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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/uapi/asm-generic/socket.h, branch v5.12-rc6</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>net: Add SO_BUSY_POLL_BUDGET socket option</title>
<updated>2020-11-30T23:09:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Björn Töpel</name>
<email>bjorn.topel@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-30T18:51:57+00:00</published>
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This option lets a user set a per socket NAPI budget for
busy-polling. If the options is not set, it will use the default of 8.

Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn.topel@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201130185205.196029-3-bjorn.topel@gmail.com
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This option lets a user set a per socket NAPI budget for
busy-polling. If the options is not set, it will use the default of 8.

Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn.topel@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201130185205.196029-3-bjorn.topel@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Introduce preferred busy-polling</title>
<updated>2020-11-30T23:09:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Björn Töpel</name>
<email>bjorn.topel@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-30T18:51:56+00:00</published>
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The existing busy-polling mode, enabled by the SO_BUSY_POLL socket
option or system-wide using the /proc/sys/net/core/busy_read knob, is
an opportunistic. That means that if the NAPI context is not
scheduled, it will poll it. If, after busy-polling, the budget is
exceeded the busy-polling logic will schedule the NAPI onto the
regular softirq handling.

One implication of the behavior above is that a busy/heavy loaded NAPI
context will never enter/allow for busy-polling. Some applications
prefer that most NAPI processing would be done by busy-polling.

This series adds a new socket option, SO_PREFER_BUSY_POLL, that works
in concert with the napi_defer_hard_irqs and gro_flush_timeout
knobs. The napi_defer_hard_irqs and gro_flush_timeout knobs were
introduced in commit 6f8b12d661d0 ("net: napi: add hard irqs deferral
feature"), and allows for a user to defer interrupts to be enabled and
instead schedule the NAPI context from a watchdog timer. When a user
enables the SO_PREFER_BUSY_POLL, again with the other knobs enabled,
and the NAPI context is being processed by a softirq, the softirq NAPI
processing will exit early to allow the busy-polling to be performed.

If the application stops performing busy-polling via a system call,
the watchdog timer defined by gro_flush_timeout will timeout, and
regular softirq handling will resume.

In summary; Heavy traffic applications that prefer busy-polling over
softirq processing should use this option.

Example usage:

  $ echo 2 | sudo tee /sys/class/net/ens785f1/napi_defer_hard_irqs
  $ echo 200000 | sudo tee /sys/class/net/ens785f1/gro_flush_timeout

Note that the timeout should be larger than the userspace processing
window, otherwise the watchdog will timeout and fall back to regular
softirq processing.

Enable the SO_BUSY_POLL/SO_PREFER_BUSY_POLL options on your socket.

Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn.topel@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201130185205.196029-2-bjorn.topel@gmail.com
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The existing busy-polling mode, enabled by the SO_BUSY_POLL socket
option or system-wide using the /proc/sys/net/core/busy_read knob, is
an opportunistic. That means that if the NAPI context is not
scheduled, it will poll it. If, after busy-polling, the budget is
exceeded the busy-polling logic will schedule the NAPI onto the
regular softirq handling.

One implication of the behavior above is that a busy/heavy loaded NAPI
context will never enter/allow for busy-polling. Some applications
prefer that most NAPI processing would be done by busy-polling.

This series adds a new socket option, SO_PREFER_BUSY_POLL, that works
in concert with the napi_defer_hard_irqs and gro_flush_timeout
knobs. The napi_defer_hard_irqs and gro_flush_timeout knobs were
introduced in commit 6f8b12d661d0 ("net: napi: add hard irqs deferral
feature"), and allows for a user to defer interrupts to be enabled and
instead schedule the NAPI context from a watchdog timer. When a user
enables the SO_PREFER_BUSY_POLL, again with the other knobs enabled,
and the NAPI context is being processed by a softirq, the softirq NAPI
processing will exit early to allow the busy-polling to be performed.

If the application stops performing busy-polling via a system call,
the watchdog timer defined by gro_flush_timeout will timeout, and
regular softirq handling will resume.

In summary; Heavy traffic applications that prefer busy-polling over
softirq processing should use this option.

