kernel/linux.git/include/linux/netdevice.h, branch v3.13-rc5

net: make neigh_priv_len in struct net_device 16bit instead of 8bit

2013-12-12T20:35:09+00:00

neigh_priv_len is defined as u8. With all debug enabled struct ipoib_neigh has 200 bytes. The largest part is sk_buff_head with 96 bytes and here the spinlock with 72 bytes. The size value still fits in this u8 leaving some room for more. On -RT struct ipoib_neigh put on weight and has 392 bytes. The main reason is sk_buff_head with 288 and the fatty here is spinlock with 192 bytes. This does no longer fit into into neigh_priv_len and gcc complains. This patch changes neigh_priv_len from being 8bit to 16bit. Since the following element (dev_id) is 16bit followed by a spinlock which is aligned, the struct remains with a total size of 3200 (allmodconfig) / 2048 (with as much debug off as possible) bytes on x86-64. On x86-32 the struct is 1856 (allmodconfig) / 1216 (with as much debug off as possible) bytes long. The numbers were gained with and without the patch to prove that this change does not increase the size of the struct. Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2013-11-16T00:47:22+00:00

Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina: "Usual earth-shaking, news-breaking, rocket science pile from trivial.git" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (23 commits) doc: usb: Fix typo in Documentation/usb/gadget_configs.txt doc: add missing files to timers/00-INDEX timekeeping: Fix some trivial typos in comments mm: Fix some trivial typos in comments irq: Fix some trivial typos in comments NUMA: fix typos in Kconfig help text mm: update 00-INDEX doc: Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt fix typo DRM: comment: `halve' -> `half' Docs: Kconfig: `devlopers' -> `developers' doc: typo on word accounting in kprobes.c in mutliple architectures treewide: fix "usefull" typo treewide: fix "distingush" typo mm/Kconfig: Grammar s/an/a/ kexec: Typo s/the/then/ Documentation/kvm: Update cpuid documentation for steal time and pv eoi treewide: Fix common typo in "identify" __page_to_pfn: Fix typo in comment Correct some typos for word frequency clk: fixed-factor: Fix a trivial typo ...

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2013-11-13T08:40:34+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller: 1) The addition of nftables. No longer will we need protocol aware firewall filtering modules, it can all live in userspace. At the core of nftables is a, for lack of a better term, virtual machine that executes byte codes to inspect packet or metadata (arriving interface index, etc.) and make verdict decisions. Besides support for loading packet contents and comparing them, the interpreter supports lookups in various datastructures as fundamental operations. For example sets are supports, and therefore one could create a set of whitelist IP address entries which have ACCEPT verdicts attached to them, and use the appropriate byte codes to do such lookups. Since the interpreted code is composed in userspace, userspace can do things like optimize things before giving it to the kernel. Another major improvement is the capability of atomically updating portions of the ruleset. In the existing netfilter implementation, one has to update the entire rule set in order to make a change and this is very expensive. Userspace tools exist to create nftables rules using existing netfilter rule sets, but both kernel implementations will need to co-exist for quite some time as we transition from the old to the new stuff. Kudos to Patrick McHardy, Pablo Neira Ayuso, and others who have worked so hard on this. 2) Daniel Borkmann and Hannes Frederic Sowa made several improvements to our pseudo-random number generator, mostly used for things like UDP port randomization and netfitler, amongst other things. In particular the taus88 generater is updated to taus113, and test cases are added. 3) Support 64-bit rates in HTB and TBF schedulers, from Eric Dumazet and Yang Yingliang. 4) Add support for new 577xx tigon3 chips to tg3 driver, from Nithin Sujir. 5) Fix two fatal flaws in TCP dynamic right sizing, from Eric Dumazet, Neal Cardwell, and Yuchung Cheng. 6) Allow IP_TOS and IP_TTL to be specified in sendmsg() ancillary control message data, much like other socket option attributes. From Francesco Fusco. 7) Allow applications to specify a cap on the rate computed automatically by the kernel for pacing flows, via a new SO_MAX_PACING_RATE socket option. From Eric Dumazet. 8) Make the initial autotuned send buffer sizing in TCP more closely reflect actual needs, from Eric Dumazet. 9) Currently early socket demux only happens for TCP sockets, but we can do it for connected UDP sockets too. Implementation from Shawn Bohrer. 10) Refactor inet socket demux with the goal of improving hash demux performance for listening sockets. With the main goals being able to use RCU lookups on even request sockets, and eliminating the listening lock contention. From Eric Dumazet. 11) The bonding layer has many demuxes in it's fast path, and an RCU conversion was started back in 3.11, several changes here extend the RCU usage to even more locations. From Ding Tianhong and Wang Yufen, based upon suggestions by Nikolay Aleksandrov and Veaceslav Falico. 12) Allow stackability of segmentation offloads to, in particular, allow segmentation offloading over tunnels. From Eric Dumazet. 13) Significantly improve the handling of secret keys we input into the various hash functions in the inet hashtables, TCP fast open, as well as syncookies. From Hannes Frederic Sowa. The key fundamental operation is "net_get_random_once()" which uses static keys. Hannes even extended this to ipv4/ipv6 fragmentation handling and our generic flow dissector. 14) The generic driver layer takes care now to set the driver data to NULL on device removal, so it's no longer necessary for drivers to explicitly set it to NULL any more. Many drivers have been cleaned up in this way, from Jingoo Han. 15) Add a BPF based packet scheduler classifier, from Daniel Borkmann. 16) Improve CRC32 interfaces and generic SKB checksum iterators so that SCTP's checksumming can more cleanly be handled. Also from Daniel Borkmann. 17) Add a new PMTU discovery mode, IP_PMTUDISC_INTERFACE, which forces using the interface MTU value. This helps avoid PMTU attacks, particularly on DNS servers. From Hannes Frederic Sowa. 18) Use generic XPS for transmit queue steering rather than internal (re-)implementation in virtio-net. From Jason Wang. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1622 commits) random32: add test cases for taus113 implementation random32: upgrade taus88 generator to taus113 from errata paper random32: move rnd_state to linux/random.h random32: add prandom_reseed_late() and call when nonblocking pool becomes initialized random32: add periodic reseeding random32: fix off-by-one in seeding requirement PHY: Add RTL8201CP phy_driver to realtek xtsonic: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in xtsonic_probe() macmace: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in mace_probe() ethernet/arc/arc_emac: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in arc_emac_probe() ipv6: protect for_each_sk_fl_rcu in mem_check with rcu_read_lock_bh vlan: Implement vlan_dev_get_egress_qos_mask as an inline. ixgbe: add warning when max_vfs is out of range. igb: Update link modes display in ethtool netfilter: push reasm skb through instead of original frag skbs ip6_output: fragment outgoing reassembled skb properly MAINTAINERS: mv643xx_eth: take over maintainership from Lennart net_sched: tbf: support of 64bit rates ixgbe: deleting dfwd stations out of order can cause null ptr deref ixgbe: fix build err, num_rx_queues is only available with CONFIG_RPS ...

net: Add layer 2 hardware acceleration operations for macvlan devices

2013-11-08T00:11:41+00:00

Add a operations structure that allows a network interface to export the fact that it supports package forwarding in hardware between physical interfaces and other mac layer devices assigned to it (such as macvlans). This operaions structure can be used by virtual mac devices to bypass software switching so that forwarding can be done in hardware more efficiently. Signed-off-by: John Fastabend Signed-off-by: Neil Horman CC: Andy Gospodarek CC: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: make ndev->irq signed for error handling

2013-11-08T00:11:13+00:00

There is a bug in cpsw_probe() where we do: ndev->irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0); if (ndev->irq < 0) { The problem is that "ndev->irq" is unsigned so the error handling doesn't work. I have changed it to a regular int. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge tag 'driver-core-3.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2013-11-07T02:42:15+00:00

Pull driver core / sysfs patches from Greg KH: "Here's the big driver core / sysfs update for 3.13-rc1. There's lots of dev_groups updates for different subsystems, as they all get slowly migrated over to the safe versions of the attribute groups (removing userspace races with the creation of the sysfs files.) Also in here are some kobject updates, devres expansions, and the first round of Tejun's sysfs reworking to enable it to be used by other subsystems as a backend for an in-kernel filesystem. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'driver-core-3.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (83 commits) sysfs: rename sysfs_assoc_lock and explain what it's about sysfs: use generic_file_llseek() for sysfs_file_operations sysfs: return correct error code on unimplemented mmap() mdio_bus: convert bus code to use dev_groups device: Make dev_WARN/dev_WARN_ONCE print device as well as driver name sysfs: separate out dup filename warning into a separate function sysfs: move sysfs_hash_and_remove() to fs/sysfs/dir.c sysfs: remove unused sysfs_get_dentry() prototype sysfs: honor bin_attr.attr.ignore_lockdep sysfs: merge sysfs_elem_bin_attr into sysfs_elem_attr devres: restore zeroing behavior of devres_alloc() sysfs: fix sysfs_write_file for bin file input: gameport: convert bus code to use dev_groups input: serio: remove bus usage of dev_attrs input: serio: use DEVICE_ATTR_RO() i2o: convert bus code to use dev_groups memstick: convert bus code to use dev_groups tifm: convert bus code to use dev_groups virtio: convert bus code to use dev_groups ipack: convert bus code to use dev_groups ...

net: extend net_device allocation to vmalloc()

2013-11-04T04:19:00+00:00

Joby Poriyath provided a xen-netback patch to reduce the size of xenvif structure as some netdev allocation could fail under memory pressure/fragmentation. This patch is handling the problem at the core level, allowing any netdev structures to use vmalloc() if kmalloc() failed. As vmalloc() adds overhead on a critical network path, add __GFP_REPEAT to kzalloc() flags to do this fallback only when really needed. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reported-by: Joby Poriyath Cc: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: add might_sleep() call to napi_disable

2013-10-29T09:40:21+00:00

napi_disable uses an msleep() call to wait for outstanding napi work to be finished after setting the disable bit. It does not always sleep incase there was no outstanding work. This resulted in a rare bug in ixgbe_down operation where a napi_disable call took place inside of a local_bh_disable()d context. In order to enable easier detection of future sleep while atomic BUGs, this patch adds a might_sleep() call, so that every use of napi_disable during atomic context will be visible. Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller Cc: Eliezer Tamir Cc: Alexander Duyck Cc: Hyong-Youb Kim Cc: Amir Vadai Cc: Dmitry Kravkov Tested-by: Phil Schmitt Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher

net: Delete trailing semi-colon from definition of netdev_WARN()

2013-10-18T04:13:21+00:00

Macro definitions should not normally end with a semi-colon, as this makes it dangerous to use them an if...else statement. Happily this has not happened yet. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

treewide: Fix common typo in "identify"

2013-10-14T13:31:06+00:00

Correct common misspelling of "identify" as "indentify" throughout the kernel Signed-off-by: Maxime Jayat Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina