linux-stable.git/Documentation/networking, branch v3.17

Documentation: filter: Add MIPS to architectures with BPF JIT

2014-09-10T22:24:27+00:00

MIPS supports BPF JIT since v3.16-rc1

Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras 
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

i40e: adds FCoE to build and updates its documentation

2014-08-03T02:41:13+00:00

Adds newly added FCoE files to the build but only if FCoE module is configured.

Also, updates i40e document for added FCoE support.

Signed-off-by: Vasu Dev 
Tested-by: Jack Morgan
Signed-off-by: Aaron Brown 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: filter: split 'struct sk_filter' into socket and bpf parts

2014-08-02T22:03:58+00:00

clean up names related to socket filtering and bpf in the following way:
- everything that deals with sockets keeps 'sk_*' prefix
- everything that is pure BPF is changed to 'bpf_*' prefix

split 'struct sk_filter' into
struct sk_filter {
	atomic_t        refcnt;
	struct rcu_head rcu;
	struct bpf_prog *prog;
};
and
struct bpf_prog {
        u32                     jited:1,
                                len:31;
        struct sock_fprog_kern  *orig_prog;
        unsigned int            (*bpf_func)(const struct sk_buff *skb,
                                            const struct bpf_insn *filter);
        union {
                struct sock_filter      insns[0];
                struct bpf_insn         insnsi[0];
                struct work_struct      work;
        };
};
so that 'struct bpf_prog' can be used independent of sockets and cleans up
'unattached' bpf use cases

split SK_RUN_FILTER macro into:
    SK_RUN_FILTER to be used with 'struct sk_filter *' and
    BPF_PROG_RUN to be used with 'struct bpf_prog *'

__sk_filter_release(struct sk_filter *) gains
__bpf_prog_release(struct bpf_prog *) helper function

also perform related renames for the functions that work
with 'struct bpf_prog *', since they're on the same lines:

sk_filter_size -> bpf_prog_size
sk_filter_select_runtime -> bpf_prog_select_runtime
sk_filter_free -> bpf_prog_free
sk_unattached_filter_create -> bpf_prog_create
sk_unattached_filter_destroy -> bpf_prog_destroy
sk_store_orig_filter -> bpf_prog_store_orig_filter
sk_release_orig_filter -> bpf_release_orig_filter
__sk_migrate_filter -> bpf_migrate_filter
__sk_prepare_filter -> bpf_prepare_filter

API for attaching classic BPF to a socket stays the same:
sk_attach_filter(prog, struct sock *)/sk_detach_filter(struct sock *)
and SK_RUN_FILTER(struct sk_filter *, ctx) to execute a program
which is used by sockets, tun, af_packet

API for 'unattached' BPF programs becomes:
bpf_prog_create(struct bpf_prog **)/bpf_prog_destroy(struct bpf_prog *)
and BPF_PROG_RUN(struct bpf_prog *, ctx) to execute a program
which is used by isdn, ppp, team, seccomp, ptp, xt_bpf, cls_bpf, test_bpf

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: filter: rename sk_chk_filter() -> bpf_check_classic()

2014-08-02T22:02:38+00:00

trivial rename to indicate that this functions performs classic BPF checking

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Documentation: networking: phy.txt: Update text for indirect MMD access

2014-07-31T03:00:22+00:00

Update the PHY library documentation to describe how a specific PHY
driver can use the PAL MMD register access routines or override those
routines with it's own in the event the PHY does not support the IEEE
standard for reading and writing MMD phy registers.

Signed-off-by: Vince Bridgers 
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: remove deprecated syststamp timestamp

2014-07-29T18:39:50+00:00

The SO_TIMESTAMPING API defines three types of timestamps: software,
hardware in raw format (hwtstamp) and hardware converted to system
format (syststamp). The last has been deprecated in favor of combining
hwtstamp with a PTP clock driver. There are no active users in the
kernel.

The option was device driver dependent. If set, but without hardware
support, the correct behavior is to return zero in the relevant field
in the SCM_TIMESTAMPING ancillary message. Without device drivers
implementing the option, this field is effectively always zero.

Remove the internal plumbing to dissuage new drivers from implementing
the feature. Keep the SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE flag, however, to
avoid breaking existing applications that request the timestamp.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

packet: remove deprecated syststamp timestamp

2014-07-29T18:39:50+00:00

No device driver will ever return an skb_shared_info structure with
syststamp non-zero, so remove the branch that tests for this and
optionally marks the packet timestamp as TP_STATUS_TS_SYS_HARDWARE.

Do not remove the definition TP_STATUS_TS_SYS_HARDWARE, as processes
may refer to it.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

inet: frag: set limits and make init_net's high_thresh limit global

2014-07-28T05:34:36+00:00

This patch makes init_net's high_thresh limit to be the maximum for all
namespaces, thus introducing a global memory limit threshold equal to the
sum of the individual high_thresh limits which are capped.
It also introduces some sane minimums for low_thresh as it shouldn't be
able to drop below 0 (or > high_thresh in the unsigned case), and
overall low_thresh should not ever be above high_thresh, so we make the
following relations for a namespace:
init_net:
 high_thresh - max(not capped), min(init_net low_thresh)
 low_thresh - max(init_net high_thresh), min (0)

all other namespaces:
 high_thresh = max(init_net high_thresh), min(namespace's low_thresh)
 low_thresh = max(namespace's high_thresh), min(0)

The major issue with having low_thresh > high_thresh is that we'll
schedule eviction but never evict anything and thus rely only on the
timers.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

inet: frag: remove periodic secret rebuild timer

2014-07-28T05:34:36+00:00

merge functionality into the eviction workqueue.

Instead of rebuilding every n seconds, take advantage of the upper
hash chain length limit.

If we hit it, mark table for rebuild and schedule workqueue.
To prevent frequent rebuilds when we're completely overloaded,
don't rebuild more than once every 5 seconds.

ipfrag_secret_interval sysctl is now obsolete and has been marked as
deprecated, it still can be changed so scripts won't be broken but it
won't have any effect. A comment is left above each unused secret_timer
variable to avoid confusion.

Joint work with Nikolay Aleksandrov.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

inet: frag: move eviction of queues to work queue

2014-07-28T05:34:35+00:00

When the high_thresh limit is reached we try to toss the 'oldest'
incomplete fragment queues until memory limits are below the low_thresh
value.  This happens in softirq/packet processing context.

This has two drawbacks:

1) processors might evict a queue that was about to be completed
by another cpu, because they will compete wrt. resource usage and
resource reclaim.

2) LRU list maintenance is expensive.

But when constantly overloaded, even the 'least recently used' element is
recent, so removing 'lru' queue first is not 'fairer' than removing any
other fragment queue.

This moves eviction out of the fast path:

When the low threshold is reached, a work queue is scheduled
which then iterates over the table and removes the queues that exceed
the memory limits of the namespace. It sets a new flag called
INET_FRAG_EVICTED on the evicted queues so the proper counters will get
incremented when the queue is forcefully expired.

When the high threshold is reached, no more fragment queues are
created until we're below the limit again.

The LRU list is now unused and will be removed in a followup patch.

Joint work with Nikolay Aleksandrov.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller