Commit graph

58 commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Dan Rosenberg
3c6f27bf33 DECnet: don't leak uninitialized stack byte
A single uninitialized padding byte is leaked to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
CC: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-28 11:32:30 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
8d987e5c75 net: avoid limits overflow
Robin Holt tried to boot a 16TB machine and found some limits were
reached : sysctl_tcp_mem[2], sysctl_udp_mem[2]

We can switch infrastructure to use long "instead" of "int", now
atomic_long_t primitives are available for free.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-10 12:12:00 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
aa39514516 net: sk_sleep() helper
Define a new function to return the waitqueue of a "struct sock".

static inline wait_queue_head_t *sk_sleep(struct sock *sk)
{
	return sk->sk_sleep;
}

Change all read occurrences of sk_sleep by a call to this function.

Needed for a future RCU conversion. sk_sleep wont be a field directly
available.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-20 16:37:13 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
b6c6712a42 net: sk_dst_cache RCUification
With latest CONFIG_PROVE_RCU stuff, I felt more comfortable to make this
work.

sk->sk_dst_cache is currently protected by a rwlock (sk_dst_lock)

This rwlock is readlocked for a very small amount of time, and dst
entries are already freed after RCU grace period. This calls for RCU
again :)

This patch converts sk_dst_lock to a spinlock, and use RCU for readers.

__sk_dst_get() is supposed to be called with rcu_read_lock() or if
socket locked by user, so use appropriate rcu_dereference_check()
condition (rcu_read_lock_held() || sock_owned_by_user(sk))

This patch avoids two atomic ops per tx packet on UDP connected sockets,
for example, and permits sk_dst_lock to be much less dirtied.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-13 01:41:33 -07:00
Octavian Purdila
09ad9bc752 net: use net_eq to compare nets
Generated with the following semantic patch

@@
struct net *n1;
struct net *n2;
@@
- n1 == n2
+ net_eq(n1, n2)

@@
struct net *n1;
struct net *n2;
@@
- n1 != n2
+ !net_eq(n1, n2)

applied over {include,net,drivers/net}.

Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-25 15:14:13 -08:00
Eric Paris
3f378b6844 net: pass kern to net_proto_family create function
The generic __sock_create function has a kern argument which allows the
security system to make decisions based on if a socket is being created by
the kernel or by userspace.  This patch passes that flag to the
net_proto_family specific create function, so it can do the same thing.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-05 22:18:14 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
c6d14c8456 net: Introduce for_each_netdev_rcu() iterator
Adds RCU management to the list of netdevices.

Convert some for_each_netdev() users to RCU version, if
it can avoid read_lock-ing dev_base_lock

Ie:
	read_lock(&dev_base_loack);
	for_each_netdev(net, dev)
		some_action();
	read_unlock(&dev_base_lock);

becomes :

	rcu_read_lock();
	for_each_netdev_rcu(net, dev)
		some_action();
	rcu_read_unlock();


Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-04 05:43:23 -08:00
Krishna Kumar
ea94ff3b55 net: Fix for dst_negative_advice
dst_negative_advice() should check for changed dst and reset
sk_tx_queue_mapping accordingly. Pass sock to the callers of
dst_negative_advice.

(sk_reset_txq is defined just for use by dst_negative_advice. The
only way I could find to get around this is to move dst_negative_()
from dst.h to dst.c, include sock.h in dst.c, etc)

Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-20 18:55:46 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
ec1b4cf74c net: mark net_proto_ops as const
All usages of structure net_proto_ops should be declared const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-07 01:10:46 -07:00
David S. Miller
b7058842c9 net: Make setsockopt() optlen be unsigned.
This provides safety against negative optlen at the type
level instead of depending upon (sometimes non-trivial)
checks against this sprinkled all over the the place, in
each and every implementation.

Based upon work done by Arjan van de Ven and feedback
from Linus Torvalds.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-30 16:12:20 -07:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
10e8544801 decnet: Use rcu_barrier() on module unload.
The decnet module unloading as been disabled with a '#if 0' statement,
because it have had issues.

We add a rcu_barrier() anyhow for correctness.

The maintainer (Chrissie Caulfield) will look into the unload issue
when time permits.

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Chrissie Caulfield <christine.caulfield@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-26 13:51:27 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
31e6d363ab net: correct off-by-one write allocations reports
commit 2b85a34e91
(net: No more expensive sock_hold()/sock_put() on each tx)
changed initial sk_wmem_alloc value.

