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Ingo Molnar
5a54bd1307 Merge commit 'v2.6.29' into core/header-fixes 2009-03-26 18:29:40 +01:00
Arnd Bergmann
f9f35677d8 emu101k1.h: fix duplicate include of <linux/types.h>
Impact: cleanup

The earlier patch 'make most exported headers use strict integer
types' accidentally includes <linux/types.h> both from the common and
from the kernel-only parts.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-26 18:14:24 +01:00
H. Peter Anvin
8cd2c29dd5 compiler-gcc4: conditionalize #error on __KERNEL__
Impact: Fix for exported headers

We only want to error out on specific gcc versions if we are actually
building the kernel, so conditionalize the #if...#error on __KERNEL__.

Based on a patchset by Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-26 18:14:23 +01:00
Arnd Bergmann
3a471cbc08 remove __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES
With the last used of non-strict names gone from the
exported header files, we can remove the old libc5
compatibility cruft from our headers and only export
strict types.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-26 18:14:21 +01:00
Arnd Bergmann
60c195c729 make netfilter use strict integer types
Netfilter traditionally uses BSD integer types in its
interface headers. This changes it to use the Linux
strict integer types, like everyone else.

Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-26 18:14:20 +01:00
Arnd Bergmann
1d7f83d5ad make drm headers use strict integer types
The drm headers are traditionally shared with BSD and
could not use the strict linux integer types. This is
over now, so we can use our own types now.

Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-26 18:14:18 +01:00
Arnd Bergmann
ccef7ab534 make MTD headers use strict integer types
The MTD headers traditionally use stdint types rather than
the kernel integer types. This converts them to do the
same as all the others.

Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-26 18:14:17 +01:00
Arnd Bergmann
9adfbfb611 make most exported headers use strict integer types
This takes care of all files that have only a small number
of non-strict integer type uses.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-26 18:14:15 +01:00
Arnd Bergmann
85efde6f4e make exported headers use strict posix types
A number of standard posix types are used in exported headers, which
is not allowed if __STRICT_KERNEL_NAMES is defined. In order to
get rid of the non-__STRICT_KERNEL_NAMES part and to make sane headers
the default, we have to change them all to safe types.

There are also still some leftovers in reiserfs_fs.h, elfcore.h
and coda.h, but these files have not compiled in user space for
a long time.

This leaves out the various integer types ({u_,u,}int{8,16,32,64}_t),
which we take care of separately.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-26 18:14:14 +01:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
9d50638bae unconditionally include asm/types.h from linux/types.h
Reported-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-26 18:14:12 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
7c526e1fef Merge branches 'timers/new-apis', 'timers/ntp' and 'timers/urgent' into timers/core 2009-03-26 15:45:52 +01:00
Theodore Ts'o
7058548cd5 ext4: Use WRITE_SYNC for commits which are caused by fsync()
If a commit is triggered by fsync(), set a flag indicating the journal
blocks associated with the transaction should be flushed out using
WRITE_SYNC.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-25 23:35:46 -04:00
Jan Kara
bf84c82d00 quota: Remove uppercase aliases for quota functions.
Since all users have been converted, remove uppercase names of quota functions.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-03-26 02:18:37 +01:00
Jan Kara
dd6f3c6d5a quota: Remove NODQUOT macro
Remove this macro which is just a definition of NULL. Fix a few coding style
issues along the way.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-03-26 02:18:35 +01:00
Mingming Cao
9900ba3487 quota: Use inode->i_blkbits to get block bits
Andrew has suggested to use inode->i_blkbits to get the block bits info,
rather than use super block's blockbits. That should be faster and emit
less code.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-03-26 02:18:34 +01:00
Mingming Cao
740d9dcd94 quota: Add quota reservation claim and released operations
Reserved quota will be claimed at the block allocation time. Over-booked
quota could be returned back with the release callback function.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-03-26 02:18:24 +01:00
Mingming Cao
f18df22899 quota: Add quota reservation support
Delayed allocation defers the block allocation at the dirty pages
flush-out time, doing quota charge/check at that time is too late.
But we can't charge the quota blocks until blocks are really allocated,
otherwise users could get overcharged after reboot from system crash.

This patch adds quota reservation for delayed allocation. Quota blocks
are reserved in memory, inode and quota won't gets dirtied until later
block allocation time.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-03-26 02:15:50 +01:00
Holger Eitzenberger
5c0de29d06 netfilter: nf_conntrack: add generic function to get len of generic policy
Usefull for all protocols which do not add additional data, such
as GRE or UDPlite.

