: Gabriele Paoloni <gabriele.paoloni@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-13phylib: convert state_queue work to delayed_workMarcin Slusarz
It closes a race in phy_stop_machine when reprogramming of phy_timer (from phy_state_machine) happens between del_timer_sync and cancel_work_sync. Without this change it could lead to crash if phy_device would be freed after phy_stop_machine (timer would fire and schedule freed work). Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-13Network Drop Monitor: Adding Build changes to enable drop monitorNeil Horman
Network Drop Monitor: Adding Build changes to enable drop monitor Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> include/linux/Kbuild | 1 + net/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++ net/core/Makefile | 1 + 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-13Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor implementation & Netlink protocolNeil Horman
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> include/linux/net_dropmon.h | 56 +++++++++ net/core/drop_monitor.c | 263 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 319 insertions(+) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-13Network Drop Monitor: Adding kfree_skb_clean for non-drops and modifying ↵Neil Horman
end-of-line points for skbs Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> include/linux/skbuff.h | 4 +++- net/core/datagram.c | 2 +- net/core/skbuff.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ net/ipv4/arp.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/udp.c | 2 +- net/packet/af_packet.c | 2 +- 6 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-13Network Drop Monitor: Add trace declaration for skb freesNeil Horman
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> include/trace/skb.h | 8 ++++++++ net/core/Makefile | 2 ++ net/core/net-traces.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 39 insertions(+) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-05ssb: Add SPROM fallback supportMichael Buesch
This adds SSB functionality to register a fallback SPROM image from the architecture setup code. Weird architectures exist that have half-assed SSB devices without SPROM attached to their PCI busses. The architecture can register a fallback SPROM image that is used if no SPROM is found on the SSB device. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-05Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/tokenring/tmspci.c drivers/net/ucc_geth_mii.c
2009-03-04Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller
2009-03-04vlan: Fix vlan-in-vlan crashes.David S. Miller
As analyzed by Patrick McHardy, vlan needs to reset it's netdev_ops pointer in it's ->init() function but this leaves the compat method pointers stale. Add a netdev_resync_ops() and call it from the vlan code. Any other driver which changes ->netdev_ops after register_netdevice() will need to call this new function after doing so too. With help from Patrick McHardy. Tested-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-04neigh: Allow for user space users of the neighbour tableEric Biederman
Currently it is possible to do just about everything with the arp table from user space except treat an entry like you are using it. To that end implement and a flag NTF_USE that when set in a netwlink update request treats the neighbour table entry like the kernel does on the output path. This allows user space applications to share the kernel's arp cache. Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-03Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: don't allow setuid to succeed if the user does not have rt bandwidth sched_rt: don't start timer when rt bandwidth disabled
2009-03-03Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: rcu: Teach RCU that idle task is not quiscent state at boot
2009-03-03netns: Remove net_aliveEric W. Biederman
It turns out that net_alive is unnecessary, and the original problem that led to it being added was simply that the icmp code thought it was a network device and wound up being unable to handle packets while there were still packets in the network namespace. Now that icmp and tcp have been fixed to properly register themselves this problem is no longer present and we have a stronger guarantee that packets will not arrive in a network namespace then that provided by net_alive in netif_receive_skb. So remove net_alive allowing packet reception run a little faster. Additionally document the strong reason why network namespace cleanup is safe so that if something happens again someone else will have a chance of figuring it out. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02sctp: Fix broken RTO-doubling for data retransmitsVlad Yasevich
Commit faee47cdbfe8d74a1573c2f81ea6dbb08d735be6 (sctp: Fix the RTO-doubling on idle-link heartbeats) broke the RTO doubling for data retransmits. If the heartbeat was sent before the data T3-rtx time, the the RTO will not double upon the T3-rtx expiration. Distingish between the operations by passing an argument to the function. Additionally, Wei Youngjun pointed out that our treatment of requested HEARTBEATS and timer HEARTBEATS is the same wrt resetting congestion window. That needs to be separated, since user requested HEARTBEATS should not treat the link as idle. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02tcp: tcp_init_wl / tcp_update_wl argument cleanupHantzis Fotis
The above functions from include/net/tcp.h have been defined with an argument that they never use. The argument is 'u32 ack' which is never used inside the function body, and thus it can be removed. The rest of the patch involves the necessary changes to the function callers of the above two functions. Signed-off-by: Hantzis Fotis <xantzis@ceid.upatras.gr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: fix warning in io_mapping_map_wc() x86: i915 needs pgprot_writecombine() and is_io_mapping_possible()
2009-03-02skbuff.h: fix timestamps kernel-docRandy Dunlap
Fix skbuff.h kernel-doc for timestamps: must include "struct" keyword, otherwise there are kernel-doc errors: Error(linux-next-20090227//include/linux/skbuff.h:161): cannot understand prototype: 'struct skb_shared_hwtstamps ' Error(linux-next-20090227//include/linux/skbuff.h:177): cannot understand prototype: 'union skb_shared_tx ' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02wimax/i2400m: implement RX reorder supportInaky Perez-Gonzalez
Allow the device to give the driver RX data with reorder information. When that is done, the device will indicate the driver if a packet has to be held in a (sorted) queue. It will also tell the driver when held packets have to be released to the OS. This is done to improve the WiMAX-protocol level retransmission support when missing frames are detected. The code docs provide details about the implementation. In general, this just hooks into the RX path in rx.c; if a packet with the reorder bit in the RX header is detected, the reorder information in the header is extracted and one of the four main reorder operations are executed. In one case (queue) no packet will be delivered to the networking stack, just queued, whereas in the others (reset, update_ws and queue_update_ws), queued packet might be delivered depending on the window start for the specific queue. The modifications to files other than rx.c are: - control.c: during device initialization, enable reordering support if the rx_reorder_disabled module parameter is not enabled - driver.c: expose a rx_reorder_disable module parameter and call i2400m_rx_setup/release() to initialize/shutdown RX reorder support. - i2400m.h: introduce members in 'struct i2400m' needed for implementing reorder support. - linux/i2400m.h: introduce TLVs, commands and constant definitions related to RX reorder Last but not least, the rx reorder code includes an small circular log where the last N reorder operations are recorded to be displayed in case of inconsistency. Otherwise diagnosing issues would be almost impossible. Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>