[PATCH] pciehp: fix handling of power faults during hotplug
The current pciehp implementation reports a power-fail error
even if the condition has cleared by the time the corresponding
interrupt handling code gets a chance to run. This patch
fixes this problem.
Signed-off-by: Rajesh Shah <rajesh.shah@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
[PATCH] pciehp: clean-up how we request control of hotplug hardware
This patch further tweaks how we request control of hotplug
controller hardware from BIOS. We first search the ACPI namespace
corresponding to a specific hotplug controller looking for an
_OSC or OSHP method. On failure, we successively move to the
ACPI parent object, till we hit the highest level host bridge
in the hierarchy. This allows for different types of BIOS's
which place the _OSC/OSHP methods at various places in the acpi
namespace, while still not encroaching on the namespace of
some other root level host bridge.
This patch also introduces a new load time option (pciehp_force)
that allows us to bypass all _OSC/OSHP checking. Not supporting
these methods seems to be be the most common ACPI firmware problem
we've run into. This will still _not_ allow the pciehp driver to
work correctly if the BIOS really doesn't support pciehp (i.e. if
it doesn't generate a hotplug interrupt). Use this option with
caution. Some BIOS's may deliberately not build any _OSC/OSHP
methods to make sure it retains control the hotplug hardware.
Using the pciehp_force parameter for such systems can lead to
two separate entities trying to control the same hardware.
Signed-off-by: Rajesh Shah <rajesh.shah@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
[PATCH] pciehp: request control of each hotplug controller individually
This patch tweaks the way pciehp requests control of the hotplug
hardware from BIOS. It now tries to invoke the ACPI _OSC method
for a specific hotplug controller only, rather than walking the
entire acpi namespace invoking all possible _OSC methods under
all host bridges. This allows us to gain control of each hotplug
controller individually, even if BIOS fails to give us control of
some other hotplug controller in the system.
Signed-off-by: Rajesh Shah <rajesh.shah@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Reduce the number of debug messages generated if pciehp debug is
enabled. I tried to restrict this to removing debug messages that
are either early-driver-debug type messages, or print information
that can be inferred through other debug prints.
Signed-off-by: Rajesh Shah <rajesh.shah@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
State information is currently stored in per-slot as well as
per-pci-function data structures in pciehp. There's a lot of
overlap in the information kept, and some of it is never used.
This patch consolidates the state information to per-slot and
eliminates unused data structures. The biggest change is to
eliminate the pci_func structure and the code around managing
its lists.
Signed-off-by: Rajesh Shah <rajesh.shah@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Reduce the PCI Express hotplug driver's dependence on ACPI.
We don't walk the acpi namespace anymore to build a list of
bridges and devices. We go to ACPI only to run the _OSC or
_OSHP methods to transition control of hotplug hardware from
system BIOS to the hotplug driver, and to run the _HPP
method to get hotplug device parameters like cache line size,
latency timer and SERR/PERR enable from BIOS.
Note that one of the side effects of this patch is that pciehp
does not automatically enable the hot-added device or its DMA
bus mastering capability now. It expects the device driver to
do that. This may break some drivers and we will have to fix
them as they are reported.
Signed-off-by: Rajesh Shah <rajesh.shah@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
[PATCH] patch 1/8] pciehp: use the PCI core for hotplug resource management
This patch converts the pci express hotplug controller driver
to use the PCI core for resource management. This eliminates a
lot of duplicated code and integrates pciehp with the system's
normal PCI handling code.
Signed-off-by: Rajesh Shah <rajesh.shah@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Roland Dreier [Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:35:34 +0000 (17:35 -0700)]
[PATCH] PCI: add pci_find_next_capability()
Some devices have more than one capability of the same type. For
example, the PCI header for the PathScale InfiniPath looks like:
04:01.0 InfiniBand: Unknown device 1fc1:000d (rev 02)
Subsystem: Unknown device 1fc1:000d
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 193
Memory at fea00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
Capabilities: [c0] HyperTransport: Slave or Primary Interface
Capabilities: [f8] HyperTransport: Interrupt Discovery and Configuration
There are _two_ HyperTransport capabilities, and the PathScale driver
wants to look at both of them.
