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Herbert Xu 1db9e29bb0 gro: Normalise skb before bypassing GRO on netpoll VLAN path
Hi:

gro: Normalise skb before bypassing GRO on netpoll VLAN path

When we detect netpoll RX on the GRO VLAN path we bail out and
call the normal VLAN receive handler.  However, the packet needs
to be normalised by calling eth_type_trans since that's what the
normal path expects (normally the GRO path does the fixup).

This patch adds the necessary call to vlan_gro_frags.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

Thanks,
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-13 15:44:50 -07:00
Herbert Xu 2ffb455819 gro: Fix vlan/netpoll check again
Jarek Poplawski pointed out that my previous fix is broken for
VLAN+netpoll as if netpoll is enabled we'd end up in the normal
receive path instead of the VLAN receive path.

This patch fixes it by calling the VLAN receive hook.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-17 13:10:52 -07:00
Herbert Xu d1c76af9e2 GRO: Move netpoll checks to correct location
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>
2009-03-16 10:50:02 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 7546dd97d2 net: convert usage of packet_type to read_mostly
Protocols that use packet_type can be __read_mostly section for better
locality. Elminate any unnecessary initializations of NULL.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10 05:22:43 -07:00
David S. Miller 508827ff0a Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/tokenring/tmspci.c
	drivers/net/ucc_geth_mii.c
2009-03-05 02:06:47 -08:00
David S. Miller 9d40bbda59 vlan: Fix vlan-in-vlan crashes.
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>
2009-03-04 23:46:25 -08:00
David S. Miller aa4abc9bcc Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
	net/8021q/vlan_core.c
	net/core/dev.c
2009-03-01 21:35:16 -08:00
Herbert Xu 4ead443163 netpoll: Add drop checks to all entry points
The netpoll entry checks are required to ensure that we don't
receive normal packets when invoked via netpoll.  Unfortunately
it only ever worked for the netif_receive_skb/netif_rx entry
points.  The VLAN (and subsequently GRO) entry point didn't
have the check and therefore can trigger all sorts of weird
problems.

This patch adds the netpoll check to all entry points.

I'm still uneasy with receiving at all under netpoll (which
apparently is only used by the out-of-tree kdump code).  The
reason is it is perfectly legal to receive all data including
headers into highmem if netpoll is off, but if you try to do
that with netpoll on and someone gets a printk in an IRQ handler                                             
you're going to get a nice BUG_ON.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-01 00:11:52 -08:00
Herbert Xu aa4b9f533e gro: Optimise Ethernet header comparison
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>
2009-02-08 20:22:18 -08:00
Harvey Harrison 09640e6365 net: replace uses of __constant_{endian}
Base versions handle constant folding now.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-01 00:45:17 -08:00
Herbert Xu 86911732d3 gro: Avoid copying headers of unmerged packets
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>
2009-01-29 16:33:03 -08:00
Herbert Xu 5d0d9be8ef gro: Move common completion code into helpers
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>
2009-01-29 16:33:02 -08:00
Ben Greear 116cb42855 vlan: Export symbols as non GPL symbols.
In previous kernels, any kernel module could get access to the
'real-device' and the VLAN-ID for a particular VLAN.  In more recent
kernels, the code was restructured such that this is hard to do
without accessing private .h files for any module that cannot use
GPL-only symbols.

Attached is a patch to once again allow non-GPL modules the ability to
access the real-device and VLAN id for VLANs.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-26 12:37:53 -08:00
Frank Blaschka cc883d16c3 vlan: add neigh_setup
In case the real device has a neigh_setup function, this
neigh_setup function should be used for the vlan device.

Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-08 10:50:20 -08:00
Herbert Xu e1c096e251 vlan: Add GRO interfaces
This patch adds GRO interfaces for hardware-assisted VLAN reception.
With this in place we're now at parity with LRO as far as the
interface is concerned.  That is, you can now take any LRO driver
and convert it over to GRO.

