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Mauro Carvalho Chehab 3aa1141f99 connector: fix a kernel-doc markup
A function has a different name between their prototype
and its kernel-doc markup.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/889cfb141a98ae06d5bc79b744786ec2e8f92d93.1610610937.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-01-21 14:06:00 -07:00
Geoff Levand c18e68696f net/connector: Add const qualifier to cb_id
The connector driver never modifies any cb_id passed to it, so add a const
qualifier to those arguments so callers can declare their struct cb_id as a
constant object.

Fixes build warnings like these when passing a constant struct cb_id:

  warning: passing argument 1 of ‘cn_add_callback’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target

Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a9e49c9e-67fa-16e7-0a6b-72f6bd30c58a@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2020-12-16 11:06:49 -08:00
Vasily Averin 903e9d1bff connector: remove redundant input callback from cn_dev
A small cleanup: this callback is never used.
Originally fixed by Stanislav Kinsburskiy <skinsbursky@virtuozzo.com>
for OpenVZ7 bug OVZ-6877

cc: stanislav.kinsburskiy@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-07-21 13:31:14 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 720594f691 docs: connector: convert to ReST and rename to connector.rst
As it has some function definitions, move them to connector.h.

The remaining conversion is actually:
  - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
  - fix tables markups;
  - add some lists markups;
  - mark literal blocks;
  - adjust title markups.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15 09:20:23 -03:00
Thomas Gleixner 1a59d1b8e0 treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 156
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
  should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
  with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc
  59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 02111 1307 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1334 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.113240726@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-30 11:26:35 -07:00
Elena Reshetova e65f7ee39b drivers, connector: convert cn_callback_entry.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
atomic_t variables are currently used to implement reference
counters with the following properties:
 - counter is initialized to 1 using atomic_set()
 - a resource is freed upon counter reaching zero
 - once counter reaches zero, its further
   increments aren't allowed
 - counter schema uses basic atomic operations
   (set, inc, inc_not_zero, dec_and_test, etc.)

Such atomic variables should be converted to a newly provided
refcount_t type and API that prevents accidental counter overflows
and underflows. This is important since overflows and underflows
can lead to use-after-free situation and be exploitable.

The variable cn_callback_entry.refcnt is used as pure reference counter.
Convert it to refcount_t and fix up the operations.

Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-10-22 02:22:39 +01:00
David Fries 34470e0bfa connector: allow multiple messages to be sent in one packet
This increases the amount of bundling to reduce the number of packets
sent.  For the one wire use there can be multiple struct
w1_netlink_cmd in a struct w1_netlink_msg and multiple of those in
struct cn_msg, and with this change multiple of those in a struct
nlmsghdr, and at each level the len identifies there being multiple of
the next.

Signed-off-by: David Fries <David@Fries.net>
Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-05-27 13:56:21 -07:00
David Fries ac8f73305e connector: add portid to unicast in addition to broadcasting
This allows replying only to the requestor portid while still
supporting broadcasting.  Pass 0 to portid for the previous behavior.

Signed-off-by: David Fries <David@Fries.net>
Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-02-07 15:40:17 -08:00
David Howells 607ca46e97 UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2012-10-13 10:46:48 +01:00
K. Y. Srinivasan 4f03a2c934 drivers: hv: kvp: Add/cleanup connector defines
The current KVP code carries some private connector related defines.
Update connector.h to have all the KVP defines. As part of this patch
get rid of some unused defines.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-02-02 15:30:47 -08:00
Evgeniy Polyakov a801876638 MAINTAINERS: Evgeniy has moved
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 16:25:33 -07:00
Arun Sharma 60063497a9 atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h>
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h>

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
K. Y. Srinivasan ea2c00095c Connector: Set the CN_NETLINK_USERS correctly
The CN_NETLINK_USERS must be set to the highest valid index +1.
Thanks to Evgeniy for pointing this out.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> [.39]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-06-07 12:02:00 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 04f482faf5 connector: convert to synchronous netlink message processing
Commits 01a16b21 (netlink: kill eff_cap from struct netlink_skb_parms)
and c53fa1ed (netlink: kill loginuid/sessionid/sid members from struct
netlink_skb_parms) removed some members from struct netlink_skb_parms
that depend on the current context, all netlink users are now required
to do synchronous message processing.

connector however queues received messages and processes them in a work
queue, which is not valid anymore. This patch converts connector to do
synchronous message processing by invoking the registered callback handler
directly from the netlink receive function.

