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Factorize code, since most fetched values are int type.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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When we need to clone skb, we dont drop a packet.
Call consume_skb() to not confuse dropwatch.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Use of "unsigned int" is preferred to bare "unsigned" in net tree.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it. Performed with the following command:
perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *`
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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This is useful for testing RX handling of frames with bad
CRCs.
Requires driver support to actually put the packet on the
wire properly.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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If bind is fail when bind is called after set PACKET_FANOUT
sock option, the dev refcnt will leak.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Conflicts:
net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c
Just two overlapping changes, one added an initialization of
a local variable, and another change added a new local variable.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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skb->truesize might be big even for a small packet.
Its even bigger after commit 87fb4b7b533 (net: more accurate skb
truesize) and big MTU.
We should allow queueing at least one packet per receiver, even with a
low RCVBUF setting.
Reported-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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packet: Add needed_tailroom to packet_sendmsg_spkt
While auditing LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE I noticed that packet_sendmsg_spkt
did not include needed_tailroom when allocating an skb. This isn't
a fatal error as we should always tolerate inadequate tail room but
it isn't optimal.
This patch fixes that.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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net: Remove all uses of LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE
The macro LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE was ill-conceived. It applies the
alignment to the sum of needed_headroom and needed_tailroom. As
the amount that is then reserved for head room is needed_headroom
with alignment, this means that the tail room left may be too small.
This patch replaces all uses of LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE with the macro
LL_RESERVED_SPACE and direct reference to needed_tailroom.
This also fixes the problem with needed_headroom changing between
allocating the skb and reserving the head room.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This popped some compiler errors due to mismatched prototypes. Just
remove most manual inlines, the compiler should be able to figure out
what makes sense to inline and not.
net/packet/af_packet.c:252: warning: 'prb_curr_blk_in_use' declared inline after being called
net/packet/af_packet.c:252: warning: previous declaration of 'prb_curr_blk_in_use' was here
net/packet/af_packet.c:258: warning: 'prb_queue_frozen' declared inline after being called
net/packet/af_packet.c:258: warning: previous declaration of 'prb_queue_frozen' was here
net/packet/af_packet.c:248: warning: 'packet_previous_frame' declared inline after being called
net/packet/af_packet.c:248: warning: previous declaration of 'packet_previous_frame' was here
net/packet/af_packet.c:251: warning: 'packet_increment_head' declared inline after being called
net/packet/af_packet.c:251: warning: previous declaration of 'packet_increment_head' was here
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Chetan Loke <loke.chetan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Fragmented multicast frames are delivered to a single macvlan port,
because ip defrag logic considers other samples are redundant.
Implement a defrag step before trying to send the multicast frame.
Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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If skb is NULL, then stack trace is thrown anyway on dereference.
Therefore, the stack trace triggered by BUG_ON is duplicate.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <danborkmann@googlemail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Conflicts:
net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
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This is a minor change.
Up until kernel 2.6.32, getsockopt(fd, SOL_PACKET, PACKET_STATISTICS,
...) would return total and dropped packets since its last invocation. The
introduction of socket queue overflow reporting [1] changed drop
rate calculation in the normal packet socket path, but not when using a
packet ring. As a result, the getsockopt now returns different statistics
depending on the reception method used. With a ring, it still returns the
count since the last call, as counts are incremented in tpacket_rcv and
reset in getsockopt. Without a ring, it returns 0 if no drops occurred
since the last getsockopt and the total drops over the lifespan of
the socket otherwise. The culprit is this line in packet_rcv, executed
on a drop:
drop_n_acct:
po->stats.tp_drops = atomic_inc_return(&sk->sk_drops);
As it shows, the new drop number it taken from the socket drop counter,
which is not reset at getsockopt. I put together a small example
that demonstrates the issue [2]. It runs for 10 seconds and overflows
the queue/ring on every odd second. The reported drop rates are:
ring: 16, 0, 16, 0, 16, ...
non-ring: 0, 15, 0, 30, 0, 46, 0, 60, 0 , 74.
Note how the even ring counts monotonically increase. Because the
getsockopt adds tp_drops to tp_packets, total counts are similarly
reported cumulatively. Long story short, reinstating the original code, as
the below patch does, fixes the issue at the cost of additional per-packet
cycles. Another solution that does not introduce per-packet overhead
is be to keep the current data path, record the value of sk_drops at
getsockopt() at call N in a new field in struct packetsock and subtract
that when reporting at call N+1. I'll be happy to code that, instead,
it's just more messy.
[1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/35665/
[2] http://kernel.googlecode.com/files/test-packetsock-getstatistics.c
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch does several things:
- introduces __ethtool_get_settings which is called from ethtool code and
from drivers as well. Put ASSERT_RTNL there.
- dev_ethtool_get_settings() is replaced by __ethtool_get_settings()
- changes calling in drivers so rtnl locking is respected. In
iboe_get_rate was previously ->get_settings() called unlocked. This
fixes it. Also prb_calc_retire_blk_tmo() in af_packet.c had the same
problem. Also fixed by calling __dev_get_by_index() instead of
dev_get_by_index() and holding rtnl_lock for both calls.
- introduces rtnl_lock in bnx2fc_vport_create() and fcoe_vport_create()
so bnx2fc_if_create() and fcoe_if_create() are called locked as they
are from other places.
- use __ethtool_get_settings() in bonding code
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
v2->v3:
-removed dev_ethtool_get_settings()
-added ASSERT_RTNL into __ethtool_get_settings()
-prb_calc_retire_blk_tmo - use __dev_get_by_index() and lock
around it and __ethtool_get_settings() call
v1->v2:
add missing export_symbol
Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> [except FCoE bits]
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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structs introduced in tpacket_v3 implementation are prefixed with 'tpacket'
to avoid namespace collision.
Compile tested.
Signed-off-by: Chetan Loke <loke.chetan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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1) Blocks can be configured with non-static frame-size.
2) Read/poll is at a block-level(as opposed to packet-level).
3) Added poll timeout to avoid indefinite user-space wait on idle links.
4) Added user-configurable knobs:
4.1) block::timeout.
4.2) tpkt_hdr::sk_rxhash.
Changes:
C1) tpacket_rcv()
C1.1) packet_current_frame() is replaced by packet_current_rx_frame()
The bulk of the processing is then moved in the following chain:
packet_current_rx_frame()
__packet_lookup_frame_in_block
fill_curr_block()
or
retire_current_block
dispatch_next_block
or
return NULL(queue is plugged/paused)
Signed-off-by: Chetan Loke <loke.chetan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Currently we flush tp_status and then flush the remainder of the header+payload.
tp_status should be flushed in the end to avoid stale data being read by user-space.
Incorrectly re-ordered barriers in v1.
Signed-off-by: Chetan Loke <loke.chetan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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af_packet.c:(.text+0x3d130): undefined reference to `ip_defrag'
or
ERROR: "ip_defrag" [net/packet/af_packet.ko] undefined!
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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fanout_add() might return with fanout_mutex held.
Reduce indentation level while we are at it
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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When we clone the SKB, we forget about the original
one. Avoid this problem by using skb_share_check().
Reported-by: Penttilä Mika <mika.penttila@ixonos.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Unfortunately we have to use a real modulus here as
the multiply trick won't work as effectively with cpu
numbers as it does with rxhash values.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The skb->rxhash cannot be properly computed if the
packet is a fragment. To alleviate this, allow the
AF_PACKET client to ask for defragmentation to be
done at demux time.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Fanouts allow packet capturing to be demuxed to a set of AF_PACKET
sockets. Two fanout policies are implemented:
1) Hashing based upon skb->rxhash
2) Pure round-robin
An AF_PACKET socket must be fully bound before it tries to add itself
to a fanout. All AF_PACKET sockets trying to join the same fanout
must all have the same bind settings.
Fanouts are identified (within a network namespace) by a 16-bit ID.
The first socket to try to add itself to a fanout with a particular
ID, creates that fanout. When the last socket leaves the fanout
(which happens only when the socket is closed), that fanout is
destroyed.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rxon.c
drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
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There's no need for the guest to validate the checksum if it have been
validated by host nics. So this patch introduces a new flag -
VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID which is used to bypass the checksum
examing in guest. The backend (tap/macvtap) may set this flag when
met skbs with CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY to save cpu utilization.
No feature negotiation is needed as old driver just ignore this flag.
Iperf shows 12%-30% performance improvement for UDP traffic. For TCP,
when gro is on no difference as it produces skb with partial
checksum. But when gro is disabled, 20% or even higher improvement
could be measured by netperf.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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In 2.6.27, commit 393e52e33c6c2 (packet: deliver VLAN TCI to userspace)
added a small information leak.
Add padding field and make sure its zeroed before copy to user.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This saves a network device lookup on each packet transmitted,
for sockets that are bound to a network device.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Old code was probably safe, but with this change we
can actually use the netdev object, not just compare
the pointer values.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Currently, user-space cannot determine if a 0 tcp_vlan_tci
means there is no VLAN tag or the VLAN ID was zero.
Add flag to make this explicit. User-space can check for
TP_STATUS_VLAN_VALID || tp_vlan_tci > 0, which will be backwards
compatible. Older could would have just checked for tp_vlan_tci,
so it will work no worse than before.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The %pK format specifier is designed to hide exposed kernel pointers,
specifically via /proc interfaces. Exposing these pointers provides an
easy target for kernel write vulnerabilities, since they reveal the
locations of writable structures containing easily triggerable function
pointers. The behavior of %pK depends on the kptr_restrict sysctl.
If kptr_restrict is set to 0, no deviation from the standard %p behavior
occurs. If kptr_restrict is set to 1, the default, if the current user
(intended to be a reader via seq_printf(), etc.) does not have CAP_SYSLOG
(currently in the LSM tree), kernel pointers using %pK are printed as 0's.
If kptr_restrict is set to 2, kernel pointers using %pK are printed as
0's regardless of privileges. Replacing with 0's was chosen over the
default "(null)", which cannot be parsed by userland %p, which expects
"(nil)".
The supporting code for kptr_restrict and %pK are currently in the -mm
tree. This patch converts users of %p in net/ to %pK. Cases of printing
pointers to the syslog are not covered, since this would eliminate useful
information for postmortem debugging and the reading of the syslog is
already optionally protected by the dmesg_restrict sysctl.
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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In order to speedup packet filtering, here is an implementation of a
JIT compiler for x86_64
It is disabled by default, and must be enabled by the admin.
echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
It uses module_alloc() and module_free() to get memory in the 2GB text
kernel range since we call helpers functions from the generated code.
EAX : BPF A accumulator
EBX : BPF X accumulator
RDI : pointer to skb (first argument given to JIT function)
RBP : frame pointer (even if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=n)
r9d : skb->len - skb->data_len (headlen)
r8 : skb->data
To get a trace of generated code, use :
echo 2 >/proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
Example of generated code :
# tcpdump -p -n -s 0 -i eth1 host 192.168.20.0/24
flen=18 proglen=147 pass=3 image=ffffffffa00b5000
JIT code: ffffffffa00b5000: 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 60 48 89 5d f8 44 8b 4f 60
JIT code: ffffffffa00b5010: 44 2b 4f 64 4c 8b 87 b8 00 00 00 be 0c 00 00 00
JIT code: ffffffffa00b5020: e8 24 7b f7 e0 3d 00 08 00 00 75 28 be 1a 00 00
JIT code: ffffffffa00b5030: 00 e8 fe 7a f7 e0 24 00 3d 00 14 a8 c0 74 49 be
JIT code: ffffffffa00b5040: 1e 00 00 00 e8 eb 7a f7 e0 24 00 3d 00 14 a8 c0
JIT code: ffffffffa00b5050: 74 36 eb 3b 3d 06 08 00 00 74 07 3d 35 80 00 00
JIT code: ffffffffa00b5060: 75 2d be 1c 00 00 00 e8 c8 7a f7 e0 24 00 3d 00
JIT code: ffffffffa00b5070: 14 a8 c0 74 13 be 26 00 00 00 e8 b5 7a f7 e0 24
JIT code: ffffffffa00b5080: 00 3d 00 14 a8 c0 75 07 b8 ff ff 00 00 eb 02 31
JIT code: ffffffffa00b5090: c0 c9 c3
BPF program is 144 bytes long, so native program is almost same size ;)
(000) ldh [12]
(001) jeq #0x800 jt 2 jf 8
(002) ld [26]
(003) and #0xffffff00
(004) jeq #0xc0a81400 jt 16 jf 5
(005) ld [30]
(006) and #0xffffff00
(007) jeq #0xc0a81400 jt 16 jf 17
(008) jeq #0x806 jt 10 jf 9
(009) jeq #0x8035 jt 10 jf 17
(010) ld [28]
(011) and #0xffffff00
(012) jeq #0xc0a81400 jt 16 jf 13
(013) ld [38]
(014) and #0xffffff00
(015) jeq #0xc0a81400 jt 16 jf 17
(016) ret #65535
(017) ret #0
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This allows user-space to send a '1500' MTU VLAN packet on a
1500 MTU ethernet frame. The extra 4 bytes of a VLAN header is
not usually charged against the MTU when other parts of the
network stack is transmitting vlans...
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Clean up some unused macros in net/*.
1. be left for code change. e.g. PGV_FROM_VMALLOC, PGV_FROM_VMALLOC, KMEM_SAFETYZONE.
2. never be used since introduced to kernel.
e.g. P9_RDMA_MAX_SGE, UTIL_CTRL_PKT_SIZE.
Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Sjur Braendeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Packet filter (BPF) doesnt need to disable softirqs, being fully
re-entrant and lock-less.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Replace skb->csum_start - skb_headroom(skb) with skb_checksum_start_offset().
Note for usb/smsc95xx: skb->data - skb->head == skb_headroom(skb).
Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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It is introduced in:
commit 0e3125c755445664f00ad036e4fc2cd32fd52877
Author: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Tue Nov 16 10:26:47 2010 -0800
packet: Enhance AF_PACKET implementation to not require high order contiguous memory allocation (v4)
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Some arches don't need flush_dcache_page(), and don't implement it, so
we can eliminate pgv_to_page() calls on those arches.
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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sk_run_filter() doesnt write on skb, change its prototype to reflect
this.
Fix two af_packet comments.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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As we can check if an address is vmalloc address with is_vmalloc_addr(),
we remove pgv.flags. Then we may get more pg_vecs.
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The following commit causes the pgv->buffer may point to the memory
returned by vmalloc(). And we can't use virt_to_page() for the vmalloc
address.
This patch introduces a new inline function pgv_to_page(), which calls
vmalloc_to_page() for the vmalloc address, and virt_to_page() for the
__get_free_pages address.
We used to increase page pointer to get the next page at the next page
address, after Neil's patch, it is wrong, as the physical address may
be not continuous. This patch also fixes this issue.
commit 0e3125c755445664f00ad036e4fc2cd32fd52877
Author: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Tue Nov 16 10:26:47 2010 -0800
packet: Enhance AF_PACKET implementation to not require high order contiguous memory allocation (v4)
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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alloc_one_pg_vec_page() is supposed to return zeroed memory, so use
vzalloc() instead of vmalloc()
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Remove pc variable to avoid arithmetic to compute fentry at each filter
instruction. Jumps directly manipulate fentry pointer.
As the last instruction of filter[] is guaranteed to be a RETURN, and
all jumps are before the last instruction, we dont need to check filter
bounds (number of instructions in filter array) at each iteration, so we
remove it from sk_run_filter() params.
On x86_32 remove f_k var introduced in commit 57fe93b374a6b871
(filter: make sure filters dont read uninitialized memory)
Note : We could use a CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_{FEW|MANY}_REGISTERS in order to
avoid too many ifdefs in this code.
This helps compiler to use cpu registers to hold fentry and A
accumulator.
On x86_32, this saves 401 bytes, and more important, sk_run_filter()
runs much faster because less register pressure (One less conditional
branch per BPF instruction)
# size net/core/filter.o net/core/filter_pre.o
text data bss dec hex filename
2948 0 0 2948 b84 net/core/filter.o
3349 0 0 3349 d15 net/core/filter_pre.o
on x86_64 :
# size net/core/filter.o net/core/filter_pre.o
text data bss dec hex filename
5173 0 0 5173 1435 net/core/filter.o
5224 0 0 5224 1468 net/core/filter_pre.o
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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contiguous memory allocation (v4)
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Version 4 of this patch.
Change notes:
1) Removed extra memset. Didn't think kcalloc added a GFP_ZERO the way kzalloc did :)
Summary:
It was shown to me recently that systems under high load were driven very deep
into swap when tcpdump was run. The reason this happened was because the
AF_PACKET protocol has a SET_RINGBUFFER socket option that allows the user space
application to specify how many entries an AF_PACKET socket will have and how
large each entry will be. It seems the default setting for tcpdump is to set
the ring buffer to 32 entries of 64 Kb each, which implies 32 order 5
allocation. Thats difficult under good circumstances, and horrid under memory
pressure.
I thought it would be good to make that a bit more usable. I was going to do a
simple conversion of the ring buffer from contigous pages to iovecs, but
unfortunately, the metadata which AF_PACKET places in these buffers can easily
span a page boundary, and given that these buffers get mapped into user space,
and the data layout doesn't easily allow for a change to padding between frames
to avoid that, a simple iovec change is just going to break user space ABI
consistency.
So I've done this, I've added a three tiered mechanism to the af_packet set_ring
socket option. It attempts to allocate memory in the following order:
1) Using __get_free_pages with GFP_NORETRY set, so as to fail quickly without
digging into swap
2) Using vmalloc
3) Using __get_free_pages with GFP_NORETRY clear, causing us to try as hard as
needed to get the memory
The effect is that we don't disturb the system as much when we're under load,
while still being able to conduct tcpdumps effectively.
Tested successfully by me.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Parameter 'len' is size_t type so it will never get negative.
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <mk@lab.zgora.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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