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2011-10-24Merge branch 'master' of ra.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
2011-10-24net: hold sock reference while processing tx timestampsRichard Cochran
The pair of functions, * skb_clone_tx_timestamp() * skb_complete_tx_timestamp() were designed to allow timestamping in PHY devices. The first function, called during the MAC driver's hard_xmit method, identifies PTP protocol packets, clones them, and gives them to the PHY device driver. The PHY driver may hold onto the packet and deliver it at a later time using the second function, which adds the packet to the socket's error queue. As pointed out by Johannes, nothing prevents the socket from disappearing while the cloned packet is sitting in the PHY driver awaiting a timestamp. This patch fixes the issue by taking a reference on the socket for each such packet. In addition, the comments regarding the usage of these function are expanded to highlight the rule that PHY drivers must use skb_complete_tx_timestamp() to release the packet, in order to release the socket reference, too. These functions first appeared in v2.6.36. Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-24Add ethtool -g support to virtio_netRick Jones
Add support for reporting ring sizes via ethtool -g to the virtio_net driver. Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-21macvtap: Fix the minor device number allocationEric W. Biederman
On systems that create and delete lots of dynamic devices the 31bit linux ifindex fails to fit in the 16bit macvtap minor, resulting in unusable macvtap devices. I have systems running automated tests that that hit this condition in just a few days. Use a linux idr allocator to track which mavtap minor numbers are available and and to track the association between macvtap minor numbers and macvtap network devices. Remove the unnecessary unneccessary check to see if the network device we have found is indeed a macvtap device. With macvtap specific data structures it is impossible to find any other kind of networking device. Increase the macvtap minor range from 65536 to the full 20 bits that is supported by linux device numbers. It doesn't solve the original problem but there is no penalty for a larger minor device range. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-21net: add opaque struct around skb frag pageIan Campbell
I've split this bit out of the skb frag destructor patch since it helps enforce the use of the fragment API. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-20net: allow CAP_NET_RAW to set socket options IP{,V6}_TRANSPARENTMaciej Żenczykowski
Up till now the IP{,V6}_TRANSPARENT socket options (which actually set the same bit in the socket struct) have required CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges to set or clear the option. - we make clearing the bit not require any privileges. - we allow CAP_NET_ADMIN to set the bit (as before this change) - we allow CAP_NET_RAW to set this bit, because raw sockets already pretty much effectively allow you to emulate socket transparency. Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-20net: constify skbuff and Qdisc elementsEric Dumazet
Preliminary patch before tcp constification Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-20mm: add a "struct page_frag" type containing a page, offset and lengthIan Campbell
A few network drivers currently use skb_frag_struct for this purpose but I have patches which add additional fields and semantics there which these other uses do not want. A structure for reference sub-page regions seems like a generally useful thing so do so instead of adding a network subsystem specific structure. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-19net: do not take an additional reference in skb_frag_set_pageIan Campbell
I audited all of the callers in the tree and only one of them (pktgen) expects it to do so. Taking this reference is pretty obviously confusing and error prone. In particular I looked at the following commits which switched callers of (__)skb_frag_set_page to the skb paged fragment api: 6a930b9f163d7e6d9ef692e05616c4ede65038ec cxgb3: convert to SKB paged frag API. 5dc3e196ea21e833128d51eb5b788a070fea1f28 myri10ge: convert to SKB paged frag API. 0e0634d20dd670a89af19af2a686a6cce943ac14 vmxnet3: convert to SKB paged frag API. 86ee8130a46769f73f8f423f99dbf782a09f9233 virtionet: convert to SKB paged frag API. 4a22c4c919c201c2a7f4ee09e672435a3072d875 sfc: convert to SKB paged frag API. 18324d690d6a5028e3c174fc1921447aedead2b8 cassini: convert to SKB paged frag API. b061b39e3ae18ad75466258cf2116e18fa5bbd80 benet: convert to SKB paged frag API. b7b6a688d217936459ff5cf1087b2361db952509 bnx2: convert to SKB paged frag API. 804cf14ea5ceca46554d5801e2817bba8116b7e5 net: xfrm: convert to SKB frag APIs ea2ab69379a941c6f8884e290fdd28c93936a778 net: convert core to skb paged frag APIs Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-19filter: use unsigned int to silence static checker warningDan Carpenter
