linux-stable.git/net/tipc/net.c, branch v3.5

tipc: Enhance re-initialization of network topology service

2012-04-26T22:15:40+00:00

Streamlines the job of re-initializing TIPC's network topology service
when a node's network address is first assigned. Rather than destroying
the topology server port and breaking its connections to existing
subscribers, TIPC now simply lets the service continue running (since
the change to the port identifier of each port used by the topology
service no longer impacts the flow of messages between the service and
its subscribers).

This enhancement means that applications that utilize the topology
service prior to the assignment of TIPC's network address no longer need
to re-establish their subscriptions when the address is finally assigned.

However, it is worth noting that any subsequent events for existing
subscriptions report the new port identifier of the publishing port,
rather than the original port identifier. (For example, a name that was
previously reported as being published by <0.0.0:ref> may be subsequently
withdrawn by .)

This doesn't impact any of the existing known userspace in tipc-utils,
since (a) TIPC continues to treat references to the original port ID
correctly and (b) normal use cases assign an address before active use.

However if there does happen to be some rare/custom application out
there that was relying on this, they can simply bypass the enhancement
by issuing a subscription to {0,0} and break its connection to the
topology service, if an associated withdrawal event occurs.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tipc: Optimize re-initialization of configuration service

2012-04-26T21:19:07+00:00

Streamlines the job of re-initializing TIPC's configuration service
when a node's network address is first assigned. Rather than destroying
the configuration server port and then recreating it, TIPC now simply
withdraws the existing {0,<0.0.0>} name publication and creates a new
{0,} name publication that identifies the node's network address
to interested subscribers.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tipc: take lock while updating node network address

2012-04-19T19:46:46+00:00

The routine that changes the node's network address now takes TIPC's
network lock in write mode while the main address variable and associated
data structures are being changed; this is needed to ensure that the
link subsystem won't attempt to send a message off-node until the sending
port's message header template has been updated with the node's new
network address.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tipc: Eliminate support for tipc_mode global variable

2012-02-24T22:05:17+00:00

Removes all references to the global variable that records whether
TIPC is running in "single node" mode or "network" mode, since this
information can be easily deduced from the global variable that
records TIPC's network address. (i.e. a non-zero network address
means that TIPC is running in network mode.)

The changes made update most existing mode-based checks to use the
network address global variable. A few checks that are no longer
needed are removed entirely, along with any associated code lying on
non-executable control paths.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tipc: Eliminate trivial buffer manipulation helper routines

2012-02-24T22:05:16+00:00

Gets rid of two inlined routines that simply call existing sk_buff
manipulation routines, since there is no longer any extra processing
done by the helper routines.

Note that these changes are essentially cosmetic in nature, and have
no impact on the actual operation of TIPC.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tipc: Eliminate dynamic allocation of broadcast link data structures

2011-12-27T16:33:47+00:00

Creates global variables to hold the broadcast link's pseudo-bearer and
pseudo-link structures, rather than allocating them dynamically. There
is only a single instance of each structure, and changing over to static
allocation allows elimination of code to handle the cases where dynamic
allocation was unsuccessful.

The memset in the teardown code may look like they aren't used, but
the same teardown code is run when there is a non-fatal error at
init-time, so that stale data isn't present when the user fixes the
cause of the soft error.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tipc: Minor correction to TIPC module unloading

2011-12-27T16:33:45+00:00

Modifies TIPC's module unloading logic to switch itself into "single
node" mode before starting to terminate networking support. This helps
to ensure that no operations that require TIPC to be in "networking"
mode can initiate once unloading starts.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tipc: Remove obsolete manipulation of message re-route count field

2011-09-01T15:16:35+00:00

Eliminates code that increments and validates the re-route count field
of payload messages, since the elimination of multi-cluster support
means that it is no longer necessary for TIPC to forward incoming messages
to another node. (The obsolete code was incorrect anyway, since it
incorrectly incremented the re-route count field of messages that
originated on the node that forwarded the message.)

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tipc: delete extra semicolon blocking node deletion

2011-03-14T16:21:12+00:00

Remove bogus semicolon only recently introduced in 34e46258cb9f5
that blocks cleanup of nodes for N>1 on shutdown.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tipc: manually inline net_start/stop, make assoc. vars static

2011-03-13T20:35:17+00:00

Relocates network-related variables into the subsystem files where
they are now primarily used (following the recent rework of TIPC's
node table), and converts globals into locals where possible. Changes
the initialization of tipc_num_links from run-time to compile-time,
and eliminates the net_start routine that becomes empty as a result.
Also eliminates the corresponding net_stop routine by moving its
(trivial) content into the one location that called the routine.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker