linux-toradex.git/include/linux/netdevice.h, branch v3.13

net: core: explicitly select a txq before doing l2 forwarding

2014-01-10T18:23:08+00:00

Currently, the tx queue were selected implicitly in ndo_dfwd_start_xmit(). The
will cause several issues:

- NETIF_F_LLTX were removed for macvlan, so txq lock were done for macvlan
  instead of lower device which misses the necessary txq synchronization for
  lower device such as txq stopping or frozen required by dev watchdog or
  control path.
- dev_hard_start_xmit() was called with NULL txq which bypasses the net device
  watchdog.
- dev_hard_start_xmit() does not check txq everywhere which will lead a crash
  when tso is disabled for lower device.

Fix this by explicitly introducing a new param for .ndo_select_queue() for just
selecting queues in the case of l2 forwarding offload. netdev_pick_tx() was also
extended to accept this parameter and dev_queue_xmit_accel() was used to do l2
forwarding transmission.

With this fixes, NETIF_F_LLTX could be preserved for macvlan and there's no need
to check txq against NULL in dev_hard_start_xmit(). Also there's no need to keep
a dedicated ndo_dfwd_start_xmit() and we can just reuse the code of
dev_queue_xmit() to do the transmission.

In the future, it was also required for macvtap l2 forwarding support since it
provides a necessary synchronization method.

Cc: John Fastabend 
Cc: Neil Horman 
Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang 
Acked-by: Neil Horman 
Acked-by: John Fastabend 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: fix tunneled VM traffic over hw VXLAN/GRE GSO NIC

2014-01-03T00:06:47+00:00

VM to VM GSO traffic is broken if it goes through VXLAN or GRE
tunnel and the physical NIC on the host supports hardware VXLAN/GRE
GSO offload (e.g. bnx2x and next-gen mlx4).

Two issues -
(VXLAN) VM traffic has SKB_GSO_DODGY and SKB_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL with
SKB_GSO_TCP/UDP set depending on the inner protocol. GSO header
integrity check fails in udp4_ufo_fragment if inner protocol is
TCP. Also gso_segs is calculated incorrectly using skb->len that
includes tunnel header. Fix: robust check should only be applied
to the inner packet.

(VXLAN & GRE) Once GSO header integrity check passes, NULL segs
is returned and the original skb is sent to hardware. However the
tunnel header is already pulled. Fix: tunnel header needs to be
restored so that hardware can perform GSO properly on the original
packet.

Signed-off-by: Wei-Chun Chao 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

vlan: Fix header ops passthru when doing TX VLAN offload.

2013-12-31T21:23:35+00:00

When the vlan code detects that the real device can do TX VLAN offloads
in hardware, it tries to arrange for the real device's header_ops to
be invoked directly.

But it does so illegally, by simply hooking the real device's
header_ops up to the VLAN device.

This doesn't work because we will end up invoking a set of header_ops
routines which expect a device type which matches the real device, but
will see a VLAN device instead.

Fix this by providing a pass-thru set of header_ops which will arrange
to pass the proper real device instead.

To facilitate this add a dev_rebuild_header().  There are
implementations which provide a ->cache and ->create but not a
->rebuild (f.e. PLIP).  So we need a helper function just like
dev_hard_header() to avoid crashes.

Use this helper in the one existing place where the
header_ops->rebuild was being invoked, the neighbour code.

With lots of help from Florian Westphal.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: make neigh_priv_len in struct net_device 16bit instead of 8bit

2013-12-12T20:35:09+00:00

neigh_priv_len is defined as u8. With all debug enabled struct
ipoib_neigh has 200 bytes. The largest part is sk_buff_head with 96
bytes and here the spinlock with 72 bytes.
The size value still fits in this u8 leaving some room for more.

On -RT struct ipoib_neigh put on weight and has 392 bytes. The main
reason is sk_buff_head with 288 and the fatty here is spinlock with 192
bytes. This does no longer fit into into neigh_priv_len and gcc
complains.

This patch changes neigh_priv_len from being 8bit to 16bit. Since the
following element (dev_id) is 16bit followed by a spinlock which is
aligned, the struct remains with a total size of 3200 (allmodconfig) /
2048 (with as much debug off as possible) bytes on x86-64.
On x86-32 the struct is 1856 (allmodconfig) / 1216 (with as much debug
off as possible) bytes long. The numbers were gained with and without
the patch to prove that this change does not increase the size of the
struct.

Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

2013-11-16T00:47:22+00:00

Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual earth-shaking, news-breaking, rocket science pile from
  trivial.git"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (23 commits)
  doc: usb: Fix typo in Documentation/usb/gadget_configs.txt
  doc: add missing files to timers/00-INDEX
  timekeeping: Fix some trivial typos in comments
  mm: Fix some trivial typos in comments
  irq: Fix some trivial typos in comments
  NUMA: fix typos in Kconfig help text
  mm: update 00-INDEX
  doc: Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt fix typo
  DRM: comment: `halve' -> `half'
  Docs: Kconfig: `devlopers' -> `developers'
  doc: typo on word accounting in kprobes.c in mutliple architectures
  treewide: fix "usefull" typo
  treewide: fix "distingush" typo
  mm/Kconfig: Grammar s/an/a/
  kexec: Typo s/the/then/
  Documentation/kvm: Update cpuid documentation for steal time and pv eoi
  treewide: Fix common typo in "identify"
  __page_to_pfn: Fix typo in comment
  Correct some typos for word frequency
  clk: fixed-factor: Fix a trivial typo
  ...

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2013-11-13T08:40:34+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) The addition of nftables.  No longer will we need protocol aware
    firewall filtering modules, it can all live in userspace.

    At the core of nftables is a, for lack of a better term, virtual
    machine that executes byte codes to inspect packet or metadata
    (arriving interface index, etc.) and make verdict decisions.

    Besides support for loading packet contents and comparing them, the
    interpreter supports lookups in various datastructures as
    fundamental operations.  For example sets are supports, and
    therefore one could create a set of whitelist IP address entries
    which have ACCEPT verdicts attached to them, and use the appropriate
    byte codes to do such lookups.

    Since the interpreted code is composed in userspace, userspace can
    do things like optimize things before giving it to the kernel.

    Another major improvement is the capability of atomically updating
    portions of the ruleset.  In the existing netfilter implementation,
    one has to update the entire rule set in order to make a change and
    this is very expensive.

    Userspace tools exist to create nftables rules using existing
    netfilter rule sets, but both kernel implementations will need to
    co-exist for quite some time as we transition from the old to the
    new stuff.

    Kudos to Patrick McHardy, Pablo Neira Ayuso, and others who have
    worked so hard on this.

 2) Daniel Borkmann and Hannes Frederic Sowa made several improvements
    to our pseudo-random number generator, mostly used for things like
    UDP port randomization and netfitler, amongst other things.

    In particular the taus88 generater is updated to taus113, and test
    cases are added.

 3) Support 64-bit rates in HTB and TBF schedulers, from Eric Dumazet
    and Yang Yingliang.

 4) Add support for new 577xx tigon3 chips to tg3 driver, from Nithin
    Sujir.

 5) Fix two fatal flaws in TCP dynamic right sizing, from Eric Dumazet,
    Neal Cardwell, and Yuchung Cheng.

 6) Allow IP_TOS and IP_TTL to be specified in sendmsg() ancillary
    control message data, much like other socket option attributes.
    From Francesco Fusco.

 7) Allow applications to specify a cap on the rate computed
    automatically by the kernel for pacing flows, via a new
    SO_MAX_PACING_RATE socket option.  From Eric Dumazet.

 8) Make the initial autotuned send buffer sizing in TCP more closely
    reflect actual needs, from Eric Dumazet.

 9) Currently early socket demux only happens for TCP sockets, but we
    can do it for connected UDP sockets too.  Implementation from Shawn
    Bohrer.

10) Refactor inet socket demux with the goal of improving hash demux
    performance for listening sockets.  With the main goals being able
    to use RCU lookups on even request sockets, and eliminating the
    listening lock contention.  From Eric Dumazet.

11) The bonding layer has many demuxes in it's fast path, and an RCU
    conversion was started back in 3.11, several changes here extend the
    RCU usage to even more locations.  From Ding Tianhong and Wang
    Yufen, based upon suggestions by Nikolay Aleksandrov and Veaceslav
    Falico.

12) Allow stackability of segmentation offloads to, in particular, allow
    segmentation offloading over tunnels.  From Eric Dumazet.

13) Significantly improve the handling of secret keys we input into the
    various hash functions in the inet hashtables, TCP fast open, as
    well as syncookies.  From Hannes Frederic Sowa.  The key fundamental
    operation is "net_get_random_once()" which uses static keys.

    Hannes even extended this to ipv4/ipv6 fragmentation handling and
    our generic flow dissector.

14) The generic driver layer takes care now to set the driver data to
    NULL on device removal, so it's no longer necessary for drivers to
    explicitly set it to NULL any more.  Many drivers have been cleaned
    up in this way, from Jingoo Han.

15) Add a BPF based packet scheduler classifier, from Daniel Borkmann.

16) Improve CRC32 interfaces and generic SKB checksum iterators so that
    SCTP's checksumming can more cleanly be handled.  Also from Daniel
    Borkmann.

17) Add a new PMTU discovery mode, IP_PMTUDISC_INTERFACE, which forces
    using the interface MTU value.  This helps avoid PMTU attacks,
    particularly on DNS servers.  From Hannes Frederic Sowa.

18) Use generic XPS for transmit queue steering rather than internal
    (re-)implementation in virtio-net.  From Jason Wang.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1622 commits)
  random32: add test cases for taus113 implementation
  random32: upgrade taus88 generator to taus113 from errata paper
  random32: move rnd_state to linux/random.h
  random32: add prandom_reseed_late() and call when nonblocking pool becomes initialized
  random32: add periodic reseeding
  random32: fix off-by-one in seeding requirement
  PHY: Add RTL8201CP phy_driver to realtek
  xtsonic: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in xtsonic_probe()
  macmace: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in mace_probe()
  ethernet/arc/arc_emac: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in arc_emac_probe()
  ipv6: protect for_each_sk_fl_rcu in mem_check with rcu_read_lock_bh
  vlan: Implement vlan_dev_get_egress_qos_mask as an inline.
  ixgbe: add warning when max_vfs is out of range.
  igb: Update link modes display in ethtool
  netfilter: push reasm skb through instead of original frag skbs
  ip6_output: fragment outgoing reassembled skb properly
  MAINTAINERS: mv643xx_eth: take over maintainership from Lennart
  net_sched: tbf: support of 64bit rates
  ixgbe: deleting dfwd stations out of order can cause null ptr deref
  ixgbe: fix build err, num_rx_queues is only available with CONFIG_RPS
  ...

net: Add layer 2 hardware acceleration operations for macvlan devices

2013-11-08T00:11:41+00:00

Add a operations structure that allows a network interface to export
the fact that it supports package forwarding in hardware between
physical interfaces and other mac layer devices assigned to it (such
as macvlans). This operaions structure can be used by virtual mac
devices to bypass software switching so that forwarding can be done
in hardware more efficiently.

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend 
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman 
CC: Andy Gospodarek 
CC: "David S. Miller" 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: make ndev->irq signed for error handling

2013-11-08T00:11:13+00:00

There is a bug in cpsw_probe() where we do:

	ndev->irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
	if (ndev->irq < 0) {

The problem is that "ndev->irq" is unsigned so the error handling
doesn't work.  I have changed it to a regular int.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge tag 'driver-core-3.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2013-11-07T02:42:15+00:00

Pull driver core / sysfs patches from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big driver core / sysfs update for 3.13-rc1.

  There's lots of dev_groups updates for different subsystems, as they
  all get slowly migrated over to the safe versions of the attribute
  groups (removing userspace races with the creation of the sysfs
  files.) Also in here are some kobject updates, devres expansions, and
  the first round of Tejun's sysfs reworking to enable it to be used by
  other subsystems as a backend for an in-kernel filesystem.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'driver-core-3.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (83 commits)
  sysfs: rename sysfs_assoc_lock and explain what it's about
  sysfs: use generic_file_llseek() for sysfs_file_operations
  sysfs: return correct error code on unimplemented mmap()
  mdio_bus: convert bus code to use dev_groups
  device: Make dev_WARN/dev_WARN_ONCE print device as well as driver name
  sysfs: separate out dup filename warning into a separate function
  sysfs: move sysfs_hash_and_remove() to fs/sysfs/dir.c
  sysfs: remove unused sysfs_get_dentry() prototype
  sysfs: honor bin_attr.attr.ignore_lockdep
  sysfs: merge sysfs_elem_bin_attr into sysfs_elem_attr
  devres: restore zeroing behavior of devres_alloc()
  sysfs: fix sysfs_write_file for bin file
  input: gameport: convert bus code to use dev_groups
  input: serio: remove bus usage of dev_attrs
  input: serio: use DEVICE_ATTR_RO()
  i2o: convert bus code to use dev_groups
  memstick: convert bus code to use dev_groups
  tifm: convert bus code to use dev_groups
  virtio: convert bus code to use dev_groups
  ipack: convert bus code to use dev_groups
  ...

net: extend net_device allocation to vmalloc()

2013-11-04T04:19:00+00:00

Joby Poriyath provided a xen-netback patch to reduce the size of
xenvif structure as some netdev allocation could fail under
memory pressure/fragmentation.

This patch is handling the problem at the core level, allowing
any netdev structures to use vmalloc() if kmalloc() failed.

As vmalloc() adds overhead on a critical network path, add __GFP_REPEAT
to kzalloc() flags to do this fallback only when really needed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Reported-by: Joby Poriyath 
Cc: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller