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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c, branch v3.10.12</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>ppp: convert to idr_alloc()</title>
<updated>2013-02-28T03:10:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2013-02-28T01:04:36+00:00</published>
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Convert to the much saner new idr interface.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Convert to the much saner new idr interface.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>ppp: set qdisc_tx_busylock to avoid LOCKDEP splat</title>
<updated>2013-02-19T19:33:55+00:00</updated>
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<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
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<published>2013-02-19T18:42:03+00:00</published>
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If a qdisc is installed on a ppp device, its possible to get
a lockdep splat under stress, because nested dev_queue_xmit() can
lock busylock a second time (on a different device, so its a false
positive)

Avoid this problem using a distinct lock_class_key for ppp
devices.

Reported-by: Yanko Kaneti &lt;yaneti@declera.com&gt;
Tested-by: Yanko Kaneti &lt;yaneti@declera.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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If a qdisc is installed on a ppp device, its possible to get
a lockdep splat under stress, because nested dev_queue_xmit() can
lock busylock a second time (on a different device, so its a false
positive)

Avoid this problem using a distinct lock_class_key for ppp
devices.

Reported-by: Yanko Kaneti &lt;yaneti@declera.com&gt;
Tested-by: Yanko Kaneti &lt;yaneti@declera.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Add skb_unclone() helper function.</title>
<updated>2013-02-15T20:10:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pravin B Shelar</name>
<email>pshelar@nicira.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-14T09:44:49+00:00</published>
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This function will be used in next GRE_GSO patch. This patch does
not change any functionality.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar &lt;pshelar@nicira.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
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This function will be used in next GRE_GSO patch. This patch does
not change any functionality.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar &lt;pshelar@nicira.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
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<title>ppp: make ppp_get_stats64 static</title>
<updated>2012-11-01T16:38:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>stephen hemminger</name>
<email>shemminger@vyatta.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-29T08:34:02+00:00</published>
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This was picked up by sparse.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This was picked up by sparse.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>ppp: add 64 bit stats</title>
<updated>2012-08-04T03:40:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin Groeneveld</name>
<email>kgroeneveld@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-27T17:38:53+00:00</published>
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Add 64 bit stats to ppp driver.  The 64 bit stats include tx_bytes,
rx_bytes, tx_packets and rx_packets.  Other stats are still 32 bit.
The 64 bit stats can be retrieved via the ndo_get_stats operation.  The
SIOCGPPPSTATS ioctl is still 32 bit stats only.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Groeneveld &lt;kgroeneveld@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add 64 bit stats to ppp driver.  The 64 bit stats include tx_bytes,
rx_bytes, tx_packets and rx_packets.  Other stats are still 32 bit.
The 64 bit stats can be retrieved via the ndo_get_stats operation.  The
SIOCGPPPSTATS ioctl is still 32 bit stats only.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Groeneveld &lt;kgroeneveld@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ppp: avoid false drop_monitor false positives</title>
<updated>2012-05-19T06:32:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-18T20:23:00+00:00</published>
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Call consume_skb() in place of kfree_skb() were appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Call consume_skb() in place of kfree_skb() were appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ppp: Fix race condition with queue start/stop</title>
<updated>2012-04-13T17:06:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
<email>dwmw2@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-08T10:01:44+00:00</published>
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Commit e675f0cc9a872fd152edc0c77acfed19bf28b81e ("ppp: Don't stop and
restart queue on every TX packet") introduced a race condition which
could leave the net queue stopped even when the channel is no longer
busy. By calling netif_stop_queue() from ppp_start_xmit(), based on the
return value from ppp_xmit_process() but *after* all the locks have been
dropped, we could potentially do so *after* the channel has actually
finished transmitting and attempted to re-wake the queue.

Fix this by moving the netif_stop_queue() into ppp_xmit_process() under
the xmit lock. I hadn't done this previously, because it gets called
from other places than ppp_start_xmit(). But I now think it's the better
option. The net queue *should* be stopped if the channel becomes
congested due to writes from pppd, anyway.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Commit e675f0cc9a872fd152edc0c77acfed19bf28b81e ("ppp: Don't stop and
restart queue on every TX packet") introduced a race condition which
could leave the net queue stopped even when the channel is no longer
busy. By calling netif_stop_queue() from ppp_start_xmit(), based on the
return value from ppp_xmit_process() but *after* all the locks have been
dropped, we could potentially do so *after* the channel has actually
finished transmitting and attempted to re-wake the queue.

Fix this by moving the netif_stop_queue() into ppp_xmit_process() under
the xmit lock. I hadn't done this previously, because it gets called
from other places than ppp_start_xmit(). But I now think it's the better
option. The net queue *should* be stopped if the channel becomes
congested due to writes from pppd, anyway.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>ppp: Don't stop and restart queue on every TX packet</title>
<updated>2012-04-03T21:31:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
<email>dwmw2@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-26T00:03:42+00:00</published>
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For every transmitted packet, ppp_start_xmit() will stop the netdev
queue and then, if appropriate, restart it. This causes the TX softirq
to run, entirely gratuitously.

This is "only" a waste of CPU time in the normal case, but it's actively
harmful when the PPP device is a TEQL slave — the wakeup will cause the
offending device to receive the next TX packet from the TEQL queue, when
it *should* have gone to the next slave in the list. We end up seeing
large bursts of packets on just *one* slave device, rather than using
the full available bandwidth over all slaves.

This patch fixes the problem by *not* unconditionally stopping the queue
in ppp_start_xmit(). It adds a return value from ppp_xmit_process()
which indicates whether the queue should be stopped or not.

It *doesn't* remove the call to netif_wake_queue() from
ppp_xmit_process(), because other code paths (especially from
ppp_output_wakeup()) need it there and it's messy to push it out to the
other callers to do it based on the return value. So we leave it in
place — it's a no-op in the case where the queue wasn't stopped, so it's
harmless in the TX path.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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For every transmitted packet, ppp_start_xmit() will stop the netdev
queue and then, if appropriate, restart it. This causes the TX softirq
to run, entirely gratuitously.

This is "only" a waste of CPU time in the normal case, but it's actively
harmful when the PPP device is a TEQL slave — the wakeup will cause the
offending device to receive the next TX packet from the TEQL queue, when
it *should* have gone to the next slave in the list. We end up seeing
large bursts of packets on just *one* slave device, rather than using
the full available bandwidth over all slaves.

This patch fixes the problem by *not* unconditionally stopping the queue
in ppp_start_xmit(). It adds a return value from ppp_xmit_process()
which indicates whether the queue should be stopped or not.

It *doesn't* remove the call to netif_wake_queue() from
ppp_xmit_process(), because other code paths (especially from
ppp_output_wakeup()) need it there and it's messy to push it out to the
other callers to do it based on the return value. So we leave it in
place — it's a no-op in the case where the queue wasn't stopped, so it's
harmless in the TX path.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>ppp: Move ioctl definitions from if_ppp.h to new ppp-ioctl.h</title>
<updated>2012-03-05T01:41:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
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<published>2012-03-04T12:56:04+00:00</published>
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This moves the definitions of the ioctls, constants and structures
relating to the ppp_generic interface to userspace out from if_ppp.h
to a new file, ppp-ioctl.h.  The new file has my copyright since I
designed and implemented the ppp_generic interface in the late 1990s.
None of the contents of this file comes from the original if_ppp.h
published by Carnegie Mellon University.

Of the remainder of if_ppp.h, only the PPP_MTU definition was being
used, and this replaces the uses of it with PPP_MRU (which is identical).
Therefore, this replaces the entire file with the single line

#include &lt;linux/ppp-ioctl.h&gt;

which clearly doesn't contain any CMU code.  Thus I have removed the
CMU copyright notice with its problematic advertising clause, and in
fact since it's only one trivial line I have not added any other
copyright notice.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This moves the definitions of the ioctls, constants and structures
relating to the ppp_generic interface to userspace out from if_ppp.h
to a new file, ppp-ioctl.h.  The new file has my copyright since I
designed and implemented the ppp_generic interface in the late 1990s.
None of the contents of this file comes from the original if_ppp.h
published by Carnegie Mellon University.

Of the remainder of if_ppp.h, only the PPP_MTU definition was being
used, and this replaces the uses of it with PPP_MRU (which is identical).
Therefore, this replaces the entire file with the single line

#include &lt;linux/ppp-ioctl.h&gt;

which clearly doesn't contain any CMU code.  Thus I have removed the
CMU copyright notice with its problematic advertising clause, and in
fact since it's only one trivial line I have not added any other
copyright notice.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2012-02-27T02:55:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-27T02:55:51+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/rx.c

Overlapping changes in drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/rx.c, one to change
the rx_buf-&gt;is_page boolean into a set of u16 flags, and another to
adjust how -&gt;ip_summed is initialized.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/rx.c

Overlapping changes in drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/rx.c, one to change
the rx_buf-&gt;is_page boolean into a set of u16 flags, and another to
adjust how -&gt;ip_summed is initialized.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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