As the CB memory clashes with GRO's use of CB, I've removed it
entirely by storing dev in skb->dev.  This is OK because VLAN
gets called first thing in netif_receive_skb and skb->dev is
not used in between us calling netif_rx and netif_receive_skb
getting called.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-06 10:50:09 -08:00
Eric Dumazet f7d1b9f5aa vlan: fix convertion to net_device_ops
commit 656299f706
(vlan: convert to net_device_ops) added a net_device_ops
with a NULL ndo_start_xmit field.

This gives a crash in dev_hard_start_xmit()

Fix it using two net_device_ops structures, one for hwaccel vlan,
one for non hwaccel vlan.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-25 16:45:19 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 656299f706 vlan: convert to net_device_ops
Convert vlan devices and function pointers to net_device_ops.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-19 22:42:41 -08:00
David S. Miller 7e452baf6b Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c
	drivers/net/sfc/ethtool.c
	net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c
2008-11-11 15:43:02 -08:00
Ferenc Wagner 309f796f30 vlan: Fix typos in proc output string
Signed-off-by: Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-10 13:37:40 -08:00
David S. Miller 9eeda9abd1 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
	net/8021q/vlan_core.c
2008-11-06 22:43:03 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 9b22ea5609 net: fix packet socket delivery in rx irq handler
The changes to deliver hardware accelerated VLAN packets to packet
sockets (commit bc1d0411) caused a warning for non-NAPI drivers.
The __vlan_hwaccel_rx() function is called directly from the drivers
RX function, for non-NAPI drivers that means its still in RX IRQ
context:

[   27.779463] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   27.779509] WARNING: at kernel/softirq.c:136 local_bh_enable+0x37/0x81()
...
[   27.782520]  [<c0264755>] netif_nit_deliver+0x5b/0x75
[   27.782590]  [<c02bba83>] __vlan_hwaccel_rx+0x79/0x162
[   27.782664]  [<f8851c1d>] atl1_intr+0x9a9/0xa7c [atl1]
[   27.782738]  [<c0155b17>] handle_IRQ_event+0x23/0x51
[   27.782808]  [<c015692e>] handle_edge_irq+0xc2/0x102
[   27.782878]  [<c0105fd5>] do_IRQ+0x4d/0x64

Split hardware accelerated VLAN reception into two parts to fix this:

- __vlan_hwaccel_rx just stores the VLAN TCI and performs the VLAN
  device lookup, then calls netif_receive_skb()/netif_rx()

- vlan_hwaccel_do_receive(), which is invoked by netif_receive_skb()
  in softirq context, performs the real reception and delivery to
  packet sockets.

Reported-and-tested-by: Ramon Casellas <ramon.casellas@cttc.es>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-04 14:49:57 -08:00
David S. Miller d2ad3ca88d net/: Kill now superfluous ->last_rx stores.
The generic packet receive code takes care of setting
netdev->last_rx when necessary, for the sake of the
bonding ARP monitor.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 22:01:07 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger b30200616f vlan: propogate ethtool speed values
This enables more ethtool information. The speed and settings of the
underlying device are propagated up. This makes services like SNMP that
use ethtool to get speed setting, work when managing a vlan, without adding
silly heurtistics into SNMP daemon.

For the driver info, just use existing driver strings.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-28 23:02:34 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 6067804047 net: Use hton[sl]() instead of __constant_hton[sl]() where applicable
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-20 22:20:49 -07:00
Alexander Duyck 1ae4be22f6 vlan: vlan device not reading gso max size of parent.
The vlan devices are not reading the gso max size of the parent device.  As
a result devices that do not support 64K max gso size are currently
failing.

This issue is seen on 2.6.26 kernels as well and the same patch should be
able to be applied without any issues.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-11 20:17:05 -07:00
David S. Miller cf508b1211 netdev: Handle ->addr_list_lock just like ->_xmit_lock for lockdep.
The new address list lock needs to handle the same device layering
issues that the _xmit_lock one does.

