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2009-06-03net: introduce pre-up netdev notifierJohannes Berg
NETDEV_UP is called after the device is set UP, but sometimes it is useful to be able to veto the device UP. Introduce a new NETDEV_PRE_UP notifier that can be used for exactly this. The first use case will be cfg80211 denying interfaces to be set UP if the device is known to be rfkill'ed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03cfg80211: use key size constantsJohannes Berg
Instead of hardcoding the key length for validation, use the constants Zhu Yi recently added and add one for AES_CMAC too. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03mac80211: deprecate conf.beacon_int properlyJohannes Berg
Ivo has updated the driver to no longer use the change flag, so we can remove that, but rt2x00 and ath5k still use the actual value so let's mark it as deprecated too. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03net: skb cleanupEric Dumazet
Can remove anonymous union now it has one field. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03net: skb->dst accessorsEric Dumazet
Define three accessors to get/set dst attached to a skb struct dst_entry *skb_dst(const struct sk_buff *skb) void skb_dst_set(struct sk_buff *skb, struct dst_entry *dst) void skb_dst_drop(struct sk_buff *skb) This one should replace occurrences of : dst_release(skb->dst) skb->dst = NULL; Delete skb->dst field Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03net: skb->rtable accessorEric Dumazet
Define skb_rtable(const struct sk_buff *skb) accessor to get rtable from skb Delete skb->rtable field Setting rtable is not allowed, just set dst instead as rtable is an alias. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03net: add _skb_dst opaque fieldEric Dumazet
struct sk_buff uses one union to define dst and rtable fields. We want to replace direct access to these pointers by accessors. First patch adds a new "unsigned long _skb_dst;" opaque field in this union. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/forcedeth.c
2009-06-02ipv4: New multicast-all socket optionNivedita Singhvi
After some discussion offline with Christoph Lameter and David Stevens regarding multicast behaviour in Linux, I'm submitting a slightly modified patch from the one Christoph submitted earlier. This patch provides a new socket option IP_MULTICAST_ALL. In this case, default behaviour is _unchanged_ from the current Linux standard. The socket option is set by default to provide original behaviour. Sockets wishing to receive data only from multicast groups they join explicitly will need to clear this socket option. Signed-off-by: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter<cl@linux.com> Acked-by: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-01IPv6: Add 'autoconf' and 'disable_ipv6' module parametersBrian Haley
Add 'autoconf' and 'disable_ipv6' parameters to the IPv6 module. The first controls if IPv6 addresses are autoconfigured from prefixes received in Router Advertisements. The IPv6 loopback (::1) and link-local addresses are still configured. The second controls if IPv6 addresses are desired at all. No IPv6 addresses will be added to any interfaces. Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-01can: sja1000: generic OF platform bus driverWolfgang Grandegger
This patch adds a generic driver for SJA1000 chips on the OpenFirmware platform bus found on embedded PowerPC systems. You need a SJA1000 node definition in your flattened device tree source (DTS) file similar to: can@3,100 { compatible = "nxp,sja1000"; reg = <3 0x100 0x80>; interrupts = <2 0>; interrupt-parent = <&mpic>; nxp,external-clock-frequency = <16000000>; }; See also Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/can/sja1000.txt. CC: devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-29net: convert unicast addr listJiri Pirko
This patch converts unicast address list to standard list_head using previously introduced struct netdev_hw_addr. It also relaxes the locking. Original spinlock (still used for multicast addresses) is not needed and is no longer used for a protection of this list. All reading and writing takes place under rtnl (with no changes). I also removed a possibility to specify the length of the address while adding or deleting unicast address. It's always dev->addr_len. The convertion touched especially e1000 and ixgbe codes when the change is not so trivial. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> drivers/net/bnx2.c | 13 +-- drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c | 24 +++-- drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c | 14 ++-- drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h | 4 +- drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_type.h | 4 +- drivers/net/macvlan.c | 11 +- drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c | 11 +- drivers/net/niu.c | 7 +- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 7 +- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c | 6 +- drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c | 16 ++-- include/linux/netdevice.h | 18 ++-- net/8021q/vlan.c | 4 +- net/8021q/vlan_dev.c | 10 +- net/core/dev.c | 195 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- net/dsa/slave.c | 10 +- net/packet/af_packet.c | 4 +- 18 files changed, 227 insertions(+), 137 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-29bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properly in bridge -try4.3Jiri Pirko
[PATCH net-next] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properly in bridge -try4.3 (updated) changes v4.2 -> v4.3 - memcpy the address always, not just in case it differs from master->dev_addr - compare_ether_addr_64bits() is not used so there is no direct need to make new header file (I think it would be good to have bond stuff in separate file anyway). changes v4.1 -> v4.2 - use skb->pkt_type == PACKET_HOST compare rather then comparing skb dest addr against skb->dev->dev_addr The problem is described in following bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487763 Basically here's what's going on. In every mode, bonding interface uses the same mac address for all enslaved devices (except fail_over_mac). Only balance-alb will simultaneously use multiple MAC addresses across different slaves. When you put this kind of bond device into a bridge it will only add one of mac adresses into a hash list of mac addresses, say X. This mac address is marked as local. But this bonding interface also has mac address Y. Now then packet arrives with destination address Y, this address is not marked as local and the packed looks like it needs to be forwarded. This packet is then lost which is wrong. Notice that interfaces can be added and removed from bond while it is in bridge. *** When the multiple addresses for bridge port approach failed to solve this issue due to STP I started to think other way to solve this. I returned to previous solution but tweaked one. This patch solves the situation in the bonding without touching bridge code. For every incoming frame to bonding the destination address is compared to current address of the slave device from which tha packet came. If these two match destination address is replaced by mac address of the master. This address is known by bridge so it is delivered properly. Note that the comparsion is not made directly, it's used skb->pkt_type == PACKET_HOST instead. This is "set" previously in eth_type_trans(). I experimentally tried that this works as good as searching through the slave list (v4 of this patch). Jirka Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-29Merge branch 'linux-2.6.31.y' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/inaky/wimax
2009-05-28wimax: a new API call was added, increment minor protocol version numberInaky Perez-Gonzalez
As the 'state_get' API call was added, we need to increase the minor protocol version number so applications that depend on the can check it's presence. Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
2009-05-28wimax: Add netlink interface to get device statePaulius Zaleckas
wimax connection manager / daemon has to know what is current state of the device. Previously it was only possible to get notification whet state has changed. Note: By mistake, the new generic netlink's number for WIMAX_GNL_OP_STATE_GET was declared inserting into the existing list of API calls, not appending; thus, it'd break existing API. Fixed by Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com> by moving to the tail, where we add to the interface, not modify the interface. Thanks to Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> for catching this. Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
2009-05-27Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-2.6
2009-05-27net: correct a comment for the final #endifJiri Pirko
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27net: ALIGN/PTR_ALIGN cleanup in alloc_netdev_mq()/netdev_priv()Eric Dumazet
Use ALIGN() and PTR_ALIGN() macros instead of handcoding them. Get rid of NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST ugly define Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27gro: Avoid unnecessary comparison after skb_gro_headerHerbert Xu
For the overwhelming majority of cases, skb_gro_header's return value cannot be NULL. Yet we must check it because of its current form. This patch splits it up into multiple functions in order to avoid this. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27gro: Optimise length comparison in skb_gro_headerHerbert Xu
By caching frag0_len, we can avoid checking both frag0 and the length separately in skb_gro_header. This helps as skb_gro_header is called four times per packet which amounts to a few million times at 10Gb/s. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27gro: Only use skb_gro_header for completely non-linear packetsHerbert Xu
Currently skb_gro_header is used for packets which put the hardware header in skb->data with the rest in frags. Since the drivers that need this optimisation all provide completely non-linear packets, we can gain extra optimisations by only performing the frag0 optimisation for completely non-linear packets. In particular, we can simply test frag0 (instead of skb_headlen) to see whether the optimisation is in force. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27gro: Inline skb_gro_header and cache frag0 virtual addressHerbert Xu
The function skb_gro_header is called four times per packet which quickly adds up at 10Gb/s. This patch inlines it to allow better optimisations. Some architectures perform multiplication for page_address, which is done by each skb_gro_header invocation. This patch caches that value in skb->cb to avoid the unnecessary multiplications. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-26phy: Eliminate references to BUS_ID_SIZE.David S. Miller
Just use the constant 20 to keep things working. If someone is so motivated, this can be converted over to dynamic strings. I tried and it's a lot of work. But for now this is good enough. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25net: txq_trans_update() helperEric Dumazet
We would like to get rid of netdev->trans_start = jiffies; that about all net drivers have to use in their start_xmit() function, and use txq->trans_start instead. This can be done generically in core network, as suggested by David. Some devices, (particularly loopback) dont need trans_start update, because they dont have transmit watchdog. We could add a new device flag, or rely on fact that txq->tran_start can be updated is txq->xmit_lock_owner is different than -1. Use a helper function to hide our choice. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25netfilter: nf_ct_tcp: fix accepting invalid RST segmentsJozsef Kadlecsik
Robert L Mathews discovered that some clients send evil TCP RST segments, which are accepted by netfilter conntrack but discarded by the destination. Thus the conntrack entry is destroyed but the destination retransmits data until timeout. The same technique, i.e. sending properly crafted RST segments, can easily be used to bypass connlimit/connbytes based restrictions (the sample script written by Robert can be found in the netfilter mailing list archives). The patch below adds a new flag and new field to struct ip_ct_tcp_state so that checking RST segments can be made more strict and thus TCP conntrack can catch the invalid ones: the RST segment is accepted only if its sequence number higher than or equal to the highest ack we seen from the other direction. (The last_ack field cannot be reused because it is used to catch resent packets.) Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-05-25net: remove COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPSAlexander Beregalov
All drivers are already converted to new net_device_ops API and nobody uses old API anymore. Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25mISDN: Added PCI ID for new Junghanns.net Single E1 cards.Andreas Eversberg
The new ID is validated by Cologne Chip. LEDs control is also supported. Signed-off-by: Andreas Eversberg <andreas@eversberg.eu> Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25mISDN: Cleanup debug messagesKarsten Keil
This patch make debug printk's KERN_DEBUG and also fix some codestyle issues. Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25mISDN: Add PCI ID for Junghanns 8S cardAndreas Eversberg
new id for HFC-8S Signed-off-by: Andreas Eversberg <andreas@eversberg.eu> Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25mISDN: Add XHFC support for embedded Speech-Design board to hfcmultiKarsten Keil
New version without emulating arch specific stuff for the other architectures, the special IO and init functions for the 8xx microcontroller are in a separate include file. Signed-off-by: Andreas Eversberg <andreas@eversberg.eu> Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25mISDN: Added layer-1-hold featureAndreas Eversberg
Add IMHOLD_L1 ioctl. The feature will be disabled on closing. Signed-off-by: Andreas Eversberg <andreas@eversberg.eu> Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25mISDN: Echo canceler now gets delay information from hardwareAndreas Eversberg
Added tx-fifo information for calculation of current delay to sync tx and rx streams for echo canceler. Signed-off-by: Andreas Eversberg <andreas@eversberg.eu> Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25mISDN: Add watchdog functionality to hfcmulti driverAndreas Eversberg
This patch was made by Titus Moldovan and provides IOCTL functions for enabling and disabling the controller's built in watchdog. The use is optional. Signed-off-by: Andreas Eversberg <andreas@eversberg.eu> Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2009-05-22wireless: move some utility functions from mac80211 to cfg80211Zhu Yi
The patch moves some utility functions from mac80211 to cfg80211. Because these functions are doing generic 802.11 operations so they are not mac80211 specific. The moving allows some fullmac drivers to be also benefit from these utility functions. Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-21genetlink: Introduce genl_register_family_with_ops()Michał Mirosław
This introduces genl_register_family_with_ops() that registers a genetlink family along with operations from a table. This is used to kill copy'n'paste occurrences in following patches. Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-21dropmon: add ability to detect when hardware dropsrxpacketsNeil Horman
Patch to add the ability to detect drops in hardware interfaces via dropwatch. Adds a tracepoint to net_rx_action to signal everytime a napi instance is polled. The dropmon code then periodically checks to see if the rx_frames counter has changed, and if so, adds a drop notification to the netlink protocol, using the reserved all-0's vector to indicate the drop location was in hardware, rather than somewhere in the code. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> include/linux/net_dropmon.h | 8 ++ include/trace/napi.h | 11 +++ net/core/dev.c | 5 + net/core/drop_monitor.c | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- net/core/net-traces.c | 4 + net/core/netpoll.c | 2 6 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-21af_packet: Teach to listen for multiple unicast addresses.Eric W. Biederman
The the PACKET_ADD_MEMBERSHIP and the PACKET_DROP_MEMBERSHIP setsockopt calls for af_packet already has all of the infrastructure needed to subscribe to multiple mac addresses. All that is missing is a flag to say that the address we want to listen on is a unicast address. So introduce PACKET_MR_UNICAST and wire it up to dev_unicast_add and dev_unicast_delete. Additionally I noticed that errors from dev_mc_add were not propagated from packet_dev_mc so fix that. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-20net: Remove unused parameter from fill method in fib_rules_ops.Rami Rosen
The netlink message header (struct nlmsghdr) is an unused parameter in fill method of fib_rules_ops struct. This patch removes this parameter from this method and fixes the places where this method is called. (include/net/fib_rules.h) Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-20mac80211: fix kernel-docJohannes Berg
Moving information from config_interface to bss_info_changed removed struct ieee80211_if_conf which the documentation still refers to, additionally there's one kernel-doc description too much and one other missing, fix all this. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20cfg80211: allow wext to remove keys that don't existJohannes Berg
Some applications using wireless extensions expect to be able to remove a key that doesn't exist. One example is wpa_supplicant which doesn't actually change behaviour when running into an error while trying to do that, but it prints an error message which users interpret as wpa_supplicant having problems. The safe thing to do is not change the behaviour of wireless extensions any more, so when the driver reports -ENOENT let the wext bridge code return success to userspace. To guarantee this, also document that drivers should return -ENOENT when the key doesn't exist. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20cfg80211: mark wiphy->privid as pointer to constDavid Kilroy
This allows drivers to use a const pointer as the privid without a cast. Signed-off-by: David Kilroy <kilroyd@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20cfg80211: mark ops as pointer to constDavid Kilroy
This allows drivers to mark their cfg80211_ops tables const. Signed-off-by: David Kilroy <kilroyd@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20wireless: rename IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_FAT_* to HT40-/+Luis R. Rodriguez
This is more consistent with our nl80211 naming convention for HT40-/+. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20cfg80211: Process regulatory max bandwidth checks for HT40Luis R. Rodriguez
We are not correctly listening to the regulatory max bandwidth settings. To actually make use of it we need to redesign things a bit. This patch does the work for that. We do this to so we can obey to regulatory rules accordingly for use of HT40. We end up dealing with HT40 by having two passes for each channel. The first check will see if a 20 MHz channel fits into the channel's center freq on a given frequency range. We check for a 20 MHz banwidth channel as that is the maximum an individual channel will use, at least for now. The first pass will go ahead and check if the regulatory rule for that given center of frequency allows 40 MHz bandwidths and we use this to determine whether or not the channel supports HT40 or not. So to support HT40 you'll need at a regulatory rule that allows you to use 40 MHz channels but you're channel must also be enabled and support 20 MHz by itself. The second pass is done after we do the regulatory checks over an device's supported channel list. On each channel we'll check if the control channel and the extension both: o exist o are enabled o regulatory allows 40 MHz bandwidth on its frequency range This work allows allows us to idependently check for HT40- and HT40+. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-19sit: stateless autoconf for isatapSascha Hlusiak
be sent periodically. The rs_delay can be speficied when adding the PRL entry and defaults to 15 minutes. The RS is sent from every link local adress that's assigned to the tunnel interface. It's directed to the (guessed) linklocal address of the router and is sent through the tunnel. Better: send to ff02::2 encapsuled in unicast directed to router-v4. Signed-off-by: Sascha Hlusiak <contact@saschahlusiak.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18net: release dst entry in dev_hard_start_xmit()Eric Dumazet
One point of contention in high network loads is the dst_release() performed when a transmited skb is freed. This is because NIC tx completion calls dev_kree_skb() long after original call to dev_queue_xmit(skb). CPU cache is cold and the atomic op in dst_release() stalls. On SMP, this is quite visible if one CPU is 100% handling softirqs for a network device, since dst_clone() is done by other cpus, involving cache line ping pongs. It seems right place to release dst is in dev_hard_start_xmit(), for most devices but ones that are virtual, and some exceptions. David Miller suggested to define a new device flag, set in alloc_netdev_mq() (so that most devices set it at init time), and carefuly unset in devices which dont want a NULL skb->dst in their ndo_start_xmit(). List of devices that must clear this flag is : - loopback device, because it calls netif_rx() and quoting Patrick : "ip_route_input() doesn't accept loopback addresses, so loopback packets already need to have a dst_entry attached." - appletalk/ipddp.c : needs skb->dst in its xmit function - And all devices that call again dev_queue_xmit() from their xmit function (as some classifiers need skb->dst) : bonding, vlan, macvlan, eql, ifb, hdlc_fr Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18syscall: Implement a convinience function restart_syscallEric W. Biederman
Currently when we have a signal pending we have the functionality to restart that the current system call. There are other cases such as nasty lock ordering issues where it makes sense to have a simple fix that uses try lock and restarts the system call. Buying time to figure out how to rework the locking strategy. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18net: TX_RING and packet mmapJohann Baudy
New packet socket feature that makes packet socket more efficient for transmission. - It reduces number of system call through a PACKET_TX_RING mechanism, based on PACKET_RX_RING (Circular buffer allocated in kernel space which is mmapped from user space). - It minimizes CPU copy using fragmented SKB (almost zero copy). Signed-off-by: Johann Baudy <johann.baudy@gnu-log.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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