Satyam Sharma [Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:35:05 +0000 (15:35 -0700)]
[NET] netconsole: Support dynamic reconfiguration using configfs
Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>.
This patch introduces support for dynamic reconfiguration (adding, removing
and/or modifying parameters of netconsole targets at runtime) using a
userspace interface exported via configfs. Documentation is also updated
accordingly.
Issues and brief design overview:
(1) Kernel-initiated creation / destruction of kernel objects is not
possible with configfs -- the lifetimes of the "config items" is managed
exclusively from userspace. But netconsole must support boot/module
params too, and these are parsed in kernel and hence netpolls must be
setup from the kernel. Joel Becker suggested to separately manage the
lifetimes of the two kinds of netconsole_target objects -- those created
via configfs mkdir(2) from userspace and those specified from the
boot/module option string. This adds complexity and some redundancy here
and also means that boot/module param-created targets are not exposed
through the configfs namespace (and hence cannot be updated / destroyed
dynamically). However, this saves us from locking / refcounting
complexities that would need to be introduced in configfs to support
kernel-initiated item creation / destroy there.
(2) In configfs, item creation takes place in the call chain of the
mkdir(2) syscall in the driver subsystem. If we used an ioctl(2) to
create / destroy objects from userspace, the special userspace program is
able to fill out the structure to be passed into the ioctl and hence
specify attributes such as local interface that are required at the time
we set up the netpoll. For configfs, this information is not available at
the time of mkdir(2). So, we keep all newly-created targets (via
configfs) disabled by default. The user is expected to set various
attributes appropriately (including the local network interface if
required) and then write(2) "1" to the "enabled" attribute. Thus,
netpoll_setup() is then called on the set parameters in the context of
_this_ write(2) on the "enabled" attribute itself. This design enables
the user to reconfigure existing netconsole targets at runtime to be
attached to newly-come-up interfaces that may not have existed when
netconsole was loaded or when the targets were actually created. All this
effectively enables us to get rid of custom ioctls.
(3) Ultra-paranoid configfs attribute show() and store() operations, with
sanity and input range checking, using only safe string primitives, and
compliant with the recommendations in Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt.
(4) A new function netpoll_print_options() is created in the netpoll API,
that just prints out the configured parameters for a netpoll structure.
netpoll_parse_options() is modified to use that and it is also exported to
be used from netconsole.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Acked-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Satyam Sharma [Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:33:40 +0000 (15:33 -0700)]
[NET] netconsole: Support multiple logging targets
Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>.
This patch introduces support for multiple targets, independent of
CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC -- this is useful even in the default case and
(including the infrastructure introduced in previous patches) doesn't really
add too many bytes to module text. All the complexity (and size) comes with
the dynamic reconfigurability / userspace interface patch, and so it's
plausible users may want to keep this enabled but that disabled (say to avoid
a dependency on CONFIG_CONFIGFS_FS too).
Also update documentation to mention the use of ";" separator to specify
multiple logging targets in the boot/module option string.
Brief overview:
We maintain a target_list (and corresponding lock). Get rid of the static
"default_target" and introduce allocation and release functions for our
netconsole_target objects (but keeping sure to preserve previous behaviour
such as default values). During init_netconsole(), ";" is used as the
separator to identify multiple target specifications in the boot/module option
string. The target specifications are parsed and netpolls setup. During
exit, the target_list is torn down and all items released.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>.
To update fields of underlying netpoll structure at runtime on corresponding
NETDEV_CHANGEADDR or NETDEV_CHANGENAME notifications.
ioctl(SIOCSIFHWADDR or SIOCSIFNAME) could be used to change the hardware/MAC
address or name of the local interface that our netpoll is attached to.
Whenever this happens, netdev notifier chain is called out with the
NETDEV_CHANGEADDR or NETDEV_CHANGENAME event message. We respond to that and
update the local_mac or dev_name field of the struct netpoll. This makes
sense anyway, but is especially required for dynamic netconsole because the
netpoll structure's internal members become user visible files when either
sysfs or configfs are used. So this helps us to keep up with the MAC
address/name changes and keep values in struct netpoll uptodate.
[ Note that ioctl(SIOCSIFADDR) to change IP address of interface at
runtime is not handled (to update local_ip of netpoll) on purpose --
some setups may set the local_ip to a private address, not necessary
the actual IP address of the sender host, as presently allowed. ]
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Satyam Sharma [Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:32:14 +0000 (15:32 -0700)]
[NET] netconsole: Introduce netconsole_target
Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>.
Introduce a wrapper structure over netpoll to represent logging targets
configured in netconsole. This will get extended with other members in
further patches.
This is done independent of the (to-be-introduced) NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC config
option so that we're able to drastically cut down on the #ifdef complexity of
final netconsole.c. Also, struct netconsole_target would be required for
multiple targets support also, and not just dynamic reconfigurability.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Satyam Sharma [Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:31:19 +0000 (15:31 -0700)]
[NET] netconsole: Add some useful tips to documentation
Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>.
Add some useful general-purpose tips. Also suggest solution for the frequent
problem of console loglevel set too low numerically (i.e. for high priority
messages only) on the sender.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Acked-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Satyam Sharma [Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:30:31 +0000 (15:30 -0700)]
[NET] netconsole: Use netif_running() in write_msg()
Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>.
Avoid unnecessarily disabling interrupts and calling netpoll_send_udp() if the
corresponding local interface is not up.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Acked-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>.
Presently, boot/module parameters are set up quite differently for the case of
built-in netconsole (__setup() -> obsolete_checksetup() ->
netpoll_parse_options() -> strlen(config) == 0 in init_netconsole()) vs
modular netconsole (module_param_string() -> string copied to the config
variable -> strlen(config) != 0 init_netconsole() -> netpoll_parse_options()).
This patch makes both of them similar by doing exactly the equivalent of a
module_param_string() in option_setup() also -- just copying the param string
passed from the kernel command line into "config" variable. So,
strlen(config) != 0 in both cases, and netpoll_parse_options() is always
called from init_netconsole(), thus making the setup logic for both cases
similar.
Now, option_setup() is only ever called / used for the built-in case, so we
put it inside a #ifndef MODULE, otherwise gcc will complain about
option_setup() being "defined but not used". Also, the "configured" variable
is redundant with this patch and hence removed.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Satyam Sharma [Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:28:10 +0000 (15:28 -0700)]
[NET] netconsole: Remove bogus check
Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>.
The (!np.dev) check in write_msg() is bogus (always false), because: np.dev is
set by netpoll_setup(), which is called by init_netconsole() before
register_console(), so write_msg() cannot be triggered unless netpoll_setup()
successfully set np.dev. Also np.dev cannot go away from under us, because
netpoll_setup() grabs us reference on it. So let's remove the bogus check.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Acked-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>.
(1) Remove unwanted headers.
(2) Mark __init and __exit as appropriate.
(3) Various trivial codingstyle and prettification stuff.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ilpo Järvinen [Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:31:21 +0000 (14:31 -0700)]
[TCP]: Update comment about highest_sack validity
This stale info came from the original idea, which proved to be
unnecessarily complex, sacked_out > 0 is easy to do and that when
it's going to be needed anyway (it _can_ be valid also when
sacked_out == 0 but there's not going to be a guarantee about it
for now).
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ilpo Järvinen [Thu, 9 Aug 2007 12:14:46 +0000 (15:14 +0300)]
[TCP]: Move sack_ok access to obviously named funcs & cleanup
Previously code had IsReno/IsFack defined as macros that were
local to tcp_input.c though sack_ok field has user elsewhere too
for the same purpose. This changes them to static inlines as
preferred according the current coding style and unifies the
access to sack_ok across multiple files. Magic bitops of sack_ok
for FACK and DSACK are also abstracted to functions with
appropriate names.
Note:
- One sack_ok = 1 remains but that's self explanary, i.e., it
enables sack
- Couple of !IsReno cases are changed to tcp_is_sack
- There were no users for IsDSack => I dropped it
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ilpo Järvinen [Thu, 9 Aug 2007 11:53:36 +0000 (14:53 +0300)]
[TCP]: Reduce sacked_out with reno when purging write_queue
Previously TCP had a transitional state during which reno
counted segments that are already below the current window into
sacked_out, which is now prevented. In addition, re-try now
the unconditional S+L skb catching.
This approach conservatively calls just remove_sack and leaves
reset_sack() calls alone. The best solution to the whole problem
would be to first calculate the new sacked_out fully (this patch
does not move reno_sack_reset calls from original sites and thus
does not implement this). However, that would require very
invasive change to fastretrans_alert (perhaps even slicing it to
two halves). Alternatively, all callers of tcp_packets_in_flight
(i.e., users that depend on sacked_out) should be postponed
until the new sacked_out has been calculated but it isn't any
simpler alternative.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ilpo Järvinen [Sat, 7 Jul 2007 10:39:02 +0000 (13:39 +0300)]
[TCP]: Keep state in Disorder also if only lost_out > 0
This happens rather infrequently and is only possible during
FRTO. We must not allow TCP to slip to Open state because
tcp_fastretrans_alert might then not be called on it's time
when FRTO has exited. This become a problem when left_out
got removed and was replaced by just sacked_out.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
tcp_verify_left_out is useful for verifying S+L condition, so
add it back to couple of places in where the code was not
calling to tcp_sync_left_out but used own ad-hoc solution
(before the tcp_sync_left_out got removed).
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ilpo Järvinen [Thu, 9 Aug 2007 11:44:16 +0000 (14:44 +0300)]
[TCP]: Left out sync->verify (the new meaning of it) & definify
Left_out was dropped a while ago, thus leaving verifying
consistency of the "left out" as only task for the function in
question. Thus make it's name more appropriate.
In addition, it is intentionally converted to #define instead
of static inline because the location of the invariant failure
is the most important thing to have if this ever triggers. I
think it would have been helpful e.g. in this case where the
location of the failure point had to be based on some quesswork:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/2/464
...Luckily the guesswork seems to have proved to be correct.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ilpo Järvinen [Thu, 31 May 2007 07:16:47 +0000 (10:16 +0300)]
[TCP]: Remove num_acked>0 checks from cong.ctrl mods pkts_acked
There is no need for such check in pkts_acked because the
callback is not invoked unless at least one segment got fully
ACKed (i.e., the snd_una moved past skb's end_seq) by the
cumulative ACK's snd_una advancement.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ilpo Järvinen [Sun, 27 May 2007 09:04:16 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[TCP]: Move code from tcp_ecn.h to tcp*.c and tcp.h & remove it
No other users exist for tcp_ecn.h. Very few things remain in
tcp.h, for most TCP ECN functions callers reside within a
single .c file and can be placed there.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
F-RTO does not touch SACKED_ACKED bits at all, so there is no
need to recount them in tcp_enter_frto_loss. After removal of
the else branch, nested ifs can be combined.
This must also reset sacked_out when SACK is not in use as TCP
could have received some duplicate ACKs prior RTO. To achieve
that in a sane manner, tcp_reset_reno_sack was re-placed by the
previous patch.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ilpo Järvinen [Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:06:37 +0000 (12:06 -0700)]
[TCP]: Rexmit hint must be cleared instead of setting it
Stupid error from my side. Even though now that I noticed this,
I hoped it would have been an optimization but no, the counter
hint is then incorrect. Thus clearing is necessary for now (I
still suspect though that this path is never executed).
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ilpo Järvinen [Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:03:23 +0000 (21:03 -0700)]
[TCP]: Add highest_sack seqno, points to globally highest SACK
It is guaranteed to be valid only when !tp->sacked_out. In most
cases this seqno is available in the last ACK but there is no
guarantee for that. The new fast recovery loss marking algorithm
needs this as entry point.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thomas Graf [Thu, 9 Aug 2007 06:12:56 +0000 (23:12 -0700)]
[NEIGH]: Netlink notifications
Currently neighbour event notifications are limited to update
notifications and only sent if the ARP daemon is enabled. This
patch extends the existing notification code by also reporting
neighbours being removed due to gc or administratively and
removes the dependency on the ARP daemon. This allows to keep
track of neighbour states without periodically fetching the
complete neighbour table.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thomas Graf [Thu, 9 Aug 2007 06:12:36 +0000 (23:12 -0700)]
[NEIGH]: Combine neighbour cleanup and release
Introduces neigh_cleanup_and_release() to be used after a
neighbour has been removed from its neighbour table. Serves
as preparation to add event notifications.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[NET]: Generic Large Receive Offload for TCP traffic
This patch provides generic Large Receive Offload (LRO) functionality
for IPv4/TCP traffic.
