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Johannes Berg 3b8bcfd5d3 net: introduce pre-up netdev notifier
NETDEV_UP is called after the device is set UP, but sometimes
it is useful to be able to veto the device UP. Introduce a
new NETDEV_PRE_UP notifier that can be used for exactly this.
The first use case will be cfg80211 denying interfaces to be
set UP if the device is known to be rfkill'ed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03 14:05:12 -04:00
Johannes Berg 8fc0fee092 cfg80211: use key size constants
Instead of hardcoding the key length for validation, use the
constants Zhu Yi recently added and add one for AES_CMAC too.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03 14:05:10 -04:00
Johannes Berg e535c7566e mac80211: deprecate conf.beacon_int properly
Ivo has updated the driver to no longer use the change flag,
so we can remove that, but rt2x00 and ath5k still use the
actual value so let's mark it as deprecated too.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03 14:05:09 -04:00
Eric Dumazet e5b9215ef9 net: skb cleanup
Can remove anonymous union now it has one field.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03 02:51:05 -07:00
Eric Dumazet adf30907d6 net: skb->dst accessors
Define three accessors to get/set dst attached to a skb

struct dst_entry *skb_dst(const struct sk_buff *skb)

void skb_dst_set(struct sk_buff *skb, struct dst_entry *dst)

void skb_dst_drop(struct sk_buff *skb)
This one should replace occurrences of :
dst_release(skb->dst)
skb->dst = NULL;

Delete skb->dst field

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03 02:51:04 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 511c3f92ad net: skb->rtable accessor
Define skb_rtable(const struct sk_buff *skb) accessor to get rtable from skb

Delete skb->rtable field

Setting rtable is not allowed, just set dst instead as rtable is an alias.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03 02:51:02 -07:00
Eric Dumazet dfbf97f3ac net: add _skb_dst opaque field
struct sk_buff uses one union to define dst and rtable fields.

We want to replace direct access to these pointers by accessors.

First patch adds a new "unsigned long _skb_dst;" opaque field
in this union.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03 02:51:01 -07:00
David S. Miller b2f8f7525c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/forcedeth.c
2009-06-03 02:43:41 -07:00
Nivedita Singhvi f771bef980 ipv4: New multicast-all socket option
After some discussion offline with Christoph Lameter and David Stevens
regarding multicast behaviour in Linux, I'm submitting a slightly
modified patch from the one Christoph submitted earlier.

This patch provides a new socket option IP_MULTICAST_ALL.

In this case, default behaviour is _unchanged_ from the current
Linux standard. The socket option is set by default to provide
original behaviour. Sockets wishing to receive data only from
multicast groups they join explicitly will need to clear this
socket option.

Signed-off-by: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter<cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-02 00:45:24 -07:00
Brian Haley 56d417b12e IPv6: Add 'autoconf' and 'disable_ipv6' module parameters
Add 'autoconf' and 'disable_ipv6' parameters to the IPv6 module.

The first controls if IPv6 addresses are autoconfigured from
prefixes received in Router Advertisements.  The IPv6 loopback
(::1) and link-local addresses are still configured.

The second controls if IPv6 addresses are desired at all.  No
IPv6 addresses will be added to any interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-01 03:07:33 -07:00
Wolfgang Grandegger d1a277c584 can: sja1000: generic OF platform bus driver
This patch adds a generic driver for SJA1000 chips on the OpenFirmware
platform bus found on embedded PowerPC systems. You need a SJA1000 node
definition in your flattened device tree source (DTS) file similar to:

  can@3,100 {
  	compatible = "nxp,sja1000";
  	reg = <3 0x100 0x80>;
  	interrupts = <2 0>;
  	interrupt-parent = <&mpic>;
  	nxp,external-clock-frequency = <16000000>;
  };

See also Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/can/sja1000.txt.

CC: devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-01 02:53:35 -07:00
Jiri Pirko ccffad25b5 net: convert unicast addr list
This patch converts unicast address list to standard list_head using
previously introduced struct netdev_hw_addr. It also relaxes the
locking. Original spinlock (still used for multicast addresses) is not
needed and is no longer used for a protection of this list. All
reading and writing takes place under rtnl (with no changes).

I also removed a possibility to specify the length of the address
while adding or deleting unicast address. It's always dev->addr_len.

The convertion touched especially e1000 and ixgbe codes when the
change is not so trivial.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>

 drivers/net/bnx2.c               |   13 +--
 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c   |   24 +++--
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c |   14 ++--
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h |    4 +-
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c   |    6 +-
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_type.h   |    4 +-
 drivers/net/macvlan.c            |   11 +-
 drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c        |   11 +-
 drivers/net/niu.c                |    7 +-
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c         |    7 +-
 drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c  |    6 +-
 drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c         |   16 ++--
 include/linux/netdevice.h        |   18 ++--
 net/8021q/vlan.c                 |    4 +-
 net/8021q/vlan_dev.c             |   10 +-
 net/core/dev.c                   |  195 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 net/dsa/slave.c                  |   10 +-
 net/packet/af_packet.c           |    4 +-
 18 files changed, 227 insertions(+), 137 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-29 22:12:32 -07:00
Jiri Pirko 5d4e039b2c bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properly in bridge -try4.3
[PATCH net-next] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properly in bridge -try4.3

(updated)
changes v4.2 -> v4.3
- memcpy the address always, not just in case it differs from master->dev_addr
- compare_ether_addr_64bits() is not used so there is no direct need to make new
  header file (I think it would be good to have bond stuff in separate file
  anyway).

changes v4.1 -> v4.2
- use skb->pkt_type == PACKET_HOST compare rather then comparing skb dest addr
  against skb->dev->dev_addr

The problem is described in following bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487763

Basically here's what's going on. In every mode, bonding interface uses the same
mac address for all enslaved devices (except fail_over_mac). Only balance-alb
will simultaneously use multiple MAC addresses across different slaves. When you
put this kind of bond device into a bridge it will only add one of mac adresses
into a hash list of mac addresses, say X. This mac address is marked as local.
But this bonding interface also has mac address Y. Now then packet arrives with
destination address Y, this address is not marked as local and the packed looks
like it needs to be forwarded. This packet is then lost which is wrong.

Notice that interfaces can be added and removed from bond while it is in bridge.

***
When the multiple addresses for bridge port approach failed to solve this issue
due to STP I started to think other way to solve this. I returned to previous
solution but tweaked one.

This patch solves the situation in the bonding without touching bridge code.
For every incoming frame to bonding the destination address is compared to
current address of the slave device from which tha packet came. If these two
match destination address is replaced by mac address of the master. This address
is known by bridge so it is delivered properly. Note that the comparsion is not
made directly, it's used skb->pkt_type == PACKET_HOST instead. This is "set"
previously in eth_type_trans().

I experimentally tried that this works as good as searching through the slave
list (v4 of this patch).

Jirka

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-29 01:51:23 -07:00
David S. Miller 3f1f39c42b Merge branch 'linux-2.6.31.y' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/inaky/wimax 2009-05-29 01:41:32 -07:00
Inaky Perez-Gonzalez 7481806dcf wimax: a new API call was added, increment minor protocol version number
As the 'state_get' API call was added, we need to increase the minor
protocol version number so applications that depend on the can check
it's presence.

Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
2009-05-28 18:02:32 -07:00
Paulius Zaleckas 7f0333eb2f wimax: Add netlink interface to get device state
wimax connection manager / daemon has to know what is current
state of the device. Previously it was only possible to get
notification whet state has changed.

Note:

 By mistake, the new generic netlink's number for
 WIMAX_GNL_OP_STATE_GET was declared inserting into the existing list
 of API calls, not appending; thus, it'd break existing API.

 Fixed by Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com> by moving to
 the tail, where we add to the interface, not modify the interface.

 Thanks to Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> for catching this.

Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
2009-05-28 18:02:20 -07:00
David S. Miller 4d3383d0ad Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-2.6 2009-05-27 15:51:25 -07:00
Jiri Pirko 385a154cac net: correct a comment for the final #endif
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27 15:48:07 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 1ce8e7b57b net: ALIGN/PTR_ALIGN cleanup in alloc_netdev_mq()/netdev_priv()
Use ALIGN() and PTR_ALIGN() macros instead of handcoding them.

