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<title>tipc: rename tipc_server to tipc_topsrv</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T20:26:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-15T09:40:51+00:00</published>
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We rename struct tipc_server to struct tipc_topsrv. This reflect its now
specialized role as topology server. Accoringly, we change or add function
prefixes to make it clearer which functionality those belong to.

There are no functional changes in this commit.

Acked-by: Ying.Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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We rename struct tipc_server to struct tipc_topsrv. This reflect its now
specialized role as topology server. Accoringly, we change or add function
prefixes to make it clearer which functionality those belong to.

There are no functional changes in this commit.

Acked-by: Ying.Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tipc: separate topology server listener socket from subcsriber sockets</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T20:26:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-15T09:40:50+00:00</published>
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We move the listener socket to struct tipc_server and give it its own
work item. This makes it easier to follow the code, and entails some
simplifications in the reception code in subscriber sockets.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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We move the listener socket to struct tipc_server and give it its own
work item. This makes it easier to follow the code, and entails some
simplifications in the reception code in subscriber sockets.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tipc: make struct tipc_server private for server.c</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T20:26:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-15T09:40:49+00:00</published>
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In order to narrow the interface and dependencies between the topology
server and the subscription/binding table functionality we move struct
tipc_server inside the file server.c. This requires some code
adaptations in other files, but those are mostly minor.

The most important change is that we have to move the start/stop
functions for the topology server to server.c, where they logically
belong anyway.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In order to narrow the interface and dependencies between the topology
server and the subscription/binding table functionality we move struct
tipc_server inside the file server.c. This requires some code
adaptations in other files, but those are mostly minor.

The most important change is that we have to move the start/stop
functions for the topology server to server.c, where they logically
belong anyway.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tipc: some prefix changes</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T20:26:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-15T09:40:48+00:00</published>
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Since we now have removed struct tipc_subscriber from the code, and
only struct tipc_subscription remains, there is no longer need for long
and awkward prefixes to distinguish between their pertaining functions.

We now change all tipc_subscrp_* prefixes to tipc_sub_*. This is
a purely cosmetic change.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Since we now have removed struct tipc_subscriber from the code, and
only struct tipc_subscription remains, there is no longer need for long
and awkward prefixes to distinguish between their pertaining functions.

We now change all tipc_subscrp_* prefixes to tipc_sub_*. This is
a purely cosmetic change.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tipc: collapse subscription creation functions</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T20:26:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-15T09:40:47+00:00</published>
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After the previous changes it becomes logical to collapse the two-level
creation of subscription instances into one. We do that here.

We also rename the creation and deletion functions for more consistency.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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After the previous changes it becomes logical to collapse the two-level
creation of subscription instances into one. We do that here.

We also rename the creation and deletion functions for more consistency.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: simplify endianness handling in topology subscriber</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T20:26:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-15T09:40:46+00:00</published>
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Because of the requirement for total distribution transparency, users
send subscriptions and receive topology events in their own host format.
It is up to the topology server to determine this format and do the
correct conversions to and from its own host format when needed.

Until now, this has been handled in a rather non-transparent way inside
the topology server and subscriber code, leading to unnecessary
complexity when creating subscriptions and issuing events.

We now improve this situation by adding two new macros, tipc_sub_read()
and tipc_evt_write(). Both those functions calculate the need for
conversion internally before performing their respective operations.
Hence, all handling of such conversions become transparent to the rest
of the code.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Because of the requirement for total distribution transparency, users
send subscriptions and receive topology events in their own host format.
It is up to the topology server to determine this format and do the
correct conversions to and from its own host format when needed.

Until now, this has been handled in a rather non-transparent way inside
the topology server and subscriber code, leading to unnecessary
complexity when creating subscriptions and issuing events.

