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2015-05-14tipc: simplify resetting and disabling of bearersJon Paul Maloy
Since commit 4b475e3f2f8e4e241de101c8240f1d74d0470494 ("tipc: eliminate delayed link deletion at link failover") the extra boolean parameter "shutting_down" is not any longer needed for the functions bearer_disable() and tipc_link_delete_list(). Furhermore, the function tipc_link_reset_links(), called from bearer_reset() is now unnecessary. We can just as well delete all the links, as we do in bearer_disable(), and start over with creating new links. This commit introduces those changes. Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-04-02tipc: simplify link mtu negotiationJon Paul Maloy
When a link is being established, the two endpoints advertise their respective interface MTU in the transmitted RESET and ACTIVATE messages. If there is any difference, the lower of the two MTUs will be selected for use by both endpoints. However, as a remnant of earlier attempts to introduce TIPC level routing. there also exists an MTU discovery mechanism. If an intermediate node has a lower MTU than the two endpoints, they will discover this through a bisectional approach, and finally adopt this MTU for common use. Since there is no TIPC level routing, and probably never will be, this mechanism doesn't make any sense, and only serves to make the link level protocol unecessarily complex. In this commit, we eliminate the MTU discovery algorithm,and fall back to the simple MTU advertising approach. This change is fully backwards compatible. Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-04-02tipc: eliminate delayed link deletion at link failoverJon Paul Maloy
When a bearer is disabled manually, all its links have to be reset and deleted. However, if there is a remaining, parallel link ready to take over a deleted link's traffic, we currently delay the delete of the removed link until the failover procedure is finished. This is because the remaining link needs to access state from the reset link, such as the last received packet number, and any partially reassembled buffer, in order to perform a successful failover. In this commit, we do instead move the state data over to the new link, so that it can fulfill the procedure autonomously, without accessing any data on the old link. This means that we can now proceed and delete all pertaining links immediately when a bearer is disabled. This saves us from some unnecessary complexity in such situations. We also choose to change the confusing definitions CHANGEOVER_PROTOCOL, ORIGINAL_MSG and DUPLICATE_MSG to the more descriptive TUNNEL_PROTOCOL, FAILOVER_MSG and SYNCH_MSG respectively. Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-25tipc: eliminate race condition at dual link establishmentJon Paul Maloy
Despite recent improvements, the establishment of dual parallel links still has a small glitch where messages can bypass each other. When the second link in a dual-link configuration is established, part of the first link's traffic will be steered over to the new link. Although we do have a mechanism to ensure that packets sent before and after the establishment of the new link arrive in sequence to the destination node, this is not enough. The arriving messages will still be delivered upwards in different threads, something entailing a risk of message disordering during the transition phase. To fix this, we introduce a synchronization mechanism between the two parallel links, so that traffic arriving on the new link cannot be added to its input queue until we are guaranteed that all pre-establishment messages have been delivered on the old, parallel link. This problem seems to always have been around, but its occurrence is so rare that it has not been noticed until recent intensive testing. Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-25tipc: introduce starvation free send algorithmJon Paul Maloy
Currently, we only use a single counter; the length of the backlog queue, to determine whether a message should be accepted to the queue or not. Each time a message is being sent, the queue length is compared to a threshold value for the message's importance priority. If the queue length is beyond this threshold, the message is rejected. This algorithm implies a risk of starvation of low importance senders during very high load, because it may take a long time before the backlog queue has decreased enough to accept a lower level message. We now eliminate this risk by introducing a counter for each importance priority. When a message is sent, we check only the queue level for that particular message's priority. If that is ok, the message can be added to the backlog, irrespective of the queue level for other priorities. This way, each level is guaranteed a certain portion of the total bandwidth, and any risk of starvation is eliminated. Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-14tipc: split link outqueueJon Paul Maloy
struct tipc_link contains one single queue for outgoing packets, where both transmitted and waiting packets are queued. This infrastructure is hard to maintain, because we need to keep a number of fields to keep track of which packets are sent or unsent, and the number of packets in each category. A lot of code becomes simpler if we split this queue into a transmission queue, where sent/unacknowledged packets are kept, and a backlog queue, where we keep the not yet sent packets. In this commit we do this separation. Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-02-09tipc: convert legacy nl link stat reset to nl compatRichard Alpe
