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2006-06-17[NET]: Add NETIF_F_GEN_CSUM and NETIF_F_ALL_CSUMHerbert Xu
The current stack treats NETIF_F_HW_CSUM and NETIF_F_NO_CSUM identically so we test for them in quite a few places. For the sake of brevity, I'm adding the macro NETIF_F_GEN_CSUM for these two. We also test the disjunct of NETIF_F_IP_CSUM and the other two in various places, for that purpose I've added NETIF_F_ALL_CSUM. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[NET]: Clean up skb_linearizeHerbert Xu
The linearisation operation doesn't need to be super-optimised. So we can replace __skb_linearize with __pskb_pull_tail which does the same thing but is more general. Also, most users of skb_linearize end up testing whether the skb is linear or not so it helps to make skb_linearize do just that. Some callers of skb_linearize also use it to copy cloned data, so it's useful to have a new function skb_linearize_cow to copy the data if it's either non-linear or cloned. Last but not least, I've removed the gfp argument since nobody uses it anymore. If it's ever needed we can easily add it back. Misc bugs fixed by this patch: * via-velocity error handling (also, no SG => no frags) Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[NET]: Add netif_tx_lockHerbert Xu
Various drivers use xmit_lock internally to synchronise with their transmission routines. They do so without setting xmit_lock_owner. This is fine as long as netpoll is not in use. With netpoll it is possible for deadlocks to occur if xmit_lock_owner isn't set. This is because if a printk occurs while xmit_lock is held and xmit_lock_owner is not set can cause netpoll to attempt to take xmit_lock recursively. While it is possible to resolve this by getting netpoll to use trylock, it is suboptimal because netpoll's sole objective is to maximise the chance of getting the printk out on the wire. So delaying or dropping the message is to be avoided as much as possible. So the only alternative is to always set xmit_lock_owner. The following patch does this by introducing the netif_tx_lock family of functions that take care of setting/unsetting xmit_lock_owner. I renamed xmit_lock to _xmit_lock to indicate that it should not be used directly. I didn't provide irq versions of the netif_tx_lock functions since xmit_lock is meant to be a BH-disabling lock. This is pretty much a straight text substitution except for a small bug fix in winbond. It currently uses netif_stop_queue/spin_unlock_wait to stop transmission. This is unsafe as an IRQ can potentially wake up the queue. So it is safer to use netif_tx_disable. The hamradio bits used spin_lock_irq but it is unnecessary as xmit_lock must never be taken in an IRQ handler. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17[I/OAT]: Setup the networking subsystem as a DMA clientChris Leech
Attempts to allocate per-CPU DMA channels Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-05-26[NET]: dev.c comment fixesStephen Hemminger
Noticed that dev_alloc_name() comment was incorrect, and more spellung errors. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-05-10[NET]: Do sysfs registration as part of register_netdevice.Stephen Hemminger
The last step of netdevice registration was being done by a delayed call, but because it was delayed, it was impossible to return any error code if the class_device registration failed. Side effects: * one state in registration process is unnecessary. * register_netdevice can sleep inside class_device registration/hotplug * code in netdev_run_todo only does unregistration so it is simpler. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-05-09[NET]: Make netdev_chain a raw notifier.Alan Stern
From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> This chain does it's own locking via the RTNL semaphore, and can also run recursively so adding a new mutex here was causing deadlocks. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-05-06[NET]: Create netdev attribute_groups with class_device_addStephen Hemminger
Atomically create attributes when class device is added. This avoids the race between registering class_device (which generates hotplug event), and the creation of attribute groups. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-19[PATCH] wext: Fix IWENCODEEXT security permissionsJean Tourrilhes
Check the permissions when user-space try to read the encryption parameters via SIOCGIWENCODEEXT. This is trivial and probably should go in 2.6.17... Bug was found by Brian Eaton <eaton.lists@gmail.com>, thanks ! Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-04-11[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: network codesKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
for_each_cpu() actually iterates across all possible CPUs. We've had mistakes in the past where people were using for_each_cpu() where they should have been iterating across only online or present CPUs. This is inefficient and possibly buggy. We're renaming for_each_cpu() to for_each_possible_cpu() to avoid this in the future. This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu under /net Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-09[NET]: Fix hotplug race during device registration.Sergey Vlasov
