This patch checks kmem_cache_create() error and aborts loading module
on failure.
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>

The RSTP daemon needs to be able to flush all dynamic forwarding
entries in the case of topology change.

This is a temporary interface. It will change to a netlink interface
before RSTP daemon is officially released.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>

Instead of hashing the whole Ethernet address, it should be faster
to just use the last 4 bytes. Add a random salt value to the hash
to make it more difficult to construct worst case DoS hash chains.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>

br_fdb_get use atomic_inc to increase the refcount of an element found
on a RCU protected list, which can lead to the following race:

CPU0					CPU1

					br_fdb_get:   rcu_read_lock
					__br_fdb_get: find element
fdb_delete:   hlist_del_rcu
	      br_fdb_put
br_fdb_put:   atomic_dec_and_test
	      call_rcu(fdb_rcu_free)	br_fdb_get:   atomic_inc
						      rcu_read_unlock
fdb_rcu_free: kmem_cache_free

Use atomic_inc_not_zero instead.
Signed-off-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NYOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.

The patch was generated using the following script:

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
	#

	set -e

	for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
		quilt add $file
		sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
		mv /tmp/$$ $file
		quilt refresh
	done

The script was run like this

	sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Flush the forwarding table when carrier is lost. This helps for
availability because we don't want to forward to a downed device and
new packets may come in on other links.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Optimize the forwarding and transmit paths. Both places are
called with bottom half/no preempt so there is no need to use
spin_lock_bh or rcu_read_lock.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Use compare_ether_addr in bridge code.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>

This patch puts mostly read only data in the right section
(read_mostly), to help sharing of these data between CPUS without
memory ping pongs.

On one of my production machine, tcp_statistics was sitting in a
heavily modified cache line, so *every* SNMP update had to force a
reload.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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!