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2009-03-04Merge branch 'x86/core' into core/percpuIngo Molnar
2009-03-03tcp: Like icmp use register_pernet_subsysEric W. Biederman
To remove the possibility of packets flying around when network devices are being cleaned up use reisger_pernet_subsys instead of register_pernet_device. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Acked-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-03netns: Fix icmp shutdown.Eric W. Biederman
Recently I had a kernel panic in icmp_send during a network namespace cleanup. There were packets in the arp queue that failed to be sent and we attempted to generate an ICMP host unreachable message, but failed because icmp_sk_exit had already been called. The network devices are removed from a network namespace and their arp queues are flushed before we do attempt to shutdown subsystems so this error should have been impossible. It turns out icmp_init is using register_pernet_device instead of register_pernet_subsys. Which resulted in icmp being shut down while we still had the possibility of packets in flight, making a nasty NULL pointer deference in interrupt context possible. Changing this to register_pernet_subsys fixes the problem in my testing. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Acked-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> 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>
2009-03-02tcp: get rid of two unnecessary u16s in TCP skb flags copyingIlpo Järvinen
I guess these fields were one day 16-bit in the struct but nowadays they're just using 8 bits anyway. This is just a precaution, didn't result any change in my case but who knows what all those varying gcc versions & options do. I've been told that 16-bit is not so nice with some cpus. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02tcp: in sendmsg/pages open code the real goto targetIlpo Järvinen
copied was assigned zero right before the goto, so if (copied) cannot ever be true. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02tcp: kill eff_sacks "cache", the sole user can calculate itselfIlpo Järvinen
Also fixes insignificant bug that would cause sending of stale SACK block (would occur in some corner cases). Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02tcp: add helper for AI algorithmIlpo Järvinen
It seems that implementation in yeah was inconsistent to what other did as it would increase cwnd one ack earlier than the others do. Size benefits: bictcp_cong_avoid | -36 tcp_cong_avoid_ai | +52 bictcp_cong_avoid | -34 tcp_scalable_cong_avoid | -36 tcp_veno_cong_avoid | -12 tcp_yeah_cong_avoid | -38 = -104 bytes total Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02htcp: merge icsk_ca_state compareIlpo Järvinen
Similar to what is done elsewhere in TCP code when double state checks are being done. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02tcp: drop unnecessary local var in collapseIlpo Järvinen
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02tcp: cleanup ca_state mess in tcp_timerIlpo Järvinen
Redundant checks made indentation impossible to follow. However, it might be useful to make this ca_state+is_sack indexed array. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02tcp: separate timeout marking loop to it's own functionIlpo Järvinen
Some comment about its current state added. So far I have seen very few cases where the thing is actually useful, usually just marginally (though admittedly I don't usually see top of window losses where it seems possible that there could be some gain), instead, more often the cases suffer from L-marking spike which is certainly not desirable (I'll bury improving it to my todo list, but on a low prio position). Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02tcp: remove redundant code from tcp_mark_lost_retransIlpo Järvinen
Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de> noticed and was puzzled by the fact that !tcp_is_fack(tp) leads to early return near the beginning and the later on tcp_is_fack(tp) was still used in an if condition. The later check was a left-over from RFC3517 SACK stuff (== !tcp_is_fack(tp) behavior nowadays) as there wasn't clear way how to handle this particular check cheaply in the spirit of RFC3517 (using only SACK blocks, not holes + SACK blocks as with FACK). I sort of left it there as a reminder but since it's confusing other people just remove it and comment the missing-feature stuff instead. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Cc: Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02tcp: fix corner case issue in segmentation during rexmittingIlpo Järvinen
If cur_mss grew very recently so that the previously G/TSOed skb now fits well into a single segment it would get send up in parts unless we calculate # of segments again. This corner-case could happen eg. after mtu probe completes or less than previously sack blocks are required for the opposite direction. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02tcp: Don't clear hints when tcp_fragmentingIlpo Järvinen
1) We didn't remove any skbs, so no need to handle stale refs. 2) scoreboard_skb_hint is trivial, no timestamps were changed so no need to clear that one 3) lost_skb_hint needs tweaking similar to that of tcp_sacktag_one(). Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02tcp: deferring in middle of queue makes very little senseIlpo Järvinen
If skb can be sent right away, we certainly should do that if it's in the middle of the queue because it won't get more data into it. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02tcp: fix lost_cnt_hint miscountsIlpo Järvinen
It is possible that lost_cnt_hint gets underflow in tcp_clean_rtx_queue because the cumulative ACK can cover the segment where lost_skb_hint points to only partially, which means that the hint is not cleared, opposite to what my (earlier) comment claimed. Also I don't agree what I ended up writing about non-trivial case there to be what I intented to say. It was not supposed to happen that the hint won't get cleared and we underflow in any scenario. In general, this is quite hard to trigger in practice. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-02tcp: don't backtrack to sacked skbsIlpo Järvinen
Backtracking to sacked skbs is a horrible performance killer since the hint cannot be advanced successfully past them... ...And it's totally unnecessary too. In theory this is 2.6.27..28 regression but I doubt anybody can make .28 to have worse performance because of other TCP improvements. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-01Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c net/8021q/vlan_core.c net/core/dev.c
2009-03-01tcp: fix retrans_out leaksIlpo Järvinen
There's conflicting assumptions in shifting, the caller assumes that dupsack results in S'ed skbs (or a part of it) for sure but never gave a hint to tcp_sacktag_one when dsack is actually in use. Thus DSACK retrans_out -= pcount was not taken and the counter became out of sync. Remove obstacle from that information flow to get DSACKs accounted in tcp_sacktag_one as expected. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Tested-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-26inet fragments: fix sparse warning: context imbalanceHannes Eder
Impact: Attribute function with __releases(...) Fix this sparse warning: net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c:276:35: warning: context imbalance in 'inet_frag_find' - unexpected unlock Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-25alloc_percpu: add align argument to __alloc_percpu, fixIngo Molnar
Impact: build fix API was changed, but not all usage sites were converted: net/ipv4/route.c: In function ‘ip_rt_init’: net/ipv4/route.c:3379: error: too few arguments to function ‘__alloc_percpu’ Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco.c
2009-02-24ipip: used time_before for comparing jiffiesWei Yongjun
The functions time_before is more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24gre: used time_before for comparing jiffiesWei Yongjun
The functions time_before is more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24netlink: change nlmsg_notify() return value logicPablo Neira Ayuso
This patch changes the return value of nlmsg_notify() as follows: If NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR is set by any of the listeners and an error in the delivery happened, return the broadcast error; else if there are no listeners apart from the socket that requested a change with the echo flag, return the result of the unicast notification. Thus, with this patch, the unicast notification is handled in the same way of a broadcast listener that has set the NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket flag. This patch is useful in case that the caller of nlmsg_notify() wants to know the result of the delivery of a netlink notification (including the broadcast delivery) and take any action in case that the delivery failed. For example, ctnetlink can drop packets if the event delivery failed to provide reliable logging and state-synchronization at the cost of dropping packets. This patch also modifies the rtnetlink code to ignore the return value of rtnl_notify() in all callers. The function rtnl_notify() (before this patch) returned the error of the unicast notification which makes rtnl_set_sk_err() reports errors to all listeners. This is not of any help since the origin of the change (the socket that requested the echoing) notices the ENOBUFS error if the notification fails and should resync itself. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24tcp_scalable: Update malformed & dead urlJoe Perches
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24Merge branch 'tj-percpu' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into core/percpu Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
2009-02-24Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller
2009-02-24Doc: Refer to ip-sysctl.txt for strict vs. loose rp_filter modeJesper Dangaard Brouer
The IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER Kconfig describes the rp_filter proc option. Recent changes added a loose mode. Instead of documenting this change too places, refer to the document describing it: Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt I'm considering moving the rp_filter description away from the Kconfig file into ip-sysctl.txt. Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-23Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: netns: fix double free at netns creation veth : add the set_mac_address capability sunlance: Beyond ARRAY_SIZE of ib->btx_ring sungem: another error printed one too early ISDN: fix sc/shmem printk format warning SMSC: timeout reaches -1 smsc9420: handle magic field of ethtool_eeprom sundance: missing parentheses? smsc9420: fix another postfixed timeout wimax/i2400m: driver loads firmware v1.4 instead of v1.3 vlan: Update skb->mac_header in __vlan_put_tag(). cxgb3: Add support for PCI ID 0x35. tcp: remove obsoleted comment about different passes TG3: &&/|| confusion ATM: misplaced parentheses? net/mv643xx: don't disable the mib timer too early and lock properly net/mv643xx: use GFP_ATOMIC while atomic atl1c: Atheros L1C Gigabit Ethernet driver net: Kill skb_truesize_check(), it only catches false-positives. net: forcedeth: Fix wake-on-lan regression
2009-02-22tcp: Like icmp use register_pernet_subsysEric W. Biederman
To remove the possibility of packets flying around when network devices are being cleaned up use reisger_pernet_subsys instead of register_pernet_device. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Acked-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22netns: Fix icmp shutdown.Eric W. Biederman
Recently I had a kernel panic in icmp_send during a network namespace cleanup. There were packets in the arp queue that failed to be sent and we attempted to generate an ICMP host unreachable message, but failed because icmp_sk_exit had already been called. The network devices are removed from a network namespace and their arp queues are flushed before we do attempt to shutdown subsystems so this error should have been impossible. It turns out icmp_init is using register_pernet_device instead of register_pernet_subsys. Which resulted in icmp being shut down while we still had the possibility of packets in flight, making a nasty NULL pointer deference in interrupt context possible. Changing this to register_pernet_subsys fixes the problem in my testing. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Acked-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22ipv4: Clean whitespaces in net/ipv4/Kconfig.Jesper Dangaard Brouer
While going through net/ipv4/Kconfig cleanup whitespaces. Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22ipv4: Fix rp_filter description in net/ipv4/Kconfig.Jesper Dangaard Brouer
The reverse path filter (rp_filter) will NOT get enabled when enabling forwarding. Read the code and tested in in practice. Most distributions do enable it in startup scripts. Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22ip: ipip compile warningStephen Hemminger
