1. 15 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  2. 11 1月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] TTY layer buffering revamp · 33f0f88f
      Alan Cox 提交于
      The API and code have been through various bits of initial review by
      serial driver people but they definitely need to live somewhere for a
      while so the unconverted drivers can get knocked into shape, existing
      drivers that have been updated can be better tuned and bugs whacked out.
      
      This replaces the tty flip buffers with kmalloc objects in rings. In the
      normal situation for an IRQ driven serial port at typical speeds the
      behaviour is pretty much the same, two buffers end up allocated and the
      kernel cycles between them as before.
      
      When there are delays or at high speed we now behave far better as the
      buffer pool can grow a bit rather than lose characters. This also means
      that we can operate at higher speeds reliably.
      
      For drivers that receive characters in blocks (DMA based, USB and
      especially virtualisation) the layer allows a lot of driver specific
      code that works around the tty layer with private secondary queues to be
      removed. The IBM folks need this sort of layer, the smart serial port
      people do, the virtualisers do (because a virtualised tty typically
      operates at infinite speed rather than emulating 9600 baud).
      
      Finally many drivers had invalid and unsafe attempts to avoid buffer
      overflows by directly invoking tty methods extracted out of the innards
      of work queue structs. These are no longer needed and all go away. That
      fixes various random hangs with serial ports on overflow.
      
      The other change in here is to optimise the receive_room path that is
      used by some callers. It turns out that only one ldisc uses receive room
      except asa constant and it updates it far far less than the value is
      read. We thus make it a variable not a function call.
      
      I expect the code to contain bugs due to the size alone but I'll be
      watching and squashing them and feeding out new patches as it goes.
      
      Because the buffers now dynamically expand you should only run out of
      buffering when the kernel runs out of memory for real.  That means a lot of
      the horrible hacks high performance drivers used to do just aren't needed any
      more.
      
      Description:
      
      tty_insert_flip_char is an old API and continues to work as before, as does
      tty_flip_buffer_push() [this is why many drivers dont need modification].  It
      does now also return the number of chars inserted
      
      There are also
      
      tty_buffer_request_room(tty, len)
      
      which asks for a buffer block of the length requested and returns the space
      found.  This improves efficiency with hardware that knows how much to
      transfer.
      
      and tty_insert_flip_string_flags(tty, str, flags, len)
      
      to insert a string of characters and flags
      
      For a smart interface the usual code is
      
          len = tty_request_buffer_room(tty, amount_hardware_says);
          tty_insert_flip_string(tty, buffer_from_card, len);
      
      More description!
      
      At the moment tty buffers are attached directly to the tty.  This is causing a
      lot of the problems related to tty layer locking, also problems at high speed
      and also with bursty data (such as occurs in virtualised environments)
      
      I'm working on ripping out the flip buffers and replacing them with a pool of
      dynamically allocated buffers.  This allows both for old style "byte I/O"
      devices and also helps virtualisation and smart devices where large blocks of
      data suddenely materialise and need storing.
      
      So far so good.  Lots of drivers reference tty->flip.*.  Several of them also
      call directly and unsafely into function pointers it provides.  This will all
      break.  Most drivers can use tty_insert_flip_char which can be kept as an API
      but others need more.
      
      At the moment I've added the following interfaces, if people think more will
      be needed now is a good time to say
      
       int tty_buffer_request_room(tty, size)
      
      Try and ensure at least size bytes are available, returns actual room (may be
      zero).  At the moment it just uses the flipbuf space but that will change.
      Repeated calls without characters being added are not cumulative.  (ie if you
      call it with 1, 1, 1, and then 4 you'll have four characters of space.  The
      other functions will also try and grow buffers in future but this will be a
      more efficient way when you know block sizes.
      
       int tty_insert_flip_char(tty, ch, flag)
      
      As before insert a character if there is room.  Now returns 1 for success, 0
      for failure.
      
       int tty_insert_flip_string(tty, str, len)
      
      Insert a block of non error characters.  Returns the number inserted.
      
       int tty_prepare_flip_string(tty, strptr, len)
      
      Adjust the buffer to allow len characters to be added.  Returns a buffer
      pointer in strptr and the length available.  This allows for hardware that
      needs to use functions like insl or mencpy_fromio.
      Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
      Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
      Signed-off-by: NHirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
      Signed-off-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      33f0f88f
  3. 09 1月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Eliminate __attribute__ ((packed)) warnings for gcc-4.1 · 6a878184
      Jan Blunck 提交于
      Since version 4.1 the gcc is warning about ignored attributes. This patch is
      using the equivalent attribute on the struct instead of on each of the
      structure or union members.
      
