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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2012-10-02T20:38:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-02T20:38:27+00:00</published>
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Pull networking changes from David Miller:

 1) GRE now works over ipv6, from Dmitry Kozlov.

 2) Make SCTP more network namespace aware, from Eric Biederman.

 3) TEAM driver now works with non-ethernet devices, from Jiri Pirko.

 4) Make openvswitch network namespace aware, from Pravin B Shelar.

 5) IPV6 NAT implementation, from Patrick McHardy.

 6) Server side support for TCP Fast Open, from Jerry Chu and others.

 7) Packet BPF filter supports MOD and XOR, from Eric Dumazet and Daniel
    Borkmann.

 8) Increate the loopback default MTU to 64K, from Eric Dumazet.

 9) Use a per-task rather than per-socket page fragment allocator for
    outgoing networking traffic.  This benefits processes that have very
    many mostly idle sockets, which is quite common.

    From Eric Dumazet.

10) Use up to 32K for page fragment allocations, with fallbacks to
    smaller sizes when higher order page allocations fail.  Benefits are
    a) less segments for driver to process b) less calls to page
    allocator c) less waste of space.

    From Eric Dumazet.

11) Allow GRO to be used on GRE tunnels, from Eric Dumazet.

12) VXLAN device driver, one way to handle VLAN issues such as the
    limitation of 4096 VLAN IDs yet still have some level of isolation.
    From Stephen Hemminger.

13) As usual there is a large boatload of driver changes, with the scale
    perhaps tilted towards the wireless side this time around.

Fix up various fairly trivial conflicts, mostly caused by the user
namespace changes.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1012 commits)
  hyperv: Add buffer for extended info after the RNDIS response message.
  hyperv: Report actual status in receive completion packet
  hyperv: Remove extra allocated space for recv_pkt_list elements
  hyperv: Fix page buffer handling in rndis_filter_send_request()
  hyperv: Fix the missing return value in rndis_filter_set_packet_filter()
  hyperv: Fix the max_xfer_size in RNDIS initialization
  vxlan: put UDP socket in correct namespace
  vxlan: Depend on CONFIG_INET
  sfc: Fix the reported priorities of different filter types
  sfc: Remove EFX_FILTER_FLAG_RX_OVERRIDE_IP
  sfc: Fix loopback self-test with separate_tx_channels=1
  sfc: Fix MCDI structure field lookup
  sfc: Add parentheses around use of bitfield macro arguments
  sfc: Fix null function pointer in efx_sriov_channel_type
  vxlan: virtual extensible lan
  igmp: export symbol ip_mc_leave_group
  netlink: add attributes to fdb interface
  tg3: unconditionally select HWMON support when tg3 is enabled.
  Revert "net: ti cpsw ethernet: allow reading phy interface mode from DT"
  gre: fix sparse warning
  ...
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Pull networking changes from David Miller:

 1) GRE now works over ipv6, from Dmitry Kozlov.

 2) Make SCTP more network namespace aware, from Eric Biederman.

 3) TEAM driver now works with non-ethernet devices, from Jiri Pirko.

 4) Make openvswitch network namespace aware, from Pravin B Shelar.

 5) IPV6 NAT implementation, from Patrick McHardy.

 6) Server side support for TCP Fast Open, from Jerry Chu and others.

 7) Packet BPF filter supports MOD and XOR, from Eric Dumazet and Daniel
    Borkmann.

 8) Increate the loopback default MTU to 64K, from Eric Dumazet.

 9) Use a per-task rather than per-socket page fragment allocator for
    outgoing networking traffic.  This benefits processes that have very
    many mostly idle sockets, which is quite common.

    From Eric Dumazet.

10) Use up to 32K for page fragment allocations, with fallbacks to
    smaller sizes when higher order page allocations fail.  Benefits are
    a) less segments for driver to process b) less calls to page
    allocator c) less waste of space.

    From Eric Dumazet.

11) Allow GRO to be used on GRE tunnels, from Eric Dumazet.

12) VXLAN device driver, one way to handle VLAN issues such as the
    limitation of 4096 VLAN IDs yet still have some level of isolation.
    From Stephen Hemminger.

