linux/drivers/net/loopback.c, branch v2.6.36

net: fix 64 bit counters on 32 bit arches

2010-07-07T21:58:56Z

There is a small possibility that a reader gets incorrect values on 32 bit arches. SNMP applications could catch incorrect counters when a 32bit high part is changed by another stats consumer/provider. One way to solve this is to add a rtnl_link_stats64 param to all ndo_get_stats64() methods, and also add such a parameter to dev_get_stats(). Rule is that we are not allowed to use dev->stats64 as a temporary storage for 64bit stats, but a caller provided area (usually on stack) Old drivers (only providing get_stats() method) need no changes. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

loopback: use u64_stats_sync infrastructure

2010-06-26T04:33:16Z

Commit 6b10de38f0ef (loopback: Implement 64bit stats on 32bit arches) introduced 64bit stats in loopback driver, using a private seqcount and private helpers. David suggested to introduce a generic infrastructure, added in (net: Introduce u64_stats_sync infrastructure) This patch reimplements loopback 64bit stats using the u64_stats_sync infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

loopback: Implement 64bit stats on 32bit arches

2010-06-15T06:13:07Z

Uses a seqcount_t to synchronize stat producer and consumer, for packets and bytes counter, now u64 types. (dropped counter being rarely used, stay a native "unsigned long" type) No noticeable performance impact on x86, as it only adds two increments per frame. It might be more expensive on arches where smp_wmb() is not free. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to net drivers

2010-02-17T07:05:38Z

Add __percpu sparse annotations to net drivers. These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be in a different address space and warn if accessed without going through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: David S. Miller Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu

2009-12-14T17:58:24Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits) m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique percpu: remove some sparse warnings percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var() this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics ... Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in arch/x86/kvm/svm.c mm/slab.c

net: Simplify loopback and improve batching.

2009-12-02T00:15:52Z

Defer calling unregister_netdevice_queue to cleanup_net. It's simpler and it allows the loopback device to land in the same batch as other network devices. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: use net_eq to compare nets

2009-11-25T23:14:13Z

Generated with the following semantic patch @@ struct net *n1; struct net *n2; @@ - n1 == n2 + net_eq(n1, n2) @@ struct net *n1; struct net *n2; @@ - n1 != n2 + !net_eq(n1, n2) applied over {include,net,drivers/net}. Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

this_cpu: Straight transformations

2009-10-03T10:48:22Z

Use this_cpu_ptr and __this_cpu_ptr in locations where straight transformations are possible because per_cpu_ptr is used with either smp_processor_id() or raw_smp_processor_id(). cc: David Howells Acked-by: Tejun Heo cc: Ingo Molnar cc: Rusty Russell cc: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

netdev: convert bulk of drivers to netdev_tx_t

2009-09-01T08:14:07Z

In a couple of cases collapse some extra code like: int retval = NETDEV_TX_OK; ... return retval; into return NETDEV_TX_OK; Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: use NETDEV_TX_OK instead of 0 in ndo_start_xmit() functions

2009-07-06T02:16:04Z

This patch is the result of an automatic spatch transformation to convert all ndo_start_xmit() return values of 0 to NETDEV_TX_OK. Some occurences are missed by the automatic conversion, those will be handled in a seperate patch. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller