before grabbing BPF locks to see if there are any entries in order to
avoid the cost of locking if there aren't any. Avoids a mutex lock/
unlock for each packet received if there are no BPF listeners.
device drivers to declare that the ifp->if_start() method implemented
by the driver requires Giant in order to operate correctly.
Add a 'struct task' to 'struct ifnet' that can be used to execute a
deferred ifp->if_start() in the event that if_start needs to be called
in a Giant-free environment. To do this, introduce if_start(), a
wrapper function for ifp->if_start(). If the interface can run MPSAFE,
it directly dispatches into the interface start routine. If it can't
run MPSAFE, we're running with debug.mpsafenet != 0, and Giant isn't
currently held, the task is queued to execute in a swi holding Giant
via if_start_deferred().
Modify if_handoff() to use if_start() instead of direct dispatch.
Modify 802.11 to use if_start() instead of direct dispatch.
This is intended to provide increased compatibility for non-MPSAFE
network device drivers in the presence of Giant-free operation via
asynchronous dispatch. However, this commit does not mark any network
interfaces as IFF_NEEDSGIANT.
Now it is user-controlled through ifconfig(8).
The former ``automagic'' way of operation created more
trouble than good. First, VLAN_MTU consumers other than
vlan(4) had appeared, e.g., ng_vlan(4). Second, there was
no way to disable VLAN_MTU manually if it were causing
trouble, e.g., data corruption.
Dropping the ``automagic'' should be completely invisible
to the user since
a) all the drivers supporting VLAN_MTU
have it enabled by default, and in the first place
b) there is only one driver that can really toggle VLAN_MTU
in the hardware under its control (it's fxp(4), to which
I added VLAN_MTU controls to illustrate the principle.)
future:
rename ttyopen() -> tty_open() and ttyclose() -> tty_close().
We need the ttyopen() and ttyclose() for the new generic cdevsw
functions for tty devices in order to have consistent naming.
for unknown events.
A number of modules return EINVAL in this instance, and I have left
those alone for now and instead taught MOD_QUIESCE to accept this
as "didn't do anything".
with sleepable locks held from further up in the network stack, and
attempts to allocate memory to hold multicast group membership information
with M_WAITOK.
This panic was triggered specifically when an exiting routing daemon
process closes its raw sockets after joining multicast groups on them.
While we're here, comment some possible locking badness.
PR: kern/48560
functionality by setting to a non-zero value. This is an integer, but
is treated as a boolean by the code, so clamp it to a boolean value
when set so as to avoid unnecessary bridge reinitialization if it's
changed to another value.
PR: kern/61174
Requested by: Bruce Cran
following drivers: bfe(4), em(4), fxp(4), lnc(4), tun(4), de(4) rl(4),
sis(4) and xl(4)
More patches are pending on: http://peoples.freebsd.org/~mlaier/ Please take
a look and tell me if "your" driver is missing, so I can fix this.
Tested-by: many
No-objection: -current, -net
copies.
No current line disciplines have a dynamically changing hotchar, and
expecting to receive anything sensible during a change in ldisc is
insane so no locking of the hotchar field is necessary.
we have to revert to TTYDISC which we know will successfully open
rather than try the previous ldisc which might also fail to open.
Do not let ldisc implementations muck about with ->t_line, and remove
code which checks for reopens, it should never happen.
Move ldisc->l_hotchar to tty->t_hotchar and have ldisc implementation
initialize it in their open routines. Reset to zero when we enter
TTYDISC. ("no" should really be -1 since zero could be a valid
hotchar for certain old european mainframe protocols.)
only allow this to be further processed when bridging is active on
that interface, but also if the current packet has a VLAN tag and
VLANs are active on our interface. This gives the VLAN layers a
chance to also consider the packet (and perhaps drop it instead of the
main dispatcher).
This fixes a situation where bridging was only active on VLAN
interfaces but ether_demux() called on behalf of the main interface
had already thrown the packet away.
MFC after: 4 weeks
- Split the code out into if_clone.[ch].
- Locked struct if_clone. [1]
- Add a per-cloner match function rather then simply matching names of
the form <name><unit> and <name>.
- Use the match function to allow creation of <interface>.<tag>
vlan interfaces. The old way is preserved unchanged!
- Also the match function to allow creation of stf(4) interfaces named
stf0, stf, or 6to4. This is the only major user visible change in
that "ifconfig stf" creates the interface stf rather then stf0 and
does not print "stf0" to stdout.
- Allow destroy functions to fail so they can refuse to delete
interfaces. Currently, we forbid the deletion of interfaces which
were created in the init function, particularly lo0, pflog0, and
pfsync0. In the case of lo0 this was a panic implementation so it
does not count as a user visiable change. :-)
- Since most interfaces do not need the new functionality, an family of
wrapper functions, ifc_simple_*(), were created to wrap old style
cloner functions.
- The IF_CLONE_INITIALIZER macro is replaced with a new incompatible
IFC_CLONE_INITIALIZER and ifc_simple consumers use IFC_SIMPLE_DECLARE
instead.
Submitted by: Maurycy Pawlowski-Wieronski <maurycy at fouk.org> [1]
Reviewed by: andre, mlaier
Discussed on: net
The big lines are:
NODEV -> NULL
NOUDEV -> NODEV
udev_t -> dev_t
udev2dev() -> findcdev()
Various minor adjustments including handling of userland access to kernel
space struct cdev etc.
using rawcb_mtx. Hold this mutex while modifying or iterating over
the control list; this means that the mutex is held over calls into
socket delivery code, which no longer causes a lock order reversal as
the routing socket code uses a netisr to avoid recursing socket ->
routing -> socket.
Note: Locking of IPsec consumers of rawcb_list is not included in this
commit.
ALTQ enabled versions of IFQ_* macros by default, as requested by serveral
others. This is a follow-up to the quick fix I committed yesterday which
turned off the ALTQ checks for non-ALTQ kernels.