1. 09 5月, 2016 1 次提交
  2. 22 3月, 2016 1 次提交
  3. 15 3月, 2016 1 次提交
  4. 10 3月, 2016 1 次提交
  5. 04 3月, 2016 1 次提交
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      net: mellanox: add DEVLINK dependencies · 3d1cbe83
      Arnd Bergmann 提交于
      The new NET_DEVLINK infrastructure can be a loadable module, but the drivers
      using it might be built-in, which causes link errors like:
      
      drivers/net/built-in.o: In function `mlx4_load_one':
      :(.text+0x2fbfda): undefined reference to `devlink_port_register'
      :(.text+0x2fc084): undefined reference to `devlink_port_unregister'
      drivers/net/built-in.o: In function `mlxsw_sx_port_remove':
      :(.text+0x33a03a): undefined reference to `devlink_port_type_clear'
      :(.text+0x33a04e): undefined reference to `devlink_port_unregister'
      
      There are multiple ways to avoid this:
      
      a) add 'depends on NET_DEVLINK || !NET_DEVLINK' dependencies
         for each user
      b) use 'select NET_DEVLINK' from each driver that uses it
         and hide the symbol in Kconfig.
      c) make NET_DEVLINK a 'bool' option so we don't have to
         list it as a dependency, and rely on the APIs to be
         stubbed out when it is disabled
      d) use IS_REACHABLE() rather than IS_ENABLED() to check for
         NET_DEVLINK in include/net/devlink.h
      
      This implements a variation of approach a) by adding an
      intermediate symbol that drivers can depend on, and changes
      the three drivers using it.
      Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Fixes: 09d4d087 ("mlx4: Implement devlink interface")
      Fixes: c4745500 ("mlxsw: Implement devlink interface")
      Acked-by: NJiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      3d1cbe83
  6. 02 3月, 2016 1 次提交
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      Introduce devlink infrastructure · bfcd3a46
      Jiri Pirko 提交于
      Introduce devlink infrastructure for drivers to register and expose to
      userspace via generic Netlink interface.
      
      There are two basic objects defined:
      devlink - one instance for every "parent device", for example switch ASIC
      devlink port - one instance for every physical port of the device.
      
      This initial portion implements basic get/dump of objects to userspace.
      Also, port splitter and port type setting is implemented.
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      bfcd3a46
  7. 17 2月, 2016 1 次提交
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      net: add dst_cache support · 911362c7
      Paolo Abeni 提交于
      This patch add a generic, lockless dst cache implementation.
      The need for lock is avoided updating the dst cache fields
      only in per cpu scope, and requiring that the cache manipulation
      functions are invoked with the local bh disabled.
      
      The refresh_ts and reset_ts fields are used to ensure the cache
      consistency in case of cuncurrent cache update (dst_cache_set*) and
      reset operation (dst_cache_reset).
      
      Consider the following scenario:
      
      CPU1:                                   	CPU2:
        <cache lookup with emtpy cache: it fails>
        <get dst via uncached route lookup>
      						<related configuration changes>
                                              	dst_cache_reset()
        dst_cache_set()
      
      The dst entry set passed to dst_cache_set() should not be used
      for later dst cache lookup, because it's obtained using old
      configuration values.
      
      Since the refresh_ts is updated only on dst_cache lookup, the
      cached value in the above scenario will be discarded on the next
      lookup.
      Signed-off-by: NPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
      Suggested-and-acked-by: NHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      911362c7
  8. 11 1月, 2016 1 次提交
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      net, sched: add clsact qdisc · 1f211a1b
      Daniel Borkmann 提交于
      This work adds a generalization of the ingress qdisc as a qdisc holding
      only classifiers. The clsact qdisc works on ingress, but also on egress.
      In both cases, it's execution happens without taking the qdisc lock, and
      the main difference for the egress part compared to prior version of [1]
      is that this can be applied with _any_ underlying real egress qdisc (also
      classless ones).
      
      Besides solving the use-case of [1], that is, allowing for more programmability
      on assigning skb->priority for the mqprio case that is supported by most
      popular 10G+ NICs, it also opens up a lot more flexibility for other tc
      applications. The main work on classification can already be done at clsact
      egress time if the use-case allows and state stored for later retrieval
      f.e. again in skb->priority with major/minors (which is checked by most
      classful qdiscs before consulting tc_classify()) and/or in other skb fields
      like skb->tc_index for some light-weight post-processing to get to the
      eventual classid in case of a classful qdisc. Another use case is that
      the clsact egress part allows to have a central egress counterpart to
      the ingress classifiers, so that classifiers can easily share state (e.g.
      in cls_bpf via eBPF maps) for ingress and egress.
      
      Currently, default setups like mq + pfifo_fast would require for this to
      use, for example, prio qdisc instead (to get a tc_classify() run) and to
      duplicate the egress classifier for each queue. With clsact, it allows
      for leaving the setup as is, it can additionally assign skb->priority to
      put the skb in one of pfifo_fast's bands and it can share state with maps.
      Moreover, we can access the skb's dst entry (f.e. to retrieve tclassid)
      w/o the need to perform a skb_dst_force() to hold on to it any longer. In
      lwt case, we can also use this facility to setup dst metadata via cls_bpf
      (bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key()) without needing a real egress qdisc just for
      that (case of IFF_NO_QUEUE devices, for example).
      
      The realization can be done without any changes to the scheduler core
      framework. All it takes is that we have two a-priori defined minors/child
      classes, where we can mux between ingress and egress classifier list
      (dev->ingress_cl_list and dev->egress_cl_list, latter stored close to
      dev->_tx to avoid extra cacheline miss for moderate loads). The egress
      part is a bit similar modelled to handle_ing() and patched to a noop in
      case the functionality is not used. Both handlers are now called
      sch_handle_ingress() and sch_handle_egress(), code sharing among the two
      doesn't seem practical as there are various minor differences in both
      paths, so that making them conditional in a single handler would rather
      slow things down.
      
      Full compatibility to ingress qdisc is provided as well. Since both
      piggyback on TC_H_CLSACT, only one of them (ingress/clsact) can exist
      per netdevice, and thus ingress qdisc specific behaviour can be retained
      for user space. This means, either a user does 'tc qdisc add dev foo ingress'
      and configures ingress qdisc as usual, or the 'tc qdisc add dev foo clsact'
      alternative, where both, ingress and egress classifier can be configured
      as in the below example. ingress qdisc supports attaching classifier to any
      minor number whereas clsact has two fixed minors for muxing between the
      lists, therefore to not break user space setups, they are better done as
      two separate qdiscs.
      
      I decided to extend the sch_ingress module with clsact functionality so
      that commonly used code can be reused, the module is being aliased with
      sch_clsact so that it can be auto-loaded properly. Alternative would have been
      to add a flag when initializing ingress to alter its behaviour plus aliasing
      to a different name (as it's more than just ingress). However, the first would
      end up, based on the flag, choosing the new/old behaviour by calling different
      function implementations to handle each anyway, the latter would require to
      register ingress qdisc once again under different alias. So, this really begs
      to provide a minimal, cleaner approach to have Qdisc_ops and Qdisc_class_ops
      by its own that share callbacks used by both.
      
      Example, adding qdisc:
      
         # tc qdisc add dev foo clsact
         # tc qdisc show dev foo
         qdisc mq 0: root
         qdisc pfifo_fast 0: parent :1 bands 3 priomap  1 2 2 2 1 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
         qdisc pfifo_fast 0: parent :2 bands 3 priomap  1 2 2 2 1 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
         qdisc pfifo_fast 0: parent :3 bands 3 priomap  1 2 2 2 1 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
         qdisc pfifo_fast 0: parent :4 bands 3 priomap  1 2 2 2 1 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
         qdisc clsact ffff: parent ffff:fff1
      
      Adding filters (deleting, etc works analogous by specifying ingress/egress):
      
         # tc filter add dev foo ingress bpf da obj bar.o sec ingress
         # tc filter add dev foo egress  bpf da obj bar.o sec egress
         # tc filter show dev foo ingress
         filter protocol all pref 49152 bpf
         filter protocol all pref 49152 bpf handle 0x1 bar.o:[ingress] direct-action
         # tc filter show dev foo egress
         filter protocol all pref 49152 bpf
         filter protocol all pref 49152 bpf handle 0x1 bar.o:[egress] direct-action
      
      A 'tc filter show dev foo' or 'tc filter show dev foo parent ffff:' will
      show an empty list for clsact. Either using the parent names (ingress/egress)
      or specifying the full major/minor will then show the related filter lists.
      
      Prior work on a mqprio prequeue() facility [1] was done mainly by John Fastabend.
      
        [1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/512949/Signed-off-by: NDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
      Acked-by: NJohn Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      1f211a1b
  9. 09 12月, 2015 1 次提交
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      net: wrap sock->sk_cgrp_prioidx and ->sk_classid inside a struct · 2a56a1fe
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      Introduce sock->sk_cgrp_data which is a struct sock_cgroup_data.
      ->sk_cgroup_prioidx and ->sk_classid are moved into it.  The struct
      and its accessors are defined in cgroup-defs.h.  This is to prepare
      for overloading the fields with a cgroup pointer.
      
      This patch mostly performs equivalent conversions but the followings
      are noteworthy.
      
      * Equality test before updating classid is removed from
        sock_update_classid().  This shouldn't make any noticeable
        difference and a similar test will be implemented on the helper side
        later.
      
      * sock_update_netprioidx() now takes struct sock_cgroup_data and can
        be moved to netprio_cgroup.h without causing include dependency
        loop.  Moved.
      
      * The dummy version of sock_update_netprioidx() converted to a static
        inline function while at it.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      2a56a1fe
  10. 30 9月, 2015 1 次提交
  11. 22 7月, 2015 1 次提交
  12. 14 5月, 2015 1 次提交
  13. 07 1月, 2015 1 次提交
  14. 03 12月, 2014 1 次提交
  15. 28 10月, 2014 1 次提交
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      bpf: split eBPF out of NET · f89b7755
      Alexei Starovoitov 提交于
      introduce two configs:
      - hidden CONFIG_BPF to select eBPF interpreter that classic socket filters
        depend on
      - visible CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL (default off) that tracing and sockets can use
      
      that solves several problems:
      - tracing and others that wish to use eBPF don't need to depend on NET.
        They can use BPF_SYSCALL to allow loading from userspace or select BPF
        to use it directly from kernel in NET-less configs.
      - in 3.18 programs cannot be attached to events yet, so don't force it on
      - when the rest of eBPF infra is there in 3.19+, it's still useful to
        switch it off to minimize kernel size
      
      bloat-o-meter on x64 shows:
      add/remove: 0/60 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-15601 (-15601)
      
      tested with many different config combinations. Hopefully didn't miss anything.
      Signed-off-by: NAlexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
      Acked-by: NDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      f89b7755
  16. 11 10月, 2014 1 次提交
  17. 01 10月, 2014 1 次提交
  18. 27 9月, 2014 1 次提交
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      netfilter: bridge: move br_netfilter out of the core · 34666d46
      Pablo Neira Ayuso 提交于
      Jesper reported that br_netfilter always registers the hooks since
      this is part of the bridge core. This harms performance for people that
      don't need this.
      
      This patch modularizes br_netfilter so it can be rmmod'ed, thus,
      the hooks can be unregistered. I think the bridge netfilter should have
      been a separated module since the beginning, Patrick agreed on that.
      
      Note that this is breaking compatibility for users that expect that
      bridge netfilter is going to be available after explicitly 'modprobe
      bridge' or via automatic load through brctl.
      
      However, the damage can be easily undone by modprobing br_netfilter.
      The bridge core also spots a message to provide a clue to people that
      didn't notice that this has been deprecated.
      
      On top of that, the plan is that nftables will not rely on this software
      layer, but integrate the connection tracking into the bridge layer to
      enable stateful filtering and NAT, which is was bridge netfilter users
      seem to require.
      
