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498 Commits

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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 4bedb45203 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce udp_hdr(), remove skb->h.uh
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:22 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo ea2ae17d64 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_transport_offset()
For the quite common 'skb->h.raw - skb->data' sequence.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:16 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo badff6d01a [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_transport_header(skb)
For the common, open coded 'skb->h.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can
later turn skb->h.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in
64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit.

This one touches just the most simple cases:

skb->h.raw = skb->data;
skb->h.raw = {skb_push|[__]skb_pull}()

The next ones will handle the slightly more "complex" cases.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:15 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 0660e03f6b [SK_BUFF]: Introduce ipv6_hdr(), remove skb->nh.ipv6h
Now the skb->nh union has just one member, .raw, i.e. it is just like the
skb->mac union, strange, no? I'm just leaving it like that till the transport
layer is done with, when we'll rename skb->mac.raw to skb->mac_header (or
->mac_header_offset?), ditto for ->{h,nh}.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:14 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo d0a92be05e [SK_BUFF]: Introduce arp_hdr(), remove skb->nh.arph
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:12 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo eddc9ec53b [SK_BUFF]: Introduce ip_hdr(), remove skb->nh.iph
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:10 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 0e1256ffd1 [NET]: show bound packet types
Show what protocols are bound to what packet types in /proc/net/ptype
Uses kallsyms to decode function pointers if possible.
Example:
	Type Device      Function
	ALL  eth1     packet_rcv_spkt+0x0
	0800          ip_rcv+0x0
	0806          arp_rcv+0x0
	86dd          :ipv6:ipv6_rcv+0x0

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:04 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger f690808e17 [NET]: make seq_operations const
The seq_file operations stuff can be marked constant to
get it out of dirty cache.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:03 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 6b2bedc3a6 [NET]: network dev read_mostly
For Eric, mark packet type and network device watermarks
as read mostly.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:02 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo d56f90a7c9 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_network_header()
For the places where we need a pointer to the network header, it is still legal
to touch skb->nh.raw directly if just adding to, subtracting from or setting it
to another layer header.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:59 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo bbe735e424 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_network_offset()
For the quite common 'skb->nh.raw - skb->data' sequence.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:58 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo e2d1bca7e6 [SK_BUFF]: Use skb_reset_network_header in skb_push cases
skb_push updates and returns skb->data, so we can just call
skb_reset_network_header after the call to skb_push.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:47 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo c1d2bbe1cd [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_network_header(skb)
For the common, open coded 'skb->nh.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can
later turn skb->nh.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in
64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit.

This one touches just the most simple case, next will handle the slightly more
"complex" cases.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:46 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 98e399f82a [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_mac_header()
For the places where we need a pointer to the mac header, it is still legal to
touch skb->mac.raw directly if just adding to, subtracting from or setting it
to another layer header.

This one also converts some more cases to skb_reset_mac_header() that my
regex missed as it had no spaces before nor after '=', ugh.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:41 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 459a98ed88 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_mac_header(skb)
For the common, open coded 'skb->mac.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can
later turn skb->mac.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in
64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit.

This one touches just the most simple case, next will handle the slightly more
"complex" cases.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:32 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 92f37fd2ee [NET]: Adding SO_TIMESTAMPNS / SCM_TIMESTAMPNS support
Now that network timestamps use ktime_t infrastructure, we can add a new
SOL_SOCKET sockopt  SO_TIMESTAMPNS.

This command is similar to SO_TIMESTAMP, but permits transmission of
a 'timespec struct' instead of a 'timeval struct' control message.
(nanosecond resolution instead of microsecond)

Control message is labelled SCM_TIMESTAMPNS instead of SCM_TIMESTAMP

A socket cannot mix SO_TIMESTAMP and SO_TIMESTAMPNS : the two modes are
mutually exclusive.

sock_recv_timestamp() became too big to be fully inlined so I added a
__sock_recv_timestamp() helper function.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:21 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 6dea649a8a [NET]: New sysctls should use __read_mostly tags
net_msg_warn should be placed in the read_mostly section, to avoid
performance problems on SMP

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:19 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 6f05f62971 [NET]: deinline some functions
Several functions are marked inline or forced inline, but it
would be better to let the compiler decide.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:14 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 1ac58ee37f [WIRELESS]: use ARRAY_SIZE()
Use ARRAY_SIZE() macro now.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:10 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger e71a4783aa [NET] core: whitespace cleanup
Fix whitespace around keywords. Fix indentation especially of switch
statements.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:09 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger a2a316fd06 [NET]: Replace CONFIG_NET_DEBUG with sysctl.
Covert network warning messages from a compile time to runtime choice.
Removes kernel config option and replaces it with new /proc/sys/net/core/warnings.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:05 -07:00
Eric Dumazet ae40eb1ef3 [NET]: Introduce SIOCGSTAMPNS ioctl to get timestamps with nanosec resolution
Now network timestamps use ktime_t infrastructure, we can add a new
ioctl() SIOCGSTAMPNS command to get timestamps in 'struct timespec'.
User programs can thus access to nanosecond resolution.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:04 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 724800d61b [NET] CORE: Use htons() where appropriate.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:23:55 -07:00
Herbert Xu 759e5d0064 [UDP]: Clean up UDP-Lite receive checksum
This patch eliminates some duplicate code for the verification of
receive checksums between UDP-Lite and UDP.  It does this by
introducing __skb_checksum_complete_head which is identical to
__skb_checksum_complete_head apart from the fact that it takes
a length parameter rather than computing the first skb->len bytes.