The current pci_find_capability() API doesn't work for this, since it
only allows us to get to the first capability of a given type. The
patch below introduces a new pci_find_next_capability(), which can be
used in a loop like
Pavel Roskin [Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:03:08 +0000 (13:03 -0800)]
[NET]: Annotate h_proto in struct ethhdr
The protocol field in ethernet headers is big-endian and should be
annotated as such. This patch allows detection of missing ntohs() calls
on the ethernet protocol field when sparse is run with __CHECK_ENDIAN__
defined.
This is a revised version that includes <linux/types.h> so that the
userspace programs are not confused by __be16. Thanks to David S.
Miller.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Here is the patch that introduces the generic skb_checksum_complete
which also checks for hardware RX checksum faults. If that happens,
it'll call netdev_rx_csum_fault which currently prints out a stack
trace with the device name. In future it can turn off RX checksum.
I've converted every spot under net/ that does RX checksum checks to
use skb_checksum_complete or __skb_checksum_complete with the
exceptions of:
* Those places where checksums are done bit by bit. These will call
netdev_rx_csum_fault directly.
* The following have not been completely checked/converted:
ipmr
ip_vs
netfilter
dccp
This patch is based on patches and suggestions from Stephen Hemminger
and David S. Miller.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Deprecating the -imacros fixes the build for me. It does not appear to be a
simple argument overflow problem in trapcpp0, since deprecating all the defines
reproduces the problem as well. Also, switching -imacros to -include fixes the
problem.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Dean Nelson [Wed, 9 Nov 2005 20:41:57 +0000 (14:41 -0600)]
[IA64] utilize notify_die() for XPC disengage
XPC (as in arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xp*) has a need to notify other partitions
(SGI Altix) whenever a partition is going down in order to get them to
disengage from accessing the halting partition's memory. If this is not
done before the reset of the hardware, the other partitions can find
themselves encountering MCAs that bring them down.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Roland Dreier [Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:18:23 +0000 (10:18 -0800)]
[IB] umad: further ib_unregister_mad_agent() deadlock fixes
The previous umad deadlock fix left ib_umad_kill_port() still
vulnerable to deadlocking. This patch fixes that by downgrading our
lock to a read lock when we might end up trying to reacquire the lock
for reading.
Roland Dreier [Wed, 9 Nov 2005 20:23:17 +0000 (12:23 -0800)]
[IB] mthca: fix wraparound handling in mthca_cq_clean()
Handle case where prod_index has wrapped around and become less than
cq->cons_index by checking that their difference as a signed int is
positive rather than comparing directly.
Move the computation of QP capabilities (max scatter/gather entries,
max inline data, etc) into the kernel, and have the uverbs module
return the values as part of the create QP response. This keeps
precise knowledge of device limits in the low-level kernel driver.
This requires an ABI bump, so while we're making changes, get rid of
the max_sge parameter for the modify SRQ command -- it's not used and
shouldn't be there.
Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Roland Dreier [Tue, 8 Nov 2005 19:10:25 +0000 (11:10 -0800)]
[IB] Have cq_resize() method take an int, not int*
Change the struct ib_device.resize_cq() method to take a plain integer
that holds the new CQ size, rather than a pointer to an integer that
it uses to return the new size. This makes the interface match the
exported ib_resize_cq() signature, and allows the low-level driver to
update the CQ size with proper locking if necessary.
Roland Dreier [Mon, 7 Nov 2005 18:41:29 +0000 (10:41 -0800)]
[IB] umad: avoid potential deadlock when unregistering MAD agents
ib_unregister_mad_agent() completes all pending MAD sends and waits
for the agent's send_handler routine to return. umad's send_handler()
calls queue_packet(), which does down_read() on the port mutex to look
up the agent ID. This means that the port mutex cannot be held for
writing while calling ib_unregister_mad_agent(), or else it will
deadlock. This patch fixes all the calls to ib_unregister_mad_agent()
in the umad module to avoid this deadlock.
Roland Dreier [Mon, 7 Nov 2005 18:33:11 +0000 (10:33 -0800)]
[IPoIB] add path record information in debugfs
Add ibX_path files to debugfs that contain information about the IPoIB
path cache. IPoIB ARP only gives GIDs, which the IPoIB driver must
resolve to real IB paths through the ib_sa module. For debugging,
when the ARP table looks OK but traffic isn't flowing, it's useful to
be able to see if the resolution from GID to path worked.
Also clean up the formatting of the existing _mcg debugfs files.
Liam Girdwood [Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:45:39 +0000 (17:45 +0000)]
[ARM] 3098/1: pxa2xx disable ssp irq
Patch from Liam Girdwood
This patch allows users of the pxa SSP driver to register their own irq
handlers instead of using the default SSP handler. It also cleans up the
CKEN clock and irq detection as the values are now stored in a table.
This patch replaces 2845/1
Changes:-
o Added flags parameter to ssp_init()
o Added SSP_NO_IRQ flag to disable registering of ssp irq handler (for
drivers that want to register their own handler)
o Cleaned up clock and irq detection, values are now stored in table.
o Added build changes to allow other drivers (e.g audio) to select the
ssp driver.
o corgi_ssp.c changed to use new interface.
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <liam.girdwood@wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Richard Purdie [Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:42:29 +0000 (17:42 +0000)]
[ARM] 3096/1: Add SharpSL Zaurus power and battery management core driver
Patch from Richard Purdie
This patch adds a power and battery management core driver which with
the addition of the right device files, supports the c7x0 and cxx00
series of Sharp Zaurus handhelds.
The driver is complex for several reasons. Battery charging is manually
monitored and controlled. When suspended, the device needs to
periodically partially resume, check the charging status and then
re-suspend. It does without bothering the higher linux layers as
a full resume and re-suspend is unnecessary. The code is carefully
written to avoid interrupts or calling code outside the module under
these circumstances. It also vets the various wake up sources and
monitors the device's power situation.
Hooks to limit the backlight intensity and to notify the battery
monitoring code of backlight events are connected/added as the
backlight is one of the biggest users of power on the device.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Tony Lindgren [Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:26:51 +0000 (14:26 +0000)]
[ARM] 3145/1: OMAP 3a/5: Add support for omap24xx
Patch from Tony Lindgren
This patch adds support for omap24xx series of processors.
The files live in arch/arm/mach-omap2, and share common
files with omap15xx and omap16xx processors in
arch/arm/plat-omap.
Omap24xx support was originally added for 2.6.9 by TI.
This code was then improved and integrated to share common
code with omap15xx and omap16xx processors by various
omap developers, such as Paul Mundt, Juha Yrjola, Imre Deak,
Tony Lindgren, Richard Woodruff, Nishant Menon, Komal Shah
et al.
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Tony Lindgren [Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:26:48 +0000 (14:26 +0000)]
[ARM] 3141/1: OMAP 1/5: Update omap1 specific files
Patch from Tony Lindgren
This patch syncs the mainline kernel with linux-omap tree.
The highlights of the patch are:
- Omap1 serial pport and framebuffer init updates by Imre Deak
- Add support for omap310 processor and Palm Tungsten E PDA
by Laurent Gonzales, Romain Goyet, et al. Omap310 and
omap1510 processors are now handled as omap15xx.
- Omap1 specific changes to shared omap clock framework
by Tony Lindgren
- Omap1 specific changes to shared omap pin mux framework
by Tony Lindgren
- Other misc fixes, such as update memory timings for smc91x,
omap1 specific device initialization etc.
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Alessandro Zummo [Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:05:04 +0000 (14:05 +0000)]
[ARM] 3140/1: NSLU2 machine support
Patch from Alessandro Zummo
This patch adds support for the LinkSys NSLU2 running with
both big and little-endian kernels. The LinkSys NSLU2 is
a cost engineered ARM, XScale 420 based system similar to
the the Intel IXDP425 evaluation board. It uses the
IXP4XX ARCH.
While this patch applies independently of other patches
the resultant kernel requires further patches to successfully
use onboard devices, including the onboard flash. Since these
patches are independent of this one they will be submitted
separately.
A defconfig is not included here because not all of
the required drivers are actually in the kernel.
We intend to provide one as soon as the patches
will be incorporated in mainstream.
This patch is the combined work of nslu2-linux.org
Signed-off-by: John Bowler <jbowler@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net> Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Igor Popik [Thu, 6 Oct 2005 18:32:58 +0000 (20:32 +0200)]
[PCMCIA] i82365: release all resources if no devices are found
The i82365 driver does not release all the resources when the device is not
found. This can cause an oops when reading /proc/ioports after module
unload.
Signed-off-by: Igor Popik <igor.popik@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Paul Mackerras [Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:06:30 +0000 (16:06 +1100)]
ppc64: Add declarations to ppc64 headers as well as powerpc headers
For now, we need these declarations that we moved from C code in
the asm-ppc64 versions of these headers as well as the asm-powerpc
versions. The asm-ppc64 versions will be disappearing shortly.
Linas Vepstas [Fri, 4 Nov 2005 00:50:48 +0000 (18:50 -0600)]
[PATCH] ppc64: mark failed devices
17-eeh-slot-marking-bug.patch
A device that experiences a PCI outage may be just one deivce out
of many that was affected. In order to avoid repeated reports of
a failure, the entire tree of affected devices should be marked
as failed. This patch marks up the entire tree.
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
David Gibson [Thu, 10 Nov 2005 04:26:20 +0000 (15:26 +1100)]
[PATCH] powerpc: Move more ppc64 files with no ppc32 equivalent to powerpc
This patch moves a bunch more files from arch/ppc64 and
include/asm-ppc64 which have no equivalents in ppc32 code into
arch/powerpc and include/asm-powerpc. The file affected are:
hvcall.h
proc_ppc64.c
sysfs.c
lparcfg.c
rtas_pci.c
The only changes apart from the move and corresponding Makefile
changes are:
- #ifndef/#define in includes updated to _ASM_POWERPC_ form
- trailing whitespace removed
- comments giving full paths removed
Built and booted on POWER5 LPAR (ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc64), built
for 32-bit powermac (ARCH=powerpc).
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
phbs_remap_io(), which maps the PCI IO space into the kernel virtual space,
is called too early on powermac, and thus doesn't work.
This fixes it by removing the call from all platforms and putting it back
into the ppc64 common code where it belongs, after the actual probing of
the bus.
That means that before that call, only the ISA IO space (if any) is mapped,
any PIO access (from quirks for example) will fail. This happens not to be
a problem for now, but we'll have to rework that code if it becomes one in
the future.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
That DART (U3 iommu) code didn't properly scale the number of entries
when using !4k pages. That caused crashes when booting G5s with more
than 2Gb of RAM. This fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Trond Myklebust [Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:45:24 +0000 (21:45 -0500)]
[PATCH] SUNRPC: don't reencode when looping in call transmit.
If the call to xprt_transmit() fails due to socket buffer space
exhaustion, we do not need to re-encode the RPC message when we
loop back through call_transmit.
Re-encoding can actually end up triggering the WARN_ON() in
call_decode() if we re-encode something like a read() request and
auth->au_rslack has changed.
It can also cause us to increment the RPCSEC_GSS sequence number
beyond the limits of the allowed window.
Paul Mackerras [Thu, 10 Nov 2005 03:30:20 +0000 (14:30 +1100)]
powerpc: 32-bit fixes for xmon
This makes the memory examine/change command print the address as
8 digits instead of 16, and makes the memory dump command print
4 4-byte values per line instead of 2 8-byte values.
Paul Mackerras [Thu, 10 Nov 2005 03:29:18 +0000 (14:29 +1100)]
powerpc: Add user CPU features for POWER4, POWER5, POWER5+ and Cell.
This is at the request of the glibc folks, who want to use these bits
to select libraries optimized for the microarchitecture and new
instructions in these processors.
Paul Mackerras [Thu, 10 Nov 2005 03:28:03 +0000 (14:28 +1100)]
powerpc: Fix SMP time initialization problem
We were getting the last_jiffy per-cpu variable set ahead of the current
timebase in smp_space_timers on SMP machines. This caused the loop in
timer_interrupt to loop virtually forever, since tb_ticks_since assumes
that it will never be called with the timebase behind the last_jiffy
value.
Paul Mackerras [Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:37:51 +0000 (13:37 +1100)]
[PATCH] powerpc: merge code values for identifying platforms
This patch merges platform codes. systemcfg->platform is no longer used,
systemcfg use in general is deprecated as much as possible (and renamed
_systemcfg before it gets completely moved elsewhere in a future patch),
_machine is now used on ppc64 along as ppc32. Platform codes aren't gone
yet but we are getting a step closer. A bunch of asm code in head[_64].S
is also turned into C code.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This patch consolidates macros used to generate assembly for
compatibility across different CPUs or configs. A new header,
asm-powerpc/asm-compat.h contains the main compatibility macros. It
uses some preprocessor magic to make the macros suitable both for use
in .S files, and in inline asm in .c files. Headers (bitops.h,
uaccess.h, atomic.h, bug.h) which had their own such compatibility
macros are changed to use asm-compat.h.
ppc_asm.h is now for use in .S files *only*, and a #error enforces
that. As such, we're a lot more careless about namespace pollution
here than in asm-compat.h.
While we're at it, this patch adds a call to the PPC405_ERR77 macro in
futex.h which should have had it already, but didn't.
Built and booted on pSeries, Maple and iSeries (ARCH=powerpc). Built
for 32-bit powermac (ARCH=powerpc) and Walnut (ARCH=ppc).
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
David Gibson [Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:50:16 +0000 (11:50 +1100)]
[PATCH] powerpc: Merge cacheflush.h and cache.h
The ppc32 and ppc64 versions of cacheflush.h were almost identical.
The two versions of cache.h are fairly similar, except for a bunch of
register definitions in the ppc32 version which probably belong better
elsewhere. This patch, therefore, merges both headers. Notable
points:
- there are several functions in cacheflush.h which exist only
on ppc32 or only on ppc64. These are handled by #ifdef for now, but
these should probably be consolidated, along with the actual code
behind them later.
- Confusingly, both ppc32 and ppc64 have a
flush_dcache_range(), but they're subtly different: it uses dcbf on
ppc32 and dcbst on ppc64, ppc64 has a flush_inval_dcache_range() which
uses dcbf. These too should be merged and consolidated later.
- Also flush_dcache_range() was defined in cacheflush.h on
ppc64, and in cache.h on ppc32. In the merged version it's in
cacheflush.h
- On ppc32 flush_icache_range() is a normal function from
misc.S. On ppc64, it was wrapper, testing a feature bit before
calling __flush_icache_range() which does the actual flush. This
patch takes the ppc64 approach, which amounts to no change on ppc32,
since CPU_FTR_COHERENT_ICACHE will never be set there, but does mean
renaming flush_icache_range() to __flush_icache_range() in
arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S and arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S
- The PReP register info from asm-ppc/cache.h has moved to
arch/ppc/platforms/prep_setup.c
- The 8xx register info from asm-ppc/cache.h has moved to a
new asm-powerpc/reg_8xx.h, included from reg.h
- flush_dcache_all() was defined on ppc32 (only), but was
never called (although it was exported). Thus this patch removes it
from cacheflush.h and from ARCH=powerpc (misc_32.S) entirely. It's
left in ARCH=ppc for now, with the prototype moved to ppc_ksyms.c.
Built for Walnut (ARCH=ppc), 32-bit multiplatform (pmac, CHRP and PReP
ARCH=ppc, pmac and CHRP ARCH=powerpc). Built and booted on POWER5
LPAR (ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc64).
Built for 32-bit powermac (ARCH=ppc and ARCH=powerpc). Built and
booted on POWER5 LPAR (ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc64). Built and booted
on G5 (ARCH=powerpc)
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Thomas Graf [Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:25:56 +0000 (02:25 +0100)]
[NETLINK]: Generic netlink family
The generic netlink family builds on top of netlink and provides
simplifies access for the less demanding netlink users. It solves
the problem of protocol numbers running out by introducing a so
called controller taking care of id management and name resolving.
Generic netlink modules register themself after filling out their
id card (struct genl_family), after successful registration the
modules are able to register callbacks to command numbers by
filling out a struct genl_ops and calling genl_register_op(). The
registered callbacks are invoked with attributes parsed making
life of simple modules a lot easier.
Although generic netlink modules can request static identifiers,
it is recommended to use GENL_ID_GENERATE and to let the controller
assign a unique identifier to the module. Userspace applications
will then ask the controller and lookup the idenfier by the module
name.
Due to the current multicast implementation of netlink, the number
of generic netlink modules is restricted to 1024 to avoid wasting
memory for the per socket multiacst subscription bitmask.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Introduces netlink_run_queue() to handle the receive queue of
a netlink socket in a generic way. Processes as much as there
was in the queue upon entry and invokes a callback function
for each netlink message found. The callback function may
refuse a message by returning a negative error code but setting
the error pointer to 0 in which case netlink_run_queue() will
return with a qlen != 0.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and
attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible
with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety,
this interface features attribute validation capabilities,
simplified message contstruction, and documentation.
The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone
and easier to understand.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Paul Mackerras [Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:00:55 +0000 (12:00 +1100)]
ppc/powerpc: workarounds for old Open Firmware versions
This adds code to work around some problems with old versions of
Open Firmware, such as on the early powermacs (7500 etc.) and the
"Longtrail" CHRP machine. On these machines we have to claim
the physical and virtual address ranges explicitly when claiming
memory and then set up a V->P mapping.
The Longtrail has more problems: setprop doesn't work, and we have
to set an "allow-reclaim" variable to 0 in order to get claim on
physical memory ranges to fail if the memory is already claimed.
Yasuyuki Kozakai [Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:38:16 +0000 (16:38 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: Add nf_conntrack subsystem.
The existing connection tracking subsystem in netfilter can only
handle ipv4. There were basically two choices present to add
connection tracking support for ipv6. We could either duplicate all
of the ipv4 connection tracking code into an ipv6 counterpart, or (the
choice taken by these patches) we could design a generic layer that
could handle both ipv4 and ipv6 and thus requiring only one sub-protocol
(TCP, UDP, etc.) connection tracking helper module to be written.
In fact nf_conntrack is capable of working with any layer 3
protocol.
The existing ipv4 specific conntrack code could also not deal
with the pecularities of doing connection tracking on ipv6,
which is also cured here. For example, these issues include:
1) ICMPv6 handling, which is used for neighbour discovery in
ipv6 thus some messages such as these should not participate
in connection tracking since effectively they are like ARP
messages
2) fragmentation must be handled differently in ipv6, because
the simplistic "defrag, connection track and NAT, refrag"
(which the existing ipv4 connection tracking does) approach simply
isn't feasible in ipv6
3) ipv6 extension header parsing must occur at the correct spots
before and after connection tracking decisions, and there were
no provisions for this in the existing connection tracking
design
4) ipv6 has no need for stateful NAT
The ipv4 specific conntrack layer is kept around, until all of
the ipv4 specific conntrack helpers are ported over to nf_conntrack
and it is feature complete. Once that occurs, the old conntrack
stuff will get placed into the feature-removal-schedule and we will
fully kill it off 6 months later.
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
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