In order to avoid invoking the callback with connector locks held, a
reference count is added to struct cn_callback_entry, the reference
is taken when finding a matching callback entry on the device's queue_list
and released after the callback handler has been invoked.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-30 17:14:33 -07:00
Joe Perches 008536e845 connector: Convert char *name to const char *name
Allow more const declarations.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-23 13:22:26 -08:00
Ky Srinivasan a0a5b67640 Connector: Add an index to support key/value pair (KVP) functionality
Added a connector index to support key value/pair (KVP) functionality
for Linux guests hosted on a HyperV platform.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-01-20 15:08:21 -08:00
Tejun Heo 6cebb17bee connector: remove lazy workqueue creation
Commit 1a5645bc (connector: create connector workqueue only while
needed once) implements lazy workqueue creation for connector
workqueue.  With cmwq now in place, lazy workqueue creation doesn't
make much sense while adding a lot of complexity.  Remove it and
allocate an ordered workqueue during initialization.

This also removes a call to flush_scheduled_work() which is deprecated
and scheduled to be removed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-24 14:20:01 -07:00
Evgeniy Polyakov f98bfbd78c connector: Delete buggy notification code.
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:57:14PM -0800, Greg KH (gregkh@suse.de) wrote:
> > There are at least two ways to fix it: using a big cannon and a small
> > one. The former way is to disable notification registration, since it is
> > not used by anyone at all. Second way is to check whether calling
> > process is root and its destination group is -1 (kind of priveledged
> > one) before command is dispatched to workqueue.
> 
> Well if no one is using it, removing it makes the most sense, right?
> 
> No objection from me, care to make up a patch either way for this?

Getting it is not used, let's drop support for notifications about
(un)registered events from connector.
Another option was to check credentials on receiving, but we can always
restore it without bugs if needed, but genetlink has a wider code base
and none complained, that userspace can not get notification when some
other clients were (un)registered.

Kudos for Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@suse.de>, who found a bug in the
code.

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-02 15:58:48 -08:00
Philipp Reisner 35a8a3fdcd drbd: moved CN_IDX_DRBD and CN_VAL_DRBD to the right file
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
2009-11-25 17:57:36 +01:00
Philipp Reisner f1489cfb17 connector: Removed the destruct_data callback since it is always kfree_skb()
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>
2009-10-02 10:54:05 -07:00
Philipp Reisner 7069331dbe connector: Provide the sender's credentials to the callback
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>
2009-10-02 10:54:01 -07:00
Philipp Reisner 293500a23f connector: Keep the skb in cn_callback_data
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>
2009-10-02 10:53:58 -07:00
Mike Frysinger 0741241c6b connector: make callback argument type explicit
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>
2009-07-17 10:13:21 -07:00
Jonthan Brassow f5db4af466 dm raid1: add userspace log
This patch contains a device-mapper mirror log module that forwards
requests to userspace for processing.

The structures used for communication between kernel and userspace are
located in include/linux/dm-log-userspace.h.  Due to the frequency,
diversity, and 2-way communication nature of the exchanges between
kernel and userspace, 'connector' was chosen as the interface for
communication.

The first log implementations written in userspace - "clustered-disk"
and "clustered-core" - support clustered shared storage.   A userspace
daemon (in the LVM2 source code repository) uses openAIS/corosync to
process requests in an ordered fashion with the rest of the nodes in the
cluster so as to prevent log state corruption.  Other implementations
with no association to LVM or openAIS/corosync, are certainly possible.

