kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/tap.c, branch v4.11.5

sched/headers: Move task_struct::signal and task_struct::sighand types and accessors into

2017-03-03T00:43:37+00:00

task_struct::signal and task_struct::sighand are pointers, which would normally make it straightforward to not define those types in sched.h. That is not so, because the types are accompanied by a myriad of APIs (macros and inline functions) that dereference them. Split the types and the APIs out of sched.h and move them into a new header, . With this change sched.h does not know about 'struct signal' and 'struct sighand' anymore, trying to put accessors into sched.h as a test fails the following way: ./include/linux/sched.h: In function ‘test_signal_types’: ./include/linux/sched.h:2461:18: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type ‘struct signal_struct’ ^ This reduces the size and complexity of sched.h significantly. Update all headers and .c code that relied on getting the signal handling functionality from to include . The list of affected files in the preparatory patch was partly generated by grepping for the APIs, and partly by doing coverage build testing, both all[yes|mod|def|no]config builds on 64-bit and 32-bit x86, and an array of cross-architecture builds. Nevertheless some (trivial) build breakage is still expected related to rare Kconfig combinations and in-flight patches to various kernel code, but most of it should be handled by this patch. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tap: tap as an independent module

2017-02-12T01:59:41+00:00

This patch makes tap a separate module for other types of virtual interfaces, for example, ipvlan to use. Signed-off-by: Sainath Grandhi Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tap: Extending tap device create/destroy APIs

2017-02-12T01:59:41+00:00

Extending tap APIs get/free_minor and create/destroy_cdev to handle more than one type of virtual interface. Signed-off-by: Sainath Grandhi Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tap: Abstract type of virtual interface from tap implementation

2017-02-12T01:59:41+00:00

macvlan object is re-structured to hold tap related elements in a separate entity, tap_dev. Upon NETDEV_REGISTER device_event, tap_dev is registered with idr and fetched again on tap_open. Few of the tap functions are modified to accepted tap_dev as argument. tap_dev object includes callbacks to be used by underlying virtual interface to take care of tx and rx accounting. Signed-off-by: Sainath Grandhi Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tap: Tap character device creation/destroy API

2017-02-12T01:59:41+00:00

This patch provides tap device create/destroy APIs in tap.c. Signed-off-by: Sainath Grandhi Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tap: Renaming tap related APIs, data structures, macros

2017-02-12T01:59:41+00:00

Renaming tap related APIs, data structures and macros in tap.c from macvtap_.* to tap_.* Signed-off-by: Sainath Grandhi Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tap: Refactoring macvtap.c

2017-02-12T01:59:41+00:00

macvtap module has code for tap/queue management and link management. This patch splits the code into macvtap_main.c for link management and tap.c for tap/queue management. Functionality in tap.c can be re-used for implementing tap on other virtual interfaces. Signed-off-by: Sainath Grandhi Signed-off-by: David S. Miller