linux-toradex.git/include/linux/if_packet.h, branch v2.6.38-rc4

packet_mmap: expose hw packet timestamps to network packet capture utilities

2010-06-02T12:53:56+00:00

This patch adds a setting, PACKET_TIMESTAMP, to specify the packet
timestamp source that is exported to capture utilities like tcpdump by
packet_mmap.

PACKET_TIMESTAMP accepts the same integer bit field as
SO_TIMESTAMPING.  However, only the SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE and
SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE values are currently recognized by
PACKET_TIMESTAMP.  SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE takes precedence over
SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE if both bits are set.

If PACKET_TIMESTAMP is not set, a software timestamp generated inside
the networking stack is used (the behavior before this setting was
added).

Signed-off-by: Scott McMillan 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

packet: support for TX time stamps on RAW sockets

2010-04-13T08:30:48+00:00

Enable the SO_TIMESTAMPING socket infrastructure for raw packet sockets.
We introduce PACKET_TX_TIMESTAMP for the control message cmsg_type.

Similar support for UDP and CAN sockets was added in commit
51f31cabe3ce5345b51e4a4f82138b38c4d5dc91

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

packet: Add GSO/csum offload support.

2010-02-05T04:24:10+00:00

This patch adds GSO/checksum offload to af_packet sockets using
virtio_net_hdr. Based on Rusty's patch to add this support to tun.
It allows GSO/checksum offload to be enabled when using raw socket
backend with virtio_net.
Adds PACKET_VNET_HDR socket option to prepend virtio_net_hdr in the
receive path and process/skip virtio_net_hdr in the send path. This
option is only allowed with SOCK_RAW sockets attached to ethernet
type devices.

v2 updates
----------
Michael's Comments
- Perform length check in packet_snd() when GSO is off even when
  vnet_hdr is present.
- Check for SKB_GSO_FCOE type and return -EINVAL
- don't allow tx/rx ring when vnet_hdr is enabled.
Herbert's Comments
- Removed ethernet specific code.
- protocol value is assumed to be passed in by the caller.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: cleanup include/linux

2009-11-04T17:50:58+00:00

This cleanup patch puts struct/union/enum opening braces,
in first line to ease grep games.

struct something
{

becomes :

struct something {

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

Revert "af_packet: add interframe drop cmsg (v6)"

2009-10-12T10:00:31+00:00

This reverts commit 977750076d98c7ff6cbda51858bb5a5894a9d9ab.

Neil is reimplementing this generically, outside of AF_PACKET.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

af_packet: add interframe drop cmsg (v6)

2009-10-05T07:21:55+00:00

Add Ancilliary data to better represent loss information

I've had a few requests recently to provide more detail regarding frame loss
during an AF_PACKET packet capture session.  Specifically the requestors want to
see where in a packet sequence frames were lost, i.e. they want to see that 40
frames were lost between frames 302 and 303 in a packet capture file.  In order
to do this we need:

1) The kernel to export this data to user space
2) The applications to make use of it

This patch addresses item (1).  It does this by doing the following:

A) Anytime we drop a frame for which we would increment po->stats.tp_drops, we
also no increment a stats called po->stats.tp_gap.

B) Every time we successfully enqueue a frame to sk_receive_queue, we record the
value of po->stats.tp_gap in skb->mark.  skb->cb would nominally be the place to
record this, but since all the space there is used up, we're overloading
skb->mark.  Its safe to do since any enqueued packet is guaranteed to be
unshared at this point, and skb->mark isn't used for anything else in the rx
path to the application.  After we record tp_gap in the skb, we zero
po->stats.tp_gap.  This allows us to keep a counter of the number of frames lost
between any two enqueued packets

C) When the application goes to dequeue a frame from the packet socket, we look
at skb->mark for that frame.  If it is non-zero, we add a cmsg chunk to the
msghdr of level SOL_PACKET and type PACKET_GAPDATA.  Its a 32 bit integer that
represents the number of frames lost between this packet and the last previous
frame received.

Note there is a chance that if there is frame loss after a receive, and then the
socket is closed, some gap data might be lost.  This is covered by the use of
the PACKET_AUXDATA socket option, which gives total loss data.  With a bit of
math, the final gap can be determined that way.

I've tested this patch myself, and it works well.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 

 include/linux/if_packet.h |    2 ++
 net/packet/af_packet.c    |   33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

af_packet: Teach to listen for multiple unicast addresses.

2009-05-21T22:13:39+00:00

The the PACKET_ADD_MEMBERSHIP and the PACKET_DROP_MEMBERSHIP setsockopt
calls for af_packet already has all of the infrastructure needed to subscribe
to multiple mac addresses.  All that is missing is a flag to say that
the address we want to listen on is a unicast address.

So introduce PACKET_MR_UNICAST and wire it up to dev_unicast_add and
dev_unicast_delete.

Additionally I noticed that errors from dev_mc_add were not propagated
from packet_dev_mc so fix that.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: TX_RING and packet mmap

2009-05-19T05:11:22+00:00

New packet socket feature that makes packet socket more efficient for
transmission.

- It reduces number of system call through a PACKET_TX_RING mechanism,
  based on PACKET_RX_RING (Circular buffer allocated in kernel space
  which is mmapped from user space).

- It minimizes CPU copy using fragmented SKB (almost zero copy).

Signed-off-by: Johann Baudy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

packet: add PACKET_RESERVE sockopt

2008-07-19T01:05:19+00:00

Add new sockopt to reserve some headroom in the mmaped ring frames in
front of the packet payload. This can be used f.i. when the VLAN header
needs to be (re)constructed to avoid moving the entire payload.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

packet: deliver VLAN TCI to userspace

2008-07-15T05:50:39+00:00

Store the VLAN tag in the auxillary data/tpacket2_hdr so userspace can
properly deal with hardware VLAN tagging/stripping.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller