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Author SHA1 Message Date
Thomas Graf
97676b6b55 [RTNETLINK]: Add rtnetlink notification interface
Adds rtnl_notify() to send rtnetlink notification messages and
rtnl_set_sk_err() to report notification errors as socket
errors in order to indicate the need of a resync due to loss
of events.

nlmsg_report() is added to properly document the meaning of
NLM_F_ECHO.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:54:50 -07:00
Thomas Graf
2942e90050 [RTNETLINK]: Use rtnl_unicast() for rtnetlink unicasts
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:54:48 -07:00
Martin Bligh
81aa646cc4 [IPV4]: add the UdpSndbufErrors and UdpRcvbufErrors MIBs
Signed-off-by: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-09-22 14:54:41 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
b801f54917 [NET]: Increate RT_TABLE_MAX to 2^32
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:54:29 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
9e762a4a89 [NET]: Introduce RTA_TABLE/FRA_TABLE attributes
Introduce RTA_TABLE route attribute and FRA_TABLE routing rule attribute
to hold 32 bit routing table IDs. Usespace compatibility is provided by
continuing to accept and send the rtm_table field, but because of its
limited size it can only carry the low 8 bits of the table ID. This
implies that if larger IDs are used, _all_ userspace programs using them
need to use RTA_TABLE.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:54:25 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
f0fd27d42e [NET]: sock_register interface changes
The sock_register() doesn't change the family, so the protocols can
define it read-only.  No caller ever checks return value from
sock_unregister()

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:54:20 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
757dbb494b [NET]: drop unused elements from net_proto_family
Three values in net_proto_family are defined but never used.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:54:18 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse
a8731cbf61 [DECNET]: Covert rules to use generic code
This patch converts the DECnet rules code to use the generic
rules system created by Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <steve@chygwyn.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:54:15 -07:00
Sridhar Samudrala
ac5a488ef2 [NET]: Round out in-kernel sockets API
This patch implements wrapper functions that provide a convenient way
to access the sockets API for in-kernel users like sunrpc, cifs &
ocfs2 etc and any future users.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:54:05 -07:00
Thomas Graf
b63bbc5006 [NEIGH]: Move netlink neighbour table bits to linux/neighbour.h
rtnetlink_rcv_msg() is not longer required to parse attributes
for the neighbour tables layer, remove dependency on obsolete and
buggy rta_buf.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:54:04 -07:00
Thomas Graf
9067c722cf [NEIGH]: Move netlink neighbour bits to linux/neighbour.h
Moves netlink neighbour bits to linux/neighbour.h. Also
moves bits to be exported to userspace from net/neighbour.h
to linux/neighbour.h and removes __KERNEL__ guards, userspace
is not supposed to be using it.

rtnetlink_rcv_msg() is not longer required to parse attributes
for the neighbour layer, remove dependency on obsolete and
buggy rta_buf.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:54:01 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
4cf411de49 [NETFILTER]: Get rid of HW checksum invalidation
Update hardware checksums incrementally to avoid breaking GSO.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:54 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
84fa7933a3 [NET]: Replace CHECKSUM_HW by CHECKSUM_PARTIAL/CHECKSUM_COMPLETE
Replace CHECKSUM_HW by CHECKSUM_PARTIAL (for outgoing packets, whose
checksum still needs to be completed) and CHECKSUM_COMPLETE (for
incoming packets, device supplied full checksum).