13) As usual there is a large boatload of driver changes, with the scale
    perhaps tilted towards the wireless side this time around.

Fix up various fairly trivial conflicts, mostly caused by the user
namespace changes.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1012 commits)
  hyperv: Add buffer for extended info after the RNDIS response message.
  hyperv: Report actual status in receive completion packet
  hyperv: Remove extra allocated space for recv_pkt_list elements
  hyperv: Fix page buffer handling in rndis_filter_send_request()
  hyperv: Fix the missing return value in rndis_filter_set_packet_filter()
  hyperv: Fix the max_xfer_size in RNDIS initialization
  vxlan: put UDP socket in correct namespace
  vxlan: Depend on CONFIG_INET
  sfc: Fix the reported priorities of different filter types
  sfc: Remove EFX_FILTER_FLAG_RX_OVERRIDE_IP
  sfc: Fix loopback self-test with separate_tx_channels=1
  sfc: Fix MCDI structure field lookup
  sfc: Add parentheses around use of bitfield macro arguments
  sfc: Fix null function pointer in efx_sriov_channel_type
  vxlan: virtual extensible lan
  igmp: export symbol ip_mc_leave_group
  netlink: add attributes to fdb interface
  tg3: unconditionally select HWMON support when tg3 is enabled.
  Revert "net: ti cpsw ethernet: allow reading phy interface mode from DT"
  gre: fix sparse warning
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq</title>
<updated>2012-10-02T16:54:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-02T16:54:49+00:00</published>
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Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
 "This is workqueue updates for v3.7-rc1.  A lot of activities this
  round including considerable API and behavior cleanups.

   * delayed_work combines a timer and a work item.  The handling of the
     timer part has always been a bit clunky leading to confusing
     cancelation API with weird corner-case behaviors.  delayed_work is
     updated to use new IRQ safe timer and cancelation now works as
     expected.

   * Another deficiency of delayed_work was lack of the counterpart of
     mod_timer() which led to cancel+queue combinations or open-coded
     timer+work usages.  mod_delayed_work[_on]() are added.

     These two delayed_work changes make delayed_work provide interface
     and behave like timer which is executed with process context.

   * A work item could be executed concurrently on multiple CPUs, which
     is rather unintuitive and made flush_work() behavior confusing and
     half-broken under certain circumstances.  This problem doesn't
     exist for non-reentrant workqueues.  While non-reentrancy check
     isn't free, the overhead is incurred only when a work item bounces
     across different CPUs and even in simulated pathological scenario
     the overhead isn't too high.

     All workqueues are made non-reentrant.  This removes the
     distinction between flush_[delayed_]work() and
     flush_[delayed_]_work_sync().  The former is now as strong as the
     latter and the specified work item is guaranteed to have finished
     execution of any previous queueing on return.

   * In addition to the various bug fixes, Lai redid and simplified CPU
     hotplug handling significantly.

   * Joonsoo introduced system_highpri_wq and used it during CPU
     hotplug.

  There are two merge commits - one to pull in IRQ safe timer from
  tip/timers/core and the other to pull in CPU hotplug fixes from
  wq/for-3.6-fixes as Lai's hotplug restructuring depended on them."

Fixed a number of trivial conflicts, but the more interesting conflicts
were silent ones where the deprecated interfaces had been used by new
code in the merge window, and thus didn't cause any real data conflicts.

Tejun pointed out a few of them, I fixed a couple more.

* 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (46 commits)
  workqueue: remove spurious WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq()) from try_to_grab_pending()
  workqueue: use cwq_set_max_active() helper for workqueue_set_max_active()
  workqueue: introduce cwq_set_max_active() helper for thaw_workqueues()
  workqueue: remove @delayed from cwq_dec_nr_in_flight()
  workqueue: fix possible stall on try_to_grab_pending() of a delayed work item
  workqueue: use hotcpu_notifier() for workqueue_cpu_down_callback()
  workqueue: use __cpuinit instead of __devinit for cpu callbacks
  workqueue: rename manager_mutex to assoc_mutex
  workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for idle rebinding
  workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for busy rebinding
  workqueue: reimplement idle worker rebinding
  workqueue: deprecate __cancel_delayed_work()
  workqueue: reimplement cancel_delayed_work() using try_to_grab_pending()
  workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of __cancel + queue
  workqueue: use irqsafe timer for delayed_work
  workqueue: clean up delayed_work initializers and add missing one
  workqueue: make deferrable delayed_work initializer names consistent
  workqueue: cosmetic whitespace updates for macro definitions
  workqueue: deprecate system_nrt[_freezable]_wq
  workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync()
  ...
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Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
 "This is workqueue updates for v3.7-rc1.  A lot of activities this
  round including considerable API and behavior cleanups.