We need to take into account this offset when reporting
sk_wmem_alloc to user, in PROC_FS files or various
ioctls (SIOCOUTQ/TIOCOUTQ)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-18 00:29:12 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
adf30907d6 net: skb->dst accessors
Define three accessors to get/set dst attached to a skb

struct dst_entry *skb_dst(const struct sk_buff *skb)

void skb_dst_set(struct sk_buff *skb, struct dst_entry *dst)

void skb_dst_drop(struct sk_buff *skb)
This one should replace occurrences of :
dst_release(skb->dst)
skb->dst = NULL;

Delete skb->dst field

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03 02:51:04 -07:00
David S. Miller
bec571ec76 decnet: Use SKB queue and list helpers instead of doing it by-hand.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-28 16:43:52 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
7546dd97d2 net: convert usage of packet_type to read_mostly
Protocols that use packet_type can be __read_mostly section for better
locality. Elminate any unnecessary initializations of NULL.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10 05:22:43 -07:00
Hannes Eder
e57c624be8 decnet: fix sparse warnings: symbol shadows an earlier one
Impact: Remove redundant variable declarations, resp. rename
inner scope variable.

Fix this sparse warnings:
  net/decnet/af_decnet.c:1252:40: warning: symbol 'skb' shadows an earlier one
  net/decnet/af_decnet.c:1223:24: originally declared here
  net/decnet/af_decnet.c:1582:29: warning: symbol 'val' shadows an earlier one
  net/decnet/af_decnet.c:1527:22: originally declared here
  net/decnet/dn_dev.c:687:21: warning: symbol 'err' shadows an earlier one
  net/decnet/dn_dev.c:670:13: originally declared here
  net/decnet/sysctl_net_decnet.c:182:21: warning: symbol 'len' shadows an earlier one
  net/decnet/sysctl_net_decnet.c:173:16: originally declared here

Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-26 23:13:35 -08:00
Wei Yongjun
db849df63c decnet: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb()
Remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb().

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-26 23:07:36 -08:00
Harvey Harrison
09640e6365 net: replace uses of __constant_{endian}
Base versions handle constant folding now.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-01 00:45:17 -08:00
Harvey Harrison
c4106aa88a decnet: remove private wrappers of endian helpers
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-27 00:12:47 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
721499e893 netns: Use net_eq() to compare net-namespaces for optimization.
Without CONFIG_NET_NS, namespace is always &init_net.
Compiler will be able to omit namespace comparisons with this patch.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-19 22:34:43 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
5c52ba170f sock: add net to prot->enter_memory_pressure callback
The tcp_enter_memory_pressure calls NET_INC_STATS, but doesn't
have where to get the net from.

I decided to add a sk argument, not the net itself, only to factor
all the required sock_net(sk) calls inside the enter_memory_pressure 
callback itself.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-16 20:28:10 -07:00
David S. Miller
22196d3648 decnet: Remove SOCK_SLEEP_{PRE,POST} usage.
Just expand the wait sequence.  And as a nice side-effect
the timeout is respected now.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-17 01:06:01 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
3b1e0a655f [NET] NETNS: Omit sock->sk_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.
Introduce per-sock inlines: sock_net(), sock_net_set()
and per-inet_timewait_sock inlines: twsk_net(), twsk_net_set().
Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists.
Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-26 04:39:55 +09:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
c346dca108 [NET] NETNS: Omit net_device->nd_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.
Introduce per-net_device inlines: dev_net(), dev_net_set().
Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists.
Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-26 04:39:53 +09:00
Pavel Emelyanov
c20932d2c9 [ATALK/DECNET]: Use seq_open_private in appletalk and decnet.
These two also perform manual seq_open_private, so patch them both at
once. But unlike ATM code, these already use the seq_release_private,
so I splitted this patch from the previous one.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-29 11:38:24 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
b98999dc38 [DECNET]: Use htons() where appropriate.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:58:01 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov
6257ff2177 [NET]: Forget the zero_it argument of sk_alloc()
Finally, the zero_it argument can be completely removed from
the callers and from the function prototype.

Besides, fix the checkpatch.pl warnings about using the
assignments inside if-s.

This patch is rather big, and it is a part of the previous one.
I splitted it wishing to make the patches more readable. Hope 
this particular split helped.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-01 00:39:31 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
881d966b48 [NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.
This patch makes most of the generic device layer network
namespace safe.  This patch makes dev_base_head a
network namespace variable, and then it picks up
a few associated variables.  The functions:
dev_getbyhwaddr
dev_getfirsthwbytype
dev_get_by_flags
dev_get_by_name
__dev_get_by_name
dev_get_by_index
__dev_get_by_index
dev_ioctl
dev_ethtool
dev_load
wireless_process_ioctl

were modified to take a network namespace argument, and
deal with it.

vlan_ioctl_set and brioctl_set were modified so their
hooks will receive a network namespace argument.

So basically anthing in the core of the network stack that was
affected to by the change of dev_base was modified to handle
multiple network namespaces.  The rest of the network stack was
simply modified to explicitly use &init_net the initial network
namespace.  This can be fixed when those components of the network
stack are modified to handle multiple network namespaces.

For now the ifindex generator is left global.

Fundametally ifindex numbers are per namespace, or else
we will have corner case problems with migration when
we get that far.

At the same time there are assumptions in the network stack
that the ifindex of a network device won't change.  Making
the ifindex number global seems a good compromise until
the network stack can cope with ifindex changes when
you change namespaces, and the like.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:10 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
e9dc865340 [NET]: Make device event notification network namespace safe
Every user of the network device notifiers is either a protocol
stack or a pseudo device.  If a protocol stack that does not have
support for multiple network namespaces receives an event for a
device that is not in the initial network namespace it quite possibly
can get confused and do the wrong thing.

To avoid problems until all of the protocol stacks are converted
this patch modifies all netdev event handlers to ignore events on
devices that are not in the initial network namespace.

As the rest of the code is made network namespace aware these
checks can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:09 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
1b8d7ae42d [NET]: Make socket creation namespace safe.
This patch passes in the namespace a new socket should be created in
and has the socket code do the appropriate reference counting.  By
virtue of this all socket create methods are touched.  In addition
the socket create methods are modified so that they will fail if
you attempt to create a socket in a non-default network namespace.

Failing if we attempt to create a socket outside of the default
network namespace ensures that as we incrementally make the network stack
network namespace aware we will not export functionality that someone
has not audited and made certain is network namespace safe.
Allowing us to partially enable network namespaces before all of the
exotic protocols are supported.

Any protocol layers I have missed will fail to compile because I now
pass an extra parameter into the socket creation code.

[ Integrated AF_IUCV build fixes from Andrew Morton... -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:07 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
457c4cbc5a [NET]: Make /proc/net per network namespace
This patch makes /proc/net per network namespace.  It modifies the global
variables proc_net and proc_net_stat to be per network namespace.
The proc_net file helpers are modified to take a network namespace argument,
and all of their callers are fixed to pass &init_net for that argument.
This ensures that all of the /proc/net files are only visible and
usable in the initial network namespace until the code behind them
has been updated to be handle multiple network namespaces.

Making /proc/net per namespace is necessary as at least some files
in /proc/net depend upon the set of network devices which is per
network namespace, and even more files in /proc/net have contents
that are relevant to a single network namespace.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:06 -07:00
Philippe De Muyter
56b3d975bb [NET]: Make all initialized struct seq_operations const.
Make all initialized struct seq_operations in net/ const

Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 23:07:31 -07:00
Michael Opdenacker
59c51591a0 Fix occurrences of "the the "
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-09 08:57:56 +02:00
Pavel Emelianov
7562f876cd [NET]: Rework dev_base via list_head (v3)
Cleanup of dev_base list use, with the aim to simplify making device
list per-namespace. In almost every occasion, use of dev_base variable
and dev->next pointer could be easily replaced by for_each_netdev
loop. A few most complicated places were converted to using
first_netdev()/next_netdev().

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-03 15:13:45 -07:00
Thomas Graf
fa34ddd739 [DECNet]: Use rtnl registration interface
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:12 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
9a32144e9d [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 7
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:46 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
429eb0fae6 [NET] DECNET: Fix whitespace errors.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-10 23:19:29 -08:00
Steven Whitehouse
375d9d7183 [DECNET]: Endianess fixes (try #2)
Here are some fixes to endianess problems spotted by Al Viro.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-11-07 15:10:17 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
52c41a3224 [DECNET]: Fix sfuzz hanging on 2.6.18
Dave Jones wrote:
> sfuzz         D 724EF62A  2828 28717  28691                     (NOTLB)
>        cd69fe98 00000082 0000012d 724ef62a 0001971a 00000010 00000007 df6d22b0 
>        dfd81080 725bbc5e 0001971a 000cc634 00000001 df6d23bc c140e260 00000202 
>        de1d5ba0 cd69fea0 de1d5ba0 00000000 00000000 de1d5b60 de1d5b8c de1d5ba0 
> Call Trace:
>  [<c05b1708>] lock_sock+0x75/0xa6
>  [<e0b0b604>] dn_getname+0x18/0x5f [decnet]
>  [<c05b083b>] sys_getsockname+0x5c/0xb0
>  [<c05b0b46>] sys_socketcall+0xef/0x261
>  [<c0403f97>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> DWARF2 unwinder stuck at syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> 
> I wonder if the plethora of lockdep related changes inadvertantly broke something?

Looks like unbalanced locking.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-12 01:48:20 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse
a8731cbf61 [DECNET]: Covert rules to use generic code
This patch converts the DECnet rules code to use the generic
rules system created by Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <steve@chygwyn.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:54:15 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Patrick Caulfield
c60992db46 [DECnet]: Patch to fix recvmsg() flag check
This patch means that 64bit kernel/32bit userland platforms will now
work correctly with DECnet.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Caulfield <patrick@tykepenguin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <steve@chygwyn.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:43:05 -08:00
Steven Whitehouse
c4ea94ab37 [DECnet]: Endian annotation and fixes for DECnet.
The typedef for dn_address has been removed in favour of using __le16
or __u16 directly as appropriate. All the DECnet header files are
updated accordingly.

The byte ordering of dn_eth2dn() and dn_dn2eth() are both changed
since just about all their callers wanted network order rather than
host order, so the conversion is now done in the functions themselves.

Several missed endianess conversions have been picked up during the
conversion process. The nh_gw field in struct dn_fib_info has been
changed from a 32 bit field to 16 bits as it ought to be.

One or two cases of using htons rather than dn_htons in the routing
code have been found and fixed.

There are still a few warnings to fix, but this patch deals with the
important cases.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <steve@chygwyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Caulfield <patrick@tykepenguin.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:42:39 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
4fc268d24c [PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/)
net: Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
b5e5fa5e09 [NET]: Add a dev_ioctl() fallback to sock_ioctl()
Currently all network protocols need to call dev_ioctl as the default
fallback in their ioctl implementations.  This patch adds a fallback
to dev_ioctl to sock_ioctl if the protocol returned -ENOIOCTLCMD.
This way all the procotol ioctl handlers can be simplified and we don't
need to export dev_ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 14:18:33 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
90ddc4f047 [NET]: move struct proto_ops to const
I noticed that some of 'struct proto_ops' used in the kernel may share
a cache line used by locks or other heavily modified data. (default
linker alignement is 32 bytes, and L1_CACHE_LINE is 64 or 128 at
least)

This patch makes sure a 'struct proto_ops' can be declared as const,
so that all cpus can share all parts of it without false sharing.

This is not mandatory : a driver can still use a read/write structure
if it needs to (and eventually a __read_mostly)

I made a global stubstitute to change all existing occurences to make
them const.

This should reduce the possibility of false sharing on SMP, and
speedup some socket system calls.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:11:15 -08:00
Steven Whitehouse
1f12bcc9d1 [DECNET]: add memory buffer settings
The patch (originally from Steve) simply adds memory buffer settings to 
DECnet similar to those in TCP.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Caulfield <patrick@tykepenguin.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-05 13:42:06 -08:00
Patrick Caulfield
9eb5c94ef2 [DECNET]: fix SIGPIPE
Currently recvmsg generates SIGPIPE whereas sendmsg does not; for the
other stacks it seems to be the other way round!

It also fixes the bug where reading from a socket whose peer has shutdown
returned -EINVAL rather than 0.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Caulfield <patrick@tykepenguin.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-11 12:04:28 -08:00
Patrick Caulfield
900e0143a5 [DECNET]: Remove some redundant ifdeffed code
Signed-off-by: Patrick Caulfield <patrick@tykepenguin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <steve@chygwyn.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-25 23:49:29 -02:00
Al Viro
dd0fc66fb3 [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1
- added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;

 - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
   the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
   generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
   typedef) and documents what's going on far better.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00