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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux/netdevice.h, branch v2.6.25-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6</title>
<updated>2008-02-15T15:33:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2008-02-15T15:33:07+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (82 commits)
  [NET]: Make sure sockets implement splice_read
  netconsole: avoid null pointer dereference at show_local_mac()
  [IPV6]: Fix reversed local_df test in ip6_fragment
  [XFRM]: Avoid bogus BUG() when throwing new policy away.
  [AF_KEY]: Fix bug in spdadd
  [NETFILTER] nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c: Mistyped state corrected.
  net: xfrm statistics depend on INET
  [NETFILTER]: make secmark_tg_destroy() static
  [INET]: Unexport inet_listen_wlock
  [INET]: Unexport __inet_hash_connect
  [NET]: Improve cache line coherency of ingress qdisc
  [NET]: Fix race in dev_close(). (Bug 9750)
  [IPSEC]: Fix bogus usage of u64 on input sequence number
  [RTNETLINK]: Send a single notification on device state changes.
  [NETLABLE]: Hide netlbl_unlabel_audit_addr6 under ifdef CONFIG_IPV6.
  [NETLABEL]: Don't produce unused variables when IPv6 is off.
  [NETLABEL]: Compilation for CONFIG_AUDIT=n case.
  [GENETLINK]: Relax dances with genl_lock.
  [NETLABEL]: Fix lookup logic of netlbl_domhsh_search_def.
  [IPV6]: remove unused method declaration (net/ndisc.h).
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (82 commits)
  [NET]: Make sure sockets implement splice_read
  netconsole: avoid null pointer dereference at show_local_mac()
  [IPV6]: Fix reversed local_df test in ip6_fragment
  [XFRM]: Avoid bogus BUG() when throwing new policy away.
  [AF_KEY]: Fix bug in spdadd
  [NETFILTER] nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c: Mistyped state corrected.
  net: xfrm statistics depend on INET
  [NETFILTER]: make secmark_tg_destroy() static
  [INET]: Unexport inet_listen_wlock
  [INET]: Unexport __inet_hash_connect
  [NET]: Improve cache line coherency of ingress qdisc
  [NET]: Fix race in dev_close(). (Bug 9750)
  [IPSEC]: Fix bogus usage of u64 on input sequence number
  [RTNETLINK]: Send a single notification on device state changes.
  [NETLABLE]: Hide netlbl_unlabel_audit_addr6 under ifdef CONFIG_IPV6.
  [NETLABEL]: Don't produce unused variables when IPv6 is off.
  [NETLABEL]: Compilation for CONFIG_AUDIT=n case.
  [GENETLINK]: Relax dances with genl_lock.
  [NETLABEL]: Fix lookup logic of netlbl_domhsh_search_def.
  [IPV6]: remove unused method declaration (net/ndisc.h).
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<entry>
<title>include/linux: Remove all users of FASTCALL() macro</title>
<updated>2008-02-14T00:21:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Harvey Harrison</name>
<email>harvey.harrison@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2008-02-13T23:03:15+00:00</published>
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FASTCALL() is always expanded to empty, remove it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison &lt;harvey.harrison@gmail.com&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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FASTCALL() is always expanded to empty, remove it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison &lt;harvey.harrison@gmail.com&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>[NET]: Improve cache line coherency of ingress qdisc</title>
<updated>2008-02-13T07:13:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Neil Turton</name>
<email>nturton@solarflare.com</email>
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<published>2008-02-13T07:13:48+00:00</published>
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Move the ingress qdisc members of struct net_device from the transmit
cache line to the receive cache line to avoid cache line ping-pong.
These members are only used on the receive path.

Signed-off-by: Neil Turton &lt;nturton@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Move the ingress qdisc members of struct net_device from the transmit
cache line to the receive cache line to avoid cache line ping-pong.
These members are only used on the receive path.

Signed-off-by: Neil Turton &lt;nturton@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[VLAN]: set_rx_mode support for unicast address list</title>
<updated>2008-02-01T03:28:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Leech</name>
<email>christopher.leech@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-01T00:53:23+00:00</published>
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Reuse the existing logic for multicast list synchronization for the
unicast address list. The core of dev_mc_sync/unsync are split out as
__dev_addr_sync/unsync and moved from dev_mcast.c to dev.c.  These are
then used to implement dev_unicast_sync/unsync as well.

I'm working on cleaning up Intel's FCoE stack, which generates new MAC
addresses from the fibre channel device id assigned by the fabric as
per the current draft specification in T11.  When using such a
protocol in a VLAN environment it would be nice to not always be
forced into promiscuous mode, assuming the underlying Ethernet driver
supports multiple unicast addresses as well.

Signed-off-by: Chris Leech &lt;christopher.leech@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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Reuse the existing logic for multicast list synchronization for the
unicast address list. The core of dev_mc_sync/unsync are split out as
__dev_addr_sync/unsync and moved from dev_mcast.c to dev.c.  These are
then used to implement dev_unicast_sync/unsync as well.

I'm working on cleaning up Intel's FCoE stack, which generates new MAC
addresses from the fibre channel device id assigned by the fabric as
per the current draft specification in T11.  When using such a
protocol in a VLAN environment it would be nice to not always be
forced into promiscuous mode, assuming the underlying Ethernet driver
supports multiple unicast addresses as well.

