kernel-ark/net/xfrm
Denis V. Lunev cd40b7d398 [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious
This patch make processing netlink user -> kernel messages synchronious.
This change was inspired by the talk with Alexey Kuznetsov about current
netlink messages processing. He says that he was badly wrong when introduced 
asynchronious user -> kernel communication.

The call netlink_unicast is the only path to send message to the kernel
netlink socket. But, unfortunately, it is also used to send data to the
user.

Before this change the user message has been attached to the socket queue
and sk->sk_data_ready was called. The process has been blocked until all
pending messages were processed. The bad thing is that this processing
may occur in the arbitrary process context.

This patch changes nlk->data_ready callback to get 1 skb and force packet
processing right in the netlink_unicast.

Kernel -> user path in netlink_unicast remains untouched.

EINTR processing for in netlink_run_queue was changed. It forces rtnl_lock
drop, but the process remains in the cycle until the message will be fully
processed. So, there is no need to use this kludges now.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 21:15:29 -07:00
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Kconfig [PFKEYV2]: CONFIG_NET_KEY_MIGRATE option 2007-02-08 13:15:05 -08:00
Makefile [IPSEC]: Move common output code to xfrm_output 2007-10-10 16:54:53 -07:00
xfrm_algo.c [IPSEC]: Fix warnings with casting int to pointer 2007-05-22 16:12:26 -07:00
xfrm_hash.c [IPSEC]: Don't warn if high-order hash resize fails 2007-05-14 02:19:11 -07:00
xfrm_hash.h [XFRM] STATE: Use destination address for src hash. 2006-10-04 00:31:02 -07:00
xfrm_input.c mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
xfrm_output.c [IPSEC]: Move state lock into x->type->output 2007-10-10 16:55:03 -07:00
xfrm_policy.c [IPSEC]: Remove bogus ref count in xfrm_secpath_reject 2007-10-10 16:54:59 -07:00
xfrm_state.c [IPSEC]: Move common code into xfrm_alloc_spi 2007-10-10 16:55:01 -07:00
xfrm_user.c [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious 2007-10-10 21:15:29 -07:00