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* connector: Removed the destruct_data callback since it is always kfree_skb()Philipp Reisner2009-10-022-10/+5
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Acked-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* connector: Provide the sender's credentials to the callbackPhilipp Reisner2009-10-022-5/+6
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Acked-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* connector: Keep the skb in cn_callback_dataPhilipp Reisner2009-10-022-7/+7
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Acked-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* proc connector: add event for process becoming session leaderScott James Remnant2009-09-231-0/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The act of a process becoming a session leader is a useful signal to a supervising init daemon such as Upstart. While a daemon will normally do this as part of the process of becoming a daemon, it is rare for its children to do so. When the children do, it is nearly always a sign that the child should be considered detached from the parent and not supervised along with it. The poster-child example is OpenSSH; the per-login children call setsid() so that they may control the pty connected to them. If the primary daemon dies or is restarted, we do not want to consider the per-login children and want to respawn the primary daemon without killing the children. This patch adds a new PROC_SID_EVENT and associated structure to the proc_event event_data union, it arranges for this to be emitted when the special PIDTYPE_SID pid is set. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2009-07-232-3/+3
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/netdev.c net/wireless/scan.c
| * connector: maintainer/mail update.Evgeniy Polyakov2009-07-212-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | connector: make callback argument type explicitMike Frysinger2009-07-173-7/+9
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | The connector documentation states that the argument to the callback function is always a pointer to a struct cn_msg, but rather than encode it in the API itself, it uses a void pointer everywhere. This doesn't make much sense to encode the pointer in documentation as it prevents proper C type checking from occurring and can easily allow people to use the wrong pointer type. So convert the argument type to an explicit struct cn_msg pointer. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* trivial: Kconfig: .ko is normally not included in module namesPavel Machek2009-06-121-1/+1
| | | | | | | .ko is normally not included in Kconfig help, make it consistent. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* connector: create connector workqueue only while needed onceFrederic Weisbecker2009-02-022-20/+79
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The netlink connector uses its own workqueue to relay the datas sent from userspace to the appropriate callback. If you launch the test from Documentation/connector and change it a bit to send a high flow of data, you will see thousands of events coming to the "cqueue" workqueue by looking at the workqueue tracer. This flow of events can be sent very quickly. So, to not encumber the kevent workqueue and delay other jobs, the "cqueue" workqueue should remain. But this workqueue is pointless most of the time, it will always be created (assuming you have built it of course) although only developpers with specific needs will use it. So avoid this "most of the time useless task", this patch proposes to create this workqueue only when needed once. The first jobs to be sent to connector callbacks will be sent to kevent while the "cqueue" thread creation will be scheduled to kevent too. The following jobs will continue to be scheduled to keventd until the cqueue workqueue is created, and then the rest of the jobs will continue to perform as usual, through this dedicated workqueue. Each time I tested this patch, only the first event was sent to keventd, the rest has been sent to cqueue which have been created quickly. Also, this patch fixes some trailing whitespaces on the connector files. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own credsDavid Howells2008-11-141-5/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds. This means that it will be possible for the credentials of a task to be replaced without another task (a) requiring a full lock to read them, and (b) seeing deallocated memory. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* CRED: Separate task security context from task_structDavid Howells2008-11-141-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Separate the task security context from task_struct. At this point, the security data is temporarily embedded in the task_struct with two pointers pointing to it. Note that the Alpha arch is altered as it refers to (E)UID and (E)GID in entry.S via asm-offsets. With comment fixes Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* CONNECTOR: add a proc entry to list connectorsLi Zefan2008-06-271-0/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I got a problem when I wanted to check if the kernel supports process event connector, and It seems there's no way to do this check. At best I can check if the kernel supports connector or not, by looking into /proc/net/netlink, or maybe checking the return value of bind() to see if it's ENOENT. So it would be useful to add /proc/net/connector to list all supported connectors: # cat /proc/net/connector Name ID connector 4294967295:4294967295 cn_proc 1:1 w1 3:1 Changelog: - fix memory leak: s/seq_release/single_release - use spin_lock_bh instead of spin_lock_irqsave Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* connector: convert to single-threaded workqueueEvgeniy Polyakov2008-03-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> We don't need one cqueue thread for each CPU. cqueue is used for receiving userspace datagrams, which are very rare and thus will happily live with a single queue. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* CONNECTOR: make cn_already_initialized staticLi Zefan2008-02-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | It is used in connector.c only, so make it static. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETNS]: Consolidate kernel netlink socket destruction.Denis V. Lunev2008-01-281-6/+3
| | | | | | | | | | Create a specific helper for netlink kernel socket disposal. This just let the code look better and provides a ground for proper disposal inside a namespace. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [CONNECTOR]: Cleanup struct cn_callback_entryLi Zefan2008-01-281-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - 'cb' is a fake struct member. In a previous patch struct cn_callback was renamed to cn_callback_id, so 'cb' should have been deleted at that time. - 'nls' isn't used and is redundant, we can retrieve this data through cn_callback_entry.pdev->nls. - 'seq' and 'group' should be u32, as they are declared to be u32 in other places. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [CONNECTOR]: Cleanup struct cn_queue_devLi Zefan2008-01-281-1/+0
| | | | | | | | Struct member netlink_groups is never used, and I don't see how it can be useful. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [CONNECTOR]: clean up {,__}cn_rx_skb()Li Zefan2008-01-281-26/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | - __cn_rx_skb() does nothing but calls cn_call_callback(), it doesn't check skb and msg sizes as the comment suggests, but cn_rx_skb() checks those sizes. - In cn_rx_skb() Local variable 'len' is not used. 'len' is probably intended to be passed to skb_pull(), but here skb_pull() is not needed, instead skb_free() is called. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [CONNECTOR]: add a missing break in cn_netlink_send()Li Zefan2008-01-281-0/+1
| | | | | | | | Each entry in the list has a unique id, so just break out of the loop if the matched id is found. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [CONNECTOR]: Don't touch queue dev after decrement of ref count.Li Zefan2008-01-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | cn_queue_free_callback() will touch 'dev'(i.e. cbq->pdev), so it should be called before atomic_dec(&dev->refcnt). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [CONNECTOR]: Return proper error code in cn_call_callback()Li Zefan2008-01-041-0/+2
| | | | | | | | Error code should be set to EINVAL instead of ENODEV if !queue_work(). There's another call of queue_work() which may set err to EINVAL. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [CONNECTOR]: Fix a spurious kfree_skb() callMichal Januszewski2007-10-301-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Remove a spurious call to kfree_skb() in the connector rx_skb handler. This fixes a regression introduced by the '[NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious' patch (cd40b7d3983c708aabe3d3008ec64ffce56d33b0) Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchroniousDenis V. Lunev2007-10-101-13/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch make processing netlink user -> kernel messages synchronious. This change was inspired by the talk with Alexey Kuznetsov about current netlink messages processing. He says that he was badly wrong when introduced asynchronious user -> kernel communication. The call netlink_unicast is the only path to send message to the kernel netlink socket. But, unfortunately, it is also used to send data to the user. Before this change the user message has been attached to the socket queue and sk->sk_data_ready was called. The process has been blocked until all pending messages were processed. The bad thing is that this processing may occur in the arbitrary process context. This patch changes nlk->data_ready callback to get 1 skb and force packet processing right in the netlink_unicast. Kernel -> user path in netlink_unicast remains untouched. EINTR processing for in netlink_run_queue was changed. It forces rtnl_lock drop, but the process remains in the cycle until the message will be fully processed. So, there is no need to use this kludges now. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Support multiple network namespaces with netlinkEric W. Biederman2007-10-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Each netlink socket will live in exactly one network namespace, this includes the controlling kernel sockets. This patch updates all of the existing netlink protocols to only support the initial network namespace. Request by clients in other namespaces will get -ECONREFUSED. As they would if the kernel did not have the support for that netlink protocol compiled in. As each netlink protocol is updated to be multiple network namespace safe it can register multiple kernel sockets to acquire a presence in the rest of the network namespaces. The implementation in af_netlink is a simple filter implementation at hash table insertion and hash table look up time. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Use menuconfig objects: connectorJan Engelhardt2007-07-161-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | Use menuconfigs instead of menus, so the whole menu can be disabled at once instead of going through all options. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [NETLINK]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override itPatrick McHardy2007-04-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Switch cb_lock to mutex and allow netlink kernel users to override it with a subsystem specific mutex for consistent locking in dump callbacks. All netlink_dump_start users have been audited not to rely on any side-effects of the previously used spinlock. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Introduce nlmsg_hdr() helperArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2007-04-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | For the common "(struct nlmsghdr *)skb->data" sequence, so that we reduce the number of direct accesses to skb->data and for consistency with all the other cast skb member helpers. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [CONNECTOR]: Bugfix for cn_call_callback()Philipp Reisner2007-03-071-11/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | When system under heavy stress and must allocate new work instead of reusing old one, new work must use correct completion callback. Patch is based on Philipp's and Lars' work. I only cleaned small stuff (and removed spaces instead of tabs). Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] connector: some fixes for ia64 unaligned access errorsErik Jacobson2007-01-051-5/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On ia64, the various functions that make up cn_proc.c cause kernel unaligned access errors. If you are using these, for example, to get notification about all tasks forking and exiting, you get multiple unaligned access errors per process. Use put_unaligned() in the appropriate palces to fix this. Signed-off-by: Erik Jacobson <erikj@sgi.com> Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [CONNECTOR]: Replace delayed work with usual work queue.Evgeniy Polyakov2006-12-182-12/+9
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [CONNECTOR]: Fix compilation breakage introduced recently.Evgeniy Polyakov2006-12-171-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Linus has changed work queue structure and has not tested it with connector compiled in, his changes break the build. Attached patch fixes compilation error. Patch is against commit 99f5e9718185f07458ae70c2282c2153a2256c91. Thanks to Toralf Förster for pointing this out. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* WorkStruct: make allyesconfigDavid Howells2006-11-222-19/+20
| | | | | | Fix up for make allyesconfig. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
