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Jeff Garzik
f85272a978 Merge branch 'master' 2005-11-11 05:50:22 -05:00
Andrew Morton
1c72d8d90d [PATCH] libata.h needs dma-mapping.h
On Alpha:

include/linux/libata.h: In function `ata_pad_alloc':
include/linux/libata.h:785: warning: implicit declaration of function `dma_alloc_coherent'
include/linux/libata.h:786: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
include/linux/libata.h: In function `ata_pad_free':
include/linux/libata.h:792: warning: implicit declaration of function `dma_free_coherent'

(I have a decouple-some-header-files cleanup in -mm, so it's causing some
fallout of this nature)

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-11-11 05:48:46 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
5e04e7fe77 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6 2005-11-10 21:37:50 -08:00
Steve French
84cdda8a19 Merge with /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git 2005-11-10 17:31:49 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
6a438bbe68 [TCP]: speed up SACK processing
Use "hints" to speed up the SACK processing. Various forms 
of this have been used by TCP developers (Web100, STCP, BIC)
to avoid the 2x linear search of outstanding segments.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 17:14:59 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
caa20d9abe [TCP]: spelling fixes
Minor spelling fixes for TCP code.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 17:13:47 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
9772efb970 [TCP]: Appropriate Byte Count support
This is an updated version of the RFC3465 ABC patch originally
for Linux 2.6.11-rc4 by Yee-Ting Li. ABC is a way of counting
bytes ack'd rather than packets when updating congestion control.

The orignal ABC described in the RFC applied to a Reno style
algorithm. For advanced congestion control there is little
change after leaving slow start.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 17:09:53 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
7faffa1c7f [TCP]: add tcp_slow_start helper
Move all the code that does linear TCP slowstart to one
inline function to ease later patch to add ABC support.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 17:07:24 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
f4805eded7 [TCP]: fix congestion window update when using TSO deferal
TCP peformance with TSO over networks with delay is awful.
On a 100Mbit link with 150ms delay, we get 4Mbits/sec with TSO and
50Mbits/sec without TSO.

The problem is with TSO, we intentionally do not keep the maximum
number of packets in flight to fill the window, we hold out to until 
we can send a MSS chunk. But, we also don't update the congestion window 
unless we have filled, as per RFC2861.

This patch replaces the check for the congestion window being full
with something smarter that accounts for TSO.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 16:53:30 -08:00
Ashok Raj
b4033c1715 [PATCH] PCI: Change MSI to use physical delivery mode always
MSI hardcoded delivery mode to use logical delivery mode. Recently
x86_64 moved to use physical mode addressing to support physflat mode.
With this mode enabled noticed that my eth with MSI werent working.

msi_address_init()  was hardcoded to use logical mode for i386 and x86_64.
So when we switch to use physical mode, things stopped working.

Since anyway we dont use lowest priority delivery with MSI, its always
directed to just a single CPU. Its safe  and simpler to use
physical mode always, even when we use logical delivery mode for IPI's
or other ioapic RTE's.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-10 16:09:18 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
249bb070f5 [PATCH] PCI: removed unneeded .owner field from struct pci_driver
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-10 16:09:17 -08:00
Laurent riffard
863b18f4b5 [PATCH] PCI: automatically set device_driver.owner
A nice feature of sysfs is that it can create the symlink from the
driver to the module that is contained in it.

It requires that the device_driver.owner is set, what is not the
case for many PCI drivers.

This patch allows pci_register_driver to set automatically the
device_driver.owner for any PCI driver.

Credits to Al Viro who suggested the method.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
--

 drivers/ide/setup-pci.c  |   12 +++++++-----
 drivers/pci/pci-driver.c |    9 +++++----
 include/linux/ide.h      |    3 ++-
 include/linux/pci.h      |   10 ++++++++--
 4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
2005-11-10 16:09:16 -08:00
rajesh.shah@intel.com
427bf532b5 [PATCH] pciehp: request control of each hotplug controller individually
This patch tweaks the way pciehp requests control of the hotplug
hardware from BIOS. It now tries to invoke the ACPI _OSC method
for a specific hotplug controller only, rather than walking the
entire acpi namespace invoking all possible _OSC methods under
all host bridges. This allows us to gain control of each hotplug
controller individually, even if BIOS fails to give us control of
some other hotplug controller in the system.

Signed-off-by: Rajesh Shah <rajesh.shah@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-10 16:09:15 -08:00
Roland Dreier
24a4e37706 [PATCH] PCI: add pci_find_next_capability()
Some devices have more than one capability of the same type.  For
example, the PCI header for the PathScale InfiniPath looks like:

	04:01.0 InfiniBand: Unknown device 1fc1:000d (rev 02)
		Subsystem: Unknown device 1fc1:000d
		Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 193
		Memory at fea00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
		Capabilities: [c0] HyperTransport: Slave or Primary Interface
		Capabilities: [f8] HyperTransport: Interrupt Discovery and Configuration

There are _two_ HyperTransport capabilities, and the PathScale driver
wants to look at both of them.

The current pci_find_capability() API doesn't work for this, since it
only allows us to get to the first capability of a given type.  The
patch below introduces a new pci_find_next_capability(), which can be
used in a loop like

	for (pos = pci_find_capability(pdev, <ID>);
	     pos;
	     pos = pci_find_next_capability(pdev, pos, <ID>)) {
		/* ... */
	}

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-10 16:09:14 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6d23c8bc7a Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2005-11-10 15:39:44 -08:00
Steve French
9551583e55 Merge with /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git 2005-11-10 15:34:57 -08:00
Steve French
a2653ebab3 [CIFS] Reserve upcall IDX value for CIFS with connector header and add
Kconfig option for CIFS upcall.

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2005-11-10 15:33:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
985834a1c3 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2005-11-10 14:46:07 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
78b9c0f91c Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband 2005-11-10 13:27:06 -08:00
Pavel Roskin
ac57d04267 [NET]: Annotate h_proto in struct ethhdr
The protocol field in ethernet headers is big-endian and should be
annotated as such.  This patch allows detection of missing ntohs() calls
on the ethernet protocol field when sparse is run with __CHECK_ENDIAN__
defined.

This is a revised version that includes <linux/types.h> so that the
userspace programs are not confused by __be16.  Thanks to David S.
Miller.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 13:03:08 -08:00
Herbert Xu
fb286bb299 [NET]: Detect hardware rx checksum faults correctly
Here is the patch that introduces the generic skb_checksum_complete
which also checks for hardware RX checksum faults.  If that happens,
it'll call netdev_rx_csum_fault which currently prints out a stack
trace with the device name.  In future it can turn off RX checksum.

I've converted every spot under net/ that does RX checksum checks to
use skb_checksum_complete or __skb_checksum_complete with the
exceptions of:

* Those places where checksums are done bit by bit.  These will call
netdev_rx_csum_fault directly.

* The following have not been completely checked/converted:

ipmr
ip_vs
netfilter
dccp

This patch is based on patches and suggestions from Stephen Hemminger
and David S. Miller.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 13:01:24 -08:00
Tony Luck
7669a22592 Pull context-bitmap into release branch 2005-11-10 10:39:49 -08:00
Tony Luck
cb8a55e4cd Pull extend-notify-die into release branch 2005-11-10 10:39:09 -08:00
Jack Morgenstein
77369ed31d [IB] uverbs: have kernel return QP capabilities
Move the computation of QP capabilities (max scatter/gather entries,
max inline data, etc) into the kernel, and have the uverbs module
return the values as part of the create QP response.  This keeps
precise knowledge of device limits in the low-level kernel driver.

This requires an ABI bump, so while we're making changes, get rid of
the max_sge parameter for the modify SRQ command -- it's not used and
shouldn't be there.

Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2005-11-10 10:22:50 -08:00
Roland Dreier
40de2e548c [IB] Have cq_resize() method take an int, not int*
Change the struct ib_device.resize_cq() method to take a plain integer
that holds the new CQ size, rather than a pointer to an integer that
it uses to return the new size.  This makes the interface match the
exported ib_resize_cq() signature, and allows the low-level driver to
update the CQ size with proper locking if necessary.

No in-tree drivers are exporting this method yet.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2005-11-10 10:22:50 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a46699c9a3 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2005-11-10 10:17:11 -08:00
Liam Girdwood
b216c01829 [ARM] 3098/1: pxa2xx disable ssp irq
Patch from Liam Girdwood

This patch allows users of the pxa SSP driver to register their own irq
handlers instead of using the default SSP handler. It also cleans up the
CKEN clock and irq detection as the values are now stored in a table.

This patch replaces 2845/1

Changes:-
o Added flags parameter to ssp_init()
o Added SSP_NO_IRQ flag to disable registering of ssp irq handler (for
drivers that want to register their own handler)
o Cleaned up clock and irq detection, values are now stored in table.
o Added build changes to allow other drivers (e.g audio) to select the
ssp driver.
o corgi_ssp.c changed to use new interface.

Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <liam.girdwood@wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-10 17:45:39 +00:00
Richard Purdie
078abcf95c [ARM] 3096/1: Add SharpSL Zaurus power and battery management core driver
Patch from Richard Purdie

This patch adds a power and battery management core driver which with
the addition of the right device files, supports the c7x0 and cxx00
series of Sharp Zaurus handhelds.

The driver is complex for several reasons. Battery charging is manually
monitored and controlled. When suspended, the device needs to
periodically partially resume, check the charging status and then
re-suspend. It does without bothering the higher linux layers as
a full resume and re-suspend is unnecessary. The code is carefully
written to avoid interrupts or calling code outside the module under
these circumstances. It also vets the various wake up sources and
monitors the device's power situation.

Hooks to limit the backlight intensity and to notify the battery
monitoring code of backlight events are connected/added as the
backlight is one of the biggest users of power on the device.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-10 17:42:29 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
3ae0af12b4 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge 2005-11-10 07:37:51 -08:00
Tony Lindgren
b1faebb672 [ARM] 3144/1: OMAP 5/5: Update omap H2 defconfig
Patch from Tony Lindgren

This patch updates omap H2 defconfig.

Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-10 14:26:54 +00:00
Tony Lindgren
9ad5897c26 [ARM] 3143/1: OMAP 4/5: Update omap include files
Patch from Tony Lindgren

This patch syncs the mainline kernel with linux-omap tree.

This patch contains changes to common header files for
omap1xxx and omap24xx by various omap developers, and
improved cpu detection by Imre Deak

Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-10 14:26:53 +00:00
Alessandro Zummo
a7918f39bb [ARM] 3140/1: NSLU2 machine support
Patch from Alessandro Zummo

This patch adds support for the LinkSys NSLU2 running with
both big and little-endian kernels. The LinkSys NSLU2 is
a cost engineered ARM, XScale 420 based system similar to
the the Intel IXDP425 evaluation board. It uses the
IXP4XX ARCH.

While this patch applies independently of other patches
the resultant kernel requires further patches to successfully
use onboard devices, including the onboard flash. Since these
patches are independent of this one they will be submitted
separately.

A defconfig is not included here because not all of
the required drivers are actually in the kernel.
We intend to provide one as soon as the patches
will be incorporated in mainstream.

This patch is the combined work of nslu2-linux.org

Signed-off-by: John Bowler <jbowler@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-10 14:05:04 +00:00
Paul Mackerras
97671e4b29 ppc64: Add declarations to ppc64 headers as well as powerpc headers
For now, we need these declarations that we moved from C code in
the asm-ppc64 versions of these headers as well as the asm-powerpc
versions.  The asm-ppc64 versions will be disappearing shortly.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 16:06:30 +11:00
Linas Vepstas
d9564ad114 [PATCH] ppc64: mark failed devices
17-eeh-slot-marking-bug.patch

A device that experiences a PCI outage may be just one deivce out
of many that was affected. In order to avoid repeated reports of
a failure, the entire tree of affected devices should be marked
as failed. This patch marks up the entire tree.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 16:00:32 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
0c95fbb256 Merge git://oak/home/sfr/kernels/iseries/work 2005-11-10 15:54:00 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
49b09853df powerpc: Move some extern declarations from C code into headers
This also make klimit have the same type on 32-bit as on 64-bit,
namely unsigned long, and defines and initializes it in one place.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 15:53:40 +11:00
Stephen Rothwell
06a98dba0d powerpc: implement atomic64_t on ppc64
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2005-11-10 15:51:14 +11:00
David Gibson
d3d2176a0b [PATCH] powerpc: Move more ppc64 files with no ppc32 equivalent to powerpc
This patch moves a bunch more files from arch/ppc64 and
include/asm-ppc64 which have no equivalents in ppc32 code into
arch/powerpc and include/asm-powerpc.  The file affected are:
	hvcall.h
	proc_ppc64.c
	sysfs.c
	lparcfg.c
	rtas_pci.c

The only changes apart from the move and corresponding Makefile
changes are:
	- #ifndef/#define in includes updated to _ASM_POWERPC_ form
	- trailing whitespace removed
	- comments giving full paths removed

Built and booted on POWER5 LPAR (ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc64), built
for 32-bit powermac (ARCH=powerpc).

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 15:32:37 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
87655ff268 [PATCH] powerpc: 64k pages pmd alloc fix
This patch makes the kernel use a different kmem cache for PMD pages
as they are smaller than PTE pages. Avoids waste of memory.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 15:03:29 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
3b44f137b9 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6 2005-11-09 19:57:25 -08:00
Paul Mackerras
a7ddc5e853 powerpc: Add user CPU features for POWER4, POWER5, POWER5+ and Cell.
This is at the request of the glibc folks, who want to use these bits
to select libraries optimized for the microarchitecture and new
instructions in these processors.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 14:29:18 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
3db9aaaf87 powerpc: Fix typo introduced in merging platform codes
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 14:23:18 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
799d6046d3 [PATCH] powerpc: merge code values for identifying platforms
This patch merges platform codes.  systemcfg->platform is no longer used,
systemcfg use in general is deprecated as much as possible (and renamed
_systemcfg before it gets completely moved elsewhere in a future patch),
_machine is now used on ppc64 along as ppc32.  Platform codes aren't gone
yet but we are getting a step closer. A bunch of asm code in head[_64].S
is also turned into C code.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 13:37:51 +11:00
David Gibson
3ddfbcf19b [PATCH] powerpc: Consolidate asm compatibility macros
This patch consolidates macros used to generate assembly for
compatibility across different CPUs or configs.  A new header,
asm-powerpc/asm-compat.h contains the main compatibility macros.  It
uses some preprocessor magic to make the macros suitable both for use
in .S files, and in inline asm in .c files.  Headers (bitops.h,
uaccess.h, atomic.h, bug.h) which had their own such compatibility
macros are changed to use asm-compat.h.

ppc_asm.h is now for use in .S files *only*, and a #error enforces
that.  As such, we're a lot more careless about namespace pollution
here than in asm-compat.h.

While we're at it, this patch adds a call to the PPC405_ERR77 macro in
futex.h which should have had it already, but didn't.

Built and booted on pSeries, Maple and iSeries (ARCH=powerpc).  Built
for 32-bit powermac (ARCH=powerpc) and Walnut (ARCH=ppc).

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 13:10:38 +11:00
David Gibson
26ef5c0957 [PATCH] powerpc: Merge cacheflush.h and cache.h
The ppc32 and ppc64 versions of cacheflush.h were almost identical.
The two versions of cache.h are fairly similar, except for a bunch of
register definitions in the ppc32 version which probably belong better
elsewhere.  This patch, therefore, merges both headers.  Notable
points:
	- there are several functions in cacheflush.h which exist only
on ppc32 or only on ppc64.  These are handled by #ifdef for now, but
these should probably be consolidated, along with the actual code
behind them later.
	- Confusingly, both ppc32 and ppc64 have a
flush_dcache_range(), but they're subtly different: it uses dcbf on
ppc32 and dcbst on ppc64, ppc64 has a flush_inval_dcache_range() which
uses dcbf.  These too should be merged and consolidated later.
	- Also flush_dcache_range() was defined in cacheflush.h on
ppc64, and in cache.h on ppc32.  In the merged version it's in
cacheflush.h
	- On ppc32 flush_icache_range() is a normal function from
misc.S.  On ppc64, it was wrapper, testing a feature bit before
calling __flush_icache_range() which does the actual flush.  This
patch takes the ppc64 approach, which amounts to no change on ppc32,
since CPU_FTR_COHERENT_ICACHE will never be set there, but does mean
renaming flush_icache_range() to __flush_icache_range() in
arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S and arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S
	- The PReP register info from asm-ppc/cache.h has moved to
arch/ppc/platforms/prep_setup.c
	- The 8xx register info from asm-ppc/cache.h has moved to a
new asm-powerpc/reg_8xx.h, included from reg.h
	- flush_dcache_all() was defined on ppc32 (only), but was
never called (although it was exported).  Thus this patch removes it
from cacheflush.h and from ARCH=powerpc (misc_32.S) entirely.  It's
left in ARCH=ppc for now, with the prototype moved to ppc_ksyms.c.

