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* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-03-281-1/+17
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (119 commits) [SCSI] scsi_dh_rdac: Retry for NOT_READY check condition [SCSI] mpt2sas: make global symbols unique [SCSI] sd: Make revalidate less chatty [SCSI] sd: Try READ CAPACITY 16 first for SBC-2 devices [SCSI] sd: Refactor sd_read_capacity() [SCSI] mpt2sas v00.100.11.15 [SCSI] mpt2sas: add MPT2SAS_MINOR(221) to miscdevice.h [SCSI] ch: Add scsi type modalias [SCSI] 3w-9xxx: add power management support [SCSI] bsg: add linux/types.h include to bsg.h [SCSI] cxgb3i: fix function descriptions [SCSI] libiscsi: fix possbile null ptr session command cleanup [SCSI] iscsi class: remove host no argument from session creation callout [SCSI] libiscsi: pass session failure a session struct [SCSI] iscsi lib: remove qdepth param from iscsi host allocation [SCSI] iscsi lib: have lib create work queue for transmitting IO [SCSI] iscsi class: fix lock dep warning on logout [SCSI] libiscsi: don't cap queue depth in iscsi modules [SCSI] iscsi_tcp: replace scsi_debug/tcp_debug logging with iscsi conn logging [SCSI] libiscsi_tcp: replace tcp_debug/scsi_debug logging with session/conn logging ...
| * [SCSI] net: add FCoE offload support through net_deviceYi Zou2009-03-131-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds support to provide Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) offload through net_device's net_device_ops struct. The offload through net_device for FCoE is enabled in kernel as built-in or module driver. Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
| * [SCSI] net: define feature flags for FCoE offloadsChris Leech2009-03-131-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Define feature flags for FCoE offloads. Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
| * [SCSI] net: reclaim 8 upper bits of the netdev->features from GSOChris Leech2009-03-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reclaim 8 upper bits of netdev->features from GSO. Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
* | net: Add missing include into include/linux/netdevice.hDmitri Vorobiev2009-03-271-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The inline function skb_gro_mac_header defined in include/linux/netdevice.h makes use of page_address(). Depending on configuration options, the latter is either defined as a macro or is declared as a function in another header file, namely include/linux/mm.h. However, include/linux/netdevice.h does not include include/linux/mm.h. On MIPS, this has produced the following build error: CC kernel/sysctl_check.o In file included from include/linux/icmpv6.h:173, from include/linux/ipv6.h:208, from include/net/ip_vs.h:26, from kernel/sysctl_check.c:6: include/linux/netdevice.h: In function 'skb_gro_mac_header': include/linux/netdevice.h:1132: error: implicit declaration of function 'page_address' include/linux/netdevice.h:1133: warning: pointer/integer type mismatch in conditional expression make[1]: *** [kernel/sysctl_check.o] Error 1 make: *** [kernel] Error 2 The patch adds the missing include and fixes the build error. Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | GRO: Move netpoll checks to correct locationHerbert Xu2009-03-161-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As my netpoll fix for net doesn't really work for net-next, we need this update to move the checks into the right place. As it stands we may pass freed skbs to netpoll_receive_skb. This patch also introduces a netpoll_rx_on function to avoid GRO completely if we're invoked through netpoll. This might seem paranoid but as netpoll may have an external receive hook it's better to be safe than sorry. I don't think we need this for 2.6.29 though since there's nothing immediately broken by it. This patch also moves the GRO_* return values to netdevice.h since VLAN needs them too (I tried to avoid this originally but alas this seems to be the easiest way out). This fixes a bug in VLAN where it continued to use the old return value 2 instead of the correct GRO_DROP. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2009-03-051-0/+1
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/tokenring/tmspci.c drivers/net/ucc_geth_mii.c
| * | vlan: Fix vlan-in-vlan crashes.David S. Miller2009-03-041-0/+1
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As analyzed by Patrick McHardy, vlan needs to reset it's netdev_ops pointer in it's ->init() function but this leaves the compat method pointers stale. Add a netdev_resync_ops() and call it from the vlan code. Any other driver which changes ->netdev_ops after register_netdevice() will need to call this new function after doing so too. With help from Patrick McHardy. Tested-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | net: replace __constant_{endian} uses in net headersHarvey Harrison2009-02-141-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Base versions handle constant folding now. For headers exposed to userspace, we must only expose the __ prefixed versions. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | gro: Optimise Ethernet header comparisonHerbert Xu2009-02-081-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch optimises the Ethernet header comparison to use 2-byte and 4-byte xors instead of memcmp. In order to facilitate this, the actual comparison is now carried out by the callers of the shared dev_gro_receive function. This has a significant impact when receiving 1500B packets through 10GbE. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | gro: Remember number of held packets instead of counting every timeHerbert Xu2009-02-081-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch prepares for the move of the same_flow checks out of dev_gro_receive. As such we need to remember the number of held packets since doing a loop just to count them every time is silly. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | net: fix some trailing whitespacesGraf Yang2009-02-051-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Graf Yang <graf.yang@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | gro: Avoid copying headers of unmerged packetsHerbert Xu2009-01-291-0/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Unfortunately simplicity isn't always the best. The fraginfo interface turned out to be suboptimal. The problem was quite obvious. For every packet, we have to copy the headers from the frags structure into skb->head, even though for 99% of the packets this part is immediately thrown away after the merge. LRO didn't have this problem because it directly read the headers from the frags structure. This patch attempts to address this by creating an interface that allows GRO to access the headers in the first frag without having to copy it. Because all drivers that use frags place the headers in the first frag this optimisation should be enough. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | gro: Move common completion code into helpersHerbert Xu2009-01-291-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently VLAN still has a bit of common code handling the aftermath of GRO that's shared with the common path. This patch moves them into shared helpers to reduce code duplication. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | net: Remove redundant NAPI functionsBen Hutchings2009-01-211-50/+0
|/ | | | | | | | | | | Following the removal of the unused struct net_device * parameter from the NAPI functions named *netif_rx_* in commit 908a7a1, they are exactly equivalent to the corresponding *napi_* functions and are therefore redundant. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Add init_dummy_netdev() and fix EMAC driver using itBenjamin Herrenschmidt2009-01-141-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds an init_dummy_netdev() function that gets a network device structure (allocation and lifetime entirely under caller's control) and initialize the minimum amount of fields so it can be used to schedule NAPI polls without registering a full blown interface. This is to be used by drivers that need to tie several hardware interfaces to a single NAPI poll scheduler due to HW limitations. It also updates the ibm_newemac driver to use that, this fixing the oops on 2.6.29 due to passing NULL as "dev" to netif_napi_add() Symbol is exported GPL only a I don't think we want binary drivers doing that sort of acrobatics (if we want them at all). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Fix a comment in include/linux/netdevice.h.Krzysztof Hałasa2009-01-121-1/+1
| | | | | | | Fix a comment in include/linux/netdevice.h. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-01-091-3/+0
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx: (22 commits) ioat: fix self test for multi-channel case dmaengine: bump initcall level to arch_initcall dmaengine: advertise all channels on a device to dma_filter_fn dmaengine: use idr for registering dma device numbers dmaengine: add a release for dma class devices and dependent infrastructure ioat: do not perform removal actions at shutdown iop-adma: enable module removal iop-adma: kill debug BUG_ON iop-adma: let devm do its job, don't duplicate free dmaengine: kill enum dma_state_client dmaengine: remove 'bigref' infrastructure dmaengine: kill struct dma_client and supporting infrastructure dmaengine: replace dma_async_client_register with dmaengine_get atmel-mci: convert to dma_request_channel and down-level dma_slave dmatest: convert to dma_request_channel dmaengine: introduce dma_request_channel and private channels net_dma: convert to dma_find_channel dmaengine: provide a common 'issue_pending_all' implementation dmaengine: centralize channel allocation, introduce dma_find_channel dmaengine: up-level reference counting to the module level ...
| * net_dma: convert to dma_find_channelDan Williams2009-01-061-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use the general-purpose channel allocation provided by dmaengine. Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
* | gro: Add internal interfaces for VLANHerbert Xu2009-01-061-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously GRO's only entry point from the outside is through napi_gro_receive and napi_gro_frags. These interfaces are for device drivers. This patch rearranges things to provide a new set of interfaces for VLANs. These interfaces are for internal use only. The VLAN code itself can then provide a set of entry points for device drivers. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | gro: Add page frag supportHerbert Xu2009-01-041-1/+15
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch allows GRO to merge page frags (skb_shinfo(skb)->frags) in one skb, rather than using the less efficient frag_list. It also adds a new interface, napi_gro_frags to allow drivers to inject page frags directly into the stack without allocating an skb. This is intended to be the GRO equivalent for LRO's lro_receive_frags interface. The existing GSO interface can already handle page frags with or without an appended frag_list so nothing needs to be changed there. The merging itself is rather simple. We store any new frag entries after the last existing entry, without checking whether the first new entry can be merged with the last existing entry. Making this check would actually be easy but since no existing driver can produce contiguous frags anyway it would just be mental masturbation. If the total number of entries would exceed the capacity of a single skb, we simply resort to using frag_list as we do now. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Remove unused netdev arg from some NAPI interfaces.Neil Horman2008-12-221-15/+9
| | | | | | | | | | When the napi api was changed to separate its 1:1 binding to the net_device struct, the netif_rx_[prep|schedule|complete] api failed to remove the now vestigual net_device structure parameter. This patch cleans up that api by properly removing it.. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Add Generic Receive Offload infrastructureHerbert Xu2008-12-151-52/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the top-level GRO (Generic Receive Offload) infrastructure. This is pretty similar to LRO except that this is protocol-independent. Instead of holding packets in an lro_mgr structure, they're now held in napi_struct. For drivers that intend to use this, they can set the NETIF_F_GRO bit and call napi_gro_receive instead of netif_receive_skb or just call netif_rx. The latter will call napi_receive_skb automatically. When napi_gro_receive is used, the driver must either call napi_complete/napi_rx_complete, or call napi_gro_flush in softirq context if the driver uses the primitives __napi_complete/__napi_rx_complete. Protocols will set the gro_receive and gro_complete function pointers in order to participate in this scheme. In addition to the packet, gro_receive will get a list of currently held packets. Each packet in the list has a same_flow field which is non-zero if it is a potential match for the new packet. For each packet that may match, they also have a flush field which is non-zero if the held packet must not be merged with the new packet. Once gro_receive has determined that the new skb matches a held packet, the held packet may be processed immediately if the new skb cannot be merged with it. In this case gro_receive should return the pointer to the existing skb in gro_list. Otherwise the new skb should be merged into the existing packet and NULL should be returned, unless the new skb makes it impossible for any further merges to be made (e.g., FIN packet) where the merged skb should be returned. Whenever the skb is merged into an existing entry, the gro_receive function should set NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->same_flow. Note that if an skb merely matches an existing entry but can't be merged with it, then this shouldn't be set. If gro_receive finds it pointless to hold the new skb for future merging, it should set NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->flush. Held packets will be flushed by napi_gro_flush which is called by napi_complete and napi_rx_complete. Currently held packets are stored in a singly liked list just like LRO. The list is limited to a maximum of 8 entries. In future, this may be expanded to use a hash table to allow more flows to be held for merging. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Add frag_list support to GSOHerbert Xu2008-12-151-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch allows GSO to handle frag_list in a limited way for the purposes of allowing packets merged by GRO to be refragmented on output. Most hardware won't (and aren't expected to) support handling GRO frag_list packets directly. Therefore we will perform GSO in software for those cases. However, for drivers that can support it (such as virtual NICs) we may not have to segment the packets at all. Whether the added overhead of GRO/GSO is worthwhile for bridges and routers when weighed against the benefit of potentially increasing the MTU within the host is still an open question. However, for the case of host nodes this is undoubtedly a win. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2008-12-151-0/+7