As a result UDP-Lite will be able to use hardware checksum offload
for packets which do not use partial coverage checksums.  It also
means that UDP-Lite loopback no longer does unnecessary checksum
verification.

If any NICs start support UDP-Lite this would also start working
automatically.

This patch removes the assumption that msg_flags has MSG_TRUNC clear
upon entry in recvmsg.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:23:51 -07:00
Eric Dumazet b7aa0bf70c [NET]: convert network timestamps to ktime_t
We currently use a special structure (struct skb_timeval) and plain
'struct timeval' to store packet timestamps in sk_buffs and struct
sock.

This has some drawbacks :
- Fixed resolution of micro second.
- Waste of space on 64bit platforms where sizeof(struct timeval)=16

I suggest using ktime_t that is a nice abstraction of high resolution
time services, currently capable of nanosecond resolution.

As sizeof(ktime_t) is 8 bytes, using ktime_t in 'struct sock' permits
a 8 byte shrink of this structure on 64bit architectures. Some other
structures also benefit from this size reduction (struct ipq in
ipv4/ip_fragment.c, struct frag_queue in ipv6/reassembly.c, ...)

Once this ktime infrastructure adopted, we can more easily provide
nanosecond resolution on top of it. (ioctl SIOCGSTAMPNS and/or
SO_TIMESTAMPNS/SCM_TIMESTAMPNS)

Note : this patch includes a bug correction in
compat_sock_get_timestamp() where a "err = 0;" was missing (so this
syscall returned -ENOENT instead of 0)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
CC: John find <linux.kernel@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:23:34 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 39df232f1a [PKTGEN]: fix device name handling
Since devices can change name and other wierdness, don't hold onto
a copy of device name, instead use pointer to output device.

Fix a couple of leaks in error handling path as well.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:23:31 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger d5f1ce9a5e [PKTGEN]: don't use __constant_htonl()
The existing htonl() macro is smart enough to do the same code as
using __constant_htonl() and it looks cleaner.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:23:30 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 5fa6fc76f5 [PKTGEN]: use random32
Can use random32() now.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:23:29 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 25c4e53a4c [PKTGEN]: use pr_debug
Remove private debug macro and replace with standard version

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:23:28 -07:00
Eric Dumazet fa438ccfdf [NET]: Keep sk_backlog near sk_lock
sk_backlog is a critical field of struct sock. (known famous words)

It is (ab)used in hot paths, in particular in release_sock(), tcp_recvmsg(),
tcp_v4_rcv(), sk_receive_skb().

It really makes sense to place it next to sk_lock, because sk_backlog is only
used after sk_lock locked (and thus memory cache line in L1 cache). This
should reduce cache misses and sk_lock acquisition time.

(In theory, we could only move the head pointer near sk_lock, and leaving tail
far away, because 'tail' is normally not so hot, but keep it simple :) )

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:23:27 -07:00
Pavel Emelianov c2ecba7171 [NET]: Set a separate lockdep class for neighbour table's proxy_queue
Otherwise the following calltrace will lead to a wrong
lockdep warning:

  neigh_proxy_process()
    `- lock(neigh_table->proxy_queue.lock);
  arp_redo /* via tbl->proxy_redo */
  arp_process
  neigh_event_ns
  neigh_update
  skb_queue_purge
    `- lock(neighbor->arp_queue.lock);

This is not a deadlock actually, as neighbor table's proxy_queue
and the neighbor's arp_queue are different queues.

Lockdep thinks there is a deadlock as both queues are initialized
with skb_queue_head_init() and thus have a common class.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-17 13:13:31 -07:00
Aubrey.Li 5e7d7fa573 [NET]: Fix UDP checksum issue in net poll mode.
In net poll mode, the current checksum function doesn't consider the
kind of packet which is padded to reach a specific minimum length. I
believe that's the problem causing my test case failed. The following
patch fixed this issue.

Signed-off-by: Aubrey.Li <aubreylee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-17 13:13:26 -07:00
Herbert Xu b4dfa0b1fb [NET]: Get rid of alloc_skb_from_cache
Since this was added originally for Xen, and Xen has recently (~2.6.18)
stopped using this function, we can safely get rid of it.  Good timing
too since this function has started to bit rot.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-17 13:13:16 -07:00
Andrew Morton 09fe3ef46c [PKTGEN]: Add try_to_freeze()
The pktgen module prevents suspend-to-disk.  Fix.

Acked-by: "Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-12 14:45:32 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 927498217c [PATCH] net: Ignore sysfs network device rename bugs.
The generic networking code ensures that no two networking devices
have the same name, so  there is no time except when sysfs has
implementation bugs that device_rename when called from
dev_change_name will fail.

The current error handling for errors from device_rename in
dev_change_name is wrong and results in an unusable and unrecoverable
network device if device_rename is happens to return an error.

This patch removes the buggy error handling.  Which confines the mess
when device_rename hits a problem to sysfs, instead of propagating it
the rest of the network stack.  Making linux a little more robust.

Without this patch you can observe what happens when sysfs has a bug
when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set and you attempt to rename
a real network device to a name like (broken_parity_status, device,
modalias, power, resource2, subsystem_vendor, class,  driver, irq,
msi_bus, resource, subsystem, uevent, config, enable, local_cpus,
numa_node, resource0, subsystem_device, vendor)

Greg has a patch that fixes the sysfs bugs but he doesn't trust it
for a 2.6.21 timeframe.  This patch which just ignores errors should
be safe and it keeps the system from going completely wacky.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-04 08:51:52 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse 83886b6b63 [NET]: Change "not found" return value for rule lookup
This changes the "not found" error return for the lookup
function to -ESRCH so that it can be distinguished from
the case where a rule or route resulting in -ENETUNREACH
has been found during the search.

It fixes a bug where if DECnet was compiled with routing
support, but no routes were added to the routing table,
it was failing to fall back to endnode routing.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Caulfield <pcaulfie@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-02 13:30:51 -07:00
Patrick McHardy c01003c205 [IFB]: Fix crash on input device removal
The input_device pointer is not refcounted, which means the device may
disappear while packets are queued, causing a crash when ifb passes packets
with a stale skb->dev pointer to netif_rx().

Fix by storing the interface index instead and do a lookup where neccessary.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-29 11:46:52 -07:00
Jeff Garzik a9c87a10db Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into upstream-fixes 2007-03-28 02:21:18 -04:00
Jean Tourrilhes c2805fbb86 [PATCH] WE-22 : prevent information leak on 64 bit
Johannes Berg discovered that kernel space was leaking to
userspace on 64 bit platform. He made a first patch to fix that. This
is an improved version of his patch.

Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-03-27 14:10:26 -04:00
Patrick McHardy 035832a280 [NET_SCHED]: Fix ingress locking
Ingress queueing uses a seperate lock for serializing enqueue operations,
but fails to properly protect itself against concurrent changes to the
qdisc tree. Use queue_lock for now since the real fix it quite intrusive.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-25 18:48:12 -07:00
Alexey Kuznetsov ecbb416939 [NET]: Fix neighbour destructor handling.
->neigh_destructor() is killed (not used), replaced with
->neigh_cleanup(), which is called when neighbor entry goes to dead
state. At this point everything is still valid: neigh->dev,
neigh->parms etc.

The device should guarantee that dead neighbor entries (neigh->dead !=
0) do not get private part initialized, otherwise nobody will cleanup
it.

I think this is enough for ipoib which is the only user of this thing.
Initialization private part of neighbor entries happens in ipib
start_xmit routine, which is not reached when device is down.  But it
would be better to add explicit test for neigh->dead in any case.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-25 18:48:01 -07:00
Thomas Graf e1701c68c1 [NET]: Fix fib_rules compatibility breakage
Based upon a patch from Patrick McHardy.

The fib_rules netlink attribute policy introduced in 2.6.19 broke
userspace compatibilty. When specifying a rule with "from all"
or "to all", iproute adds a zero byte long netlink attribute,
but the policy requires all addresses to have a size equal to
sizeof(struct in_addr)/sizeof(struct in6_addr), resulting in a
validation error.

Check attribute length of FRA_SRC/FRA_DST in the generic framework
by letting the family specific rules implementation provide the
length of an address. Report an error if address length is non
zero but no address attribute is provided. Fix actual bug by
checking address length for non-zero instead of relying on
availability of attribute.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-25 18:48:00 -07:00
Dave Jones b6f99a2119 [NET]: fix up misplaced inlines.
Turning up the warnings on gcc makes it emit warnings
about the placement of 'inline' in function declarations.
Here's everything that was under net/

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-22 12:27:49 -07:00
Patrick McHardy ec25615b9d [NET]: Fix fib_rules dump race
fib_rules_dump needs to use list_for_each_entry_rcu to protect against
concurrent changes to the rules list.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-22 12:24:38 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 3e6b3b2e34 [NET]: Copy mac_len in skb_clone() as well
ANK says: "It is rarely used, that's wy it was not noticed.
But in the places, where it is used, it should be disaster."

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-16 15:00:46 -07:00
Johannes Berg 1e51f9513e [NET]: Fix compat_sock_common_getsockopt typo.
This patch fixes a typo in compat_sock_common_getsockopt.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-06 13:44:06 -08:00
Patrick McHardy b08d5840d2 [NET]: Fix kfree(skb)
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-28 09:42:14 -08:00
Jeff Garzik f630fe2817 Merge branch 'master' into upstream 2007-02-17 15:11:43 -05:00
Jeff Garzik 48c871c1f6 Merge branch 'gfar' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc into upstream 2007-02-17 15:09:59 -05:00
Eric W. Biederman 0b4d414714 [PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl
The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name.  Which is
pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.

I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
duplicate sysctl entries.

So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
enhancments harder.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00