LRO combines received tcp packets to a single larger tcp packet and
passes them then to the network stack in order to increase performance
(throughput). The interface supports two modes: Drivers can either
pass SKBs or fragment lists to the LRO engine.
Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pavel Emelyanov [Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:14:46 +0000 (16:14 -0700)]
[NET]: Virtual ethernet device driver.
Veth stands for Virtual ETHernet. It is a simple tunnel driver
that works at the link layer and looks like a pair of ethernet
devices interconnected with each other.
Mainly it allows to communicate between network namespaces but
it can be used as is as well.
The newlink callback is organized that way to make it easy to
create the peer device in the separate namespace when we have
them in kernel.
This implementation uses another interface - the RTM_NRELINK
message introduced by Patric.
Bug fixes from Daniel Lezcano.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This routine gets the parsed rtnl attributes and creates a new
link with generic info (IFLA_LINKINFO policy). Its intention
is to help the drivers, that need to create several links at
once (like VETH).
This is nothing but a copy-paste-ed part of rtnl_newlink() function
that is responsible for creation of new device.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects.
Several devices have multiple independant RX queues per net
device, and some have a single interrupt doorbell for several
queues.
In either case, it's easier to support layouts like that if the
structure representing the poll is independant from the net
device itself.
The signature of the ->poll() call back goes from:
int foo_poll(struct net_device *dev, int *budget)
to
int foo_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
The caller is returned the number of RX packets processed (or
the number of "NAPI credits" consumed if you want to get
abstract). The callee no longer messes around bumping
dev->quota, *budget, etc. because that is all handled in the
caller upon return.
The napi_struct is to be embedded in the device driver private data
structures.
Furthermore, it is the driver's responsibility to disable all NAPI
instances in it's ->stop() device close handler. Since the
napi_struct is privatized into the driver's private data structures,
only the driver knows how to get at all of the napi_struct instances
it may have per-device.
With lots of help and suggestions from Rusty Russell, Roland Dreier,
Michael Chan, Jeff Garzik, and Jamal Hadi Salim.
Bug fixes from Thomas Graf, Roland Dreier, Peter Zijlstra,
Joseph Fannin, Scott Wood, Hans J. Koch, and Michael Chan.
[ Ported to current tree and all drivers converted. Integrated
Stephen's follow-on kerneldoc additions, and restored poll_list
handling to the old style to fix mutual exclusion issues. -DaveM ]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Larry Finger [Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:23:20 +0000 (11:23 -0500)]
[MAC80211]: Add SIOCGIWTXPOWER routine
The wireless extensions ioctl's implemented in mac80211 do not include
SIOCGIWTXPOWER. This patch adds the necessary code.
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This makes it behave the same whether we have monitor during operation
or not.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Daniel Drake [Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:43:24 +0000 (15:43 +0200)]
[MAC80211]: implement ERP info change notifications
zd1211rw and bcm43xx are interested in being notified when ERP IE conditions
change, so that they can reprogram a register which affects how control frames
are transmitted.
This patch adds an interface similar to the one that can be found in softmac.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Daniel Drake [Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:43:24 +0000 (15:43 +0200)]
[MAC80211]: improved short preamble handling
Similarly to CTS protection, whether short preambles are used for 802.11b
transmissions should be a per-subif setting, not device global.
For STAs, this patch makes short preamble handling automatic based on the ERP
IE. For APs, hostapd still uses the prism ioctls, but the write ioctl has been
restricted to AP-only subifs.
ieee80211_txrx_data.short_preamble (an unused field) was removed.
