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* [PATCH] aio: revert lock_kiocb()Zach Brown2005-10-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | lock_kiocb() was introduced to serialize retrying and cancellation. In the process of doing so it tried to sleep waiting for KIF_LOCKED while holding the ctx_lock spinlock. Recent fixes have ensured that multiple concurrent retries won't be attempted for a given iocb. Cancel has other problems and has no significant in-tree users that have been complaining about it. So for the immediate future we'll revert sleeping with the lock held and will address proper cancellation and retry serialization in the future. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] rcu: keep rcu callback event counterEric Dumazet2005-10-17
| | | | | | | | | This makes call_rcu() keep track of how many events there are on the RCU list, and cause a reschedule event when the list gets too long. This helps keep RCU event lists down. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] list: add missing rcu_dereference on first elementHerbert Xu2005-10-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It seems that all the list_*_rcu primitives are missing a memory barrier on the very first dereference. For example, #define list_for_each_rcu(pos, head) \ for (pos = (head)->next; prefetch(pos->next), pos != (head); \ pos = rcu_dereference(pos->next)) It will go something like: pos = (head)->next prefetch(pos->next) pos != (head) do stuff We're missing a barrier here. pos = rcu_dereference(pos->next) fetch pos->next barrier given by rcu_dereference(pos->next) store pos Without the missing barrier, the pos->next value may turn out to be stale. In fact, if "do stuff" were also dereferencing pos and relying on list_for_each_rcu to provide the barrier then it may also break. So here is a patch to make sure that we have a barrier for the first element in the list. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH]: highest_possible_processor_id() has to be a macroAl Viro2005-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ... otherwise, things like alpha and sparc64 break and break badly. They define cpu_possible_map to something else in smp.h *AFTER* having included cpumask.h. If that puppy is a macro, expansion will happen at the actual caller, when we'd already seen #define cpu_possible_map ... and we will get the right thing used. As an inline helper it will be tokenized before we get to that define and that's it; no matter what we define later, it won't affect anything. We get modules with dependency on cpu_possible_map instead of the right symbol (phys_cpu_present_map in case of sparc64), or outright link errors if they are built-in. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] Fix copy-and-paste error in BSD accountingTim Schmielau2005-10-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | Fix copy and paste error in jiffies_to_AHZ conversion which leads to wrong BSD accounting information on alpha and ia64 when CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 is turned on. Also update comment to match reorganised header files. Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [NETFILTER]: Fix OOPSes on machines with discontiguous cpu numbering.David S. Miller2005-10-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Original patch by Harald Welte, with feedback from Herbert Xu and testing by Sébastien Bernard. EBTABLES, ARP tables, and IP/IP6 tables all assume that cpus are numbered linearly. That is not necessarily true. This patch fixes that up by calculating the largest possible cpu number, and allocating enough per-cpu structure space given that. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETPOLL]: wrong return for null netpoll_poll_lock()Ben Dooks2005-10-12
| | | | | | | | | | When netpoll is not being used, the macro that defines the removed routing netpoll_poll_lock defines the return as zero, but the real routine returns a `void *` Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETFILTER] ctnetlink: allow userspace to change TCP statePablo Neira Ayuso2005-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the ability of changing the state a TCP connection. I know that this must be used with care but it's required to provide a complete conntrack creation via conntrack_netlink. So I'll document this aspect on the upcoming docs. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETFILTER]: Use only 32bit counters for CONNTRACK_ACCTHarald Welte2005-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | Initially we used 64bit counters for conntrack-based accounting, since we had no event mechanism to tell userspace that our counters are about to overflow. With nfnetlink_conntrack, we now have such a event mechanism and thus can save 16bytes per connection. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETFILTER] ctnetlink: add one nesting level for TCP statePablo Neira Ayuso2005-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To keep consistency, the TCP private protocol information is nested attributes under CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP. This way the sequence of attributes to access the TCP state information looks like here below: CTA_PROTOINFO CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_STATE instead of: CTA_PROTOINFO CTA_PROTOINFO_TCP_STATE Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETFILTER]: Add missing include to ip_conntrack_tuple.hHarald Welte2005-10-10
| | | | | | | | Without this #include, __be16 is not defined and userspace programs will break. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETFILTER] nat: remove bogus structure memberHarald Welte2005-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | When 'rustynat' was merged in 2.6.12, the use of the "helper" pointer of struct ipt_nat_info was obsoleted, but the pointer not removed from the struct. This patch removes the pointer, thereby yet again shrinking struct ip_conntrack. Discovered-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETFILTER] nfnetlink: use highest bit of nfa_type to indicate nested TLVHarald Welte2005-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As Henrik Nordstrom pointed out, all our efforts with "split endian" (i.e. host byte order tags, net byte order values) are useless, unless a parser can determine whether an attribute is nested or not. This patch steals the highest bit of nfattr.nfa_type to indicate whether the data payload contains a nested nfattr (1) or not (0). This will break userspace compatibility, but luckily no kernel with nfnetlink was released so far. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] Fix signal sending in usbdevio on async URB completionHarald Welte2005-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a process issues an URB from userspace and (starts to) terminate before the URB comes back, we run into the issue described above. This is because the urb saves a pointer to "current" when it is posted to the device, but there's no guarantee that this pointer is still valid afterwards. In fact, there are three separate issues: 1) the pointer to "current" can become invalid, since the task could be completely gone when the URB completion comes back from the device. 2) Even if the saved task pointer is still pointing to a valid task_struct, task_struct->sighand could have gone meanwhile. 3) Even if the process is perfectly fine, permissions may have changed, and we can no longer send it a signal. So what we do instead, is to save the PID and uid's of the process, and introduce a new kill_proc_info_as_uid() function. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> [ Fixed up types and added symbol exports ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86_64: Set up safe page tables during resumeRafael J. Wysocki2005-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The following patch makes swsusp avoid the possible temporary corruption of page translation tables during resume on x86-64. This is achieved by creating a copy of the relevant page tables that will not be modified by swsusp and can be safely used by it on resume. The problem is that during resume on x86-64 swsusp may temporarily corrupt the page tables used for the direct mapping of RAM. If that happens, a page fault occurs and cannot be handled properly, which leads to the solid hang of the affected system. This leads to the loss of the system's state from before suspend and may result in the loss of data or the corruption of filesystems, so it is a serious issue. Also, it appears to happen quite often (for me, as often as 50% of the time). The problem is related to the fact that (at least) one of the PMD entries used in the direct memory mapping (starting at PAGE_OFFSET) points to a page table the physical address of which is much greater than the physical address of the PMD entry itself. Moreover, unfortunately, the physical address of the page table before suspend (i.e. the one stored in the suspend image) happens to be different to the physical address of the corresponding page table used during resume (i.e. the one that is valid right before swsusp_arch_resume() in arch/x86_64/kernel/suspend_asm.S is executed). Thus while the image is restored, the "offending" PMD entry gets overwritten, so it does not point to the right physical address any more (i.e. there's no page table at the address pointed to by it, because it points to the address the page table has been at during suspend). Consequently, if the PMD entry is used later on, and it _is_ used in the process of copying the image pages, a page fault occurs, but it cannot be handled in the normal way and the system hangs. In principle we can call create_resume_mapping() from swsusp_arch_resume() (ie. from suspend_asm.S), but then the memory allocations in create_resume_mapping(), resume_pud_mapping(), and resume_pmd_mapping() must be made carefully so that we use _only_ NosaveFree pages in them (the other pages are overwritten by the loop in swsusp_arch_resume()). Additionally, we are in atomic context at that time, so we cannot use GFP_KERNEL. Moreover, if one of the allocations fails, we should free all of the allocated pages, so we need to trace them somehow. All of this is done in the appended patch, except that the functions populating the page tables are located in arch/x86_64/kernel/suspend.c rather than in init.c. It may be done in a more elegan way in the future, with the help of some swsusp patches that are in the works now. [AK: move some externs into headers, renamed a function] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1Al Viro2005-10-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | - 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>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2005-10-08
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| * [ATM]: add support for LECS addresses learned from networkEric Kinzie2005-10-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | From: Eric Kinzie <ekinzie@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | [PATCH] Keys: Split key permissions checking into a .c fileDavid Howells2005-10-08
|/ | | | | | | | | | | The attached patch splits key permissions checking out of key-ui.h and moves it into a .c file. It's quite large and called quite a lot, and it's about to get bigger with the addition of LSM support for keys... key_any_permission() is also discarded as it's no longer used. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [TEXTSEARCH]: fix sparse gfp nocast warningsRandy Dunlap2005-10-05
| | | | | | | | Fix nocast sparse warnings: include/linux/textsearch.h:165:57: warning: implicit cast to nocast type Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [CONNECTOR]: fix sparse gfp nocast warningsRandy Dunlap2005-10-05
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* [ATM]: fix sparse gfp nocast warningsRandy Dunlap2005-10-05
| | | | | | | | | | | Fix implicit nocast warnings in atm code: net/atm/atm_misc.c:35:44: warning: implicit cast to nocast type drivers/atm/fore200e.c:183:33: warning: implicit cast to nocast type Also use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc(). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] bfs endianness annotationsAlexey Dobriyan2005-10-04
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [IPV4]: Replace __in_dev_get with __in_dev_get_rcu/rtnlHerbert Xu2005-10-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The following patch renames __in_dev_get() to __in_dev_get_rtnl() and introduces __in_dev_get_rcu() to cover the second case. 1) RCU with refcnt should use in_dev_get(). 2) RCU without refcnt should use __in_dev_get_rcu(). 3) All others must hold RTNL and use __in_dev_get_rtnl(). There is one exception in net/ipv4/route.c which is in fact a pre-existing race condition. I've marked it as such so that we remember to fix it. This patch is based on suggestions and prior work by Suzanne Wood and Paul McKenney. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [INET]: speedup inet (tcp/dccp) lookupsEric Dumazet2005-10-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Arnaldo and I agreed it could be applied now, because I have other pending patches depending on this one (Thank you Arnaldo) (The other important patch moves skc_refcnt in a separate cache line, so that the SMP/NUMA performance doesnt suffer from cache line ping pongs) 1) First some performance data : -------------------------------- tcp_v4_rcv() wastes a *lot* of time in __inet_lookup_established() The most time critical code is : sk_for_each(sk, node, &head->chain) { if (INET_MATCH(sk, acookie, saddr, daddr, ports, dif)) goto hit; /* You sunk my battleship! */ } The sk_for_each() does use prefetch() hints but only the begining of "struct sock" is prefetched. As INET_MATCH first comparison uses inet_sk(__sk)->daddr, wich is far away from the begining of "struct sock", it has to bring into CPU cache cold cache line. Each iteration has to use at least 2 cache lines. This can be problematic if some chains are very long. 2) The goal ----------- The idea I had is to change things so that INET_MATCH() may return FALSE in 99% of cases only using the data already in the CPU cache, using one cache line per iteration. 3) Description of the patch --------------------------- Adds a new 'unsigned int skc_hash' field in 'struct sock_common', filling a 32 bits hole on 64 bits platform. struct sock_common { unsigned short skc_family; volatile unsigned char skc_state; unsigned char skc_reuse; int skc_bound_dev_if; struct hlist_node skc_node; struct hlist_node skc_bind_node; atomic_t skc_refcnt; + unsigned int skc_hash; struct proto *skc_prot; }; Store in this 32 bits field the full hash, not masked by (ehash_size - 1) Using this full hash as the first comparison done in INET_MATCH permits us immediatly skip the element without touching a second cache line in case of a miss. Suppress the sk_hashent/tw_hashent fields since skc_hash (aliased to sk_hash and tw_hash) already contains the slot number if we mask with (ehash_size - 1) File include/net/inet_hashtables.h 64 bits platforms : #define INET_MATCH(__sk, __hash, __cookie, __saddr, __daddr, __ports, __dif)\ (((__sk)->sk_hash == (__hash)) ((*((__u64 *)&(inet_sk(__sk)->daddr)))== (__cookie)) && \ ((*((__u32 *)&(inet_sk(__sk)->dport))) == (__ports)) && \ (!((__sk)->sk_bound_dev_if) || ((__sk)->sk_bound_dev_if == (__dif)))) 32bits platforms: #define TCP_IPV4_MATCH(__sk, __hash, __cookie, __saddr, __daddr, __ports, __dif)\ (((__sk)->sk_hash == (__hash)) && \ (inet_sk(__sk)->daddr == (__saddr)) && \ (inet_sk(__sk)->rcv_saddr == (__daddr)) && \ (!((__sk)->sk_bound_dev_if) || ((__sk)->sk_bound_dev_if == (__dif)))) - Adds a prefetch(head->chain.first) in __inet_lookup_established()/__tcp_v4_check_established() and __inet6_lookup_established()/__tcp_v6_check_established() and __dccp_v4_check_established() to bring into cache the first element of the list, before the {read|write}_lock(&head->lock); Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Fix packet timestamping.Herbert Xu2005-10-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I've found the problem in general. It affects any 64-bit architecture. The problem occurs when you change the system time. Suppose that when you boot your system clock is forward by a day. This gets recorded down in skb_tv_base. You then wind the clock back by a day. From that point onwards the offset will be negative which essentially overflows the 32-bit variables they're stored in. In fact, why don't we just store the real time stamp in those 32-bit variables? After all, we're not going to overflow for quite a while yet. When we do overflow, we'll need a better solution of course. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-for-linus-2.6Linus Torvalds2005-10-03
