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* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netLinus Torvalds2016-12-171-0/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull networking fixes and cleanups from David Miller: 1) Revert bogus nla_ok() change, from Alexey Dobriyan. 2) Various bpf validator fixes from Daniel Borkmann. 3) Add some necessary SET_NETDEV_DEV() calls to hsis_femac and hip04 drivers, from Dongpo Li. 4) Several ethtool ksettings conversions from Philippe Reynes. 5) Fix bugs in inet port management wrt. soreuseport, from Tom Herbert. 6) XDP support for virtio_net, from John Fastabend. 7) Fix NAT handling within a vrf, from David Ahern. 8) Endianness fixes in dpaa_eth driver, from Claudiu Manoil * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (63 commits) net: mv643xx_eth: fix build failure isdn: Constify some function parameters mlxsw: spectrum: Mark split ports as such cgroup: Fix CGROUP_BPF config qed: fix old-style function definition net: ipv6: check route protocol when deleting routes r6040: move spinlock in r6040_close as SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order detected irda: w83977af_ir: cleanup an indent issue net: sfc: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings net: davicom: dm9000: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings net: cirrus: ep93xx: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings net: chelsio: cxgb3: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings net: chelsio: cxgb2: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings bpf: fix mark_reg_unknown_value for spilled regs on map value marking bpf: fix overflow in prog accounting bpf: dynamically allocate digest scratch buffer gtp: Fix initialization of Flags octet in GTPv1 header gtp: gtp_check_src_ms_ipv4() always return success net/x25: use designated initializers isdn: use designated initializers ...
| * irnet: ppp: move IRNET_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.hLABBE Corentin2016-12-171-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch move the define for IRNET_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.h It is better that all minor number definitions are in the same place. Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | miscdevice: introduce builtin_misc_devicePaul Gortmaker2016-10-281-0/+7
|/ | | | | | | | | | | This is basically the same as module_misc_device but without the presence of an exit/remove function. Similar in nature to the commit f309d4443130bf814e991f836e919dca22df37ae ("platform_device: better support builtin boilerplate avoidance"). Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* miscdevice: Add helper macro for misc device boilerplatePrasannaKumar Muralidharan2016-08-311-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Many modules call misc_register and misc_deregister in its module init and exit methods without any additional code. This ends up being boilerplate. This patch adds helper macro module_misc_device(), that replaces module_init()/ module_exit() with template functions. This patch also converts drivers to use new macro. Change since v1: Add device.h include in miscdevice.h as module_driver macro was not available from other include files in some architectures. Signed-off-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* Input: add userio moduleStephen Chandler Paul2015-10-271-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Debugging input devices, specifically laptop touchpads, can be tricky without having the physical device handy. Here we try to remedy that with userio. This module allows an application to connect to a character device provided by the kernel, and emulate any serio device. In combination with userspace programs that can record PS/2 devices and replay them through the /dev/userio device, this allows developers to debug driver issues on the PS/2 level with devices simply by requesting a recording from the user experiencing the issue without having to have the physical hardware in front of them. Signed-off-by: Stephen Chandler Paul <cpaul@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
* char: make misc_deregister a void functionGreg Kroah-Hartman2015-08-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With well over 200+ users of this api, there are a mere 12 users that actually checked the return value of this function. And all of them really didn't do anything with that information as the system or module was shutting down no matter what. So stop pretending like it matters, and just return void from misc_deregister(). If something goes wrong in the call, you will get a WARNING splat in the syslog so you know how to fix up your driver. Other than that, there's nothing that can go wrong. Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.com> Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Cc: Christine Caulfield <ccaulfie@redhat.com> Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* misc: Add attribute groupsTakashi Iwai2015-03-251-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | Add groups field to struct miscdevice for passing the attribute groups at device creation. In this way, the driver can avoid the manual call of device_create_file() after the device registration, which is basically a racy operation, in addition to the reduction of manual device_remove_file() calls. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* miscdevice.h: Simple syntax fix to make pointers consistent.Robert P. J. Day2014-05-271-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds2014-04-021-0/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull networking updates from David Miller: "Here is my initial pull request for the networking subsystem during this merge window: 1) Support for ESN in AH (RFC 4302) from Fan Du. 2) Add full kernel doc for ethtool command structures, from Ben Hutchings. 3) Add BCM7xxx PHY driver, from Florian Fainelli. 4) Export computed TCP rate information in netlink socket dumps, from Eric Dumazet. 5) Allow IPSEC SA to be dumped partially using a filter, from Nicolas Dichtel. 6) Convert many drivers to pci_enable_msix_range(), from Alexander Gordeev. 7) Record SKB timestamps more efficiently, from Eric Dumazet. 8) Switch to microsecond resolution for TCP round trip times, also from Eric Dumazet. 9) Clean up and fix 6lowpan fragmentation handling by making use of the existing inet_frag api for it's implementation. 10) Add TX grant mapping to xen-netback driver, from Zoltan Kiss. 11) Auto size SKB lengths when composing netlink messages based upon past message sizes used, from Eric Dumazet. 12) qdisc dumps can take a long time, add a cond_resched(), From Eric Dumazet. 13) Sanitize netpoll core and drivers wrt. SKB handling semantics. Get rid of never-used-in-tree netpoll RX handling. From Eric W Biederman. 14) Support inter-address-family and namespace changing in VTI tunnel driver(s). From Steffen Klassert. 15) Add Altera TSE driver, from Vince Bridgers. 16) Optimizing csum_replace2() so that it doesn't adjust the checksum by checksumming the entire header, from Eric Dumazet. 17) Expand BPF internal implementation for faster interpreting, more direct translations into JIT'd code, and much cleaner uses of BPF filtering in non-socket ocntexts. From Daniel Borkmann and Alexei Starovoitov" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1976 commits) netpoll: Use skb_irq_freeable to make zap_completion_queue safe. net: Add a test to see if a skb is freeable in irq context qlcnic: Fix build failure due to undefined reference to `vxlan_get_rx_port' net: ptp: move PTP classifier in its own file net: sxgbe: make "core_ops" static net: sxgbe: fix logical vs bitwise operation net: sxgbe: sxgbe_mdio_register() frees the bus Call efx_set_channels() before efx->type->dimension_resources() xen-netback: disable rogue vif in kthread context net/mlx4: Set proper build dependancy with vxlan be2net: fix build dependency on VxLAN mac802154: make csma/cca parameters per-wpan mac802154: allow only one WPAN to be up at any given time net: filter: minor: fix kdoc in __sk_run_filter netlink: don't compare the nul-termination in nla_strcmp can: c_can: Avoid led toggling for every packet. can: c_can: Simplify TX interrupt cleanup can: c_can: Store dlc private can: c_can: Reduce register access can: c_can: Make the code readable ...
| * Bluetooth: allocate static minor for vhciLucas De Marchi2014-02-181-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit bfacbb9 (Bluetooth: Use devname:vhci module alias for virtual HCI driver) added the module alias to hci_vhci module so it's possible to create the /dev/vhci node. However creating an alias without specifying the minor doesn't allow us to create the node ahead, triggerring module auto-load when it's first accessed. Starting with depmod from kmod 16 we started to warn if there's a devname alias without specifying the major and minor. Let's do the same done for uhid, kvm, fuse and others, specifying a fixed minor. In systems with systemd as the init the following will happen: on early boot systemd will call "kmod static-nodes" to read /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.devname and then create the nodes. When first accessed these "dead" nodes will trigger the module loading. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* | misc: add comment on unused minorsLucas De Marchi2014-02-181-8/+8
|/ | | | | Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* misc: Reserve minor for VFIOAlex Williamson2013-12-191-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | VFIO currently allocates it's own dynamic chardev range, reserving the first minor for the control part of the interface (/dev/vfio/vfio) and the remainder for VFIO groups (/dev/vfio/$GROUP). This works, but it doesn't support auto loading. For instance when libvirt checks for VFIO support it looks for /dev/vfio/vfio, which currently doesn't exist unless the vfio module is loaded. By converting the control device to a misc driver and reserving a static minor, we can enable auto loading. Reserving the minor is a prerequist to that conversion. Minor 196 is unused by anything currently in the kernel. Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-11-131-0/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi: "This adds a ->writepage() implementation to fuse, improving mmaped writeout and paving the way for buffered writeback. And there's a patch to add a fix minor number for /dev/cuse, similarly to /dev/fuse" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: fuse: writepages: protect secondary requests from fuse file release fuse: writepages: update bdi writeout when deleting secondary request fuse: writepages: crop secondary requests fuse: writepages: roll back changes if request not found cuse: add fix minor number to /dev/cuse fuse: writepage: skip already in flight fuse: writepages: handle same page rewrites fuse: writepages: fix aggregation fuse: fix race in fuse_writepages() fuse: Implement writepages callback fuse: don't BUG on no write file fuse: lock page in mkwrite fuse: Prepare to handle multiple pages in writeback fuse: Getting file for writeback helper
| * cuse: add fix minor number to /dev/cuseTom Gundersen2013-10-011-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This allows udev (or more recently systemd-tmpfiles) to create /dev/cuse on boot, in the same way as /dev/fuse is currently created, and the corresponding module to be loaded on first access. The corresponding functionalty was introduced for fuse in commit 578454f. Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
* | HID: uhid: allocate static minorDavid Herrmann2013-09-261-0/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | udev has this nice feature of creating "dead" /dev/<node> device-nodes if it finds a devnode:<node> modalias. Once the node is accessed, the kernel automatically loads the module that provides the node. However, this requires udev to know the major:minor code to use for the node. This feature was introduced by: commit 578454ff7eab61d13a26b568f99a89a2c9edc881 Author: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Date: Thu May 20 18:07:20 2010 +0200 driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading However, uhid uses dynamic minor numbers so this doesn't actually work. We need to load uhid to know which minor it's going to use. Hence, allocate a static minor (just like uinput does) and we're good to go. Reported-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* [SCSI] miscdevice: Adding support for MPT3SAS_MINOR(222)Sreekanth Reddy2012-12-011-0/+1
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Sreekanth Reddy <Sreekanth.Reddy@lsi.com> Reviewed-by: Nagalakshmi Nandigama <Nagalakshmi.Nandigama@lsi.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
* xen/mce: Add mcelog support for Xen platformLiu, Jinsong2012-07-191-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When MCA error occurs, it would be handled by Xen hypervisor first, and then the error information would be sent to initial domain for logging. This patch gets error information from Xen hypervisor and convert Xen format error into Linux format mcelog. This logic is basically self-contained, not touching other kernel components. By using tools like mcelog tool users could read specific error information, like what they did under native Linux. To test follow directions outlined in Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt Acked-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ke, Liping <liping.ke@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jiang, Yunhong <yunhong.jiang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Liu, Jinsong <jinsong.liu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
* vhost-net: add module alias (v2.1)stephen hemminger2012-01-131-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | By adding some module aliases, programs (or users) won't have to explicitly call modprobe. Vhost-net will always be available if built into the kernel. It does require assigning a permanent minor number for depmod to work. Also: - use C99 style initialization. - add missing entry in documentation for loop-control Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* switch miscdevice to umode_tAl Viro2012-01-031-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and typesPaul Gortmaker2011-10-311-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | By removing the implicit presence of module.h from this file, we will see things like: In file included from fs/dlm/user.c:9: include/linux/miscdevice.h:50: error: field ‘list’ has incomplete type include/linux/miscdevice.h:54: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘mode_t’ Call out lists.h and types.h for inclusion to fix each of the above respectively. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
* miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.hPaul Gortmaker2011-10-311-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This file has a define MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV which in turn will use the MODULE_ALIAS define, but only if the former is explicitly used by modular device driver code (and such code should be already including module.h). Delete the include, since module.h is such a giant thing that we don't want it implicitly sneaking into compiles where it isn't specifically required. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
* loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocationKay Sievers2011-07-311-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Loop devices today have a fixed pre-allocated number of usually 8. The number can only be changed at module init time. To find a free device to use, /dev/loop%i needs to be scanned, and all devices need to be opened until a free one is possibly found. This adds a new /dev/loop-control device node, that allows to dynamically find or allocate a free device, and to add and remove loop devices from the running system: LOOP_CTL_ADD adds a specific device. Arg is the number of the device. It returns the device i or a negative error code. LOOP_CTL_REMOVE removes a specific device, Arg is the number the device. It returns the device i or a negative error code. LOOP_CTL_GET_FREE finds the next unbound device or allocates a new one. No arg is given. It returns the device i or a negative error code. The loop kernel module gets automatically loaded when /dev/loop-control is accessed the first time. The alias specified in the module, instructs udev to create this 'dead' device node, even when the module is not loaded. Example: cfd = open("/dev/loop-control", O_RDWR); # add a new specific loop device err = ioctl(cfd, LOOP_CTL_ADD, devnr); # remove a specific loop device err = ioctl(cfd, LOOP_CTL_REMOVE, devnr); # find or allocate a free loop device to use devnr = ioctl(cfd, LOOP_CTL_GET_FREE); sprintf(loopname, "/dev/loop%i", devnr); ffd = open("backing-file", O_RDWR); lfd = open(loopname, O_RDWR); err = ioctl(lfd, LOOP_SET_FD, ffd); Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* Input: uinput - add devname alias to allow module on-demand loadKay Sievers2010-08-211-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | Recent modprobe and udev versions allow to create device nodes for modules which are not loaded. Only the first access will cause the in-kernel module loader to pull-in the module. Systems which never access the device node will not needlessly load the module, and no longer need init scripts or other facilities to unconditionally load it. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
* dm: allow autoloading of dm modPeter Rajnoha2010-08-121-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | Add devname:mapper/control and MAPPER_CTRL_MINOR module alias to support dm-mod module autoloading. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Rajnoha <prajnoha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* misc: Fix allocation 'borrowed' by vhost_netAlan Cox2010-06-091-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 10, 233 is allocated officially to /dev/kmview which is shipping in Ubuntu and Debian distributions. vhost_net seem to have borrowed it without making a proper request and this causes regressions in the other distributions. vhost_net can use a dynamic minor so use that instead. Also update the file with a comment to try and avoid future misunderstandings. cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <device@lanana.org> [ We should have caught this before 2.6.34 got released. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loadingKay Sievers2010-05-251-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds: alias: devname:<name> to some common kernel modules, which will allow the on-demand loading of the kernel module when the device node is accessed. Ideally all these modules would be compiled-in, but distros seems too much in love with their modularization that we need to cover the common cases with this new facility. It will allow us to remove a bunch of pretty useless init scripts and modprobes from init scripts. The static device node aliases will be carried in the module itself. The program depmod will extract this information to a file in the module directory: $ cat /lib/modules/2.6.34-00650-g537b60d-dirty/modules.devname # Device nodes to trigger on-demand module loading. microcode cpu/microcode c10:184 fuse fuse c10:229 ppp_generic ppp c108:0 tun net/tun c10:200 dm_mod mapper/control c10:235 Udev will pick up the depmod created file on startup and create all the static device nodes which the kernel modules specify, so that these modules get automatically loaded when the device node is accessed: $ /sbin/udevd --debug ... static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/cpu/microcode' c10:184 static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/fuse' c10:229 static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/ppp' c108:0 static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/net/tun' c10:200 static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/mapper/control' c10:235 udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/net/tun' 0666 udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/fuse' 0666 A few device nodes are switched to statically allocated numbers, to allow the static nodes to work. This might also useful for systems which still run a plain static /dev, which is completely unsafe to use with any dynamic minor numbers. Note: The devname aliases must be limited to the *common* and *single*instance* device nodes, like the misc devices, and never be used for conceptually limited systems like the loop devices, which should rather get fixed properly and get a control node for losetup to talk to, instead of creating a random number of device nodes in advance, regardless if they are ever used. This facility is to hide the mess distros are creating with too modualized kernels, and just to hide that these modules are not compiled-in, and not to paper-over broken concepts. Thanks! :) Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk> Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-Off-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio serverMichael S. Tsirkin2010-01-151-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | What it is: vhost net is a character device that can be used to reduce the number of system calls involved in virtio networking. Existing virtio net code is used in the guest without modification. There's similarity with vringfd, with some differences and reduced scope - uses eventfd for signalling - structures can be moved around in memory at any time (good for migration, bug work-arounds in userspace) - write logging is supported (good for migration) - support memory table and not just an offset (needed for kvm) common virtio related code has been put in a separate file vhost.c and can be made into a separate module if/when more backends appear. I used Rusty's lguest.c as the source for developing this part : this supplied me with witty comments I wouldn't be able to write myself. What it is not: vhost net is not a bus, and not a generic new system call. No assumptions are made on how guest performs hypercalls. Userspace hypervisors are supported as well as kvm. How it works: Basically, we connect virtio frontend (configured by userspace) to a backend. The backend could be a network device, or a tap device. Backend is also configured by userspace, including vlan/mac etc. Status: This works for me, and I haven't see any crashes. Compared to userspace, people reported improved latency (as I save up to 4 system calls per packet), as well as better bandwidth and CPU utilization. Features that I plan to look at in the future: - mergeable buffers - zero copy - scalability tuning: figure out the best threading model to use Note on RCU usage (this is also documented in vhost.h, near private_pointer which is the value protected by this variant of RCU): what is happening is that the rcu_dereference() is being used in a workqueue item. The role of rcu_read_lock() is taken on by the start of execution of the workqueue item, of rcu_read_unlock() by the end of execution of the workqueue item, and of synchronize_rcu() by flush_workqueue()/flush_work(). In the future we might need to apply some gcc attribute or sparse annotation to the function passed to INIT_WORK(). Paul's ack below is for this RCU usage. (Includes fixes by Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>, David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>, Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>) Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Driver-Core: extend devnode callbacks to provide permissionsKay Sievers2009-09-191-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This allows subsytems to provide devtmpfs with non-default permissions for the device node. Instead of the default mode of 0600, null, zero, random, urandom, full, tty, ptmx now have a mode of 0666, which allows non-privileged processes to access standard device nodes in case no other userspace process applies the expected permissions. This also fixes a wrong assignment in pktcdvd and a checkpatch.pl complain. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Driver Core: misc: add nodename support for misc devices.Kay Sievers2009-06-151-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | This adds support for misc devices to report their requested nodename to userspace. It also updates a number of misc drivers to provide the needed subdirectory and device name to be used for them. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [SCSI] mpt2sas: add MPT2SAS_MINOR(221) to miscdevice.hEric Moore2009-03-131-0/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Eric Moore <eric.moore@lsi.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
* fuse: move FUSE_MINOR to miscdevice.hTejun Heo2008-11-261-21/+21
| | | | | | | Move FUSE_MINOR to miscdevice.h. While at it, de-uglify the file. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
* PM: Remove destroy_suspended_device()Rafael J. Wysocki2008-04-191-9/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After 2.6.24 there was a plan to make the PM core acquire all device semaphores during a suspend/hibernation to protect itself from concurrent operations involving device objects. That proved to be too heavy-handed and we found a better way to achieve the goal, but before it happened, we had introduced the functions device_pm_schedule_removal() and destroy_suspended_device() to allow drivers to "safely" destroy a suspended device and we had adapted some drivers to use them. Now that these functions are no longer necessary, it seems reasonable to remove them and modify their users to use the normal device unregistration instead. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Misc: Add possibility to remove misc devices during suspend/resumeRafael J. Wysocki2008-02-051-1/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make it possible to unregister a misc device object in a safe way during a suspend/resume cycle. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* KVM: Use own minor numberAvi Kivity2007-05-031-0/+1
| | | | | | Use the minor number (232) allocated to kvm by lanana. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
* Driver core: change misc class_devices to be real devicesGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-12-011-3/+2
| | | | | | | | This also ment that some of the misc drivers had to also be fixed up as they were assuming the device was a class_device. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] devfs: Remove the miscdevice devfs_name field as it's no longer neededGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-06-261-1/+0
| | | | | | Also fixes all drivers that set this field. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] mark f_ops const in the inodeArjan van de Ven2006-03-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Mark the f_ops members of inodes as const, as well as fix the ripple-through this causes by places that copy this f_ops and then "do stuff" with it. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-161-0/+52
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
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