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2014-01-12batman-adv: Start new development cycleSimon Wunderlich
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-01-12batman-adv: update copyright years for 2014Simon Wunderlich
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-01-12batman-adv: split tq information in neigh_node structSimon Wunderlich
For the network wide multi interface optimization it is required to save metrics per outgoing interface in one neighbor. Therefore a new type is introduced to keep interface-specific information. This also requires some changes in access and list management. The compare and equiv_or_better API calls are changed to take the outgoing interface into consideration. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-01-08batman-adv: create helper function to get AP isolation statusAntonio Quartulli
The AP isolation status may be evaluated in different spots. Create an helper function to avoid code duplication. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-01-08batman-adv: mark a local client as isolated when neededAntonio Quartulli
A client sending packets which mark matches the value configured via sysfs has to be identified as isolated using the TT_CLIENT_ISOLA flag. The match is mask based, meaning that only bits set in the mask are compared with those in the mark value. If the configured mask is equal to 0 no operation is performed. Such flag is then advertised within the classic client announcement mechanism. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-01-08batman-adv: remove FSF address from GPL disclaimerAntonio Quartulli
As suggested by checkpatch, remove all the references to the FSF address since the kernel already has one reference in its documentation. In this way it is easier to update it in case of future changes. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2013-12-09batadv: Slight optimization of batadv_compare_ethJoe Perches
Use the newly added generic routine ether_addr_equal_unaligned to test if possibly unaligned to u16 Ethernet addresses are equal. This slightly improves comparison time for systems with CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-23batman-adv: Start new development cycleSimon Wunderlich
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-23batman-adv: add bat_neigh_is_equiv_or_better API functionAntonio Quartulli
Each routing protocol has its own metric semantic and therefore is the protocol itself the only component able to compare two metrics to check their "similarity". This new API allows each routing protocol to implement its own logic and make the external code protocol agnostic. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-10-19batman-adv: print the VID together with the TT entriesAntonio Quartulli
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-10-19batman-adv: add the VLAN ID attribute to the TT entryAntonio Quartulli
To make the translation table code VLAN-aware, each entry must carry the VLAN ID which it belongs to. This patch adds such attribute to the related TT structures. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-10-19batman-adv: update email address for Marek LindnerMarek Lindner
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-19batman-adv: update email address for Simon WunderlichSimon Wunderlich
My university will stop email service for alumni in january 2014, please use my new e-mail address instead. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2013-10-12batman-adv: consider network coding overhead when calculating required mtuMarek Lindner
The module prints a warning when the MTU on the hard interface is too small to transfer payload traffic without fragmentation. The required MTU is calculated based on the encapsulation header size. If network coding is compild into the module its header size is taken into account as well. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-12batman-adv: Receive fragmented packets and mergeMartin Hundebøll
Fragments arriving at their destination are buffered for later merge. Merged packets are passed to the main receive function as had they never been fragmented. Fragments are forwarded without merging if the MTU of the outgoing interface is smaller than the size of the merged packet. Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-09batman-adv: remove vis functionalitySimon Wunderlich
This is replaced by a userspace program, we don't need this functionality to bloat the kernel. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-09batman-adv: tvlv - basic infrastructureMarek Lindner
The goal is to provide the infrastructure for sending, receiving and parsing information 'containers' while preserving backward compatibility. TVLV (based on the commonly known Type Length Value technique) was chosen as the format for those containers. Even if a node does not know the tvlv type of a certain container it can simply skip the current container and proceed with the next. Past experience has shown features evolve over time, so a 'version' field was added right from the start to allow differentiating between feature variants - hence the name: T(ype) V(ersion) L(ength) V(alue). This patch introduces the basic TVLV infrastructure: * register / unregister tvlv containers to be sent with each OGM (on primary interfaces only) * register / unregister callback handlers to be called upon finding the corresponding tvlv type in a tvlv buffer * unicast tvlv send / receive API calls Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Spyros Gasteratos <morfeas3000@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-09-03batman: Remove reference to compare_ether_addrJoe Perches
This function is being removed, rename the reference. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-28batman-adv: Start new development cycleSimon Wunderlich
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-08-28batman-adv: set skb priority according to contentSimon Wunderlich
The skb priority field may help the wireless driver to choose the right queue (e.g. WMM queues). This should be set in batman-adv, as this information is only available here. This patch adds support for IPv4/IPv6 DS fields and VLAN PCP. Note that only VLAN PCP is used if a VLAN header is present. Also initially set TC_PRIO_CONTROL only for self-generated packets, and keep the priority set by higher layers. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-05-29batman-adv: Start new development cycleSimon Wunderlich
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-05-29batman-adv: change VID semantic in the BLA codeAntonio Quartulli
In order to make batman-adv fully vlan aware later, the semantic used for variables storing the VLAN ID values has to be changed in order to be adapted to the new one which will be used batman-adv wide. In particular, the VID has to be an "_unsigned_ short int" and its 4 MSB will be used as a flag bitfield, while the remaining 12 bits are used to store the real VID value Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
2013-05-29batman-adv: send each broadcast only once on non-wireless interfacesMatthias Schiffer
While it makes sense to send each broadcast thrice on 802.11 (WLAN) interfaces as broadcasts are often unreliable on these, there is no reason to do so on other interface types. The increased the overhead can be harmful on low-bandwidth links like VPN connections over slow internet lines, therefore it is better to reduce the number of broadcast packets sent on non-wireless links to one. Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-04-22Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c include/net/scm.h net/batman-adv/routing.c net/ipv4/tcp_input.c The e{uid,gid} --> {uid,gid} credentials fix conflicted with the cleanup in net-next to now pass cred structs around. The be2net driver had a bug fix in 'net' that overlapped with the VLAN interface changes by Patrick McHardy in net-next. An IGB conflict existed because in 'net' the build_skb() support was reverted, and in 'net-next' there was a comment style fix within that code. Several batman-adv conflicts were resolved by making sure that all calls to batadv_is_my_mac() are changed to have a new bat_priv first argument. Eric Dumazet's TS ECR fix in TCP in 'net' conflicted with the F-RTO rewrite in 'net-next', mostly overlapping changes. Thanks to Stephen Rothwell and Antonio Quartulli for help with several of these merge resolutions. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-17batman-adv: make is_my_mac() check for the current mesh onlyAntonio Quartulli
On a multi-mesh node (a node running more than one batman-adv virtual interface) batadv_is_my_mac() has to check MAC addresses of hard interfaces belonging to the current mesh only. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-03-27batman-adv: Start new development cycleSimon Wunderlich
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-27batman-adv: Allow to use rntl_link for device creation/deletionSven Eckelmann
The sysfs configuration interface of batman-adv to add/remove soft-interfaces is not deadlock free and doesn't follow the currently common way to create new virtual interfaces. An additional interface though rtnl_link is introduced which provides easy device creation/deletion with tools like "ip": $ ip link add dev bat0 type batadv $ ip link del dev bat0 Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-13batman-adv: network coding - code and transmit packets if possibleMartin Hundebøll
Before adding forward-skbs to the coding buffer, the buffer is searched for a potential coding opportunity. If one is found, the two packets are network coded and transmitted right away. If not, the forward-skb is added to the buffer. Network coded packets are transmitted with information about the two receivers and the two coded packets. The first receiver is given by the MAC header, while the second is given in the payload/bat-header. The second receiver uses promiscuous mode to receive the packet and check the second destination. Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-13batman-adv: network coding - detect coding nodes and remove these after timeoutMartin Hundebøll
To use network coding efficiently, a relay must know when neighbor nodes are likely to have enough information to be able to decode a network coded packet. This is detected by using OGMs from batman-adv to discover when one neighbor is in range of another neighbor. The relay check the TLL to detect when an OGM is forwarded from one neighbor by another neighbor, and thereby knows that the two neighbors are in range and thus overhear packets sent by each other. This information is saved in the orig_node struct to be used when searching for coding opportunities. Two lists are added to the orig_node struct: One for neighbors that can hear the orig_node (outgoing nc_nodes) and one for neighbors that the orig_node can hear (incoming nc_nodes). Information about nc_nodes is kept for 10 seconds and is available through debugfs in batman_adv/nc_nodes to use when debugging network coding. Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-13batman-adv: network coding - add the initial infrastructure codeMartin Hundebøll
Network coding exploits the 802.11 shared medium to allow multiple packets to be sent in a single transmission. In brief, a relay can XOR two packets, and send the coded packet to two destinations. The receivers can decode one of the original packets by XOR'ing the coded packet with the other original packet. This will lead to increased throughput in topologies where two packets cross one relay. In a simple topology with three nodes, it takes four transmissions without network coding to get one packet from Node A to Node B and one from Node B to Node A: 1. Node A ---- p1 ---> Node R Node B 2. Node A Node R <--- p2 ---- Node B 3. Node A <--- p2 ---- Node R Node B 4. Node A Node R ---- p1 ---> Node B With network coding, the relay only needs one transmission, which saves us one slot of valuable airtime: 1. Node A ---- p1 ---> Node R Node B 2. Node A Node R <--- p2 ---- Node B 3. Node A <- p1 x p2 - Node R - p1 x p2 -> Node B The same principle holds for a topology including five nodes. Here the packets from Node A and Node B are overheard by Node C and Node D, respectively. This allows Node R to send a network coded packet to save one transmission: Node A Node B | \ / | | p1 p2 | | \ / | p1 > Node R < p2 | | | / \ | | p1 x p2 p1 x p2 | v / \ v / \ Node C < > Node D More information is available on the open-mesh.org wiki[1]. This patch adds the initial code to support network coding in batman-adv. It sets up a worker thread to do house keeping and adds a sysfs file to enable/disable network coding. The feature is disabled by default, as it requires a wifi-driver with working promiscuous mode, and also because it adds a small delay at each hop. [1] http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Catwoman Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-01-19batman-adv: Start new development cycleAntonio Quartulli
