kernel.git/net/ipv4/devinet.c, branch linux-2.6.37.y

arp_notify: unconditionally send gratuitous ARP for NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS.

2011-03-07T23:05:27Z

commit d11327ad6695db8117c78d70611e71102ceec2ac upstream. NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEER is an explicit request by the driver to send a link notification while NETDEV_UP/NETDEV_CHANGEADDR generate link notifications as a sort of side effect. In the later cases the sysctl option is present because link notification events can have undesired effects e.g. if the link is flapping. I don't think this applies in the case of an explicit request from a driver. This patch makes NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEER unconditional, if preferred we could add a new sysctl for this case which defaults to on. This change causes Xen post-migration ARP notifications (which cause switches to relearn their MAC tables etc) to be sent by default. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [reported to solve hyperv live migration problem - gkh] Cc: Haiyang Zhang Cc: Mike Surcouf Cc: Hank Janssen Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

inet: RCU changes in inetdev_by_index()

2010-10-19T10:50:48Z

Convert inetdev_by_index() to not increment in_dev refcount. Callers hold RCU or RTNL, and should not decrement in_dev refcount. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: ip_ptr cleanups

2010-09-16T05:06:05Z

dev->ip_ptr is protected by rtnl and rcu. Yet some places dont use appropriate primitives and/or locking rules. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

arp_notify: allow drivers to explicitly request a notification event.

2010-05-31T07:27:44Z

Currently such notifications are only generated when the device comes up or the address changes. However one use case for these notifications is to enable faster network recovery after a virtual machine migration (by causing switches to relearn their MAC tables). A migration appears to the network stack as a temporary loss of carrier and therefore does not trigger either of the current conditions. Rather than adding carrier up as a trigger (which can cause issues when interfaces a flapping) simply add an interface which the driver can use to explicitly trigger the notification. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: David S. Miller Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2010-04-11T21:53:53Z

Conflicts: drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c net/core/ethtool.c net/mac80211/scan.c

Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2010-04-07T06:53:30Z

Conflicts: drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c drivers/net/via-velocity.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32Z

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

net: fix netlink address dumping in IPv4/IPv6

2010-03-27T03:27:49Z

When a dump is interrupted at the last device in a hash chain and then continued, "idx" won't get incremented past s_idx, so s_ip_idx is not reset when moving on to the next device. This means of all following devices only the last n - s_ip_idx addresses are dumped. Tested-by: Pawel Staszewski Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy

net: rename notifier defines for netdev type change

2010-03-19T03:00:01Z

Since generally there could be more netdevices changing type other than bonding, making this event type name "bonding-unrelated" Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2010-02-26T07:22:42Z