From: Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@easyconnect.fr> On Sun, 9 Apr 2006 21:56:59 +0400, Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> wrote: > However, show_address() does not output anything unless > dev->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED - and this state is set by > netdev_run_todo() only after netdev_register_sysfs() returns, so in > the meantime (while netdev_register_sysfs() is busy adding the > "statistics" attribute group) some process may see an empty "address" > attribute. I've tried the attached patch, suggested by Sergey Vlasov on hotplug-devel@, and as far as i can test it works just fine. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09[NET] kzalloc: use in alloc_netdevPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Noticed this use, fixed it. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-29[NET]: Deinline some larger functions from netdevice.hDenis Vlasenko
On a allyesconfig'ured kernel: Size Uses Wasted Name and definition ===== ==== ====== ================================================ 95 162 12075 netif_wake_queue include/linux/netdevice.h 129 86 9265 dev_kfree_skb_any include/linux/netdevice.h 127 56 5885 netif_device_attach include/linux/netdevice.h 73 86 4505 dev_kfree_skb_irq include/linux/netdevice.h 46 60 1534 netif_device_detach include/linux/netdevice.h 119 16 1485 __netif_rx_schedule include/linux/netdevice.h 143 5 492 netif_rx_schedule include/linux/netdevice.h 81 7 366 netif_schedule include/linux/netdevice.h netif_wake_queue is big because __netif_schedule is a big inline: static inline void __netif_schedule(struct net_device *dev) { if (!test_and_set_bit(__LINK_STATE_SCHED, &dev->state)) { unsigned long flags; struct softnet_data *sd; local_irq_save(flags); sd = &__get_cpu_var(softnet_data); dev->next_sched = sd->output_queue; sd->output_queue = dev; raise_softirq_irqoff(NET_TX_SOFTIRQ); local_irq_restore(flags); } } static inline void netif_wake_queue(struct net_device *dev) { #ifdef CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP if (netpoll_trap()) return; #endif if (test_and_clear_bit(__LINK_STATE_XOFF, &dev->state)) __netif_schedule(dev); } By de-inlining __netif_schedule we are saving a lot of text at each callsite of netif_wake_queue and netif_schedule. __netif_rx_schedule is also big, and it makes more sense to keep both of them out of line. Patch also deinlines dev_kfree_skb_any. We can deinline dev_kfree_skb_irq instead... oh well. netif_device_attach/detach are not hot paths, we can deinline them too. Signed-off-by: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-27[PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changesAlan Stern
The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe. There is no protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the chain is in use. The issues were discussed in this thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2 We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage classes: "Blocking" chains are always called from a process context and the callout routines are allowed to sleep; "Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and the callout routines are not allowed to sleep. We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API. Therefore this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is really just the old API under a new name). New kinds of data structures are used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for registration, unregistration, and calling a chain. The three APIs are explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in kernel/sys.c. With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by entries being added or removed. For raw chains the implementation provides no guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections. (The idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to handle these things in their own way.) There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with. For atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem. Also, a callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister entries on its own chain. (This did happen in a couple of places and the code had to be changed to avoid it.) Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use spinlocks for synchronization. Instead we use RCU. The overhead falls almost entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much less frequent that calling a chain. Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications. None of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder. ATOMIC CHAINS ------------- arch/i386/kernel/traps.c: i386die_chain arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c: ia64die_chain arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c: powerpc_die_chain arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c: sparc64die_chain arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c: die_chain drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c: xaction_notifier_list kernel/panic.c: panic_notifier_list kernel/profile.c: task_free_notifier net/bluetooth/hci_core.c: hci_notifier net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_chain net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_expect_chain net/ipv6/addrconf.c: inet6addr_chain net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_chain net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_expect_chain net/netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_chain BLOCKING CHAINS --------------- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c: pSeries_reconfig_chain arch/s390/kernel/process.c: idle_chain arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c idle_notifier drivers/base/memory.c: memory_chain drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_policy_notifier_list drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_transition_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/adb.c: adb_client_list drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c sleep_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c sleep_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c wf_client_list drivers/usb/core/notify.c usb_notifier_list drivers/video/fbmem.c fb_notifier_list kernel/cpu.c cpu_chain kernel/module.c module_notify_list kernel/profile.c munmap_notifier kernel/profile.c task_exit_notifier kernel/sys.c reboot_notifier_list net/core/dev.c netdev_chain net/decnet/dn_dev.c: dnaddr_chain net/ipv4/devinet.c: inetaddr_chain It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong. If they are, please let us know or submit a patch to fix them. Note that any chain that gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems. (However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be atomic.) The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew Morton. [jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros] Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25Merge branch 'audit.b3' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current * 'audit.b3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current: (22 commits) [PATCH] fix audit_init failure path [PATCH] EXPORT_SYMBOL patch for audit_log, audit_log_start, audit_log_end and audit_format [PATCH] sem2mutex: audit_netlink_sem [PATCH] simplify audit_free() locking [PATCH] Fix audit operators [PATCH] promiscuous mode [PATCH] Add tty to syscall audit records [PATCH] add/remove rule update [PATCH] audit string fields interface + consumer [PATCH] SE Linux audit events [PATCH] Minor cosmetic cleanups to the code moved into auditfilter.c [PATCH] Fix audit record filtering with !CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL [PATCH] Fix IA64 success/failure indication in syscall auditing. [PATCH] Miscellaneous bug and warning fixes [PATCH] Capture selinux subject/object context information. [PATCH] Exclude messages by message type [PATCH] Collect more inode information during syscall processing. [PATCH] Pass dentry, not just name, in fsnotify creation hooks. [PATCH] Define new range of userspace messages. [PATCH] Filter rule comparators ... Fixed trivial conflict in security/selinux/hooks.c
2006-03-25[NET]: Take RTNL when unregistering notifierHerbert Xu
The netdev notifier call chain is currently unregistered without taking any locks outside the notifier system. Because the notifier system itself does not synchronise unregistration with respect to the calling of the chain, we as its user need to do our own locking. We are supposed to take the RTNL for all calls to netdev notifiers, so taking the RTNL should be sufficient to protect it. The registration path in dev.c already takes the RTNL so it's OK. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[NET] sem2mutex: net/Arjan van de Ven
Semaphore to mutex conversion. The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated automatically via a script as well. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[NET]: minor net_rx_action optimizationStephen Hemminger
The functions list_del followed by list_add_tail is equivalent to the existing inline list_move_tail. list_move_tail avoids unnecessary _LIST_POISON. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[NET]: Convert RTNL to mutex.Stephen Hemminger
This patch turns the RTNL from a semaphore to a new 2.6.16 mutex and gets rid of some of the leftover legacy. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[NET] core: add RFC2863 operstateStefan Rompf
this patch adds a dormant flag to network devices, RFC2863 operstate derived from these flags and possibility for userspace interaction. It allows drivers to signal that a device is unusable for user traffic without disabling queueing (and therefore the possibility for protocol establishment traffic to flow) and a userspace supplicant (WPA, 802.1X) to mark a device unusable without changes to the driver. It is the result of our long discussion. However I must admit that it represents what Jamal and I agreed on with compromises towards Krzysztof, but Thomas and Krzysztof still disagree with some parts. Anyway I think it should be applied. Signed-off-by: Stefan Rompf <stefan@loplof.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[PATCH] promiscuous modeSteve Grubb
Hi, When a network interface goes into promiscuous mode, its an important security issue. The attached patch is intended to capture that action and send an event to the audit system. The patch carves out a new block of numbers for kernel detected anomalies. These are events that may indicate suspicious activity. Other examples of potential kernel anomalies would be: exceeding disk quota, rlimit violations, changes to syscall entry table. Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-03[PATCH] bonding: suppress duplicate packetsJay Vosburgh
