- 20 Jun, 2011 7 commits
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Antonio Quartulli authored
With the current client announcement implementation, in case of roaming, an update is triggered on the new AP serving the client. At that point the new information is spread around by means of the OGM broadcasting mechanism. Until this operations is not executed, no node is able to correctly route traffic towards the client. This obviously causes packet drops and introduces a delay in the time needed by the client to recover its connections. A new packet type called ROAMING_ADVERTISEMENT is added to account this issue. This message is sent in case of roaming from the new AP serving the client to the old one and will contain the client MAC address. In this way an out-of-OGM update is immediately committed, so that the old node can update its global translation table. Traffic reaching this node will then be redirected to the correct destination utilising the fresher information. Thus reducing the packet drops and the connection recovery delay. Signed-off-by:
Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by:
Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
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Antonio Quartulli authored
The client announcement mechanism informs every mesh node in the network of any connected non-mesh client, in order to find the path towards that client from any given point in the mesh. The old implementation was based on the simple idea of appending a data buffer to each OGM containing all the client MAC addresses the node is serving. All other nodes can populate their global translation tables (table which links client MAC addresses to node addresses) using this MAC address buffer and linking it to the node's address contained in the OGM. A node that wants to contact a client has to lookup the node the client is connected to and its address in the global translation table. It is easy to understand that this implementation suffers from several issues: - big overhead (each and every OGM contains the entire list of connected clients) - high latencies for client route updates due to long OGM trip time and OGM losses The new implementation addresses these issues by appending client changes (new client joined or a client left) to the OGM instead of filling it with all the client addresses each time. In this way nodes can modify their global tables by means of "updates", thus reducing the overhead within the OGMs. To keep the entire network in sync each node maintains a translation table version number (ttvn) and a translation table checksum. These values are spread with the OGM to allow all the network participants to determine whether or not they need to update their translation table information. When a translation table lookup is performed in order to send a packet to a client attached to another node, the destination's ttvn is added to the payload packet. Forwarding nodes can compare the packet's ttvn with their destination's ttvn (this node could have a fresher information than the source) and re-route the packet if necessary. This greatly reduces the packet loss of clients roaming from one AP to the next. Signed-off-by:
Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by:
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Antonio Quartulli authored
The amount of duplicated code in the receive and routing code can be reduced when all headers provide the packet type, version and ttl in the same first bytes. Signed-off-by:
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Sven Eckelmann authored
char was used in different places to store information without really using the characteristics of that data type or by ignoring the fact that char has not a well defined signedness. Signed-off-by: -
David Howells authored
count_real_packets() in batman-adv assumes char is signed, and returns -1 through it: net/batman-adv/routing.c: In function 'receive_bat_packet': net/batman-adv/routing.c:739: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type Use int instead. Signed-off-by:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [sven@narfation.org: Rebase on top of current version] Signed-off-by:
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Sven Eckelmann authored
interface_tx is not used outside of soft-interface.c and thus doesn't need to be declared inside soft-interface.h Signed-off-by: -
Sven Eckelmann authored
compare_orig is only used in context of orig_node which is managed inside originator.c. It is not necessary to keep that function inside the header originator.h. Signed-off-by:
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- 09 Jun, 2011 6 commits
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Marek Lindner authored
The definition NO_FLAGS was introduced to make the code more readable and shall be used to initialize flag fields. Signed-off-by:
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Sven Eckelmann authored
CodingStyle "Chapter 12: Macros, Enums and RTL" recommends to use enums for several related constants. Internal states can be used without defining the actual value, but all values which are visible to the outside must be defined as before. Normal values are assigned as usual and flags are defined by shifts of a bit. Signed-off-by: -
Sven Eckelmann authored
CodingStyle "Chapter 12: Macros, Enums and RTL" highly recommends to use functions instead of macros were possible. This ensures type safety and prevents shadowing of other variables. Signed-off-by: -
Sven Eckelmann authored
strict_strtoul as used in parse_gw_bandwidth is defined for unsigned long and strict_strtol should be used instead for long. Signed-off-by: -
Sven Eckelmann authored
gw_node_delete is defined with "void" as return type, but still tries to return a value. The called function gw_node_delete is also return as void and thus doesn't provide a value for us. Signed-off-by: -
Daniele Furlan authored
