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<title>net: better IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE support</title>
<updated>2014-10-07T17:22:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-06T01:38:35+00:00</published>
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Testing xmit_more support with netperf and connected UDP sockets,
I found strange dst refcount false sharing.

Current handling of IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE is not optimal.

Dropping dst in validate_xmit_skb() is certainly too late in case
packet was queued by cpu X but dequeued by cpu Y

The logical point to take care of drop/force is in __dev_queue_xmit()
before even taking qdisc lock.

As Julian Anastasov pointed out, need for skb_dst() might come from some
packet schedulers or classifiers.

This patch adds new helper to cleanly express needs of various drivers
or qdiscs/classifiers.

Drivers that need skb_dst() in their ndo_start_xmit() should call
following helper in their setup instead of the prior :

	dev-&gt;priv_flags &amp;= ~IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE;
-&gt;
	netif_keep_dst(dev);

Instead of using a single bit, we use two bits, one being
eventually rebuilt in bonding/team drivers.

The other one, is permanent and blocks IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE being
rebuilt in bonding/team. Eventually, we could add something
smarter later.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Testing xmit_more support with netperf and connected UDP sockets,
I found strange dst refcount false sharing.

Current handling of IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE is not optimal.

Dropping dst in validate_xmit_skb() is certainly too late in case
packet was queued by cpu X but dequeued by cpu Y

The logical point to take care of drop/force is in __dev_queue_xmit()
before even taking qdisc lock.

As Julian Anastasov pointed out, need for skb_dst() might come from some
packet schedulers or classifiers.

This patch adds new helper to cleanly express needs of various drivers
or qdiscs/classifiers.

Drivers that need skb_dst() in their ndo_start_xmit() should call
following helper in their setup instead of the prior :

	dev-&gt;priv_flags &amp;= ~IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE;
-&gt;
	netif_keep_dst(dev);

Instead of using a single bit, we use two bits, one being
eventually rebuilt in bonding/team drivers.

The other one, is permanent and blocks IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE being
rebuilt in bonding/team. Eventually, we could add something
smarter later.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: set name_assign_type in alloc_netdev()</title>
<updated>2014-07-15T23:12:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Gundersen</name>
<email>teg@jklm.no</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-14T14:37:24+00:00</published>
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Extend alloc_netdev{,_mq{,s}}() to take name_assign_type as argument, and convert
all users to pass NET_NAME_UNKNOWN.

Coccinelle patch:

@@
expression sizeof_priv, name, setup, txqs, rxqs, count;
@@

(
-alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, name, setup, txqs, rxqs)
+alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup, txqs, rxqs)
|
-alloc_netdev_mq(sizeof_priv, name, setup, count)
+alloc_netdev_mq(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup, count)
|
-alloc_netdev(sizeof_priv, name, setup)
+alloc_netdev(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup)
)

v9: move comments here from the wrong commit

Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen &lt;teg@jklm.no&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann &lt;dh.herrmann@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Extend alloc_netdev{,_mq{,s}}() to take name_assign_type as argument, and convert
all users to pass NET_NAME_UNKNOWN.

Coccinelle patch:

@@
expression sizeof_priv, name, setup, txqs, rxqs, count;
@@

(
-alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, name, setup, txqs, rxqs)
+alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup, txqs, rxqs)
|
-alloc_netdev_mq(sizeof_priv, name, setup, count)
+alloc_netdev_mq(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup, count)
|
-alloc_netdev(sizeof_priv, name, setup)
+alloc_netdev(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup)
)

v9: move comments here from the wrong commit

Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen &lt;teg@jklm.no&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann &lt;dh.herrmann@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2014-03-29T22:48:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-29T22:48:54+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c

The mvneta.c conflict is a case of overlapping changes,
a conversion to devm_ioremap_resource() vs. a conversion
to netdev_alloc_pcpu_stats.

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

The mvneta.c conflict is a case of overlapping changes,
a conversion to devm_ioremap_resource() vs. a conversion
to netdev_alloc_pcpu_stats.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ifb: Remove vlan acceleration from vlan_features</title>
<updated>2014-03-28T21:16:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlad Yasevich</name>
<email>vyasevic@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-28T02:14:47+00:00</published>
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Do not include vlan acceleration features in vlan_features as that
precludes correct Q-in-Q operation.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich &lt;vyasevic@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Do not include vlan acceleration features in vlan_features as that
precludes correct Q-in-Q operation.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich &lt;vyasevic@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Replace u64_stats_fetch_begin_bh to u64_stats_fetch_begin_irq</title>
<updated>2014-03-15T02:41:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-14T04:26:42+00:00</published>
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Replace the bh safe variant with the hard irq safe variant.

We need a hard irq safe variant to deal with netpoll transmitting
packets from hard irq context, and we need it in most if not all of
the places using the bh safe variant.

Except on 32bit uni-processor the code is exactly the same so don't
bother with a bh variant, just have a hard irq safe variant that
everyone can use.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Replace the bh safe variant with the hard irq safe variant.

We need a hard irq safe variant to deal with netpoll transmitting
packets from hard irq context, and we need it in most if not all of
the places using the bh safe variant.

Except on 32bit uni-processor the code is exactly the same so don't
bother with a bh variant, just have a hard irq safe variant that
everyone can use.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Explicitly initialize u64_stats_sync structures for lockdep</title>
<updated>2013-11-06T11:40:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Stultz</name>
<email>john.stultz@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-07T22:51:58+00:00</published>
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In order to enable lockdep on seqcount/seqlock structures, we
must explicitly initialize any locks.

The u64_stats_sync structure, uses a seqcount, and thus we need
to introduce a u64_stats_init() function and use it to initialize
the structure.

This unfortunately adds a lot of fairly trivial initialization code
to a number of drivers. But the benefit of ensuring correctness makes
this worth while.

Because these changes are required for lockdep to be enabled, and the
changes are quite trivial, I've not yet split this patch out into 30-some
separate patches, as I figured it would be better to get the various
maintainers thoughts on how to best merge this change along with
the seqcount lockdep enablement.

Feedback would be appreciated!

Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov &lt;kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI &lt;yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Jesse Gross &lt;jesse@nicira.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mirko Lindner &lt;mlindner@marvell.com&gt;
Cc: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Cc: Roger Luethi &lt;rl@hellgate.ch&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
Cc: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni &lt;thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com&gt;
Cc: Wensong Zhang &lt;wensong@linux-vs.org&gt;
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381186321-4906-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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In order to enable lockdep on seqcount/seqlock structures, we
must explicitly initialize any locks.

The u64_stats_sync structure, uses a seqcount, and thus we need
to introduce a u64_stats_init() function and use it to initialize
the structure.

This unfortunately adds a lot of fairly trivial initialization code
to a number of drivers. But the benefit of ensuring correctness makes
this worth while.

Because these changes are required for lockdep to be enabled, and the
changes are quite trivial, I've not yet split this patch out into 30-some
separate patches, as I figured it would be better to get the various
maintainers thoughts on how to best merge this change along with
the seqcount lockdep enablement.

Feedback would be appreciated!

Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov &lt;kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI &lt;yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Jesse Gross &lt;jesse@nicira.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mirko Lindner &lt;mlindner@marvell.com&gt;
Cc: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Cc: Roger Luethi &lt;rl@hellgate.ch&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
Cc: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni &lt;thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com&gt;
Cc: Wensong Zhang &lt;wensong@linux-vs.org&gt;
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381186321-4906-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ifb: fix oops when loading the ifb failed</title>
<updated>2013-07-11T19:00:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>dingtianhong</name>
<email>dingtianhong@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-11T11:04:06+00:00</published>
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If __rtnl_link_register() return faild when loading the ifb, it will
take the wrong path and get oops, so fix it just like dummy.

Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong &lt;dingtianhong@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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If __rtnl_link_register() return faild when loading the ifb, it will
take the wrong path and get oops, so fix it just like dummy.

Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong &lt;dingtianhong@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ifb: fix rcu_sched self-detected stalls</title>
<updated>2013-07-11T01:44:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>dingtianhong</name>
<email>dingtianhong@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-10T04:04:02+00:00</published>
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According to the commit 16b0dc29c1af9df341428f4c49ada4f626258082
(dummy: fix rcu_sched self-detected stalls)

Eric Dumazet fix the problem in dummy, but the ifb will occur the
same problem like the dummy modules.

Trying to "modprobe ifb numifbs=30000" triggers :

INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU

After this splat, RTNL is locked and reboot is needed.

We must call cond_resched() to avoid this, even holding RTNL.

Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong &lt;dingtianhong@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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According to the commit 16b0dc29c1af9df341428f4c49ada4f626258082
(dummy: fix rcu_sched self-detected stalls)

Eric Dumazet fix the problem in dummy, but the ifb will occur the
same problem like the dummy modules.

Trying to "modprobe ifb numifbs=30000" triggers :

INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU

After this splat, RTNL is locked and reboot is needed.

We must call cond_resched() to avoid this, even holding RTNL.

Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong &lt;dingtianhong@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: vlan: announce STAG offload capability in some drivers</title>
<updated>2013-04-19T18:46:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick McHardy</name>
<email>kaber@trash.net</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-19T02:04:32+00:00</published>
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- macvlan: propagate STAG filtering capabilities from underlying device
- ifb: announce STAG tagging support in addition to CTAG tagging support
- veth: announce STAG tagging/stripping support in addition to CTAG support

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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- macvlan: propagate STAG filtering capabilities from underlying device
- ifb: announce STAG tagging support in addition to CTAG tagging support
- veth: announce STAG tagging/stripping support in addition to CTAG support

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: vlan: rename NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_* feature flags to NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_*</title>
<updated>2013-04-19T18:45:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick McHardy</name>
<email>kaber@trash.net</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-19T02:04:27+00:00</published>
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Rename the hardware VLAN acceleration features to include "CTAG" to indicate
that they only support CTAGs. Follow up patches will introduce 802.1ad
server provider tagging (STAGs) and require the distinction for hardware not
supporting acclerating both.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Rename the hardware VLAN acceleration features to include "CTAG" to indicate
that they only support CTAGs. Follow up patches will introduce 802.1ad
server provider tagging (STAGs) and require the distinction for hardware not
supporting acclerating both.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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