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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11+00:00</published>
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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 -&gt; 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 &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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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 -&gt; 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 &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>llc: use dev_hard_header</title>
<updated>2009-12-27T04:38:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Octavian Purdila</name>
<email>opurdila@ixiacom.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-26T11:50:59+00:00</published>
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Using dev_hard_header allows us to use LLC with VLANs and potentially
other Ethernet/TokernRing specific encapsulations. It also removes code
duplication between LLC and Ethernet/TokenRing core code.

Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila &lt;opurdila@ixiacom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Using dev_hard_header allows us to use LLC with VLANs and potentially
other Ethernet/TokernRing specific encapsulations. It also removes code
duplication between LLC and Ethernet/TokenRing core code.

Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila &lt;opurdila@ixiacom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>remove deprecated and not used: print_mac()</title>
<updated>2009-11-16T06:21:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marin Mitov</name>
<email>mitov@issp.bas.bg</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-13T07:58:41+00:00</published>
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The function print_mac in net/ethernet/eth.c is marked __deprecated
and not used. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Marin Mitov &lt;mitov@issp.bas.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The function print_mac in net/ethernet/eth.c is marked __deprecated
and not used. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Marin Mitov &lt;mitov@issp.bas.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: remove COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPS</title>
<updated>2009-05-25T08:53:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Beregalov</name>
<email>a.beregalov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-25T08:53:53+00:00</published>
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All drivers are already converted to new net_device_ops API
and nobody uses old API anymore.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov &lt;a.beregalov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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All drivers are already converted to new net_device_ops API
and nobody uses old API anymore.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov &lt;a.beregalov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>eth: Declare an optimized compare_ether_addr_64bits() function</title>
<updated>2008-11-24T07:24:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>dada1@cosmosbay.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-24T07:24:32+00:00</published>
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Linus mentioned we could try to perform long word operations, even
on potentially unaligned addresses, on x86 at least. David mentioned
the HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS test to handle this on all
arches that have efficient unailgned accesses.

I tried this idea and got nice assembly on 32 bits:

158:   33 82 38 01 00 00       xor    0x138(%edx),%eax
15e:   33 8a 34 01 00 00       xor    0x134(%edx),%ecx
164:   c1 e0 10                shl    $0x10,%eax
167:   09 c1                   or     %eax,%ecx
169:   74 0b                   je     176 &lt;eth_type_trans+0x87&gt;

And very nice assembly on 64 bits of course (one xor, one shl)

Nice oprofile improvement in eth_type_trans(), 0.17 % instead of 0.41 %,
expected since we remove 8 instructions on a fast path.

This patch implements a compare_ether_addr_64bits() function, that
uses the CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS ifdef to efficiently
perform the 6 bytes comparison on all capable arches.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;dada1@cosmosbay.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Linus mentioned we could try to perform long word operations, even
on potentially unaligned addresses, on x86 at least. David mentioned
the HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS test to handle this on all
arches that have efficient unailgned accesses.

I tried this idea and got nice assembly on 32 bits:

158:   33 82 38 01 00 00       xor    0x138(%edx),%eax
15e:   33 8a 34 01 00 00       xor    0x134(%edx),%ecx
164:   c1 e0 10                shl    $0x10,%eax
167:   09 c1                   or     %eax,%ecx
169:   74 0b                   je     176 &lt;eth_type_trans+0x87&gt;

And very nice assembly on 64 bits of course (one xor, one shl)

Nice oprofile improvement in eth_type_trans(), 0.17 % instead of 0.41 %,
expected since we remove 8 instructions on a fast path.

This patch implements a compare_ether_addr_64bits() function, that
uses the CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS ifdef to efficiently
perform the 6 bytes comparison on all capable arches.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;dada1@cosmosbay.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netdev: expose ethernet address primitives</title>
<updated>2008-11-20T06:42:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Hemminger</name>
<email>shemminger@vyatta.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-20T06:42:31+00:00</published>
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When ethernet devices are converted, the function pointer setup
by eth_setup() need to be done during intialization.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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When ethernet devices are converted, the function pointer setup
by eth_setup() need to be done during intialization.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dsa: add support for Trailer tagging format</title>
<updated>2008-10-09T00:24:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lennert Buytenhek</name>
<email>buytenh@wantstofly.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-07T13:46:07+00:00</published>
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This adds support for the Trailer switch tagging format.  This is
another tagging that doesn't explicitly mark tagged packets with a
distinct ethertype, so that we need to add a similar hack in the
receive path as for the Original DSA tagging format.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek &lt;buytenh@marvell.com&gt;
Tested-by: Byron Bradley &lt;byron.bbradley@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tim Ellis &lt;tim.ellis@mac.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This adds support for the Trailer switch tagging format.  This is
another tagging that doesn't explicitly mark tagged packets with a
distinct ethertype, so that we need to add a similar hack in the
receive path as for the Original DSA tagging format.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek &lt;buytenh@marvell.com&gt;
Tested-by: Byron Bradley &lt;byron.bbradley@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tim Ellis &lt;tim.ellis@mac.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dsa: add support for original DSA tagging format</title>
<updated>2008-10-09T00:19:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lennert Buytenhek</name>
<email>buytenh@wantstofly.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-07T13:45:02+00:00</published>
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Most of the DSA switches currently in the field do not support the
Ethertype DSA tagging format that one of the previous patches added
support for, but only the original DSA tagging format.

The original DSA tagging format carries the same information as the
Ethertype DSA tagging format, but with the difference that it does not
have an ethertype field.  In other words, when receiving a packet that
is tagged with an original DSA tag, there is no way of telling in
eth_type_trans() that this packet is in fact a DSA-tagged packet.

This patch adds a hook into eth_type_trans() which is only compiled in
if support for a switch chip that doesn't support Ethertype DSA is
selected, and which checks whether there is a DSA switch driver
instance attached to this network device which uses the old tag format.
If so, it sets the protocol field to ETH_P_DSA without looking at the
packet, so that the packet ends up in the right place.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek &lt;buytenh@marvell.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@marvell.com&gt;
Tested-by: Peter van Valderen &lt;linux@ddcrew.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dirk Teurlings &lt;dirk@upexia.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Most of the DSA switches currently in the field do not support the
Ethertype DSA tagging format that one of the previous patches added
support for, but only the original DSA tagging format.

The original DSA tagging format carries the same information as the
Ethertype DSA tagging format, but with the difference that it does not
have an ethertype field.  In other words, when receiving a packet that
is tagged with an original DSA tag, there is no way of telling in
eth_type_trans() that this packet is in fact a DSA-tagged packet.

This patch adds a hook into eth_type_trans() which is only compiled in
if support for a switch chip that doesn't support Ethertype DSA is
selected, and which checks whether there is a DSA switch driver
instance attached to this network device which uses the old tag format.
If so, it sets the protocol field to ETH_P_DSA without looking at the
packet, so that the packet ends up in the right place.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek &lt;buytenh@marvell.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@marvell.com&gt;
Tested-by: Peter van Valderen &lt;linux@ddcrew.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dirk Teurlings &lt;dirk@upexia.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Use hton[sl]() instead of __constant_hton[sl]() where applicable</title>
<updated>2008-09-21T05:20:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-09-21T05:20:49+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[NET]: Return more appropriate error from eth_validate_addr().</title>
<updated>2008-04-14T05:45:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick McHardy</name>
<email>kaber@trash.net</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-14T05:45:40+00:00</published>
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Paul Bolle wrote:
&gt; http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9923 would have been much easier to
&gt; track down if eth_validate_addr() would somehow complain aloud if an address 
&gt; is invalid. Shouldn't it make at least some noise?

I guess it should return -EADDRNOTAVAIL similar to eth_mac_addr()
when validation fails.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Paul Bolle wrote:
&gt; http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9923 would have been much easier to
&gt; track down if eth_validate_addr() would somehow complain aloud if an address 
&gt; is invalid. Shouldn't it make at least some noise?

I guess it should return -EADDRNOTAVAIL similar to eth_mac_addr()
when validation fails.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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