This is just a cleanup. My testing version of Smatch warns about this: net/core/filter.c +380 check_load_and_stores(6) warn: check 'flen' for negative values flen comes from the user. We try to clamp the values here between 1 and BPF_MAXINSNS but the clamp doesn't work because it could be negative. This is a bug, but it's not exploitable. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-19class: Implement support for class attrs in tagged sysfs directories.Eric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-19sysfs: Implement support for tagged files in sysfs.Eric W. Biederman
Looking up files in sysfs is hard to understand and analyize because we currently allow placing untagged files in tagged directories. In the implementation of that we have two subtly different meanings of NULL. NULL meaning there is no tag on a directory entry and NULL meaning we don't care which namespace the lookup is performed for. This multiple uses of NULL have resulted in subtle bugs (since fixed) in the code. Currently it is only the bonding driver that needs to have an untagged file in a tagged directory. To untagle this mess I am adding support for tagged files to sysfs. Modifying the bonding driver to implement bonding_masters as a tagged file. Registering bonding_masters once for each network namespace. Then I am removing support for untagged entries in tagged sysfs directories. Resulting in code that is much easier to reason about. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-19net: validate HWTSTAMP ioctl parametersRichard Cochran
This patch adds a sanity check on the values provided by user space for the hardware time stamping configuration. If the values lie outside of the absolute limits, then the ioctl request will be denied. Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-19net: Allow skb_recycle_check to be done in stagesAndy Fleming
skb_recycle_check resets the skb if it's eligible for recycling. However, there are times when a driver might want to optionally manipulate the skb data with the skb before resetting the skb, but after it has determined eligibility. We do this by splitting the eligibility check from the skb reset, creating two inline functions to accomplish that task. Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-19mlx4_en: Controlling FCS header removalYevgeny Petrilin
Canceling FCS removal where FW allows for better alignment of incoming data. Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-19net: add skb frag size accessorsEric Dumazet
To ease skb->truesize sanitization, its better to be able to localize all references to skb frags size. Define accessors : skb_frag_size() to fetch frag size, and skb_frag_size_{set|add|sub}() to manipulate it. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-17can: remove references to berlios mailinglistMarc Kleine-Budde
The BerliOS project, which currently hosts our mailinglist, will close with the end of the year. Now take the chance and remove all occurrences of the mailinglist address from the source files. Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-17Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.infradead.org/users/linville/wireless-next into for-davem
2011-10-16if_link: Add additional parameter to IFLA_VF_INFO for spoof checkingGreg Rose
Add configuration setting for drivers to turn spoof checking on or off for discrete VFs. v2 - Fix indentation problem, wrap the ifla_vf_info structure in #ifdef __KERNEL__ to prevent user space from accessing and change function paramater for the spoof check setting netdev op from u8 to bool. v3 - Preset spoof check setting to -1 so that user space tools such as ip can detect that the driver didn't report a spoofcheck setting. Prevents incorrect display of spoof check settings for drivers that don't report it. Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-10-14nl80211: Add sta_flags to the station infoHelmut Schaa
Reuse the already existing struct nl80211_sta_flag_update to specify both, a flag mask and the flag set itself. This means nl80211_sta_flag_update is now used for setting station flags and also for getting station flags. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-13net: more accurate skb truesizeEric Dumazet
skb truesize currently accounts for sk_buff struct and part of skb head. kmalloc() roundings are also ignored. Considering that skb_shared_info is larger than sk_buff, its time to take it into account for better memory accounting. This patch introduces SKB_TRUESIZE(X) macro to centralize various assumptions into a single place. At skb alloc phase, we put skb_shared_info struct at the exact end of skb head, to allow a better use of memory (lowering number of reallocations), since kmalloc() gives us power-of-two memory blocks. Unless SLUB/SLUB debug is active, both skb->head and skb_shared_info are aligned to cache lines, as before. Note: This patch might trigger performance regressions because of misconfigured protocol stacks, hitting per socket or global memory limits that were previously not reached. But its a necessary step for a more accurate memory accounting. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> CC: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-12net-netlink: Add a new attribute to expose TOS values via netlinkMurali Raja
This patch exposes the tos value for the TCP sockets when the TOS flag is requested in the ext_flags for the inet_diag request. This would mainly be used to expose TOS values for both for TCP and UDP sockets. Currently it is supported for TCP. When netlink support for UDP would be added the support to expose the TOS values would alse be done. For IPV4 tos value is exposed and for IPV6 tclass value is exposed. Signed-off-by: Murali Raja <muralira@google.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-11Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.infradead.org/users/linville/wireless-next into for-davem Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
2011-10-07Merge branch 'master' of github.com:davem330/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
2011-10-06Merge branch 'for-linus' of http://people.redhat.com/agk/git/linux-dmLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of http://people.redhat.com/agk/git/linux-dm: dm crypt: always disable discard_zeroes_data dm: raid fix write_mostly arg validation dm table: avoid crash if integrity profile changes dm: flakey fix corrupt_bio_byte error path
2011-10-04Merge git://github.com/davem330/netLinus Torvalds
* git://github.com/davem330/net: pch_gbe: Fixed the issue on which a network freezes pch_gbe: Fixed the issue on which PC was frozen when link was downed. make PACKET_STATISTICS getsockopt report consistently between ring and non-ring net: xen-netback: correctly restart Tx after a VM restore/migrate bonding: properly stop queuing work when requested can bcm: fix incomplete tx_setup fix RDSRDMA: Fix cleanup of rds_iw_mr_pool net: Documentation: Fix type of variables ibmveth: Fix oops on request_irq failure ipv6: nullify ipv6_ac_list and ipv6_fl_list when creating new socket cxgb4: Fix EEH on IBM P7IOC can bcm: fix tx_setup off-by-one errors MAINTAINERS: tehuti: Alexander Indenbaum's address bounces dp83640: reduce driver noise ptp: fix L2 event message recognition
2011-10-04PCI: Disable MPS configuration by defaultJon Mason
Add the ability to disable PCI-E MPS turning and using the BIOS configured MPS defaults. Due to the number of issues recently discovered on some x86 chipsets, make this the default behavior. Also, add the option for peer to peer DMA MPS configuration. Peer to peer DMA is outside the scope of this patch, but MPS configuration could prevent it from working by having the MPS on one root port different than the MPS on another. To work around this, simply make the system wide MPS the smallest possible value (128B). Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <mason@myri.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-03net:rfkill: add a gpio setup function into GPIO rfkillSangwook Lee
Add a gpio setup function which gives a chance to set up platform specific configuration such as pin multiplexing, input/output direction at the runtime or booting time. Signed-off-by: Sangwook Lee <sangwook.lee@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-03ipv4: NET_IPV4_ROUTE_GC_INTERVAL removalVasily Averin
removing obsoleted sysctl, ip_rt_gc_interval variable no longer used since 2.6.38 Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-03Repair wrong named definition aligned_u64Jiří Župka
This repairs problem with compile library in userspace (libnl). Signed-off-by: Jiří Župka <jzupka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-03tcp: report ECN_SEEN in tcp_infoEric Dumazet
Allows ss command (iproute2) to display "ecnseen" if at least one packet with ECT(0) or ECT(1) or ECN was received by this socket. "ecn" means ECN was negotiated at session establishment (TCP level) "ecnseen" means we received at least one packet with ECT fields set (IP level) ss -i ... ESTAB 0 0 192.168.20.110:22 192.168.20.144:38016 ino:5950 sk:f178e400 mem:(r0,w0,f0,t0) ts sack ecn ecnseen bic wscale:7,8 rto:210 rtt:12.5/7.5 cwnd:10 send 9.3Mbps rcv_space:14480 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-01Merge branches 'irq-urgent-for-linus', 'x86-urgent-for-linus' and ↵Linus Torvalds
'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip: irq: Fix check for already initialized irq_domain in irq_domain_add irq: Add declaration of irq_domain_simple_ops to irqdomain.h * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip: x86/rtc: Don't recursively acquire rtc_lock * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip: posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP wobbles sched: Fix up wchan borkage sched/rt: Migrate equal priority tasks to available CPUs
2011-09-30nl80211/mac80211: allow adding TDLS peers as stationsArik Nemtsov
When adding a TDLS peer STA, mark it with a new flag in both nl80211 and mac80211. Before adding a peer, make sure the wiphy supports TDLS and our operating mode is appropriate (managed). In addition, make sure all peers are removed on disassociation. A TDLS peer is first added just before link setup is initiated. In later setup stages we have more info about peer supported rates, capabilities, etc. This info is reported via nl80211_set_station(). Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Cc: Kalyan C Gaddam <chakkal@iit.edu> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30mac80211: handle TDLS high-level commands and framesArik Nemtsov
Register and implement the TDLS cfg80211 callback functions. Internally prepare and send TDLS management frames. We incorporate local STA capabilities and supported rates with extra IEs given by usermode. The resulting packet is either encapsulated in a data frame, or assembled as an action frame. It is transmitted either directly or through the AP, as mandated by the TDLS specification. Declare support for the TDLS external setup wiphy capability. This tells usermode to handle link setup and discovery on its own, and use the kernel driver for sending TDLS mgmt packets. Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Cc: Kalyan C Gaddam <chakkal@iit.edu> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30nl80211: support sending TDLS commands/framesArik Nemtsov
Add support for sending high-level TDLS commands and TDLS frames via NL80211_CMD_TDLS_OPER and NL80211_CMD_TDLS_MGMT, respectively. Add appropriate cfg80211 callbacks for lower level drivers. Add wiphy capability flags for TDLS support and advertise them via nl80211. Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Cc: Kalyan C Gaddam <chakkal@iit.edu> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.infradead.org/users/linville/wireless-next into for-davem Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-pci.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/main.c
2011-09-30posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP wobblesPeter Zijlstra
David reported: Attached below is a watered-down version of rt/tst-cpuclock2.c from GLIBC. Just build it with "gcc -o test test.c -lpthread -lrt" or similar. Run it several times, and you will see cases where the main thread will measure a process clock difference before and after the nanosleep which is smaller than the cpu-burner thread's individual thread clock difference. This doesn't make any sense since the cpu-burner thread is part of the top-level process's thread group. I've reproduced this on both x86-64 and sparc64 (using both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries). For example: [davem@boricha build-x86_64-linux]$ ./test process: before(0.001221967) after(0.498624371) diff(497402404) thread: before(0.000081692) after(0.498316431) diff(498234739) self: before(0.001223521) after(0.001240219) diff(16698) [davem@boricha build-x86_64-linux]$ The diff of 'process' should always be >= the diff of 'thread'. I make sure to wrap the 'thread' clock measurements the most tightly around the nanosleep() call, and that the 'process' clock measurements are the outer-most ones. --- #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <string.h> #include <errno.h> #include <pthread.h> static pthread_barrier_t barrier; static void *chew_cpu(void *arg) { pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier); while (1) __asm__ __volatile__("" : : : "memory"); return NULL; } int main(void) { clockid_t process_clock, my_thread_clock, th_clock; struct timespec process_before, process_after; struct timespec me_before, me_after; struct timespec th_before, th_after; struct timespec sleeptime; unsigned long diff; pthread_t th; int err; err = clock_getcpuclockid(0, &process_clock); if (err) return 1; err = pthread_getcpuclockid(pthread_self(), &my_thread_clock); if (err) return 1; pthread_barrier_init(&barrier, NULL, 2); err = pthread_create(&th, NULL, chew_cpu, NULL); if (err) return 1; err = pthread_getcpuclockid(th, &th_clock); if (err) return 1; pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier); err = clock_gettime(process_clock, &process_before); if (err) return 1; err = clock_gettime(my_thread_clock, &me_before); if (err) return 1; err = clock_gettime(th_clock, &th_before); if (err) return 1; sleeptime.tv_sec = 0; sleeptime.tv_nsec = 500000000; nanosleep(&sleeptime, NULL); err = clock_gettime(th_clock, &th_after); if (err) return 1; err = clock_gettime(my_thread_clock, &me_after); if (err) return 1; err = clock_gettime(process_clock, &process_after); if (err) return 1; diff = process_after.tv_nsec - process_before.tv_nsec; printf("process: before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n", process_before.tv_sec, process_before.tv_nsec, process_after.tv_sec, process_after.tv_nsec, diff); diff = th_after.tv_nsec - th_before.tv_nsec; printf("thread: before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n", th_before.tv_sec, th_before.tv_nsec, th_after.tv_sec, th_after.tv_nsec, diff); diff = me_after.tv_nsec - me_before.tv_nsec; printf("self: before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n", me_before.tv_sec, me_before.tv_nsec, me_after.tv_sec, me_after.tv_nsec, diff); return 0; } This is due to us using p->se.sum_exec_runtime in thread_group_cputime() where we iterate the thread group and sum all data. This does not take time since the last schedule operation (tick or otherwise) into account. We can cure this by using task_sched_runtime() at the cost of having to take locks. This also means we can (and must) do away with thread_group_sched_runtime() since the modified thread_group_cputime() is now more accurate and would deadlock when called from thread_group_sched_runtime(). Aside of that it makes the function safe on 32 bit systems. The old code added t->se.sum_exec_runtime unprotected. sum_exec_runtime is a 64bit value and could be changed on another cpu at the same time. Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1314874459.7945.22.camel@twins Tested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-09-29ptp: fix L2 event message recognitionRichard Cochran
The IEEE 1588 standard defines two kinds of messages, event and general messages. Event messages require time stamping, and general do not. When using UDP transport, two separate ports are used for the two message types. The BPF designed to recognize event messages incorrectly classifies L2 general messages as event messages. This commit fixes the issue by extending the filter to check the message type field for L2 PTP packets. Event messages are be distinguished from general messages by testing the "general" bit. Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-09-28net: sh_eth: move the asm/sh_eth.h to include/linux/Yoshihiro Shimoda
Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-09-28connector: add comm change event report to proc connectorVladimir Zapolskiy
Add an event to monitor comm value changes of tasks. Such an event becomes vital, if someone desires to control threads of a process in different manner. A natural characteristic of threads is its comm value, and helpfully application developers have an opportunity to change it in runtime. Reporting about such events via proc connector allows to fine-grain monitoring and control potentials, for instance a process control daemon listening to proc connector and following comm value policies can place specific threads to assigned cgroup partitions. It might be possible to achieve a pale partial one-shot likeness without this update, if an application changes comm value of a thread generator task beforehand, then a new thread is cloned, and after that proc connector listener gets the fork event and reads new thread's comm value from procfs stat file, but this change visibly simplifies and extends the matter. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vzapolskiy@gmail.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-09-27nl80211/cfg80211: Add support to disable CCK rate for management frameRajkumar Manoharan
Add a new nl80211 attribute to specify whether to send the management frames in CCK rate or not. As of now the wpa_supplicant is disabling CCK rate at P2P init itself. So this patch helps to send P2P probe request/probe response/action frames being sent at non CCK rate in 2GHz without disabling 11b rates. This attribute is used with NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN and NL80211_CMD_FRAME commands to disable CCK rate for management frame transmission. Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-27vfs: remove LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT flagLinus Torvalds
That flag no longer makes sense, since we don't look up automount points as eagerly any more. Additionally, it turns out that the NO_AUTOMOUNT handling was buggy to begin with: it would avoid automounting even for cases where we really *needed* to do the automount handling, and could return ENOENT for autofs entries that hadn't been instantiated yet. With our new non-eager automount semantics, one discussion has been about adding a AT_AUTOMOUNT flag to vfs_fstatat (and thus the newfstatat() and fstatat64() system calls), but it's probably not worth it: you can always force at least directory automounting by simply adding the final '/' to the filename, which works for *all* of the stat family system calls, old and new. So AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT (and thus LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT) really were just a result of our bad default behavior. Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-26vfs pathname lookup: Add LOOKUP_AUTOMOUNT flagLinus Torvalds
Since we've now turned around and made LOOKUP_FOLLOW *not* force an automount, we want to add the ability to force an automount event on lookup even if we don't happen to have one of the other flags that force it implicitly (LOOKUP_OPEN, LOOKUP_DIRECTORY, LOOKUP_PARENT..) Most cases will never want to use this, since you'd normally want to delay automounting as long as possible, which usually implies LOOKUP_OPEN (when we open a file or directory, we really cannot avoid the automount any more). But Trond argued sufficiently forcefully that at a minimum bind mounting a file and quotactl will want to force the automount lookup. Some other cases (like nfs_follow_remote_path()) could use it too, although LOOKUP_DIRECTORY would work there as well. This commit just adds the flag and logic, no users yet, though. It also doesn't actually touch the LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag that is related, and was made irrelevant by the same change that made us not follow on LOOKUP_FOLLOW. Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-26net: introduce ptp one step time stamp mode for sync packetsRichard Cochran
The IEEE 1588 standard (PTP) has a provision for a "one step" mode, where time stamps on outgoing event packets are inserted into the packet by the hardware on the fly. This patch adds a new flag for the SIOCSHWTSTAMP ioctl that lets user space programs request this mode. Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-09-25dm crypt: always disable discard_zeroes_dataMilan Broz
If optional discard support in dm-crypt is enabled, discards requests bypass the crypt queue and blocks of the underlying device are discarded. For the read path, discarded blocks are handled the same as normal ciphertext blocks, thus decrypted. So if the underlying device announces discarded regions return zeroes, dm-crypt must disable this flag because after decryption there is just random noise instead of zeroes. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-09-23Merge git://github.com/Jkirsher/net-nextDavid S. Miller
2011-09-23pci: Add flag indicating device has been assigned by KVMGreg Rose
Device drivers that create and destroy SR-IOV virtual functions via calls to pci_enable_sriov() and pci_disable_sriov can cause catastrophic failures if they attempt to destroy VFs while they are assigned to guest virtual machines. By adding a flag for use by the KVM module to indicate that a device is assigned a device driver can check that flag and avoid destroying VFs while they are assigned and avoid system failures. CC: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> CC: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-09-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] kvm: extension capability for new address space layout [S390] kvm: fix address mode switching
2011-09-22Merge branch 'master' of github.com:davem330/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: MAINTAINERS drivers/net/Kconfig drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.c drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-pci.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-tx-pcie.c drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/main.c
2011-09-21Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: floppy: use del_timer_sync() in init cleanup blk-cgroup: be able to remove the record of unplugged device block: Don't check QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP in __blk_complete_request mm: Add comment explaining task state setting in bdi_forker_thread() mm: Cleanup clearing of BDI_pending bit in bdi_forker_thread() block: simplify force plug flush code a little bit block: change force plug flush call order block: Fix queue_flag update when rq_affinity goes from 2 to 1 block: separate priority boosting from REQ_META block: remove READ_META and WRITE_META xen-blkback: fixed indentation and comments xen-blkback: Don't disconnect backend until state switched to XenbusStateClosed.