      This patch still keeps the fake_dst_ops in the bridge core, since this
      is required by when the bridge port is initialized. So we can safely
      modprobe/rmmod br_netfilter anytime.
      Signed-off-by: NPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
      Acked-by: NFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
      34666d46
  19. 12 7月, 2014 1 次提交
  20. 02 4月, 2014 1 次提交
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      net: ptp: move PTP classifier in its own file · 408eccce
      Daniel Borkmann 提交于
      This commit fixes a build error reported by Fengguang, that is
      triggered when CONFIG_NETWORK_PHY_TIMESTAMPING is not set:
      
        ERROR: "ptp_classify_raw" [drivers/net/ethernet/oki-semi/pch_gbe/pch_gbe.ko] undefined!
      
      The fix is to introduce its own file for the PTP BPF classifier,
      so that PTP_1588_CLOCK and/or NETWORK_PHY_TIMESTAMPING can select
      it independently from each other. IXP4xx driver on ARM needs to
      select it as well since it does not seem to select PTP_1588_CLOCK
      or similar that would pull it in automatically.
      
      This also allows for hiding all of the internals of the BPF PTP
      program inside that file, and only exporting relevant API bits
      to drivers.
      
      This patch also adds a kdoc documentation of ptp_classify_raw()
      API to make it clear that it can return PTP_CLASS_* defines. Also,
      the BPF program has been translated into bpf_asm code, so that it
      can be more easily read and altered (extensively documented in [1]).
      
      In the kernel tree under tools/net/ we have bpf_asm and bpf_dbg
      tools, so the commented program can simply be translated via
      `./bpf_asm -c prog` where prog is a file that contains the
      commented code. This makes it easily readable/verifiable and when
      there's a need to change something, jump offsets etc do not need
      to be replaced manually which can be very error prone. Instead,
      a newly translated version via bpf_asm can simply replace the old
      code. I have checked opcode diffs before/after and it's the very
      same filter.
      
        [1] Documentation/networking/filter.txt
      
      Fixes: 164d8c66 ("net: ptp: do not reimplement PTP/BPF classifier")
      Reported-by: NFengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAlexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
      Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
      Cc: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NRichard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      408eccce
  21. 08 2月, 2014 1 次提交
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      cgroup: make CONFIG_CGROUP_NET_PRIO bool and drop unnecessary init_netclassid_cgroup() · af636337
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      net_prio is the only cgroup which is allowed to be built as a module.
      The savings from allowing one controller to be built as a module are
      tiny especially given that cgroup module support itself adds quite a
      bit of complexity.
      
      Given that none of other controllers has much chance of being made a
      module and that we're unlikely to add new modular controllers, the
      added complexity is simply not justifiable.
      
      As a first step to drop cgroup module support, this patch changes the
      config option to bool from tristate and drops module related code from
      it.
      
      Also, while an earlier commit fe1217c4 ("net: net_cls: move
      cgroupfs classid handling into core") dropped module support from
      net_cls cgroup, it retained a call to cgroup_load_subsys(), which is
      noop for built-in controllers.  Drop it along with
      init_netclassid_cgroup().
      
      v2: Removed modular version of task_netprioidx() in
          include/net/netprio_cgroup.h as suggested by Li Zefan.
      
      v3: Rebased on top of fe1217c4 ("net: net_cls: move cgroupfs
          classid handling into core").  net_cls cgroup part is mostly
          dropped except for removal of init_netclassid_cgroup().
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: NNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
      Acked-by: N"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Acked-by: NLi Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
      Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
      af636337
  22. 04 1月, 2014 2 次提交
  23. 22 11月, 2013 1 次提交
  24. 04 11月, 2013 1 次提交
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      net/hsr: Add support for the High-availability Seamless Redundancy protocol (HSRv0) · f421436a
      Arvid Brodin 提交于
      High-availability Seamless Redundancy ("HSR") provides instant failover
      redundancy for Ethernet networks. It requires a special network topology where
      all nodes are connected in a ring (each node having two physical network
      interfaces). It is suited for applications that demand high availability and
      very short reaction time.
      
      HSR acts on the Ethernet layer, using a registered Ethernet protocol type to
      send special HSR frames in both directions over the ring. The driver creates
      virtual network interfaces that can be used just like any ordinary Linux
      network interface, for IP/TCP/UDP traffic etc. All nodes in the network ring
      must be HSR capable.
      
      This code is a "best effort" to comply with the HSR standard as described in
      IEC 62439-3:2010 (HSRv0).
      Signed-off-by: NArvid Brodin <arvid.brodin@xdin.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      f421436a
  25. 13 9月, 2013 1 次提交
  26. 02 8月, 2013 1 次提交
  27. 31 7月, 2013 1 次提交
  28. 18 6月, 2013 2 次提交
  29. 11 6月, 2013 1 次提交
  30. 06 6月, 2013 1 次提交
  31. 28 5月, 2013 1 次提交
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      MPLS: Add limited GSO support · 0d89d203
      Simon Horman 提交于
      In the case where a non-MPLS packet is received and an MPLS stack is
      added it may well be the case that the original skb is GSO but the
      NIC used for transmit does not support GSO of MPLS packets.
      
      The aim of this code is to provide GSO in software for MPLS packets
      whose skbs are GSO.
      
      SKB Usage:
      
      When an implementation adds an MPLS stack to a non-MPLS packet it should do
      the following to skb metadata:
      
      * Set skb->inner_protocol to the old non-MPLS ethertype of the packet.
        skb->inner_protocol is added by this patch.
      
      * Set skb->protocol to the new MPLS ethertype of the packet.
      
      * Set skb->network_header to correspond to the
        end of the L3 header, including the MPLS label stack.
      
      I have posted a patch, "[PATCH v3.29] datapath: Add basic MPLS support to
      kernel" which adds MPLS support to the kernel datapath of Open vSwtich.
      That patch sets the above requirements in datapath/actions.c:push_mpls()
      and was used to exercise this code.  The datapath patch is against the Open
      vSwtich tree but it is intended that it be added to the Open vSwtich code
      present in the mainline Linux kernel at some point.
      
      Features:
      
      I believe that the approach that I have taken is at least partially
      consistent with the handling of other protocols.  Jesse, I understand that
      you have some ideas here.  I am more than happy to change my implementation.
      
      This patch adds dev->mpls_features which may be used by devices
      to advertise features supported for MPLS packets.
      
      A new NETIF_F_MPLS_GSO feature is added for devices which support
      hardware MPLS GSO offload.  Currently no devices support this
      and MPLS GSO always falls back to software.
      
      Alternate Implementation:
      
      One possible alternate implementation is to teach netif_skb_features()
      and skb_network_protocol() about MPLS, in a similar way to their
      understanding of VLANs. I believe this would avoid the need
      for net/mpls/mpls_gso.c and in particular the calls to
      __skb_push() and __skb_push() in mpls_gso_segment().
      
      I have decided on the implementation in this patch as it should
      not introduce any overhead in the case where mpls_gso is not compiled
      into the kernel or inserted as a module.
      
      MPLS GSO suggested by Jesse Gross.
      Based in part on "v4 GRE: Add TCP segmentation offload for GRE"
      by Pravin B Shelar.
      
      Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
      Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      0d89d203
  32. 21 5月, 2013 1 次提交
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      rps: selective flow shedding during softnet overflow · 99bbc707
      Willem de Bruijn 提交于
      A cpu executing the network receive path sheds packets when its input
      queue grows to netdev_max_backlog. A single high rate flow (such as a
      spoofed source DoS) can exceed a single cpu processing rate and will
      degrade throughput of other flows hashed onto the same cpu.
      
      This patch adds a more fine grained hashtable. If the netdev backlog
      is above a threshold, IRQ cpus track the ratio of total traffic of
      each flow (using 4096 buckets, configurable). The ratio is measured
      by counting the number of packets per flow over the last 256 packets
      from the source cpu. Any flow that occupies a large fraction of this
      (set at 50%) will see packet drop while above the threshold.
      
      Tested:
      Setup is a muli-threaded UDP echo server with network rx IRQ on cpu0,
      kernel receive (RPS) on cpu0 and application threads on cpus 2--7
      each handling 20k req/s. Throughput halves when hit with a 400 kpps
      antagonist storm. With this patch applied, antagonist overload is
      dropped and the server processes its complete load.
      
