The function name must be followed by a space, hypen, space, and a
short description.
Signed-off-by: NBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add netdev ops for configuring SR-IOV VF devices through the PF driver.
Signed-off-by: NMitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add SR-IOV VF management methods to IFLA_LINKINFO. This allows userspace to
use rtnetlink to configure VF network devices.
Signed-off-by: NMitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add and export pci_num_vf to allow other subsystems to determine how many
virtual function devices are associated with an SR-IOV physical function
device.
Add macros dev_is_pci, dev_is_ps, and dev_num_vf to make it easier for
non-PCI specific code to determine SR-IOV capabilities.
Signed-off-by: NMitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add macros to test a private structure for msg_enable bits
and the netif_msg_##bit to test and call netdev_printk if set

Simplifies logic in callers and adds message logging consistency
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

These netdev_printk routines take a struct net_device * and emit
dev_printk logging messages adding "%s: " ... netdev->dev.parent
to the dev_printk format and arguments.

This can create some uniformity in the output message log.

These helpers should not be used until a successful alloc_netdev.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patchset enables the ethtool layer to program n-tuple
filters to an underlying device.  The idea is to allow capable
hardware to have static rules applied that can assist steering
flows into appropriate queues.

Hardware that is known to support these types of filters today
are ixgbe and niu.
Signed-off-by: NPeter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Some places in kernel need to iterate over a hlist in seq_file,
so provide some common helpers.
Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch adds GSO/checksum offload to af_packet sockets using
virtio_net_hdr. Based on Rusty's patch to add this support to tun.
It allows GSO/checksum offload to be enabled when using raw socket
backend with virtio_net.
Adds PACKET_VNET_HDR socket option to prepend virtio_net_hdr in the
receive path and process/skip virtio_net_hdr in the send path. This
option is only allowed with SOCK_RAW sockets attached to ethernet
type devices.

v2 updates
----------
Michael's Comments
- Perform length check in packet_snd() when GSO is off even when
  vnet_hdr is present.
- Check for SKB_GSO_FCOE type and return -EINVAL
- don't allow tx/rx ring when vnet_hdr is enabled.
Herbert's Comments
- Removed ethernet specific code.
- protocol value is assumed to be passed in by the caller.
Signed-off-by: NSridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Many drivers do this in them manually. Now they can use this function.
Signed-off-by: NJiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch introduces the similar helpers as those already done for uc list.
However multicast lists are no list_head lists but "mademanually". The three
macros added by this patch will make the transition of mc_list to list_head
smooth in two steps:

1) convert all drivers to use these macros (with the original iterator of type
   "struct dev_mc_list")
2) once all drivers are converted, convert list type and iterators to "struct
   netdev_hw_addr" in one patch.

>From now on, drivers can (and should) use "netdev_for_each_mc_addr" to iterate
over the addresses with iterator of type "struct netdev_hw_addr". Also macros
"netdev_mc_count" and "netdev_mc_empty" to read list's length. This is the state
which should be reached in all drivers.
Signed-off-by: NJiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Ifdef out
	struct proto_ops::compat_ioctl
	struct proto_ops::compat_setsockopt
	struct proto_ops::compat_getsockopt
to make structures smaller on COMPAT=n kernels.
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

In order to use macvlan with qemu and other tools that require
a tap file descriptor, the macvtap driver adds a small backend
with a character device with the same interface as the tun
driver, with a minimum set of features.

Macvtap interfaces are created in the same way as macvlan
interfaces using ip link, but the netif is just used as a
handle for configuration and accounting, while the data
goes through the chardev. Each macvtap interface has its
own character device, simplifying permission management
significantly over the generic tun/tap driver.

Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This makes it possible to hook into the macvlan driver
from another kernel module. In particular, the goal is
to extend it with the macvtap backend that provides
a tun/tap compatible interface directly on the macvlan
device.
Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

In the vlan and macvlan drivers, the start_xmit function forwards
data to the dev_queue_xmit function for another device, which may
potentially belong to a different namespace.

To make sure that classification stays within a single namespace,
this resets the potentially critical fields.
Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:57:14PM -0800, Greg KH (gregkh@suse.de) wrote:
> > There are at least two ways to fix it: using a big cannon and a small
> > one. The former way is to disable notification registration, since it is
> > not used by anyone at all. Second way is to check whether calling
> > process is root and its destination group is -1 (kind of priveledged
> > one) before command is dispatched to workqueue.
> 
> Well if no one is using it, removing it makes the most sense, right?
> 
> No objection from me, care to make up a patch either way for this?

Getting it is not used, let's drop support for notifications about
(un)registered events from connector.
Another option was to check credentials on receiving, but we can always
restore it without bugs if needed, but genetlink has a wider code base
and none complained, that userspace can not get notification when some
other clients were (un)registered.

Kudos for Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@suse.de>, who found a bug in the
code.
Signed-off-by: NEvgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

There's currently no way for a virtio driver to ask for unused
buffers, so it has to keep a list itself to reclaim them at shutdown.
This is redundant, since virtio_ring stores that information.  So
add a new hook to do this.
Signed-off-by: NShirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAmit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Almost all igmp functions accessing inet->mc_list are protected by
rtnl_lock(), but there is one exception which is ip_mc_sf_allow(),
so there is a chance of either ip_mc_drop_socket or ip_mc_leave_group
remove an entry while ip_mc_sf_allow is running causing a crash.
Signed-off-by: NFlavio Leitner <fleitner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch introduces three macros to work with uc list from net drivers.
Signed-off-by: NJiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

After netdev_ops compat code HAVE_* macros aren't needed, in fact
they _will_ result in compile breakage for out of tree drivers.
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

ieee80211_hdrlen() should account account new HT Control field in 802.11
data frame header introduced by IEEE 802.11n standard.

According to 802.11n-2009 HT Control field is present in data frames
when both of following are met:

   1. It is QoS data frame.
   2. Order bit is set in Frame Control field.

The change might be totally compatible with legacy non-11n aware frames,
because 802.11-2007 standard states that "all QoS STAs set this subfield
to 0".
Signed-off-by: NAndriy V. Tkachuk <andrit@ukr.net>
Acked-by : Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The is_software_event() definition always confuses me because its an
exclusive expression, make it an inclusive one.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

SD_PREFER_SIBLING is set at the CPU domain level if power saving isn't
enabled, leading to many cache misses on large machines as we traverse
looking for an idle shared cache to wake to.  Change the enabler of
select_idle_sibling() to SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES, and enable same at the
sibling domain level.
Reported-by: NLin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1262612696.15495.15.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Borislav Petkov reports issues with duplicate sysfs endpoint files after a
resume from a hibernate.  It turns out that the code to support alternate
settings under xHCI has issues when a device with a non-default alternate
setting is reset during the hibernate:

[  427.681810] Restarting tasks ...
[  427.681995] hub 1-0:1.0: state 7 ports 6 chg 0004 evt 0000
[  427.682019] usb usb3: usb resume
[  427.682030] ohci_hcd 0000:00:12.0: wakeup root hub
[  427.682191] hub 1-0:1.0: port 2, status 0501, change 0000, 480 Mb/s
[  427.682205] usb 1-2: usb wakeup-resume
[  427.682226] usb 1-2: finish reset-resume
[  427.682886] done.
[  427.734658] ehci_hcd 0000:00:12.2: port 2 high speed
[  427.734663] ehci_hcd 0000:00:12.2: GetStatus port 2 status 001005 POWER sig=se0 PE CONNECT
[  427.746682] hub 3-0:1.0: hub_reset_resume
[  427.746693] hub 3-0:1.0: trying to enable port power on non-switchable hub
[  427.786715] usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[  427.839653] ehci_hcd 0000:00:12.2: port 2 high speed
[  427.839666] ehci_hcd 0000:00:12.2: GetStatus port 2 status 001005 POWER sig=se0 PE CONNECT
[  427.847717] ohci_hcd 0000:00:12.0: GetStatus roothub.portstatus [1] = 0x00010100 CSC PPS
[  427.915497] hub 1-2:1.0: remove_intf_ep_devs: if: ffff88022f9e8800 ->ep_devs_created: 1
[  427.915774] hub 1-2:1.0: remove_intf_ep_devs: bNumEndpoints: 1
[  427.915934] hub 1-2:1.0: if: ffff88022f9e8800: endpoint devs removed.
[  427.916158] hub 1-2:1.0: create_intf_ep_devs: if: ffff88022f9e8800 ->ep_devs_created: 0, ->unregistering: 0
[  427.916434] hub 1-2:1.0: create_intf_ep_devs: bNumEndpoints: 1
[  427.916609]  ep_81: create, parent hub
[  427.916632] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  427.916644] WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:477 sysfs_add_one+0x82/0x96()
[  427.916649] Hardware name: System Product Name
[  427.916653] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/ep_81'
[  427.916658] Modules linked in: binfmt_misc kvm_amd kvm powernow_k8 cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_userspace freq_table cpufreq_conservative ipv6 vfat fat
+8250_pnp 8250 pcspkr ohci_hcd serial_core k10temp edac_core
[  427.916694] Pid: 278, comm: khubd Not tainted 2.6.33-rc2-00187-g08d869aa-dirty #13
[  427.916699] Call Trace:

The problem is caused by a mismatch between the USB core's view of the
device state and the USB device and xHCI host's view of the device state.

