linux-toradex.git/net/tipc/name_distr.c, branch v4.2.6

tipc: involve reference counter for node structure

2015-03-29T19:40:28+00:00

TIPC node hash node table is protected with rcu lock on read side.
tipc_node_find() is used to look for a node object with node address
through iterating the hash node table. As the entire process of what
tipc_node_find() traverses the table is guarded with rcu read lock,
it's safe for us. However, when callers use the node object returned
by tipc_node_find(), there is no rcu read lock applied. Therefore,
this is absolutely unsafe for callers of tipc_node_find().

Now we introduce a reference counter for node structure. Before
tipc_node_find() returns node object to its caller, it first increases
the reference counter. Accordingly, after its caller used it up,
it decreases the counter again. This can prevent a node being used by
one thread from being freed by another thread.

Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne 
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: only create header copy for name distr messages

2015-02-27T23:18:47+00:00

The TIPC name distributor pushes topology updates to the cluster
neighbors. Currently this is done in a unicast manner, and the
skb holding the update is cloned for each cluster member. This
is unnecessary, as we only modify the destnode field in the header
so we change it to do pskb_copy instead.

Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne 
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: resolve race problem at unicast message reception

2015-02-06T00:00:02+00:00

TIPC handles message cardinality and sequencing at the link layer,
before passing messages upwards to the destination sockets. During the
upcall from link to socket no locks are held. It is therefore possible,
and we see it happen occasionally, that messages arriving in different
threads and delivered in sequence still bypass each other before they
reach the destination socket. This must not happen, since it violates
the sequentiality guarantee.

We solve this by adding a new input buffer queue to the link structure.
Arriving messages are added safely to the tail of that queue by the
link, while the head of the queue is consumed, also safely, by the
receiving socket. Sequentiality is secured per socket by only allowing
buffers to be dequeued inside the socket lock. Since there may be multiple
simultaneous readers of the queue, we use a 'filter' parameter to reduce
the risk that they peek the same buffer from the queue, hence also
reducing the risk of contention on the receiving socket locks.

This solves the sequentiality problem, and seems to cause no measurable
performance degradation.

A nice side effect of this change is that lock handling in the functions
tipc_rcv() and tipc_bcast_rcv() now becomes uniform, something that
will enable future simplifications of those functions.

Reviewed-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: reduce usage of context info in socket and link

2015-02-06T00:00:01+00:00

The most common usage of namespace information is when we fetch the
own node addess from the net structure. This leads to a lot of
passing around of a parameter of type 'struct net *' between
functions just to make them able to obtain this address.

However, in many cases this is unnecessary. The own node address
is readily available as a member of both struct tipc_sock and
tipc_link, and can be fetched from there instead.
The fact that the vast majority of functions in socket.c and link.c
anyway are maintaining a pointer to their respective base structures
makes this option even more compelling.

In this commit, we introduce the inline functions tsk_own_node()
and link_own_node() to make it easy for functions to fetch the node
address from those structs instead of having to pass along and
dereference the namespace struct.

In particular, we make calls to the msg_xx() functions in msg.{h,c}
context independent by directly passing them the own node address
as parameter when needed. Those functions should be regarded as
leaves in the code dependency tree, and it is hence desirable to
keep them namspace unaware.

Apart from a potential positive effect on cache behavior, these
changes make it easier to introduce the changes that will follow
later in this series.

Reviewed-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: make tipc node address support net namespace

2015-01-12T21:24:33+00:00

If net namespace is supported in tipc, each namespace will be treated
as a separate tipc node. Therefore, every namespace must own its
private tipc node address. This means the "tipc_own_addr" global
variable of node address must be moved to tipc_net structure to
satisfy the requirement. It's turned out that users also can assign
node address for every namespace.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue 
Tested-by: Tero Aho 
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: name tipc name table support net namespace

2015-01-12T21:24:33+00:00

TIPC name table is used to store the mapping relationship between
TIPC service name and socket port ID. When tipc supports namespace,
it allows users to publish service names only owned by a certain
namespace. Therefore, every namespace must have its private name
table to prevent service names published to one namespace from being
contaminated by other service names in another namespace. Therefore,
The name table global variable (ie, nametbl) and its lock must be
moved to tipc_net structure, and a parameter of namespace must be
added for necessary functions so that they can obtain name table
variable defined in tipc_net structure.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue 
Tested-by: Tero Aho 
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: make tipc node table aware of net namespace

2015-01-12T21:24:32+00:00

Global variables associated with node table are below:
- node table list (node_htable)
- node hash table list (tipc_node_list)
- node table lock (node_list_lock)
- node number counter (tipc_num_nodes)
- node link number counter (tipc_num_links)

To make node table support namespace, above global variables must be
moved to tipc_net structure in order to keep secret for different
namespaces. As a consequence, these variables are allocated and
initialized when namespace is created, and deallocated when namespace
is destroyed. After the change, functions associated with these
variables have to utilize a namespace pointer to access them. So
adding namespace pointer as a parameter of these functions is the
major change made in the commit.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue 
Tested-by: Tero Aho 
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: convert name table read-write lock to RCU

2014-12-09T01:39:57+00:00

Convert tipc name table read-write lock to RCU. After this change,
a new spin lock is used to protect name table on write side while
RCU is applied on read side.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue 
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne 
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy 
Tested-by: Erik Hugne 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: make name table allocated dynamically

2014-12-09T01:39:56+00:00

Name table locking policy is going to be adjusted from read-write
lock protection to RCU lock protection in the future commits. But
its essential precondition is to convert the allocation way of name
table from static to dynamic mode.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue 
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne 
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy 
Tested-by: Erik Hugne 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: remove size variable from publ_list struct

2014-12-09T01:39:55+00:00

The size variable is introduced in publ_list struct to help us exactly
calculate SKB buffer sizes needed by publications when all publications
in name table are delivered in bulk in named_distribute(). But if
publication SKB buffer size is assumed to MTU, the size variable in
publ_list struct can be completely eliminated at the cost of wasting
a bit memory space for last SKB.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: Tero Aho 
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne 
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy 
Tested-by: Erik Hugne 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller