- 19 May, 2009 15 commits
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françois romieu authored
Due to mostly historic reasons, including a lack of reliability of the link handling (especially with the older 8169), the current r8169 driver emulates forced mode setting by limiting the advertised modes. With this change the driver allows real 10/100 forced mode settings on the 8169 and 8101/8102. Original idea by Vincent Steenhoute. The RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_03 tweak was extracted from Realtek's r8169 v6.010.00 driver. Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> Tested-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Cc: Edward Hsu <edward_hsu@realtek.com.tw> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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françois romieu authored
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> Cc: Edward Hsu <edward_hsu@realtek.com.tw> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Jarek pointed pppoe can call back dev_queue_xmit(), and might need skb->dst, so its safer to unset IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE on ppp devices. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
One point of contention in high network loads is the dst_release() performed when a transmited skb is freed. This is because NIC tx completion calls dev_kree_skb() long after original call to dev_queue_xmit(skb). CPU cache is cold and the atomic op in dst_release() stalls. On SMP, this is quite visible if one CPU is 100% handling softirqs for a network device, since dst_clone() is done by other cpus, involving cache line ping pongs. It seems right place to release dst is in dev_hard_start_xmit(), for most devices but ones that are virtual, and some exceptions. David Miller suggested to define a new device flag, set in alloc_netdev_mq() (so that most devices set it at init time), and carefuly unset in devices which dont want a NULL skb->dst in their ndo_start_xmit(). List of devices that must clear this flag is : - loopback device, because it calls netif_rx() and quoting Patrick : "ip_route_input() doesn't accept loopback addresses, so loopback packets already need to have a dst_entry attached." - appletalk/ipddp.c : needs skb->dst in its xmit function - And all devices that call again dev_queue_xmit() from their xmit function (as some classifiers need skb->dst) : bonding, vlan, macvlan, eql, ifb, hdlc_fr Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Sysfs files for a network device can not unconditionally take the rtnl_lock as the bonding sysfs files do. If someone accesses those sysfs files while the network device is being unregistered with the rtnl_lock held we will deadlock. So use trylock and restart_syscall to avoid this problem. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Network device sysfs files that grab the rtnl_lock unconditionally will deadlock if accessed when the network device is being unregistered. So use trylock and syscall_restart to avoid this deadlock. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Holding rtnl_lock when we are unregistering the sysfs files can deadlock if we unconditionally take rtnl_lock in a sysfs file. So fix it with the now familiar patter of: rtnl_trylock and syscall_restart() Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
sysctls are unregistered with the rntl_lock held making it unsafe to unconditionally grab the the rtnl_lock. Instead we need to call rtnl_trylock and restart the system call if we can not grab it. Otherwise we could deadlock at unregistration time. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Just returning -ERESTARTSYS without a signal pending is not good that will just leak it to userspace. We need return -ERESTARTNOINTR so we always restart and set signal pending so that we fall of the fast path of syscall return and setup the system call restart. So use restart_syscall() which does all of this for us. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
The earlier patch to fix the deadlock between a network device going away and writing to sysfs attributes was incomplete. - It did not set signal_pending so we would leak ERSTARTSYS to user space. - It used ERESTARTSYS which only restarts if sigaction configures it to. - It did not cover store and show for ifalias. So fix all of these up and use the new helper restart_syscall so we get the details correct on what it takes. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Currently when we have a signal pending we have the functionality to restart that the current system call. There are other cases such as nasty lock ordering issues where it makes sense to have a simple fix that uses try lock and restarts the system call. Buying time to figure out how to rework the locking strategy. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Johann Baudy authored
New packet socket feature that makes packet socket more efficient for transmission. - It reduces number of system call through a PACKET_TX_RING mechanism, based on PACKET_RX_RING (Circular buffer allocated in kernel space which is mmapped from user space). - It minimizes CPU copy using fragmented SKB (almost zero copy). Signed-off-by: Johann Baudy <johann.baudy@gnu-log.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Dhananjay Phadke authored
The pdev->irq was not saved in netxen_adapter, causing request_irq() with invalid irq number. This was broken in commit be339aee ("netxen: fix irq tear down and msix leak."). Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David S. Miller authored
Conflicts: drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
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Eric Dumazet authored
gen_estimator can overflow bps (bytes per second) with Gb links, while it was designed with a u32 API, with a theorical limit of 34360Mbit (2^32 bytes) Using 64 bit intermediate avbps/brate counters can allow us to reach this theorical limit. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 18 May, 2009 25 commits
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Wolfgang Grandegger authored
The patch adds support for the PCI cards: PCIcan and PCIcanx (1, 2 or 4 channel) from Kvaser (http://www.kvaser.com). Signed-off-by: Per Dalen <per.dalen@cnw.se> Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Wolfgang Grandegger authored
The patch adds support for the one or two channel CPC-PCI and CPC-PCIe cards from EMS Dr. Thomas Wuensche (http://www.ems-wuensche.de). Signed-off-by: Sebastian Haas <haas@ems-wuensche.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Plessing <plessing@ems-wuensche.com> Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Wolfgang Grandegger authored
This driver adds support for the SJA1000 chips connected to the "platform bus", which can be found on various embedded systems. Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver.hartkopp@volkswagen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Wolfgang Grandegger authored
