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authorDenis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>2007-10-11 00:15:29 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2007-10-11 00:15:29 -0400
commitcd40b7d3983c708aabe3d3008ec64ffce56d33b0 (patch)
tree0d6fe9cfd2f03fdeee126e317d4bfb145afc458d /include/linux/netlink.h
parentaed815601f3f95281ab3a01f7e2cbe1bd54285a0 (diff)
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netlink.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netlink.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h
index 7b552b6c2c19..7c1f3b1d2ee5 100644
--- a/include/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ struct netlink_skb_parms
175 175
176extern struct sock *netlink_kernel_create(struct net *net, 176extern struct sock *netlink_kernel_create(struct net *net,
177 int unit,unsigned int groups, 177 int unit,unsigned int groups,
178 void (*input)(struct sock *sk, int len), 178 void (*input)(struct sk_buff *skb),
179 struct mutex *cb_mutex, 179 struct mutex *cb_mutex,
180 struct module *module); 180 struct module *module);
181extern int netlink_change_ngroups(struct sock *sk, unsigned int groups); 181extern int netlink_change_ngroups(struct sock *sk, unsigned int groups);