Built for Walnut (ARCH=ppc), 32-bit multiplatform (pmac, CHRP and PReP
ARCH=ppc, pmac and CHRP ARCH=powerpc).  Built and booted on POWER5
LPAR (ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc64).

Built for 32-bit powermac (ARCH=ppc and ARCH=powerpc).  Built and
booted on POWER5 LPAR (ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc64).  Built and booted
on G5 (ARCH=powerpc)

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-10 13:09:22 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
e130bedb7c Merge git://oak/home/sfr/kernels/iseries/work 2005-11-10 13:08:55 +11:00
Thomas Graf
482a8524f8 [NETLINK]: Generic netlink family
The generic netlink family builds on top of netlink and provides
simplifies access for the less demanding netlink users. It solves
the problem of protocol numbers running out by introducing a so
called controller taking care of id management and name resolving.

Generic netlink modules register themself after filling out their
id card (struct genl_family), after successful registration the
modules are able to register callbacks to command numbers by
filling out a struct genl_ops and calling genl_register_op(). The
registered callbacks are invoked with attributes parsed making
life of simple modules a lot easier.

Although generic netlink modules can request static identifiers,
it is recommended to use GENL_ID_GENERATE and to let the controller
assign a unique identifier to the module. Userspace applications
will then ask the controller and lookup the idenfier by the module
name.

Due to the current multicast implementation of netlink, the number
of generic netlink modules is restricted to 1024 to avoid wasting
memory for the per socket multiacst subscription bitmask.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:26:41 +01:00
Thomas Graf
82ace47a72 [NETLINK]: Generic netlink receive queue processor
Introduces netlink_run_queue() to handle the receive queue of
a netlink socket in a generic way. Processes as much as there
was in the queue upon entry and invokes a callback function
for each netlink message found. The callback function may
refuse a message by returning a negative error code but setting
the error pointer to 0 in which case netlink_run_queue() will
return with a qlen != 0.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:26:40 +01:00
Thomas Graf
bfa83a9e03 [NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface
Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and
attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible
with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety,
this interface features attribute validation capabilities,
simplified message contstruction, and documentation.

The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone
and easier to understand.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:26:40 +01:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai
9fb9cbb108 [NETFILTER]: Add nf_conntrack subsystem.
The existing connection tracking subsystem in netfilter can only
handle ipv4.  There were basically two choices present to add
connection tracking support for ipv6.  We could either duplicate all
of the ipv4 connection tracking code into an ipv6 counterpart, or (the
choice taken by these patches) we could design a generic layer that
could handle both ipv4 and ipv6 and thus requiring only one sub-protocol
(TCP, UDP, etc.) connection tracking helper module to be written.

In fact nf_conntrack is capable of working with any layer 3
protocol.

The existing ipv4 specific conntrack code could also not deal
with the pecularities of doing connection tracking on ipv6,
which is also cured here.  For example, these issues include:

1) ICMPv6 handling, which is used for neighbour discovery in
   ipv6 thus some messages such as these should not participate
   in connection tracking since effectively they are like ARP
   messages

2) fragmentation must be handled differently in ipv6, because
   the simplistic "defrag, connection track and NAT, refrag"
   (which the existing ipv4 connection tracking does) approach simply
   isn't feasible in ipv6

3) ipv6 extension header parsing must occur at the correct spots
   before and after connection tracking decisions, and there were
   no provisions for this in the existing connection tracking
   design

4) ipv6 has no need for stateful NAT

The ipv4 specific conntrack layer is kept around, until all of
the ipv4 specific conntrack helpers are ported over to nf_conntrack
and it is feature complete.  Once that occurs, the old conntrack
stuff will get placed into the feature-removal-schedule and we will
fully kill it off 6 months later.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-11-09 16:38:16 -08:00