Fix this compiler warning (on PowerPC) by not marking a parameter as
const:
drivers/net/ethernet/pasemi/pasemi_mac.c: In function 'pasemi_mac_replenish_rx_ring':
drivers/net/ethernet/pasemi/pasemi_mac.c:646:3: warning: passing argument 1 of 'netdev_alloc_skb' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
include/linux/skbuff.h:1706:31: note: expected 'struct net_device *' but argument is of type 'const struct net_device *'
usbnet: fix leak of transfer buffer of dev->interrupt
The transfer buffer of dev->interrupt is allocated in .probe path,
but not freed in .disconnet path, so mark the interrupt URB as
URB_FREE_BUFFER to free the buffer when the URB is destroyed.
Creating a VLAN interface on top of ucc_geth adds 4 bytes
to the frame and the HW controller is not prepared to
TX a frame bigger than 1518 bytes which is 4 bytes too
small for a full VLAN frame. Add 16 bytes which will handle
the a simple VLAN and leaves 12 bytes for future expansion.
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 2 May 2012 20:48:33 +0000 (13:48 -0700)]
Merge tag 'usb-3.4-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb
Pull USB patches from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
"Here are two EHCI Tegra driver patches for your tree.
The first is a bit big, but the majority is just moving code around.
It is needed due to the other EHCI core changes that went in way back
in 3.4-rc1, so this driver will now properly handle suspend/resume, as
it was broken. The other one is a minor bugfix that resolves an
warning that people have been seeing."
* tag 'usb-3.4-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb:
USB: ehci-tegra: remove redundant gpio_set_value
EHCI: update PM methods in ehci-tegra.c
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 2 May 2012 20:47:49 +0000 (13:47 -0700)]
Merge tag 'tty-3.4-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty
Pull a TTY fix from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
"This is a deadlock bugfix that was easy to hit, and that the vt layer
lock rework got wrong, so it reverts the logic back to the way it was
in 3.3 and earlier kernels to prevent problems."
* tag 'tty-3.4-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty:
vt: Fix deadlock on scroll-lock
Revert "ath9k_hw: Fix incorrect spur_freq_sd for AR9003"
This reverts commit a844adfd7bee4edc66d337de6c33b348e83552a8.
The commit a844adfd is degrading rx sensitivity of lower rate in
HT40 mode and it is confirmed that reverting the change is
improving rx sensitivity.
spur_freq_sd (for self-corr in AGC) is defined with respect to the
center of each 20MHz channel while spur_phase_delta (for self-corr
in Rx and spur data filter) is defined with respect to the center
of current RF channel.
So in short, we need to subtract spur_freq_sd (for self-corr in AGC)
by the offset between the center of primary20 and the center of RF
channel in SW. This offset could be +/10 MHz for dynamic 40.
Franky Lin [Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:43:07 +0000 (11:43 -0700)]
brcmfmac: fix a double spin_unlock_irqrestore issue in dpc
dpc_tl_lock is not acquired in the error handle code for bus down.
But it's unlocked using spin_unlock_irqrestore after finishing task
list walk down. Grab the lock before breaking the loop to avoid a
double unlock.
Jason Wang [Wed, 2 May 2012 03:42:54 +0000 (11:42 +0800)]
vhost: zerocopy: poll vq in zerocopy callback
We add used and signal guest in worker thread but did not poll the virtqueue
during the zero copy callback. This may lead the missing of adding and
signalling during zerocopy. Solve this by polling the virtqueue and let it
wakeup the worker during callback.
Jason Wang [Wed, 2 May 2012 03:42:41 +0000 (11:42 +0800)]
vhost_net: zerocopy: adding and signalling immediately when fully copied
When a packet were fully copied in zerocopy, we don't wait for the DMA done to
mark the done flag, so after the packet were passed to lower device, we need to
add used and signal guest immediately.
Jason Wang [Wed, 2 May 2012 03:42:32 +0000 (11:42 +0800)]
vhost_net: re-poll only on EAGAIN or ENOBUFS
Currently, we restart tx polling unconditionally when sendmsg()
fails. This would cause unnecessary wakeups of vhost wokers and waste
cpu utlization when evil userspace(guest driver) is able to hit EFAULT or
EINVAL.
The polling is only needed when the socket send buffer were exceeded or not
enough memory. So fix this by restarting polling only when sendmsg() returns
EAGAIN/ENOBUFS.
Jason Wang [Wed, 2 May 2012 03:42:23 +0000 (11:42 +0800)]
vhost_net: zerocopy: fix possible NULL pointer dereference of vq->bufs
When we want to disable vhost_net backend while there's a tx work, a possible
NULL pointer defernece may happen we we try to deference the vq->bufs after
vhost_net_set_backend() assign a NULL to it.
As suggested by Michael, fix this by checking the vq->bufs instead of
vhost_sock_zcopy().
Jason Wang [Wed, 2 May 2012 03:42:15 +0000 (11:42 +0800)]
macvtap: zerocopy: validate vectors before building skb
There're several reasons that the vectors need to be validated:
- Return error when caller provides vectors whose num is greater than UIO_MAXIOV.
- Linearize part of skb when userspace provides vectors grater than MAX_SKB_FRAGS.
- Return error when userspace provides vectors whose total length may exceed
- MAX_SKB_FRAGS * PAGE_SIZE.
Jason Wang [Wed, 2 May 2012 03:42:06 +0000 (11:42 +0800)]
macvtap: zerocopy: set SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY only when skb is built successfully
Current the SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY is set unconditionally after
zerocopy_sg_from_iovec(), this would lead NULL pointer when macvtap
fails to build zerocopy skb because destructor_arg was not
initialized. Solve this by set this flag after the skb were built
successfully.
Jason Wang [Wed, 2 May 2012 03:41:58 +0000 (11:41 +0800)]
macvtap: zerocopy: put page when fail to get all requested user pages
When get_user_pages_fast() fails to get all requested pages, we could not use
kfree_skb() to free it as it has not been put in the skb fragments. So we need
to call put_page() instead.
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 2 May 2012 15:17:57 +0000 (08:17 -0700)]
Merge tag 'nfs-for-3.4-4' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs
Pull NFS client bugfixes from Trond Myklebust:
- Fixes for the NFSv4 security negotiation
- Use the correct hostname when mounting from a private namespace
- NFS net namespace bugfixes for the pipefs filesystem
- NFSv4 GETACL bugfixes
- IPv6 bugfix for NFSv4 referrals
* tag 'nfs-for-3.4-4' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs:
NFSv4.1: Use the correct hostname in the client identifier string
SUNRPC: RPC client must use the current utsname hostname string
NFS: get module in idmap PipeFS notifier callback
NFS: Remove unused function nfs_lookup_with_sec()
NFS: Honor the authflavor set in the clone mount data
NFS: Fix following referral mount points with different security
NFS: Do secinfo as part of lookup
NFS: Handle exceptions coming out of nfs4_proc_fs_locations()
NFS: Fix SECINFO_NO_NAME
SUNRPC: traverse clients tree on PipeFS event
SUNRPC: set per-net PipeFS superblock before notification
SUNRPC: skip clients with program without PipeFS entries
SUNRPC: skip dead but not buried clients on PipeFS events
Avoid beyond bounds copy while caching ACL
Avoid reading past buffer when calling GETACL
fix page number calculation bug for block layout decode buffer
NFSv4.1 fix page number calculation bug for filelayout decode buffers
pnfs-obj: Remove unused variable from objlayout_get_deviceinfo()
nfs4: fix referrals on mounts that use IPv6 addrs
Greg Rose [Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:29:29 +0000 (04:29 +0000)]
ixgbe: Reset max_vfs to zero when user request is out of range
If the user request for the number of VFs in the max_vfs parameter is
out of range then reset the value to the default value of zero. This
makes the behavior of the ixgbe driver the same as for the igb driver.
Don Skidmore [Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:38:58 +0000 (02:38 +0000)]
ixgbe: add support functions to access thermal data
Some 82599 adapters contain thermal data that we can get to via
an i2c interface. These functions provide support to get at that
data. A following patch will export this data.
Bruce Allan [Sat, 14 Apr 2012 03:28:50 +0000 (03:28 +0000)]
e1000e: fix .ndo_set_rx_mode for 82579
Secondary unicast and multicast addresses are added to the Receive
Address registers (RAR) for most parts supported by the driver. For
82579, there is only one actual RAR and a number of Shared Receive Address
registers (SHRAR) that are shared among the driver and f/w which can be
reserved and write-protected by the f/w. On this device, use the SHRARs
that are not taken by f/w for the additional addresses.
Add a MAC ops function pointer infrastructure (similar to other MAC
operations in the driver) for setting RARs, introduce a new rar_set
function for 82579 and convert the existing code that sets RARs on other
devices to a generic rar_set function.
Bruce Allan [Fri, 13 Apr 2012 03:16:22 +0000 (03:16 +0000)]
e1000e: PHY initialization flow changes for 82577/8/9
The PHY initialization flows and assorted workarounds for 82577/8/9 done
during driver load and resume from Sx should be the same yet they are not.
Combine the current flows/workarounds into a common set of functions that
are called during the different code paths.
Bruce Allan [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:47:57 +0000 (03:47 +0000)]
e1000e: workaround EEPROM configuration change on 82579
An update to the EEPROM on 82579 will extend a delay in hardware to fix an
issue with WoL not working after a G3->S5 transition which is unrelated to
the driver. However, this extended delay conflicts with nominal operation
of the device when it is initialized by the driver and after every reset
of the hardware (i.e. the driver starts configuring the device before the
hardware is done with it's own configuration work). The workaround for
when the driver is in control of the device is to tell the hardware after
every reset the configuration delay should be the original shorter one.
Some pre-existing variables are renamed generically to be re-used with
new register accesses.
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 2 May 2012 02:43:34 +0000 (19:43 -0700)]
Merge tag 'ktest-for-v3.4-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-ktest
Pull two bug fixes in ktest from Steven Rostedt.
* tag 'ktest-for-v3.4-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-ktest:
ktest: Fix reboot on success stopping all reboots
ktest.pl: Fix combined usage of BISECT_REVERSE and BISECT_SKIP
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 2 May 2012 00:24:05 +0000 (17:24 -0700)]
Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus
Pull MIPS fixes from Ralf Baechle:
"misc fixes some of which are also applicable to 3.3 and removal of an
unused function. This has been sitting in -next for ages with no
complaints. Also there are no known regressions due to these patches"
* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus:
MIPS: Remove get_current_pgd().
MIPS: ath79: fix AR933X WMAC reset code
MIPS: JZ4740: Fix the JZ4740_IRQ_DMA macro
MIPS: Use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
Stephen Warren [Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:24:10 +0000 (17:24 -0600)]
USB: ehci-tegra: remove redundant gpio_set_value
The immediately preceding gpio_direction_output() already set the value,
so there's no need to repeat it. This also prevents gpio_set_value() from
WARNing when the GPIO is sleepable (e.g. is on an I2C expander); the set
direction API is always sleepable, but plain set_value isn't.
Alan Stern [Tue, 1 May 2012 15:28:49 +0000 (11:28 -0400)]
EHCI: update PM methods in ehci-tegra.c
This patch (as1547) rearranges the Power Management parts of the
ehci-tegra driver to match the conventions used in other EHCI platform
drivers. In particular, the controller should not be powered down by
the root hub's suspend routine; the controller's power level should be
managed by the controller's own PM methods.
The end result of the patch is that the standard ehci_bus_suspend()
and ehci_bus_resume() methods can be used instead of special-purpose
routines. The driver now uses the standard dev_pm_ops methods instead
of legacy power management. Since there is no supported wakeup
mechanism for the controller, runtime suspend is forbidden by default
(this can be overridden via sysfs, if desired).
These adjustments are needed in order to make ehci-tegra compatible
with recent changes to the USB core. The core now checks the root
hub's status following bus suspend; if the controller is automatically
powered down during bus suspend then the check will fail and the root
hub will be resumed immediately. Doing the controller power-down in a
separate method avoids this problem.
Alan Cox [Tue, 1 May 2012 15:12:19 +0000 (16:12 +0100)]
vt: Fix deadlock on scroll-lock
Fixing the locking accidentally replaced a race in the scroll
lock handling with a deadlock. Turn it back into a race for
now.
The basic problem is that there are two paths into the tty
stop/start helpers. One via the tty layer ^S/^Q handling
where we need to take the kbd_event_lock and one via the
special keyboard handler for fn_hold where we already hold
it. Probably we need to split out into a separate LED lock
but for now just go back to the race as it's a bit close
to release.
Eric Dumazet [Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:08:22 +0000 (09:08 +0000)]
netem: fix possible skb leak
skb_checksum_help(skb) can return an error, we must free skb in this
case. qdisc_drop(skb, sch) can also be feeded with a NULL skb (if
skb_unshare() failed), so lets use this generic helper.
sky2: fix receive length error in mixed non-VLAN/VLAN traffic
Bug: The VLAN bit of the MAC RX Status Word is unreliable in several older
supported chips. Sometimes the VLAN bit is not set for valid VLAN packets
and also sometimes the VLAN bit is set for non-VLAN packets that came after
a VLAN packet. This results in a receive length error when VLAN hardware
tagging is enabled.
Fix: Variation on original fix proposed by Mirko.
The VLAN information is decoded in the status loop, and can be
applied to the received SKB there. This eliminates the need for the
separate tag field in the interface data structure. The tag has to
be copied and cleared if packet is copied. This version checked out
with vlan and normal traffic.
Note: vlan_tx_tag_present should be renamed vlan_tag_present, but that
is outside scope of this.
When a small packet is received, the driver copies it to a new skb to allow
reusing the full size Rx buffer. The copy was propogating the checksum offload
but not the receive hash information. The bug is impact was mostly harmless
and therefore not observed until reviewing this area of code.
Guenter Roeck [Tue, 1 May 2012 15:15:42 +0000 (08:15 -0700)]
hwmon: (coretemp) Increase CPU core limit
CPU core ID is used to index the core_data[] array. The core ID is, however, not
sequential; 10-core CPUS can have a core ID as high as 25. Increase the limit to
32 to be able to deal with current CPUs.
James Chapman [Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:48:55 +0000 (21:48 +0000)]
l2tp: let iproute2 create L2TPv3 IP tunnels using IPv6
The netlink API lets users create unmanaged L2TPv3 tunnels using
iproute2. Until now, a request to create an unmanaged L2TPv3 IP
encapsulation tunnel over IPv6 would be rejected with
EPROTONOSUPPORT. Now that l2tp_ip6 implements sockets for L2TP IP
encapsulation over IPv6, we can add support for that tunnel type.
Chris Elston [Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:48:54 +0000 (21:48 +0000)]
l2tp: introduce L2TPv3 IP encapsulation support for IPv6
L2TPv3 defines an IP encapsulation packet format where data is carried
directly over IP (no UDP). The kernel already has support for L2TP IP
encapsulation over IPv4 (l2tp_ip). This patch introduces support for
L2TP IP encapsulation over IPv6.
The implementation is derived from ipv6/raw and ipv4/l2tp_ip.
Chris Elston [Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:48:53 +0000 (21:48 +0000)]
ipv6: Export ipv6 functions for use by other protocols
For implementing other protocols on top of IPv6, such as L2TPv3's IP
encapsulation over ipv6, we'd like to call some IPv6 functions which
are not currently exported. This patch exports them.
Chris Elston [Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:48:52 +0000 (21:48 +0000)]
l2tp: netlink api for l2tpv3 ipv6 unmanaged tunnels
This patch adds support for unmanaged L2TPv3 tunnels over IPv6 using
the netlink API. We already support unmanaged L2TPv3 tunnels over
IPv4. A patch to iproute2 to make use of this feature will be
submitted separately.
Userspace uses connect() to associate a pppol2tp socket with a tunnel
socket. This needs to allow the caller to supply the new IPv6
sockaddr_pppol2tp structures if IPv6 is used.
James Chapman [Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:48:48 +0000 (21:48 +0000)]
l2tp: remove unused stats from l2tp_ip socket
The l2tp_ip socket currently maintains packet/byte stats in its
private socket structure. But these counters aren't exposed to
userspace and so serve no purpose. The counters were also
smp-unsafe. So this patch just gets rid of the stats.
While here, change a couple of internal __u32 variables to u32.
Steven Rostedt [Tue, 1 May 2012 12:20:12 +0000 (08:20 -0400)]
ktest: Fix reboot on success stopping all reboots
The change to let individual tests decide to reboot the machine on
success of the entire test also prevented errors from rebooting
when an error was detected.
The "no_reboot" variable was only cleared if the test had
reboot_on_success set. But the no_reboot variable also prevents the test
rebooting when an error was detected even when REBOOT_ON_ERROR was set.
Add a new "reboot_success" variable that is used to determine if the
test should reboot on success and not touch the no_reboot variable.
ktest.pl: Fix combined usage of BISECT_REVERSE and BISECT_SKIP
When BISECT_REVERSE and BISECT_SKIP are used together with boot or test
testing, build failures are treated as boot or test failures and
'git bisect bad' is executed instead of 'git bisect skip'. This is because
the $ret value of -1 is treated as a build failure, but the $reverse_bisect
logic does not properly handle this.
Dave Airlie [Tue, 1 May 2012 11:25:06 +0000 (12:25 +0100)]
Merge branch 'drm-nouveau-fixes' of git://git.freedesktop.org/git/nouveau/linux-2.6 into drm-fixes
* 'drm-nouveau-fixes' of git://git.freedesktop.org/git/nouveau/linux-2.6:
drm/nv10/gpio: fix thinko in mask for gpio lines 2-9
nvc0/fb: shut up PMFB interrupt after the first occurrence
drm/nouveau/hdmi: use correct hdmi regs for nvaa/nvac
drm/nouveau/bios: fix regression on some nv4x board
'ARM: OMAP3: USB: Fix the EHCI ULPI PHY reset issue' removes the include for
linux/gpio.h from omap-usb-host.c. This include indirectly includes plat/cpu.h
which is required by omap-usb-host.c. Fix the build breakage by including
it directly.
Roland Dreier [Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:15:47 +0000 (07:15 +0000)]
cxgb3: Don't call cxgb_vlan_mode until q locks are initialized
The driver calls cxgb_vlan_mode() from init_one(). This calls into
synchronize_rx(), which locks all the q locks, but the q locks are not
initialized until cxgb_up() -> setup_sge_qsets(). So move the call to
cxgb_vlan_mode() into cxgb_up(), after the call to setup_sge_qsets().
We also move the body of these functions up higher to avoid having to
a forward declaration.
This was found because of the lockdep warning:
INFO: trying to register non-static key.
the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation.
turning off the locking correctness validator.
Pid: 323, comm: work_for_cpu Not tainted 3.4.0-rc5 #28
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8106e767>] register_lock_class+0x108/0x2d0
[<ffffffff8106ff42>] __lock_acquire+0xd3/0xd06
[<ffffffff81070fd0>] lock_acquire+0xbf/0xfe
[<ffffffff813862a6>] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x36/0x45
[<ffffffffa01e71aa>] cxgb_vlan_mode+0x96/0xcb [cxgb3]
[<ffffffffa01f90eb>] init_one+0x8c4/0x980 [cxgb3]
[<ffffffff811fcbf0>] local_pci_probe+0x3f/0x70
[<ffffffff81042206>] do_work_for_cpu+0x10/0x22
[<ffffffff810482de>] kthread+0xa1/0xa9
[<ffffffff8138e234>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
Contrary to what lockdep says, the code is not fine: we are locking an
uninitialized spinlock.
Yi Zou [Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:48:08 +0000 (05:48 +0000)]
ixgbe: fix calling skb_put on nonlinear skb assertion bug
With the support to bounce buffer added, the skb is coming as nonlinear in the
case of non-DDPed data frames for FCoE, which is mostly ok as the FCoE stack
would take care of that. However, for target mode, we have to set the FC CRC
and FC EOF field to allow the protocol stack to not drop the frame for the last
data frame of that sequence. So fix this by linearizing the skb first before
doing skb_put().
Alexander Duyck [Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:39:16 +0000 (02:39 +0000)]
ixgbe: Fix a memory leak in IEEE DCB
The driver was freeing memory in shutdown instead of remove. As a result
we were leaking memory if IEEE DCB was enabled and we loaded/unloaded the
driver. This change moves the freeing of the memory into the remove
routine where it belongs.
