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2008-12-22fb: SH-5 uses __raw I/O accessors now also, drop the special casing.Paul Mundt
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2008-12-21net: add DCNA attribute to the BCN interface for DCBDon Skidmore
Adds the Backward Congestion Notification Address (BCNA) attribute to the Backward Congestion Notification (BCN) interface for Data Center Bridging (DCB), which was missing. Receive the BCNA attribute in the ixgbe driver. The BCNA attribute is for a switch to inform the endstation about the physical port identification in order to support BCN on aggregated links. Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W Multanen <eric.w.multanen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2008-12-21net: fix DCB setstate to return success/failureDon Skidmore
Data Center Bridging (DCB) had no way to know if setstate had failed in the driver. This patch enables dcb netlink code to handle the status for the DCB setstate interface. Likewise it allows the driver to return a failed status if MSI-X isn't enabled. Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W Multanen <eric.w.multanen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-21ftrace: enable format arguments checkingLai Jiangshan
Impact: broaden gcc printf format checks for ftrace_printk() format arguments checking for ftrace_printk() is __printf(1, 2), not __printf(1, 0). Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-21of/gpio: Implement of_gpio_count()Anton Vorontsov
This function is used to count how many GPIOs are specified for a device node. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-12-20Merge branch 'topic/ca0106-capture-no-44khz' into topic/ca0106Takashi Iwai
2008-12-20x86, bts: memory accountingMarkus Metzger
Impact: move the BTS buffer accounting to the mlock bucket Add alloc_locked_buffer() and free_locked_buffer() functions to mm/mlock.c to kalloc a buffer and account the locked memory to current. Account the memory for the BTS buffer to the tracer. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-20x86, bts: add fork and exit handlingMarkus Metzger
Impact: introduce new ptrace facility Add arch_ptrace_untrace() function that is called when the tracer detaches (either voluntarily or when the tracing task dies); ptrace_disable() is only called on a voluntary detach. Add ptrace_fork() and arch_ptrace_fork(). They are called when a traced task is forked. Clear DS and BTS related fields on fork. Release DS resources and reclaim memory in ptrace_untrace(). This releases resources already when the tracing task dies. We used to do that when the traced task dies. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19x86: PAT: move track untrack pfnmap stubs to asm-genericvenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Impact: Cleanup and branch hints only. Move the track and untrack pfn stub routines from memory.c to asm-generic. Also add unlikely to pfnmap related calls in fork and exit path. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-19x86: PAT: remove follow_pfnmap_pte in favor of follow_physvenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Impact: Cleanup - removes a new function in favor of a recently modified older one. Replace follow_pfnmap_pte in pat code with follow_phys. follow_phys lso returns protection eliminating the need of pte_pgprot call. Using follow_phys also eliminates the need for pte_pa. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-19x86: PAT: modify follow_phys to return phys_addr prot and return valuevenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Impact: Changes and globalizes an existing static interface. Follow_phys does similar things as follow_pfnmap_pte. Make a minor change to follow_phys so that it can be used in place of follow_pfnmap_pte. Physical address return value with 0 as error return does not work in follow_phys as the actual physical address 0 mapping may exist in pte. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-19x86: PAT: clarify is_linear_pfn_mapping() interfacevenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Impact: Documentation only Incremental patches to address the review comments from Nick Piggin for v3 version of x86 PAT pfnmap changes patchset here http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0812.2/01330.html This patch: Clarify is_linear_pfn_mapping() and its usage. It is used by x86 PAT code for performance reasons. Identifying pfnmap as linear over entire vma helps speedup reserve and free of memtype for the region. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-20security: pass mount flags to security_sb_kern_mount()James Morris
Pass mount flags to security_sb_kern_mount(), so security modules can determine if a mount operation is being performed by the kernel. Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
2008-12-19mac80211: implement dynamic power saveKalle Valo
This patch implements dynamic power save for mac80211. Basically it means enabling power save mode after an idle period. Implementing it dynamically gives a good compromise of low power consumption and low latency. Some hardware have support for this in firmware, but some require the host to do it. The dynamic power save is implemented by adding an timeout to ieee80211_subif_start_xmit(). The timeout can be enabled from userspace with Wireless Extensions. For example, the command below enables the dynamic power save and sets the time timeout to 500 ms: iwconfig wlan0 power timeout 500m Power save now only works with devices which handle power save in firmware. It's also disabled by default and the heuristics when and how to enable is considered as a policy decision and will be left for the userspace to handle. In case the firmware has support for this, drivers can disable this feature with IEEE80211_HW_NO_STACK_DYNAMIC_PS. Big thanks to Johannes Berg for the help with the design and code. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-19mac80211: Add HT rates into RX status reportingJouni Malinen
This patch adds option for HT-enabled drivers to report HT rates (HT20/HT40, short GI, MCS index) to mac80211. These rates are currently not in the rate table, so the rate_idx is used to indicate MCS index. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-19mac80211: Fix HT channel selectionSujith
HT management is done differently for AP and STA modes, unify to just the ->config() callback since HT is fundamentally a PHY property and cannot be per-BSS. Rename enum nl80211_sec_chan_offset as nl80211_channel_type to denote the channel type ( NO_HT, HT20, HT40+, HT40- ). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-19nl80211: Add signal strength and bandwith to nl80211station infoHenning Rogge
This patch adds signal strength and transmission bitrate to the station_info of nl80211. Signed-off-by: Henning Rogge <rogge@fgan.de> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-19ACPI: don't cond_resched() when irqs_disabled()Wu Fengguang
The ACPI interpreter usually runs with irqs enabled. However, during suspend/resume it runs with irqs disabled to evaluate _GTS/_BFS, as well as by irqrouter_resume() which evaluates _CRS, _PRS, _SRS. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12252 Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-12-19ACPI: fix 2.6.28 acpi.debug_level regressionBjorn Helgaas
acpi_early_init() was changed to over-write the cmdline param, making it really inconvenient to set debug flags at boot-time. Also, This sets the default level to "info", which is what all the ACPI drivers use. So to enable messages from drivers, you only have to supply the "layer" (a.k.a. "component"). For non-"info" ACPI core and ACPI interpreter messages, you have to supply both level and layer masks, as before. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-12-19Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/ring-buffer' and 'tracing/urgent' ↵Ingo Molnar
into tracing/core Conflicts: include/linux/ftrace.h
2008-12-19Merge branch 'fix/hda' into topic/hdaTakashi Iwai
2008-12-19tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.cIngo Molnar
these warnings: kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c: In function ‘tracing_sched_register’: kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c:96: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘register_trace_sched_wakeup_new’ from incompatible pointer type kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c:112: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘unregister_trace_sched_wakeup_new’ from incompatible pointer type kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c: In function ‘tracing_sched_unregister’: kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c:121: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘unregister_trace_sched_wakeup_new’ from incompatible pointer type Trigger because sched_wakeup_new tracepoints need the same trace signature as sched_wakeup - which was changed recently. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18x86: PAT: add pgprot_writecombine() interface for drivers - v3venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Impact: New mm functionality. Add pgprot_writecombine. pgprot_writecombine will be aliased to pgprot_noncached when not supported by the architecture. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-18x86: PAT: hooks in generic vm code to help archs to track pfnmap regions - v3venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Impact: Introduces new hooks, which are currently null. Introduce generic hooks in remap_pfn_range and vm_insert_pfn and corresponding copy and free routines with reserve and free tracking. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-18x86: PAT: add follow_pfnmp_pte routine to help tracking pfnmap pages - v3venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Impact: New currently unused interface. Add a generic interface to follow pfn in a pfnmap vma range. This is used by one of the subsequent x86 PAT related patch to keep track of memory types for vma regions across vma copy and free. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-18x86: PAT: store vm_pgoff for all linear_over_vma_region mappings - v3venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Impact: Code transformation, new functions added should have no effect. Drivers use mmap followed by pgprot_* and remap_pfn_range or vm_insert_pfn, in order to export reserved memory to userspace. Currently, such mappings are not tracked and hence not kept consistent with other mappings (/dev/mem, pci resource, ioremap) for the sme memory, that may exist in the system. The following patchset adds x86 PAT attribute tracking and untracking for pfnmap related APIs. First three patches in the patchset are changing the generic mm code to fit in this tracking. Last four patches are x86 specific to make things work with x86 PAT code. The patchset aso introduces pgprot_writecombine interface, which gives writecombine mapping when enabled, falling back to pgprot_noncached otherwise. This patch: While working on x86 PAT, we faced some hurdles with trackking remap_pfn_range() regions, as we do not have any information to say whether that PFNMAP mapping is linear for the entire vma range or it is smaller granularity regions within the vma. A simple solution to this is to use vm_pgoff as an indicator for linear mapping over the vma region. Currently, remap_pfn_range only sets vm_pgoff for COW mappings. Below patch changes the logic and sets the vm_pgoff irrespective of COW. This will still not be enough for the case where pfn is zero (vma region mapped to physical address zero). But, for all the other cases, we can look at pfnmap VMAs and say whether the mappng is for the entire vma region or not. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-18Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: bnx2: Fix bug in bnx2_free_rx_mem(). irda: Add irda_skb_cb qdisc related padding jme: Fixed a typo net: kernel BUG at drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:165! drivers/net: starfire: Fix napi ->poll() weight handling tlan: Fix pci memory unmapping enc28j60: use netif_rx_ni() to deliver RX packets tlan: Fix small (< 64 bytes) datagram transmissions netfilter: ctnetlink: fix missing CTA_NAT_SEQ_UNSPEC
2008-12-18ASoC: Add WM8350 AudioPlus codec driverMark Brown
The WM8350 is an integrated audio and power management subsystem which provides a single-chip solution for portable audio and multimedia systems. The integrated audio CODEC provides all the necessary functions for high-quality stereo recording and playback. Programmable on-chip amplifiers allow for the direct connection of headphones and microphones with a minimum of external components. A programmable low-noise bias voltage is available to feed one or more electret microphones. Additional audio features include programmable high-pass filter in the ADC input path. This driver was originally written by Liam Girdwood with further updates from me. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2008-12-18schedstat: consolidate per-task cpu runtime statsKen Chen
Impact: simplify code When we turn on CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS, per-task cpu runtime is accumulated twice. Once in task->se.sum_exec_runtime and once in sched_info.cpu_time. These two stats are exactly the same. Given that task->se.sum_exec_runtime is always accumulated by the core scheduler, sched_info can reuse that data instead of duplicate the accounting. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracerSteven Rostedt
Impact: enhancement to stack tracer The stack tracer currently is either on when configured in or off when it is not. It can not be disabled when it is configured on. (besides disabling the function tracer that it uses) This patch adds a way to enable or disable the stack tracer at run time. It defaults off on bootup, but a kernel parameter 'stacktrace' has been added to enable it on bootup. A new sysctl has been added "kernel.stack_tracer_enabled" to let the user enable or disable the stack tracer at run time. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18Merge branch 'linux-2.6' into nextPaul Mackerras
2008-12-17Phonet: use atomic for packet TX windowRémi Denis-Courmont
GPRS TX flow control won't need to lock the underlying socket anymore. Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-17Phonet: allocate separate ARP type for GPRS over a Phonet pipeRémi Denis-Courmont
A separate xmit lock class supports GPRS over a Phonet pipe over a TUN device (type ARPHRD_NONE). Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-17Phonet: allocate a non-Ethernet ARP typeRémi Denis-Courmont
Also leave some room for more 802.11 types. Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-17irda: Add irda_skb_cb qdisc related paddingSamuel Ortiz
We need to pad irda_skb_cb in order to keep it safe accross dev_queue_xmit() calls. This is some ugly and temporary hack triggered by recent qisc code changes. Even though it fixes bugzilla.kernel.org bug #11795, it will be replaced by a proper fix before 2.6.29 is released. Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-17USB: fix comment about endianness of descriptorsPhil Endecott
This patch fixes a comment and clarifies the documentation about the endianness of descriptors. The current policy is that descriptors will be little-endian at the API even on big-endian systems; however the /proc/bus/usb API predates this policy and presents descriptors with some multibyte fields byte-swapped. Signed-off-by: Phil Endecott <usb_endian_patch@chezphil.org> Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-12-16gianfar: Convert gianfar to an of_platform_driverAndy Fleming
Does the same for the accompanying MDIO driver, and then modifies the TBI configuration method. The old way used fields in einfo, which no longer exists. The new way is to create an MDIO device-tree node for each instance of gianfar, and create a tbi-handle property to associate ethernet controllers with the TBI PHYs they are connected to. Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-16Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/enc28j60.c
2008-12-16xen: clean up asm/xen/hypervisor.hJeremy Fitzhardinge
Impact: cleanup hypervisor.h had accumulated a lot of crud, including lots of spurious #includes. Clean it all up, and go around fixing up everything else accordingly. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-16allow bug table entries to use relative pointers (and use it on x86-64)Jan Beulich
Impact: reduce bug table size This allows reducing the bug table size by half. Perhaps there are other 64-bit architectures that could also make use of this. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-16Merge branches 'tracing/fastboot', 'tracing/ftrace', ↵Ingo Molnar
'tracing/function-graph-tracer' and 'tracing/hw-branch-tracing' into tracing/core
2008-12-16ipv6: Add IPV6_PKTINFO sticky option support to setsockopt()Yang Hongyang
There are three reasons for me to add this support: 1.When no interface is specified in an IPV6_PKTINFO ancillary data item, the interface specified in an IPV6_PKTINFO sticky optionis is used. RFC3542: 6.7. Summary of Outgoing Interface Selection This document and [RFC-3493] specify various methods that affect the selection of the packet's outgoing interface. This subsection summarizes the ordering among those in order to ensure deterministic behavior. For a given outgoing packet on a given socket, the outgoing interface is determined in the following order: 1. if an interface is specified in an IPV6_PKTINFO ancillary data item, the interface is used. 2. otherwise, if an interface is specified in an IPV6_PKTINFO sticky option, the interface is used. 2.When no IPV6_PKTINFO ancillary data is received,getsockopt() should return the sticky option value which set with setsockopt(). RFC 3542: Issuing getsockopt() for the above options will return the sticky option value i.e., the value set with setsockopt(). If no sticky option value has been set getsockopt() will return the following values: 3.Make the setsockopt implementation POSIX compliant. Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang <yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-16net: Refactor full duplex flow control resolutionSteve Glendinning
These 4 drivers have identical full duplex flow control resolution functions. This patch changes them all to use one common function. The function in question decides whether a device should enable TX and RX flow control in a standard way (IEEE 802.3-2005 table 28B-3), so this should also be useful for other drivers. Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-16net: Move flow control definitions to mii.hSteve Glendinning
flags used within drivers for indicating tx and rx flow control are defined in 4 drivers (and probably more), move these constants to mii.h. The 3 SMSC drivers use the same constants (FLOW_CTRL_TX), but TG3 uses TG3_FLOW_CTRL_TX, so this patch also renames the constants within TG3. Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-16netfilter: ctnetlink: fix missing CTA_NAT_SEQ_UNSPECPablo Neira Ayuso
This patch fixes an inconsistency in nfnetlink_conntrack.h that I introduced myself. The problem is that CTA_NAT_SEQ_UNSPEC is missing from enum ctattr_natseq. This inconsistency may lead to problems in the message parsing in userspace (if the message contains the CTA_NAT_SEQ_* attributes, of course). This patch breaks backward compatibility, however, the only known client of this code is libnetfilter_conntrack which indeed crashes because it assumes the existence of CTA_NAT_SEQ_UNSPEC to do the parsing. The CTA_NAT_SEQ_* attributes were introduced in 2.6.25. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-15ethtool: Add GGRO and SGRO opsHerbert Xu
This patch adds the ethtool ops to enable and disable GRO. It also makes GRO depend on RX checksum offload much the same as how TSO depends on SG support. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-15tcp: Add GRO supportHerbert Xu
This patch adds the TCP-specific portion of GRO. The criterion for merging is extremely strict (the TCP header must match exactly apart from the checksum) so as to allow refragmentation. Otherwise this is pretty much identical to LRO, except that we support the merging of ECN packets. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-15net: Add skb_gro_receiveHerbert Xu
This patch adds the helper skb_gro_receive to merge packets for GRO. The current method is to allocate a new header skb and then chain the original packets to its frag_list. This is done to make it easier to integrate into the existing GSO framework. In future as GSO is moved into the drivers, we can undo this and simply chain the original packets together. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-15ipv4: Add GRO infrastructureHerbert Xu
This patch adds GRO support for IPv4. The criteria for merging is more stringent than LRO, in particular, we require all fields in the IP header to be identical except for the length, ID and checksum. In addition, the ID must form an arithmetic sequence with a difference of one. The ID requirement might seem overly strict, however, most hardware TSO solutions already obey this rule. Linux itself also obeys this whether GSO is in use or not. In future we could relax this rule by storing the IDs (or rather making sure that we don't drop them when pulling the aggregate skb's tail). Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-15net: Add Generic Receive Offload infrastructureHerbert Xu
This patch adds the top-level GRO (Generic Receive Offload) infrastructure. This is pretty similar to LRO except that this is protocol-independent. Instead of holding packets in an lro_mgr structure, they're now held in napi_struct. For drivers that intend to use this, they can set the NETIF_F_GRO bit and call napi_gro_receive instead of netif_receive_skb or just call netif_rx. The latter will call napi_receive_skb automatically. When napi_gro_receive is used, the driver must either call napi_complete/napi_rx_complete, or call napi_gro_flush in softirq context if the driver uses the primitives __napi_complete/__napi_rx_complete. Protocols will set the gro_receive and gro_complete function pointers in order to participate in this scheme. In addition to the packet, gro_receive will get a list of currently held packets. Each packet in the list has a same_flow field which is non-zero if it is a potential match for the new packet. For each packet that may match, they also have a flush field which is non-zero if the held packet must not be merged with the new packet. Once gro_receive has determined that the new skb matches a held packet, the held packet may be processed immediately if the new skb cannot be merged with it. In this case gro_receive should return the pointer to the existing skb in gro_list. Otherwise the new skb should be merged into the existing packet and NULL should be returned, unless the new skb makes it impossible for any further merges to be made (e.g., FIN packet) where the merged skb should be returned. Whenever the skb is merged into an existing entry, the gro_receive function should set NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->same_flow. Note that if an skb merely matches an existing entry but can't be merged with it, then this shouldn't be set. If gro_receive finds it pointless to hold the new skb for future merging, it should set NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->flush. Held packets will be flushed by napi_gro_flush which is called by napi_complete and napi_rx_complete. Currently held packets are stored in a singly liked list just like LRO. The list is limited to a maximum of 8 entries. In future, this may be expanded to use a hash table to allow more flows to be held for merging. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>