Signed-off-by: Chris Leech &lt;christopher.leech@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
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<title>[NET]: Add NAPI_STATE_DISABLE.</title>
<updated>2008-01-09T07:30:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2008-01-08T04:35:07+00:00</published>
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Create a bit to signal that a napi_disable() is in progress.

This sets up infrastructure such that net_rx_action() can generically
break out of the -&gt;poll() loop on a NAPI context that has a pending
napi_disable() yet is being bombed with packets (and thus would
otherwise poll endlessly and not allow the napi_disable() to finish).

Now, what napi_disable() does is first set the NAPI_STATE_DISABLE bit
(to indicate that a disable is pending), then it polls for the
NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit, and once the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit is acquired
the NAPI_STATE_DISABLE bit is cleared.  Here, the test_and_set_bit()
provides the necessary memory barrier between the various bitops.

napi_schedule_prep() now tests for a pending disable as it's first
action and won't try to obtain the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit if a disable
is pending.

As a result, we can remove the netif_running() check in
netif_rx_schedule_prep() because the NAPI disable pending state serves
this purpose.  And, it does so in a NAPI centric manner which is what
we really want.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Create a bit to signal that a napi_disable() is in progress.

This sets up infrastructure such that net_rx_action() can generically
break out of the -&gt;poll() loop on a NAPI context that has a pending
napi_disable() yet is being bombed with packets (and thus would
otherwise poll endlessly and not allow the napi_disable() to finish).

Now, what napi_disable() does is first set the NAPI_STATE_DISABLE bit
(to indicate that a disable is pending), then it polls for the
NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit, and once the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit is acquired
the NAPI_STATE_DISABLE bit is cleared.  Here, the test_and_set_bit()
provides the necessary memory barrier between the various bitops.

napi_schedule_prep() now tests for a pending disable as it's first
action and won't try to obtain the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit if a disable
is pending.

As a result, we can remove the netif_running() check in
netif_rx_schedule_prep() because the NAPI disable pending state serves
this purpose.  And, it does so in a NAPI centric manner which is what
we really want.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>[NET]: Do not grab device reference when scheduling a NAPI poll.</title>
<updated>2008-01-09T07:30:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2008-01-08T04:26:59+00:00</published>
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It is pointless, because everything that can make a device go away
will do a napi_disable() first.

The main impetus behind this is that now we can legally do a NAPI
completion in generic code like net_rx_action() which a following
changeset needs to do.  net_rx_action() can only perform actions
in NAPI centric ways, because there may be a one to many mapping
between NAPI contexts and network devices (SKY2 is one example).

We also want to get rid of this because it's an extra atomic in the
NAPI paths, and also because it is one of the last instances where the
NAPI interfaces care about net devices.

The one remaining netdev detail the NAPI stuff cares about is the
netif_running() check which will be killed off in a subsequent
changeset.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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It is pointless, because everything that can make a device go away
will do a napi_disable() first.

The main impetus behind this is that now we can legally do a NAPI
completion in generic code like net_rx_action() which a following
changeset needs to do.  net_rx_action() can only perform actions
in NAPI centric ways, because there may be a one to many mapping
between NAPI contexts and network devices (SKY2 is one example).

We also want to get rid of this because it's an extra atomic in the
NAPI paths, and also because it is one of the last instances where the
NAPI interfaces care about net devices.

The one remaining netdev detail the NAPI stuff cares about is the
netif_running() check which will be killed off in a subsequent
changeset.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[NET]: docbook fixes for netif_ functions</title>
<updated>2007-11-01T09:21:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Hemminger</name>
<email>shemminger@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-11-01T09:21:47+00:00</published>
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Documentation updates for network interfaces.

1. Add doc for netif_napi_add
2. Remove doc for unused returns from netif_rx
3. Add doc for netif_receive_skb

[ Incorporated minor mods from Randy Dunlap -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Documentation updates for network interfaces.

1. Add doc for netif_napi_add
2. Remove doc for unused returns from netif_rx
3. Add doc for netif_receive_skb

[ Incorporated minor mods from Randy Dunlap -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[NET] napi: use non-interruptible sleep in napi_disable</title>
<updated>2007-10-26T11:23:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-26T11:23:22+00:00</published>
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The current napi_disable() uses msleep_interruptible() but doesn't
(and can't) exit in case there's a signal, thus ending up doing a
hot spin without a cpu_relax. Use uninterruptible sleep instead.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The current napi_disable() uses msleep_interruptible() but doesn't
(and can't) exit in case there's a signal, thus ending up doing a
hot spin without a cpu_relax. Use uninterruptible sleep instead.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[NET]: Validate device addr prior to interface-up</title>
<updated>2007-10-24T04:27:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Garzik</name>
<email>jgarzik@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-24T03:19:37+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>remove header_ops bug in qeth driver</title>
<updated>2007-10-24T00:18:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ursula Braun</name>
<email>braunu@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-22T14:16:14+00:00</published>
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Remove qeth bug caused by commit:
[NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.

This is the second part of the qeth header_ops patch, since
first patch sent 10/19 has been insufficient.
Nevertheless first patch is still valid and should be kept.

Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun &lt;braunu@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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Remove qeth bug caused by commit:
[NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.

This is the second part of the qeth header_ops patch, since
first patch sent 10/19 has been insufficient.
Nevertheless first patch is still valid and should be kept.

Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun &lt;braunu@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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