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c
| * netpoll: fix race on poll_list resulting in garbage entryNeil Horman2008-12-091-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A few months back a race was discused between the netpoll napi service path, and the fast path through net_rx_action: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2007/10/16/345470 A patch was submitted for that bug, but I think we missed a case. Consider the following scenario: INITIAL STATE CPU0 has one napi_struct A on its poll_list CPU1 is calling netpoll_send_skb and needs to call poll_napi on the same napi_struct A that CPU0 has on its list CPU0 CPU1 net_rx_action poll_napi !list_empty (returns true) locks poll_lock for A poll_one_napi napi->poll netif_rx_complete __napi_complete (removes A from poll_list) list_entry(list->next) In the above scenario, net_rx_action assumes that the per-cpu poll_list is exclusive to that cpu. netpoll of course violates that, and because the netpoll path can dequeue from the poll list, its possible for CPU0 to detect a non-empty list at the top of the while loop in net_rx_action, but have it become empty by the time it calls list_entry. Since the poll_list isn't surrounded by any other structure, the returned data from that list_entry call in this situation is garbage, and any number of crashes can result based on what exactly that garbage is. Given that its not fasible for performance reasons to place exclusive locks arround each cpus poll list to provide that mutal exclusion, I think the best solution is modify the netpoll path in such a way that we continue to guarantee that the poll_list for a cpu is in fact exclusive to that cpu. To do this I've implemented the patch below. It adds an additional bit to the state field in the napi_struct. When executing napi->poll from the netpoll_path, this bit will be set. When a driver calls netif_rx_complete, if that bit is set, it will not remove the napi_struct from the poll_list. That work will be saved for the next iteration of net_rx_action. I've tested this and it seems to work well. About the biggest drawback I can see to it is the fact that it might result in an extra loop through net_rx_action in the event that the device is actually contended for (i.e. the netpoll path actually preforms all the needed work no the device, and the call to net_rx_action winds up doing nothing, except removing the napi_struct from the poll_list. However I think this is probably a small price to pay, given that the alternative is a crash. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | netdevice: Kill netdev->privWang Chen2008-12-081-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is the last shoot of this series. After I removing all directly reference of netdev->priv, I am killing "priv" of "struct net_device" and fixing relative comments/docs. Anyone will not be allowed to reference netdev->priv directly. If you want to reference the memory of private data, use netdev_priv() instead. If the private data is not allocted when alloc_netdev(), use netdev->ml_priv to point that memory after you creating that private data. Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | DCB: fix kconfig optionJeff Kirsher2008-11-251-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since the netlink option for DCB is necessary to actually be useful, simplified the Kconfig option. In addition, added useful help text for the Kconfig option. Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | netdev: add HAVE_NET_DEVICE_OPSStephen Hemminger2008-11-251-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As a concession to vendors who have to deal with one source for different kernel versions, add a HAVE_NET_DEVICE_OPS so they don't end up hard coding ifdef against kernel version. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | ixgbe: this patch adds support for DCB to the kernel and ixgbe driverAlexander Duyck2008-11-201-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds support for Data Center Bridging (DCB) features in the ixgbe driver and adds an rtnetlink interface for configuring DCB to the kernel. The DCB feature support included are Priority Grouping (PG) - which allows bandwidth guarantees to be allocated to groups to traffic based on the 802.1q priority, and Priority Based Flow Control (PFC) - which introduces a new MAC control PAUSE frame which works at granularity of the 802.1p priority instead of the link (IEEE 802.3x). Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | netdev: add more functions to netdevice opsStephen Hemminger2008-11-201-13/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch moves neigh_setup and hard_start_xmit into the network device ops structure. For bisection, fix all the previously converted drivers as well. Bonding driver took the biggest hit on this. Added a prefetch of the hard_start_xmit in the fast path to try and reduce any impact this would have. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | netdev: introduce dev_get_stats()Stephen Hemminger2008-11-191-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In order for the network device ops get_stats call to be immutable, the handling of the default internal network device stats block has to be changed. Add a new helper function which replaces the old use of internal_get_stats. Note: change return code to make it clear that the caller should not go changing the returned statistics. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | netdev: network device operations infrastructureStephen Hemminger2008-11-191-64/+168
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch changes the network device internal API to move adminstrative operations out of the network device structure and into a separate structure. This patch involves some hackery to maintain compatablity between the new and old model, so all 300+ drivers don't have to be changed at once. For drivers that aren't converted yet, the netdevice_ops virt function list still resides in the net_device structure. For old protocols, the new net_device_ops are copied out to the old net_device pointers. After the transistion is completed the nag message can be changed to an WARN_ON, and the compatiablity code can be made configurable. Some function pointers aren't moved: * destructor can't be in net_device_ops because it may need to be referenced after the module is unloaded. * neighbor setup is manipulated in a couple of places that need special consideration * hard_start_xmit is in the fast path for transmit. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | net: Guaranetee the proper ordering of the loopback device. v2Eric W. Biederman2008-11-071-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I was recently hunting a bug that occurred in network namespace cleanup. In looking at the code it became apparrent that we have and will continue to have cases where if we have anything going on in a network namespace there will be assumptions that the loopback device is present. Things like sending igmp unsubscribe messages when we bring down network devices invokes the routing code which assumes that at least the loopback driver is present. Therefore to avoid magic initcall ordering hackery that is hard to follow and hard to get right insert a call to register the loopback device directly from net_dev_init(). This guarantes that the loopback device is the first device registered and the last network device to go away. But do it carefully so we register the loopback device after we clear dev_boot_phase. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@maxwell.aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Revert "net: Guaranetee the proper ordering of the loopback device."David S. Miller2008-11-071-1/+0
| | | | | | | | This reverts commit ae33bc40c0d96d02f51a996482ea7e41c5152695.
* | net: Guaranetee the proper ordering of the loopback device.Eric W. Biederman2008-11-051-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I was recently hunting a bug that occurred in network namespace cleanup. In looking at the code it became apparrent that we have and will continue to have cases where if we have anything going on in a network namespace there will be assumptions that the loopback device is present. Things like sending igmp unsubscribe messages when we bring down network devices invokes the routing code which assumes that at least the loopback driver is present. Therefore to avoid magic initcall ordering hackery that is hard to follow and hard to get right insert a call to register the loopback device directly from net_dev_init(). This guarantes that the loopback device is the first device registered and the last network device to go away. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | bonding, net: Move last_rx update into bonding recv logicJay Vosburgh2008-11-031-14/+18
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | The only user of the net_device->last_rx field is bonding. This patch adds a conditional update of last_rx to the bonding special logic in skb_bond_should_drop, causing last_rx to only be updated when the ARP monitor is running. This frees network device drivers from the necessity of updating last_rx, which can have cache line thrash issues. Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: delete excess kernel-doc notationRandy Dunlap2008-10-301-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | Remove excess kernel-doc function parameters from networking header & driver files: Warning(include/net/sock.h:946): Excess function parameter or struct member 'sk' description in 'sk_filter_release' Warning(include/linux/netdevice.h:1545): Excess function parameter or struct member 'cpu' description in 'netif_tx_lock' Warning(drivers/net/wan/z85230.c:712): Excess function parameter or struct member 'regs' description in 'z8530_interrupt' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Fix disjunct computation of netdev featuresHerbert Xu2008-10-231-1/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | My change commit e2a6b85247aacc52d6ba0d9b37a99b8d1a3e0d83 net: Enable TSO if supported by at least one device didn't do what was intended because the netdev_compute_features function was designed for conjunctions. So what happened was that it would simply take the TSO status of the last constituent device. This patch extends it to support both conjunctions and disjunctions under the new name of netdev_increment_features. It also adds a new function netdev_fix_features which does the sanity checking that usually occurs upon registration. This ensures that the computation doesn't result in an illegal combination since this checking is absent when the change is initiated via ethtool. The two users of netdev_compute_features have been converted. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Rationalise email address: Network Specific PartsAlan Cox2008-10-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Clean up the various different email addresses of mine listed in the code to a single current and valid address. As Dave says his network merges for 2.6.28 are now done this seems a good point to send them in where they won't risk disrupting real changes. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* dsa: add support for Trailer tagging formatLennert Buytenhek2008-10-081-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | This adds support for the Trailer switch tagging format. This is another tagging that doesn't explicitly mark tagged packets with a distinct ethertype, so that we need to add a similar hack in the receive path as for the Original DSA tagging format. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Tested-by: Byron Bradley <byron.bbradley@gmail.com> Tested-by: Tim Ellis <tim.ellis@mac.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* dsa: add support for original DSA tagging formatLennert Buytenhek2008-10-081-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Most of the DSA switches currently in the field do not support the Ethertype DSA tagging format that one of the previous patches added support for, but only the original DSA tagging format. The original DSA tagging format carries the same information as the Ethertype DSA tagging format, but with the difference that it does not have an ethertype field. In other words, when receiving a packet that is tagged with an original DSA tag, there is no way of telling in eth_type_trans() that this packet is in fact a DSA-tagged packet. This patch adds a hook into eth_type_trans() which is only compiled in if support for a switch chip that doesn't support Ethertype DSA is selected, and which checks whether there is a DSA switch driver instance attached to this network device which uses the old tag format. If so, it sets the protocol field to ETH_P_DSA without looking at the packet, so that the packet ends up in the right place. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com> Tested-by: Peter van Valderen <linux@ddcrew.com> Tested-by: Dirk Teurlings <dirk@upexia.nl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Distributed Switch Architecture protocol supportLennert Buytenhek2008-10-081-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Distributed Switch Architecture is a protocol for managing hardware switch chips. It consists of a set of MII management registers and commands to configure the switch, and an ethernet header format to signal which of the ports of the switch a packet was received from or is intended to be sent to. The switches that this driver supports are typically embedded in access points and routers, and a typical setup with a DSA switch looks something like this: +-----------+ +-----------+ | | RGMII | | | +-------+ +------ 1000baseT MDI ("WAN") | | | 6-port +------ 1000baseT MDI ("LAN1") | CPU | | ethernet +------ 1000baseT MDI ("LAN2") | |MIImgmt| switch +------ 1000baseT MDI ("LAN3") | +-------+ w/5 PHYs +------ 1000baseT MDI ("LAN4") | | | | +-----------+ +-----------+ The switch driver presents each port on the switch as a separate network interface to Linux, polls the switch to maintain software link state of those ports, forwards MII management interface accesses to those network interfaces (e.g. as done by ethtool) to the switch, and exposes the switch's hardware statistics counters via the appropriate Linux kernel interfaces. This initial patch supports the MII management interface register layout of the Marvell 88E6123, 88E6161 and 88E6165 switch chips, and supports the "Ethertype DSA" packet tagging format. (There is no officially registered ethertype for the Ethertype DSA packet format, so we just grab a random one. The ethertype to use is programmed into the switch, and the switch driver uses the value of ETH_P_EDSA for this, so this define can be changed at any time in the future if the one we chose is allocated to another protocol or if Ethertype DSA gets its own officially registered ethertype, and everything will continue to work.) Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com> Tested-by: Byron Bradley <byron.bbradley@gmail.com> Tested-by: Tim Ellis <tim.ellis@mac.com> Tested-by: Peter van Valderen <linux@ddcrew.com> Tested-by: Dirk Teurlings <dirk@upexia.nl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netdev: use const for some name functionsStephen Hemminger2008-09-301-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | dev_change_name and netdev_drivername should use const char on parameters that are read-only input values. The strcpy to newname is not needed since newname is not used later in function. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: network device name ifalias supportStephen Hemminger2008-09-221-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch add support for keeping an additional character alias associated with an network interface. This is useful for maintaining the SNMP ifAlias value which is a user defined value. Routers use this to hold information like which circuit or line it is connected to. It is just an arbitrary text label on the network device. There are two exposed interfaces with this patch, the value can be read/written either via netlink or sysfs. This could be maintained just by the snmp daemon, but it is more generally useful for other management tools, and the kernel is good place to act as an agreed upon interface to store it. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Kill plain NET_XMIT_BYPASS.David S. Miller2008-08-041-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | dst_input() was doing something completely absurd, looping on skb->dst->input() if NET_XMIT_BYPASS was seen, but these functions never return such an error. And as a result plain ole' NET_XMIT_BYPASS has no more references and can be completely killed off. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net_sched: Add qdisc __NET_XMIT_STOLEN flagJarek Poplawski2008-08-041-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> noticed: "The other problem that affects all qdiscs supporting actions is TC_ACT_QUEUED/TC_ACT_STOLEN getting mapped to NET_XMIT_SUCCESS even though the packet is not queued, corrupting upper qdiscs' qlen counters." and later explained: "The reason why it translates it at all seems to be to not increase the drops counter. Within a single qdisc this could be avoided by other means easily, upper qdiscs would still increase the counter when we return anything besides NET_XMIT_SUCCESS though. This means we need a new NET_XMIT return value to indicate this to the upper qdiscs. So I'd suggest to introduce NET_XMIT_STOLEN, return that to upper qdiscs and translate it to NET_XMIT_SUCCESS in dev_queue_xmit, similar to NET_XMIT_BYPASS." David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> noticed: "Maybe these NET_XMIT_* values being passed around should be a set of bits. They could be composed of base meanings, combined with specific attributes. So you could say "NET_XMIT_DROP | __NET_XMIT_NO_DROP_COUNT" The attributes get masked out by the top-level ->enqueue() caller, such that the base meanings are the only thing that make their way up into the stack. If it's only about communication within the qdisc tree, let's simply code it that way." This patch is trying to realize these ideas. Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netdev: Fix lockdep warnings in multiqueue configurations.David S. Miller2008-07-311-31/+55
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | When support for multiple TX queues were added, the netif_tx_lock() routines we converted to iterate over all TX queues and grab each queue's spinlock. This causes heartburn for lockdep and it's not a healthy thing to do with lots of TX queues anyways. So modify this to use a top-level lock and a "frozen" state for the individual TX queues. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Fix build failure with 'make mandocs'.Dave Jones2008-07-221-29/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The function header comments have to go with the functions they are documenting, or things go horribly wrong when we try to process them with the docbook tools. Warning(include/linux/netdevice.h:1006): No description found for parameter 'dev_queue' Warning(include/linux/netdevice.h:1033): No description found for parameter 'dev_queue' Warning(include/linux/netdevice.h:1067): No description found for parameter 'dev_queue' Warning(include/linux/netdevice.h:1093): No description found for parameter 'dev_queue' Warning(include/linux/netdevice.h:1474): No description found for parameter 'txq' Error(net/core/dev.c:1674): cannot understand prototype: 'u32 simple_tx_hashrnd; ' Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Print the module name as part of the watchdog messageArjan van de Ven2008-07-211-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | As suggested by Dave: This patch adds a function to get the driver name from a struct net_device, and consequently uses this in the watchdog timeout handler to print as part of the message. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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