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-01-19batman-adv: update copyright yearsAntonio Quartulli
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-01-19batman-adv: a delayed_work has to be initialised onceAntonio Quartulli
A delayed_work struct does not need to be initialized each every time before being enqueued. Therefore the INIT_DELAYED_WORK() macro should be used during the initialization process only. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-01-12batman-adv: reduce local TT entry timeout to 10 minutesAntonio Quartulli
The current timeout is set to one hour. However a client connected to the mesh network will always generate traffic. In the worst case it will send ARP requests every 4 or 5 minutes. On the other hand having a long timeout means storing dead entries for one hour and it leads to very big trans-tables containing useless clients. This patch reduces the timeout to 10 minutes Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-01-12batman-adv: use per_cpu_add helperShan Wei
this_cpu_add is an atomic operation. and be more faster than per_cpu_ptr operation. Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-11-21batman-adv: Start new development cycleSven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-11-21batman-adv: Add function to calculate crc32c for the skb payloadSven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-11-14batman-adv: wait multiple periods before activating blaSimon Wunderlich
For some reasons (bridge forward delay, network device setup order, etc) the initial bridge loop avoidance announcement packets may be lost. This may lead to problems in finding other backbone gws, and therfore create loops in the startup time. Fix this by extending the waiting periods to 3 (define can be changed) before allowing broadcast traffic. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-11-07batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add snooping functions for ARP messagesAntonio Quartulli
In case of an ARP message going in or out the soft_iface, it is intercepted and a special action is performed. In particular the DHT helper functions previously implemented are used to store all the ARP entries belonging to the network in order to provide a fast and unicast lookup instead of the classic broadcast flooding mechanism. Each node stores the entries it is responsible for (following the DHT rules) in its soft_iface ARP table. This makes it possible to reuse the kernel data structures and functions for ARP management. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-11-07batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - implement local storageAntonio Quartulli
Since batman-adv cannot inter-operate with the host ARP table, this patch introduces a batman-adv private storage for ARP entries exchanged within DAT. This storage will represent the node local cache in the DAT protocol. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-11-07batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - create DHT helper functionsAntonio Quartulli
Add all the relevant functions in order to manage a Distributed Hash Table over the B.A.T.M.A.N.-adv network. It will later be used to store several ARP entries and implement DAT (Distributed ARP Table) Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-11-07batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add a new debug log levelAntonio Quartulli
A new log level has been added to concentrate messages regarding DAT: ARP snooping, requests, response and DHT related messages. The new log level is named BATADV_DBG_DAT Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-10-29batman-adv: add kernel-doc for enum batadv_dbg_levelAntonio Quartulli
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-10-29batman-adv: Check return value of try_module_getSven Eckelmann
New operations should not be started when they need an increased module reference counter and try_module_get failed. This patch addresses Coverity #712284: Unchecked return value Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-10-29batman-adv: consolidate duplicated primary_if checking codeMarek Lindner
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-08-23batman-adv: Start new development cycleSven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-08-23batman-adv: detect not yet announced clientsAntonio Quartulli
With the current TT mechanism a new client joining the network is not immediately able to communicate with other hosts because its MAC address has not been announced yet. This situation holds until the first OGM containing its joining event will be spread over the mesh network. This behaviour can be acceptable in networks where the originator interval is a small value (e.g. 1sec) but if that value is set to an higher time (e.g. 5secs) the client could suffer from several malfunctions like DHCP client timeouts, etc. This patch adds an early detection mechanism that makes nodes in the network able to recognise "not yet announced clients" by means of the broadcast packets they emitted on connection (e.g. ARP or DHCP request). The added client will then be confirmed upon receiving the OGM claiming it or purged if such OGM is not received within a fixed amount of time. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-08-23batman-adv: Use BIT(x) macro to calculate bit positionsSven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-08-23batman-adv: fix typos in commentsAntonio Quartulli
the word millisecond is misspelled in several comments. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-07-10net: Fix (nearly-)kernel-doc comments for various functionsBen Hutchings
Fix incorrect start markers, wrapped summary lines, missing section breaks, incorrect separators, and some name mismatches. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>