Unfortunately, some API changes were required for the following functions:
- ieee80211_generic_frame_duration
- ieee80211_rts_duration
- ieee80211_ctstoself_duration
- ieee80211_rts_get
- ieee80211_ctstoself_get
Affected drivers were updated accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Ivo van Doorn [Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:43:23 +0000 (15:43 +0200)]
[MAC80211]: Add LONG_RETRY flag to ieee80211_tx_control
mac80211 informs the driver what the short and long retry values are through
set_retry_limit(), but when packets are being transmitted it did not inform the
driver which of the 2 retry limits should actually be used.
Instead it sends the actual value, but for drivers that can only set the retry limit
and the register and in the descriptor need to indicate which of the limits should
be used this is not really useful.
This patch will add a IEEE80211_TXCTL_LONG_RETRY_LIMIT flag to the
ieee80211_tx_control structure. By default the short retry limit should be
used but if the flag is set the long retry should be used.
This does not prevent the driver to ignore the request for "no retry" packets,
but at least those will be send out with the short retry limit. But there is no
perfect cure for this problem.. :(
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Daniel Drake [Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:43:23 +0000 (15:43 +0200)]
[MAC80211]: STA reassociation improvements
My cheapy D-Link AP behaves strangely w.r.t reassociations.
The following sequence of commands causes me to lose association and to be
unable to regain it:
ifconfig eth8 down
ifconfig eth8 up
iwconfig eth8 essid <x>
This is because mac80211 tries to reassociate, rather than just associate.
My AP replies with an association response (not a reassociation response...)
denying the association with code 12: "Association denied due to reason
outside the scope of this standard"
mac80211 tries this reassociation another 4 times or so before finally giving
up.
I see 2 problems here:
1. bringing the interface down and up again should be resetting interface state
i.e. after the interface is brought down, it should have no memory of if or
where it was previously associated
2. after the first reassociation fails, mac80211 should fall back to
standard association for the next attempt
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Michael Wu [Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:43:23 +0000 (15:43 +0200)]
[MAC80211]: improve locking of sta_info related structures
The sta_info code has some awkward locking which prevents some driver
callbacks from being allowed to sleep. This patch makes the locking more
focused so code that calls driver callbacks are allowed to sleep. It also
converts sta_lock to a rwlock.
Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:43:23 +0000 (15:43 +0200)]
[MAC80211]: introduce util.c
Introduce a new file util.c and move a whole bunch of functions into it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:43:23 +0000 (15:43 +0200)]
[MAC80211]: reorder interface related functions
This patch groups a whole bunch of functions together to make
ieee80211.c more maintainable.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:43:23 +0000 (15:43 +0200)]
[MAC80211]: move some rate control functions out of ieee80211.c
I think these can go with rate control just as well and it makes
ieee80211.c more readable.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:43:23 +0000 (15:43 +0200)]
[MAC80211]: split out some key functions from ieee80211.c
into a new file key.c which doesn't have much code right now but
it makes ieee80211.c easier to read.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:43:22 +0000 (15:43 +0200)]
[MAC80211]: remove some unnecessary includes
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:43:22 +0000 (15:43 +0200)]
[MAC80211]: split TX path into own file
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:43:22 +0000 (15:43 +0200)]
[MAC80211]: rx cleanups (2)
Some more outdenting to make the code more readable.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:43:22 +0000 (15:43 +0200)]
[MAC80211]: fix bug for per-sta stats
pre_rx handlers can't really touch sta since for IBSS it might not be
assigned yet, it can create sta info structs on-the-fly.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:43:22 +0000 (15:43 +0200)]
[MAC80211]: split up __ieee80211_rx
The really indented part that does the huge switch on the interface
type is a nuisance. Put it into an own function 'prepare_for_handlers'.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:43:22 +0000 (15:43 +0200)]
[MAC80211]: split ieee80211_rx_h_check handler
The ieee80211_rx_h_check handler really does two things, it's
a lot easier to understand if it's split into ieee80211_rx_h_check
and ieee80211_rx_h_load_key, and it may be possible in the future
to optimise the key loading to not do it for each interface.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:43:22 +0000 (15:43 +0200)]
[MAC80211]: rx cleanups (1)
Make some really indented code more readable by outdenting.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:43:22 +0000 (15:43 +0200)]
[MAC80211]: move QoS rx handlers into rx.c
This patch moves the QoS handlers into rx.c making it possible
to compile wme.c only when NET_SCHED is defined.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:43:22 +0000 (15:43 +0200)]
[MAC80211]: split RX handlers into own file
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 9 Oct 2007 19:38:44 +0000 (12:38 -0700)]
Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
[MIPS] Au1000: set the PCI controller IO base
[MIPS] Alchemy: Fix USB initialization.