      The patch is effective when kernel receive processing is the
      bottleneck. The above RPS scenario is a extreme, but the same is
      reached with RFS and sufficient kernel processing (iptables, packet
      socket tap, ..).
      Signed-off-by: NWillem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
      Acked-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      99bbc707
  33. 02 5月, 2013 1 次提交
  34. 20 4月, 2013 1 次提交
  35. 22 3月, 2013 1 次提交
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      netlink: Diag core and basic socket info dumping (v2) · eaaa3139
      Andrey Vagin 提交于
      The netlink_diag can be built as a module, just like it's done in
      unix sockets.
      
      The core dumping message carries the basic info about netlink sockets:
      family, type and protocol, portis, dst_group, dst_portid, state.
      
      Groups can be received as an optional parameter NETLINK_DIAG_GROUPS.
      
      Netlink sockets cab be filtered by protocols.
      
      The socket inode number and cookie is reserved for future per-socket info
      retrieving. The per-protocol filtering is also reserved for future by
      requiring the sdiag_protocol to be zero.
      
      The file /proc/net/netlink doesn't provide enough information for
      dumping netlink sockets. It doesn't provide dst_group, dst_portid,
      groups above 32.
      
      v2: fix NETLINK_DIAG_MAX. Now it's equal to the last constant.
      Acked-by: NPavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
      Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      eaaa3139
  36. 11 2月, 2013 1 次提交
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      VSOCK: Introduce VM Sockets · d021c344
      Andy King 提交于
      VM Sockets allows communication between virtual machines and the hypervisor.
      User level applications both in a virtual machine and on the host can use the
      VM Sockets API, which facilitates fast and efficient communication between
      guest virtual machines and their host.  A socket address family, designed to be
      compatible with UDP and TCP at the interface level, is provided.
      
      Today, VM Sockets is used by various VMware Tools components inside the guest
      for zero-config, network-less access to VMware host services.  In addition to
      this, VMware's users are using VM Sockets for various applications, where
      network access of the virtual machine is restricted or non-existent.  Examples
      of this are VMs communicating with device proxies for proprietary hardware
      running as host applications and automated testing of applications running
      within virtual machines.
      
      The VMware VM Sockets are similar to other socket types, like Berkeley UNIX
      socket interface.  The VM Sockets module supports both connection-oriented
      stream sockets like TCP, and connectionless datagram sockets like UDP. The VM
      Sockets protocol family is defined as "AF_VSOCK" and the socket operations
      split for SOCK_DGRAM and SOCK_STREAM.
      
      For additional information about the use of VM Sockets, please refer to the
      VM Sockets Programming Guide available at:
      
      https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vmci-sdk/Signed-off-by: NGeorge Zhang <georgezhang@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndy king <acking@vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      d021c344
  37. 01 2月, 2013 1 次提交
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      wanrouter: completely decouple obsolete code from kernel. · a786a7c0
      Paul Gortmaker 提交于
      The original suggestion to delete wanrouter started earlier
      with the mainline commit f0d1b3c2
      ("net/wanrouter: Deprecate and schedule for removal") in May 2012.
      
      More importantly, Dan Carpenter found[1] that the driver had a
      fundamental breakage introduced back in 2008, with commit
      7be6065b ("netdevice wanrouter: Convert directly reference of
      netdev->priv").  So we know with certainty that the code hasn't been
      used by anyone willing to at least take the effort to send an e-mail
      report of breakage for at least 4 years.
      
      This commit does a decouple of the wanrouter subsystem, by going
      after the Makefile/Kconfig and similar files, so that these mainline
      files that we are keeping do not have the big wanrouter file/driver
      deletion commit tied into their history.
      
      Once this commit is in place, we then can remove the obsolete cyclomx
      drivers and similar that have a dependency on CONFIG_WAN_ROUTER_DRIVERS.
      
      [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg218670.htmlOriginally-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
      Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      a786a7c0
  38. 12 1月, 2013 1 次提交