Originally submitted by Kenzo Iwami; his original description is: The current bonding driver receives duplicate packets when broadcast/ multicast packets are sent by other devices or packets are flooded by the switch. In this patch, new flags are added in priv_flags of net_device structure to let the bonding driver discard duplicate packets in dev.c:skb_bond(). Modified by Jay Vosburgh to change a define name, update some comments, rearrange the new skb_bond() for clarity, clear all bonding priv_flags on slave release, and update the driver version. Signed-off-by: Kenzo Iwami <k-iwami@cj.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-02-07Merge branch 'master'Jeff Garzik
2006-02-05[PATCH] percpu data: only iterate over possible CPUsEric Dumazet
percpu_data blindly allocates bootmem memory to store NR_CPUS instances of cpudata, instead of allocating memory only for possible cpus. As a preparation for changing that, we need to convert various 0 -> NR_CPUS loops to use for_each_cpu(). (The above only applies to users of asm-generic/percpu.h. powerpc has gone it alone and is presently only allocating memory for present CPUs, so it's currently corrupting memory). Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-30[PATCH] net/: fix the WIRELESS_EXT abuseAdrian Bunk
This patch contains the following changes: - add a CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT select'ed by NET_RADIO for conditional code - remove the now no longer required #ifdef CONFIG_NET_RADIO from some #include's Based on a patch by Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-01-24[BONDING]: Remove CAP_NET_ADMIN requirement for INFOQUERY ioctlThomas Graf
This information is already available via /proc/net/bonding/* therefore it doesn't make sense to require CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges. Original patch by Laurent Deniel <laurent.deniel@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-11[PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/)Randy Dunlap
net: Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-09[NET]: Change some "if (x) BUG();" to "BUG_ON(x);"Kris Katterjohn
This changes some simple "if (x) BUG();" statements to "BUG_ON(x);" Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-04Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
2006-01-03[NET]: Add a dev_ioctl() fallback to sock_ioctl()Christoph Hellwig
Currently all network protocols need to call dev_ioctl as the default fallback in their ioctl implementations. This patch adds a fallback to dev_ioctl to sock_ioctl if the protocol returned -ENOIOCTLCMD. This way all the procotol ioctl handlers can be simplified and we don't need to export dev_ioctl. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-12Merge branch 'master'Jeff Garzik
2005-12-08[NET]: Fix NULL pointer deref in checksum debugging.Stephen Hemminger
The problem I was seeing turned out to be that skb->dev is NULL when the checksum is being completed in user context. This happens because the reference to the device is dropped (to allow it to be released when packets are in the queue). Because skb->dev was NULL, the netdev_rx_csum_fault was panicing on deref of dev->name. How about this? Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-13[PATCH] net: make dev_valid_name publicMitch Williams
dev_valid_name() is a useful function. Make it public. Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com> Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2005-11-10[NET]: Detect hardware rx checksum faults correctlyHerbert Xu
Here is the patch that introduces the generic skb_checksum_complete which also checks for hardware RX checksum faults. If that happens, it'll call netdev_rx_csum_fault which currently prints out a stack trace with the device name. In future it can turn off RX checksum. I've converted every spot under net/ that does RX checksum checks to use skb_checksum_complete or __skb_checksum_complete with the exceptions of: * Those places where checksums are done bit by bit. These will call netdev_rx_csum_fault directly. * The following have not been completely checked/converted: ipmr ip_vs netfilter dccp This patch is based on patches and suggestions from Stephen Hemminger and David S. Miller. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-10-28[IPv4/IPv6]: UFO Scatter-gather approachAnanda Raju
Attached is kernel patch for UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) feature. 1. This patch incorporate the review comments by Jeff Garzik. 2. Renamed USO as UFO (UDP Fragmentation Offload) 3. udp sendfile support with UFO This patches uses scatter-gather feature of skb to generate large UDP datagram. Below is a "how-to" on changes required in network device driver to use the UFO interface. UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) Interface: ------------------------------------------- UFO is a feature wherein the Linux kernel network stack will offload the IP fragmentation functionality of large UDP datagram to hardware. This will reduce the overhead of stack in fragmenting the large UDP datagram to MTU sized packets 1) Drivers indicate their capability of UFO using dev->features |= NETIF_F_UFO | NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_SG NETIF_F_HW_CSUM is required for UFO over ipv6. 