Samuel Liao [Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:09:27 +0000 (17:09 +0000)]
igbvf: fix the bug when initializing the igbvf
Maybe it's a typo, but it cause that igbvf can't be initialized successfully.
Set perm_addr value using valid dev_addr, although which is equal to hw.mac.addr.
There may be tx-skbs still pending in HW when PHY link down.
Reset MAC will make the DMA engine go to the start point.
and release all pending skbs.
Note: Reset MAC will clear any interrupt status and mask.
The hardware incorrectly process L0S/L1 entrance if the chipset/root
response after specific/shorter timer and cause system hang.
Enlarge the timeout value to avoid this issue.
On some platform with EEPROM/OTP existing, the BIOS could overwrite
a new MAC address for the NIC. so, the permanent mac address should
be from BIOS. the address is restored when driver removing.
Voltage raising isn't applicable for l1d.
Replace swab32 with htonl for big/little endian platform.
related Registers are refined as well.
atl1c: add workaround for issue of bit INTX-disable for MSI interrupt
All supported devices have one issue that msi interrupt doesn't assert
if pci command register bit (PCI_COMMAND_INTX_DISABLE) is set.
Add workaround in drivers/pci/quirks.c
Eric Dumazet [Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:39:21 +0000 (21:39 +0000)]
bnx2x: remove some bloat
Before doing skb->head_frag work on bnx2x driver, I found too much stuff
was inlined in bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.h for no good reason and made my work not
very easy.
Move some big functions out of this include file to the respective .c
file.
A lot of inline keywords are not needed at all in this huge driver.
text data bss dec hex filename
490083 1270 56 491409 77f91 bnx2x/bnx2x.ko.before
484206 1270 56 485532 7689c bnx2x/bnx2x.ko
pch_gbe: reprogram multicast address register on reset
The reset logic after a Rx FIFO overrun will clear the programmed
multicast addresses. This patch fixes the issue by reprogramming the
registers after the reset.
The commit eefc48b ("pch_gbe: reprogram multicast address register on
reset") tried to fix this problem, but it introduces unnecessary
codes. In fact, all multicast addresses have been saved in netdev->mc,
So we can call pch_gbe_set_multi() directly after reset_hw and
reset_rx.
Eric Dumazet [Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:33:38 +0000 (00:33 +0000)]
net: allow skb->head to be a page fragment
skb->head is currently allocated from kmalloc(). This is convenient but
has the drawback the data cannot be converted to a page fragment if
needed.
We have three spots were it hurts :
1) GRO aggregation
When a linear skb must be appended to another skb, GRO uses the
frag_list fallback, very inefficient since we keep all struct sk_buff
around. So drivers enabling GRO but delivering linear skbs to network
stack aren't enabling full GRO power.
2) splice(socket -> pipe).
We must copy the linear part to a page fragment.
This kind of defeats splice() purpose (zero copy claim)
3) TCP coalescing.
Recently introduced, this permits to group several contiguous segments
into a single skb. This shortens queue lengths and save kernel memory,
and greatly reduce probabilities of TCP collapses. This coalescing
doesnt work on linear skbs (or we would need to copy data, this would be
too slow)
Given all these issues, the following patch introduces the possibility
of having skb->head be a fragment in itself. We use a new skb flag,
skb->head_frag to carry this information.
build_skb() is changed to accept a frag_size argument. Drivers willing
to provide a page fragment instead of kmalloc() data will set a non zero
value, set to the fragment size.
Then, on situations we need to convert the skb head to a frag in itself,
we can check if skb->head_frag is set and avoid the copies or various
fallbacks we have.
This means drivers currently using frags could be updated to avoid the
current skb->head allocation and reduce their memory footprint (aka skb
truesize). (thats 512 or 1024 bytes saved per skb). This also makes
bpf/netfilter faster since the 'first frag' will be part of skb linear
part, no need to copy data.
Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm
Pull ARM fixes from Russell King.
