linux-toradex.git/include/net/compat.h, branch v4.6-rc3

net: switch importing msghdr from userland to {compat_,}import_iovec()

2015-04-09T04:02:26+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fold verify_iovec() into copy_msghdr_from_user()

2014-11-19T21:23:49+00:00

... and do the same on the compat side of things.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

compat.h: Remove extern from function prototypes

2013-09-20T18:49:32+00:00

There are a mix of function prototypes with and without extern
in the kernel sources.  Standardize on not using extern for
function prototypes.

Function prototypes don't need to be written with extern.
extern is assumed by the compiler.  Its use is as unnecessary as
using auto to declare automatic/local variables in a block.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: cleanup unsigned to unsigned int

2012-04-15T16:44:40+00:00

Use of "unsigned int" is preferred to bare "unsigned" in net tree.

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

net: get rid of some pointless casts to sockaddr

2012-03-12T02:11:22+00:00

The following 4 functions:
  move_addr_to_kernel
  move_addr_to_user
  verify_iovec
  verify_compat_iovec
are always effectively called with a sockaddr_storage.

Make this explicit by changing their signature.

This removes a large number of casts from sockaddr_storage to sockaddr.

Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Add sendmmsg socket system call

2011-05-05T18:10:14+00:00

This patch adds a multiple message send syscall and is the send
version of the existing recvmmsg syscall. This is heavily
based on the patch by Arnaldo that added recvmmsg.

I wrote a microbenchmark to test the performance gains of using
this new syscall:

http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/sendmmsg_test.c

The test was run on a ppc64 box with a 10 Gbit network card. The
benchmark can send both UDP and RAW ethernet packets.

64B UDP

batch   pkts/sec
1       804570
2       872800 (+ 8 %)
4       916556 (+14 %)
8       939712 (+17 %)
16      952688 (+18 %)
32      956448 (+19 %)
64      964800 (+20 %)

64B raw socket

batch   pkts/sec
1       1201449
2       1350028 (+12 %)
4       1461416 (+22 %)
8       1513080 (+26 %)
16      1541216 (+28 %)
32      1553440 (+29 %)
64      1557888 (+30 %)

We see a 20% improvement in throughput on UDP send and 30%
on raw socket send.

[ Add sparc syscall entries. -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: fix compat_sys_recvmmsg parameter type

2009-12-11T23:07:56+00:00

compat_sys_recvmmsg has a compat_timespec parameter and not a
timespec parameter. This way we also get rid of an odd cast.

Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Avoid compiler warning for mmsghdr when CONFIG_COMPAT is not selected

2009-10-20T08:09:17+00:00

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Introduce recvmmsg socket syscall

2009-10-13T06:40:10+00:00

Meaning receive multiple messages, reducing the number of syscalls and
net stack entry/exit operations.

Next patches will introduce mechanisms where protocols that want to
optimize this operation will provide an unlocked_recvmsg operation.

This takes into account comments made by:

. Paul Moore: sock_recvmsg is called only for the first datagram,
  sock_recvmsg_nosec is used for the rest.

. Caitlin Bestler: recvmmsg now has a struct timespec timeout, that
  works in the same fashion as the ppoll one.

  If the underlying protocol returns a datagram with MSG_OOB set, this
  will make recvmmsg return right away with as many datagrams (+ the OOB
  one) it has received so far.

. Rémi Denis-Courmont & Steven Whitehouse: If we receive N < vlen
  datagrams and then recvmsg returns an error, recvmmsg will return
  the successfully received datagrams, store the error and return it
  in the next call.

This paves the way for a subsequent optimization, sk_prot->unlocked_recvmsg,
where we will be able to acquire the lock only at batch start and end, not at
every underlying recvmsg call.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Make setsockopt() optlen be unsigned.

2009-09-30T23:12:20+00:00

This provides safety against negative optlen at the type
level instead of depending upon (sometimes non-trivial)
checks against this sprinkled all over the the place, in
each and every implementation.

Based upon work done by Arjan van de Ven and feedback
from Linus Torvalds.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller