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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/parisc/include, branch v3.19</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'parisc-3.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux</title>
<updated>2014-12-26T21:41:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-26T21:41:05+00:00</published>
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Pull parisc build fix from Helge Deller:
 "This unbreaks the kernel compilation on parisc with gcc-4.9"

* 'parisc-3.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: fix out-of-register compiler error in ldcw inline assembler function
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Pull parisc build fix from Helge Deller:
 "This unbreaks the kernel compilation on parisc with gcc-4.9"

* 'parisc-3.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: fix out-of-register compiler error in ldcw inline assembler function
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<entry>
<title>parisc: fix out-of-register compiler error in ldcw inline assembler function</title>
<updated>2014-12-26T16:47:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave.anglin@bell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-14T15:49:11+00:00</published>
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The __ldcw macro has a problem when its argument needs to be reloaded from
memory. The output memory operand and the input register operand both need to
be reloaded using a register in class R1_REGS when generating 64-bit code.
This fails because there's only a single register in the class. Instead, use a
memory clobber. This also makes the __ldcw macro a compiler memory barrier.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;        [3.13+]
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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The __ldcw macro has a problem when its argument needs to be reloaded from
memory. The output memory operand and the input register operand both need to
be reloaded using a register in class R1_REGS when generating 64-bit code.
This fails because there's only a single register in the class. Instead, use a
memory clobber. This also makes the __ldcw macro a compiler memory barrier.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;        [3.13+]
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2014-12-11T22:27:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-11T22:27:06+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) New offloading infrastructure and example 'rocker' driver for
    offloading of switching and routing to hardware.

    This work was done by a large group of dedicated individuals, not
    limited to: Scott Feldman, Jiri Pirko, Thomas Graf, John Fastabend,
    Jamal Hadi Salim, Andy Gospodarek, Florian Fainelli, Roopa Prabhu

 2) Start making the networking operate on IOV iterators instead of
    modifying iov objects in-situ during transfers.  Thanks to Al Viro
    and Herbert Xu.

 3) A set of new netlink interfaces for the TIPC stack, from Richard
    Alpe.

 4) Remove unnecessary looping during ipv6 routing lookups, from Martin
    KaFai Lau.

 5) Add PAUSE frame generation support to gianfar driver, from Matei
    Pavaluca.

 6) Allow for larger reordering levels in TCP, which are easily
    achievable in the real world right now, from Eric Dumazet.

 7) Add a variable of napi_schedule that doesn't need to disable cpu
    interrupts, from Eric Dumazet.

 8) Use a doubly linked list to optimize neigh_parms_release(), from
    Nicolas Dichtel.

 9) Various enhancements to the kernel BPF verifier, and allow eBPF
    programs to actually be attached to sockets.  From Alexei
    Starovoitov.

10) Support TSO/LSO in sunvnet driver, from David L Stevens.

11) Allow controlling ECN usage via routing metrics, from Florian
    Westphal.

12) Remote checksum offload, from Tom Herbert.

13) Add split-header receive, BQL, and xmit_more support to amd-xgbe
    driver, from Thomas Lendacky.

14) Add MPLS support to openvswitch, from Simon Horman.

15) Support wildcard tunnel endpoints in ipv6 tunnels, from Steffen
    Klassert.

16) Do gro flushes on a per-device basis using a timer, from Eric
    Dumazet.  This tries to resolve the conflicting goals between the
    desired handling of bulk vs.  RPC-like traffic.

17) Allow userspace to ask for the CPU upon what a packet was
    received/steered, via SO_INCOMING_CPU.  From Eric Dumazet.

18) Limit GSO packets to half the current congestion window, from Eric
    Dumazet.

19) Add a generic helper so that all drivers set their RSS keys in a
    consistent way, from Eric Dumazet.

20) Add xmit_more support to enic driver, from Govindarajulu
    Varadarajan.

21) Add VLAN packet scheduler action, from Jiri Pirko.

22) Support configurable RSS hash functions via ethtool, from Eyal
    Perry.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1820 commits)
  Fix race condition between vxlan_sock_add and vxlan_sock_release
  net/macb: fix compilation warning for print_hex_dump() called with skb-&gt;mac_header
  net/mlx4: Add support for A0 steering
  net/mlx4: Refactor QUERY_PORT
  net/mlx4_core: Add explicit error message when rule doesn't meet configuration
  net/mlx4: Add A0 hybrid steering
  net/mlx4: Add mlx4_bitmap zone allocator
  net/mlx4: Add a check if there are too many reserved QPs
  net/mlx4: Change QP allocation scheme
  net/mlx4_core: Use tasklet for user-space CQ completion events
  net/mlx4_core: Mask out host side virtualization features for guests
  net/mlx4_en: Set csum level for encapsulated packets
  be2net: Export tunnel offloads only when a VxLAN tunnel is created
  gianfar: Fix dma check map error when DMA_API_DEBUG is enabled
  cxgb4/csiostor: Don't use MASTER_MUST for fw_hello call
  net: fec: only enable mdio interrupt before phy device link up
  net: fec: clear all interrupt events to support i.MX6SX
  net: fec: reset fep link status in suspend function
  net: sock: fix access via invalid file descriptor
  net: introduce helper macro for_each_cmsghdr
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) New offloading infrastructure and example 'rocker' driver for
    offloading of switching and routing to hardware.

    This work was done by a large group of dedicated individuals, not
    limited to: Scott Feldman, Jiri Pirko, Thomas Graf, John Fastabend,
    Jamal Hadi Salim, Andy Gospodarek, Florian Fainelli, Roopa Prabhu

 2) Start making the networking operate on IOV iterators instead of
    modifying iov objects in-situ during transfers.  Thanks to Al Viro
    and Herbert Xu.

 3) A set of new netlink interfaces for the TIPC stack, from Richard
    Alpe.

 4) Remove unnecessary looping during ipv6 routing lookups, from Martin
    KaFai Lau.

 5) Add PAUSE frame generation support to gianfar driver, from Matei
    Pavaluca.

 6) Allow for larger reordering levels in TCP, which are easily
    achievable in the real world right now, from Eric Dumazet.

 7) Add a variable of napi_schedule that doesn't need to disable cpu
    interrupts, from Eric Dumazet.

 8) Use a doubly linked list to optimize neigh_parms_release(), from
    Nicolas Dichtel.

 9) Various enhancements to the kernel BPF verifier, and allow eBPF
    programs to actually be attached to sockets.  From Alexei
    Starovoitov.

10) Support TSO/LSO in sunvnet driver, from David L Stevens.

11) Allow controlling ECN usage via routing metrics, from Florian
    Westphal.

12) Remote checksum offload, from Tom Herbert.

13) Add split-header receive, BQL, and xmit_more support to amd-xgbe
    driver, from Thomas Lendacky.

14) Add MPLS support to openvswitch, from Simon Horman.

15) Support wildcard tunnel endpoints in ipv6 tunnels, from Steffen
    Klassert.

16) Do gro flushes on a per-device basis using a timer, from Eric
    Dumazet.  This tries to resolve the conflicting goals between the
    desired handling of bulk vs.  RPC-like traffic.

17) Allow userspace to ask for the CPU upon what a packet was
    received/steered, via SO_INCOMING_CPU.  From Eric Dumazet.

18) Limit GSO packets to half the current congestion window, from Eric
    Dumazet.

19) Add a generic helper so that all drivers set their RSS keys in a
    consistent way, from Eric Dumazet.

20) Add xmit_more support to enic driver, from Govindarajulu
    Varadarajan.

21) Add VLAN packet scheduler action, from Jiri Pirko.