This integrates work done by Patrick McHardy.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-22 14:16:42 -07:00
David S. Miller 49997d7515 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
	drivers/atm/Makefile
	drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
	drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c
	net/8021q/vlan.c
	net/iucv/iucv.c
2008-07-18 02:39:39 -07:00
David S. Miller e8a0464cc9 netdev: Allocate multiple queues for TX.
alloc_netdev_mq() now allocates an array of netdev_queue
structures for TX, based upon the queue_count argument.

Furthermore, all accesses to the TX queues are now vectored
through the netdev_get_tx_queue() and netdev_for_each_tx_queue()
interfaces.  This makes it easy to grep the tree for all
things that want to get to a TX queue of a net device.

Problem spots which are not really multiqueue aware yet, and
only work with one queue, can easily be spotted by grepping
for all netdev_get_tx_queue() calls that pass in a zero index.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-17 19:21:00 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 61362766d7 vlan: remove unnecessary include statements
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-14 22:51:55 -07:00
Patrick McHardy d80aa31bbf vlan: clean up hard_start_xmit functions
Remove excessive comments and debugging, use NETDEV_TX codes,
remove some empty lines.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-14 22:51:39 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 1349fe9a6b vlan: clean up vlan_dev_hard_header()
Remove some debugging and excessive comments, merge the two
dev_hard_header calls into one.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-14 22:51:19 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 19b9a4e256 vlan: ethtool ->get_flags support
Allow to query LRO settings of underlying device when VLAN RX
acceleration is used.

Suggested by Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-14 22:51:01 -07:00
Patrick McHardy bc1d0411b8 vlan: deliver packets received with VLAN acceleration to network taps
When VLAN header stripping is used, packets currently bypass packet
sockets (and other network taps) completely. For locally existing
VLANs, they appear directly on the VLAN device, for unknown VLANs
they are silently dropped.

Add a new function netif_nit_deliver() to deliver incoming packets
to all network interface taps and use it in __vlan_hwaccel_rx() to
make VLAN packets visible on the underlying device.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-14 22:49:30 -07:00
Wang Chen 89146504cb 8021q: Check return of dev_set_promiscuity/allmulti
dev_set_promiscuity/allmulti might overflow.
Commit: "netdevice: Fix promiscuity and allmulti overflow" in net-next makes
dev_set_promiscuity/allmulti return error number if overflow happened.

Here, we check all positive increment for promiscuity and allmulti
to get error return.

Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-14 20:59:03 -07:00
David S. Miller c773e847ea netdev: Move _xmit_lock and xmit_lock_owner into netdev_queue.
Accesses are mostly structured such that when there are multiple TX
queues the code transformations will be a little bit simpler.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08 23:13:53 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 11a100f844 vlan: avoid header copying and linearisation where possible
- vlan_dev_reorder_header() is only called on the receive path after
  calling skb_share_check(). This means we can use skb_cow() since
  all we need is a writable header.

- vlan_dev_hard_header() includes a work-around for some apparently
  broken out of tree MPLS code. The hard_header functions can expect
  to always have a headroom of at least there own hard_header_len
  available, so the reallocation check is unnecessary.

- __vlan_put_tag() can use skb_cow_head() to avoid the skb_unshare()
  copy when the header is writable.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08 15:36:57 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 9bb8582efb vlan: TCI related type and naming cleanups
The VLAN code contains multiple spots that use tag, id and tci as
identifiers for arguments and variables incorrectly and they actually
contain or are expected to contain something different. Additionally
types are used inconsistently (unsigned short vs u16) and identifiers
are sometimes capitalized.

- consistently use u16 for storing TCI, ID or QoS values
- consistently use vlan_id and vlan_tci for storing the respective values
- remove capitalization
- add kdoc comment to netif_hwaccel_{rx,receive_skb}

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08 03:24:44 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 22d1ba74bb vlan: move struct vlan_dev_info to private header
Hide struct vlan_dev_info from drivers to prevent them from growing
more creative ways to use it. Provide accessors for the two drivers
that currently use it.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08 03:23:57 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 7750f403cb vlan: uninline __vlan_hwaccel_rx
The function is huge and included at least once in every VLAN acceleration
capable driver. Uninline it; to avoid having drivers depend on the VLAN
module, the function is always built in statically when VLAN is enabled.

