If kmalloc() fails in c4iw_alloc_ucontext(), the function
leaves but does not set an error code in ret variable:
it will return 0 to the caller.
This patch set ret to -ENOMEM in such case.
Cc: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Cc: Steve Wise <swise@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Acked-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Erik Hugne says:
====================
tipc: fix handling of NETDEV_CHANGEADDR event
Aside from manual reconfiguration of the netdevice hwaddr, this can also
be changed automatically for an interface bond in active-backup mode
if fail_over_mac is enabled. This patchset fixes the handling of this
event in TIPC by properly updating the l2 media address for the bearer,
followed by a reinitialization of the node discovery mechanism.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The node discovery domain is assigned when a bearer is enabled.
In the previous commit we reflect this attribute directly in the
bearer structure since it's needed to reinitialize the node
discovery mechanism after a hardware address change.
There's no need to replicate this attribute anywhere else, so we
remove it from the tipc_link_req structure.
Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If the hardware address of a underlying netdevice is changed, it is
not enough to simply reset the bearer/links over this device. We
also need to reflect this change in the TIPC bearer and node
discovery structures aswell.
This patch adds the necessary reinitialization of the node disovery
mechanism following a hardware address change so that the correct
originating media address is advertised in the discovery messages.
Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Reported-by: Dong Liu <dliu.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jeff Kirsher says:
====================
Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates
This series contains updates to e1000e, igb, i40e and i40evf
Anjali provides i40e fix to remove the ATR filter on RST as well as FIN
packets. Cleans up add_del_fdir() because it was used and implemented
only for the add, so change the name and drop a parameter. Adds the
ability to drop a flow if we wanted to and adds a flow director
message level to be used for flow director specific messages.
Mitch fixes an issue on i40evf where the Tx watchdog handler was causing
an oops when sending an admin queue message to request a reset because
the admin queue functions use spinlocks.
Greg provides a change to i40e to make the alloc and free queue vector
calls orthogonal.
Shannon fixes i40e to verify the eeprom checksum and firmware CRC status
bits, and shutdown the driver if they fail. This change stops the
processing of traffic, but does not kill the PF netdev so that the
NVMUpdate process still has a chance at fixing the image. Also provides
a fix to make sure the VSI has a netdev before trying to use it in
the debugfs netdev_ops commands.
Jakub Kicinski provides patches for e1000e and igb to fix a number issues
found in the PTP code.
v2:
- drop patch 11 "i40e: Add a fallback debug flow for the driver" from the
series based on feedback from David Miller
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This fixes following:
drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_main.c:1828 sxgbe_hw_init()
error: potential null dereference 'priv->hw'. (kmalloc returns null)
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Byungho An <bh74.an@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This fixes followings:
sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)
>> drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_platform.c:197:5:
sparse: symbol 'sxgbe_platform_freeze' was not declared. Should it be static?
>> drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_platform.c:204:5:
sparse: symbol 'sxgbe_platform_restore' was not declared. Should it be static?
>> drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_platform.c:228:24:
sparse: symbol 'sxgbe_platform_driver' was not declared. Should it be static?
>> drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_main.c:1795:6:
sparse: symbol 'sxgbe_get_ops' was not declared. Should it be static?
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Byungho An <bh74.an@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sathya Perla says:
====================
be2net: add vxlan offload support
The first patch adds the FW cmds needed to configure the Skyhawk-R
chip for supporting VxLAN offloads. The second patch implements the
ndo_add/del_vxlan_port() methods and the plumbing for supporting
RX/TX csum, TSO and RSS steering offloads for VxLAN traffic.
v2 changes:
NETIF_F_SG need not be set for hw_enc_features by the driver as it is
done by the stack.
v3 changes:
* Defer FW cmds needed for VxLAN offloads to a workqueue
* Reset FW to VxLAN offloads disabled state in the unload path
v4 changes:
* Revert the usage of workqueue (introduced in v3) to implement
ndo_add/del_vxlan_port() as it is currently not needed (none of the
FW cmd calls sleep.) Suggested by David M.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch mainly implements the add/del_vxlan_port() methods by invoking
the needed FW cmds for supporting VxLAN offloads for Skyhawk-R.
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds support for the FW cmds needed for VxLAN offloads
on Skyhawk-R:
1) The VxLAN UDP port needs to be configured via the port-desc of
SET_PROFILE_CONFIG_v1 cmd.
This patch re-factors the be_set_profile_config() code (used so far
only for setting VF QoS) to be used to set any type of descriptor.
2) The MANAGE_IFACE_FILTERS cmds is needed to convert a normal interface
into a tunnel interface. This allows for RSS to work even on the inner
TCP/UDP headers of VxLAN traffic.
Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
igb has a single set of TX time stamping resources per NIC.
Use a simple bit lock to avoid race conditions and leaking skbs
when multiple TX rings try to claim time stamping.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@wp.pl>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
skb_tx_timestamp() does not report software time stamp
if SKBTX_IN_PROGRESS is set. According to timestamping.txt
software time stamps are a fallback and should not be
generated if hardware time stamp is provided.
Move call to skb_tx_timestamp() after setting
SKBTX_IN_PROGRESS.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@wp.pl>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
tx_hwtstamp_skb is always set before work is scheduled,
work is cancelled before tx_hwtstamp_skb is set to NULL.
PTP work cannot ever see tx_hwtstamp_skb set to NULL.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@wp.pl>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Hardware may fail to report time stamp e.g.:
- when hardware time stamping is not enabled
- when time stamp is requested shortly after ifup
Timeout time stamp reading work to prevent it from
scheduling itself indefinitely. Report timeout events
via system log and device stats.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@wp.pl>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
We don't need to print this info unless at FD message level.
Change-ID: I329efdd8e754a0ea0669ec04d12e03db02e6b76e
Signed-off-by: Anjali Singhai Jain <anjali.singhai@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
To use for Flow Director specific messages.
Change-ID: I69e39a410aa2661f8fd1ed6af0126fa4c335cb77
Signed-off-by: Anjali Singhai Jain <anjali.singhai@intel.com>
Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Scott <kevin.c.scott@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Make sure the VSI has a netdev before trying to use it
in the debugfs netdev_ops commands.
Change-ID: I2d744fc0c32b3226534ce2cde171d9675c5440a6
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
There were two spaces between return and the value, we only need one.
Change-ID: Iaa42c33f50d8d149cdf1a4c9c1902295bfd991c4
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Scott <kevin.c.scott@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
With this change we can drop a flow if we wanted to.
Change-ID: I222b1ae960e61a31965bafe3159a95099e70c7d2
Signed-off-by: Anjali Singhai Jain <anjali.singhai@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Function add_del_fdir was used and implemented only for add. So change the name
and drop a parameter.
Change-ID: Icf2c6c3bbd4fd00cf8d9613a3f6d8c08e0f8e288
Signed-off-by: Anjali Singhai Jain <anjali.singhai@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
The driver needs to verify the eeprom checksum and firmware crc status bits,
and shutdown the driver if they fail. This code stops the processing of traffic,
but doesn't kill the PF netdev so that the NVMUpdate process should still have a
chance at fixing the image. The eeprom is checked on driver load and after an
EMP reset, the latter of which should be generated after an NVMUpdate.
Change-ID: I34deef21d2e16bf5a43c603cf8af27e6a29dc9d2
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
It's annoying to search for a matching alloc and free set of function calls
when they don't use the same framework for the name of the functions. Fix
that up in the case of alloc and free of vsi queue vectors.
i40e_vsi_free_q*
i40e_vsi_alloc_q*
Change-ID: I510eb863a0fbe405312bebea55c2846c76285e6d
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
The Tx watchdog handler runs in interrupt context, so it would cause an
oops when sending an admin queue message to request a reset, because the
admin queue functions use spinlocks.
Instead, set a flag and let the reset task handle sending the request.
Change-ID: I65879470b72963d9c308edfb8f45ac4fbba2c14f
Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
We currently delete ATR filter on FIN alone, delete on RST as well.
Change-ID: Ie7cae5d1046b9d1d4a0d6ef5bdbf41224c3dade6
Signed-off-by: Anjali Singhai Jain <anjali.singhai@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kavindya Deegala <kavindya.s.deegala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Florian Fainelli says:
====================
net: remove empty MDIO bus reset functions
This patchset removes all empty MDIO bus reset functions that we have in the
tree (hopefully all of them). This function is optional for the MDIO bus code in
drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c::mdiobus_register, the documentation is updated to
reflect that.
Having less call sites to update will allow us to implement a generic BMCR_RESET
based PHY reset for MDIO buses that require to reset their PHYs before their
PHY detection succeeds (e.g: HiSilicon hip04 current submission) and provide it
as a helper.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Update the MDIO bus documentation to mention that the MDIO bus reset
function is completely optional. It became optional with commit
e13934563d ("[PATCH] PHY Layer fixup")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
bfin_mdiobus_reset() does nothing useful and is optional for the MDIO
bus code, so let's just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
r6040_mdiobus_reset() does nothing useful and is optional for the MDIO
bus code, so let's just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ftgmac100_mdiobus_reset() does nothing useful and is optional for the
MDIO bus code, so let's just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
sun4i_mdio_reset() does nothing useful and is optional for the MDIO bus
code, so let's just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
xemaclite_mdio_reset() does nothing useful and is optional for the MDIO
bus code, so let's just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
orion_mdio_reset() does nothing useful and is optional for the MDIO bus
code, so let's just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
fs_enet_fec_mii_reset() does nothing useful and is optional for the MDIO
bus code, so let's just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
fec_enet_mdio_reset() does nothing useful and is optional for the MDIO
bus code, so let's just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ethoc_mdio_reset() does nothing useful and is optional for the MDIO bus
code, so let's just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
dnet_mdio_reset() does nothing useful and is optional for the MDIO bus
code, so let's just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
macb_mdio_reset() does nothing useful and is optional for the MDIO bus
code, so let's just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
tg3_mdio_reset() does nothing useful and is optional for the MDIO bus
code, so let's just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
greth_mdio_reset() does nothing useful and this function is optional for
the MDIO bus code, so let's just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When the UniMAC block is configured to forward the CRC as part of the
Ethernet frame (priv->crc_fwd_en, set by default), enabling the hardware
RX checksum block unveiled that the dma_rxchk_bit was never set in the
per-packet status bits (dma_flag in bcmgenet_desc_rx). This would make
the chksum_ok variable to be never set to 1, and the networking stack
would have to compute the packet checksums, which takes a substantial
amount of time.
In order for the RXCHK block to properly compute the packet checksum in
hardware, we also need to set the RBUF_SKIP_FCS bit accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use del_timer_sync to ensure that the timer is stopped on all CPUs before
the driver exists.
This change was suggested by Thomas Gleixner
The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@r@
declarer name module_exit;
identifier ex;
@@
module_exit(ex);
@@
identifier r.ex;
@@
ex(...) {
<...
- del_timer
+ del_timer_sync
(...)
...>
}
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use del_timer_sync to ensure that the timer is stopped on all CPUs before
the driver exists.
This change was suggested by Thomas Gleixner.
The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@r@
declarer name module_exit;
identifier ex;
@@
module_exit(ex);
@@
identifier r.ex;
@@
ex(...) {
<...
- del_timer
+ del_timer_sync
(...)
...>
}
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use del_timer_sync to ensure that the timer is stopped on all CPUs before
the driver exists.
This change was suggested by Thomas Gleixner.
The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@r@
declarer name module_exit;
identifier ex;
@@
module_exit(ex);
@@
identifier r.ex;
@@
ex(...) {
<...
- del_timer
+ del_timer_sync
(...)
...>
}
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use del_timer_sync to ensure that the timer is stopped on all CPUs before
the driver exists.
This change was suggested by Thomas Gleixner.
The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@r@
declarer name module_exit;
identifier ex;
@@
module_exit(ex);
@@
identifier r.ex;
@@
ex(...) {
<...
- del_timer
+ del_timer_sync
(...)
...>
}
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There is no need to allocate 15 bytes in excess for a SYNACK packet,
as it contains no data, only headers.
SYNACK are always generated in softirq context, and contain a single
segment, we can use TCP_INC_STATS_BH()
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If an IPv6 host route with metrics exists, an attempt to add a
new route for the same target with different metrics fails but
rewrites the metrics anyway:
12sp0:~ # ip route add fec0::1 dev eth0 rto_min 1000
12sp0:~ # ip -6 route show
fe80::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256
fec0::1 dev eth0 metric 1024 rto_min lock 1s
12sp0:~ # ip route add fec0::1 dev eth0 rto_min 1500
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
12sp0:~ # ip -6 route show
fe80::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256
fec0::1 dev eth0 metric 1024 rto_min lock 1.5s
This is caused by all IPv6 host routes using the metrics in
their inetpeer (or the shared default). This also holds for the
new route created in ip6_route_add() which shares the metrics
with the already existing route and thus ip6_route_add()
rewrites the metrics even if the new route ends up not being
used at all.
Another problem is that old metrics in inetpeer can reappear
unexpectedly for a new route, e.g.
12sp0:~ # ip route add fec0::1 dev eth0 rto_min 1000
12sp0:~ # ip route del fec0::1
12sp0:~ # ip route add fec0::1 dev eth0
12sp0:~ # ip route change fec0::1 dev eth0 hoplimit 10
12sp0:~ # ip -6 route show
fe80::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256
fec0::1 dev eth0 metric 1024 hoplimit 10 rto_min lock 1s
Resolve the first problem by moving the setting of metrics down
into fib6_add_rt2node() to the point we are sure we are
inserting the new route into the tree. Second problem is
addressed by introducing new flag DST_METRICS_FORCE_OVERWRITE
which is set for a new host route in ip6_route_add() and makes
ipv6_cow_metrics() always overwrite the metrics in inetpeer
(even if they are not "new"); it is reset after that.
v5: use a flag in _metrics member rather than one in flags
v4: fix a typo making a condition always true (thanks to Hannes
Frederic Sowa)
v3: rewritten based on David Miller's idea to move setting the
metrics (and allocation in non-host case) down to the point we
already know the route is to be inserted. Also rebased to
net-next as it is quite late in the cycle.
Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Riesch <christian.riesch@omicron.at>
Cc: Dong Zhu <bluezhudong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit 370d4a26 "bnx2x: Create workqueue for IOV related tasks" breaks bnx2x
compilation when CONFIG_BNX2X_SRIOV is not set - "multiple definition of
`bnx2x_schedule_iov_task'".
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ying Xue says:
====================
tipc: clean up bearer and node layer
This is another commit series which aims at facilitating future
changes to the locking policy around nodes, links and bearers.
Currently, the tipc routing hierarchy comprises the structures 'node',
'link' and 'bearer'. The whole hierarchy is protected by a big
read/write lock (tipc_net_lock), to ensure that nothing is added or
removed while any of these structures is being accessed. Obviously
the locking policy makes node, link and bearer components closely
bound together so that their relationship becomes extremely complex.
In the worst case, such locking policy not only has a negative
influence on performance, but also it's prone to lead to deadlock
occasionally.
In order to decouple the complex relationship between bearer and node
as well as link, the locking policy is adjusted as follows:
- Bearer level
RTNL lock is used on update side, and RCU is used on read side.
Meanwhile, all bearer instances including broadcast bearer are
saved into bearer_list array.
- Node and link level
All node instances are saved into two tipc_node_list and node_htable
lists. The two lists are protected by node_list_lock on write side,
and they are guarded with RCU lock on read side. All members in node
structure including link instances are protected by node spin lock.
- The relationship between bearer and node
When link accesses bearer, it first needs to find the bearer with
its bearer identity from the bearer_list array. When bearer accesses
node, it can iterate the node_htable hash list with the node address
to find the corresponding node.
In the new locking policy, every component has its private locking
solution and the relationship between bearer and node is very simple,
that is, they can find each other with node address or bearer identity
from node_htable hash list or bearer_list array.
But, prior to these changes, we need to do some necessary cleanup and
code consolidation. This is what we do with this commit series. In a
later series we will replace net_lock with RTNL as well as RCU lock
to deploy the new locking policy.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