Signed-off-by: Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-25 21:52:17 +01:00
Eric Dumazet
ea781f197d netfilter: nf_conntrack: use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU and get rid of call_rcu()
Use "hlist_nulls" infrastructure we added in 2.6.29 for RCUification of UDP & TCP.

This permits an easy conversion from call_rcu() based hash lists to a
SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU one.

Avoiding call_rcu() delay at nf_conn freeing time has numerous gains.

First, it doesnt fill RCU queues (up to 10000 elements per cpu).
This reduces OOM possibility, if queued elements are not taken into account
This reduces latency problems when RCU queue size hits hilimit and triggers
emergency mode.

- It allows fast reuse of just freed elements, permitting better use of
CPU cache.

- We delete rcu_head from "struct nf_conn", shrinking size of this structure
by 8 or 16 bytes.

This patch only takes care of "struct nf_conn".
call_rcu() is still used for less critical conntrack parts, that may
be converted later if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-25 21:05:46 +01:00
Russell King
8937b7349c Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6 into devel 2009-03-25 18:31:35 +00:00
Holger Eitzenberger
af9d32ad67 netfilter: limit the length of the helper name
This is necessary in order to have an upper bound for Netlink
message calculation, which is not a problem at all, as there
are no helpers with a longer name.

Signed-off-by: Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-25 18:44:01 +01:00
Holger Eitzenberger
e487eb99cf netlink: add nla_policy_len()
It calculates the max. length of a Netlink policy, which is usefull
for allocating Netlink buffers roughly the size of the actual
message.

Signed-off-by: Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-25 18:26:30 +01:00
Holger Eitzenberger
d0dba7255b netfilter: ctnetlink: add callbacks to the per-proto nlattrs
There is added a single callback for the l3 proto helper.  The two
callbacks for the l4 protos are necessary because of the general
structure of a ctnetlink event, which is in short:

 CTA_TUPLE_ORIG
   <l3/l4-proto-attributes>
 CTA_TUPLE_REPLY
   <l3/l4-proto-attributes>
 CTA_ID
 ...
 CTA_PROTOINFO
   <l4-proto-attributes>
 CTA_TUPLE_MASTER
   <l3/l4-proto-attributes>

Therefore the formular is

 size := sizeof(generic-nlas) + 3 * sizeof(tuple_nlas) + sizeof(protoinfo_nlas)

Some of the NLAs are optional, e. g. CTA_TUPLE_MASTER, which is only
set if it's an expected connection.  But the number of optional NLAs is
small enough to prevent netlink_trim() from reallocating if calculated
properly.

Signed-off-by: Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-25 18:24:48 +01:00
Eric Dumazet
b8dfe49877 netfilter: factorize ifname_compare()
We use same not trivial helper function in four places. We can factorize it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-25 17:31:52 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
b6d9842258 Merge branch 'sched/cleanups'; commit 'v2.6.29' into sched/core 2009-03-25 10:26:51 +01:00
Daniel Mack
67fca028f1 ax88796: Add method to take MAC from platform data
Implement a way to provide the MAC address for ax88796 devices from
their platform data. Boards might decide to set the address
programmatically, taken from boot tags or other sources.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-24 23:32:03 -07:00
Roland Dreier
09f98bafea Merge branches 'cxgb3', 'endian', 'ipath', 'ipoib', 'iser', 'mad', 'misc', 'mlx4', 'mthca', 'nes' and 'sysfs' into for-next 2009-03-24 20:44:41 -07:00
Alan Cox
c96f1732e2 [libata] Improve timeout handling
On a timeout call a device specific handler early in the recovery so that
we can complete and process successful commands which timed out due to IRQ
loss or the like rather more elegantly.

[Revised to exclude the timeout handling on a few devices that inherit from
 SFF but are not SFF enough to use the default timeout handler]

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 22:52:39 -04:00
Vlad Yasevich
b2f5e7cd3d ipv6: Fix conflict resolutions during ipv6 binding
The ipv6 version of bind_conflict code calls ipv6_rcv_saddr_equal()
which at times wrongly identified intersections between addresses.
It particularly broke down under a few instances and caused erroneous
bind conflicts.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-24 19:49:11 -07:00
Alan Cox
3d47aa8e7e [libata] Drain data on errors
If the device is signalling that there is data to drain after an error we
should read the bytes out and throw them away. Without this some devices
and controllers get wedged and don't recover.

Based on earlier work by Mark Lord

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 22:48:26 -04:00
Erik Inge Bolsø
22ddbd1e03 include/linux/ata.h: add some more transfer masks
Signed-off-by: Erik Inge Bolsø <knan-lkml@anduin.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 22:12:00 -04:00
Mark Lord
1a660164c2 [libata] Export ata_pio_queue_task() so that it can be used from sata_mv.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 22:02:41 -04:00
Greg Banks
e6e66b02e1 Dynamic debug: fix pr_fmt() build error
When CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG is enabled, allow callers of pr_debug()
to provide their own definition of pr_fmt() even if that definition
uses tricks like

#define pr_fmt(fmt) "%s:" fmt, __func__

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:27 -07:00
Jason Baron
e9d376f0fa dynamic debug: combine dprintk and dynamic printk
This patch combines Greg Bank's dprintk() work with the existing dynamic
printk patchset, we are now calling it 'dynamic debug'.

The new feature of this patchset is a richer /debugfs control file interface,
(an example output from my system is at the bottom), which allows fined grained
control over the the debug output. The output can be controlled by function,
file, module, format string, and line number.

for example, enabled all debug messages in module 'nf_conntrack':

echo -n 'module nf_conntrack +p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control

to disable them:

echo -n 'module nf_conntrack -p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control

A further explanation can be found in the documentation patch.

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
ffa6a7054d Driver core: Fix device_move() vs. dpm list ordering, v2
dpm_list currently relies on the fact that child devices will
be registered after their parents to get a correct suspend
order. Using device_move() however destroys this assumption, as
an already registered device may be moved under a newly registered
one.

This patch adds a new argument to device_move(), allowing callers
to specify how dpm_list should be adapted.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00
Ming Lei
f67f129e51 Driver core: implement uevent suppress in kobject
This patch implements uevent suppress in kobject and removes it
from struct device, based on the following ideas:

1,Uevent sending should be one attribute of kobject, so suppressing it
in kobject layer is more natural than in device layer. By this way,
we can do it for other objects embedded with kobject.

2,It may save several bytes for each instance of struct device.(On my
omap3(32bit ARM) based box, can save 8bytes per device object)

This patch also introduces dev_set|get_uevent_suppress() helpers to
set and query uevent_suppress attribute in case to help kobject
as private part of struct device in future.

[This version is against the latest driver-core patch set of Greg,please
ignore the last version.]

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00
Kay Sievers
4995f8ef9d vcs: hook sysfs devices into object lifetime instead of "binding"
During bootup performance tracing I noticed many occurrences of
vca* device creation and removal, leading to the usual userspace
uevent processing, which are, in this case, rather pointless.

A simple test showing the kernel timing (not including all the
work userspace has to do), gives us these numbers:
  $ time for i in `seq 1000`; do echo a > /dev/tty2; done
  real    0m1.142s
  user    0m0.015s
  sys     0m0.540s

If we move the hook for the vcs* driver core devices from the
tty "binding" to the vc allocation/deallocation, which is what
the vcs* devices represent, we get the following numbers:
  $ time for i in `seq 1000`; do echo a > /dev/tty2; done
  real    0m0.152s
  user    0m0.030s
  sys     0m0.072s

Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00
Ming Lei
006f4571a1 driver core: move platform_data into platform_device
This patch moves platform_data from struct device into
struct platform_device, based on the two ideas:

1. Now all platform_driver is registered by platform_driver_register,
   which makes probe()/release()/... of platform_driver passed parameter
   of platform_device *, so platform driver can get platform_data from
   platform_device;

2. Other kind of devices do not need to use platform_data, we can
   decrease size of device if moving it to platform_device.

Taking into consideration of thousands of files to be fixed and they
can't be finished in one night(maybe it will take a long time), so we
keep platform_data in device to allow two kind of cases coexist until
all platform devices pass its platfrom data from
platform_device->platform_data.

All patches to do this kind of conversion are welcome.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
ae1b41715e driver core: move knode_bus into private structure
Nothing outside of the driver core should ever touch knode_bus, so
move it out of the public eye.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:25 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
8940b4f312 driver core: move knode_driver into private structure
Nothing outside of the driver core should ever touch knode_driver, so
move it out of the public eye.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:25 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
f791b8c836 driver core: move klist_children into private structure
Nothing outside of the driver core should ever touch klist_children, or
knode_parent, so move them out of the public eye.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:25 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
fb069a5d13 driver core: create a private portion of struct device
This is to be used to move things out of struct device that no code
outside of the driver core should ever touch.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:25 -07:00
Ming Lei
b23530ebc3 driver core: remove polling for driver_probe_done(v5)
This patch removes 100ms polling for driver_probe_done in
wait_for_device_probe(), and uses wait_event() instead.
Removing polling in fs initialization may lead to
a faster boot.

This patch also changes the return type of wait_for_device_done()
from int to void.

This patch is against Arjan's patch in linux-next tree.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:25 -07:00
Hans J. Koch
8205779114 UIO: Add name attributes for mappings and port regions
If a UIO device has several memory mappings, it can be difficult for userspace
to find the right one. The situation becomes even worse if the UIO driver can
handle different versions of a card that have different numbers of mappings.
Benedikt Spranger has such cards and pointed this out to me. Thanks, Bene!

To address this problem, this patch adds "name" sysfs attributes for each
mapping. Userspace can use these to clearly identify each mapping. The name
string is optional. If a driver doesn't set it, an empty string will be
returned, so this patch won't break existing drivers.

The same problem exists for port region information, so a "name" attribute is
added there, too.

Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:24 -07:00
Eric Miao
57fee4a58f platform: introduce module id table for platform devices
Now platform_device is being widely used on SoC processors where the
peripherals are attached to the system bus, which is simple enough.

However, silicon IPs for these SoCs are usually shared heavily across
a family of processors, even products from different companies.  This
makes the original simple driver name based matching insufficient, or
simply not straight-forward.

Introduce a module id table for platform devices, and makes it clear
that a platform driver is able to support some shared IP and handle
slight differences across different platforms (by 'driver_data').
Module alias is handled automatically when a MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE()
is defined.

To not disturb the current platform drivers too much, the matched id
entry is recorded and can be retrieved by platform_get_device_id().

Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:24 -07:00
Kay Sievers
1fa5ae857b driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array
Now that all users of bus_id is gone, we can remove it from struct
device.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:23 -07:00
Kay Sievers
2c0f3e96f3 wimax: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
Cc: inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com
Cc: linux-wimax@intel.com
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
2009-03-24 16:38:23 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
38938bfe34 netlink: add NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS socket flag
This patch adds the NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS socket flag. This flag can
be used by unicast and broadcast listeners to avoid receiving
ENOBUFS errors.

Generally speaking, ENOBUFS errors are useful to notify two things
to the listener:

a) You may increase the receiver buffer size via setsockopt().
b) You have lost messages, you may be out of sync.

In some cases, ignoring ENOBUFS errors can be useful. For example:

a) nfnetlink_queue: this subsystem does not have any sort of resync
method and you can decide to ignore ENOBUFS once you have set a
given buffer size.

b) ctnetlink: you can use this together with the socket flag
NETLINK_BROADCAST_SEND_ERROR to stop getting ENOBUFS errors as
you do not need to resync (packets whose event are not delivered
are drop to provide reliable logging and state-synchronization).

Moreover, the use of NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS also reduces a "go up, go down"
effect in terms of performance which is due to the netlink congestion
control when the listener cannot back off. The effect is the following:

1) throughput rate goes up and netlink messages are inserted in the
receiver buffer.
2) Then, netlink buffer fills and overruns (set on nlk->state bit 0).
3) While the listener empties the receiver buffer, netlink keeps
dropping messages. Thus, throughput goes dramatically down.
4) Then, once the listener has emptied the buffer (nlk->state
bit 0 is set off), goto step 1.

This effect is easy to trigger with netlink broadcast under heavy
load, and it is more noticeable when using a big receiver buffer.
You can find some results in [1] that show this problem.

[1] http://1984.lsi.us.es/linux/netlink/

This patch also includes the use of sk_drop to account the number of
netlink messages drop due to overrun. This value is shown in
/proc/net/netlink.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-24 16:37:55 -07:00
David Brownell
8942939a6c USB: gadget: composite device-level suspend/resume hooks
Address one open question in the composite gadget framework:
Yes, we should have device-level suspend/resume callbacks
in addition to the function-level ones.  We have at least one
scenario (with gadget zero in OTG test mode) that's awkward
to handle without it.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:20:45 -07:00
D.J. Capelis
64a3a25f44 USB: pedantic: spelling correction in comment for ch9.h
Just noticed this during a grep, figured I might as well send it in.

From: D.J. Capelis <dev@capelis.dj>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:20:44 -07:00