* [PATCH] Process Events: Fix biarch compatibility issue. use __u64 timestampChandra Seetharaman2006-07-311-5/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Events sent by Process Events Connector from a 64-bit kernel are not binary compatible with a 32-bit userspace program because the "timestamp" field (struct timespec) is not arch independent. This affects the fields that follow "timestamp" as they will be be off by 8 bytes. This is a problem for 32-bit userspace programs running with 64-bit kernels on ppc64, s390, x86-64.. any "biarch" system. Matt had submitted a different solution to lkml as an RFC earlier. We have since switched to a solution recommended by Evgeniy Polyakov. This patch fixes the problem by changing the timestamp to be a __u64, which stores the number of nanoseconds. Tested on a x86_64 system with both 32 bit application and 64 bit application and on a i386 system. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] connector-exportsAndrew Morton2006-06-231-4/+3
| | | | | | | | | Put the connector exports at the functions so people can see them in context. Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Process Events - Header CleanupMatt Helsley2006-06-231-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Move connector header include to precisely where it's needed. Remove unused time.h header file as well. This was leftover from previous iterations of the process events patches. Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net> Cc: Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [CONNECTOR]: Initialize subsystem earlier.Evgeniy Polyakov2006-06-191-5/+9
| | | | | | | | Attached patch declares connector init function as subsys_init() and returns -EAGAIN in case connector is not initialized yet. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [CONNECTOR]: Fix warning in cn_queue.cAndreas Schwab2006-06-171-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cn_queue.c:130: warning: value computed is not used There is no point in testing the atomic value if the result is thrown away. From Evgeniy: It was created to put implicit smp barrier, but it is not needed there. Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] sem2mutex: drivers: raw, connector, dcdbas, ppp_genericArjan van de Ven2006-03-231-7/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [CONNECTOR]: Use netlink_has_listeners() to avoind unnecessary allocations.Evgeniy Polyakov2006-03-201-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | Return -ESRCH from cn_netlink_send() when there are not listeners, just as it could be done by netlink_broadcast(). Propagate netlink_broadcast() error back to the caller. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] Switch getnstimestamp() calls to ktime_get_ts()Matt Helsley2006-01-101-5/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Use ktime_get_ts() to take the timestamp instead of getnstimestamp(). This patch prepares to remove getnstimestamp() by switching its only user to a different function with almost exactly the same code. Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] drivers/connector/cn_proc.c typosDavid S. Miller2006-01-081-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | The parameter to put_cpu_var() is unreferenced by the implementation, and the compiler doesn't try to comprehend comments, so this wouldn't cause any problem, but if bugged me enough to post a fix :-) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Add timestamp field to process eventsMatt Helsley2005-12-121-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a timestamp field to the events sent via the process event connector. The timestamp allows listeners to accurately account the duration(s) between a process' events and offers strong means with which to determine the order of events with respect to a given task while also avoiding the addition of per-task data. This alters the size and layout of the event structure and hence would break compatibility if process events connector as it stands in 2.6.15-rc2 were released as a mainline kernel. Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Process Events ConnectorMatt Helsley2005-11-073-0/+231
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a connector that reports fork, exec, id change, and exit events for all processes to userspace. It replaces the fork_advisor patch that ELSA is currently using. Applications that may find these events useful include accounting/auditing (e.g. ELSA), system activity monitoring (e.g. top), security, and resource management (e.g. CKRM). Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1Al Viro2005-10-081-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | - 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>
* [CONNECTOR]: fix sparse gfp nocast warningsRandy Dunlap2005-10-041-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | Fix implicit nocast warnings in connector code: drivers/connector/connector.c:102:24: warning: implicit cast to nocast type drivers/connector/connector.c:114:45: warning: implicit cast to nocast type Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [CONNECTOR]: async connector mode.Evgeniy Polyakov2005-09-262-49/+57
| | | | | | | | | | | | If input message rate from userspace is too high, do not drop them, but try to deliver using work queue allocation. Failing there is some kind of congestion control. It also removes warn_on on this condition, which scares people. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Add netlink connector.Evgeniy Polyakov2005-09-114-0/+675
Kernel connector - new userspace <-> kernel space easy to use communication module which implements easy to use bidirectional message bus using netlink as it's backend. Connector was created to eliminate complex skb handling both in send and receive message bus direction. Connector driver adds possibility to connect various agents using as one of it's backends netlink based network. One must register callback and identifier. When driver receives special netlink message with appropriate identifier, appropriate callback will be called. From the userspace point of view it's quite straightforward: socket(); bind(); send(); recv(); But if kernelspace want to use full power of such connections, driver writer must create special sockets, must know about struct sk_buff handling... Connector allows any kernelspace agents to use netlink based networking for inter-process communication in a significantly easier way: int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (void *)); void cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask); struct cb_id { __u32 idx; __u32 val; }; idx and val are unique identifiers which must be registered in connector.h for in-kernel usage. void (*callback) (void *) - is a callback function which will be called when message with above idx.val will be received by connector core. Using connector completely hides low-level transport layer from it's users. Connector uses new netlink ability to have many groups in one socket. [ Incorporating many cleanups and fixes by myself and Andrew Morton -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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