25 Dec, 2011

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20 Dec, 2011

1 commit

  • module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int. In
    fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy
    trick.

    It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option. For this version
    it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version.

    (Thanks to Joe Perches for suggesting coccinelle for 0/1 -> true/false).

    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Rusty Russell
     

18 Dec, 2011

1 commit


01 Nov, 2011

1 commit


25 Jun, 2010

1 commit

  • CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT has been deprecated for awhile and
    was originally scheduled for removal by 2.6.29.

    Removing support for this config option also stops
    this deprecation warning message in the kernel log.

    [ 61.669627] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (16384 buckets, 65536 max)
    [ 61.669850] CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT is deprecated and will be removed soon. Please use
    [ 61.669852] nf_conntrack.acct=1 kernel parameter, acct=1 nf_conntrack module option or
    [ 61.669853] sysctl net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct=1 to enable it.

    Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner
    [Patrick: changed default value to 0]
    Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy

    Tim Gardner
     

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
     

12 Nov, 2009

1 commit

  • Now that sys_sysctl is a compatiblity wrapper around /proc/sys
    all sysctl strategy routines, and all ctl_name and strategy
    entries in the sysctl tables are unused, and can be
    revmoed.

    In addition neigh_sysctl_register has been modified to no longer
    take a strategy argument and it's callers have been modified not
    to pass one.

    Cc: "David Miller"
    Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI
    Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

    Eric W. Biederman
     

13 Jun, 2009

1 commit


04 Nov, 2008

1 commit

  • I want to compile out proc_* and sysctl_* handlers totally and
    stub them to NULL depending on config options, however usage of &
    will prevent this, since taking adress of NULL pointer will break
    compilation.

    So, drop & in front of every ->proc_handler and every ->strategy
    handler, it was never needed in fact.

    Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Alexey Dobriyan
     

17 Oct, 2008

1 commit


08 Oct, 2008

1 commit


22 Jul, 2008

1 commit

  • Initially netfilter has had 64bit counters for conntrack-based accounting, but
    it was changed in 2.6.14 to save memory. Unfortunately in-kernel 64bit counters are
    still required, for example for "connbytes" extension. However, 64bit counters
    waste a lot of memory and it was not possible to enable/disable it runtime.

    This patch:
    - reimplements accounting with respect to the extension infrastructure,
    - makes one global version of seq_print_acct() instead of two seq_print_counters(),
    - makes it possible to enable it at boot time (for CONFIG_SYSCTL/CONFIG_SYSFS=n),
    - makes it possible to enable/disable it at runtime by sysctl or sysfs,
    - extends counters from 32bit to 64bit,
    - renames ip_conntrack_counter -> nf_conn_counter,
    - enables accounting code unconditionally (no longer depends on CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT),
    - set initial accounting enable state based on CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT
    - removes buggy IPCT_COUNTER_FILLING event handling.

    If accounting is enabled newly created connections get additional acct extend.
    Old connections are not changed as it is not possible to add a ct_extend area
    to confirmed conntrack. Accounting is performed for all connections with
    acct extend regardless of a current state of "net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct".

    Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki
    Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki