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    • Jan Beulich's avatar
      Xen: consolidate and simplify struct xenbus_driver instantiation · 73db144b
      Jan Beulich authored 
      
The 'name', 'owner', and 'mod_name' members are redundant with the
identically named fields in the 'driver' sub-structure. Rather than
switching each instance to specify these fields explicitly, introduce
a macro to simplify this.

Eliminate further redundancy by allowing the drvname argument to
DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() to be blank (in which case the first entry from
the ID table will be used for .driver.name).

Also eliminate the questionable xenbus_register_{back,front}end()
wrappers - their sole remaining purpose was the checking of the
'owner' field, proper setting of which shouldn't be an issue anymore
when the macro gets used.

v2: Restore DRV_NAME for the driver name in xen-pciback.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
      73db144b
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    • Ian Campbell's avatar
      xen: netfront: hold RTNL when updating features. · 1ba37c51
      Ian Campbell authored 
      Konrad reports:
[    0.930811] RTNL: assertion failed at /home/konrad/ssd/linux/net/core/dev.c (5258)
[    0.930821] Pid: 22, comm: xenwatch Not tainted 2.6.39-05193-gd762f438

 #1
[    0.930825] Call Trace:
[    0.930834]  [<ffffffff8143bd0e>] __netdev_update_features+0xae/0xe0
[    0.930840]  [<ffffffff8143dd41>] netdev_update_features+0x11/0x30
[    0.930847]  [<ffffffffa0037105>] netback_changed+0x4e5/0x800 [xen_netfront]
[    0.930854]  [<ffffffff8132a838>] xenbus_otherend_changed+0xa8/0xb0
[    0.930860]  [<ffffffff8157ca99>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x19/0x20
[    0.930866]  [<ffffffff8132adfe>] backend_changed+0xe/0x10
[    0.930871]  [<ffffffff8132875a>] xenwatch_thread+0xba/0x180
[    0.930876]  [<ffffffff810a8ba0>] ? wake_up_bit+0x40/0x40
[    0.930881]  [<ffffffff813286a0>] ? split+0xf0/0xf0
[    0.930886]  [<ffffffff810a8646>] kthread+0x96/0xa0
[    0.930891]  [<ffffffff815855a4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[    0.930896]  [<ffffffff815846b3>] ? int_ret_from_sys_call+0x7/0x1b
[    0.930901]  [<ffffffff8157cf61>] ? retint_restore_args+0x5/0x6
[    0.930906]  [<ffffffff815855a0>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13

This update happens in xenbus watch callback context and hence does not already
hold the rtnl. Take the lock as necessary.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Tested-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      1ba37c51
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    • Javier Martinez Canillas's avatar
      drivers/net: Remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM flag from network drivers · ab392d2d
      Javier Martinez Canillas authored 
      
The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM flag is marked as deprecated and will be removed.

Every input point to the kernel's entropy pool have to better document the
type of entropy source it is.

drivers/char/random.c now implements a set of interfaces that can be used for
devices to collect enviromental noise. IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM will be replaced
with these add_*_randomness exported functions.

Network drivers are not a good source of entropy. They use as a source of
entropy essentially a remote host. Which means that the source of entropy can
be potentially controlled by an attacker. Also, with heavy workloads the
entropy decreases due to less hardware interrupts happening thanks to irq
mitigation and NAPI.

If a system relies in its network interface as a entropy source it has a false
sense of security. Systems that don't have devices whose drivers are good
sources of entropy, should either use a hardware random number generator or
feed the kernel's entropy pool from userspace using other sources of entropy
such as EGD, video_entropyd, timer_entropyd and audio-entropyd.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJavier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      ab392d2d
  33. 16 Mar, 2011 1 commit
    • Ian Campbell's avatar
      xen network backend driver · f942dc25
      Ian Campbell authored 
      netback is the host side counterpart to the frontend driver in
drivers/net/xen-netfront.c. The PV protocol is also implemented by
frontend drivers in other OSes too, such as the BSDs and even Windows.

The patch is based on the driver from the xen.git pvops kernel tree but
has been put through the checkpatch.pl wringer plus several manual
cleanup passes and review iterations. The driver has been moved from
drivers/xen/netback to drivers/net/xen-netback.

One major change from xen.git is that the guest transmit path (i.e. what
looks like receive to netback) has been significantly reworked to remove
the dependency on the out of tree PageForeign page flag (a core kernel
patch which enables a per page destructor callback on the final
put_page). This page flag was used in order to implement a grant map
based transmit path (where guest pages are mapped directly into SKB
frags). Instead this version of netback uses grant copy operations into
regular memory belonging to the backend domain. Reinstating the grant
map functionality is something which I would like to revisit in the
future.

Note that this driver depends on 2e820f58 "xen/irq: implement
bind_interdomain_evtchn_to_irqhandler for backend drivers" which is in
linux next via the "xen-two" tree and is intended for the 2.6.39 merge
window:
        git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git

 stable/backends
this branch has only that single commit since 2.6.38-rc2 and is safe for
cross merging into the net branch.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      f942dc25
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    • Ian Campbell's avatar
      xen: netfront: handle incoming GSO SKBs which are not CHECKSUM_PARTIAL · e0ce4af9
      Ian Campbell authored 
      
The Linux network stack expects all GSO SKBs to have ip_summed ==
CHECKSUM_PARTIAL (which implies that the frame contains a partial
checksum) and the Xen network ring protocol similarly expects an SKB
which has GSO set to also have NETRX_csum_blank (which also implies a
partial checksum).

However there have been cases of buggy guests which mark a frame as
GSO but do not set csum_blank. If we detect that we a receiving such a
frame (which manifests as ip_summed != PARTIAL && skb_is_gso) then
force the SKB to partial and recalculate the checksum, since we cannot
rely on the peer having done so if they have not set csum_blank.

Add an ethtool stat to track occurances of this event.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      e0ce4af9
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    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking... · 5a0e3ad6
      Tejun Heo authored 
      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

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: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      5a0e3ad6
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