Example usage:

  $ echo 2 | sudo tee /sys/class/net/ens785f1/napi_defer_hard_irqs
  $ echo 200000 | sudo tee /sys/class/net/ens785f1/gro_flush_timeout

Note that the timeout should be larger than the userspace processing
window, otherwise the watchdog will timeout and fall back to regular
softirq processing.

Enable the SO_BUSY_POLL/SO_PREFER_BUSY_POLL options on your socket.

Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn.topel@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201130185205.196029-2-bjorn.topel@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: net: Add SO_DETACH_REUSEPORT_BPF</title>
<updated>2019-06-14T23:21:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin KaFai Lau</name>
<email>kafai@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-13T22:00:01+00:00</published>
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There is SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_[CE]BPF but there is no DETACH.
This patch adds SO_DETACH_REUSEPORT_BPF sockopt.  The same
sockopt can be used to undo both SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_[CE]BPF.

reseport_detach_prog() is added and it is mostly a mirror
of the existing reuseport_attach_prog().  The differences are,
it does not call reuseport_alloc() and returns -ENOENT when
there is no old prog.

Cc: Craig Gallek &lt;kraig@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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There is SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_[CE]BPF but there is no DETACH.
This patch adds SO_DETACH_REUSEPORT_BPF sockopt.  The same
sockopt can be used to undo both SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_[CE]BPF.

reseport_detach_prog() is added and it is mostly a mirror
of the existing reuseport_attach_prog().  The differences are,
it does not call reuseport_alloc() and returns -ENOENT when
there is no old prog.

Cc: Craig Gallek &lt;kraig@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>y2038: fix socket.h header inclusion</title>
<updated>2019-03-11T18:06:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-11T15:38:17+00:00</published>
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Referencing the __kernel_long_t type caused some user space applications
to stop compiling when they had not already included linux/posix_types.h,
e.g.

s/multicast.c -o ext/sockets/multicast.lo
In file included from /builddir/build/BUILD/php-7.3.3/main/php.h:468,
                 from /builddir/build/BUILD/php-7.3.3/ext/sockets/sockets.c:27:
/builddir/build/BUILD/php-7.3.3/ext/sockets/sockets.c: In function 'zm_startup_sockets':
/builddir/build/BUILD/php-7.3.3/ext/sockets/sockets.c:776:40: error: '__kernel_long_t' undeclared (first use in this function)
  776 |  REGISTER_LONG_CONSTANT("SO_SNDTIMEO", SO_SNDTIMEO, CONST_CS | CONST_PERSISTENT);

It is safe to include that header here, since it only contains kernel
internal types that do not conflict with other user space types.

It's still possible that some related build failures remain, but those
are likely to be for code that is not already y2038 safe.

Reported-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: a9beb86ae6e5 ("sock: Add SO_RCVTIMEO_NEW and SO_SNDTIMEO_NEW")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Referencing the __kernel_long_t type caused some user space applications
to stop compiling when they had not already included linux/posix_types.h,
e.g.

s/multicast.c -o ext/sockets/multicast.lo
In file included from /builddir/build/BUILD/php-7.3.3/main/php.h:468,
                 from /builddir/build/BUILD/php-7.3.3/ext/sockets/sockets.c:27:
/builddir/build/BUILD/php-7.3.3/ext/sockets/sockets.c: In function 'zm_startup_sockets':
/builddir/build/BUILD/php-7.3.3/ext/sockets/sockets.c:776:40: error: '__kernel_long_t' undeclared (first use in this function)
  776 |  REGISTER_LONG_CONSTANT("SO_SNDTIMEO", SO_SNDTIMEO, CONST_CS | CONST_PERSISTENT);

It is safe to include that header here, since it only contains kernel
internal types that do not conflict with other user space types.

It's still possible that some related build failures remain, but those
are likely to be for code that is not already y2038 safe.

Reported-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: a9beb86ae6e5 ("sock: Add SO_RCVTIMEO_NEW and SO_SNDTIMEO_NEW")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sock: Add SO_RCVTIMEO_NEW and SO_SNDTIMEO_NEW</title>
<updated>2019-02-03T19:17:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Deepa Dinamani</name>
<email>deepa.kernel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-02T15:34:54+00:00</published>
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Add new socket timeout options that are y2038 safe.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Cc: ccaulfie@redhat.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: deller@gmx.de
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add new socket timeout options that are y2038 safe.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Cc: ccaulfie@redhat.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: deller@gmx.de
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>socket: Rename SO_RCVTIMEO/ SO_SNDTIMEO with _OLD suffixes</title>
<updated>2019-02-03T19:17:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Deepa Dinamani</name>
<email>deepa.kernel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-02T15:34:53+00:00</published>
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SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO socket options use struct timeval
as the time format. struct timeval is not y2038 safe.
The subsequent patches in the series add support for new socket
timeout options with _NEW suffix that will use y2038 safe
data structures. Although the existing struct timeval layout
is sufficiently wide to represent timeouts, because of the way
libc will interpret time_t based on user defined flag, these
new flags provide a way of having a structure that is the same
for all architectures consistently.
Rename the existing options with _OLD suffix forms so that the
right option is enabled for userspace applications according
to the architecture and time_t definition of libc.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Cc: ccaulfie@redhat.com
Cc: deller@gmx.de
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO socket options use struct timeval
as the time format. struct timeval is not y2038 safe.
The subsequent patches in the series add support for new socket
timeout options with _NEW suffix that will use y2038 safe
data structures. Although the existing struct timeval layout
is sufficiently wide to represent timeouts, because of the way
libc will interpret time_t based on user defined flag, these
new flags provide a way of having a structure that is the same
for all architectures consistently.
Rename the existing options with _OLD suffix forms so that the
right option is enabled for userspace applications according
to the architecture and time_t definition of libc.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Cc: ccaulfie@redhat.com
Cc: deller@gmx.de
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>socket: Add SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW</title>
<updated>2019-02-03T19:17:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Deepa Dinamani</name>
<email>deepa.kernel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-02T15:34:51+00:00</published>
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Add SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW variant of socket timestamp options.
This is the y2038 safe versions of the SO_TIMESTAMPING_OLD
for all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Cc: chris@zankel.net
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: ubraun@linux.ibm.com
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW variant of socket timestamp options.
This is the y2038 safe versions of the SO_TIMESTAMPING_OLD
for all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Cc: chris@zankel.net
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: ubraun@linux.ibm.com
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>socket: Add SO_TIMESTAMP[NS]_NEW</title>
<updated>2019-02-03T19:17:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Deepa Dinamani</name>
<email>deepa.kernel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-02T15:34:50+00:00</published>
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Add SO_TIMESTAMP_NEW and SO_TIMESTAMPNS_NEW variants of
socket timestamp options.
These are the y2038 safe versions of the SO_TIMESTAMP_OLD
and SO_TIMESTAMPNS_OLD for all architectures.

Note that the format of scm_timestamping.ts[0] is not changed
in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Cc: jejb@parisc-linux.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add SO_TIMESTAMP_NEW and SO_TIMESTAMPNS_NEW variants of
socket timestamp options.
These are the y2038 safe versions of the SO_TIMESTAMP_OLD
and SO_TIMESTAMPNS_OLD for all architectures.

Note that the format of scm_timestamping.ts[0] is not changed
in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Cc: jejb@parisc-linux.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sockopt: Rename SO_TIMESTAMP* to SO_TIMESTAMP*_OLD</title>
<updated>2019-02-03T19:17:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Deepa Dinamani</name>
<email>deepa.kernel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-02T15:34:46+00:00</published>
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SO_TIMESTAMP, SO_TIMESTAMPNS and SO_TIMESTAMPING options, the
way they are currently defined, are not y2038 safe.
Subsequent patches in the series add new y2038 safe versions
of these options which provide 64 bit timestamps on all
architectures uniformly.
Hence, rename existing options with OLD tag suffixes.