      GCC Manual:
        "Specifying Attributes of Types
      
         packed
          This attribute, attached to struct or union type definition, specifies
          that
          each member of the structure or union is placed to minimize the memory
          required. When attached to an enum definition, it indicates that the
          smallest integral type should be used.
      
          Specifying this attribute for struct and union types is equivalent to
          specifying the packed attribute on each of the structure or union
          members."
      Signed-off-by: NJan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
      Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      6a878184
  4. 02 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  5. 17 11月, 2005 2 次提交
  6. 16 11月, 2005 1 次提交
  7. 29 10月, 2005 1 次提交
  8. 04 10月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [IPV4]: Replace __in_dev_get with __in_dev_get_rcu/rtnl · e5ed6399
      Herbert Xu 提交于
      The following patch renames __in_dev_get() to __in_dev_get_rtnl() and
      introduces __in_dev_get_rcu() to cover the second case.
      
      1) RCU with refcnt should use in_dev_get().
      2) RCU without refcnt should use __in_dev_get_rcu().
      3) All others must hold RTNL and use __in_dev_get_rtnl().
      
      There is one exception in net/ipv4/route.c which is in fact a pre-existing
      race condition.  I've marked it as such so that we remember to fix it.
      
      This patch is based on suggestions and prior work by Suzanne Wood and
      Paul McKenney.
      Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      e5ed6399
  9. 20 9月, 2005 1 次提交
  10. 14 9月, 2005 3 次提交
  11. 07 9月, 2005 1 次提交
  12. 30 8月, 2005 2 次提交
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      [NET]: Kill skb->real_dev · f2ccd8fa
      David S. Miller 提交于
      Bonding just wants the device before the skb_bond()
      decapsulation occurs, so simply pass that original
      device into packet_type->func() as an argument.
      
      It remains to be seen whether we can use this same
      exact thing to get rid of skb->input_dev as well.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      f2ccd8fa
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      [NET]: Kill skb->list · 8728b834
      David S. Miller 提交于
      Remove the "list" member of struct sk_buff, as it is entirely
      redundant.  All SKB list removal callers know which list the
      SKB is on, so storing this in sk_buff does nothing other than
      taking up some space.
      
      Two tricky bits were SCTP, which I took care of, and two ATM
      drivers which Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> fixed
      up.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Signed-off-by: NFrancois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
      8728b834
  13. 19 8月, 2005 1 次提交
  14. 16 7月, 2005 1 次提交
  15. 13 7月, 2005 1 次提交
  16. 29 6月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [NET]: Remove gratuitous use of skb->tail in network drivers. · 689be439
      David S. Miller 提交于
      Many drivers use skb->tail unnecessarily.
      
      In these situations, the code roughly looks like:
      
      	dev = dev_alloc_skb(...);
      
      	[optional] skb_reserve(skb, ...);
      
      	... skb->tail ...
      
      But even if the skb_reserve() happens, skb->data equals
      skb->tail.  So it doesn't make any sense to use anything
      other than skb->data in these cases.
      
      Another case was the s2io.c driver directly mucking with
      the skb->data and skb->tail pointers.  It really just wanted
      to do an skb_reserve(), so that's what the code was changed
      to do instead.
      
      Another reason I'm making this change as it allows some SKB
      cleanups I have planned simpler to merge.  In those cleanups,
      skb->head, skb->tail, and skb->end pointers are removed, and
      replaced with skb->head_room and skb->tail_room integers.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Acked-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
      689be439
  17. 27 6月, 2005 2 次提交
  18. 26 6月, 2005 1 次提交
  19. 24 6月, 2005 1 次提交
  20. 21 6月, 2005 1 次提交
  21. 16 5月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Generic HDLC update · b3dd65f9
      Krzysztof Halasa 提交于
      The attached patch updates generic HDLC to version 1.18.
      FR Cisco LMI production-tested. Please apply to Linux 2.6. Thanks.
      
      Changes:
      - doc updates
      - added Cisco LMI support to Frame-Relay code
      - cleaned hdlc_fr.c a bit, removed some orphaned #defines etc.
      - fixed a problem with non-functional LMI in FR DCE mode.
      - changed diagnostic messages to better conform to FR standards
      - all protocols: information about carrier changes (DCD line) is now
        printed to kernel logs.
      Signed-Off-By: NKrzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
      b3dd65f9
  22. 13 5月, 2005 1 次提交
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  24. 27 4月, 2005 1 次提交
  25. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4