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| * [SCSI] MegaRAID SAS RAID: new driverBagalkote, Sreenivas2005-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Sreenivas Bagalkote <Sreenivas.Bagalkote@lsil.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
* | [PATCH] trivial #if -> #ifdefDiego Calleja2005-10-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use '#ifdef' consistently on __KERNEL__. This was reported as bug #5340 (isn't easier to send a fix than report the bug?!) Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] aio: remove unlocked task_list test and resulting raceZach Brown2005-09-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Only one of the run or kick path is supposed to put an iocb on the run list. If both of them do it than one of them can end up referencing a freed iocb. The kick path could delete the task_list item from the wait queue before getting the ctx_lock and putting the iocb on the run list. The run path was testing the task_list item outside the lock so that it could catch ki_retry methods that return -EIOCBRETRY *without* putting the iocb on a wait queue and promising to call kick_iocb. This unlocked check could then race with the kick path to cause both to try and put the iocb on the run list. The patch stops the run path from testing task_list by requring that any ki_retry that returns -EIOCBRETRY *must* guarantee that kick_iocb() will be called in the future. aio_p{read,write}, the only in-tree -EIOCBRETRY users, are updated. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | Revert task flag re-ordering, add commentsLinus Torvalds2005-09-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Roland points out that the flags end up having non-obvious dependencies elsewhere, so revert aa55a08687059aa169d10a313c41f238c2070488 and add some comments about why things are as they are. We'll just have to fix up the broken comparisons. Roland has a patch. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] fix TASK_STOPPED vs TASK_NONINTERACTIVE interactionOleg Nesterov2005-09-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | do_signal_stop: for_each_thread(t) { if (t->state < TASK_STOPPED) ++sig->group_stop_count; } However, TASK_NONINTERACTIVE > TASK_STOPPED, so this loop will not count TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE | TASK_NONINTERACTIVE threads. See also wait_task_stopped(), which checks ->state > TASK_STOPPED. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> [ We really probably should always use the appropriate bitmasks to test task states, not do it like this. Using something like #define TASK_RUNNABLE (TASK_RUNNING | TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE | \ TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE | TASK_NONINTERACTIVE) and then doing "if (task->state & TASK_RUNNABLE)" or similar. But the ordering of the task states is historical, and keeping the ordering does make sense regardless. ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2005-09-29
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| * | [NET]: Fix GCC4 compile error: sysctl in linux/if_ether.hBen Dooks2005-09-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The following is generated when compiling a recent (2.6.14-rc2-git5) kernel configured for ARM, with GCC4. CC init/main.o In file included from include/linux/netdevice.h:29, from include/net/sock.h:48, from init/main.c:50: include/linux/if_ether.h:114: error: array type has incomplete element type It seems that if CONFIG_SYSCTL is not set, then the compiler will throw an error due to the definition of the ether_table[] array Attached is a solution to the problem Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | [NET]: Add Sun Cassini driver.David S. Miller2005-09-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Written by Adrian Sun (asun@darksunrising.com). Ported to 2.6.x by Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com>. Further cleaned up and integrated by David S. Miller Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | [NET]: Reorder some hot fields of struct net_deviceEric Dumazet2005-09-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Place them on separate cache lines in SMP to lower memory bouncing between multiple CPU accessing the device. - One part is mostly used on receive path (including eth_type_trans()) (poll_list, poll, quota, weight, last_rx, dev_addr, broadcast) - One part is mostly used on queue transmit path (qdisc) (queue_lock, qdisc, qdisc_sleeping, qdisc_list, tx_queue_len) - One part is mostly used on xmit path (device) (xmit_lock, xmit_lock_owner, priv, hard_start_xmit, trans_start) 'features' is placed outside of these hot points, in a location that may be shared by all cpus (because mostly read) name_hlist is moved close to name[IFNAMSIZ] to speedup __dev_get_by_name() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | [PATCH] Keys: Add possessor permissions to keys [try #3]David Howells2005-09-28
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The attached patch adds extra permission grants to keys for the possessor of a key in addition to the owner, group and other permissions bits. This makes SUID binaries easier to support without going as far as labelling keys and key targets using the LSM facilities. This patch adds a second "pointer type" to key structures (struct key_ref *) that can have the bottom bit of the address set to indicate the possession of a key. This is propagated through searches from the keyring to the discovered key. It has been made a separate type so that the compiler can spot attempts to dereference a potentially incorrect pointer. The "possession" attribute can't be attached to a key structure directly as it's not an intrinsic property of a key. Pointers to keys have been replaced with struct key_ref *'s wherever possession information needs to be passed through. This does assume that the bottom bit of the pointer will always be zero on return from kmem_cache_alloc(). The key reference type has been made into a typedef so that at least it can be located in the sources, even though it's basically a pointer to an undefined type. I've also renamed the accessor functions to be more useful, and all reference variables should now end in "_ref". Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2005-09-26
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| * \ Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/llc-2.6David S. Miller2005-09-26
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| | * | [LLC]: Add sysctl support for the LLC timeoutsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2005-09-22
| | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
| * | [NETFILTER]: Fix invalid module autoloading by splitting iptable_natHarald Welte2005-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When you've enabled conntrack and NAT as a module (standard case in all distributions), and you've also enabled the new conntrack netlink interface, loading ip_conntrack_netlink.ko will auto-load iptable_nat.ko. This causes a huge performance penalty, since for every packet you iterate the nat code, even if you don't want it. This patch splits iptable_nat.ko into the NAT core (ip_nat.ko) and the iptables frontend (iptable_nat.ko). Threfore, ip_conntrack_netlink.ko will only pull ip_nat.ko, but not the frontend. ip_nat.ko will "only" allocate some resources, but not affect runtime performance. This separation is also a nice step in anticipation of new packet filters (nf-hipac, ipset, pkttables) being able to use the NAT core. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | [CONNECTOR]: async connector mode.Evgeniy Polyakov2005-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | [PATCH] pcmcia: fix cross-platform issues with pcmcia module aliasesKars de Jong2005-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Added a missing TO_NATIVE call to scripts/mod/file2alias.c:do_pcmcia_entry() - Add an alignment attribute to struct pcmcia_device_no to solve an alignment issue seen when cross-compiling on x86 for m68k. Signed-off-by: Kars de Jong <jongk@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
* | | [PATCH] yenta: add support for more TI bridgesDaniel Ritz2005-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Support some more TI cardbus bridges. most of them are multifunction devices which adds 1394 controllers, smartcard readers etc. this could also help with the various problems with the XX21 controllers seen on the linux-pcmcia list. Signed-off-by: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
* | | [PATCH] yenta: auto-tune EnE bridges for CardBus cardsDaniel Ritz2005-09-26
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Echo Audio cardbus products are known to be incompatible with EnE bridges. in order to maybe solve the problem a EnE specific test bit has to be set, another cleared...but other setups have a good chance to break when just forcing the bits. so do the whole thingy automatically. The patch adds a hook in cb_alloc() that allows special tuning for the different chipsets. for ene just match the Echo products and set/clear the test bits, defaults to do the same thing as w/o the patch to not break working setups. Signed-off-by: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
* | Merge branch 'upstream' from ↵Linus Torvalds2005-09-23
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| * \ Merge /spare/repo/linux-2.6/Jeff Garzik2005-09-23
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| * | | [PATCH] Add NVIDIA device ID in sata_nvAndy Currid2005-09-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Andy Currid <acurrid@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
| * | | [PATCH] PATCH: remove function for non-PCI as requestedAlan Cox2005-09-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* | | | [NETFILTER] Fix conntrack event cache deadlock/oopsHarald Welte2005-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a number of bugs. It cannot be reasonably split up in multiple fixes, since all bugs interact with each other and affect the same function: Bug #1: The event cache code cannot be called while a lock is held. Therefore, the call to ip_conntrack_event_cache() within ip_ct_refresh_acct() needs to be moved outside of the locked section. This fixes a number of 2.6.14-rcX oops and deadlock reports. Bug #2: We used to call ct_add_counters() for unconfirmed connections without holding a lock. Since the add operations are not atomic, we could race with another CPU. Bug #3: ip_ct_refresh_acct() lost REFRESH events in some cases where refresh (and the corresponding event) are desired, but no accounting shall be performed. Both, evenst and accounting implicitly depended on the skb parameter bein non-null. We now re-introduce a non-accounting "ip_ct_refresh()" variant to explicitly state the desired behaviour. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>