22) Support configurable RSS hash functions via ethtool, from Eyal
    Perry.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1820 commits)
  Fix race condition between vxlan_sock_add and vxlan_sock_release
  net/macb: fix compilation warning for print_hex_dump() called with skb-&gt;mac_header
  net/mlx4: Add support for A0 steering
  net/mlx4: Refactor QUERY_PORT
  net/mlx4_core: Add explicit error message when rule doesn't meet configuration
  net/mlx4: Add A0 hybrid steering
  net/mlx4: Add mlx4_bitmap zone allocator
  net/mlx4: Add a check if there are too many reserved QPs
  net/mlx4: Change QP allocation scheme
  net/mlx4_core: Use tasklet for user-space CQ completion events
  net/mlx4_core: Mask out host side virtualization features for guests
  net/mlx4_en: Set csum level for encapsulated packets
  be2net: Export tunnel offloads only when a VxLAN tunnel is created
  gianfar: Fix dma check map error when DMA_API_DEBUG is enabled
  cxgb4/csiostor: Don't use MASTER_MUST for fw_hello call
  net: fec: only enable mdio interrupt before phy device link up
  net: fec: clear all interrupt events to support i.MX6SX
  net: fec: reset fep link status in suspend function
  net: sock: fix access via invalid file descriptor
  net: introduce helper macro for_each_cmsghdr
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net, lib: kill arch_fast_hash library bits</title>
<updated>2014-12-10T20:17:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>dborkman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-10T15:33:12+00:00</published>
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As there are now no remaining users of arch_fast_hash(), lets kill
it entirely.

This basically reverts commit 71ae8aac3e19 ("lib: introduce arch
optimized hash library") and follow-up work, that is f.e., commit
237217546d44 ("lib: hash: follow-up fixups for arch hash"),
commit e3fec2f74f7f ("lib: Add missing arch generic-y entries for
asm-generic/hash.h") and last but not least commit 6a02652df511
("perf tools: Fix include for non x86 architectures").

Cc: Francesco Fusco &lt;fusco@ntop.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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As there are now no remaining users of arch_fast_hash(), lets kill
it entirely.

This basically reverts commit 71ae8aac3e19 ("lib: introduce arch
optimized hash library") and follow-up work, that is f.e., commit
237217546d44 ("lib: hash: follow-up fixups for arch hash"),
commit e3fec2f74f7f ("lib: Add missing arch generic-y entries for
asm-generic/hash.h") and last but not least commit 6a02652df511
("perf tools: Fix include for non x86 architectures").

Cc: Francesco Fusco &lt;fusco@ntop.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'asm-generic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic</title>
<updated>2014-12-10T01:25:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-10T01:25:00+00:00</published>
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Pull asm-generic asm/io.h rewrite from Arnd Bergmann:
 "While there normally is no reason to have a pull request for
  asm-generic but have all changes get merged through whichever tree
  needs them, I do have a series for 3.19.

  There are two sets of patches that change significant portions of
  asm/io.h, and this branch contains both in order to resolve the
  conflicts:

   - Will Deacon has done a set of patches to ensure that all
     architectures define {read,write}{b,w,l,q}_relaxed() functions or
     get them by including asm-generic/io.h.

     These functions are commonly used on ARM specific drivers to avoid
     expensive L2 cache synchronization implied by the normal
     {read,write}{b,w,l,q}, but we need to define them on all
     architectures in order to share the drivers across architectures
     and to enable CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST configurations for them

   - Thierry Reding has done an unrelated set of patches that extends
     the asm-generic/io.h file to the degree necessary to make it useful
     on ARM64 and potentially other architectures"

* tag 'asm-generic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (29 commits)
  ARM64: use GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  sparc: io: remove duplicate relaxed accessors on sparc32
  ARM: sa11x0: Use void __iomem * in MMIO accessors
  arm64: Use include/asm-generic/io.h
  ARM: Use include/asm-generic/io.h
  asm-generic/io.h: Implement generic {read,write}s*()
  asm-generic/io.h: Reconcile I/O accessor overrides
  /dev/mem: Use more consistent data types
  Change xlate_dev_{kmem,mem}_ptr() prototypes
  ARM: ixp4xx: Properly override I/O accessors
  ARM: ixp4xx: Fix build with IXP4XX_INDIRECT_PCI
  ARM: ebsa110: Properly override I/O accessors
  ARC: Remove redundant PCI_IOBASE declaration
  documentation: memory-barriers: clarify relaxed io accessor semantics
  x86: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  tile: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  sparc: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  powerpc: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  parisc: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  mn10300: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  ...
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Pull asm-generic asm/io.h rewrite from Arnd Bergmann:
 "While there normally is no reason to have a pull request for
  asm-generic but have all changes get merged through whichever tree
  needs them, I do have a series for 3.19.

  There are two sets of patches that change significant portions of
  asm/io.h, and this branch contains both in order to resolve the
  conflicts:

   - Will Deacon has done a set of patches to ensure that all
     architectures define {read,write}{b,w,l,q}_relaxed() functions or
     get them by including asm-generic/io.h.

     These functions are commonly used on ARM specific drivers to avoid
     expensive L2 cache synchronization implied by the normal
     {read,write}{b,w,l,q}, but we need to define them on all
     architectures in order to share the drivers across architectures
     and to enable CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST configurations for them

   - Thierry Reding has done an unrelated set of patches that extends
     the asm-generic/io.h file to the degree necessary to make it useful
     on ARM64 and potentially other architectures"

* tag 'asm-generic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (29 commits)
  ARM64: use GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
  sparc: io: remove duplicate relaxed accessors on sparc32
  ARM: sa11x0: Use void __iomem * in MMIO accessors
  arm64: Use include/asm-generic/io.h
  ARM: Use include/asm-generic/io.h
  asm-generic/io.h: Implement generic {read,write}s*()
  asm-generic/io.h: Reconcile I/O accessor overrides
  /dev/mem: Use more consistent data types
  Change xlate_dev_{kmem,mem}_ptr() prototypes
  ARM: ixp4xx: Properly override I/O accessors
  ARM: ixp4xx: Fix build with IXP4XX_INDIRECT_PCI
  ARM: ebsa110: Properly override I/O accessors
  ARC: Remove redundant PCI_IOBASE declaration
  documentation: memory-barriers: clarify relaxed io accessor semantics
  x86: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  tile: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  sparc: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  powerpc: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  parisc: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  mn10300: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: sock: allow eBPF programs to be attached to sockets</title>
<updated>2014-12-06T05:47:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@plumgrid.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-01T23:06:35+00:00</published>
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introduce new setsockopt() command:

setsockopt(sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ATTACH_BPF, &amp;prog_fd, sizeof(prog_fd))

where prog_fd was received from syscall bpf(BPF_PROG_LOAD, attr, ...)
and attr-&gt;prog_type == BPF_PROG_TYPE_SOCKET_FILTER

setsockopt() calls bpf_prog_get() which increments refcnt of the program,
so it doesn't get unloaded while socket is using the program.

The same eBPF program can be attached to multiple sockets.

User task exit automatically closes socket which calls sk_filter_uncharge()
which decrements refcnt of eBPF program

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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introduce new setsockopt() command:

setsockopt(sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ATTACH_BPF, &amp;prog_fd, sizeof(prog_fd))

where prog_fd was received from syscall bpf(BPF_PROG_LOAD, attr, ...)
and attr-&gt;prog_type == BPF_PROG_TYPE_SOCKET_FILTER

setsockopt() calls bpf_prog_get() which increments refcnt of the program,
so it doesn't get unloaded while socket is using the program.

The same eBPF program can be attached to multiple sockets.

User task exit automatically closes socket which calls sk_filter_uncharge()
which decrements refcnt of eBPF program

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2014-11-22T03:28:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-22T03:28:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1459143386c5d868c87903b8d433a52cffcf3e66'/>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ieee802154/fakehard.c

A bug fix went into 'net' for ieee802154/fakehard.c, which is removed
in 'net-next'.

Add build fix into the merge from Stephen Rothwell in openvswitch, the
logging macros take a new initial 'log' argument, a new call was added
in 'net' so when we merge that in here we have to explicitly add the
new 'log' arg to it else the build fails.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ieee802154/fakehard.c

A bug fix went into 'net' for ieee802154/fakehard.c, which is removed
in 'net-next'.

Add build fix into the merge from Stephen Rothwell in openvswitch, the
logging macros take a new initial 'log' argument, a new call was added
in 'net' so when we merge that in here we have to explicitly add the
new 'log' arg to it else the build fails.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: introduce SO_INCOMING_CPU</title>
<updated>2014-11-11T18:00:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-11T13:54:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2c8c56e15df3d4c2af3d656e44feb18789f75837'/>
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Alternative to RPS/RFS is to use hardware support for multiple
queues.

Then split a set of million of sockets into worker threads, each
one using epoll() to manage events on its own socket pool.

Ideally, we want one thread per RX/TX queue/cpu, but we have no way to
know after accept() or connect() on which queue/cpu a socket is managed.

We normally use one cpu per RX queue (IRQ smp_affinity being properly
set), so remembering on socket structure which cpu delivered last packet
is enough to solve the problem.

After accept(), connect(), or even file descriptor passing around
processes, applications can use :

 int cpu;
 socklen_t len = sizeof(cpu);

 getsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_INCOMING_CPU, &amp;cpu, &amp;len);

And use this information to put the socket into the right silo
for optimal performance, as all networking stack should run
on the appropriate cpu, without need to send IPI (RPS/RFS).

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Alternative to RPS/RFS is to use hardware support for multiple
queues.

Then split a set of million of sockets into worker threads, each
one using epoll() to manage events on its own socket pool.

Ideally, we want one thread per RX/TX queue/cpu, but we have no way to
know after accept() or connect() on which queue/cpu a socket is managed.

We normally use one cpu per RX queue (IRQ smp_affinity being properly
set), so remembering on socket structure which cpu delivered last packet
is enough to solve the problem.

After accept(), connect(), or even file descriptor passing around
processes, applications can use :

 int cpu;
 socklen_t len = sizeof(cpu);

 getsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_INCOMING_CPU, &amp;cpu, &amp;len);

And use this information to put the socket into the right silo
for optimal performance, as all networking stack should run
on the appropriate cpu, without need to send IPI (RPS/RFS).

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: Avoid using CONFIG_64BIT in userspace exported headers</title>
<updated>2014-11-10T21:25:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-10T21:04:47+00:00</published>
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The gcc compiler provide the predefined __LP64__ macro. Use that
instead.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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The gcc compiler provide the predefined __LP64__ macro. Use that
instead.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Use compat layer for msgctl, shmat, shmctl and semtimedop syscalls</title>
<updated>2014-11-10T21:23:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-10T20:46:18+00:00</published>
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Switch over the msgctl, shmat, shmctl and semtimedop syscalls to use the compat
layer. The problem was found with the debian procenv package, which called
	shmctl(0, SHM_INFO, &amp;info);
in which the shmctl syscall then overwrote parts of the surrounding areas on
the stack on which the info variable was stored and thus lead to a segfault
later on.

Additionally fix the definition of struct shminfo64 to use unsigned longs like
the other architectures. This has no impact on userspace since we only have a
32bit userspace up to now.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.10+
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Switch over the msgctl, shmat, shmctl and semtimedop syscalls to use the compat
layer. The problem was found with the debian procenv package, which called
	shmctl(0, SHM_INFO, &amp;info);
in which the shmctl syscall then overwrote parts of the surrounding areas on
the stack on which the info variable was stored and thus lead to a segfault
later on.

Additionally fix the definition of struct shminfo64 to use unsigned longs like
the other architectures. This has no impact on userspace since we only have a
32bit userspace up to now.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.10+
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