Also note that kernel will not use the untagged SO_TIMESTAMP*
and SCM_TIMESTAMP* options internally anymore.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Cc: deller@gmx.de
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: jejb@parisc-linux.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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SO_TIMESTAMP, SO_TIMESTAMPNS and SO_TIMESTAMPING options, the
way they are currently defined, are not y2038 safe.
Subsequent patches in the series add new y2038 safe versions
of these options which provide 64 bit timestamps on all
architectures uniformly.
Hence, rename existing options with OLD tag suffixes.

Also note that kernel will not use the untagged SO_TIMESTAMP*
and SCM_TIMESTAMP* options internally anymore.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Cc: deller@gmx.de
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: jejb@parisc-linux.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: introduce SO_BINDTOIFINDEX sockopt</title>
<updated>2019-01-17T22:55:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Herrmann</name>
<email>dh.herrmann@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-15T13:42:14+00:00</published>
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This introduces a new generic SOL_SOCKET-level socket option called
SO_BINDTOIFINDEX. It behaves similar to SO_BINDTODEVICE, but takes a
network interface index as argument, rather than the network interface
name.

User-space often refers to network-interfaces via their index, but has
to temporarily resolve it to a name for a call into SO_BINDTODEVICE.
This might pose problems when the network-device is renamed
asynchronously by other parts of the system. When this happens, the
SO_BINDTODEVICE might either fail, or worse, it might bind to the wrong
device.

In most cases user-space only ever operates on devices which they
either manage themselves, or otherwise have a guarantee that the device
name will not change (e.g., devices that are UP cannot be renamed).
However, particularly in libraries this guarantee is non-obvious and it
would be nice if that race-condition would simply not exist. It would
make it easier for those libraries to operate even in situations where
the device-name might change under the hood.

A real use-case that we recently hit is trying to start the network
stack early in the initrd but make it survive into the real system.
Existing distributions rename network-interfaces during the transition
from initrd into the real system. This, obviously, cannot affect
devices that are up and running (unless you also consider moving them
between network-namespaces). However, the network manager now has to
make sure its management engine for dormant devices will not run in
parallel to these renames. Particularly, when you offload operations
like DHCP into separate processes, these might setup their sockets
early, and thus have to resolve the device-name possibly running into
this race-condition.

By avoiding a call to resolve the device-name, we no longer depend on
the name and can run network setup of dormant devices in parallel to
the transition off the initrd. The SO_BINDTOIFINDEX ioctl plugs this
race.

Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen &lt;teg@jklm.no&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann &lt;dh.herrmann@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This introduces a new generic SOL_SOCKET-level socket option called
SO_BINDTOIFINDEX. It behaves similar to SO_BINDTODEVICE, but takes a
network interface index as argument, rather than the network interface
name.

User-space often refers to network-interfaces via their index, but has
to temporarily resolve it to a name for a call into SO_BINDTODEVICE.
This might pose problems when the network-device is renamed
asynchronously by other parts of the system. When this happens, the
SO_BINDTODEVICE might either fail, or worse, it might bind to the wrong
device.

In most cases user-space only ever operates on devices which they
either manage themselves, or otherwise have a guarantee that the device
name will not change (e.g., devices that are UP cannot be renamed).
However, particularly in libraries this guarantee is non-obvious and it
would be nice if that race-condition would simply not exist. It would
make it easier for those libraries to operate even in situations where
the device-name might change under the hood.

A real use-case that we recently hit is trying to start the network
stack early in the initrd but make it survive into the real system.
Existing distributions rename network-interfaces during the transition
from initrd into the real system. This, obviously, cannot affect
devices that are up and running (unless you also consider moving them
between network-namespaces). However, the network manager now has to
make sure its management engine for dormant devices will not run in
parallel to these renames. Particularly, when you offload operations
like DHCP into separate processes, these might setup their sockets
early, and thus have to resolve the device-name possibly running into
this race-condition.

By avoiding a call to resolve the device-name, we no longer depend on
the name and can run network setup of dormant devices in parallel to
the transition off the initrd. The SO_BINDTOIFINDEX ioctl plugs this
race.

Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen &lt;teg@jklm.no&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann &lt;dh.herrmann@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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