01 Nov, 2011

1 commit


18 May, 2010

1 commit

  • This patch removes from net/ (but not any netfilter files)
    all the unnecessary return; statements that precede the
    last closing brace of void functions.

    It does not remove the returns that are immediately
    preceded by a label as gcc doesn't like that.

    Done via:
    $ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] -l "return;\n}" net/ | \
    xargs perl -i -e 'local $/ ; while (<>) { s/\n[ \t\n]+return;\n}/\n}/g; print; }'

    Signed-off-by: Joe Perches
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Joe Perches
     

12 May, 2010

1 commit


30 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • …it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

    percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
    included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
    in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
    universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

    percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
    this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
    headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
    needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
    used as the basis of conversion.

    http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

    The script does the followings.

    * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
    only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
    gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

    * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
    blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
    to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
    core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
    alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
    doesn't seem to be any matching order.

    * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
    because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
    an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
    file.

    The conversion was done in the following steps.

    1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
    over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
    and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
    files.

    2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
    some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
    embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
    inclusions to around 150 files.

    3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
    from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

    4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
    e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
    APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

    5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
    editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
    files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
    inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
    wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
    slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
    necessary.

    6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

    7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
    were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
    distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
    more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
    build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

    * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
    * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
    * s390 SMP allmodconfig
    * alpha SMP allmodconfig
    * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

    8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
    a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

    Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
    6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
    If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
    headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
    the specific arch.

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>

    Tejun Heo
     

19 Feb, 2010

1 commit


19 Oct, 2009

1 commit

  • Add "debug" module options to all the wimax modules (including
    drivers) so that the debug levels can be set upon kernel boot or
    module load time.

    This is needed as currently there was a limitation where the debug
    levels could only be set when a device was succesfully
    enumerated. This made it difficult to debug issues that made a device
    not probe properly.

    Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez

    Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
     

29 May, 2009

1 commit

  • wimax connection manager / daemon has to know what is current
    state of the device. Previously it was only possible to get
    notification whet state has changed.

    Note:

    By mistake, the new generic netlink's number for
    WIMAX_GNL_OP_STATE_GET was declared inserting into the existing list
    of API calls, not appending; thus, it'd break existing API.

    Fixed by Inaky Perez-Gonzalez by moving to
    the tail, where we add to the interface, not modify the interface.

    Thanks to Stephen Hemminger for catching this.

    Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas

    Paulius Zaleckas
     

07 May, 2009

1 commit

  • When a new wimax_dev is created, it's state has to be __WIMAX_ST_NULL
    until wimax_dev_add() is succesfully called. This allows calls into
    the stack that happen before said time to be rejected.

    Until now, the state was being set (by mistake) to UNINITIALIZED,
    which was allowing calls such as wimax_report_rfkill_hw() to go
    through even when a call to wimax_dev_add() had failed; that was
    causing an oops when touching uninitialized data.

    This situation is normal when the device starts reporting state before
    the whole initialization has been completed. It just has to be dealt
    with.

    Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez

    Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
     

06 Feb, 2009

1 commit

  • Currently, netlink_broadcast() reports errors to the caller if no
    messages at all were delivered:

    1) If, at least, one message has been delivered correctly, returns 0.
    2) Otherwise, if no messages at all were delivered due to skb_clone()
    failure, return -ENOBUFS.
    3) Otherwise, if there are no listeners, return -ESRCH.

    With this patch, the caller knows if the delivery of any of the
    messages to the listeners have failed:

    1) If it fails to deliver any message (for whatever reason), return
    -ENOBUFS.
    2) Otherwise, if all messages were delivered OK, returns 0.
    3) Otherwise, if no listeners, return -ESRCH.

    In the current ctnetlink code and in Netfilter in general, we can add
    reliable logging and connection tracking event delivery by dropping the
    packets whose events were not successfully delivered over Netlink. Of
    course, this option would be settable via /proc as this approach reduces
    performance (in terms of filtered connections per seconds by a stateful
    firewall) but providing reliable logging and event delivery (for
    conntrackd) in return.

    This patch also changes some clients of netlink_broadcast() that
    may report ENOBUFS errors via printk. This error handling is not
    of any help. Instead, the userspace daemons that are listening to
    those netlink messages should resync themselves with the kernel-side
    if they hit ENOBUFS.

    BTW, netlink_broadcast() clients include those that call
    cn_netlink_send(), nlmsg_multicast() and genlmsg_multicast() since they
    internally call netlink_broadcast() and return its error value.

    Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Pablo Neira Ayuso
     

30 Jan, 2009

1 commit

  • As reported by Toralf Förster and Randy Dunlap.

    - http://linuxwimax.org/pipermail/wimax/2009-January/000460.html

    - http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/29/279

    The definitions needed for the wimax stack and i2400m driver debug
    infrastructure was, by mistake, compiled depending on CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
    (by them being placed in the debugfs.c files); thus the build broke in
    2.6.29-rc3 when debugging was enabled (CONFIG_WIMAX_DEBUG) and
    DEBUG_FS was disabled.

    These definitions are always needed if debug is enabled at compile
    time (independently of DEBUG_FS being or not enabled), so moving them
    to a file that is always compiled fixes the issue.

    Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
     

08 Jan, 2009

1 commit

  • Implements the basic life cycles of a 'struct wimax_dev', some common
    generic netlink functionality for marshalling calls to user space,
    and the device state machine.

    For looking up net devices based on their generic netlink family IDs,
    use a low overhead method that optimizes for the case where most
    systems have a single WiMAX device, or at most, a very low number of
    WiMAX adaptors.

    Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Inaky Perez-Gonzalez