lwn.git/net/mac80211, branch v4.1-rc1

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2015-04-15T16:00:47+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller: 1) Add BQL support to via-rhine, from Tino Reichardt. 2) Integrate SWITCHDEV layer support into the DSA layer, so DSA drivers can support hw switch offloading. From Floria Fainelli. 3) Allow 'ip address' commands to initiate multicast group join/leave, from Madhu Challa. 4) Many ipv4 FIB lookup optimizations from Alexander Duyck. 5) Support EBPF in cls_bpf classifier and act_bpf action, from Daniel Borkmann. 6) Remove the ugly compat support in ARP for ugly layers like ax25, rose, etc. And use this to clean up the neigh layer, then use it to implement MPLS support. All from Eric Biederman. 7) Support L3 forwarding offloading in switches, from Scott Feldman. 8) Collapse the LOCAL and MAIN ipv4 FIB tables when possible, to speed up route lookups even further. From Alexander Duyck. 9) Many improvements and bug fixes to the rhashtable implementation, from Herbert Xu and Thomas Graf. In particular, in the case where an rhashtable user bulk adds a large number of items into an empty table, we expand the table much more sanely. 10) Don't make the tcp_metrics hash table per-namespace, from Eric Biederman. 11) Extend EBPF to access SKB fields, from Alexei Starovoitov. 12) Split out new connection request sockets so that they can be established in the main hash table. Much less false sharing since hash lookups go direct to the request sockets instead of having to go first to the listener then to the request socks hashed underneath. From Eric Dumazet. 13) Add async I/O support for crytpo AF_ALG sockets, from Tadeusz Struk. 14) Support stable privacy address generation for RFC7217 in IPV6. From Hannes Frederic Sowa. 15) Hash network namespace into IP frag IDs, also from Hannes Frederic Sowa. 16) Convert PTP get/set methods to use 64-bit time, from Richard Cochran. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1816 commits) fm10k: Bump driver version to 0.15.2 fm10k: corrected VF multicast update fm10k: mbx_update_max_size does not drop all oversized messages fm10k: reset head instead of calling update_max_size fm10k: renamed mbx_tx_dropped to mbx_tx_oversized fm10k: update xcast mode before synchronizing multicast addresses fm10k: start service timer on probe fm10k: fix function header comment fm10k: comment next_vf_mbx flow fm10k: don't handle mailbox events in iov_event path and always process mailbox fm10k: use separate workqueue for fm10k driver fm10k: Set PF queues to unlimited bandwidth during virtualization fm10k: expose tx_timeout_count as an ethtool stat fm10k: only increment tx_timeout_count in Tx hang path fm10k: remove extraneous "Reset interface" message fm10k: separate PF only stats so that VF does not display them fm10k: use hw->mac.max_queues for stats fm10k: only show actual queues, not the maximum in hardware fm10k: allow creation of VLAN on default vid fm10k: fix unused warnings ...

Merge tag 'trace-v4.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2015-04-14T17:49:03+00:00

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "Some clean ups and small fixes, but the biggest change is the addition of the TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macro that can be used by tracepoints. Tracepoints have helper functions for the TP_printk() called __print_symbolic() and __print_flags() that lets a numeric number be displayed as a a human comprehensible text. What is placed in the TP_printk() is also shown in the tracepoint format file such that user space tools like perf and trace-cmd can parse the binary data and express the values too. Unfortunately, the way the TRACE_EVENT() macro works, anything placed in the TP_printk() will be shown pretty much exactly as is. The problem arises when enums are used. That's because unlike macros, enums will not be changed into their values by the C pre-processor. Thus, the enum string is exported to the format file, and this makes it useless for user space tools. The TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() solves this by converting the enum strings in the TP_printk() format into their number, and that is what is shown to user space. For example, the tracepoint tlb_flush currently has this in its format file: __print_symbolic(REC->reason, { TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, "flush on task switch" }, { TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN, "remote shootdown" }, { TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN, "local shootdown" }, { TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN, "local mm shootdown" }) After adding: TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH); TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN); TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN); TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN); Its format file will contain this: __print_symbolic(REC->reason, { 0, "flush on task switch" }, { 1, "remote shootdown" }, { 2, "local shootdown" }, { 3, "local mm shootdown" })" * tag 'trace-v4.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (27 commits) tracing: Add enum_map file to show enums that have been mapped writeback: Export enums used by tracepoint to user space v4l: Export enums used by tracepoints to user space SUNRPC: Export enums in tracepoints to user space mm: tracing: Export enums in tracepoints to user space irq/tracing: Export enums in tracepoints to user space f2fs: Export the enums in the tracepoints to userspace net/9p/tracing: Export enums in tracepoints to userspace x86/tlb/trace: Export enums in used by tlb_flush tracepoint tracing/samples: Update the trace-event-sample.h with TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() tracing: Allow for modules to convert their enums to values tracing: Add TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macro to map enums to their values tracing: Update trace-event-sample with TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR documentation tracing: Give system name a pointer brcmsmac: Move each system tracepoints to their own header iwlwifi: Move each system tracepoints to their own header mac80211: Move message tracepoints to their own header tracing: Add TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR to xhci-hcd tracing: Add TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR to kvm-s390 tracing: Add TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR to intel-sst ...

Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-davem-2015-04-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next

2015-04-13T00:43:46+00:00

Johannes Berg says: ==================== There isn't much left, but we have * new mac80211 internal software queue to allow drivers to have shorter hardware queues and pull on-demand * use rhashtable for mac80211 station table * minstrel rate control debug improvements and some refactoring * fix noisy message about TX power reduction * fix continuous message printing and activity if CRDA doesn't respond * fix VHT-related capabilities with "iw connect" or "iwconfig ..." * fix Kconfig for cfg80211 wireless extensions compatibility ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

mac80211: Move message tracepoints to their own header

2015-04-07T16:32:09+00:00

Every tracing file must have its own TRACE_SYSTEM defined. The mac80211 tracepoint header broke this and add in the middle of the file had: #undef TRACE_SYSTEM #define TRACE_SYSTEM mac80211_msg Unfortunately, this broke new code in the ftrace infrastructure. Moving the mac80211_msg into its own trace file with its own TRACE_SYSTEM defined fixes the issue. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428389938.1841.1.camel@sipsolutions.net Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

cfg80211: move IE split utilities here from mac80211

2015-04-07T11:56:41+00:00

As the next patch will require the IE splitting utility functions in cfg80211, move them there from mac80211. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2015-04-02T20:16:53+00:00

Conflicts: drivers/net/usb/asix_common.c drivers/net/usb/sr9800.c drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c include/linux/usb/usbnet.h net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c The TCP conflicts were overlapping changes. In 'net' we added a READ_ONCE() to the socket cached RX route read, whilst in 'net-next' Eric Dumazet touched the surrounding code dealing with how mini sockets are handled. With USB, it's a case of the same bug fix first going into net-next and then I cherry picked it back into net. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

mac80211: add an intermediate software queue implementation

2015-04-01T18:44:34+00:00

This allows drivers to request per-vif and per-sta-tid queues from which they can pull frames. This makes it easier to keep the hardware queues short, and to improve fairness between clients and vifs. The task of scheduling packet transmission is left up to the driver - queueing is controlled by mac80211. Drivers can only dequeue packets by calling ieee80211_tx_dequeue. This makes it possible to add active queue management later without changing drivers using this code. This can also be used as a starting point to implement A-MSDU aggregation in a way that does not add artificially induced latency. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau [resolved minor context conflict, minor changes, endian annotations] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: reduce log spam from ieee80211_handle_pwr_constr

2015-04-01T18:44:34+00:00

This changes a couple of messages from sdata_info to sdata_dbg. This should reduce some log spam, as reported here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1206468 Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: add standard deviation to Minstrel stats

2015-04-01T18:44:33+00:00

This patch adds the statistical descriptor "standard deviation" to better describe the current properties of Minstrel and Minstrel-HTs success probability distribution. The standard deviation (SD) is calculated as exponential weighted moving standard deviation (EWMSD) and its current value is added as new column in all rc_stats (in debugfs). Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn Acked-by: Felix Fietkau Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: reduce calculation costs of EWMA

2015-04-01T18:44:33+00:00

This patch reduces the calculation costs of the EWMA macro from "2x multiplication and 1 addition" down to "1x multiplication and 2x additions". This slightly improves performance depending on the CPU architecture. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn Acked-by: Felix Fietkau Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg