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Chuck Lever
9903cd1c27 [PATCH] RPC: transport switch function naming
Introduce block header comments and a function naming convention to the
 socket transport implementation.  Provide a debug setting for transports
 that is separate from RPCDBG_XPRT.  Eliminate xprt_default_timeout().

 Provide block comments for exposed interfaces in xprt.c, and eliminate
 the useless obvious comments.

 Convert printk's to dprintk's.

 Test-plan:
 Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.

 Version: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:04:04 -0400

 Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-09-23 12:38:14 -04:00
Chuck Lever
a246b0105b [PATCH] RPC: introduce client-side transport switch
Move the bulk of client-side socket-specific code into a separate source
 file, net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c.

 Test-plan:
 Millions of fsx operations.  Performance characterization such as "sio" or
 "iozone".  Destructive testing (unplugging the network temporarily, server
 reboots).  Connectathon with v2, v3, and v4.

 Version: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:03:38 -0400

 Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-09-23 12:38:12 -04:00
Chuck Lever
094bb20b9f [PATCH] RPC: extract socket logic common to both client and server
Clean-up: Move some code that is common to both RPC client- and server-side
 socket transports into its own source file, net/sunrpc/socklib.c.

 Test-plan:
 Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.  Millions of fsx operations over
 UDP, client and server.  Connectathon over UDP.

 Version: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:03:09 -0400

 Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-09-23 12:38:11 -04:00
Harald Welte
1dfbab5949 [NETFILTER] Fix conntrack event cache deadlock/oops
This patch fixes a number of bugs.  It cannot be reasonably split up in
multiple fixes, since all bugs interact with each other and affect the same
function:

Bug #1:
The event cache code cannot be called while a lock is held.  Therefore, the
call to ip_conntrack_event_cache() within ip_ct_refresh_acct() needs to be
moved outside of the locked section.  This fixes a number of 2.6.14-rcX
oops and deadlock reports.

Bug #2:
We used to call ct_add_counters() for unconfirmed connections without
holding a lock.  Since the add operations are not atomic, we could race
with another CPU.

Bug #3:
ip_ct_refresh_acct() lost REFRESH events in some cases where refresh
(and the corresponding event) are desired, but no accounting shall be
performed.  Both, evenst and accounting implicitly depended on the skb
parameter bein non-null.   We now re-introduce a non-accounting
"ip_ct_refresh()" variant to explicitly state the desired behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-22 23:46:57 -07:00
Harald Welte
a82b748930 [NETFILTER] remove unneeded structure definition from conntrack helper
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-22 23:45:44 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
67497205b1 [NETFILTER] Fix sparse endian warnings in pptp helper
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-22 23:45:24 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
e4c94330e3 [PATCH] reboot: comment and factor the main reboot functions
In the lead up to 2.6.13 I fixed a large number of reboot problems by
making the calling conventions consistent.  Despite checking and double
checking my work it appears I missed an obvious one.

This first patch simply refactors the reboot routines so all of the
preparation for various kinds of reboots are in their own functions.
Making it very hard to get the various kinds of reboot out of sync.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:33 -07:00
Daniel Ritz
d305ef5d2a [PATCH] driver core: add helper device_is_registered()
add the helper and use it instead of open coding the klist_node_attached() check
(which is a layering violation IMHO)

idea by Alan Stern.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 07:58:24 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
7980cbbb30 [PATCH] Adds sys_set_mempolicy() in include/linux/syscalls.h
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-21 10:12:18 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
7e2cff42cf [PATCH] mm: add a note about partially hardcoded VM_* flags
Hugh made me note this line for permission checking in mprotect():

		if ((newflags & ~(newflags >> 4)) & 0xf) {

after figuring out what's that about, I decided it's nasty enough.  Btw
Hugh itself didn't like the 0xf.

We can safely change it to VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC because we never change
VM_SHARED, so no need to check that.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-21 10:11:55 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
7e871b6c8f [PATCH] mm: update stale comment for removal of page->list
Update comment for the 2.6.6-rc1 conversion from page->list and
address_space->{clean,dirty,locked}_pages to radix tree tagging and ->lru.

I've mostly avoided to mention page lists (at least I've shortened the
comment).