Patch originally from Herbert Xu, updated by myself for 2.6.18-rc3.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:53 -07:00
Thomas Graf
0844565fb8 [NET]: Move netlink interface bits to linux/if.h
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:50 -07:00
Thomas Graf
1823730fbc [IPv4]: Move interface address bits to linux/if_addr.h
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:47 -07:00
Thomas Graf
101367c2f8 [IPV6]: Policy Routing Rules
Adds support for policy routing rules including a new
local table for routes with a local destination.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:41 -07:00
Thomas Graf
14c0b97ddf [NET]: Protocol Independant Policy Routing Rules Framework
Derived from net/ipv/fib_rules.c

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:40 -07:00
Venkat Yekkirala
7420ed23a4 [NetLabel]: SELinux support
Add NetLabel support to the SELinux LSM and modify the
socket_post_create() LSM hook to return an error code.  The most
significant part of this patch is the addition of NetLabel hooks into
the following SELinux LSM hooks:

 * selinux_file_permission()
 * selinux_socket_sendmsg()
 * selinux_socket_post_create()
 * selinux_socket_sock_rcv_skb()
 * selinux_socket_getpeersec_stream()
 * selinux_socket_getpeersec_dgram()
 * selinux_sock_graft()
 * selinux_inet_conn_request()

The basic reasoning behind this patch is that outgoing packets are
"NetLabel'd" by labeling their socket and the NetLabel security
attributes are checked via the additional hook in
selinux_socket_sock_rcv_skb().  NetLabel itself is only a labeling
mechanism, similar to filesystem extended attributes, it is up to the
SELinux enforcement mechanism to perform the actual access checks.

In addition to the changes outlined above this patch also includes
some changes to the extended bitmap (ebitmap) and multi-level security
(mls) code to import and export SELinux TE/MLS attributes into and out
of NetLabel.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:36 -07:00
Paul Moore
446fda4f26 [NetLabel]: CIPSOv4 engine
Add support for the Commercial IP Security Option (CIPSO) to the IPv4
network stack.  CIPSO has become a de-facto standard for
trusted/labeled networking amongst existing Trusted Operating Systems
such as Trusted Solaris, HP-UX CMW, etc.  This implementation is
designed to be used with the NetLabel subsystem to provide explicit
packet labeling to LSM developers.

The CIPSO/IPv4 packet labeling works by the LSM calling a NetLabel API
function which attaches a CIPSO label (IPv4 option) to a given socket;
this in turn attaches the CIPSO label to every packet leaving the
socket without any extra processing on the outbound side.  On the
inbound side the individual packet's sk_buff is examined through a
call to a NetLabel API function to determine if a CIPSO/IPv4 label is
present and if so the security attributes of the CIPSO label are
returned to the caller of the NetLabel API function.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:33 -07:00
Paul Moore
11a03f78fb [NetLabel]: core network changes
Changes to the core network stack to support the NetLabel subsystem.  This
includes changes to the IPv4 option handling to support CIPSO labels.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:32 -07:00
Venkat Yekkirala
4237c75c0a [MLSXFRM]: Auto-labeling of child sockets
This automatically labels the TCP, Unix stream, and dccp child sockets
as well as openreqs to be at the same MLS level as the peer. This will
result in the selection of appropriately labeled IPSec Security
Associations.

This also uses the sock's sid (as opposed to the isec sid) in SELinux
enforcement of secmark in rcv_skb and postroute_last hooks.

Signed-off-by: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@TrustedCS.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:29 -07:00
Venkat Yekkirala
cb969f072b [MLSXFRM]: Default labeling of socket specific IPSec policies
This defaults the label of socket-specific IPSec policies to be the
same as the socket they are set on.

Signed-off-by: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@TrustedCS.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:28 -07:00
Venkat Yekkirala
beb8d13bed [MLSXFRM]: Add flow labeling
This labels the flows that could utilize IPSec xfrms at the points the
flows are defined so that IPSec policy and SAs at the right label can
be used.

The following protos are currently not handled, but they should
continue to be able to use single-labeled IPSec like they currently
do.

ipmr
ip_gre
ipip
igmp
sit
sctp
ip6_tunnel (IPv6 over IPv6 tunnel device)
decnet

Signed-off-by: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@TrustedCS.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:27 -07:00
Venkat Yekkirala
e0d1caa7b0 [MLSXFRM]: Flow based matching of xfrm policy and state
This implements a seemless mechanism for xfrm policy selection and
state matching based on the flow sid. This also includes the necessary
SELinux enforcement pieces.