We now improve this situation by adding two new macros, tipc_sub_read()
and tipc_evt_write(). Both those functions calculate the need for
conversion internally before performing their respective operations.
Hence, all handling of such conversions become transparent to the rest
of the code.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: simplify interaction between subscription and topology connection</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T20:26:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-15T09:40:45+00:00</published>
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The message transmission and reception in the topology server is more
generic than is currently necessary. By basing the funtionality on the
fact that we only send items of type struct tipc_event and always
receive items of struct tipc_subcr we can make several simplifications,
and also get rid of some unnecessary dynamic memory allocations.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The message transmission and reception in the topology server is more
generic than is currently necessary. By basing the funtionality on the
fact that we only send items of type struct tipc_event and always
receive items of struct tipc_subcr we can make several simplifications,
and also get rid of some unnecessary dynamic memory allocations.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: eliminate struct tipc_subscriber</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T20:26:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-15T09:40:44+00:00</published>
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It is unnecessary to keep two structures, struct tipc_conn and struct
tipc_subscriber, with a one-to-one relationship and still with different
life cycles. The fact that the two often run in different contexts, and
still may access each other via direct pointers constitutes an additional
hazard, something we have experienced at several occasions, and still
see happening.

We have identified at least two remaining problems that are easier to
fix if we simplify the topology server data structure somewhat.

- When there is a race between a subscription up/down event and a
  timeout event, it is fully possible that the former might be delivered
  after the latter, leading to confusion for the receiver.

- The function tipc_subcrp_timeout() is executing in interrupt context,
  while the following call chain is at least theoretically possible:
  tipc_subscrp_timeout()
    tipc_subscrp_send_event()
      tipc_conn_sendmsg()
        conn_put()
          tipc_conn_kref_release()
            sock_release(sock)

I.e., we end up calling a function that might try to sleep in
interrupt context. To eliminate this, we need to ensure that the
tipc_conn structure and the socket, as well as the subscription
instances, only are deleted in work queue context, i.e., after the
timeout event really has been sent out.

We now remove this unnecessary complexity, by merging data and
functionality of the subscriber structure into struct tipc_conn
and the associated file server.c. We thereafter add a spinlock and
a new 'inactive' state to the subscription structure. Using those,
both problems described above can be easily solved.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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It is unnecessary to keep two structures, struct tipc_conn and struct
tipc_subscriber, with a one-to-one relationship and still with different
life cycles. The fact that the two often run in different contexts, and
still may access each other via direct pointers constitutes an additional
hazard, something we have experienced at several occasions, and still
see happening.

We have identified at least two remaining problems that are easier to
fix if we simplify the topology server data structure somewhat.

- When there is a race between a subscription up/down event and a
  timeout event, it is fully possible that the former might be delivered
  after the latter, leading to confusion for the receiver.

- The function tipc_subcrp_timeout() is executing in interrupt context,
  while the following call chain is at least theoretically possible:
  tipc_subscrp_timeout()
    tipc_subscrp_send_event()
      tipc_conn_sendmsg()
        conn_put()
          tipc_conn_kref_release()
            sock_release(sock)

I.e., we end up calling a function that might try to sleep in
interrupt context. To eliminate this, we need to ensure that the
tipc_conn structure and the socket, as well as the subscription
instances, only are deleted in work queue context, i.e., after the
timeout event really has been sent out.

We now remove this unnecessary complexity, by merging data and
functionality of the subscriber structure into struct tipc_conn
and the associated file server.c. We thereafter add a spinlock and
a new 'inactive' state to the subscription structure. Using those,
both problems described above can be easily solved.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: remove unnecessary function pointers</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T20:26:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-15T09:40:43+00:00</published>
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Interaction between the functionality in server.c and subscr.c is
done via function pointers installed in struct server. This makes
the code harder to follow, and doesn't serve any obvious purpose.

Here, we replace the function pointers with direct function calls.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Interaction between the functionality in server.c and subscr.c is
done via function pointers installed in struct server. This makes
the code harder to follow, and doesn't serve any obvious purpose.

Here, we replace the function pointers with direct function calls.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: remove redundant code in topology server</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T20:26:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-15T09:40:42+00:00</published>
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The socket handling in the topology server is unnecessarily generic.
It is prepared to handle both SOCK_RDM, SOCK_DGRAM and SOCK_STREAM
type sockets, as well as the only socket type which is really used,
SOCK_SEQPACKET.

We now remove this redundant code to make the code more readable.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The socket handling in the topology server is unnecessarily generic.
It is prepared to handle both SOCK_RDM, SOCK_DGRAM and SOCK_STREAM
type sockets, as well as the only socket type which is really used,
SOCK_SEQPACKET.

We now remove this redundant code to make the code more readable.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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