linux-toradex.git/net/core/link_watch.c, branch v3.10.30

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

2012-10-02T20:38:27+00:00

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
  ...

net: Set device operstate at registration time

2012-08-24T16:46:13+00:00

The operstate of a device is initially IF_OPER_UNKNOWN and is updated
asynchronously by linkwatch after each change of carrier state
reported by the driver.  The default carrier state of a net device is
on, and this will never be changed on drivers that do not support
carrier detection, thus the operstate remains IF_OPER_UNKNOWN.

For devices that do support carrier detection, the driver must set the
carrier state to off initially, then poll the hardware state when the
device is opened.  However, we must not activate linkwatch for a
unregistered device, and commit b473001 ('net: Do not fire linkwatch
events until the device is registered.') ensured that we don't.  But
this means that the operstate for many devices that support carrier
detection remains IF_OPER_UNKNOWN when it should be IF_OPER_DOWN.

The same issue exists with the dormant state.

The proper initialisation sequence, avoiding a race with opening of
the device, is:

        rtnl_lock();
        rc = register_netdevice(dev);
        if (rc)
                goto out_unlock;
        netif_carrier_off(dev); /* or netif_dormant_on(dev) */
        rtnl_unlock();

but it seems silly that this should have to be repeated in so many
drivers.  Further, the operstate seen immediately after opening the
device may still be IF_OPER_UNKNOWN due to the asynchronous nature of
linkwatch.

Commit 22604c8 ('net: Fix for initial link state in 2.6.28') attempted
to fix this by setting the operstate synchronously, but it was
reverted as it could lead to deadlock.

This initialises the operstate synchronously at registration time
only.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of __cancel + queue

2012-08-21T20:18:24+00:00

Now that mod_delayed_work() is safe to call from IRQ handlers,
__cancel_delayed_work() followed by queue_delayed_work() can be
replaced with mod_delayed_work().

Most conversions are straight-forward except for the following.

* net/core/link_watch.c: linkwatch_schedule_work() was doing a quite
  elaborate dancing around its delayed_work.  Collapse it such that
  linkwatch_work is queued for immediate execution if LW_URGENT and
  existing timer is kept otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen

net: linkwatch: allow vlans to get carrier changes faster

2011-09-15T19:36:34+00:00

There is a time-lag of IFF_RUNNING flag consistency between vlan and
real devices when the real devices are in problem such as link or cable
broken.

This leads to a degradation of Availability such as a delay of failover
in HA systems using vlan since the detection of the problem at real
device is delayed.

We can avoid the linkwatch delay (~1 sec) for devices linked to another
ones, since delay is already done for the realdev.

Based on a previous patch from Mitsuo Hayasaka

Reported-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Herbert Xu 
Cc: Patrick McHardy 
Cc: "Michał Mirosław" 
Cc: Tom Herbert 
Cc: Stephen Hemminger 
Cc: Jesse Gross 
Tested-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: allow netif_carrier to be called safely from IRQ

2011-07-23T00:01:14+00:00

As reported by Ben Greer and Froncois Romieu. The code path in
the netif_carrier code leads it to try and disable
a late workqueue to reenable it immediately
netif_carrier_on
-> linkwatch_fire_event
   -> linkwatch_schedule_work
      -> cancel_delayed_work
         -> del_timer_sync

If __cancel_delayed_work is used instead then there is no
problem of waiting for running linkwatch_event.

There is a race between linkwatch_event running re-scheduling
but it is harmless to schedule an extra scan of the linkwatch queue.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

net/core: EXPORT_SYMBOL cleanups

2010-07-12T19:57:55+00:00

CodingStyle cleanups

EXPORT_SYMBOL should immediately follow the symbol declaration.

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

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

linkwatch: linkwatch_forget_dev() to speedup device dismantle

2009-11-18T13:03:11+00:00

Herbert Xu a écrit :
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:26:04AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>> Really, the link watch stuff is just due for a redesign.  I don't
>> think a simple hack is going to cut it this time, sorry Eric :-)
>
> I have no objections against any redesigns, but since the only
> caller of linkwatch_forget_dev runs in process context with the
> RTNL, it could also legally emit those events.

Thanks guys, here an updated version then, before linkwatch surgery ?

In this version, I force the event to be sent synchronously.

[PATCH net-next-2.6] linkwatch: linkwatch_forget_dev() to speedup device dismantle

time ip link del eth3.103 ; time ip link del eth3.104 ; time ip link del eth3.105

real	0m0.266s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.001s

real	0m0.770s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.000s

real	0m1.022s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.000s

One problem of current schem in vlan dismantle phase is the
holding of device done by following chain :

vlan_dev_stop() ->
	netif_carrier_off(dev) ->
		linkwatch_fire_event(dev) ->
			dev_hold() ...

And __linkwatch_run_queue() runs up to one second later...

A generic fix to this problem is to add a linkwatch_forget_dev() method
to unlink the device from the list of watched devices.

dev->link_watch_next becomes dev->link_watch_list (and use a bit more memory),
to be able to unlink device in O(1).

After patch :
time ip link del eth3.103 ; time ip link del eth3.104 ; time ip link del eth3.105

real    0m0.024s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s

real    0m0.032s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.001s

real    0m0.033s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s

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

net: Clean up explicit ->tx_queue references in link watch.

2008-07-09T06:01:06+00:00

First, we add a qdisc_tx_changing() helper which returns true if the
qdisc attachment is in transition.

Second, we remove an assertion warning which is of limited value and
is hard to express precisely in a multiqueue environment.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller