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Stop taking the transmit lock when a network device has specified
NETIF_F_LLTX.
If no locks needed to trasnmit a packet this is the ideal scenario for
netpoll as all packets can be trasnmitted immediately.
Even if some locks are needed in ndo_start_xmit skipping any unnecessary
serialization is desirable for netpoll as it makes it more likely a
debugging packet may be trasnmitted immediately instead of being
deferred until later.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Remove the assumption that the skbs that make it to
netpoll_send_skb_on_dev are allocated with find_skb, such that
skb->users == 1 and nothing is attached that would prevent the skbs from
being freed from hard irq context.
Remove this assumption by replacing __kfree_skb on error paths with
dev_kfree_skb_irq (in hard irq context) and kfree_skb (in process
context).
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The netpoll_rx_enable and netpoll_rx_disable functions have always
controlled polling the network drivers transmit and receive queues.
Rename them to netpoll_poll_enable and netpoll_poll_disable to make
their functionality clear.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Today netpoll_rx_enable and netpoll_rx_disable are called from
dev_close and and __dev_close, and not from dev_close_many.
Move the calls into __dev_close_many so that we have a single call
site to maintain, and so that dev_close_many gains this protection as
well. Which importantly makes batched network device deletes safe.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Factor out the code that needs to surround ndo_start_xmit
from netpoll_send_skb_on_dev into netpoll_start_xmit.
It is an unfortunate fact that as the netpoll code has been maintained
the primary call site ndo_start_xmit learned how to handle vlans
and timestamps but the second call of ndo_start_xmit in queue_process
did not.
With the introduction of netpoll_start_xmit this associated logic now
happens at both call sites of ndo_start_xmit and should make it easy
for that to continue into the future.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The gfp parameter was added in:
commit 47be03a28cc6c80e3aa2b3e8ed6d960ff0c5c0af
Author: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Date: Fri Aug 10 01:24:37 2012 +0000
netpoll: use GFP_ATOMIC in slave_enable_netpoll() and __netpoll_setup()
slave_enable_netpoll() and __netpoll_setup() may be called
with read_lock() held, so should use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate
memory. Eric suggested to pass gfp flags to __netpoll_setup().
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The reason for the gfp parameter was removed in:
commit c4cdef9b7183159c23c7302aaf270d64c549f557
Author: dingtianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Date: Tue Jul 23 15:25:27 2013 +0800
bonding: don't call slave_xxx_netpoll under spinlocks
The slave_xxx_netpoll will call synchronize_rcu_bh(),
so the function may schedule and sleep, it should't be
called under spinlocks.
bond_netpoll_setup() and bond_netpoll_cleanup() are always
protected by rtnl lock, it is no need to take the read lock,
as the slave list couldn't be changed outside rtnl lock.
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Nothing else that calls __netpoll_setup or ndo_netpoll_setup
requires a gfp paramter, so remove the gfp parameter from both
of these functions making the code clearer.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
skb_network_protocol() already accounts for multiple vlan
headers that may be present in the skb. However, skb_mac_gso_segment()
doesn't know anything about it and assumes that skb->mac_len
is set correctly to skip all mac headers. That may not
always be the case. If we are simply forwarding the packet (via
bridge or macvtap), all vlan headers may not be accounted for.
A simple solution is to allow skb_network_protocol to return
the vlan depth it has calculated. This way skb_mac_gso_segment
will correctly skip all mac headers.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Dropping packets in __dev_queue_xmit() when transmit queue
is stopped (NIC TX ring buffer full or BQL limit reached) currently
outputs a syslog message.
It would be better to get a precise count of such events available in
netdevice stats so that monitoring tools can have a clue.
This extends the work done in caf586e5f23ce
("net: add a core netdev->rx_dropped counter")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
skb_zerocopy can copy elements of the frags array between skbs, but it doesn't
orphan them. Also, it doesn't handle errors, so this patch takes care of that
as well, and modify the callers accordingly. skb_tx_error() is also added to
the callers so they will signal the failed delivery towards the creator of the
skb.
Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch replaces rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL)
The rcu_assign_pointer() ensures that the initialization of a structure
is carried out before storing a pointer to that structure.
And in the case of the NULL pointer, there is no structure to initialize.
So, rcu_assign_pointer(p, NULL) can be safely converted to RCU_INIT_POINTER(p, NULL)
Signed-off-by: Monam Agarwal <monamagarwal123@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The packet hash can be considered a property of the packet, not just
on RX path.
This patch changes name of rxhash and l4_rxhash skbuff fields to be
hash and l4_hash respectively. This includes changing uses of the
field in the code which don't call the access functions.
Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Conflicts:
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/micrel-ks8851.txt
net/core/netpoll.c
The net/core/netpoll.c conflict is a bug fix in 'net' happening
to code which is completely removed in 'net-next'.
In micrel-ks8851.txt we simply have overlapping changes.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Neighbor Solicitation is ipv6 protocol, so we should check
skb->protocol with ETH_P_IPV6
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
Cc: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit 3ff661c38c84 ("net: rtnetlink notify events for FDB NTF_SELF adds and
deletes") reuses the function nlmsg_populate_fdb_fill() to notify fdb events.
But this function was used only for dump and thus was always setting the
flag NLM_F_MULTI, which is wrong in case of a single notification.
Libraries like libnl will wait forever for NLMSG_DONE.
CC: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subsystems that want to register CPU hotplug callbacks, as well as perform
initialization for the CPUs that are already online, often do it as shown
below:
get_online_cpus();
for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
init_cpu(cpu);
register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier);
put_online_cpus();
This is wrong, since it is prone to ABBA deadlocks involving the
cpu_add_remove_lock and the cpu_hotplug.lock (when running concurrently
with CPU hotplug operations).
Instead, the correct and race-free way of performing the callback
registration is:
cpu_notifier_register_begin();
for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
init_cpu(cpu);
/* Note the use of the double underscored version of the API */
__register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier);
cpu_notifier_register_done();
Fix the code in net/core/flow.c by using this latter form of callback
registration.
Cc: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
cftype->write_string() just passes on the writeable buffer from kernfs
and there's no reason to add const restriction on the buffer. The
only thing const achieves is unnecessarily complicating parsing of the
buffer. Drop const from @buffer.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
The netpoll packet receive code only becomes active if the netpoll
rx_skb_hook is implemented, and there is not a single implementation
of the netpoll rx_skb_hook in the kernel.
All of the out of tree implementations I have found all call
netpoll_poll which was removed from the kernel in 2011, so this
change should not add any additional breakage.
There are problems with the netpoll packet receive code. __netpoll_rx
does not call dev_kfree_skb_irq or dev_kfree_skb_any in hard irq
context. netpoll_neigh_reply leaks every skb it receives. Reception
of packets does not work successfully on stacked devices (aka bonding,
team, bridge, and vlans).
Given that the netpoll packet receive code is buggy, there are no
out of tree users that will be merged soon, and the code has
not been used for in tree for a decade let's just remove it.
Reverting this commit can server as a starting point for anyone
who wants to resurrect netpoll packet reception support.
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Make rx_skb_hook, and rx in struct netpoll depend on
CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP Make rx_lock, rx_np, and neigh_tx in struct
netpoll_info depend on CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP
Make the functions netpoll_rx_on, netpoll_rx, and netpoll_receive_skb
no-ops when CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP is not set.
Only build netpoll_neigh_reply, checksum_udp service_neigh_queue,
pkt_is_ns, and __netpoll_rx when CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP is defined.
Add helper functions netpoll_trap_setup, netpoll_trap_setup_info,
netpoll_trap_cleanup, and netpoll_trap_cleanup_info that initialize
and cleanup the struct netpoll and struct netpoll_info receive
specific fields when CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP is enabled and do nothing
otherwise.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Move the bond slave device neigh_tx handling into service_neigh_queue.
In connection with neigh_tx processing remove unnecessary tests of
a NULL netpoll_info. As the netpoll_poll_dev has already used
and thus verified the existince of the netpoll_info.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Now that we no longer need to receive packets to safely drain the
network drivers receive queue move netpoll_trap and netpoll_set_trap
under CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP
Making netpoll_trap and netpoll_set_trap noop inline functions
when CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP is not set.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Change the strategy of netpoll from dropping all packets received
during netpoll_poll_dev to calling napi poll with a budget of 0
(to avoid processing drivers rx queue), and to ignore packets received
with netif_rx (those will safely be placed on the backlog queue).
All of the netpoll supporting drivers have been reviewed to ensure
either thay use netif_rx or that a budget of 0 is supported by their
napi poll routine and that a budget of 0 will not process the drivers
rx queues.