With all VLAN acceleration capable drivers that build on x86_64 enabled,
this results in:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
6515227  854044  343968 7713239  75b1d7 vmlinux.inlined
6505637  854044  343968 7703649  758c61 vmlinux.uninlined
----------------------------------------------------------
  -9590

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08 03:23:36 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 75b8846acd vlan: Add ethtool support
Add ethtool support for querying the device for offload settings.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08 03:22:42 -07:00
Joonwoo Park 26a25239d7 vlan: Use is_vlan_dev()
Use simplified is_vlan_dev function.

Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08 03:22:16 -07:00
Patrick McHardy acc81e1465 vlan: fix network_header/mac_header adjustments
Lennert Buytenhek points out that the VLAN code incorrectly adjusts
skb->network_header to point in the middle of the VLAN header and
additionally tries to adjust skb->mac_header without checking for
validity.

The network_header should not be touched at all since we're only
adding headers in front of it, mac_header adjustments are not
necessary at all.

Based on patch by Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08 03:21:27 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 70c03b49b8 vlan: Add GVRP support
Add GVRP support for dynamically registering VLANs with switches.

By default GVRP is disabled because we only support the applicant-only
participant model, which means it should not be enabled on vlans that
are members of a bridge. Since there is currently no way to cleanly
determine that, the user is responsible for enabling it.

The code is pretty small and low impact, its wrapped in a config
option though because it depends on the GARP implementation and
the STP core.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-05 21:26:57 -07:00
Patrick McHardy ce305002e1 vlan: Move device unregistration before lower dev cleanup
Move the unregister_netdevice() call for the VLAN device before cleanup
for the lower device. This is needed by GVRP so it can send a leave
message before the applicant on the lower device is cleaned up.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-05 21:26:41 -07:00
Patrick McHardy b3ce0325f2 vlan: Change vlan_dev_set_vlan_flag() to handle multiple flags at once
Change vlan_dev_set_vlan_flag() to handle multiple flags at once and
rename to vlan_dev_change_flags(). This allows to to use it from the
netlink interface, which in turn allows to handle necessary adjustments
when changing flags centrally.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-05 21:26:27 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 766d02786e Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcu 2008-06-16 11:23:36 +02:00
Patrick McHardy 289c79a4bd vlan: Use bitmask of feature flags instead of seperate feature bits
Herbert Xu points out that the use of seperate feature bits for features
to be propagated to VLAN devices is going to get messy real soon.
Replace the VLAN feature bits by a bitmask of feature flags to be
propagated and restore the old GSO_SHIFT/MASK values.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-23 00:27:50 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 5fb1357054 [VLAN]: Propagate selected feature bits to VLAN devices
Propagate feature bits from the NETDEV_FEAT_CHANGE notifier. For now
only TSO is propagated for devices that announce their ability to
support TSO in combination with VLAN accel by setting the NETIF_F_VLAN_TSO
flag.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-20 14:54:50 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 81d85346b3 vlan: Correctly handle device notifications for layered VLAN devices
Commit 30688a9 ([VLAN]: Handle vlan devices net namespace changing)
changed the device notifier to special-case notifications for VLAN
devices, effectively disabling state propagation to underlying VLAN
devices. This is needed for layered VLANs though, so restore the
original behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-20 14:37:36 -07:00
Franck Bui-Huu 82524746c2 rcu: split list.h and move rcu-protected lists into rculist.h
Move rcu-protected lists from list.h into a new header file rculist.h.

This is done because list are a very used primitive structure all over the
kernel and it's currently impossible to include other header files in this
list.h without creating some circular dependencies.

For example, list.h implements rcu-protected list and uses rcu_dereference()
without including rcupdate.h.  It actually compiles because users of
rcu_dereference() are macros.  Others RCU functions could be used too but
aren't probably because of this.

Therefore this patch creates rculist.h which includes rcupdates without to
many changes/troubles.

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-19 10:01:37 +02:00