Get rid of compile warning about non-const format Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22ip: add loose reverse path filteringStephen Hemminger
Extend existing reverse path filter option to allow strict or loose filtering. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_path_filtering). For compatibility with existing usage, the value 1 is chosen for strict mode and 2 for loose mode. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-23cipso: Fix documentation commentPaul Moore
The CIPSO protocol engine incorrectly stated that the FIPS-188 specification could be found in the kernel's Documentation directory. This patch corrects that by removing the comment and directing users to the FIPS-188 documented hosted online. For the sake of completeness I've also included a link to the CIPSO draft specification on the NetLabel website. Thanks to Randy Dunlap for spotting the error and letting me know. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-02-21tcp: Always set urgent pointer if it's beyond snd_nxtHerbert Xu
Our TCP stack does not set the urgent flag if the urgent pointer does not fit in 16 bits, i.e., if it is more than 64K from the sequence number of a packet. This behaviour is different from the BSDs, and clearly contradicts the purpose of urgent mode, which is to send the notification (though not necessarily the associated data) as soon as possible. Our current behaviour may in fact delay the urgent notification indefinitely if the receiver window does not open up. Simply matching BSD however may break legacy applications which incorrectly rely on the out-of-band delivery of urgent data, and conversely the in-band delivery of non-urgent data. Alexey Kuznetsov suggested a safe solution of following BSD only if the urgent pointer itself has not yet been transmitted. This way we guarantee that when the remote end sees the packet with non-urgent data marked as urgent due to wrap-around we would have advanced the urgent pointer beyond, either to the actual urgent data or to an as-yet untransmitted packet. The only potential downside is that applications on the remote end may see multiple SIGURG notifications. However, this would occur anyway with other TCP stacks. More importantly, the outcome of such a duplicate notification is likely to be harmless since the signal itself does not carry any information other than the fact that we're in urgent mode. Thanks to Ilpo Järvinen for fixing a critical bug in this and Jeff Chua for reporting that bug. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-20netfilter: ip_tables: unfold two critical loops in ip_packet_match()Eric Dumazet
While doing oprofile tests I noticed two loops are not properly unrolled by gcc Using a hand coded unrolled loop provides nice speedup : ipt_do_table credited of 2.52 % of cpu instead of 3.29 % in tbench. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-20netfilter: iptables: lock free countersStephen Hemminger
The reader/writer lock in ip_tables is acquired in the critical path of processing packets and is one of the reasons just loading iptables can cause a 20% performance loss. The rwlock serves two functions: 1) it prevents changes to table state (xt_replace) while table is in use. This is now handled by doing rcu on the xt_table. When table is replaced, the new table(s) are put in and the old one table(s) are freed after RCU period. 2) it provides synchronization when accesing the counter values. This is now handled by swapping in new table_info entries for each cpu then summing the old values, and putting the result back onto one cpu. On a busy system it may cause sampling to occur at different times on each cpu, but no packet/byte counts are lost in the process. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Sucessfully tested on my dual quad core machine too, but iptables only (no ipv6 here) BTW, my new "tbench 8" result is 2450 MB/s, (it was 2150 MB/s not so long ago) Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-20alloc_percpu: add align argument to __alloc_percpu.Rusty Russell
This prepares for a real __alloc_percpu, by adding an alignment argument. Only one place uses __alloc_percpu directly, and that's for a string. tj: af_inet also uses __alloc_percpu(), update it. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2009-02-19netfilter: xtables: add backward-compat optionsJan Engelhardt
Concern has been expressed about the changing Kconfig options. Provide the old options that forward-select. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18tcp: remove obsoleted comment about different passesIlpo Järvinen
This is obsolete since the passes got combined. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-18netfilter: Combine ipt_ttl and ip6t_hl sourceJan Engelhardt
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18netfilter: Combine ipt_TTL and ip6t_HL sourceJan Engelhardt
Suggested by: James King <t.james.king@gmail.com> Similarly to commit c9fd49680954714473d6cbd2546d6ff120f96840, merge TTL and HL. Since HL does not depend on any IPv6-specific function, no new module dependencies would arise. With slight adjustments to the Kconfig help text. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18netfilter: arp_tables: unfold two critical loops in arp_packet_match()Eric Dumazet
x86 and powerpc can perform long word accesses in an efficient maner. We can use this to unroll two loops in arp_packet_match(), to perform arithmetic on long words instead of bytes. This is a win on x86_64 for example. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-18netfilter: x_tables: remove unneeded initializationsStephen Hemminger
Later patches change the locking on xt_table and the initialization of the lock element is not needed since the lock is always initialized in xt_table_register anyway. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-02-16net: replace commatas with semicolonsThomas Gleixner
Impact: syntax fix Interestingly enough this compiles w/o any complaints: orphans = percpu_counter_sum_positive(&tcp_orphan_count), sockets = percpu_counter_sum_positive(&tcp_sockets_allocated), Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-15ip: support for TX timestamps on UDP and RAW socketsPatrick Ohly
Instructions for time stamping outgoing packets are take from the socket layer and later copied into the new skb. Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>