[MIPS] IP32: Fix fatal typo in address computation.
Trond Myklebust [Tue, 9 Oct 2007 15:04:57 +0000 (11:04 -0400)]
NLM: Fix a memory leak in nlmsvc_testlock
The recent fix for a circular lock dependency unfortunately introduced a
potential memory leak in the event where the call to nlmsvc_lookup_host
fails for some reason.
Jeff Garzik [Tue, 9 Oct 2007 17:51:57 +0000 (13:51 -0400)]
sata_mv: correct S/G table limits
The recent mv_fill_sg() rewrite, to fix a data corruption problem
related to IOMMU virtual merging, forgot to account for the
potentially-increased size of the scatter/gather table after its run.
Additionally, the DMA boundary is reduced from 0xffffffff to 0xffff
to more closely match the needs of mv_fill_sg().
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch fixes a wrong ifdef in the board setup code, leading to the GPIO
pin not being pulled high, and thus the USB switch not being powered at all.
This finishes the rename of CONFIG_USB_OHCI to CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD, which
started in 2005 (before 2.6.12-rc2), then probably because things were
working anyway for most people got forgotten.
[Ralf: Paolo's original patch didn't fix the module case, Florian's patch
only fixed MTX1 etc. so this is a combined patch plus some cleanups.]
Cc: Giuseppe Patanè <giuseppe.patane@tvblob.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@telecomint.eu> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Correct Makefile rule for generating custom keymap
When building a custom keymap, after setting GENERATE_KEYMAP := 1 in
drivers/char/Makefile, the kernel build fails like this:
CC drivers/char/vt.o
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `drivers/char/%.map', needed by `drivers/char/defkeymap.c'. Stop.
make[1]: *** [drivers/char] Error 2
make: *** [drivers] Error 2
This was caused by commit af8b128719f5248e542036ea994610a29d0642a6, which
deleted a necessary colon from the Makefile rule that generates the keymap,
since that rule contains both a target and a target-pattern. The following
patch puts the colon back:
Yan Zheng [Mon, 8 Oct 2007 19:16:20 +0000 (12:16 -0700)]
AIO: fix cleanup in io_submit_one(...)
When IOCB_FLAG_RESFD flag is set and iocb->aio_resfd is incorrect,
statement 'goto out_put_req' is executed. At label 'out_put_req',
aio_put_req(..) is called, which requires 'req->ki_filp' set.
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng<yanzheng@21cn.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Yan Zheng [Mon, 8 Oct 2007 17:08:37 +0000 (10:08 -0700)]
fix page release issue in filemap_fault
find_lock_page increases page's usage count, we should decrease it
before return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng<yanzheng@21cn.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Peter Zijlstra [Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:54:37 +0000 (18:54 +0200)]
mm: set_page_dirty_balance() vs ->page_mkwrite()
All the current page_mkwrite() implementations also set the page dirty. Which
results in the set_page_dirty_balance() call to _not_ call balance, because the
page is already found dirty.
This allows us to dirty a _lot_ of pages without ever hitting
balance_dirty_pages(). Not good (tm).
Force a balance call if ->page_mkwrite() was successful.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Brian Haley [Mon, 8 Oct 2007 07:12:05 +0000 (00:12 -0700)]
[IPv6]: Fix ICMPv6 redirect handling with target multicast address
When the ICMPv6 Target address is multicast, Linux processes the
redirect instead of dropping it. The problem is in this code in
ndisc_redirect_rcv():
if (ipv6_addr_equal(dest, target)) {
on_link = 1;
} else if (!(ipv6_addr_type(target) & IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL)) {
ND_PRINTK2(KERN_WARNING
"ICMPv6 Redirect: target address is not
link-local.\n");
return;
}
This second check will succeed if the Target address is, for example,
FF02::1 because it has link-local scope. Instead, it should be checking
if it's a unicast link-local address, as stated in RFC 2461/4861 Section
8.1:
- The ICMP Target Address is either a link-local address (when
redirected to a router) or the same as the ICMP Destination
Address (when redirected to the on-link destination).