Convert TIPC_CMD_RESET_LINK_STATS to compat doit. Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-02-09tipc: convert legacy nl link prop set to nl compatRichard Alpe
Convert setting of link proprieties to compat doit calls. Commands converted in this patch: TIPC_CMD_SET_LINK_TOL TIPC_CMD_SET_LINK_PRI TIPC_CMD_SET_LINK_WINDOW Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-02-09tipc: convert legacy nl link stat to nl compatRichard Alpe
Add functionality for safely appending string data to a TLV without keeping write count in the caller. Convert TIPC_CMD_SHOW_LINK_STATS to compat dumpit. Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-02-05tipc: resolve race problem at unicast message receptionJon Paul Maloy
TIPC handles message cardinality and sequencing at the link layer, before passing messages upwards to the destination sockets. During the upcall from link to socket no locks are held. It is therefore possible, and we see it happen occasionally, that messages arriving in different threads and delivered in sequence still bypass each other before they reach the destination socket. This must not happen, since it violates the sequentiality guarantee. We solve this by adding a new input buffer queue to the link structure. Arriving messages are added safely to the tail of that queue by the link, while the head of the queue is consumed, also safely, by the receiving socket. Sequentiality is secured per socket by only allowing buffers to be dequeued inside the socket lock. Since there may be multiple simultaneous readers of the queue, we use a 'filter' parameter to reduce the risk that they peek the same buffer from the queue, hence also reducing the risk of contention on the receiving socket locks. This solves the sequentiality problem, and seems to cause no measurable performance degradation. A nice side effect of this change is that lock handling in the functions tipc_rcv() and tipc_bcast_rcv() now becomes uniform, something that will enable future simplifications of those functions. Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-02-05tipc: reduce usage of context info in socket and linkJon Paul Maloy
The most common usage of namespace information is when we fetch the own node addess from the net structure. This leads to a lot of passing around of a parameter of type 'struct net *' between functions just to make them able to obtain this address. However, in many cases this is unnecessary. The own node address is readily available as a member of both struct tipc_sock and tipc_link, and can be fetched from there instead. The fact that the vast majority of functions in socket.c and link.c anyway are maintaining a pointer to their respective base structures makes this option even more compelling. In this commit, we introduce the inline functions tsk_own_node() and link_own_node() to make it easy for functions to fetch the node address from those structs instead of having to pass along and dereference the namespace struct. In particular, we make calls to the msg_xx() functions in msg.{h,c} context independent by directly passing them the own node address as parameter when needed. Those functions should be regarded as leaves in the code dependency tree, and it is hence desirable to keep them namspace unaware. Apart from a potential positive effect on cache behavior, these changes make it easier to introduce the changes that will follow later in this series. Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-02-04tipc: avoid stale link after aborted failoverJon Paul Maloy
During link failover it may happen that the remaining link goes down while it is still in the process of taking over traffic from a previously failed link. When this happens, we currently abort the failover procedure and reset the first failed link to non-failover mode, so that it will be ready to re-establish contact with its peer when it comes available. However, if the first link goes down because its bearer was manually disabled, it is not enough to reset it; it must also be deleted; which is supposed to happen when the failover procedure is finished. Otherwise it will remain a zombie link: attached to the owner node structure, in mode LINK_STOPPED, and permanently blocking any re- establishing of the link to the peer via the interface in question. We fix this by amending the failover abort procedure. Apart from resetting the link to non-failover state, we test if the link is also in LINK_STOPPED mode. If so, we delete it, using the conditional tipc_link_delete() function introduced in the previous commit. Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-02-04tipc: add reference count to struct tipc_linkJon Paul Maloy
When a bearer is disabled, all pertaining links will be reset and deleted. However, if there is a second active link towards a killed link's destination, the delete has to be postponed until the failover is finished. During this interval, we currently put the link in zombie mode, i.e., we take it out of traffic, delete its timer, but leave it attached to the owner node structure until all missing packets have been received. When this is done, we detach the link from its node and delete it, assuming that the synchronous timer deletion that was initiated earlier in a different thread has finished. This is unsafe, as the failover may finish before del_timer_sync() has returned in the other thread. We fix this by adding an atomic reference counter of type kref in struct tipc_link. The counter keeps track of the references kept to the link by the owner node and the timer. We then do a conditional delete, based on the reference counter, both after the failover has been finished and when the timer expires, if applicable. Whoever comes last, will actually delete the link. This approach also implies that we can make the deletion of the timer asynchronous. Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-12tipc: make bearer list support net namespaceYing Xue
Bearer list defined as a global variable is used to store bearer instances. When tipc supports net namespace, bearers created in one namespace must be isolated with others allocated in other namespaces, which requires us that the bearer list(bearer_list) must be moved to tipc_net structure. As a result, a net namespace pointer has to be passed to functions which access the bearer list. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Tested-by: Tero Aho <Tero.Aho@coriant.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-12tipc: make tipc node table aware of net namespaceYing Xue
Global variables associated with node table are below: - node table list (node_htable) - node hash table list (tipc_node_list) - node table lock (node_list_lock) - node number counter (tipc_num_nodes) - node link number counter (tipc_num_links) To make node table support namespace, above global variables must be moved to tipc_net structure in order to keep secret for different namespaces. As a consequence, these variables are allocated and initialized when namespace is created, and deallocated when namespace is destroyed. After the change, functions associated with these variables have to utilize a namespace pointer to access them. So adding namespace pointer as a parameter of these functions is the major change made in the commit. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Tested-by: Tero Aho <Tero.Aho@coriant.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-12tipc: remove unused tipc_link_get_max_pkt routineYing Xue
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Tested-by: Tero Aho <Tero.Aho@coriant.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-12tipc: cleanup core.c and core.h filesYing Xue
Only the works of initializing and shutting down tipc module are done in core.h and core.c files, so all stuffs which are not closely associated with the two tasks should be moved to appropriate places. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Tested-by: Tero Aho <Tero.Aho@coriant.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-12tipc: remove unnecessary wrapper functions of kernel timer APIsYing Xue
Not only some wrapper function like k_term_timer() is empty, but also some others including k_start_timer() and k_cancel_timer() don't return back any value to its caller, what's more, there is no any component in the kernel world to do such thing. Therefore, these timer interfaces defined in tipc module should be purged. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Tested-by: Tero Aho <Tero.Aho@coriant.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-26tipc: use generic SKB list APIs to manage TIPC outgoing packet chainsYing Xue
Use standard SKB list APIs associated with struct sk_buff_head to manage socket outgoing packet chain and name table outgoing packet chain, having relevant code simpler and more readable. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-26tipc: use generic SKB list APIs to manage deferred queue of linkYing Xue
Use standard SKB list APIs associated with struct sk_buff_head to manage link's deferred queue, simplifying relevant code. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-26tipc: use generic SKB list APIs to manage link transmission queueYing Xue
Use standard SKB list APIs associated with struct sk_buff_head to manage link transmission queue, having relevant code more clean. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-26tipc: remove unused between routineYing Xue
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-26tipc: clean up the process of link pushing packetsYing Xue
In original tipc_link_push_packet(), it pushes messages from protocol message queue, retransmission queue and next_out queue. But as the two first queues are removed, we can simplify its relevant code through deleting tipc_link_push_queue(). Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-26tipc: remove retransmission queueYing Xue
TIPC retransmission queue is intended to record which messages should be retransmitted when bearer is not congested. However, as the retransmission queue becomes useless with the removal of bearer congestion mechanism, it should be removed. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-26tipc: remove protocol message queueYing Xue
