This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: add IFF_SKB_TX_SHARED flag to priv_flags
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-add-iff_skb_tx_shared-flag-to-priv_flags.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 4c113d38b468faf67ae1558600328154f4ed885e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neil Horman <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:05:37 +0000
Subject: net: add IFF_SKB_TX_SHARED flag to priv_flags
From: Neil Horman <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit d8873315065f1f527c7c380402cf59b1e1d0ae36 ]
Pktgen attempts to transmit shared skbs to net devices, which can't be used by
some drivers as they keep state information in skbs. This patch adds a flag
marking drivers as being able to handle shared skbs in their tx path. Drivers
are defaulted to being unable to do so, but calling ether_setup enables this
flag, as 90% of the drivers calling ether_setup touch real hardware and can
handle shared skbs. A subsequent patch will audit drivers to ensure that the
flag is set properly
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
CC: Robert Olsson <[email protected]>
CC: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
CC: Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]>
CC: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
include/linux/if.h | 2 ++
net/core/pktgen.c | 8 +++++---
net/ethernet/eth.c | 1 +
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/if.h
+++ b/include/linux/if.h
@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@
#define IFF_BRIDGE_PORT 0x4000 /* device used as bridge port */
#define IFF_OVS_DATAPATH 0x8000 /* device used as Open vSwitch
* datapath port */
+#define IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING 0x10000 /* The interface supports sharing
+ * skbs on transmit */
#define IF_GET_IFACE 0x0001 /* for querying only */
#define IF_GET_PROTO 0x0002
--- a/net/core/pktgen.c
+++ b/net/core/pktgen.c
@@ -1070,7 +1070,9 @@ static ssize_t pktgen_if_write(struct fi
len = num_arg(&user_buffer[i], 10, &value);
if (len < 0)
return len;
-
+ if ((value > 0) &&
+ (!(pkt_dev->odev->priv_flags & IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING)))
+ return -ENOTSUPP;
i += len;
pkt_dev->clone_skb = value;
@@ -3555,7 +3557,6 @@ static int pktgen_add_device(struct pktg
pkt_dev->min_pkt_size = ETH_ZLEN;
pkt_dev->max_pkt_size = ETH_ZLEN;
pkt_dev->nfrags = 0;
- pkt_dev->clone_skb = pg_clone_skb_d;
pkt_dev->delay = pg_delay_d;
pkt_dev->count = pg_count_d;
pkt_dev->sofar = 0;
@@ -3563,7 +3564,6 @@ static int pktgen_add_device(struct pktg
pkt_dev->udp_src_max = 9;
pkt_dev->udp_dst_min = 9;
pkt_dev->udp_dst_max = 9;
-
pkt_dev->vlan_p = 0;
pkt_dev->vlan_cfi = 0;
pkt_dev->vlan_id = 0xffff;
@@ -3575,6 +3575,8 @@ static int pktgen_add_device(struct pktg
err = pktgen_setup_dev(pkt_dev, ifname);
if (err)
goto out1;
+ if (pkt_dev->odev->priv_flags & IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING)
+ pkt_dev->clone_skb = pg_clone_skb_d;
pkt_dev->entry = proc_create_data(ifname, 0600, pg_proc_dir,
&pktgen_if_fops, pkt_dev);
--- a/net/ethernet/eth.c
+++ b/net/ethernet/eth.c
@@ -340,6 +340,7 @@ void ether_setup(struct net_device *dev)
dev->addr_len = ETH_ALEN;
dev->tx_queue_len = 1000; /* Ethernet wants good queues */
dev->flags = IFF_BROADCAST|IFF_MULTICAST;
+ dev->priv_flags = IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING;
memset(dev->broadcast, 0xFF, ETH_ALEN);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.0/net-audit-drivers-to-identify-those-needing-iff_tx_skb_sharing-cleared.patch
queue-3.0/net-add-iff_skb_tx_shared-flag-to-priv_flags.patch
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