I know this doesn't explicitly say unicast link-local address, but it's
implied.
This bug is preventing Linux kernels from achieving IPv6 Logo Phase II
certification because of a recent error that was found in the TAHI test
suite - Neighbor Disovery suite test 206 (v6LC.2.3.6_G) had the
multicast address in the Destination field instead of Target field, so
we were passing the test. This won't be the case anymore.
The patch below fixes this problem, and also fixes ndisc_send_redirect()
to not send an invalid redirect with a multicast address in the Target
field. I re-ran the TAHI Neighbor Discovery section to make sure Linux
passes all 245 tests now.
Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Acked-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Alexey Dobriyan [Mon, 8 Oct 2007 06:44:17 +0000 (23:44 -0700)]
[ROSE]: Fix rose.ko oops on unload
Commit a3d384029aa304f8f3f5355d35f0ae274454f7cd aka
"[AX.25]: Fix unchecked rose_add_loopback_neigh uses"
transformed rose_loopback_neigh var into statically allocated one.
However, on unload it will be kfree's which can't work.
Ilpo Järvinen [Mon, 8 Oct 2007 06:43:10 +0000 (23:43 -0700)]
[TCP]: Fix fastpath_cnt_hint when GSO skb is partially ACKed
When only GSO skb was partially ACKed, no hints are reset,
therefore fastpath_cnt_hint must be tweaked too or else it can
corrupt fackets_out. The corruption to occur, one must have
non-trivial ACK/SACK sequence, so this bug is not very often
that harmful. There's a fackets_out state reset in TCP because
fackets_out is known to be inaccurate and that fixes the issue
eventually anyway.
In case there was also at least one skb that got fully ACKed,
the fastpath_skb_hint is set to NULL which causes a recount for
fastpath_cnt_hint (the old value won't be accessed anymore),
thus it can safely be decremented without additional checking.
Reported by Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Dmitry Torokhov [Sun, 7 Oct 2007 16:22:21 +0000 (12:22 -0400)]
Driver core: fix SYSF_DEPRECATED breakage for nested classdevs
We should only reparent to a class former class devices that
form the base of class hierarchy. Nested devices should still
grow from their real parents.
Al Viro [Sun, 7 Oct 2007 07:24:36 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
fix bogus reporting of signals by audit
Async signals should not be reported as sent by current in audit log. As
it is, we call audit_signal_info() too early in check_kill_permission().
Note that check_kill_permission() has that test already - it needs to know
if it should apply current-based permission checks. So the solution is to
move the call of audit_signal_info() between those.
Bogosity in question is easily reproduced - add a rule watching for e.g.
kill(2) from specific process (so that audit_signal_info() would not
short-circuit to nothing), say load_policy, watch the bogus OBJ_PID entry
in audit logs claiming that write(2) on selinuxfs file issued by
load_policy(8) had somehow managed to send a signal to syslogd...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Rafal Bilski [Sun, 7 Oct 2007 07:24:32 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
Longhaul: add auto enabled "revid_errata" option
VIA C3 Ezra-T has RevisionID equal to 1, but it needs RevisionKey to be 0
or CPU will ignore new frequency and will continue to work at old
frequency. New "revid_errata" option will force RevisionKey to be set to
0, whatever RevisionID is.
Additionaly "Longhaul" will not silently ignore unsuccessful transition.
It will try to check if "revid_errata" or "disable_acpi_c3" options need to
be enabled for this processor/system.
Same for Longhaul ver. 2 support. It will be disabled if none of above
options will work.
Best case scenario (with patch apllied and v2 enabled):
longhaul: VIA C3 'Ezra' [C5C] CPU detected. Longhaul v2 supported.
longhaul: Using northbridge support.
longhaul: VRM 8.5
longhaul: Max VID=1.350 Min VID=1.050, 13 possible voltage scales
longhaul: f: 300000 kHz, index: 0, vid: 1050 mV
[...]
longhaul: Voltage scaling enabled.
