Eric Lee / smarc-fsl-linux-kernel

11 Oct, 2007

2 commits

  • cd40b7d39   [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious ... Browse Code »

    This patch make processing netlink user -> kernel messages synchronious.
    This change was inspired by the talk with Alexey Kuznetsov about current
    netlink messages processing. He says that he was badly wrong when introduced
    asynchronious user -> kernel communication.

    The call netlink_unicast is the only path to send message to the kernel
    netlink socket. But, unfortunately, it is also used to send data to the
    user.

    Before this change the user message has been attached to the socket queue
    and sk->sk_data_ready was called. The process has been blocked until all
    pending messages were processed. The bad thing is that this processing
    may occur in the arbitrary process context.

    This patch changes nlk->data_ready callback to get 1 skb and force packet
    processing right in the netlink_unicast.

    Kernel -> user path in netlink_unicast remains untouched.

    EINTR processing for in netlink_run_queue was changed. It forces rtnl_lock
    drop, but the process remains in the cycle until the message will be fully
    processed. So, there is no need to use this kludges now.

    Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev
    Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Denis V. Lunev
     
  • b4b510290   [NET]: Support multiple network namespaces with netlink ... Browse Code »

    Each netlink socket will live in exactly one network namespace,
    this includes the controlling kernel sockets.

    This patch updates all of the existing netlink protocols
    to only support the initial network namespace. Request
    by clients in other namespaces will get -ECONREFUSED.
    As they would if the kernel did not have the support for
    that netlink protocol compiled in.

    As each netlink protocol is updated to be multiple network
    namespace safe it can register multiple kernel sockets
    to acquire a presence in the rest of the network namespaces.

    The implementation in af_netlink is a simple filter implementation
    at hash table insertion and hash table look up time.

    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Eric W. Biederman
     

26 Apr, 2007

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08 Mar, 2007

1 commit

  • 05e52dd73   [CONNECTOR]: Bugfix for cn_call_callback() ... Browse Code »

    When system under heavy stress and must allocate new work
    instead of reusing old one, new work must use correct
    completion callback.

    Patch is based on Philipp's and Lars' work.
    I only cleaned small stuff (and removed spaces instead of tabs).

    Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner
    Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg
    Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Philipp Reisner
     

18 Dec, 2006

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22 Nov, 2006

1 commit

23 Jun, 2006

1 commit

20 Jun, 2006

1 commit

23 Mar, 2006

1 commit

21 Mar, 2006

1 commit

09 Oct, 2005

1 commit

  • dd0fc66fb   [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1 ... Browse Code »

    - added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;

    - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
    the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
    generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
    typedef) and documents what's going on far better.

    Signed-off-by: Al Viro
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Al Viro
     

05 Oct, 2005

1 commit

  • 17b698856   [CONNECTOR]: fix sparse gfp nocast warnings ... Browse Code »

    Fix implicit nocast warnings in connector code:
    drivers/connector/connector.c:102:24: warning: implicit cast to nocast type
    drivers/connector/connector.c:114:45: warning: implicit cast to nocast type

    Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Randy Dunlap
     

27 Sep, 2005

1 commit

  • acd042bb2   [CONNECTOR]: async connector mode. ... Browse Code »

    If input message rate from userspace is too high, do not drop them,
    but try to deliver using work queue allocation.

    Failing there is some kind of congestion control.

    It also removes warn_on on this condition, which scares people.

    Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Evgeniy Polyakov
     

12 Sep, 2005

1 commit

  • 7672d0b54   [NET]: Add netlink connector. ... Browse Code »

    Kernel connector - new userspace kernel space easy to use
    communication module which implements easy to use bidirectional
    message bus using netlink as it's backend. Connector was created to
    eliminate complex skb handling both in send and receive message bus
    direction.

    Connector driver adds possibility to connect various agents using as
    one of it's backends netlink based network. One must register
    callback and identifier. When driver receives special netlink message
    with appropriate identifier, appropriate callback will be called.

    From the userspace point of view it's quite straightforward:

    socket();
    bind();
    send();
    recv();

    But if kernelspace want to use full power of such connections, driver
    writer must create special sockets, must know about struct sk_buff
    handling... Connector allows any kernelspace agents to use netlink
    based networking for inter-process communication in a significantly
    easier way:

    int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (void *));
    void cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask);

    struct cb_id
    {
    __u32 idx;
    __u32 val;
    };

    idx and val are unique identifiers which must be registered in
    connector.h for in-kernel usage. void (*callback) (void *) - is a
    callback function which will be called when message with above idx.val
    will be received by connector core.

    Using connector completely hides low-level transport layer from it's
    users.

    Connector uses new netlink ability to have many groups in one socket.

    [ Incorporating many cleanups and fixes by myself and
    Andrew Morton -DaveM ]

    Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Evgeniy Polyakov