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David S. Miller 629821d9b0 Revert "xen: netback: remove redundant xenvif_put"
This reverts commit d37204566a.

This change is incorrect, as per Jan Beulich:

====================
But this is wrong from all we can tell, we discussed this before
(Wei pointed to the discussion in an earlier reply). The core of
it is that the put here parallels the one in netbk_tx_err(), and
the one in xenvif_carrier_off() matches the get from
xenvif_connect() (which normally would be done on the path
coming through xenvif_disconnect()).
====================

And a previous discussion of this issue is at:

http://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=136084174026977&w=2

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-19 13:04:34 -05:00
Andrew Jones d37204566a xen: netback: remove redundant xenvif_put
netbk_fatal_tx_err() calls xenvif_carrier_off(), which does
a xenvif_put(). As callers of netbk_fatal_tx_err should only
have one reference to the vif at this time, then the xenvif_put
in netbk_fatal_tx_err is one too many.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-19 00:51:09 -05:00
David S. Miller 6338a53a2b Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net into net
Pull in 'net' to take in the bug fixes that didn't make it into
3.8-final.

Also, deal with the semantic conflict of the change made to
net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c   A missing rt6->n neighbour release
was added to 'net', but in 'net-next' we no longer cache the
neighbour entries in the ipv6 routes so that change is not
appropriate there.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-18 23:34:21 -05:00
David Vrabel 3e55f8b306 xen-netback: cancel the credit timer when taking the vif down
If the credit timer is left armed after calling
xen_netbk_remove_xenvif(), then it may fire and attempt to schedule
the vif which will then oops as vif->netbk == NULL.

This may happen both in the fatal error path and during normal
disconnection from the front end.

The sequencing during shutdown is critical to ensure that: a)
vif->netbk doesn't become unexpectedly NULL; and b) the net device/vif
is not freed.

1. Mark as unschedulable (netif_carrier_off()).
2. Synchronously cancel the timer.
3. Remove the vif from the schedule list.
4. Remove it from it netback thread group.
5. Wait for vif->refcnt to become 0.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Reported-by: Christopher S. Aker <caker@theshore.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-14 13:16:49 -05:00
David Vrabel 35876b5ffc xen-netback: correctly return errors from netbk_count_requests()
netbk_count_requests() could detect an error, call
netbk_fatal_tx_error() but return 0.  The vif may then be used
afterwards (e.g., in a call to netbk_tx_error().

Since netbk_fatal_tx_error() could set vif->refcnt to 1, the vif may
be freed immediately after the call to netbk_fatal_tx_error() (e.g.,
if the vif is also removed).

Netback thread              Xenwatch thread
-------------------------------------------
netbk_fatal_tx_err()        netback_remove()
                              xenvif_disconnect()
                                ...
                                free_netdev()
netbk_tx_err() Oops!

Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Reported-by: Christopher S. Aker <caker@theshore.net>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-14 13:16:49 -05:00
David S. Miller fd5023111c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Synchronize with 'net' in order to sort out some l2tp, wireless, and
ipv6 GRE fixes that will be built on top of in 'net-next'.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-08 18:02:14 -05:00
Ian Campbell b9149729eb netback: correct netbk_tx_err to handle wrap around.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-07 23:29:29 -05:00
Ian Campbell 4cc7c1cb7b xen/netback: free already allocated memory on failure in xen_netbk_get_requests
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-07 23:29:28 -05:00
Matthew Daley 7d5145d8eb xen/netback: don't leak pages on failure in xen_netbk_tx_check_gop.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Daley <mattjd@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-07 23:29:28 -05:00
Ian Campbell 48856286b6 xen/netback: shutdown the ring if it contains garbage.
A buggy or malicious frontend should not be able to confuse netback.
If we spot anything which is not as it should be then shutdown the
device and don't try to continue with the ring in a potentially
hostile state. Well behaved and non-hostile frontends will not be
penalised.

As well as making the existing checks for such errors fatal also add a
new check that ensures that there isn't an insane number of requests
on the ring (i.e. more than would fit in the ring). If the ring
contains garbage then previously is was possible to loop over this
insane number, getting an error each time and therefore not generating
any more pending requests and therefore not exiting the loop in
xen_netbk_tx_build_gops for an externded period.

Also turn various netdev_dbg calls which no precipitate a fatal error
into netdev_err, they are rate limited because the device is shutdown
afterwards.

