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2015-12-03e100.txt: Cleanup license info in kernel docJeff Kirsher
Apparently the e100.txt document contained a "License" section left over from days of old, which does not need to be in the kernel documentation. So clean it up.. CC: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
2015-11-13Merge tag '4.4-additional' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull more documentation updates from Jon Corbet: "A few more documentation patches that wandered in and have no reason to wait; these include some improvements to the suggestions for email clients and patch submission" * tag '4.4-additional' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: Documentation: Add minimal Mutt config for using Gmail Documentation: Add note on sending files directly with Mutt Documentation: dontdiff: remove media from dontdiff Documentation/SubmittingPatches: discuss In-Reply-To Remove email address from Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt can-doc: Add missing semicolon to example
2015-11-11can-doc: Add missing semicolon to exampleStefan Tatschner
The example code for CAN_BCM, connect(s, (struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(addr)) lacks a semicolon at the end of the line. This patch adds that missing semicolon to ensure that the given code snippet actually compiles. Signed-off-by: Stefan Tatschner <rumpelsepp@sevenbyte.org> Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-11-10Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netLinus Torvalds
Pull networking fixes from David Miller: 1) Fix null deref in xt_TEE netfilter module, from Eric Dumazet. 2) Several spots need to get to the original listner for SYN-ACK packets, most spots got this ok but some were not. Whilst covering the remaining cases, create a helper to do this. From Eric Dumazet. 3) Missiing check of return value from alloc_netdev() in CAIF SPI code, from Rasmus Villemoes. 4) Don't sleep while != TASK_RUNNING in macvtap, from Vlad Yasevich. 5) Use after free in mvneta driver, from Justin Maggard. 6) Fix race on dst->flags access in dst_release(), from Eric Dumazet. 7) Add missing ZLIB_INFLATE dependency for new qed driver. From Arnd Bergmann. 8) Fix multicast getsockopt deadlock, from WANG Cong. 9) Fix deadlock in btusb, from Kuba Pawlak. 10) Some ipv6_add_dev() failure paths were not cleaning up the SNMP6 counter state. From Sabrina Dubroca. 11) Fix packet_bind() race, which can cause lost notifications, from Francesco Ruggeri. 12) Fix MAC restoration in qlcnic driver during bonding mode changes, from Jarod Wilson. 13) Revert bridging forward delay change which broke libvirt and other userspace things, from Vlad Yasevich. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (65 commits) Revert "bridge: Allow forward delay to be cfgd when STP enabled" bpf_trace: Make dependent on PERF_EVENTS qed: select ZLIB_INFLATE net: fix a race in dst_release() net: mvneta: Fix memory use after free. net: Documentation: Fix default value tcp_limit_output_bytes macvtap: Resolve possible __might_sleep warning in macvtap_do_read() mvneta: add FIXED_PHY dependency net: caif: check return value of alloc_netdev net: hisilicon: NET_VENDOR_HISILICON should depend on HAS_DMA drivers: net: xgene: fix RGMII 10/100Mb mode netfilter: nft_meta: use skb_to_full_sk() helper net_sched: em_meta: use skb_to_full_sk() helper sched: cls_flow: use skb_to_full_sk() helper netfilter: xt_owner: use skb_to_full_sk() helper smack: use skb_to_full_sk() helper net: add skb_to_full_sk() helper and use it in selinux_netlbl_skbuff_setsid() bpf: doc: correct arch list for supported eBPF JIT dwc_eth_qos: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "of_node_put" bonding: fix panic on non-ARPHRD_ETHER enslave failure ...
2015-11-09net: Documentation: Fix default value tcp_limit_output_bytesNiklas Cassel
Commit c39c4c6abb89 ("tcp: double default TSQ output bytes limit") updated default value for tcp_limit_output_bytes Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@axis.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-11-08bpf: doc: correct arch list for supported eBPF JITYang Shi
aarch64 and s390x support eBPF JIT too, correct document to reflect this and avoid any confusion. Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-11-05Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation update from Jon Corbet: "There is a nice new document from Neil on how pathname lookups work and some new CAN driver documentation. Beyond that, we have kernel-doc fixes, a bit more work to support reproducible builds, and the usual collection of small fixes" * tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (34 commits) Documentation: add new description of path-name lookup. Documentation/vm/slub.txt: document slabinfo-gnuplot.sh Doc: ABI/stable: Fix typo in ABI/stable doc: Clarify that nmi_watchdog param is for hardlockups Typo correction for description in gpio document. DocBook: Fix kernel-doc to be case-insensitive for private: kernel-docs.txt: update kernelnewbies reference Doc:kvm: Fix typo in Doc/virtual/kvm Documentation/Changes: Add bc in "Current Minimal Requirements" section Documentation/email-clients.txt: remove trailing whitespace DocBook: Use a fixed encoding for output MAINTAINERS: The docs tree has moved Docs/kernel-parameters: Add earlycon devicetree usage SubmittingPatches: make Subject examples match the de facto standard Documentation: gpio: mention that <function>-gpio has been deprecated Documentation: cgroups: just fix a few typos Documentation: Update kselftest.txt Documentation: DMA API: Be more explicit that nents is always the same Documentation: Update the default value of crashkernel low zram: update documentation ...
2015-10-30Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec-next Steffen Klassert says: ==================== pull request (net-next): ipsec-next 2015-10-30 1) The flow cache is limited by the flow cache limit which depends on the number of cpus and the xfrm garbage collector threshold which is independent of the number of cpus. This leads to the fact that on systems with more than 16 cpus we hit the xfrm garbage collector limit and refuse new allocations, so new flows are dropped. On systems with 16 or less cpus, we hit the flowcache limit. In this case, we shrink the flow cache instead of refusing new flows. We increase the xfrm garbage collector threshold to INT_MAX to get the same behaviour, independent of the number of cpus. 2) Fix some unaligned accesses on sparc systems. From Sowmini Varadhan. 3) Fix some header checks in _decode_session4. We may call pskb_may_pull with a negative value converted to unsigened int from pskb_may_pull. This can lead to incorrect policy lookups. We fix this by a check of the data pointer position before we call pskb_may_pull. 4) Reload skb header pointers after calling pskb_may_pull in _decode_session4 as this may change the pointers into the packet. 5) Add a missing statistic counter on inner mode errors. Please pull or let me know if there are problems. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-30switchdev: Make flood to CPU optionalIdo Schimmel
In certain use cases it is not always desirable for the switch device to flood traffic to CPU port. Instead, only certain packet types (e.g. STP, LACP) should be trapped to it. Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-30switchdev: Add support for flood controlIdo Schimmel
Allow devices supporting this feature to control the flooding of unknown unicast traffic, by making switchdev infrastructure propagate this setting to the switch driver. Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-21tcp: use RACK to detect lossesYuchung Cheng
This patch implements the second half of RACK that uses the the most recent transmit time among all delivered packets to detect losses. tcp_rack_mark_lost() is called upon receiving a dubious ACK. It then checks if an not-yet-sacked packet was sent at least "reo_wnd" prior to the sent time of the most recently delivered. If so the packet is deemed lost. The "reo_wnd" reordering window starts with 1msec for fast loss detection and changes to min-RTT/4 when reordering is observed. We found 1msec accommodates well on tiny degree of reordering (<3 pkts) on faster links. We use min-RTT instead of SRTT because reordering is more of a path property but SRTT can be inflated by self-inflicated congestion. The factor of 4 is borrowed from the delayed early retransmit and seems to work reasonably well. Since RACK is still experimental, it is now used as a supplemental loss detection on top of existing algorithms. It is only effective after the fast recovery starts or after the timeout occurs. The fast recovery is still triggered by FACK and/or dupack threshold instead of RACK. We introduce a new sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_recovery for future experiments of loss recoveries. For now RACK can be disabled by setting it to 0. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-21tcp: track min RTT using windowed min-filterYuchung Cheng
Kathleen Nichols' algorithm for tracking the minimum RTT of a data stream over some measurement window. It uses constant space and constant time per update. Yet it almost always delivers the same minimum as an implementation that has to keep all the data in the window. The measurement window is tunable via sysctl.net.ipv4.tcp_min_rtt_wlen with a default value of 5 minutes. The algorithm keeps track of the best, 2nd best & 3rd best min values, maintaining an invariant that the measurement time of the n'th best >= n-1'th best. It also makes sure that the three values are widely separated in the time window since that bounds the worse case error when that data is monotonically increasing over the window. Upon getting a new min, we can forget everything earlier because it has no value - the new min is less than everything else in the window by definition and it's the most recent. So we restart fresh on every new min and overwrites the 2nd & 3rd choices. The same property holds for the 2nd & 3rd best. Therefore we have to maintain two invariants to maximize the information in the samples, one on values (1st.v <= 2nd.v <= 3rd.v) and the other on times (now-win <=1st.t <= 2nd.t <= 3rd.t <= now). These invariants determine the structure of the code The RTT input to the windowed filter is the minimum RTT measured from ACK or SACK, or as the last resort from TCP timestamps. The accessor tcp_min_rtt() returns the minimum RTT seen in the window. ~0U indicates it is not available. The minimum is 1usec even if the true RTT is below that. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-14Revert "ipv4/icmp: redirect messages can use the ingress daddr as source"Paolo Abeni
Revert the commit e2ca690b657f ("ipv4/icmp: redirect messages can use the ingress daddr as source"), which tried to introduce a more suitable behaviour for ICMP redirect messages generated by VRRP routers. However RFC 5798 section 8.1.1 states: The IPv4 source address of an ICMP redirect should be the address that the end-host used when making its next-hop routing decision. while said commit used the generating packet destination address, which do not match the above and in most cases leads to no redirect packets to be generated. Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-13net: vrf: Documentation update, ip commandsDavid Ahern
Add ip commands with examples for creating VRF devics, enslaving interfaces and dumping VRF-focused data (address, neighbors, routes). Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-12ipv4/icmp: redirect messages can use the ingress daddr as sourcePaolo Abeni
This patch allows configuring how the source address of ICMP redirect messages is selected; by default the old behaviour is retained, while setting icmp_redirects_use_orig_daddr force the usage of the destination address of the packet that caused the redirect. The new behaviour fits closely the RFC 5798 section 8.1.1, and fix the following scenario: Two machines are set up with VRRP to act as routers out of a subnet, they have IPs x.x.x.1/24 and x.x.x.2/24, with VRRP holding on to x.x.x.254/24. If a host in said subnet needs to get an ICMP redirect from the VRRP router, i.e. to reach a destination behind a different gateway, the source IP in the ICMP redirect is chosen as the primary IP on the interface that the packet arrived at, i.e. x.x.x.1 or x.x.x.2. The host will then ignore said redirect, due to RFC 1122 section 3.2.2.2, and will continue to use the wrong next-op. Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-03switchdev: rename SWITCHDEV_ATTR_* enum values to SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_*Jiri Pirko
To be aligned with obj. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-03switchdev: rename SWITCHDEV_OBJ_* enum values to SWITCHDEV_OBJ_ID_*Jiri Pirko
Suggested-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-09-29xfrm: Let the flowcache handle its size by default.Steffen Klassert
The xfrm flowcache size is limited by the flowcache limit (4096 * number of online cpus) and the xfrm garbage collector threshold (2 * 32768), whatever is reached first. This means that we can hit the garbage collector limit only on systems with more than 16 cpus. On such systems we simply refuse new allocations if we reach the limit, so new flows are dropped. On syslems with 16 or less cpus, we hit the flowcache limit. In this case, we shrink the flow cache instead of refusing new flows. We increase the xfrm garbage collector threshold to INT_MAX to get the same behaviour, independent of the number of cpus. The xfrm garbage collector threshold can still be set below the flowcache limit to reduce the memory usage of the flowcache. Tested-by: Dan Streetman <dan.streetman@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2015-09-26Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: net/ipv4/arp.c The net/ipv4/arp.c conflict was one commit adding a new local variable while another commit was deleting one. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-09-25l2tp: remove references to modprobe in documentationstephen hemminger
No longer need explicit modprobe's and update to use ip instead of deprecated ifconfig command. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-09-24switchdev: introduce transaction item queue for attr_set and obj_addJiri Pirko
Now, the memory allocation in prepare/commit state is done separatelly in each driver (rocker). Introduce the similar mechanism in generic switchdev code, in form of queue. That can be used not only for memory allocations, but also for different items. Abort item destruction is handled as well. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-09-23switchdev: update documentation on FDB ageing_timeScott Feldman
Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-09-22Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-nextDavid S. Miller
Pablo Neira Ayuso says: ==================== Netfilter/IPVS updates for net-next The following patchset contains Netfilter/IPVS updates for your net-next tree in this 4.4 development cycle, they are: 1) Schedule ICMP traffic to IPVS instances, this introduces a new schedule_icmp proc knob to enable/disable it. By default is off to retain the old behaviour. Patchset from Alex Gartrell. I'm also including what Alex originally said for the record: "The configuration of ipvs at Facebook is relatively straightforward. All ipvs instances bgp advertise a set of VIPs and the network prefers the nearest one or uses ECMP in the event of a tie. For the uninitiated, ECMP deterministically and statelessly load balances by hashing the packet (usually a 5-tuple of protocol, saddr, daddr, sport, and dport) and using that number as an index (basic hash table type logic). The problem is that ICMP packets (which contain really important information like whether or not an MTU has been exceeded) will get a different hash value and may end up at a different ipvs instance. With no information about where to route these packets, they are dropped, creating ICMP black holes and breaking Path MTU discovery. Suddenly, my mom's pictures can't load and I'm fielding midday calls that I want nothing to do with. To address this, this patch set introduces the ability to schedule icmp packets which is gated by a sysctl net.ipv4.vs.schedule_icmp. If set to 0, the old behavior is maintained -- otherwise ICMP packets are scheduled." 2) Add another proc entry to ignore tunneled packets to avoid routing loops from IPVS, also from Alex. 3) Fifteen patches from Eric Biederman to: * Stop passing nf_hook_ops as parameter to the hook and use the state hook object instead all around the netfilter code, so only the private data pointer is passed to the registered hook function. * Now that we've got state->net, propagate the netns pointer to netfilter hook clients to avoid its computation over and over again. A good example of how this has been simplified is the former TEE target (now nf_dup infrastructure) since it has killed the ugly pick_net() function. There's another round of netns updates from Eric Biederman making the line. To avoid the patchbomb again to almost all the networking mailing list (that is 84 patches) I'd suggest we send you a pull request with no patches or let me know if you prefer a better way. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-09-18Merge tag 'ipvs-for-v4.4' of ↵Pablo Neira Ayuso