(Imagine if two machines are writing to the same region of a mirror.
They would both mark the region dirty, but you need a cluster-aware
entity that can handle properly marking the region clean when they are
done.  Otherwise, you might clear the region when the first machine is
done, not the second.)

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-06-22 10:12:35 +01:00
Evgeniy Polyakov ce0d9d7255 Staging: dst: core files.
This patch contains DST core files, which introduce
block layer, connector and sysfs registration glue and main headers.

Connector is used for the configuration of the node (its type, address,
device name and so on). Sysfs provides bits of information about running
devices in the following format:

+/*
+ * DST sysfs tree for device called 'storage':
+ *
+ * /sys/bus/dst/devices/storage/
+ * /sys/bus/dst/devices/storage/type : 192.168.4.80:1025
+ * /sys/bus/dst/devices/storage/size : 800
+ * /sys/bus/dst/devices/storage/name : storage
+ */

DST header contains structure definitions and protocol command description.

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:53:32 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker 1a5645bc90 connector: create connector workqueue only while needed once
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>
2009-02-02 23:22:04 -08:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput 00bfddaf7f include of <linux/types.h> is preferred over <asm/types.h>
Impact: fix 15 make headers_check warnings:

include of <linux/types.h> is preferred over <asm/types.h>

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-15 16:39:41 -08:00
Jerome Arbez-Gindre 2c203003f6 connector: add a BlackBoard user to connector
Add a BlackBoard user to connector.  BlackBoard is part of the TSP GPL
sampling framework (http://savannah.nongnu.org/p/tsp)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Signed-off-by: Jerome Arbez-Gindre <jeromearbezgindre@gmail.com>
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>
2008-07-30 09:41:45 -07:00
Li Zefan 78374676ef CONNECTOR: make cn_already_initialized static
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>
2008-02-26 18:42:44 -08:00
Li Zefan 6e32814bc8 [CONNECTOR]: Cleanup struct cn_callback_entry
- '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>
2008-01-28 15:00:40 -08:00
Li Zefan 96a899655e [CONNECTOR]: Cleanup struct cn_queue_dev
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>
2008-01-28 15:00:39 -08:00
Michal Januszewski cc54f46e39 uvesafb: add connector entries
Add connector idx and val constants for v86d and uvesafb.

Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:43:13 -07:00
Michal Januszewski 3d62a44f74 connector: change connector's max message size
Change the maximum message size to 16k to allow transfers of VBE
data blocks from userspace.

Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:43:13 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev cd40b7d398 [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious
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>
2007-10-10 21:15:29 -07:00
Evgeniy Polyakov a240d9f1d8 [CONNECTOR]: Replace delayed work with usual work queue.
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-18 01:53:58 -08:00
David Howells c4028958b6 WorkStruct: make allyesconfig
Fix up for make allyesconfig.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:57:56 +00:00
Evgeniy Polyakov b6043fcab4 [PATCH] w1: Move w1-connector definitions into linux/include/connector.h
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-22 11:22:50 -07:00
Steve French a2653ebab3 [CIFS] Reserve upcall IDX value for CIFS with connector header and add
Kconfig option for CIFS upcall.

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2005-11-10 15:33:38 -08:00
Matt Helsley 9f46080c41 [PATCH] Process Events Connector
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>
2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
Al Viro dd0fc66fb3 [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 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>
2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 17b6988563 [CONNECTOR]: fix sparse gfp nocast warnings
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>
2005-10-04 22:41:16 -07:00
Evgeniy Polyakov acd042bb2d [CONNECTOR]: async connector mode.
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>
2005-09-26 15:06:50 -07:00
Evgeniy Polyakov 7672d0b544 [NET]: Add netlink connector.
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>
2005-09-11 19:15:07 -07:00