This fixes at least one known DoS/softlockup of the backend domain.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-07 23:29:28 -05:00
Matt Wilson 4a633a602c xen-netback: allow changing the MAC address of the interface
Sometimes it is useful to be able to change the MAC address of the
interface for netback devices. For example, when using ebtables it may
be useful to be able to distinguish traffic from different interfaces
without depending on the interface name.

Reported-by: Nikita Borzykh <sample.n@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Paul Harvey <stockingpaul@hotmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-23 13:42:20 -05:00
Ian Campbell 6a8ed462f1 xen: netback: handle compound page fragments on transmit.
An SKB paged fragment can consist of a compound page with order > 0.
However the netchannel protocol deals only in PAGE_SIZE frames.

Handle this in netbk_gop_frag_copy and xen_netbk_count_skb_slots by
iterating over the frames which make up the page.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
Cc: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-10 22:50:45 -04:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk ae1659ee6b Merge branch 'xenarm-for-linus' of git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm into stable/for-linus-3.7
* 'xenarm-for-linus' of git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm:
  arm: introduce a DTS for Xen unprivileged virtual machines
  MAINTAINERS: add myself as Xen ARM maintainer
  xen/arm: compile netback
  xen/arm: compile blkfront and blkback
  xen/arm: implement alloc/free_xenballooned_pages with alloc_pages/kfree
  xen/arm: receive Xen events on ARM
  xen/arm: initialize grant_table on ARM
  xen/arm: get privilege status
  xen/arm: introduce CONFIG_XEN on ARM
  xen: do not compile manage, balloon, pci, acpi, pcpu and cpu_hotplug on ARM
  xen/arm: Introduce xen_ulong_t for unsigned long
  xen/arm: Xen detection and shared_info page mapping
  docs: Xen ARM DT bindings
  xen/arm: empty implementation of grant_table arch specific functions
  xen/arm: sync_bitops
  xen/arm: page.h definitions
  xen/arm: hypercalls
  arm: initial Xen support

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-09-26 16:43:35 -04:00
Andres Lagar-Cavilla c571898ffc xen/gndev: Xen backend support for paged out grant targets V4.
Since Xen-4.2, hvm domains may have portions of their memory paged out. When a
foreign domain (such as dom0) attempts to map these frames, the map will
initially fail. The hypervisor returns a suitable errno, and kicks an
asynchronous page-in operation carried out by a helper. The foreign domain is
expected to retry the mapping operation until it eventually succeeds. The
foreign domain is not put to sleep because itself could be the one running the
pager assist (typical scenario for dom0).

This patch adds support for this mechanism for backend drivers using grant
mapping and copying operations. Specifically, this covers the blkback and
gntdev drivers (which map foreign grants), and the netback driver (which copies
foreign grants).

* Add a retry method for grants that fail with GNTST_eagain (i.e. because the
  target foreign frame is paged out).
* Insert hooks with appropriate wrappers in the aforementioned drivers.

The retry loop is only invoked if the grant operation status is GNTST_eagain.
It guarantees to leave a new status code different from GNTST_eagain. Any other
status code results in identical code execution as before.

The retry loop performs 256 attempts with increasing time intervals through a
32 second period. It uses msleep to yield while waiting for the next retry.

V2 after feedback from David Vrabel:
* Explicit MAX_DELAY instead of wrap-around delay into zero
* Abstract GNTST_eagain check into core grant table code for netback module.

V3 after feedback from Ian Campbell:
* Add placeholder in array of grant table error descriptions for unrelated
  error code we jump over.
* Eliminate single map and retry macro in favor of a generic batch flavor.
* Some renaming.
* Bury most implementation in grant_table.c, cleaner interface.

V4 rebased on top of sync of Xen grant table interface headers.

Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla.org>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
[v5: Fixed whitespace issues]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-09-21 09:23:51 -04:00
Stefano Stabellini ca98163376 xen/arm: compile netback
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-08-08 17:21:23 +00:00
Annie Li 1e0b6eac6a xen/netback: only non-freed SKB is queued into tx_queue
After SKB is queued into tx_queue, it will be freed if request_gop is NULL.
However, no dequeue action is called in this situation, it is likely that
tx_queue constains freed SKB. This patch should fix this issue, and it is
based on 3.5.0-rc4+.

This issue is found through code inspection, no bug is seen with it currently.
I run netperf test for several hours, and no network regression was found.

Signed-off-by: Annie Li <annie.li@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-29 00:50:20 -07:00
Simon Graham e26b203ede xen/netback: Calculate the number of SKB slots required correctly
When calculating the number of slots required for a packet header, the code
was reserving too many slots if the header crossed a page boundary. Since
netbk_gop_skb copies the header to the start of the page, the count of
slots required for the header should be based solely on the header size.