When a link is saturated (re)broadcasts of OGMs are delayed. Under heavy load this delay may exceed the orig interval which leads to OGMs being dropped (the code would only accept an OGM rebroadcast if it arrived before the next OGM was broadcasted). With this patch batman-adv will also accept delayed OGMs in order to avoid a bogus influence on the routing metric. Signed-off-by:
Daniele Furlan <daniele.furlan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 30 May, 2011 18 commits
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Sven Eckelmann authored
The debug output of update_route has tests for "route deleted" and "route added". All other situations are handled as "route changed". This is not true because neigh_node and curr_router could be both NULL. The function is not called in this situation, but the code might be interpreted wrong when reading it without this test. Signed-off-by: -
Antonio Quartulli authored
This comment has been wrongly put after the variable it refers to and was also bad indented Signed-off-by:
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Antonio Quartulli authored
Instead of comparing mac addresses with the broadcast address by means of compare_eth(), the is_broadcast_ether_addr() kernel function has to be used. Signed-off-by:
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Sven Eckelmann authored
seq_before and seq_after depend on the fact that both sequence numbers have the same type and thus the same bitwidth. We can ensure that by compile time checking using a compare between the pointer to the temporary buffers which were created using the typeof of both parameters. For example gcc would create a warning like "warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast". Signed-off-by: -
Antonio Quartulli authored
smallest_signed_int(), seq_before() and seq_after() are very useful functions that help to handle comparisons between sequence numbers. However they were only defined in vis.c. With this patch every batman-adv function will be able to use them. Signed-off-by:
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Sven Eckelmann authored
Usually rcu_dereference isn't necessary in situations were the RCU-protected data structure cannot change, but sparse and lockdep still need a similar functionality for analysis. rcu_dereference_protected implements the reduced version which should be used to support the dynamic and static analysis. Signed-off-by: -
Sven Eckelmann authored
Documentation/CodingStyle recommends to use the form p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...); to calculate the size of a struct and not the version where the struct name is spelled out to prevent bugs when the type of p changes. This also seems appropriate for manipulation of buffers when they are directly associated with p. Signed-off-by: -
Sven Eckelmann authored
Casting from pointer like 'struct orig_node*' to 'struct orig_node *' doesn't provide any additional functionality and can be savely removed. Signed-off-by: -
Sven Eckelmann authored
It is not necessary to cast a void* to the pointer type when we just store it and don't want to do pointer arithmetic before the actual assignment. Signed-off-by: -
Sven Eckelmann authored
It is not save to provide memory for an int and then cast the pointer to it to long*. It is better to standardize the up and down gateway bandwith representation to simple ints and only use long inside conversation routines. Signed-off-by: -
Sven Eckelmann authored
batman-adv uses pointers which are marked as const and should not violate that type qualifier by passing it to functions which force a cast to the non-const version. Signed-off-by: -
Sven Eckelmann authored
The size of void is currently set by gcc to 1, but is not well defined in general. Therefore it is more advisable to cast it to char* before doing pointer arithmetic. Signed-off-by: -
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Antonio Quartulli authored
Every time that find_router() is invoked, if_status has to be compared with IF_ACTIVE. Moving this comparison inside find_router() will avoid to write it each time. Signed-off-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
.. except there are various scripts that really know that there are three numbers, so it calls itself "3.0.0-rc1". Hopefully by the time the final 3.0 is out, we'll have that extra zero all figured out. Signed-off-by:Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 29 May, 2011 9 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ecryptfs/ecryptfs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ecryptfs/ecryptfs-2.6: eCryptfs: Remove ecryptfs_header_cache_2 eCryptfs: Cleanup and optimize ecryptfs_lookup_interpose() eCryptfs: Return useful code from contains_ecryptfs_marker eCryptfs: Fix new inode race condition eCryptfs: Cleanup inode initialization code eCryptfs: Consolidate inode functions into inode.c
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git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osdLinus Torvalds authored
* 'pnfs-submit' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd: (32 commits) pnfs-obj: pg_test check for max_io_size NFSv4.1: define nfs_generic_pg_test NFSv4.1: use pnfs_generic_pg_test directly by layout driver NFSv4.1: change pg_test return type to bool NFSv4.1: unify pnfs_pageio_init functions pnfs-obj: objlayout_encode_layoutcommit implementation pnfs: encode_layoutcommit pnfs-obj: report errors and .encode_layoutreturn Implementation. pnfs: encode_layoutreturn pnfs: layoutret_on_setattr pnfs: layoutreturn pnfs-obj: osd raid engine read/write implementation pnfs: support for non-rpc layout drivers pnfs-obj: define per-inode private structure pnfs: alloc and free layout_hdr layoutdriver methods pnfs-obj: objio_osd device information retrieval and caching pnfs-obj: decode layout, alloc/free lseg pnfs-obj: pnfs_osd XDR client implementation pnfs-obj: pnfs_osd XDR definitions pnfs-obj: objlayoutdriver module skeleton ...
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Linus Torvalds authored
We had a few drivers move from arch/arm into drivers/gpio, but they don't actually compile without the ARM platform headers etc. As a result they were messing up allyesconfig on x86. Make them depend on ARM. Reported-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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Tyler Hicks authored
Now that ecryptfs_lookup_interpose() is no longer using ecryptfs_header_cache_2 to read in metadata, the kmem_cache can be removed and the ecryptfs_header_cache_1 kmem_cache can be renamed to ecryptfs_header_cache. Signed-off-by:Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Tyler Hicks authored
ecryptfs_lookup_interpose() has turned into spaghetti code over the years. This is an effort to clean it up. - Shorten overly descriptive variable names such as ecryptfs_dentry - Simplify gotos and error paths - Create helper function for reading plaintext i_size from metadata It also includes an optimization when reading i_size from the metadata. A complete page-sized kmem_cache_alloc() was being done to read in 16 bytes of metadata. The buffer for that is now statically declared. Signed-off-by: -
Tyler Hicks authored
Instead of having the calling functions translate the true/false return code to either 0 or -EINVAL, have contains_ecryptfs_marker() return 0 or -EINVAL so that the calling functions can just reuse the return code. Also, rename the function to ecryptfs_validate_marker() to avoid callers mistakenly thinking that it returns true/false codes. Signed-off-by: -
Tyler Hicks authored
Only unlock and d_add() new inodes after the plaintext inode size has been read from the lower filesystem. This fixes a race condition that was sometimes seen during a multi-job kernel build in an eCryptfs mount. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36002Signed-off-by:
David <david@unsolicited.net> Tested-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86: (43 commits) acer-wmi: support integer return type from WMI methods msi-laptop: fix section mismatch in reference from the function load_scm_model_init acer-wmi: support to set communication device state by new wmid method acer-wmi: allow 64-bits return buffer from WMI methods acer-wmi: check the existence of internal 3G device when set capability platform/x86:delete two unused variables support wlan hotkey on Acer Travelmate 5735Z platform-x86: intel_mid_thermal: Fix memory leak platform/x86: Fix Makefile for intel_mid_powerbtn platform/x86: Simplify intel_mid_powerbtn acer-wmi: Delete out-of-date documentation acerhdf: Clean up includes acerhdf: Drop pointless dependency on THERMAL_HWMON acer-wmi: Update MAINTAINERS wmi: Orphan ACPI-WMI driver tc1100-wmi: Orphan driver acer-wmi: does not allow negative number set to initial device state platform/oaktrail: ACPI EC Extra driver for Oaktrail thinkpad_acpi: Convert printks to pr_<level> thinkpad_acpi: Correct !CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_VIDEO warning ...
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Linus Torvalds authored
Thomas Gleixner reports that we now have a boot crash triggered by CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [<c11ae035>] find_next_bit+0x55/0xb0 Call Trace: [<c11addda>] cpumask_any_but+0x2a/0x70 [<c102396b>] flush_tlb_mm+0x2b/0x80 [<c1022705>] pud_populate+0x35/0x50 [<c10227ba>] pgd_alloc+0x9a/0xf0 [<c103a3fc>] mm_init+0xec/0x120 [<c103a7a3>] mm_alloc+0x53/0xd0 which was introduced by commit de03c72c ("mm: convert mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t"), and is due to wrong ordering of mm_init() vs mm_init_cpumask Thomas wrote a patch to just fix the ordering of initialization, but I hate the new double allocation in the fork path, so I ended up instead doing some more radical surgery to clean it all up. Reported-by:Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reported-by:
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