After the device reset and re-configuration, the device and the xHCI host
think they are using alternate setting 0 of all interfaces.  However, the
USB core keeps track of the old state, which may include non-zero
alternate settings.  It uses intf->cur_altsetting to keep the endpoint
sysfs files for the old state across the reset.

The bandwidth allocation functions need to know what the xHCI host thinks
the current alternate settings are, so original patch set
intf->cur_altsetting to the alternate setting 0.  This caused duplicate
endpoint files to be created.

The solution is to not set intf->cur_altsetting before calling
usb_set_interface() in usb_reset_and_verify_device().  Instead, we add a
new flag to struct usb_interface to tell usb_hcd_alloc_bandwidth() to use
alternate setting 0 as the currently installed alternate setting.
Signed-off-by: NSarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: NBorislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Nothing outside of net/core/dev.c uses it.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

commit 541cd3ee ("phylib: Fix deadlock
on resume") caused TI DaVinci EMAC ethernet driver to oops upon resume:

 PM: resume of devices complete after 237.098 msecs
 Restarting tasks ... done.
 kernel BUG at kernel/workqueue.c:354!
 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
 [...]
 Backtrace:
 [<c002c598>] (__bug+0x0/0x2c) from [<c0052a54>] (queue_delayed_work_on+0x74/0xf8)
 [<c00529e0>] (queue_delayed_work_on+0x0/0xf8) from [<c0052b30>] (queue_delayed_work+0x2c/0x30)

The oops pops up because TI DaVinci EMAC driver detaches PHY on
suspend and attaches it back on resume. Attaching makes phylib call
phy_start_machine() that initializes a workqueue. On the other hand,
PHY's resume routine will call phy_start_machine() again, and that
will cause the oops since we just destroyed the already scheduled
workqueue.

This patch fixes the issue by moving workqueue initialization to
phy_device_create().

p.s. We don't see this oops with ucc_geth and gianfar drivers because
they perform a fine-grained suspend, i.e. they just stop the PHYs
without detaching.
Reported-by: NSekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Tested-by: NSekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch abstracts out the CNF area code from tmio_mmc which
is not present in all hardware that can use this driver. This
is required so that we can support non-toshiba based hardware.

ASIC3 support by Philipp Zabel
Signed-off-by: NIan Molton <ian@mnementh.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: NMagnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: NSamuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>

The constants used to specify ISINK ramp times for WM835x had the
wrong shifts so that the on times applied to the off ramp and vice
versa. The masks for the bitfields are correct.
Signed-off-by: NMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NSamuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>

Fix a problem in NOMMU mmap with ramfs whereby a shared mmap can happen
over the end of a truncation.  The problem is that
ramfs_nommu_check_mappings() checks that the reduced file size against the
VMA tree, but not the vm_region tree.

The following sequence of events can cause the problem:

	fd = open("/tmp/x", O_RDWR|O_TRUNC|O_CREAT, 0600);
	ftruncate(fd, 32 * 1024);
	a = mmap(NULL, 32 * 1024, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
	b = mmap(NULL, 16 * 1024, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
	munmap(a, 32 * 1024);
	ftruncate(fd, 16 * 1024);
	c = mmap(NULL, 32 * 1024, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);

Mapping 'a' creates a vm_region covering 32KB of the file.  Mapping 'b'
sees that the vm_region from 'a' is covering the region it wants and so
shares it, pinning it in memory.

Mapping 'a' then goes away and the file is truncated to the end of VMA
'b'.  However, the region allocated by 'a' is still in effect, and has
_not_ been reduced.

Mapping 'c' is then created, and because there's a vm_region covering the
desired region, get_unmapped_area() is _not_ called to repeat the check,
and the mapping is granted, even though the pages from the latter half of
the mapping have been discarded.

However:

	d = mmap(NULL, 16 * 1024, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);

Mapping 'd' should work, and should end up sharing the region allocated by
'a'.

To deal with this, we shrink the vm_region struct during the truncation,
lest do_mmap_pgoff() take it as licence to share the full region
automatically without calling the get_unmapped_area() file op again.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

get_unmapped_area() is unnecessary for NOMMU as no-one calls it.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The vm_usage count field in struct vm_region does not need to be atomic as
it's only even modified whilst nommu_region_sem is write locked.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2()

When code relies on a constant being a power of 2:

	#define FOO	512	/* must be a power of 2 */

it would be nice to be able to do:

	BUILD_BUG_ON(!is_power_of_2(FOO));

However applying an inline function does not result in a compile-time
constant that can be used with BUILD_BUG_ON(), so trying that gives
results in:

	error: bit-field '<anonymous>' width not an integer constant

As suggested by akpm, rather than monkeying around with is_power_of_2()
and risking gcc warts about constant expressions, just create a macro
BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2() to encapsulate this common requirement.
Signed-off-by: NRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

On my first try using them I missed that the fifos need to be power of
two, resulting in a runtime bug.  Document that requirement everywhere
(and fix one grammar bug)
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NStefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Simple inline that checks if kfifo_init() has been executed on a fifo.

This is useful for walking all per CPU fifos, when some of them might not
have been brought up yet.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NStefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

In some upcoming code it's useful to peek into a FIFO without permanentely
removing data.  This patch implements a new kfifo_out_peek() to do this.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NStefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Right now for kfifo_*_user it's not easily possible to distingush between
a user copy failing and the FIFO not containing enough data.  The problem
is that both conditions are multiplexed into the same return code.

Avoid this by moving the "copy length" into a separate output parameter
and only return 0/-EFAULT in the main return value.

I didn't fully adapt the weird "record" variants, those seem
to be unused anyways and were rather messy (should they be just removed?)

I would appreciate some double checking if I did all the conversions
correctly.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The pointers to user buffers are currently unsigned char *, which requires
a lot of casting in the caller for any non-char typed buffers.  Use void *
instead.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NStefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

I get a few dozen of these warnings when using
  gcc (GCC) 4.4.1 20090725 (Red Hat 4.4.1-2):

In file included from mmotm-2010-0113-1217/init/do_mounts.c:5:
mmotm-2010-0113-1217/include/linux/tty.h: In function 'tty_port_get':
mmotm-2010-0113-1217/include/linux/tty.h:469: warning: '______f' is static but declared in inline function 'tty_port_get' which is not static

so make the function static inline.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: may as well convert tty_port_users() also]
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fix a wrong optimization in include/linux/kfifo.h which could cause a race
in kfifo_out_locked.
Signed-off-by: NStefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Reported-by: NJohan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

What it is: vhost net is a character device that can be used to reduce
the number of system calls involved in virtio networking.
Existing virtio net code is used in the guest without modification.

There's similarity with vringfd, with some differences and reduced scope
- uses eventfd for signalling
- structures can be moved around in memory at any time (good for
  migration, bug work-arounds in userspace)
- write logging is supported (good for migration)
- support memory table and not just an offset (needed for kvm)

common virtio related code has been put in a separate file vhost.c and
can be made into a separate module if/when more backends appear.  I used
Rusty's lguest.c as the source for developing this part : this supplied
me with witty comments I wouldn't be able to write myself.

What it is not: vhost net is not a bus, and not a generic new system
call. No assumptions are made on how guest performs hypercalls.
Userspace hypervisors are supported as well as kvm.

How it works: Basically, we connect virtio frontend (configured by
userspace) to a backend. The backend could be a network device, or a tap
device.  Backend is also configured by userspace, including vlan/mac
etc.

Status: This works for me, and I haven't see any crashes.
Compared to userspace, people reported improved latency (as I save up to
4 system calls per packet), as well as better bandwidth and CPU
utilization.

Features that I plan to look at in the future:
- mergeable buffers
- zero copy
- scalability tuning: figure out the best threading model to use

Note on RCU usage (this is also documented in vhost.h, near
private_pointer which is the value protected by this variant of RCU):
what is happening is that the rcu_dereference() is being used in a
workqueue item.  The role of rcu_read_lock() is taken on by the start of
execution of the workqueue item, of rcu_read_unlock() by the end of
execution of the workqueue item, and of synchronize_rcu() by
flush_workqueue()/flush_work(). In the future we might need to apply
some gcc attribute or sparse annotation to the function passed to
INIT_WORK(). Paul's ack below is for this RCU usage.

(Includes fixes by Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>)
Acked-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: N"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>