On Friday 02 October 2009 20:53:51 you wrote:

> This is good although I would have shortened the name.

Ah, I knew I forgot something :) Here is v4.

tavi

>From 24d96d825b9fa832b22878cc6c990d5711968734 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:51:15 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] ipv6: new sysctl for sending TLLAO with unicast NAs

Neighbor advertisements responding to unicast neighbor solicitations
did not include the target link-layer address option. This patch adds
a new sysctl option (disabled by default) which controls whether this
option should be sent even with unicast NAs.

The need for this arose because certain routers expect the TLLAO in
some situations even as a response to unicast NS packets.

Moreover, RFC 2461 recommends sending this to avoid a race condition
(section 4.4, Target link-layer address)
Signed-off-by: NCosmin Ratiu <cratiu@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: NOctavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Atis Elsts wrote:
> Not sure if there is need to fill the mark from skb in tunnel xmit functions. In any case, it's not done for GRE or IPIP tunnels at the moment.

Ok, I'll just drop that part, I'm not sure what should be done in this case.

> Also, in this patch you are doing that for SIT (v6-in-v4) tunnels only, and not doing it for v4-in-v6 or v6-in-v6 tunnels. Any reason for that?

I just sent that patch out too quickly, here's a better one with the updates.

Add support for IPv6 route lookups using sk_mark.
Signed-off-by: NBrian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

After updating firmware stored in flash, users may wish to reset the
relevant hardware and start the new firmware immediately.  This should
not be completely automatic as it may be disruptive.

A selective reset may also be useful for debugging or diagnostics.

This adds a separate reset operation which takes flags indicating the
components to be reset.  Drivers are allowed to reset only a subset of
those requested, and must indicate the actual subset.  This allows the
use of generic component masks and some future expansion.
Signed-off-by: NBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Jarek Poplawski a écrit :
>
>
> Hmm... So you made me to do some "real" work here, and guess what?:
> there is one serious checkpatch warning! ;-) Plus, this new parameter
> should be added to the function description. Otherwise:
> Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
>
> Thanks,
> Jarek P.
>
> PS: I guess full "Don't" would show we really mean it...

Okay :) Here is the last round, before the night !

Thanks again

[RFC] pkt_sched: gen_estimator: Don't report fake rate estimators

We currently send TCA_STATS_RATE_EST elements to netlink users, even if no estimator
is running.

# tc -s -d qdisc
qdisc pfifo_fast 0: dev eth0 root bands 3 priomap  1 2 2 2 1 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
 Sent 112833764978 bytes 1495081739 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0)
 rate 0bit 0pps backlog 0b 0p requeues 0

User has no way to tell if the "rate 0bit 0pps" is a real estimation, or a fake
one (because no estimator is active)

After this patch, tc command output is :
$ tc -s -d qdisc
qdisc pfifo_fast 0: dev eth0 root bands 3 priomap  1 2 2 2 1 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
 Sent 561075 bytes 1196 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0)
 backlog 0b 0p requeues 0

We add a parameter to gnet_stats_copy_rate_est() function so that
it can use gen_estimator_active(bstats, r), as suggested by Jarek.

This parameter can be NULL if check is not necessary, (htb for
example has a mandatory rate estimator)
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The receive_buf methods of the N_PPP and N_SYNC_PPP line disciplines,
ppp_asynctty_receive() and ppp_sync_receive(), call tty_unthrottle()
which may sleep. Fix the comments claiming otherwise.

Impact: documentation
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

In some cases there is not desirable to switch back to primary interface when
it's link recovers and rather stay with currently active one. We need to avoid
packetloss as much as we can in some cases. This is solved by introducing
primary_reselect option. Note that enslaved primary slave is set as current
active no matter what.

Patch modified by Jay Vosburgh as follows: fixed bug in action
after change of option setting via sysfs, revised the documentation
update, and bumped the bonding version number.
Signed-off-by: NJiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Here is a followup on this area, thanks.

[RFC] af_packet: fill skb->mark at xmit

skb->mark may be used by classifiers, so fill it in case user
set a SO_MARK option on socket.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

IPv6 Rapid Deployment (6rd; draft-ietf-softwire-ipv6-6rd) builds upon
mechanisms of 6to4 (RFC3056) to enable a service provider to rapidly
deploy IPv6 unicast service to IPv4 sites to which it provides
customer premise equipment.  Like 6to4, it utilizes stateless IPv6 in
IPv4 encapsulation in order to transit IPv4-only network
infrastructure.  Unlike 6to4, a 6rd service provider uses an IPv6
prefix of its own in place of the fixed 6to4 prefix.

With this option enabled, the SIT driver offers 6rd functionality by
providing additional ioctl API to configure the IPv6 Prefix for in
stead of static 2002::/16 for 6to4.

Original patch was done by Alexandre Cassen <acassen@freebox.fr>
based on old Internet-Draft.
Signed-off-by: NYOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When routing daemon wants to enable forwarding of multicast traffic it
performs something like:

       struct vifctl vc = {
               .vifc_vifi  = 1,
               .vifc_flags = 0,
               .vifc_threshold = 1,
               .vifc_rate_limit = 0,
               .vifc_lcl_addr = ip, /* <--- ip address of physical
interface, e.g. eth0 */
               .vifc_rmt_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY),
         };
       setsockopt(fd, IPPROTO_IP, MRT_ADD_VIF, &vc, sizeof(vc));

This leads (in the kernel) to calling  vif_add() function call which
search the (physical) device using assigned IP address:
       dev = ip_dev_find(net, vifc->vifc_lcl_addr.s_addr);

The current API (struct vifctl) does not allow to specify an
interface other way than using it's IP, and if there are more than a
single interface with specified IP only the first one will be found.

The attached patch (against 2.6.30.4) allows to specify an interface
by its index, instead of IP address:

       struct vifctl vc = {
               .vifc_vifi  = 1,
               .vifc_flags = VIFF_USE_IFINDEX,   /* NEW */
               .vifc_threshold = 1,
               .vifc_rate_limit = 0,
               .vifc_lcl_ifindex = if_nametoindex("eth0"),   /* NEW */
               .vifc_rmt_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY),
         };
       setsockopt(fd, IPPROTO_IP, MRT_ADD_VIF, &vc, sizeof(vc));
Signed-off-by: NIlia K. <mail4ilia@gmail.com>

=== modified file 'include/linux/mroute.h'
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add a Kernel CAPI interface to the Gigaset driver.

Impact: optional new functionality
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add a dummy LL interface to the Gigaset driver so that it can be
built and, in a limited way, used without the ISDN4Linux subsystem.

Impact: new configuration alternative
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Reorganize the code of the Gigaset driver, moving all isdn4linux
dependencies to the source file i4l.c so that it can be replaced
by a file capi.c interfacing to Kernel CAPI instead.

Impact: refactoring, no functional change
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add kerneldoc comments to some functions in the Gigaset driver.

Impact: documentation
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Dump payload data consistently only when DEBUG_STREAM_DUMP debug bit
is set.

Impact: debugging aid
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When the Gigaset base stops responding, try resetting the USB
connection to recover.

Impact: error handling improvement
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Clear out pending command that got rejected with 'ERROR' response.
This fixes the bug where unloading the driver module would hang
with the message: "gigaset: not searching scheduled commands: busy"
after a device communication error.

Impact: error handling bugfix
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Mention in the driver load announcement whether the driver was built
with debugging messages enabled, to facilitate support.

Impact: informational message
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Don't drop the remainder of an URB if an isochronous frame has an error.

Impact: error handling improvement
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The code of the Gigaset driver assumes that sk_buff-s coming
from the ISDN4Linux subsystem are always linear. Explicitly
calling skb_linearize() is cheap if they are, but much more
robust in case they ever aren't.

Impact: robustness improvement
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signal D channel disconnect in a few cases where it was missed,
including when an incoming call is disconnected before it was
accepted.

Impact: error handling improvement
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Being able to change the debugmode module parameter of capidrv on the
fly is quite useful for debugging and doesn't do any harm.
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

In several places, capidrv sends a CAPI message to the ISDN
device and then updates its internal state accordingly.
If the response message from the device arrives before the
state is updated, it may be rejected or processed incorrectly.
Avoid these races by updating the state before emitting the
message.

Impact: bugfix
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Acked-by: NKarsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Info values in the 0x00xx range are defined in the CAPI standard
as "Informational, message processed successfully". Therefore a
CONNECT_B3_CONF message with an Info value in that range should
open an NCCI just as with Info==0.

Impact: minor bugfix
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Acked-by: NKarsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

- Note that send_message() may be called in interrupt context.
- Describe the storage of CAPI messages and payload data in SKBs.
- Add more details to the description of the _cmsg structure.
- Describe kernelcapi debugging output.

Impact: documentation
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This is a fix for a bug which was a result of wrong use of checksum offload flag.
The status of tx-checksumming was not changed from on to off
after a 'ethtool -K <ifname> tx off' operation.
Use the proper checksum offload flag NETIF_F_HW_CSUM instead of
NETIF_F_IP_CSUM and NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM.
Patch is against net-2.6 tree.
Signed-off-by: NAjit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

MCC_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED should be decimal 66 not hex 66.
This patch fixes this typo. Patch against net-2.6 tree.
Signed-off-by: NAjit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

While updating the statistics to be passed via the get_stats,
tx multicast frames were being accounted instead of rx multicast frames.
This patch fixes the bug. This patch is against the net-2.6 tree.
Signed-off-by: NAjit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Get rid of spinlock and private mutex usage for exclusive access to the
HW semaphore register.  rtnl_lock already creates exclusive access to
this register in all driver API.
Add rtnl to firmware worker threads that also use the HW semaphore register.
Signed-off-by: NRon Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Check that we are not already polling firmware events before we queue the
firmware event worker, then disable firmware interrupts.
Otherwise we can queue the same event multiple times.
Signed-off-by: NRon Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NRon Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

An incoming datagram must bring into cpu cache *lot* of cache lines,
in particular : (other parts omitted (hash chains, ip route cache...))

On 32bit arches :

offsetof(struct sock, sk_rcvbuf)       =0x30    (read)
offsetof(struct sock, sk_lock)         =0x34   (rw)

offsetof(struct sock, sk_sleep)        =0x50 (read)
offsetof(struct sock, sk_rmem_alloc)   =0x64   (rw)
offsetof(struct sock, sk_receive_queue)=0x74   (rw)

offsetof(struct sock, sk_forward_alloc)=0x98   (rw)

offsetof(struct sock, sk_callback_lock)=0xcc    (rw)
offsetof(struct sock, sk_drops)        =0xd8 (read if we add dropcount support, rw if frame dropped)
offsetof(struct sock, sk_filter)       =0xf8    (read)

offsetof(struct sock, sk_socket)       =0x138 (read)

offsetof(struct sock, sk_data_ready)   =0x15c   (read)


We can avoid sk->sk_socket and socket->fasync_list referencing on sockets
with no fasync() structures. (socket->fasync_list ptr is probably already in cache
because it shares a cache line with socket->wait, ie location pointed by sk->sk_sleep)

This avoids one cache line load per incoming packet for common cases (no fasync())

We can leave (or even move in a future patch) sk->sk_socket in a cold location
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

- Version Update.
Signed-off-by: NSreenivasa Honnur <sreenivasa.honnur@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

- Allow multiple functions with INTA.
- Removed the condition to allow only one vpath with INTA
- Ensure that the alarm bit in titan_mask_all_int register is cleared when
  driver exits.
Signed-off-by: NSreenivasa Honnur <sreenivasa.honnur@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

- Added a function to check if FCS stripping is disabled by the firmware, if
  it is not disabled fail driver load.

- By default FCS stripping is disabled by the firmware. With this assumption
  driver decrements the indicated packet length by 4 bytes(FCS length).

- This patch ensures that FCS stripping is disabled during driver load time.
Signed-off-by: NSreenivasa Honnur <sreenivasa.honnur@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

- Removed the wrr_rebalance function

- This feature is not supported by the ASIC, hence removing the related code.
Signed-off-by: NSreenivasa Honnur <sreenivasa.honnur@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

- Fix a crash in PAE system due to wrong typecasting.

- On PAE system size_t is unsigned int which is 32bit. Avoid casting
  64 bit address to 32 bit
Signed-off-by: NSreenivasa Honnur <sreenivasa.honnur@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

- Removed accessing GENDMA_INT register
 - This allowed the firmware to perform a generic DMA write to host memory.
   This feature is not supported by the ASIC, this patch removes access to
   GENDMA_INT register.
Signed-off-by: NSreenivasa Honnur <sreenivasa.honnur@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

- Update driver_config->vpath_per_dev for each function in probe.

- vpath_per_device specifies number of vpaths supported for each function/device. The
  current code was updating vpath_per_device only for physical device, however this has
  to be updated for each function also in case of a MF(Multi function) device.
Signed-off-by: NSreenivasa Honnur <sreenivasa.honnur@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

vxge: Modify __vxge_hw_device_is_privilaged() to not assume function-0 as the privileged function: Resubmit#1

- vxge driver was assuming function-0 is always the privilaged function. Now that
  restriction has been removed any function can act as a privilaged function.

- This patch modifies the __vxge_hw_device_is_privilaged routine to not assume
  function-0 as the privileged function.

- Recreated the patch by incorporating review comments from Dave Miller to
  remove double slash in path names.
Signed-off-by: NSreenivasa Honnur <sreenivasa.honnur@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>