This problem is easy to reproduce if a VIF is bridged to a USB 3G modem
device as the skb->data value always starts near the end of the first page.

Signed-off-by: Simon Graham <simon.graham@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-24 16:22:53 -04:00
Joe Perches e404decb0f drivers/net: Remove unnecessary k.alloc/v.alloc OOM messages
alloc failures use dump_stack so emitting an additional
out-of-memory message is an unnecessary duplication.

Remove the allocation failure messages.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-31 16:20:21 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 90160371b3 Merge branch 'stable/for-linus-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
* 'stable/for-linus-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen: (37 commits)
  xen/pciback: Expand the warning message to include domain id.
  xen/pciback: Fix "device has been assigned to X domain!" warning
  xen/pciback: Move the PCI_DEV_FLAGS_ASSIGNED ops to the "[un|]bind"
  xen/xenbus: don't reimplement kvasprintf via a fixed size buffer
  xenbus: maximum buffer size is XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX
  xen/xenbus: Reject replies with payload > XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX.
  Xen: consolidate and simplify struct xenbus_driver instantiation
  xen-gntalloc: introduce missing kfree
  xen/xenbus: Fix compile error - missing header for xen_initial_domain()
  xen/netback: Enable netback on HVM guests
  xen/grant-table: Support mappings required by blkback
  xenbus: Use grant-table wrapper functions
  xenbus: Support HVM backends
  xen/xenbus-frontend: Fix compile error with randconfig
  xen/xenbus-frontend: Make error message more clear
  xen/privcmd: Remove unused support for arch specific privcmp mmap
  xen: Add xenbus_backend device
  xen: Add xenbus device driver
  xen: Add privcmd device driver
  xen/gntalloc: fix reference counts on multi-page mappings
  ...
2012-01-10 10:09:59 -08:00
stephen hemminger 813abbbaa3 xen-netback: make ops structs const
All tables of function pointers should be const to make hacks
more difficult. Compile tested only.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-05 13:23:00 -05:00
Jan Beulich 73db144b58 Xen: consolidate and simplify struct xenbus_driver instantiation
The 'name', 'owner', and 'mod_name' members are redundant with the
identically named fields in the 'driver' sub-structure. Rather than
switching each instance to specify these fields explicitly, introduce
a macro to simplify this.

Eliminate further redundancy by allowing the drvname argument to
DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() to be blank (in which case the first entry from
the ID table will be used for .driver.name).

Also eliminate the questionable xenbus_register_{back,front}end()
wrappers - their sole remaining purpose was the checking of the
'owner' field, proper setting of which shouldn't be an issue anymore
when the macro gets used.

v2: Restore DRV_NAME for the driver name in xen-pciback.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-01-04 17:01:17 -05:00
Daniel De Graaf 2a14b24406 xen/netback: Enable netback on HVM guests
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-12-20 17:07:50 -05:00
David S. Miller 959327c784 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2011-12-06 21:10:05 -05:00
Wei Liu e34c0246d6 netback: fix typo in comment
"variables a used" should be "variables are used".

Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-06 13:20:56 -05:00
Wei Liu 16ecba2605 netback: remove redundant assignment
New value for netbk->mmap_pages[pending_idx] is assigned in
xen_netbk_alloc_page(), no need for a second assignment which
exposes internal to the outside world.

Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-06 13:14:24 -05:00
Wei Liu 6b84bd1674 netback: Fix alert message.
The original message in netback_init was 'kthread_run() fails', which should be
'kthread_create() fails'.

Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-06 00:32:39 -05:00
David S. Miller 6dec4ac4ee Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	net/ipv4/inet_diag.c
2011-11-26 14:47:03 -05:00
Jan Beulich 5ccb3ea720 xen-netback: use correct index for invalidation in xen_netbk_tx_check_gop()
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-21 15:32:15 -05:00
Michał Mirosław c8f44affb7 net: introduce and use netdev_features_t for device features sets
v2:	add couple missing conversions in drivers
	split unexporting netdev_fix_features()
	implemented %pNF
	convert sock::sk_route_(no?)caps

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-16 17:43:10 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 06d381484f Merge branch 'stable/vmalloc-3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
* 'stable/vmalloc-3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  net: xen-netback: use API provided by xenbus module to map rings
  block: xen-blkback: use API provided by xenbus module to map rings
  xen: use generic functions instead of xen_{alloc, free}_vm_area()
2011-11-06 18:31:36 -08:00
David Vrabel c9d6369978 net: xen-netback: use API provided by xenbus module to map rings
The xenbus module provides xenbus_map_ring_valloc() and
xenbus_map_ring_vfree().  Use these to map the Tx and Rx ring pages
granted by the frontend.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-10-26 10:02:56 -04:00
Eric Dumazet 9e903e0852 net: add skb frag size accessors
To ease skb->truesize sanitization, its better to be able to localize
all references to skb frags size.

Define accessors : skb_frag_size() to fetch frag size, and
skb_frag_size_{set|add|sub}() to manipulate it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-19 03:10:46 -04:00
David S. Miller 88c5100c28 Merge branch 'master' of github.com:davem330/net
Conflicts:
	net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
2011-10-07 13:38:43 -04:00
Ian Campbell ea066ad158 xen: netback: convert to SKB paged frag API.
netback currently uses frag->page to store a temporary index reference while
processing incoming requests. Since frag->page is to become opaque switch
instead to using page_offset. Add a wrapper to tidy this up and propagate the
fact that the indexes are only u16 through the code (this was already true in
practice but unsigned long and in were inconsistently used as variable and
parameter types)

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-05 17:36:00 -04:00
David Vrabel d0e5d83284 net: xen-netback: correctly restart Tx after a VM restore/migrate
If a VM is saved and restored (or migrated) the netback driver will no
longer process any Tx packets from the frontend.  xenvif_up() does not
schedule the processing of any pending Tx requests from the front end
because the carrier is off.  Without this initial kick the frontend
just adds Tx requests to the ring without raising an event (until the
ring is full).

This was caused by 47103041e9 (net:
xen-netback: convert to hw_features) which reordered the calls to
xenvif_up() and netif_carrier_on() in xenvif_connect().

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-03 14:15:46 -04:00
Bastian Blank f984cec64a xen/netback: Add module alias for autoloading
Add xen-backend:vif module alias to the xen-netback module. This allows
automatic loading of the module.

Signed-off-by: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-06-30 11:19:09 -07:00
Ian Campbell 11e73de7cc xen: netback: use __CONST_RING_SIZE not __RING_SIZE
The later causes warnings with gcc 4.5+. __CONST_RING_SIZE was introduced in
667c78afae to fix this but as netback wasn't upstream at the time it did not
benefit, hence:

  CC      drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.o
drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c:110:37: warning: variably modified 'grant_copy_op' at file scope [enabled by default]
drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c:111:30: warning: variably modified 'meta' at file scope [enabled by default]
drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c: In function 'xen_netbk_rx_action':
drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c:584:6: warning: variable 'irq' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

Thanks to Witold Baryluk for pointing this out.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-05-17 15:27:35 -04:00
Michał Mirosław 47103041e9 net: xen-netback: convert to hw_features
Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-04-20 01:30:45 -07:00
Ian Campbell 17938a6983 Signed bit field; int have_hotplug_status_watch:1
Fixes error from sparse:
  CHECK   drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c:29:40: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield

        int have_hotplug_status_watch:1;

Reported-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-04-06 14:43:33 -07:00
Ian Campbell f942dc2552 xen network backend driver
netback is the host side counterpart to the frontend driver in
drivers/net/xen-netfront.c. The PV protocol is also implemented by
frontend drivers in other OSes too, such as the BSDs and even Windows.

The patch is based on the driver from the xen.git pvops kernel tree but
has been put through the checkpatch.pl wringer plus several manual
cleanup passes and review iterations. The driver has been moved from
drivers/xen/netback to drivers/net/xen-netback.

One major change from xen.git is that the guest transmit path (i.e. what
looks like receive to netback) has been significantly reworked to remove
the dependency on the out of tree PageForeign page flag (a core kernel
patch which enables a per page destructor callback on the final
put_page). This page flag was used in order to implement a grant map
based transmit path (where guest pages are mapped directly into SKB
frags). Instead this version of netback uses grant copy operations into
regular memory belonging to the backend domain. Reinstating the grant
map functionality is something which I would like to revisit in the
future.

Note that this driver depends on 2e820f58f7 "xen/irq: implement
bind_interdomain_evtchn_to_irqhandler for backend drivers" which is in
linux next via the "xen-two" tree and is intended for the 2.6.39 merge
window:
        git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git stable/backends
this branch has only that single commit since 2.6.38-rc2 and is safe for
cross merging into the net branch.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-15 19:38:03 -07:00