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/ipvs-next Simon Horman says: ==================== IPVS Updates for v4.4 please consider these IPVS Updates for v4.4. The updates include the following from Alex Gartrell: * Scheduling of ICMP * Sysctl to ignore tunneled packets; and hence some packet-looping scenarios ==================== Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2015-09-18can: Add documentation for CAN FD driver configurationOliver Hartkopp
With Linux 3.15 the infrastructure for CAN FD hardware drivers had been introduced into the kernel. Now the M_CAN driver and the peak_usb driver support CAN FD. Update the documentation to show the latest CAN related configuration options of 'ip' from iproute2 and describe the CAN FD specific options to set the data bitrate and protocol version (ISO/non-ISO). Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net> Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-09-17net: Add documentation for VRF deviceDavid Ahern
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-09-17ieee802154: docs: fix project name to linux-wpan as well as some typosStefan Schmidt
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@osg.samsung.com> Acked-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2015-09-17ipvs: add sysctl to ignore tunneled packetsAlex Gartrell
This is a way to avoid nasty routing loops when multiple ipvs instances can forward to eachother. Signed-off-by: Alex Gartrell <agartrell@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
2015-09-03Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds
Pull networking updates from David Miller: "Another merge window, another set of networking changes. I've heard rumblings that the lightweight tunnels infrastructure has been voted networking change of the year. But what do I know? 1) Add conntrack support to openvswitch, from Joe Stringer. 2) Initial support for VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding), which allows the segmentation of routing paths without using multiple devices. There are some semantic kinks to work out still, but this is a reasonably strong foundation. From David Ahern. 3) Remove spinlock fro act_bpf fast path, from Alexei Starovoitov. 4) Ignore route nexthops with a link down state in ipv6, just like ipv4. From Andy Gospodarek. 5) Remove spinlock from fast path of act_gact and act_mirred, from Eric Dumazet. 6) Document the DSA layer, from Florian Fainelli. 7) Add netconsole support to bcmgenet, systemport, and DSA. Also from Florian Fainelli. 8) Add Mellanox Switch Driver and core infrastructure, from Jiri Pirko. 9) Add support for "light weight tunnels", which allow for encapsulation and decapsulation without bearing the overhead of a full blown netdevice. From Thomas Graf, Jiri Benc, and a cast of others. 10) Add Identifier Locator Addressing support for ipv6, from Tom Herbert. 11) Support fragmented SKBs in iwlwifi, from Johannes Berg. 12) Allow perf PMUs to be accessed from eBPF programs, from Kaixu Xia. 13) Add BQL support to 3c59x driver, from Loganaden Velvindron. 14) Stop using a zero TX queue length to mean that a device shouldn't have a qdisc attached, use an explicit flag instead. From Phil Sutter. 15) Use generic geneve netdevice infrastructure in openvswitch, from Pravin B Shelar. 16) Add infrastructure to avoid re-forwarding a packet in software that was already forwarded by a hardware switch. From Scott Feldman. 17) Allow AF_PACKET fanout function to be implemented in a bpf program, from Willem de Bruijn" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1458 commits) netfilter: nf_conntrack: make nf_ct_zone_dflt built-in netfilter: nf_dup{4, 6}: fix build error when nf_conntrack disabled net: fec: clear receive interrupts before processing a packet ipv6: fix exthdrs offload registration in out_rt path xen-netback: add support for multicast control bgmac: Update fixed_phy_register() sock, diag: fix panic in sock_diag_put_filterinfo flow_dissector: Use 'const' where possible. flow_dissector: Fix function argument ordering dependency ixgbe: Resolve "initialized field overwritten" warnings ixgbe: Remove bimodal SR-IOV disabling ixgbe: Add support for reporting 2.5G link speed ixgbe: fix bounds checking in ixgbe_setup_tc for 82598 ixgbe: support for ethtool set_rxfh ixgbe: Avoid needless PHY access on copper phys ixgbe: cleanup to use cached mask value ixgbe: Remove second instance of lan_id variable ixgbe: use kzalloc for allocating one thing flow: Move __get_hash_from_flowi{4,6} into flow_dissector.c ixgbe: Remove unused PCI bus types ...
2015-08-31phy: fixed_phy: Add gpio to determine link up/down.Andrew Lunn
An SFP module may have a link up/down status pin which can be connection to a GPIO line of the host. Add support for reading such an GPIO in the fixed_phy driver. Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-31IGMP: Document igmp_link_local_mcast_reportsPhilip Downey
Document the addition of a new sysctl variable which controls the generation of IGMP reports for link local multicast groups in the 224.0.0.X range. IGMP reports for local multicast groups can now be optionally inhibited by setting the value to zero e.g.: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/igmp_link_local_mcast_reports To retain backwards compatibility the previous behaviour is retained by default on system boot or reverted by setting the value back to non-zero. Signed-off-by: Philip Downey <pdowney@brocade.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-25Documentation: networking: dsa: Add Broadcom SF2 documentFlorian Fainelli
Add a document describing the Broadcom Starfigther 2 switch hardware, its specifics, and how the driver is implemented and its specifics. Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-25Documentation: networking: add a DSA documentFlorian Fainelli
Describe how the DSA subsystem works, its design principles, limitations, and describe in details how to implement a DSA switch driver. Acked-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Acked-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-25tcp: refine pacing rate determinationEric Dumazet
When TCP pacing was added back in linux-3.12, we chose to apply a fixed ratio of 200 % against current rate, to allow probing for optimal throughput even during slow start phase, where cwnd can be doubled every other gRTT. At Google, we found it was better applying a different ratio while in Congestion Avoidance phase. This ratio was set to 120 %. We've used the normal tcp_in_slow_start() helper for a while, then tuned the condition to select the conservative ratio as soon as cwnd >= ssthresh/2 : - After cwnd reduction, it is safer to ramp up more slowly, as we approach optimal cwnd. - Initial ramp up (ssthresh == INFINITY) still allows doubling cwnd every other RTT. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-17Merge branch 'for-upstream' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth-next Johan Hedberg says: ==================== pull request: bluetooth-next 2015-08-16 Here's what's likely the last bluetooth-next pull request for 4.3: - 6lowpan/802.15.4 refactoring, cleanups & fixes - Document 6lowpan netdev usage in Documentation/networking/6lowpan.txt - Support for UART based QCA Bluetooth controllers - Power management support for Broeadcom Bluetooth controllers - Change LE connection initiation to always use passive scanning first - Support for new Silicon Wave USB ID Please let me know if there are any issues pulling. Thanks. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-17Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec-next Steffen Klassert says: ==================== pull request (net-next): ipsec-next 2015-08-17 1) Fix IPv6 ECN decapsulation for IPsec interfamily tunnels. From Thomas Egerer. 2) Use kmemdup instead of duplicating it in xfrm_dump_sa(). From Andrzej Hajda. 3) Pass oif to the xfrm lookups so that it gets set on the flow and the resolver routines can match based on oif. From David Ahern. 4) Add documentation for the new xfrm garbage collector threshold. From Alexander Duyck. Please pull or let me know if there are problems. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-13rocker: hook ndo_neigh_destroy to cleanup neigh refs in driverScott Feldman
Rocker driver tracks arp_tbl neighs to resolve IPv4 route nexthops. The driver uses NETEVENT_NEIGH_UPDATE for neigh adds and updates, but there is no event when the neigh is removed from the device (such as when the device goes admin down). This patches hooks ndo_neigh_destroy so the driver can know when a neigh is removed from the device. In response, the driver will purge the neigh entry from its internal tbl. I didn't find an in-tree users of ndo_neigh_destroy, so I'm not sure if this ndo is vestigial or if there are out-of-tree users. In any case, it does what I need here. An alternative design would be to generate NETEVENT_NEIGH_UPDATE event when neigh is being destroyed, setting state to NUD_NONE so driver knows neigh entry is dead. Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-12documentation: bring vxlan documentation more up-to-dateRick Jones
A few things have changed since the previous version of the vxlan documentation was written, so update it and correct some grammar and such while we are at it. Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-08-12net: Document xfrm4_gc_thresh and xfrm6_gc_threshAlexander Duyck
This change adds documentation for xfrm4_gc_thresh and xfrm6_gc_thresh based on the comments in commit eeb1b73378b56 ("xfrm: Increase the garbage collector threshold"). Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2015-08-11documentation: networking: add 6lowpan documentationAlexander Aring
This patch adds a 6lowpan.txt into the networking documentation directory. Currently this documentation describes how the lowpan private data of net devices will be handled. Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Suggested-by: Jukka Rissanen <jukka.rissanen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2015-07-31ipv6: Enable auto flow labels by defaultTom Herbert
Initialize auto_flowlabels to one. This enables automatic flow labels, individual socket may disable them using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL socket option. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-31ipv6: Implement different admin modes for automatic flow labelsTom Herbert
Change the meaning of net.ipv6.auto_flowlabels to provide a mode for automatic flow labels generation. There are four modes: 0: flow labels are disabled 1: flow labels are enabled, sockets can opt-out 2: flow labels are allowed, sockets can opt-in 3: flow labels are enabled and enforced, no opt-out for sockets np->autoflowlabel is initialized according to the sysctl value. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-30net/ipv6: add sysctl option accept_ra_min_hop_limitHangbin Liu
Commit 6fd99094de2b ("ipv6: Don't reduce hop limit for an interface") disabled accept hop limit from RA if it is smaller than the current hop limit for security stuff. But this behavior kind of break the RFC definition. RFC 4861, 6.3.4. Processing Received Router Advertisements A Router Advertisement field (e.g., Cur Hop Limit, Reachable Time, and Retrans Timer) may contain a value denoting that it is unspecified. In such cases, the parameter should be ignored and the host should continue using whatever value it is already using. If the received Cur Hop Limit value is non-zero, the host SHOULD set its CurHopLimit variable to the received value. So add sysctl option accept_ra_min_hop_limit to let user choose the minimum hop limit value they can accept from RA. And set default to 1 to meet RFC standards. Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com> Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-29stmmac: remove setup/free glue callbacksJoachim Eastwood
As all dwmac-* drivers have been converted to have a proper probe function the setup callback can now be removed. Also remove the free callback that wasn't used by any driver. New dwmac-* drivers should implement standard probe and remove functions to preform any needed setup and teardown. Signed-off-by: Joachim Eastwood <manabian@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-29stmmac: remove unused stmmac_of_data structJoachim Eastwood
As dwmac-* drivers that need OF match have been converted to use their own internal OF match data structure this can now be removed. Signed-off-by: Joachim Eastwood <manabian@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-22ipv6: sysctl to restrict candidate source addressesErik Kline
Per RFC 6724, section 4, "Candidate Source Addresses": It is RECOMMENDED that the candidate source addresses be the set of unicast addresses assigned to the interface that will be used to send to the destination (the "outgoing" interface). Add a sysctl to enable this behaviour. Signed-off-by: Erik Kline <ek@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-20Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/next-queue Jeff Kirsher says: ==================== Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2015-07-17 This series contains updates to igb, ixgbe, ixgbevf, i40e, bnx2x, freescale, siena and dp83640. Jacob provides several patches to clarify the intended way to implement both SIOCSHWTSTAMP and ethtool's get_ts_info(). It is okay to support the specific filters in SIOCSHWTSTAMP by upscaling them to the generic filters. Alex Duyck provides a igb patch to pull the time stamp from the fragment before it gets added to the skb, to avoid a possible issue in which the fragment can possibly be less than IGB_RX_HDR_LEN due to the time stamp being pulled after the copybreak check. Also provides a ixgbevf patch to fold the ixgbevf_pull_tail() call into ixgbevf_add_rx_frag(), which gives the advantage that the fragment does not have to be modified after it is added to the skb. Fan provides patches for ixgbe/ixgbevf to set the receive hash type based on receive descriptor RSS type. Todd provides a fix for igb where on check for link on any media other than copper was not being detected since it was looking on the incorrect PHY page (due to the page being used gets switched before the function to check link gets executed). ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-20stmmac: drop custom_* fields from plat_stmmacenet_dataJoachim Eastwood
Both of these fields are unused and has been unused since they were added 3 and 5 years ago. Drop them since they are clearly not very useful. Signed-off-by: Joachim Eastwood <manabian@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-20switchdev: update documentation for offload_fwd_markScott Feldman
Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-17clarify implementation of ethtool's get_ts_info opJacob Keller
This patch adds some clarification about the intended way to implement both SIOCSHWTSTAMP and ethtool's get_ts_info. The HWTSTAMP API has several Rx filters which are very specific, as well as more general filters. The specific filters really only exist to support some broken hardware which can't fully implement the generic filters. This patch adds clarification that it is okay to support the specific filters in SIOCSHWTSTAMP by upscaling them to the generic filters. In addition, update the header for ethtool_ts_info to specify that drivers ought to only report the filters they support without upscaling in this manner. Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>