TIPC protocol message queue is intended to save one protocol message when bearer is congested so that the message stored in the queue can be immediately transmitted when bearer congestion is released. However, as now the protocol queue has no mission any more with the removal of bearer congestion mechanism, it should be removed. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-21tipc: add link stat reset to new netlink apiRichard Alpe
Add TIPC_NL_LINK_RESET_STATS command to the new netlink API. This command resets the link statistics for a particular link. Netlink logical layout of link reset message: -> link -> name Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-21tipc: add link set to new netlink apiRichard Alpe
Add TIPC_NL_LINK_SET to the new tipc netlink API. This command can set one or more link properties for a particular link. Netlink logical layout of link set message: -> link -> name -> properties [ -> tolerance ] [ -> priority ] [ -> window ] Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-21tipc: add link get/dump to new netlink apiRichard Alpe
Add TIPC_NL_LINK_GET command to the new tipc netlink API. This command supports dumping all information about all links (including the broadcast link) or getting all information about a specific link (not the broadcast link). The information about a link includes name, transmission info, properties and link statistics. As the tipc broadcast link is special we unfortunately have to treat it specially. It is a deliberate decision not to abstract the broadcast link on this (API) level. Netlink logical layout of link response message: -> port -> name -> MTU -> RX -> TX -> up flag -> active flag -> properties -> priority -> tolerance -> window -> statistics -> rx_info -> rx_fragments -> rx_fragmented -> rx_bundles -> rx_bundled -> tx_info -> tx_fragments -> tx_fragmented -> tx_bundles -> tx_bundled -> msg_prof_tot -> msg_len_cnt -> msg_len_tot -> msg_len_p0 -> msg_len_p1 -> msg_len_p2 -> msg_len_p3 -> msg_len_p4 -> msg_len_p5 -> msg_len_p6 -> rx_states -> rx_probes -> rx_nacks -> rx_deferred -> tx_states -> tx_probes -> tx_nacks -> tx_acks -> retransmitted -> duplicates -> link_congs -> max_queue -> avg_queue Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-21tipc: add bearer disable/enable to new netlink apiRichard Alpe
A new netlink API for tipc that can disable or enable a tipc bearer. The new API is separated from the old API because of a bug in the user space client (tipc-config). The problem is that older versions of tipc-config has a very low receive limit and adding commands to the legacy genl_opts struct causes the ctrl_getfamily() response message to grow, subsequently breaking the tool. The new API utilizes netlink policies for input validation. Where the top-level netlink attributes are tipc-logical entities, like bearer. The top level entities then contain nested attributes. In this case a name, nested link properties and a domain. Netlink commands implemented in this patch: TIPC_NL_BEARER_ENABLE TIPC_NL_BEARER_DISABLE Netlink logical layout of bearer enable message: -> bearer -> name [ -> domain ] [ -> properties -> priority ] Netlink logical layout of bearer disable message: -> bearer -> name Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-08-23tipc: use pseudo message to wake up sockets after link congestionJon Paul Maloy
The current link implementation keeps a linked list of blocked ports/ sockets that is populated when there is link congestion. The purpose of this is to let the link know which users to wake up when the congestion abates. This adds unnecessary complexity to the data structure and the code, since it forces us to involve the link each time we want to delete a socket. It also forces us to grab the spinlock port_lock within the scope of node_lock. We want to get rid of this direct dependence, as well as the deadlock hazard resulting from the usage of port_lock. In this commit, we instead let the link keep list of a "wakeup" pseudo messages for use in such situations. Those messages are sent to the pending sockets via the ordinary message reception path, and wake up the socket's owner when they are received. This enables us to get rid of the 'waiting_ports' linked lists in struct tipc_port that manifest this direct reference. As a consequence, we can eliminate another BH entry into the socket, and hence the need to grab port_lock. This is a further step in our effort to remove port_lock altogether. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-07-16tipc: rename temporarily named functionsJon Paul Maloy
After the previous commit, we can now give the functions with temporary names, such as tipc_link_xmit2(), tipc_msg_build2() etc., their proper names. There are no functional changes in this commit. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-07-16tipc: remove unreferenced functionsJon Paul Maloy
We can now remove a number of functions which have become obsolete and unreferenced through this commit series. There are no functional changes in this commit. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-07-16tipc: make name table distributor use new send functionJon Paul Maloy
