linux-toradex.git/drivers/net/loopback.c, branch v3.2-rc5

net: Allow ethtool to set interface in loopback mode.

2011-05-08T22:59:12+00:00

This patch enables ethtool to set the loopback mode on a given interface.
By configuring the interface in loopback mode in conjunction with a policy
route / rule, a userland application can stress the egress / ingress path
exposing the flows of the change in progress and potentially help developer(s)
understand the impact of those changes without even sending a packet out
on the network.

Following set of commands illustrates one such example -
    a) ip -4 addr add 192.168.1.1/24 dev eth1
    b) ip -4 rule add from all iif eth1 lookup 250
    c) ip -4 route add local 0/0 dev lo proto kernel scope host table 250
    d) arp -Ds 192.168.1.100 eth1
    e) arp -Ds 192.168.1.200 eth1
    f) sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind=1
    g) sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_local=1
    # Assuming that the machine has 8 cores
    h) taskset 000f netserver -L 192.168.1.200
    i) taskset 00f0 netperf -t TCP_CRR -L 192.168.1.100 -H 192.168.1.200 -l 30

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar 
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ip6_pol_route panic: Do not allow VLAN on loopback

2011-04-18T06:27:16+00:00

Several tests in the ipv6 routing code check IFF_LOOPBACK, and
allowing stacking such as VLAN'ing on top of loopback results in a
netdevice which reports IFF_LOOPBACK but really isn't the loopback
device.

Instead of spamming the ipv6 routing code with even more special tests,
simply disallow VLAN over loopback.

The result of this patch is:

# modprobe 8021q
# vconfig add lo 43
ERROR: trying to add VLAN #43 to IF -:lo:-  error: Operation not supported

Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

loopback: convert to hw_features

2011-02-17T22:16:35+00:00

This also enables TSOv6, TSO-ECN, and UFO as loopback clearly can handle them.

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: add a core netdev->rx_dropped counter

2010-10-05T21:47:55+00:00

In various situations, a device provides a packet to our stack and we
drop it before it enters protocol stack :
- softnet backlog full (accounted in /proc/net/softnet_stat)
- bad vlan tag (not accounted)
- unknown/unregistered protocol (not accounted)

We can handle a per-device counter of such dropped frames at core level,
and automatically adds it to the device provided stats (rx_dropped), so
that standard tools can be used (ifconfig, ip link, cat /proc/net/dev)

This is a generalization of commit 8990f468a (net: rx_dropped
accounting), thus reverting it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: loopback driver cleanup

2010-09-27T02:04:08+00:00

loopback driver uses dev->ml_priv to store its percpu stats pointer.
It uses ugly casts "(void __percpu __force *)" to shut up sparse
complains.

Define an union to better document we use ml_priv in loopback driver and
define a lstats field with appropriate types.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: fix 64 bit counters on 32 bit arches

2010-07-07T21:58:56+00:00

There is a small possibility that a reader gets incorrect values on 32
bit arches. SNMP applications could catch incorrect counters when a
32bit high part is changed by another stats consumer/provider.

One way to solve this is to add a rtnl_link_stats64 param to all
ndo_get_stats64() methods, and also add such a parameter to
dev_get_stats().

Rule is that we are not allowed to use dev->stats64 as a temporary
storage for 64bit stats, but a caller provided area (usually on stack)

Old drivers (only providing get_stats() method) need no changes.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

loopback: use u64_stats_sync infrastructure

2010-06-26T04:33:16+00:00

Commit 6b10de38f0ef (loopback: Implement 64bit stats on 32bit arches)
introduced 64bit stats in loopback driver, using a private seqcount and
private helpers.

David suggested to introduce a generic infrastructure, added in (net:
Introduce u64_stats_sync infrastructure)

This patch reimplements loopback 64bit stats using the u64_stats_sync
infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

loopback: Implement 64bit stats on 32bit arches

2010-06-15T06:13:07+00:00

Uses a seqcount_t to synchronize stat producer and consumer, for packets
and bytes counter, now u64 types.

(dropped counter being rarely used, stay a native "unsigned long" type)

No noticeable performance impact on x86, as it only adds two increments
per frame. It might be more expensive on arches where smp_wmb() is not
free.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to net drivers

2010-02-17T07:05:38+00:00

Add __percpu sparse annotations to net drivers.

These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be
in a different address space and warn if accessed without going
through percpu accessors.  This patch doesn't affect normal builds.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu

2009-12-14T17:58:24+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits)
  m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end
  percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP
  percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page
  percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique
  percpu: remove some sparse warnings
  percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types
  vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var()
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics
  ...

Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in
	arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
	mm/slab.c