Not dropping packets makes NETPOLL_RX_DROP unnecesary so it is removed.
npinfo->rx_flags is removed as rx_flags with just the NETPOLL_RX_ENABLED
flag becomes just a redundant mirror of list_empty(&npinfo->rx_np).
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a helper netpoll_rx_processing that reports when netpoll has
receive side processing to perform.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There is already a warning for this case in the normal netpoll path,
but put a copy here in case how netpoll calls the poll functions
causes a differenet result.
netpoll will shortly call the napi poll routine with a budget 0 to
avoid any rx packets being processed. As nothing does that today
we may encounter drivers that have problems so a netpoll specific
warning seems desirable.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In poll_napi loop through all of the napi handlers even when the
budget falls to 0 to ensure that we process all of the tx_queues, and
so that we continue to call into drivers when our initial budget is 0.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This moves the control logic to the top level in netpoll_poll_dev
instead of having it dispersed throughout netpoll_poll_dev,
poll_napi and poll_one_napi.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Today netpoll depends on setting NETPOLL_RX_DROP before networking
drivers receive packets in interrupt context so that the packets can
be dropped. Move this setting into netpoll_poll_dev from
poll_one_napi so that if ndo_poll_controller happens to receive
packets we will drop the packets on the floor instead of letting the
packets bounce through the networking stack and potentially cause problems.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Conflicts:
drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
Both the r8152 and netback conflicts were simple overlapping
changes.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
consolidate duplicate code is skb_checksum_setup() helpers
Realizing that the skb_maybe_pull_tail() calls in the IP-protocol
specific portions of both helpers are terminal ones (i.e. no further
pulls are expected), their maximum size to be pulled can be made match
their minimal size needed, thus making the code identical and hence
possible to be moved into another helper.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We leak an active timer, the hotcpu notifier and all allocated
resources when we exit a namespace. Fix this by introducing a
flow_cache_fini() function where we release the resources before
we exit.
Fixes: ca925cf1534e ("flowcache: Make flow cache name space aware")
Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <moorray3@wp.pl>
Tested-by: Jakub Kicinski <moorray3@wp.pl>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Fan Du <fan.du@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The use of __constant_<foo> has been unnecessary for quite awhile now.
Make these uses consistent with the rest of the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
skb_segment copies frags around, so we need
to copy them carefully to avoid accessing
user memory after reporting completion to userspace
through a callback.
skb_segment doesn't normally happen on datapath:
TSO needs to be disabled - so disabling zero copy
in this case does not look like a big deal.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
fskb is unrelated to frag: it's coming from
frag_list. Rename it list_skb to avoid confusion.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
rename local variable to make it easier to tell at a glance that we are
dealing with a head skb.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
skb_frag can in fact point at either skb
or fskb so rename it generally "frag".
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
It is not legal to create multiple kmem_cache having the same name.
flowcache can use a single kmem_cache, no need for a per netns
one.
Fixes: ca925cf1534e ("flowcache: Make flow cache name space aware")
Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <moorray3@wp.pl>
Tested-by: Jakub Kicinski <moorray3@wp.pl>
Tested-by: Fan Du <fan.du@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/pcie.c
net/ipv6/sit.c
The SIT driver conflict consists of a bug fix being done by hand
in 'net' (missing u64_stats_init()) whilst in 'net-next' a helper
was created (netdev_alloc_pcpu_stats()) which takes care of this.
The two wireless conflicts were overlapping changes.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If the neigh table's entries is less than gc_thresh1, the function
will return directly, and the reachabletime will not be recompute,
so the reachabletime can be guessed.
Signed-off-by: Duan Jiong <duanj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Because those following if conditions will not be matched.
Signed-off-by: Duan Jiong <duanj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
iproute2 arpd seems to expect this as there's code and comments
to handle netlink probes with NUD_PROBE set. It is used to flush
the arpd cached mappings.
opennhrp instead turns off unicast probes (so it can handle all
neighbour discovery). Without this change it will not see NUD_PROBE
probes and cannot reconfirm the mapping. Thus currently neigh entry
will just fail and can cause few packets dropped until broadcast
discovery is restarted.