In a previous commit series ("tipc: new unicast transmission code") we introduced a new message sending function, tipc_link_xmit2(), and moved the unicast data users over to use that function. We now let the internal name table distributor do the same. The interaction between the name distributor and the node/link layer also becomes significantly simpler, so we can eliminate the function tipc_link_names_xmit(). Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-06-27tipc: introduce send functions for chained buffers in linkJon Paul Maloy
The current link implementation provides several different transmit functions, depending on the characteristics of the message to be sent: if it is an iovec or an sk_buff, if it needs fragmentation or not, if the caller holds the node_lock or not. The permutation of these options gives us an unwanted amount of unnecessarily complex code. As a first step towards simplifying the send path for all messages, we introduce two new send functions at link level, tipc_link_xmit2() and __tipc_link_xmit2(). The former looks up a link to the message destination, and if one is found, it grabs the node lock and calls the second function, which works exclusively inside the node lock protection. If no link is found, and the destination is on the same node, it delivers the message directly to the local destination socket. The new functions take a buffer chain where all packet headers are already prepared, and the correct MTU has been used. These two functions will later replace all other link-level transmit functions. The functions are not backwards compatible, so we have added them as new functions with temporary names. They are tested, but have no users yet. Those will be added later in this series. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-05-14tipc: rename and move message reassembly functionJon Paul Maloy
The function tipc_link_frag_rcv() is in reality a re-entrant generic message reassemby function that has nothing in particular to do with the link, where it is defined now. This becomes obvious when we see the need to call the function from other places in the code. In this commit rename it to tipc_buf_append() and move it to the file msg.c. We also simplify its signature by moving the tail pointer to the control block of the head buffer, hence making the head buffer self-contained. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-05-05tipc: avoid to asynchronously reset all linksYing Xue
Postpone the actions of resetting all links until after bclink lock is released, avoiding to asynchronously reset all links. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-04-22tipc: decouple the relationship between bearer and linkYing Xue
Currently on both paths of message transmission and reception, the read lock of tipc_net_lock must be held before bearer is accessed, while the write lock of tipc_net_lock has to be taken before bearer is configured. Although it can ensure that bearer is always valid on the two data paths, link and bearer is closely bound together. So as the part of effort of removing tipc_net_lock, the locking policy of bearer protection will be adjusted as below: on the two data paths, RCU is used, and on the configuration path of bearer, RTNL lock is applied. Now RCU just covers the path of message reception. To make it possible to protect the path of message transmission with RCU, link should not use its stored bearer pointer to access bearer, but it should use the bearer identity of its attached bearer as index to get bearer instance from bearer_list array, which can help us decouple the relationship between bearer and link. As a result, bearer on the path of message transmission can be safely protected by RCU when we access bearer_list array within RCU lock protection. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Tested-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-18tipc: align tipc function names with common naming practice in the networkYing Xue
Rename the following functions, which are shorter and more in line with common naming practice in the network subsystem. tipc_bclink_send_msg->tipc_bclink_xmit tipc_bclink_recv_pkt->tipc_bclink_rcv tipc_disc_recv_msg->tipc_disc_rcv tipc_link_send_proto_msg->tipc_link_proto_xmit link_recv_proto_msg->tipc_link_proto_rcv link_send_sections_long->tipc_link_iovec_long_xmit tipc_link_send_sections_fast->tipc_link_iovec_xmit_fast tipc_link_send_sync->tipc_link_sync_xmit tipc_link_recv_sync->tipc_link_sync_rcv tipc_link_send_buf->__tipc_link_xmit tipc_link_send->tipc_link_xmit tipc_link_send_names->tipc_link_names_xmit tipc_named_recv->tipc_named_rcv tipc_link_recv_bundle->tipc_link_bundle_rcv tipc_link_dup_send_queue->tipc_link_dup_queue_xmit link_send_long_buf->tipc_link_frag_xmit tipc_multicast->tipc_port_mcast_xmit tipc_port_recv_mcast->tipc_port_mcast_rcv tipc_port_reject_sections->tipc_port_iovec_reject tipc_port_recv_proto_msg->tipc_port_proto_rcv tipc_connect->tipc_port_connect __tipc_connect->__tipc_port_connect __tipc_disconnect->__tipc_port_disconnect tipc_disconnect->tipc_port_disconnect tipc_shutdown->tipc_port_shutdown tipc_port_recv_msg->tipc_port_rcv tipc_port_recv_sections->tipc_port_iovec_rcv release->tipc_release accept->tipc_accept bind->tipc_bind get_name->tipc_getname poll->tipc_poll send_msg->tipc_sendmsg send_packet->tipc_send_packet send_stream->tipc_send_stream recv_msg->tipc_recvmsg recv_stream->tipc_recv_stream connect->tipc_connect listen->tipc_listen shutdown->tipc_shutdown setsockopt->tipc_setsockopt getsockopt->tipc_getsockopt Above changes have no impact on current users of the functions. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-13tipc: delay delete of link when failover is neededJon Paul Maloy
When a bearer is disabled, all its attached links are deleted. Ideally, we should do link failover to redundant links on other bearers, if there are any, in such cases. This would be consistent with current behavior when a link is reset, but not deleted. However, due to the complexity involved, and the (wrongly) perceived low demand for this feature, it was never implemented until now. We mark the doomed link for deletion with a new flag, but wait until the failover process is finished before we actually delete it. With the improved link tunnelling/failover code introduced earlier in this commit series, it is now easy to identify a spot in the code where the failover is finished and it is safe to delete the marked link. Moreover, the test for the flag and the deletion can be done synchronously, and outside the most time critical data path. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-13tipc: remove 'links' list from tipc_bearer structYing Xue
In our ongoing effort to simplify the TIPC locking structure, we see a need to remove the linked list for tipc_links in the bearer. This can be explained as follows. Currently, we have three different ways to access a link, via three different lists/tables: 1: Via a node hash table: Used by the time-critical outgoing/incoming data paths. (e.g. link_send_sections_fast() and tipc_recv_msg() ): grab net_lock(read) find node from node hash table grab node_lock select link grab bearer_lock send_msg() release bearer_lock release node lock release net_lock 2: Via a global linked list for nodes: Used by configuration commands (link_cmd_set_value()) grab net_lock(read) find node and link from global node list (using link name) grab node_lock update link release node lock release net_lock (Same locking order as above. No problem.) 3: Via the bearer's linked link list: Used by notifications from interface (e.g. tipc_disable_bearer() ) grab net_lock(write) grab bearer_lock get link ptr from bearer's link list get node from link grab node_lock delete link release node lock release bearer_lock release net_lock (Different order from above, but works because we grab the outer net_lock in write mode first, excluding all other access.) The first major goal in our simplification effort is to get rid of the "big" net_lock, replacing it with rcu-locks when accessing the node list and node hash array. This will come in a later patch series. But to get there we first need to rewrite access methods ##2 and 3, since removal of net_lock would introduce three major problems: a) In access method #2, we access the link before taking the protecting node_lock. This will not work once net_lock is gone, so we will have to change the access order. We will deal with this in a later commit in this series, "tipc: add node lock protection to link found by link_find_link()". b) When the outer protection from net_lock is gone, taking bearer_lock and node_lock in opposite order of method 1) and 2) will become an obvious deadlock hazard. This is fixed in the commit ("tipc: remove bearer_lock from tipc_bearer struct") later in this series. c) Similar to what is described in problem a), access method #3 starts with using a link pointer that is unprotected by node_lock, in order to via that pointer find the correct node struct and lock it. Before we remove net_lock, this access order must be altered. This is what we do with this commit. We can avoid introducing problem problem c) by even here using the global node list to find the node, before accessing its links. When we loop though the node list we use the own bearer identity as search criteria, thus easily finding the links that are associated to the resetting/disabling bearer. It should be noted that although this method is somewhat slower than the current list traversal, it is in no way time critical. This is only about resetting or deleting links, something that must be considered relatively infrequent events. As a bonus, we can get rid of the mutual pointers between links and bearers. After this commit, pointer dependency go in one direction only: from the link to the bearer. This commit pre-empts introduction of problem c) as described above. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-13tipc: redefine 'started' flag in struct link to bitmapYing Xue
Currently, the 'started' field in struct tipc_link represents only a binary state, 'started' or 'not started'. We need it to represent more link execution states in the coming commits in this series. Hence, we rename the field to 'flags', and define the current started/non-started state to be represented by the LSB bit of that field. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-13tipc: move code for deleting links from bearer.c to link.cYing Xue
We break out the code for deleting attached links in the function bearer_disable(), and define a new function named tipc_link_delete_list() to do this job. This commit incurs no functional changes, but makes the code of function bearer_disable() cleaner. It is also a preparation for a more important change to the bearer code, in a subsequent commit in this series. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-13tipc: move code for resetting links from bearer.c to link.cYing Xue