* 'fixes' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm:
ARM: 7406/1: hotplug: copy the affinity mask when forcefully migrating IRQs
ARM: 7405/1: kexec: call platform_cpu_kill on the killer rather than the victim
ARM: 7403/1: tls: remove covert channel via TPIDRURW
ARM: 7401/1: mm: Fix section mismatches
ARM: OMAP: fix DMA vs memory ordering
ARM: 7390/1: dts: versatile-pb/ab fix MMC IRQs
ARM: 7400/1: vfp: clear fpscr length and stride bits on entry to sig handler
ARM: 7399/1: vfp: move user vfp state save/restore code out of signal.c
ARM: 7398/1: l2x0: only write to debug registers on PL310
ARM: 7397/1: l2x0: only apply workaround for erratum #753970 on PL310
ARM: 7396/1: errata: only handle ARM erratum #326103 on affected cores
Merge tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi
Pull SCSI fixes from James Bottomley:
"This is a set of SAS and SATA fixes; there are one or two longstanding
bug fixes, but most of this is regression fixes."
* tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi:
[SCSI] libfc: update mfs boundry checking
[SCSI] Revert "[SCSI] libsas: fix sas port naming"
[SCSI] libsas: fix false positive 'device attached' conditions
[SCSI] libsas, libata: fix start of life for a sas ata_port
[SCSI] libsas: fix ata_eh clobbering ex_phys via smp_ata_check_ready
[SCSI] libsas: unify domain_device sas_rphy lifetimes
[SCSI] libsas: fix sas_get_port_device regression
[SCSI] libsas: fix sas_find_bcast_phy() in the presence of 'vacant' phys
[SCSI] libsas: introduce sas_work to fix sas_drain_work vs sas_queue_work
[SCSI] libata: Pass correct DMA device to scsi host
[SCSI] scsi_lib: use correct DMA device in __scsi_alloc_queue
Matthew Garrett [Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:11:30 +0000 (16:11 -0400)]
efi: Validate UEFI boot variables
A common flaw in UEFI systems is a refusal to POST triggered by a malformed
boot variable. Once in this state, machines may only be restored by
reflashing their firmware with an external hardware device. While this is
obviously a firmware bug, the serious nature of the outcome suggests that
operating systems should filter their variable writes in order to prevent
a malicious user from rendering the machine unusable.
Paul Gortmaker [Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:29:02 +0000 (15:29 -0400)]
tipc: compress out gratuitous extra carriage returns
Some of the comment blocks are floating in limbo between two
functions, or between blocks of code. Delete the extra line
feeds between any comment and its associated following block
of code, to be consistent with the majority of the rest of
the kernel. Also delete trailing newlines at EOF and fix
a couple trivial typos in existing comments.
This is a 100% cosmetic change with no runtime impact. We get
rid of over 500 lines of non-code, and being blank line deletes,
they won't even show up as noise in git blame.
Randy Dunlap [Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:25:31 +0000 (12:25 -0700)]
nfsd: fix nfs4recover.c printk format warning
Fix printk format warnings -- both items are size_t,
so use %zu to print them.
fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c:580:3: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c:580:3: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'unsigned int'
Felix Fietkau [Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:44:16 +0000 (15:44 +0200)]
mac80211: fix AP mode EAP tx for VLAN stations
EAP frames for stations in an AP VLAN are sent on the main AP interface
to avoid race conditions wrt. moving stations.
For that to work properly, sta_info_get_bss must be used instead of
sta_info_get when sending EAP packets.
Previously this was only done for cooked monitor injected packets, so
this patch adds a check for tx->skb->protocol to the same place.
Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
Pull powerpc fixes from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
"Here are a handful more fixes for powerpc. The irq stuff are all
regression fixes, and Gavin's patch is a simple compile fix."
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
tty/serial/pmac_zilog: Fix "nobody cared" IRQ message
powerpc/pseries: Rivet CONFIG_EEH for pSeries platform
powerpc/irqdomain: Fix broken NR_IRQ references
powerpc/8xx: Fix NR_IRQ bugs and refactor 8xx interrupt controller
When the cwnd reduction is done, ssthresh may be infinite
if TCP enters CWR via ECN or F-RTO. If cwnd is not undone, i.e.,
undo_marker is set, tcp_complete_cwr() falsely set cwnd to the
infinite ssthresh value. The correct operation is to keep cwnd
intact because it has been updated in ECN or F-RTO.
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