Signed-off-by: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@TrustedCS.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:24 -07:00
Venkat Yekkirala
892c141e62 [MLSXFRM]: Add security sid to sock
This adds security for IP sockets at the sock level. Security at the
sock level is needed to enforce the SELinux security policy for
security associations even when a sock is orphaned (such as in the TCP
LAST_ACK state).

This will also be used to enforce SELinux controls over data arriving
at or leaving a child socket while it's still waiting to be accepted.

Signed-off-by: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@TrustedCS.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e6e5fee142 Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/hdroneline
* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/hdroneline:
  [HEADERS] One line per header in Kbuild files to reduce conflicts

Manual (trivial) conflict resolution in include/asm-s390/Kbuild
2006-09-22 12:56:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6bbd9b6d69 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (64 commits)
  [BLOCK] dm-crypt: trivial comment improvements
  [CRYPTO] api: Deprecate crypto_digest_* and crypto_alg_available
  [CRYPTO] padlock: Convert padlock-sha to use crypto_hash
  [CRYPTO] users: Use crypto_comp and crypto_has_*
  [CRYPTO] api: Add crypto_comp and crypto_has_*
  [CRYPTO] users: Use crypto_hash interface instead of crypto_digest
  [SCSI] iscsi: Use crypto_hash interface instead of crypto_digest
  [CRYPTO] digest: Remove old HMAC implementation
  [CRYPTO] doc: Update documentation for hash and me
  [SCTP]: Use HMAC template and hash interface
  [IPSEC]: Use HMAC template and hash interface
  [CRYPTO] tcrypt: Use HMAC template and hash interface
  [CRYPTO] hmac: Add crypto template implementation
  [CRYPTO] digest: Added user API for new hash type
  [CRYPTO] api: Mark parts of cipher interface as deprecated
  [PATCH] scatterlist: Add const to sg_set_buf/sg_init_one pointer argument
  [CRYPTO] drivers: Remove obsolete block cipher operations
  [CRYPTO] users: Use block ciphers where applicable
  [SUNRPC] GSS: Use block ciphers where applicable
  [IPSEC] ESP: Use block ciphers where applicable
  ...
2006-09-22 12:51:33 -07:00
Herbert Xu
3ad819c61f [CRYPTO] api: Deprecate crypto_digest_* and crypto_alg_available
This patch marks the crypto_digest_* functions and crypto_alg_available
as deprecated.  They've been replaced by crypto_hash_* and crypto_has_*
respectively.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:46:23 +10:00
Herbert Xu
6010439f47 [CRYPTO] padlock: Convert padlock-sha to use crypto_hash
This patch converts padlock-sha to use crypto_hash for its fallback.
It also changes the fallback selection to use selection by type instead
of name.  This is done through the new CRYPTO_ALG_NEED_FALLBACK bit,
which is set if and only if an algorithm needs a fallback of the same
type.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:46:22 +10:00
Herbert Xu
e4d5b79c66 [CRYPTO] users: Use crypto_comp and crypto_has_*
This patch converts all users to use the new crypto_comp type and the
crypto_has_* functions.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:46:22 +10:00
Herbert Xu
fce32d70ba [CRYPTO] api: Add crypto_comp and crypto_has_*
This patch adds the crypto_comp type to complete the compile-time checking
conversion.  The functions crypto_has_alg and crypto_has_cipher, etc. are
also added to replace crypto_alg_available.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:46:21 +10:00
Herbert Xu
8425165dfe [CRYPTO] digest: Remove old HMAC implementation
This patch removes the old HMAC implementation now that nobody uses it
anymore.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-21 11:46:20 +10:00
Herbert Xu
055bcee310 [CRYPTO] digest: Added user API for new hash type
The existing digest user interface is inadequate for support asynchronous
operations.  For one it doesn't return a value to indicate success or
failure, nor does it take a per-operation descriptor which is essential
for the issuing of requests while other requests are still outstanding.

This patch is the first in a series of steps to remodel the interface
for asynchronous operations.

For the ease of transition the new interface will be known as "hash"
while the old one will remain as "digest".

This patch also changes sg_next to allow chaining.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:46:17 +10:00
Herbert Xu
7226bc877a [CRYPTO] api: Mark parts of cipher interface as deprecated
Mark the parts of the cipher interface that have been replaced by
block ciphers as deprecated.  Thanks to Andrew Morton for suggesting
doing this before removing them completely.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:46:16 +10:00
Herbert Xu
03fd9cee7f [PATCH] scatterlist: Add const to sg_set_buf/sg_init_one pointer argument
This patch adds a const modifier to the buf argument of sg_set_buf and
sg_init_one.  This lets people call it with pointers that are const.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:46:16 +10:00
Herbert Xu
378c6697a2 [SUNRPC] GSS: Use block ciphers where applicable
This patch converts SUNRPC/GSS to use the new block cipher type where
applicable.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:46:15 +10:00
Herbert Xu
5cde0af2a9 [CRYPTO] cipher: Added block cipher type
This patch adds the new type of block ciphers.  Unlike current cipher
algorithms which operate on a single block at a time, block ciphers
operate on an arbitrarily long linear area of data.  As it is block-based,
it will skip any data remaining at the end which cannot form a block.

The block cipher has one major difference when compared to the existing
block cipher implementation.  The sg walking is now performed by the
algorithm rather than the cipher mid-layer.  This is needed for drivers
that directly support sg lists.  It also improves performance for all
algorithms as it reduces the total number of indirect calls by one.

In future the existing cipher algorithm will be converted to only have
a single-block interface.  This will be done after all existing users
have switched over to the new block cipher type.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:41:52 +10:00
Herbert Xu
f28776a369 [CRYPTO] cipher: Added encrypt_one/decrypt_one
This patch adds two new operations for the simple cipher that encrypts or
decrypts a single block at a time.  This will be the main interface after
the existing block operations have moved over to the new block ciphers.

It also adds the crypto_cipher type which is currently only used on the
new operations but will be extended to setkey as well once existing users
have been converted to use block ciphers where applicable.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:41:51 +10:00
Herbert Xu
e853c3cfa8 [CRYPTO] api: Added crypto_type support
This patch adds the crypto_type structure which will be used for all new
crypto algorithm types, beginning with block ciphers.

The primary purpose of this abstraction is to allow different crypto_type
objects for crypto algorithms of the same type, in particular, there will
be a different crypto_type objects for asynchronous algorithms.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:41:51 +10:00
Herbert Xu
6d7d684d63 [CRYPTO] api: Added crypto_alloc_base
Up until now all crypto transforms have been of the same type, struct
crypto_tfm, regardless of whether they are ciphers, digests, or other
types.  As a result of that, we check the types at run-time before
each crypto operation.

This is rather cumbersome.  We could instead use different C types for
each crypto type to ensure that the correct types are used at compile
time.  That is, we would have crypto_cipher/crypto_digest instead of
just crypto_tfm.  The appropriate type would then be required for the
actual operations such as crypto_digest_digest.

Now that we have the type/mask fields when looking up algorithms, it
is easy to request for an algorithm of the precise type that the user
wants.  However, crypto_alloc_tfm currently does not expose these new
attributes.

This patch introduces the function crypto_alloc_base which will carry
these new parameters.  It will be renamed to crypto_alloc_tfm once
all existing users have been converted.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:41:50 +10:00
Herbert Xu
f3f632d61a [CRYPTO] api: Added asynchronous flag
This patch adds the asynchronous flag and changes all existing users to
only look up algorithms that are synchronous.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:41:49 +10:00
Herbert Xu
df89820ebd [CRYPTO] cipher: Removed special IV checks for ECB
This patch makes IV operations on ECB fail through nocrypt_iv rather than
calling BUG().  This is needed to generalise CBC/ECB using the template
mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:41:03 +10:00
Herbert Xu
560c06ae1a [CRYPTO] api: Get rid of flags argument to setkey
Now that the tfm is passed directly to setkey instead of the ctx, we no
longer need to pass the &tfm->crt_flags pointer.

This patch also gets rid of a few unnecessary checks on the key length
for ciphers as the cipher layer guarantees that the key length is within
the bounds specified by the algorithm.

Rather than testing dia_setkey every time, this patch does it only once
during crypto_alloc_tfm.  The redundant check from crypto_digest_setkey
is also removed.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:41:02 +10:00
Michal Ludvig
b14cdd6704 [CRYPTO] api: Add missing accessors for new crypto_alg fields
Add missing accessors for cra_driver_name and cra_priority.

Signed-off-by: Michal Ludvig <michal@logix.cz>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:40:21 +10:00
Herbert Xu
6bfd48096f [CRYPTO] api: Added spawns
Spawns lock a specific crypto algorithm in place.  They can then be used
with crypto_spawn_tfm to allocate a tfm for that algorithm.  When the base
algorithm of a spawn is deregistered, all its spawns will be automatically
removed.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-21 11:39:29 +10:00
Herbert Xu
2b8c19dbdc [CRYPTO] api: Add cryptomgr
The cryptomgr module is a simple manager of crypto algorithm instances.
It ensures that parameterised algorithms of the type tmpl(alg) (e.g.,
cbc(aes)) are always created.

This is meant to satisfy the needs for most users.  For more complex
cases such as deeper combinations or multiple parameters, a netlink
module will be created which allows arbitrary expressions to be parsed
in user-space.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-21 11:31:44 +10:00
Herbert Xu
2825982d9d [CRYPTO] api: Added event notification
This patch adds a notifier chain for algorithm/template registration events.
This will be used to register compound algorithms such as cbc(aes).  In
future this will also be passed onto user-space through netlink.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-21 11:17:13 +10:00
Herbert Xu
6521f30273 [CRYPTO] api: Add crypto_alg reference counting
Up until now we've relied on module reference counting to ensure that the
crypto_alg structures don't disappear from under us.  This was good enough
as long as each crypto_alg came from exactly one module.

However, with parameterised crypto algorithms a crypto_alg object may need
two or more modules to operate.  This means that we need to count the
references to the crypto_alg object directly.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-21 11:16:29 +10:00
Herbert Xu
799111020c [CRYPTO] api: Fixed crypto_tfm context alignment
Previously the __aligned__ attribute was added to the crypto_tfm context
member to ensure it is alinged correctly on architectures such as arm.
Unfortunately kmalloc does not use the same minimum alignment rules as
gcc so this is useless.

This patch changes it to use kmalloc's minimum alignment.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21 11:16:27 +10:00
Martin Schwidefsky
1534c3820c [S390] zcrypt adjunct processor bus.
Add a bus for the adjunct processor interface. Up to 64 devices can
be connect to the ap bus interface, each device with 16 domains. That
makes 1024 message queues. The interface is asynchronous, the answer
to a message sent to a queue needs to be received at some later point
in time. Unfortunately the interface does not provide interrupts when
a message reply is pending. So the ap bus needs to implement some
fancy polling, each active queue is polled once per 1/HZ second or
continuously if an idle cpus exsists and the poll thread is activ
(see poll_thread parameter).

The ap bus uses the sysfs path /sys/bus/ap and has two bus attributes,
ap_domain and config_time. The ap_domain selects one of the 16 domains
to be used for this system. This limits the maximum number of ap devices
to 64. The config_time attribute contains the number of seconds between
two ap bus scans to find new devices.

The ap bus uses the modalias entries of the form "ap:tN" to autoload
the ap driver for hardware type N. Currently known types are:
3 - PCICC, 4 - PCICA, 5 - PCIXCC, 6 - CEX2A and 7 - CEX2C.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralph Wuerthner <rwuerthn@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20 15:58:25 +02:00