We break out the code for resetting attached links in the function tipc_reset_bearer(), and define a new function named tipc_link_reset_list() to do this job. This commit incurs no functional changes, but makes the code of function tipc_reset_bearer() cleaner. It is also a preparation for a more important change to the bearer code, in a subsequent commit in this series. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-13tipc: stricter behavior of message reassembly functionJon Paul Maloy
The function tipc_link_recv_fragment(struct sk_buff **buf) currently leaves the value of the input buffer pointer undefined when it returns, except when the return code indicates that the reassembly is complete. This despite the fact that it always consumes the input buffer. Here, we enforce a stricter behavior by this function, ensuring that the returned buffer pointer is non-NULL if and only if the reassembly is complete. This makes it possible to test for the buffer pointer as criteria for successful reassembly. We also rename the function to tipc_link_frag_rcv(), which is both shorter and more in line with common naming practice in the network subsystem. Apart from the new name, these changes have no impact on current users of the function, but makes it more practical for use in some planned future commits. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-07tipc: make link start event synchronousJon Paul Maloy
When a link is created we delay the start event by launching it to be executed later in a tasklet. As we hold all the necessary locks at the moment of creation, and there is no risk of deadlock or contention, this delay serves no purpose in the current code. We remove this obsolete indirection step, and the associated function link_start(). At the same time, we rename the function tipc_link_stop() to the more appropriate tipc_link_purge_queues(). Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-07tipc: rename functions related to link failover and improve commentsJon Paul Maloy
The functionality related to link addition and failover is unnecessarily hard to understand and maintain. We try to improve this by renaming some of the functions, at the same time adding or improving the explanatory comments around them. Names such as "tipc_rcv()" etc. also align better with what is used in other networking components. The changes in this commit are purely cosmetic, no functional changes are made. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-04tipc: make local function staticstephen hemminger
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-11tipc: remove unused 'blocked' flag from tipc_link structYing Xue
In early versions of TIPC it was possible to administratively block individual links through the use of the member flag 'blocked'. This functionality was deemed redundant, and since commit 7368dd ("tipc: clean out all instances of #if 0'd unused code"), this flag has been unused. In the current code, a link only needs to be blocked for sending and reception if it is subject to an ongoing link failover. In that case, it is sufficient to check if the number of expected failover packets is non-zero, something which is done via the funtion 'link_blocked()'. This commit finally removes the redundant 'blocked' flag completely. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-07tipc: message reassembly using fragment chainErik Hugne
When the first fragment of a long data data message is received on a link, a reassembly buffer large enough to hold the data from this and all subsequent fragments of the message is allocated. The payload of each new fragment is copied into this buffer upon arrival. When the last fragment is received, the reassembled message is delivered upwards to the port/socket layer. Not only is this an inefficient approach, but it may also cause bursts of reassembly failures in low memory situations. since we may fail to allocate the necessary large buffer in the first place. Furthermore, after 100 subsequent such failures the link will be reset, something that in reality aggravates the situation. To remedy this problem, this patch introduces a different approach. Instead of allocating a big reassembly buffer, we now append the arriving fragments to a reassembly chain on the link, and deliver the whole chain up to the socket layer once the last fragment has been received. This is safe because the retransmission layer of a TIPC link always delivers packets in strict uninterrupted order, to the reassembly layer as to all other upper layers. Hence there can never be more than one fragment chain pending reassembly at any given time in a link, and we can trust (but still verify) that the fragments will be chained up in the correct order. Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-18tipc: remove iovec length parameter from all sending functionsYing Xue
tipc_msg_build() now copies message data from iovec to skb_buff using memcpy_fromiovecend(), which doesn't need to be passed the iovec length to perform the copying. So we remove the parameter indicating iovec length in all functions where TIPC messages are built and sent. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>