   * delayed_work combines a timer and a work item.  The handling of the
     timer part has always been a bit clunky leading to confusing
     cancelation API with weird corner-case behaviors.  delayed_work is
     updated to use new IRQ safe timer and cancelation now works as
     expected.

   * Another deficiency of delayed_work was lack of the counterpart of
     mod_timer() which led to cancel+queue combinations or open-coded
     timer+work usages.  mod_delayed_work[_on]() are added.

     These two delayed_work changes make delayed_work provide interface
     and behave like timer which is executed with process context.

   * A work item could be executed concurrently on multiple CPUs, which
     is rather unintuitive and made flush_work() behavior confusing and
     half-broken under certain circumstances.  This problem doesn't
     exist for non-reentrant workqueues.  While non-reentrancy check
     isn't free, the overhead is incurred only when a work item bounces
     across different CPUs and even in simulated pathological scenario
     the overhead isn't too high.

     All workqueues are made non-reentrant.  This removes the
     distinction between flush_[delayed_]work() and
     flush_[delayed_]_work_sync().  The former is now as strong as the
     latter and the specified work item is guaranteed to have finished
     execution of any previous queueing on return.

   * In addition to the various bug fixes, Lai redid and simplified CPU
     hotplug handling significantly.

   * Joonsoo introduced system_highpri_wq and used it during CPU
     hotplug.

  There are two merge commits - one to pull in IRQ safe timer from
  tip/timers/core and the other to pull in CPU hotplug fixes from
  wq/for-3.6-fixes as Lai's hotplug restructuring depended on them."

Fixed a number of trivial conflicts, but the more interesting conflicts
were silent ones where the deprecated interfaces had been used by new
code in the merge window, and thus didn't cause any real data conflicts.

Tejun pointed out a few of them, I fixed a couple more.

* 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (46 commits)
  workqueue: remove spurious WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq()) from try_to_grab_pending()
  workqueue: use cwq_set_max_active() helper for workqueue_set_max_active()
  workqueue: introduce cwq_set_max_active() helper for thaw_workqueues()
  workqueue: remove @delayed from cwq_dec_nr_in_flight()
  workqueue: fix possible stall on try_to_grab_pending() of a delayed work item
  workqueue: use hotcpu_notifier() for workqueue_cpu_down_callback()
  workqueue: use __cpuinit instead of __devinit for cpu callbacks
  workqueue: rename manager_mutex to assoc_mutex
  workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for idle rebinding
  workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for busy rebinding
  workqueue: reimplement idle worker rebinding
  workqueue: deprecate __cancel_delayed_work()
  workqueue: reimplement cancel_delayed_work() using try_to_grab_pending()
  workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of __cancel + queue
  workqueue: use irqsafe timer for delayed_work
  workqueue: clean up delayed_work initializers and add missing one
  workqueue: make deferrable delayed_work initializer names consistent
  workqueue: cosmetic whitespace updates for macro definitions
  workqueue: deprecate system_nrt[_freezable]_wq
  workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: remove delay at device dismantle</title>
<updated>2012-08-23T04:50:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-22T17:19:46+00:00</published>
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I noticed extra one second delay in device dismantle, tracked down to
a call to dst_dev_event() while some call_rcu() are still in RCU queues.

These call_rcu() were posted by rt_free(struct rtable *rt) calls.

We then wait a little (but one second) in netdev_wait_allrefs() before
kicking again NETDEV_UNREGISTER.

As the call_rcu() are now completed, dst_dev_event() can do the needed
device swap on busy dst.

To solve this problem, add a new NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL, called
after a rcu_barrier(), but outside of RTNL lock.

Use NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL with care !

Change dst_dev_event() handler to react to NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL

Also remove NETDEV_UNREGISTER_BATCH, as its not used anymore after
IP cache removal.

With help from Gao feng

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Herbert &lt;therbert@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mahesh Bandewar &lt;maheshb@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Gao feng &lt;gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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I noticed extra one second delay in device dismantle, tracked down to
a call to dst_dev_event() while some call_rcu() are still in RCU queues.

These call_rcu() were posted by rt_free(struct rtable *rt) calls.

We then wait a little (but one second) in netdev_wait_allrefs() before
kicking again NETDEV_UNREGISTER.

As the call_rcu() are now completed, dst_dev_event() can do the needed
device swap on busy dst.

To solve this problem, add a new NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL, called
after a rcu_barrier(), but outside of RTNL lock.

Use NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL with care !

Change dst_dev_event() handler to react to NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL

Also remove NETDEV_UNREGISTER_BATCH, as its not used anymore after
IP cache removal.

With help from Gao feng

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Herbert &lt;therbert@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mahesh Bandewar &lt;maheshb@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Gao feng &lt;gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of cancel + queue</title>
<updated>2012-08-13T23:27:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-03T17:30:47+00:00</published>
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Convert delayed_work users doing cancel_delayed_work() followed by
queue_delayed_work() to mod_delayed_work().

Most conversions are straight-forward.  Ones worth mentioning are,

* drivers/edac/edac_mc.c: edac_mc_workq_setup() converted to always
  use mod_delayed_work() and cancel loop in
  edac_mc_reset_delay_period() is dropped.

* drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c: No need to remember whether
  watchdog is active or not.  @fan_watchdog_active and related code
  dropped.

* drivers/power/charger-manager.c: Seemingly a lot of
  delayed_work_pending() abuse going on here.
  [delayed_]work_pending() are unsynchronized and racy when used like
  this.  I converted one instance in fullbatt_handler().  Please
  conver the rest so that it invokes workqueue APIs for the intended
  target state rather than trying to game work item pending state
  transitions.  e.g. if timer should be modified - call
  mod_delayed_work(), canceled - call cancel_delayed_work[_sync]().

* drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c: thermal_zone_device_set_polling()
  simplified.  Note that round_jiffies() calls in this function are
  meaningless.  round_jiffies() work on absolute jiffies not delta
  delay used by delayed_work.

v2: Tomi pointed out that __cancel_delayed_work() users can't be
    safely converted to mod_delayed_work().  They could be calling it
    from irq context and if that happens while delayed_work_timer_fn()
    is running, it could deadlock.  __cancel_delayed_work() users are
    dropped.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Anton Vorontsov &lt;cbouatmailru@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen &lt;tomi.valkeinen@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Doug Thompson &lt;dougthompson@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: Roland Dreier &lt;roland@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "John W. Linville" &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Cc: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
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Convert delayed_work users doing cancel_delayed_work() followed by
queue_delayed_work() to mod_delayed_work().

Most conversions are straight-forward.  Ones worth mentioning are,

* drivers/edac/edac_mc.c: edac_mc_workq_setup() converted to always
  use mod_delayed_work() and cancel loop in
  edac_mc_reset_delay_period() is dropped.

* drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c: No need to remember whether
  watchdog is active or not.  @fan_watchdog_active and related code
  dropped.

* drivers/power/charger-manager.c: Seemingly a lot of
  delayed_work_pending() abuse going on here.
  [delayed_]work_pending() are unsynchronized and racy when used like
  this.  I converted one instance in fullbatt_handler().  Please
  conver the rest so that it invokes workqueue APIs for the intended
  target state rather than trying to game work item pending state
  transitions.  e.g. if timer should be modified - call
  mod_delayed_work(), canceled - call cancel_delayed_work[_sync]().

* drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c: thermal_zone_device_set_polling()
  simplified.  Note that round_jiffies() calls in this function are
  meaningless.  round_jiffies() work on absolute jiffies not delta
  delay used by delayed_work.

v2: Tomi pointed out that __cancel_delayed_work() users can't be
    safely converted to mod_delayed_work().  They could be calling it
    from irq context and if that happens while delayed_work_timer_fn()
    is running, it could deadlock.  __cancel_delayed_work() users are
    dropped.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Anton Vorontsov &lt;cbouatmailru@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen &lt;tomi.valkeinen@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Doug Thompson &lt;dougthompson@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: Roland Dreier &lt;roland@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "John W. Linville" &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Cc: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: force dst_default_metrics to const section</title>
<updated>2012-08-08T23:00:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-07T10:55:45+00:00</published>
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While investigating on network performance problems, I found this little
gem :

$ nm -v vmlinux | grep -1 dst_default_metrics
ffffffff82736540 b busy.46605
ffffffff82736560 B dst_default_metrics
ffffffff82736598 b dst_busy_list

Apparently, declaring a const array without initializer put it in
(writeable) bss section, in middle of possibly often dirtied cache
lines.

Since we really want dst_default_metrics be const to avoid any possible
false sharing and catch any buggy writes, I force a null initializer.

ffffffff818a4c20 R dst_default_metrics

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
While investigating on network performance problems, I found this little
gem :

$ nm -v vmlinux | grep -1 dst_default_metrics
ffffffff82736540 b busy.46605
ffffffff82736560 B dst_default_metrics
ffffffff82736598 b dst_busy_list

Apparently, declaring a const array without initializer put it in
(writeable) bss section, in middle of possibly often dirtied cache
lines.

Since we really want dst_default_metrics be const to avoid any possible
false sharing and catch any buggy writes, I force a null initializer.

ffffffff818a4c20 R dst_default_metrics

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Document dst-&gt;obsolete better.</title>
<updated>2012-07-20T20:31:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
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<published>2012-07-19T19:31:33+00:00</published>
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Add a big comment explaining how the field works, and use defines
instead of magic constants for the values assigned to it.

Suggested by Joe Perches.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add a big comment explaining how the field works, and use defines
instead of magic constants for the values assigned to it.

Suggested by Joe Perches.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: Kill dst-&gt;_neighbour, accessors, and final uses.</title>
<updated>2012-07-05T09:42:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-03T05:58:02+00:00</published>
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No longer used.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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No longer used.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: Do delayed neigh confirmation.</title>
<updated>2012-07-05T08:03:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-02T09:21:03+00:00</published>
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When a dst_confirm() happens, mark the confirmation as pending in the
dst.  Then on the next packet out, when we have the neigh in-hand, do
the update.

This removes the dependency in dst_confirm() of dst's having an
attached neigh.

While we're here, remove the explicit 'dst' NULL check, all except 2
or 3 call sites ensure it's not NULL.  So just fix those cases up.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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When a dst_confirm() happens, mark the confirmation as pending in the
dst.  Then on the next packet out, when we have the neigh in-hand, do
the update.

This removes the dependency in dst_confirm() of dst's having an
attached neigh.

While we're here, remove the explicit 'dst' NULL check, all except 2
or 3 call sites ensure it's not NULL.  So just fix those cases up.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>net: Rename dst_get_neighbour{, _raw} to dst_get_neighbour_noref{, _raw}.</title>
<updated>2011-12-05T20:20:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-02T16:52:08+00:00</published>
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To reflect the fact that a refrence is not obtained to the
resulting neighbour entry.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Roland Dreier &lt;roland@purestorage.com&gt;
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To reflect the fact that a refrence is not obtained to the
resulting neighbour entry.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Roland Dreier &lt;roland@purestorage.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: fix potential neighbour race in dst_ifdown()</title>
<updated>2011-08-10T04:47:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>eric.dumazet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-08T20:56:14+00:00</published>
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Followup of commit f2c31e32b378a (fix NULL dereferences in
check_peer_redir()).

We need to make sure dst neighbour doesnt change in dst_ifdown().

Fix some sparse errors.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Followup of commit f2c31e32b378a (fix NULL dereferences in
check_peer_redir()).

We need to make sure dst neighbour doesnt change in dst_ifdown().

Fix some sparse errors.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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