Get rid of NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST ugly define

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27 15:47:06 -07:00
Herbert Xu a5b1cf288d gro: Avoid unnecessary comparison after skb_gro_header
For the overwhelming majority of cases, skb_gro_header's return
value cannot be NULL.  Yet we must check it because of its current
form.  This patch splits it up into multiple functions in order
to avoid this.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27 03:26:01 -07:00
Herbert Xu 7489594cb2 gro: Optimise length comparison in skb_gro_header
By caching frag0_len, we can avoid checking both frag0 and the
length separately in skb_gro_header.  This helps as skb_gro_header
is called four times per packet which amounts to a few million
times at 10Gb/s.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27 03:26:01 -07:00
Herbert Xu 78d3fd0b7d gro: Only use skb_gro_header for completely non-linear packets
Currently skb_gro_header is used for packets which put the hardware
header in skb->data with the rest in frags.  Since the drivers that
need this optimisation all provide completely non-linear packets,
we can gain extra optimisations by only performing the frag0
optimisation for completely non-linear packets.

In particular, we can simply test frag0 (instead of skb_headlen)
to see whether the optimisation is in force.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27 03:25:57 -07:00
Herbert Xu 78a478d0ef gro: Inline skb_gro_header and cache frag0 virtual address
The function skb_gro_header is called four times per packet which
quickly adds up at 10Gb/s.  This patch inlines it to allow better
optimisations.

Some architectures perform multiplication for page_address, which
is done by each skb_gro_header invocation.  This patch caches that
value in skb->cb to avoid the unnecessary multiplications.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-27 03:25:55 -07:00
David S. Miller 8e401eccd3 phy: Eliminate references to BUS_ID_SIZE.
Just use the constant 20 to keep things working.

If someone is so motivated, this can be converted over to
dynamic strings.  I tried and it's a lot of work.

But for now this is good enough.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-26 21:16:25 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 08baf56108 net: txq_trans_update() helper
We would like to get rid of netdev->trans_start = jiffies; that about all net
drivers have to use in their start_xmit() function, and use txq->trans_start
instead.

This can be done generically in core network, as suggested by David.

Some devices, (particularly loopback) dont need trans_start update, because
they dont have transmit watchdog. We could add a new device flag, or rely
on fact that txq->tran_start can be updated is txq->xmit_lock_owner is
different than -1. Use a helper function to hide our choice.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25 22:58:01 -07:00
Jozsef Kadlecsik bfcaa50270 netfilter: nf_ct_tcp: fix accepting invalid RST segments
Robert L Mathews discovered that some clients send evil TCP RST segments,
which are accepted by netfilter conntrack but discarded by the
destination. Thus the conntrack entry is destroyed but the destination
retransmits data until timeout.

The same technique, i.e. sending properly crafted RST segments, can easily
be used to bypass connlimit/connbytes based restrictions (the sample
script written by Robert can be found in the netfilter mailing list
archives).

The patch below adds a new flag and new field to struct ip_ct_tcp_state so
that checking RST segments can be made more strict and thus TCP conntrack
can catch the invalid ones: the RST segment is accepted only if its
sequence number higher than or equal to the highest ack we seen from the
other direction. (The last_ack field cannot be reused because it is used
to catch resent packets.)

Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-05-25 17:23:15 +02:00
Alexander Beregalov e3804cbebb net: remove COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPS
All drivers are already converted to new net_device_ops API
and nobody uses old API anymore.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25 01:53:53 -07:00
Andreas Eversberg daebafed7f mISDN: Added PCI ID for new Junghanns.net Single E1 cards.
The new ID is validated by Cologne Chip.
LEDs control is also supported.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Eversberg <andreas@eversberg.eu>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25 00:56:56 -07:00
Karsten Keil eac74af9b5 mISDN: Cleanup debug messages
This patch make debug printk's KERN_DEBUG and also fix some
codestyle issues.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25 00:55:45 -07:00
Andreas Eversberg 7245a2fe3c mISDN: Add PCI ID for Junghanns 8S card
new id for HFC-8S

Signed-off-by: Andreas Eversberg <andreas@eversberg.eu>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25 00:55:45 -07:00
Karsten Keil db9bb63a1b mISDN: Add XHFC support for embedded Speech-Design board to hfcmulti
New version without emulating arch specific stuff for the other
architectures, the special IO and init functions for the 8xx
microcontroller are in a separate include file.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Eversberg <andreas@eversberg.eu>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25 00:55:30 -07:00
Andreas Eversberg e73f6b2260 mISDN: Added layer-1-hold feature
Add IMHOLD_L1 ioctl.
The feature will be disabled on closing.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Eversberg <andreas@eversberg.eu>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25 00:51:33 -07:00
Andreas Eversberg 7cfa153dd7 mISDN: Echo canceler now gets delay information from hardware
Added tx-fifo information for calculation of current delay to sync tx and rx
streams for echo canceler.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Eversberg <andreas@eversberg.eu>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25 00:51:31 -07:00
Andreas Eversberg 7df3bb8f59 mISDN: Add watchdog functionality to hfcmulti driver
This patch was made by Titus Moldovan and provides IOCTL functions for enabling
and disabling the controller's built in watchdog. The use is optional.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Eversberg <andreas@eversberg.eu>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25 00:51:18 -07:00
David S. Miller 45ea4ea2af Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2009-05-25 00:38:24 -07:00
Zhu Yi e31a16d6f6 wireless: move some utility functions from mac80211 to cfg80211
The patch moves some utility functions from mac80211 to cfg80211.
Because these functions are doing generic 802.11 operations so they
are not mac80211 specific. The moving allows some fullmac drivers
to be also benefit from these utility functions.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-22 14:06:02 -04:00
Michał Mirosław a7b11d7382 genetlink: Introduce genl_register_family_with_ops()
This introduces genl_register_family_with_ops() that registers a genetlink
family along with operations from a table. This is used to kill copy'n'paste
occurrences in following patches.

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-21 16:50:22 -07:00
Neil Horman 4ea7e38696 dropmon: add ability to detect when hardware dropsrxpackets
Patch to add the ability to detect drops in hardware interfaces via dropwatch.
Adds a tracepoint to net_rx_action to signal everytime a napi instance is
polled.  The dropmon code then periodically checks to see if the rx_frames
counter has changed, and if so, adds a drop notification to the netlink
protocol, using the reserved all-0's vector to indicate the drop location was in
hardware, rather than somewhere in the code.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

 include/linux/net_dropmon.h |    8 ++
 include/trace/napi.h        |   11 +++
 net/core/dev.c              |    5 +
 net/core/drop_monitor.c     |  124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 net/core/net-traces.c       |    4 +
 net/core/netpoll.c          |    2
 6 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-21 16:50:21 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman d95ed9275e af_packet: Teach to listen for multiple unicast addresses.
The the PACKET_ADD_MEMBERSHIP and the PACKET_DROP_MEMBERSHIP setsockopt
calls for af_packet already has all of the infrastructure needed to subscribe
to multiple mac addresses.  All that is missing is a flag to say that
the address we want to listen on is a unicast address.

So introduce PACKET_MR_UNICAST and wire it up to dev_unicast_add and
dev_unicast_delete.

Additionally I noticed that errors from dev_mc_add were not propagated
from packet_dev_mc so fix that.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-21 15:13:39 -07:00
Rami Rosen 04af8cf6f3 net: Remove unused parameter from fill method in fib_rules_ops.
The netlink message header (struct nlmsghdr) is an unused parameter in
fill method of fib_rules_ops struct.  This patch removes this
parameter from this method and fixes the places where this method is
called.

(include/net/fib_rules.h)

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-20 17:26:23 -07:00
Johannes Berg cce4c77b87 mac80211: fix kernel-doc
Moving information from config_interface to bss_info_changed
removed struct ieee80211_if_conf which the documentation still
refers to, additionally there's one kernel-doc description too
much and one other missing, fix all this.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20 14:46:32 -04:00
Johannes Berg e3da574a0d cfg80211: allow wext to remove keys that don't exist
Some applications using wireless extensions expect to be able to
remove a key that doesn't exist. One example is wpa_supplicant
which doesn't actually change behaviour when running into an
error while trying to do that, but it prints an error message
which users interpret as wpa_supplicant having problems.

The safe thing to do is not change the behaviour of wireless
extensions any more, so when the driver reports -ENOENT let
the wext bridge code return success to userspace. To guarantee
this, also document that drivers should return -ENOENT when the
key doesn't exist.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20 14:46:30 -04:00
David Kilroy cf5aa2f1f3 cfg80211: mark wiphy->privid as pointer to const
This allows drivers to use a const pointer as the privid without a cast.

Signed-off-by: David Kilroy <kilroyd@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20 14:46:27 -04:00
David Kilroy 3dcf670baf cfg80211: mark ops as pointer to const
This allows drivers to mark their cfg80211_ops tables const.

Signed-off-by: David Kilroy <kilroyd@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20 14:46:27 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 689da1b3b8 wireless: rename IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_FAT_* to HT40-/+
This is more consistent with our nl80211 naming convention
for HT40-/+.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20 14:46:22 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 038659e7c6 cfg80211: Process regulatory max bandwidth checks for HT40
We are not correctly listening to the regulatory max bandwidth
settings. To actually make use of it we need to redesign things
a bit. This patch does the work for that. We do this to so we
can obey to regulatory rules accordingly for use of HT40.

We end up dealing with HT40 by having two passes for each channel.

The first check will see if a 20 MHz channel fits into the channel's
center freq on a given frequency range. We check for a 20 MHz
banwidth channel as that is the maximum an individual channel
will use, at least for now. The first pass will go ahead and
check if the regulatory rule for that given center of frequency
allows 40 MHz bandwidths and we use this to determine whether
or not the channel supports HT40 or not. So to support HT40 you'll
need at a regulatory rule that allows you to use 40 MHz channels
but you're channel must also be enabled and support 20 MHz by itself.

The second pass is done after we do the regulatory checks over
an device's supported channel list. On each channel we'll check
if the control channel and the extension both:

 o exist
 o are enabled
 o regulatory allows 40 MHz bandwidth on its frequency range

This work allows allows us to idependently check for HT40- and
HT40+.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20 14:46:22 -04:00
Sascha Hlusiak 645069299a sit: stateless autoconf for isatap
be sent periodically. The rs_delay can be speficied when adding the
PRL entry and defaults to 15 minutes.

The RS is sent from every link local adress that's assigned to the
tunnel interface. It's directed to the (guessed) linklocal address
of the router and is sent through the tunnel.

Better: send to ff02::2 encapsuled in unicast directed to router-v4.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hlusiak <contact@saschahlusiak.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-19 16:02:02 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 93f154b594 net: release dst entry in dev_hard_start_xmit()
One point of contention in high network loads is the dst_release() performed
when a transmited skb is freed. This is because NIC tx completion calls
dev_kree_skb() long after original call to dev_queue_xmit(skb).

CPU cache is cold and the atomic op in dst_release() stalls. On SMP, this is
quite visible if one CPU is 100% handling softirqs for a network device,
since dst_clone() is done by other cpus, involving cache line ping pongs.

It seems right place to release dst is in dev_hard_start_xmit(), for most
devices but ones that are virtual, and some exceptions.

David Miller suggested to define a new device flag, set in alloc_netdev_mq()
(so that most devices set it at init time), and carefuly unset in devices
which dont want a NULL skb->dst in their ndo_start_xmit().

List of devices that must clear this flag is :

- loopback device, because it calls netif_rx() and quoting Patrick :
    "ip_route_input() doesn't accept loopback addresses, so loopback packets
     already need to have a dst_entry attached."
- appletalk/ipddp.c : needs skb->dst in its xmit function

- And all devices that call again dev_queue_xmit() from their xmit function
(as some classifiers need skb->dst) : bonding, vlan, macvlan, eql, ifb, hdlc_fr

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18 22:19:19 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 690cc3ffe3 syscall: Implement a convinience function restart_syscall
Currently when we have a signal pending we have the functionality
to restart that the current system call.  There are other cases
such as nasty lock ordering issues where it makes sense to have
a simple fix that uses try lock and restarts the system call.
Buying time to figure out how to rework the locking strategy.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18 22:15:56 -07:00
Johann Baudy 69e3c75f4d net: TX_RING and packet mmap
New packet socket feature that makes packet socket more efficient for
transmission.

- It reduces number of system call through a PACKET_TX_RING mechanism,
  based on PACKET_RX_RING (Circular buffer allocated in kernel space
  which is mmapped from user space).

- It minimizes CPU copy using fragmented SKB (almost zero copy).

Signed-off-by: Johann Baudy <johann.baudy@gnu-log.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18 22:11:22 -07:00