Worst case scenario:
longhaul: VIA C3 'Ezra-T' [C5M] CPU detected. Powersaver supported.
longhaul: Using northbridge support.
longhaul: Using ACPI support.
longhaul: VRM 8.5
longhaul: Claims to support voltage scaling but min & max are both 1.250. Voltage scaling disabled
longhaul: Failed to set requested frequency!
longhaul: Enabling "Ignore Revision ID" option.
longhaul: Failed to set requested frequency!
longhaul: Disabling ACPI C3 support.
longhaul: Disabling "Ignore Revision ID" option.
longhaul: Failed to set requested frequency!
longhaul: Enabling "Ignore Revision ID" option.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] Signed-off-by: Rafal Bilski <rafalbilski@interia.pl> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Anton Blanchard [Sun, 7 Oct 2007 07:24:31 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
Fix timer_stats printout of events/sec
When using /proc/timer_stats on ppc64 I noticed the events/sec field wasnt
accurate. Sometimes the integer part was incorrect due to rounding (we
werent taking the fractional seconds into consideration).
The fraction part is also wrong, we need to pad the printf statement and
take the bottom three digits of 1000 times the value.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 7 Oct 2007 23:17:38 +0000 (16:17 -0700)]
Don't do load-average calculations at even 5-second intervals
It turns out that there are a few other five-second timers in the
kernel, and if the timers get in sync, the load-average can get
artificially inflated by events that just happen to coincide.
So just offset the load average calculation it by a timer tick.
Noticed by Anders Boström, for whom the coincidence started triggering
on one of his machines with the JBD jiffies rounding code (JBD is one of
the subsystems that also end up using a 5-second timer by default).
Tested-by: Anders Boström <anders@bostrom.dyndns.org> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 7 Oct 2007 23:02:55 +0000 (16:02 -0700)]
VT_WAITACTIVE: Avoid returning EINTR when not necessary
We should generally prefer to return ERESTARTNOHAND rather than EINTR,
so that processes with unhandled signals that get ignored don't return
EINTR.
This can help with X startup issues:
Fatal server error:
xf86OpenConsole: VT_WAITACTIVE failed: Interrupted system call
although the real fix is having the X server always retry EINTR
regardless (since EINTR does happen for signals that have handlers
installed). Keithp has a patch for that.
Regardless, ERESTARTNOHAND is the correct thing to use.
Fix non-terminated PCI match table in PowerMac IDE
The PCI device table in the powermac IDE driver isn't properly
terminated. Depending on how your kernel is linked and other random
factors, you can end up with this driver matched against any other PCI
device in your system, possibly crashing at boot.
Thanks to Heikki for tracking this down with me, the bug have been there
for some time, though it rarely hurts due to luck. In this case, the
switch from .22 to .23-rc9 is causing it to show up due to differences
in the resulting layout of .data I suppose.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <pmac@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> Cc: Heikki Lindholm <holindho@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When pinning and unpinning pagetables, we must protect them against
being used by other CPUs, lest they see the pagetable in an
intermediate read-only-but-not-pinned state.
When using split pte locks, doing this properly would require taking
all the pte locks for the pagetable while pinning, but this may overflow
the PREEMPT_BITS part of the preempt counter if the process has mapped
more than about 512M of memory.
However, failing to take the pte locks causes write-protect faults when
the pageout code is trying to clear the Access bit on a pte which is part
of a freshy created and still being pinned process after fork.
This is a short-term fix until the problem is solved properly.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 5 Oct 2007 21:09:10 +0000 (14:09 -0700)]
Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] 4598/2: OSIRIS: Ensure we do not get nRSTOUT during suspend
[ARM] 4597/2: OSIRIS: ensure CPLD0 is preserved after suspend
Ben Dooks [Thu, 4 Oct 2007 22:16:42 +0000 (23:16 +0100)]
[ARM] 4597/2: OSIRIS: ensure CPLD0 is preserved after suspend
Ensure that CPLD is restored to the original state
on resume, and that before going into suspend we
select the NAND bank we booted from for restarting.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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