2) UFO packet will be submitted for transmission using driver xmit routine. UFO packet will have a non-zero value for "skb_shinfo(skb)->ufo_size" skb_shinfo(skb)->ufo_size will indicate the length of data part in each IP fragment going out of the adapter after IP fragmentation by hardware. skb->data will contain MAC/IP/UDP header and skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[] contains the data payload. The skb->ip_summed will be set to CHECKSUM_HW indicating that hardware has to do checksum calculation. Hardware should compute the UDP checksum of complete datagram and also ip header checksum of each fragmented IP packet. For IPV6 the UFO provides the fragment identification-id in skb_shinfo(skb)->ip6_frag_id. The adapter should use this ID for generating IPv6 fragments. Signed-off-by: Ananda Raju <ananda.raju@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (forwarded) Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-08[PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1Al Viro
- added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t; - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with typedef) and documents what's going on far better. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-27[NET]: Prefetch dev->qdisc_lock in dev_queue_xmit()Eric Dumazet
We know the lock is going to be taken. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-22[LLC]: Fix for Bugzilla ticket #5156Jochen Friedrich
Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-08-29[NET]: Fix sparse warningsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Of this type, mostly: CHECK net/ipv6/netfilter.c net/ipv6/netfilter.c:96:12: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_init' was not declared. Should it be static? net/ipv6/netfilter.c:101:6: warning: symbol 'ipv6_netfilter_fini' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NET]: Store skb->timestamp as offset to a base timestampPatrick McHardy
Reduces skb size by 8 bytes on 64-bit. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NET]: Remove explicit initializations of skb->input_devDavid S. Miller
Instead, set it in one place, namely the beginning of netif_receive_skb(). Based upon suggestions from Jamal Hadi Salim. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NET]: Kill skb->real_devDavid S. Miller
Bonding just wants the device before the skb_bond() decapsulation occurs, so simply pass that original device into packet_type->func() as an argument. It remains to be seen whether we can use this same exact thing to get rid of skb->input_dev as well. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-11[NETPOLL]: fix initialization/NAPI raceMatt Mackall
This fixes a race during initialization with the NAPI softirq processing by using an RCU approach. This race was discovered when refill_skbs() was added to the setup code. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-28[NET]: Fix busy waiting in dev_close().David S. Miller
If the current task has signal_pending(), the loop we have to wait for the __LINK_STATE_RX_SCHED bit to clear becomes a pure busy-loop. Fixed by using msleep() instead of the hand-crafted version. Noticed by Andrew Morton. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-08[NET]: Fix sparse warningsVictor Fusco
From: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br> Fix the sparse warning "implicit cast to nocast type" Signed-off-by: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-05[NET]: improve readability of dev_set_promiscuity() in net/core/dev.cDavid Chau
A trivial patch to improve the readability of dev_set_promiscuity() in net/core/dev.c. New code does exactly the same thing as original code. Signed-off-by: David Chau <ddcc@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23[NET]: Separate two usages of netdev_max_backlog.Stephen Hemminger
Separate out the two uses of netdev_max_backlog. One controls the upper bound on packets processed per softirq, the new name for this is netdev_budget; the other controls the limit on packets queued via netif_rx. Increase the max_backlog default to account for faster processors. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23[NET]: Eliminate netif_rx massive packet drops.Stephen Hemminger
Eliminate the throttling behaviour when the netif receive queue fills because it behaves badly when using high speed networks under load. The throttling cause multiple packet drops that cause TCP to go into slow start mode. The same effective patch has been part of BIC TCP and H-TCP as well as part of Web100. The existing code drops 100's of packets when the queue fills; this changes it to individual packet drop-tail. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemmminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23[NET]: Remove obsolete netif_rx congestion sensing mechanism.Stephen Hemminger
Remove the congestion sensing mechanism from netif_rx, and always return either full or empty. Almost no driver checks the return value from netif_rx, and those that do only use it for debug messages. The original design of netif_rx was to do flow control based on the receive queue, but NAPI has supplanted this and no driver uses the feedback. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23[NET]: Remove obsolete fastroute stats.Stephen Hemminger
Remove last vestiages of fastroute code that is no longer used. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>