David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> recommended in
20100924.134334.28812338.davem@davemloft.net that we must make the hash
abstraction helper more efficient and may remove it completely.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The return of get_batman_if_by_netdev and get_active_batman_if leaks a
pointer from the rcu protected list of interfaces. We must protect it to
prevent a too early release of the memory. Those functions must increase
the reference counter before rcu_read_unlock or it may be to late to
prevent a free.
hardif_add_interface must also increase the reference count for the
returned batman_if to make the behaviour consistent.
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
It is recommended [1] to use synchronize_rcu to simplify the code -
especially when otherwise extra locking is needed to protect other code
from picking stale elements. It also protects us for emitting to many
callbacks which may results in OOM conditions.
The only reason not to use it, would be in performance critical sections
or when we are not allowed to block.
[1] Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The official mailing list is run on lists.open-mesh.org and it should be
avoided to sent them to lists.open-mesh.net to reduce the number of
receipents and double posts.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Paul E. McKenney informed us that rcu is misused by leaking pointers to
rcu related elements outside read-side protected critical sections.
He also recommended that it should be checked against the rcu checklist.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The vis information structure is used in a way that it can be transfered
directly as packet. It still had to be copied into a skb because of an
extra buffer used for the actual preparation of the data. This is
unnecessary and can be replaced by a simple clone instead of an full
copy before each send.
This makes also the send_raw_packet function obsolete.
Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The Kernighan algorithm is not able to calculate the number of set bits
in parallel and the compiler cannot replace it with optimized
instructions.
The kernel provides specialised functions for each cpu which can either
use a software implementation or hardware instruction depending on the
target cpu.
Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
David S. Miller provided some new ideas and found problems in his review
20100719.212625.255369607.davem@davemloft.net. These issues must be
resolved before it can be merged into net.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Since we are now part of mainline, we don't need compat.h to allow
building of the module with old versions of the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
printk() since kernel version 2.6.29 has supported printing MAC
addresses directly, as an extension to the %p processing. This patch
makes use of this for printk() and bat_dbg(). This will remove the
overhead of using addr_to_string() which is normally never actually
output.
Fixed a typo found by Gus Wirth.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The batman-adv kernel module is able to output visualization data using the
dot draw or JSON format. This patch transforms the output into a generic
format (called vis raw). User space tool may convert the raw data to support
a variety of formats without the need of modifying the kernel module.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Ameya Palande requested we replace printk(KERN_DEBUG "") by pr_debug()
I decided it was better to use our debug macro.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Acked-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
B.A.T.M.A.N. (better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking) is
a routing protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. The
networks may be wired or wireless. See
http://www.open-mesh.org/ for more information and user space
tools.
This is the first submission for inclusion in staging.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sven Eckelmann