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-21 10:11:55 -07:00
Ed L. Cashin
e0487992ce [BYTEORDER]: Document alignment and byteorder macros
This patch comments the fact that although passing le64_to_cpup et
al. is within the intended use of the byteorder macros, using
get_unaligned is the recommended way to go.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-19 19:57:36 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
3c3f8f25c1 [8021Q]: Add endian annotations.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-19 15:41:28 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
a41bc00234 [NETFILTER]: Rename misnamed function
Both __ip_conntrack_expect_find and ip_conntrack_expect_find_get take
a reference to the expectation, the difference is that callers of
__ip_conntrack_expect_find must hold ip_conntrack_lock.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-19 15:35:31 -07:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai
e674d0f38d [NETFILTER] ip6tables: remove duplicate code
Some IPv6 matches have very similar loops to find IPv6 extension header
and we can unify them. This patch introduces ipv6_find_hdr() to do it.
I just checked that it can find the target headers in the packet which has
dst,hbh,rt,frag,ah,esp headers.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-19 15:34:40 -07:00
Harald Welte
926b50f92a [NETFILTER]: Add new PPTP conntrack and NAT helper
This new "version 3" PPTP conntrack/nat helper is finally ready for
mainline inclusion.  Special thanks to lots of last-minute bugfixing
by Patric McHardy.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-19 15:33:08 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
88f964db6e [DCCP]: Introduce CCID getsockopt for the CCIDs
Allocation for the optnames is similar to the DCCP options, with a
range for rx and tx half connection CCIDs.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-18 00:19:32 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
561713cf47 [DCCP]: Don't use necessarily the same CCID for tx and rx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-18 00:18:52 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
65299d6c3c [CCID3]: Introduce include/linux/tfrc.h
Moving the TFRC sender and receiver variables to separate structs, so
that we can copy these structs to userspace thru getsockopt,
dccp_diag, etc.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-18 00:18:32 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
ae31c3399d [DCCP]: Move the ack vector code to net/dccp/ackvec.[ch]
Isolating it, that will be used when we introduce a CCID2 (TCP-Like)
implementation.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-18 00:17:51 -07:00
David S. Miller
21f130a237 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2005-09-18 00:17:10 -07:00
Andrew Morton
f647e08a55 [PATCH] joystick-vs-x.org fix
Fix http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5241

2.6.13 broke compilation of the xorg tree, which apprarently insists on
including that file.

Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-17 11:50:02 -07:00
Jean Delvare
8ac2120d90 [PATCH] i2c: kill an unused i2c_adapter struct member
Kill an unused member of the i2c_adapter structure.  This additionally
fixes a potential bug, because <linux/i2c.h> doesn't include
<linux/config.h>, so different files including <linux/i2c.h> could see a
different definition of the i2c_adapter structure, depending on them
including <linux/config.h> (or other header files themselves including
<linux/config.h>) before <linux/i2c.h>, or not.

Credits go to Jrn Engel for pointing me to the problem.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-17 11:50:02 -07:00
David S. Miller
1cbf07478b [TG3]: Add AMD K8 to list of write-reorder chipsets.
Thanks to Andy Stewart for the report and testing
debug patches from Michael Chan.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-16 16:59:20 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
67e6b62921 [DCCP]: Introduce DCCP_SOCKOPT_SERVICE
As discussed in the dccp@vger mailing list:

Now applications have to use setsockopt(DCCP_SOCKOPT_SERVICE, service[s]),
prior to calling listen() and connect().

An array of unsigned ints can be passed meaning that the listening sock accepts
connection requests for several services.

With this we can ditch struct sockaddr_dccp and use only sockaddr_in (and
sockaddr_in6 in the future).

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-16 16:58:40 -07:00
Karsten Keil
06168d8a10 [PATCH] cleanup whitespace in pci_ids.h
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-16 10:46:28 -07:00
Karsten Keil
a063cf5b7d [PATCH] Add PCI IDs for Sitecom DC-105
Sitecom DC-105 PCI work with hfc_pci HiSax driver

Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-16 10:46:28 -07:00
David S. Miller
20ae975dfd [NETLINK]: Reserve a slot for NETLINK_GENERIC.
As requested by Jamal.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-14 20:52:37 -07:00
Roland Dreier
8b7fc4214b [PATCH] add PCI IDs so RME32 and RME96 drivers build
While doing an allyesconfig build, I noticed that the commit

    commit 8cdfd2519c
    Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
    Date:   Wed Sep 7 14:08:11 2005 +0200

        [ALSA] Remove superfluous PCI ID definitions

broke the RME32 and RME96 drivers, since the PCI IDs they use seem to have
changed names.  Here's a patch to fix this -- compile tested only, since I
have no idea what the hardware even is.

Fix the build of the RME32 and RME96 drivers by having them use the
PCI_DEVICE_ID_RME_xxx names defined in <linux/pci_ids.h> instead of the
PCI_DEVICE_ID_xxx names that they used to define themselves.

Also fix the typo in the id PCI_DEVICE_IDRME__DIGI96_8_PAD_OR_PST so the
name is PCI_DEVICE_ID_RME_DIGI96_8_PAD_OR_PST.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-14 14:34:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ddbf9ef385 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chrisw/lsm-2.6 2005-09-13 09:48:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5d54e69c68 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/audit-2.6 2005-09-13 09:47:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
63f3d1df1a Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa-current 2005-09-13 09:46:22 -07:00
Jan Beulich
2f4516dbd0 [PATCH] fbcon: constify font data
const-ify the font control structures and data, to make somewhat better
guarantees that these are not modified anywhere in the kernel.
Specifically for a kernel debugger to share this information from the
normal kernel code, such a guarantee seems rather desirable.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:32 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
9db455064d [PATCH] v4l: experimental Sliced VBI API support
Adds all defines, ioctls and structs needed for the sliced VBI API

VBI = Vertical Blank Interval.

It is related with the way TV signals work.  It sends a line, then, it has a
retrace time to allow the tube to move electrons to the beginning of the next
line.  This was the main reason at the beginning of analog B&W TV.

There is a lot of bandwidth lost on VBI.  So, lots of TV systems use it to
send other information such as Closed Captions and Teletext.  Also,
broadcasters uses this as a channel to exchange information from the content
producer to their subsidiaries at each city.

There's already a raw VBI interface on V4L2 api, used for Closed Captions and
Teletext.  The decoding is doing at userlevel space and it is mostly for
analog TV signals, non encoded.

Encoded signals (MPEG, for example), may need also to transmit other
information (like, for example, display aspect, i.e.  4x3, widescreen...).
Sliced VBI interface is a method to allow the video stream to transmit this
kind of information.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:32 -07:00
Neil Brown
f2327d9adb [PATCH] nfsd4: move replay_owner
It seems more natural to move the setting of the replay_owner into the
relevant procedure instead of doing it in nfsv4_proc_compound.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:31 -07:00
Peter Osterlund
610827dee8 [PATCH] pktcdvd: BUG_ON cleanups
Remove some redundant BUG_ON() statements in pktcdvd and move one run-time
check to compile-time.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:31 -07:00
Mike Miller
9dc7a86e85 [PATCH] cciss: new controller pci/subsystem ids
This patch adds new PCI and subsystem ID's that finally made the spec.  It
also include a name change for one controller.  I know there's a lot of
duplicat names but the fw folks wanted this for the different implementations.

Even though the same ASIC is used it may be embedded on some platforms,
standup card in others, and a mezzanine in other servers.

Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:29 -07:00
Andrew Morton
498d0c5711 [PATCH] set_current_state() commentary
Explain the mysteries of set_current_state().

Quoth Linus:

 The scheduler itself never needs the memory barrier at all.

 The barrier is needed only if the user itself ends up testing some other
 thing afterwards, ie if you have

 	set_process_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 	if (still_need_to_sleep())
 		schedule();

 then the "still_need_to_sleep()" thing may test flags and wakeup events,
 and then you _may_ want to (and often do) make sure that the write of
 TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE is serialized wrt the reads of any wakeup data (since
 the wakeup may have happened on another CPU).

 So the comment is somewhat wrong. We don't really _care_ whether the state
 propagates out to other CPU's since all of our actions are purely local,
 and there is nothing we do that is conditional on any other CPU: we're
 going to sleep unconditionally, and the scheduler only cares about _our_
 state, not about somebody elses state.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:29 -07:00
Andi Kleen
921717a2a1 [PATCH] Make BUILD_BUG_ON fail at compile time.
Force a compiler error instead of a link error, because they are easier to
track down.  Idea stolen from code by Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>

If the argument to BUILD_BUG_ON evaluates to non-zero the compiler will do:

	t.c:6: error: size of array `type name' is negative

(surprised that gcc doesn't have an extension for this)

Signed-off-by: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
61b22e693e Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2005-09-12 15:55:09 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
e21ce8c7c0 [NETROM]: Implement G8PZT Circuit reset for NET/ROM
NET/ROM is lacking a connection reset like TCP's RST flag which at times
may result in a connecting having to slowly timing out instead of just being
reset.  An earlier attempt to reset the connection by sending a
NR_CONNACK | NR_CHOKE_FLAG transport was inacceptable as it did result in
crashes of BPQ systems.  An alternative approach of introducing a new
transport type 7 (NR_RESET) has be implemented several years ago in
Paula Jayne Dowie G8PZT's Xrouter.

Implement NR_RESET for Linux's NET/ROM but like any messing with the state
engine consider this experimental for now and thus control it by a sysctl
(net.netrom.reset) which for the time being defaults to off.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-12 14:27:37 -07:00
Harald Welte
ce441594e9 [PATCH] USB: fix usbdevice_fs header breakage
[USBDEVFS] fix inclusion of <linux/compat.h> to avoud header mess

Without moving the include of compat.h down, userspace programs that use
usbdevice_fs.h end up including half the kernel includes (and eventually
fail to compile).

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-12 12:23:52 -07:00
Andi Kleen
c47a3167d0 [PATCH] x86-64: Make dmi_find_device for !DMI case inline
Otherwise it will generate warnings and be generated many times.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-12 10:50:58 -07:00
Andi Kleen
3f74478b5f [PATCH] x86-64: Some cleanup and optimization to the processor data area.
- Remove unused irqrsp field
- Remove pda->me
- Optimize set_softirq_pending slightly

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-12 10:49:58 -07:00
Paul Jackson
b3426599af [PATCH] cpuset semaphore depth check optimize
Optimize the deadlock avoidance check on the global cpuset
semaphore cpuset_sem.  Instead of adding a depth counter to the
task struct of each task, rather just two words are enough, one
to store the depth and the other the current cpuset_sem holder.

Thanks to Nikita Danilov for the idea.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>

[ We may want to change this further, but at least it's now
  a totally internal decision to the cpusets code ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-12 09:16:27 -07:00
Evgeniy Polyakov
f24ec7f6c6 [PATCH] crc16: remove w1 specific comments.
Remove w1 comments from crc16.h and move specific constants into
w1_ds2433.c where they are used.

Replace %d with %zd.

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-12 08:48:08 -07:00
Takashi Iwai
676e1a2c1e [ALSA] [PATCH] Add missing sound PCI IDs to pci_ids.h
Added missing PCI IDs for sound drivers to pci_ids.h.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2005-09-12 16:02:19 +02:00
Evgeniy Polyakov
7672d0b544 [NET]: Add netlink connector.
Kernel connector - new userspace <-> kernel space easy to use
communication module which implements easy to use bidirectional
message bus using netlink as it's backend.  Connector was created to
eliminate complex skb handling both in send and receive message bus
direction.

Connector driver adds possibility to connect various agents using as
one of it's backends netlink based network.  One must register
callback and identifier. When driver receives special netlink message
with appropriate identifier, appropriate callback will be called.

From the userspace point of view it's quite straightforward:

	socket();
	bind();
	send();
	recv();

But if kernelspace want to use full power of such connections, driver
writer must create special sockets, must know about struct sk_buff
handling...  Connector allows any kernelspace agents to use netlink
based networking for inter-process communication in a significantly
easier way:

int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (void *));
void cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask);

struct cb_id
{
	__u32			idx;
	__u32			val;
};

idx and val are unique identifiers which must be registered in
connector.h for in-kernel usage.  void (*callback) (void *) - is a
callback function which will be called when message with above idx.val
will be received by connector core.

Using connector completely hides low-level transport layer from it's
users.

Connector uses new netlink ability to have many groups in one socket.

[ Incorporating many cleanups and fixes by myself and
  Andrew Morton -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-11 19:15:07 -07:00
Keith Owens
a2a979821b [PATCH] MCA/INIT: scheduler hooks
Scheduler hooks to see/change which process is deemed to be on a cpu.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-11 14:01:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2f79f458d2 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2005-09-10 17:42:47 -07:00