Earlier discussion on the subject:
http://marc.info/?t=139305877100001&r=1&w=2
Signed-off-by: Timo Teräs <timo.teras@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a sysfs file to enable user space to query the device
port number used by a netdevice instance. This is needed for
devices that have multiple ports on the same PCI function.
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The documentation misses a few of the supported flags. Fix this. Also
respect the dependency to CONFIG_XFRM for the IPSEC flag.
Cc: Fan Du <fan.du@windriver.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The 'out' label is just a relict from previous times as pgctrl_write()
had multiple error paths. Get rid of it and simply return right away
on errors.
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If a privileged user writes an empty string to /proc/net/pktgen/pgctrl
the code for stripping the (then non-existent) '\n' actually writes the
zero byte at index -1 of data[]. The then still uninitialized array will
very likely fail the command matching tests and the pr_warning() at the
end will therefore leak stack bytes to the kernel log.
Fix those issues by simply ensuring we're passed a non-empty string as
the user API apparently expects a trailing '\n' for all commands.
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Steffen Klassert says:
====================
1) Introduce skb_to_sgvec_nomark function to add further data to the sg list
without calling sg_unmark_end first. Needed to add extended sequence
number informations. From Fan Du.
2) Add IPsec extended sequence numbers support to the Authentication Header
protocol for ipv4 and ipv6. From Fan Du.
3) Make the IPsec flowcache namespace aware, from Fan Du.
4) Avoid creating temporary SA for every packet when no key manager is
registered. From Horia Geanta.
5) Support filtering of SA dumps to show only the SAs that match a
given filter. From Nicolas Dichtel.
6) Remove caching of xfrm_policy_sk_bundles. The cached socket policy bundles
are never used, instead we create a new cache entry whenever xfrm_lookup()
is called on a socket policy. Most protocols cache the used routes to the
socket, so this caching is not needed.
7) Fix a forgotten SADB_X_EXT_FILTER length check in pfkey, from Nicolas
Dichtel.
8) Cleanup error handling of xfrm_state_clone.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The name __smp_call_function_single() doesn't tell much about the
properties of this function, especially when compared to
smp_call_function_single().
The comments above the implementation are also misleading. The main
point of this function is actually not to be able to embed the csd
in an object. This is actually a requirement that result from the
purpose of this function which is to raise an IPI asynchronously.
As such it can be called with interrupts disabled. And this feature
comes at the cost of the caller who then needs to serialize the
IPIs on this csd.
Lets rename the function and enhance the comments so that they reflect
these properties.
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The main point of calling __smp_call_function_single() is to send
an IPI in a pure asynchronous way. By embedding a csd in an object,
a caller can send the IPI without waiting for a previous one to complete
as is required by smp_call_function_single() for example. As such,
sending this kind of IPI can be safe even when irqs are disabled.
This flexibility comes at the expense of the caller who then needs to
synchronize the csd lifecycle by himself and make sure that IPIs on a
single csd are serialized.
This is how __smp_call_function_single() works when wait = 0 and this
usecase is relevant.
Now there don't seem to be any usecase with wait = 1 that can't be
covered by smp_call_function_single() instead, which is safer. Lets look
at the two possible scenario:
1) The user calls __smp_call_function_single(wait = 1) on a csd embedded
in an object. It looks like a nice and convenient pattern at the first
sight because we can then retrieve the object from the IPI handler easily.
But actually it is a waste of memory space in the object since the csd
can be allocated from the stack by smp_call_function_single(wait = 1)
and the object can be passed an the IPI argument.
Besides that, embedding the csd in an object is more error prone
because the caller must take care of the serialization of the IPIs
for this csd.
2) The user calls __smp_call_function_single(wait = 1) on a csd that
is allocated on the stack. It's ok but smp_call_function_single()
can do it as well and it already takes care of the allocation on the
stack. Again it's more simple and less error prone.
Therefore, using the underscore prepend API version with wait = 1
is a bad pattern and a sign that the caller can do safer and more
simple.
There was a single user of that which has just been converted.
So lets remove this option to discourage further users.
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This patch fixes bug introduced by:
commit 1d4c8c29841b9991cdf3c7cc4ba7f96a94f104ca
"neigh: restore old behaviour of default parms values"
The thing is that in neigh_sysctl_register, extra1 and extra2 which were
previously set for NEIGH_VAR_GC_* are overwritten. That leads to
nonsense int limits for gc_* variables. So fix this by not touching
extra* fields for gc_* variables.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