This patch adds the generic Socket-CAN driver for the Philips SJA1000 full CAN controller. Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com> Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver.hartkopp@volkswagen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Wolfgang Grandegger authored
The CAN network device driver interface provides a generic interface to setup, configure and monitor CAN network devices. It exports a set of common data structures and functions, which all real CAN network device drivers should use. Please have a look to the SJA1000 or MSCAN driver to understand how to use them. The name of the module is can-dev.ko. Furthermore, it adds a Netlink interface allowing to configure the CAN device using the program "ip" from the iproute2 utility suite. For further information please check "Documentation/networking/can.txt" Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com> Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver.hartkopp@volkswagen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Wolfgang Grandegger authored
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Wolfgang Grandegger authored
This patch documents the CAN netowrk device drivers interface, removes obsolete documentation and adds some useful links to CAN resources. Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com> Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver.hartkopp@volkswagen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Ajit Khaparde authored
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Anant Gole authored
Add support for TI DaVinci EMAC driver. TI DaVinci Ethernet Media Access Controller module is based upon TI CPPI 3.0 DMA engine and supports 10/100 Mbps on all and Gigabit modes on some TI devices. It supports MII/RMII and has up to 8Kbytes of internal descriptor memory. This driver has been working on several TI devices including DM644x, DM646x and DA830 platforms. The specs of this device are available at: http://www.ti.com/litv/pdf/sprue24aSigned-off-by: Anant Gole <anantgole@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com> Signed-off-by: Chaithrika U S <chaithrika@ti.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Rami Rosen authored
There is no need for net/icmp.h header in net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c. This patch removes the #include net/icmp.h from it. Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Rami Rosen authored
Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
We can update netdev_queue tx_bytes/tx_packets/tx_dropped counters instead of dev->stats ones, to reduce number of cache lines dirtied in xmit path. This fixes a performance problem on SMP when many different cpus take vlan tx path. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
offsetof(struct net_device, features)=0x44 offsetof(struct net_device, stats.tx_packets)=0x54 offsetof(struct net_device, stats.tx_bytes)=0x5c offsetof(struct net_device, stats.tx_dropped)=0x6c Network drivers that touch dev->stats.tx_packets/stats.tx_bytes in their tx path can slow down SMP operations, since they dirty a cache line that should stay shared (dev->features is needed in rx and tx paths) We could move away stats field in net_device but it wont help that much. (Two cache lines dirtied in tx path, we can do one only) Better solution is to add tx_packets/tx_bytes/tx_dropped in struct netdev_queue because this structure is already touched in tx path and counters updates will then be free (no increase in size) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
It is illegal to dereference a skb after a successful ndo_start_xmit() call. We must store skb length in a local variable instead. Bug was introduced in 2.6.27 by commit 0abf77e5 (net_sched: Add accessor function for packet length for qdiscs) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Peter P Waskiewicz Jr authored
Marching along, let's bump the version number to indicate things actually have happened to the driver. Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Peter P Waskiewicz Jr authored
This patch adds the generic XAUI device support for 82599 controllers. Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Alexander Duyck authored
The performance of hardware RSC is greatly reduced if the total for max rsc descriptors multiplied by the buffer size is greater than 65535. To prevent this we need to adjust the max rsc descriptors appropriately. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Ilpo Järvinen authored
Commit 518a09ef (tcp: Fix recvmsg MSG_PEEK influence of blocking behavior) lets the loop run longer than the race check did previously expect, so we need to be more careful with this check and consider the work we have been doing. I tried my best to deal with urg hole madness too which happens here: if (!sock_flag(sk, SOCK_URGINLINE)) { ++*seq; ... by using additional offset by one but I certainly have very little interest in testing that part. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Tested-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Tested-by: Ian Zimmermann <itz@buug.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Wang Tinggong authored
Signed-off-by: Wang Tinggong <wangtinggong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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roel kluin authored
FIFO1_DMA_ERR is set twice, the second should be FIFO2_DMA_ERR. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ram Vepa <ram.vepa@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Gabriel Paubert authored
After 2.6.29, PPC no more admits passing NULL to the dev parameter of the DMA API. The result is a BUG followed by solid lock-up when the mv643xx_eth driver brings an interface up. The following patch makes the driver work on my Pegasos again; it is mostly a search and replace of NULL by mp->dev->dev.parent in dma allocation/freeing/mapping/unmapping functions. Signed-off-by: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es> Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Stephen Hemminger authored
One of the purposes of bonding is to allow for redundant links, and failover correctly if the cable is pulled. If all the members of a bonded device have no carrier present, the bonded device itself needs to report no carrier present to user space so management tools (like routing daemons) can respond. Bonding in 802.3ad mode does not work correctly for this because it incorrectly chooses a link that is down as a possible aggregator. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Stephen Hemminger authored
If bridge is configured with no STP and forwarding delay of 0 (which is typical for virtualization) then when link starts it will flood all packets for the first 20 seconds. This bug was introduced by a combination of earlier changes: * forwarding database uses hold time of zero to indicate user wants to always flood packets * optimzation of the case of forwarding delay of 0 avoids the initial timer tick The fix is to just skip all the topology change detection code if kernel STP is not being used. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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