2023 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
227243a04d ACPICA: Remove extra write for acpi_hw_clear_acpi_status
This function was writing an optional PM1B status register
twice.  The existing call to the low-level acpi_hw_register_write
automatically handles a possibly split PM1 A/B register.
ACPICA BZ 751.

http://www.acpica.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=751

Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-26 16:38:24 -04:00
c520abadbc ACPICA: Fix writes to optional PM1B registers
On read, shift B register bits above the A bits. On write,
shift B bits down to zero before writing the B register. New:
acpi_hw_read_multiple, acpi_hw_write_multiple. These two functions now
transparently handle the (possible) split registers for PM1 Status,
Enable, and Control.

Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-26 16:38:24 -04:00
d3319d1717 ACPICA: Update comments in module header
Enhance the explanations of the various package return types
for clarity.

Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-26 16:38:23 -04:00
5e053e77f2 ACPICA: Check for non-zero address before being converted to GAS
Reported-by: FreeBSD community
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-26 16:38:23 -04:00
531c633d2b ACPICA: Split out PM1 status registers from the FADT
Add new globals for the PM1 status registers (A/B), similar to the
way the PM1 enable registers are handled. Instead of overloading
the FADT Event Register blocks. This makes the code clearer and
less prone to error.

Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-26 16:38:22 -04:00
d3ccaff827 ACPICA: Add override for dynamic tables
Add a call to acpi_os_table_override during the installation of a
dynamic table (loaded via the Load or LoadTable AML operators).

Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-26 16:38:20 -04:00
97cbb7d196 ACPICA: Remove extraneous parameter in table manager
Removed the Flags parameter from several internal functions since
it was not being used.

Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-26 16:38:20 -04:00
ac5f98db7b ACPICA: Allow OS override of all ACPI tables
Previously, the table override mechanism was implemented for the
DSDT only. Now, any table in the RSDT/XSDT can be replaced by
the host OS. (including the DSDT).

Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-26 16:38:19 -04:00
4bbfb85da2 ACPICA: Add error check to debug object dump routine
Add check for invalid handle in acpi_ns_dump_one_object.

Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-26 16:38:19 -04:00
f67f129e51 Driver core: implement uevent suppress in kobject
This patch implements uevent suppress in kobject and removes it
from struct device, based on the following ideas:

1,Uevent sending should be one attribute of kobject, so suppressing it
in kobject layer is more natural than in device layer. By this way,
we can do it for other objects embedded with kobject.

2,It may save several bytes for each instance of struct device.(On my
omap3(32bit ARM) based box, can save 8bytes per device object)

This patch also introduces dev_set|get_uevent_suppress() helpers to
set and query uevent_suppress attribute in case to help kobject
as private part of struct device in future.

[This version is against the latest driver-core patch set of Greg,please
ignore the last version.]

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00
9f5404d8ea PCI/ACPI: rename pci_osc_control_set()
- Rename pci_osc_control_set() to acpi_pci_osc_control_set() according
  to the other API names in drivers/acpi/pci_root.c.

- Move _OSC related definitions to include/linux/acpi.h because _OSC
  related API is implemented in drivers/acpi/pci_root.c now.

Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2009-03-19 19:29:33 -07:00
63f10f0f6d PCI/ACPI: move _OSC code to pci_root.c
Move PCI _OSC management code from drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c to
drivers/acpi/pci_root.c. The benefits are

- We no longer need struct osc_data and its management code (contents
  are moved to struct acpi_pci_root). This simplify the code, and we
  no longer care about kmalloc() failure.

- We can make pci_acpi_osc_support() be a static function, which is
  called only from drivers/acpi/pci_root.c.

Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>
Acked-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2009-03-19 19:29:32 -07:00
e60cc7a6f0 ACPI: move private declarations to internal.h
A number of things that shouldn't be exposed outside the ACPI core
were declared in include/acpi/acpi_drivers.h, where anybody can
see them.  This patch moves those declarations to a new "internal.h"
inside drivers/acpi.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-17 02:09:24 -04:00
1c48aa36ef ACPI: update Kconfig help texts (no functional changes)
Use "help" (not "---help---") consistently throughout.

ACPI can't be a module, so if both ACPI & APM are configured,
we use ACPI.

Update pointers to ACPI CA and Linux ACPI projects.

Replace "Compaq" with "Hewlett-Packard" in the spec developer list.

Fix typo in /sys/module path.

The user-space daemon is "acpid", not "acpi".

Add standard "To compile this driver as a module ..." help text.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-17 02:06:04 -04:00
c686d141c7 ACPI: PCI: use generic pci_swizzle_interrupt_pin()
Use the generic pci_swizzle_interrupt_pin() instead of ACPI-specific code.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-17 01:56:30 -04:00
5f0dccaa81 ACPI: pci_link: simplify list of link devices
We don't need a struct containing a count and a list_head; a simple
list_head is sufficient.  The list iterators handle empty lists
fine.

Furthermore, we don't need to check for null list entries because we
only add non-null entries.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-17 01:53:29 -04:00
6eca4b4ca1 ACPI: pci_link: remove unnecessary null pointer checks
Better to oops and learn about a bug than to silently cover it up.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-17 01:52:40 -04:00
c9d6244329 ACPI: pci_link: remove unnecessary casts and initializations
Remove unnecessary casts and initializations.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-17 01:52:18 -04:00
1c9ca3a7d4 ACPI: pci_link: clean up whitespace
This patch makes whitespace and indentation more consistent.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-17 01:51:36 -04:00
ff69f2bba6 acpi: fix of pmtimer overflow that make Cx states time incorrect
We found Cx states time abnormal in our some of machines which have 16
LCPUs, the C0 take too many time while system is really idle when kernel
enabled tickless and highres.  powertop output is below:

     PowerTOP version 1.9       (C) 2007 Intel Corporation

Cn                Avg residency       P-states (frequencies)
C0 (cpu running)        (40.5%)         2.53 Ghz     0.0%
C1                0.0ms ( 0.0%)         2.53 Ghz     0.0%
C2              128.8ms (59.5%)         2.40 Ghz     0.0%
                                        1.60 Ghz   100.0%

Wakeups-from-idle per second :  4.7     interval: 20.0s
no ACPI power usage estimate available

Top causes for wakeups:
  41.4% ( 24.9)       <interrupt> : extra timer interrupt
  20.2% ( 12.2)     <kernel core> : usb_hcd_poll_rh_status
(rh_timer_func)

After tacking detailed for this issue, Yakui and I find it is due to 24
bit PM timer overflows when some of cpu sleep more than 4 seconds.  With
tickless kernel, the CPU want to sleep as much as possible when system
idle.  But the Cx sleep time are recorded by pmtimer which length is
determined by BIOS.  The current Cx time was gotten in the following
function from driver/acpi/processor_idle.c:

static inline u32 ticks_elapsed(u32 t1, u32 t2)
{
       if (t2 >= t1)
               return (t2 - t1);
       else if (!(acpi_gbl_FADT.flags & ACPI_FADT_32BIT_TIMER))
               return (((0x00FFFFFF - t1) + t2) & 0x00FFFFFF);
       else
               return ((0xFFFFFFFF - t1) + t2);
}

If pmtimer is 24 bits and it take 5 seconds from t1 to t2, in above
function, just about 1 seconds ticks was recorded.  So the Cx time will be
reduced about 4 seconds.  and this is why we see above powertop output.

To resolve this problem, Yakui and I use ktime_get() to record the Cx
states time instead of PM timer as the following patch.  the patch was
tested with i386/x86_64 modes on several platforms.

Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Tested-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yakui.zhao <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-17 01:13:46 -04:00
27ce341983 acpi: check for pxm_to_node_map overflow
It is hardly (if ever) possible but in case of broken _PXM entry we could
reach out of pxm_to_node_map array bounds in acpi_map_pxm_to_node() call.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-16 00:35:30 -04:00
176f9c1804 ACPI: remove doubled status checking
There was a misplaced status test (two consequent tests without a
statement in between) in acpi_bus_init for ages.  Remove it, since the
function which should be checked (acpi_os_initialize1) has BUG_ONs on
failure paths.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-16 00:35:30 -04:00
45e7798886 ACPI suspend: Blacklist Toshiba Satellite L300 that requires to set SCI_EN directly on resume
This is a supplement of commit 65df78473ffbf3bff5e2034df1638acc4f3ddd50.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12798

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-16 00:35:29 -04:00
7b46ecd5fc Revert "ACPI: make some IO ports off-limits to AML"
This reverts commit 5ec5d38a1c8af255ffc481c81eef13e9155524b3.
because it caused spurious dmesg warmings.
We'll implement the check for off-limit ports
in a more clever way in the future.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12758

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-16 00:35:29 -04:00
a140449584 suspend: switch the Asus Pundit P1-AH2 to old ACPI sleep ordering
Switch the Asus Pundit P1-AH2 (M2N8L motherboard) to the old ACPI 1.0
sleep ordering by default.  Without this it will not suspend/resume
correctly.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-16 00:35:28 -04:00
4658e4ef9d ACPI: introduce sysfs I/F for dynamic tables
SSDT tables may be loaded at runtime.
create sysfs I/F for these dynamic tables in
/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic/.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-02-26 01:03:15 -05:00
0edcf8d692 Merge branch 'tj-percpu' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into core/percpu
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
2009-02-24 21:52:45 +01:00
a852cbfaaf Merge branches 'x86/acpi', 'x86/apic', 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/mm', 'x86/signal' and 'x86/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc6' into x86/core 2009-02-24 21:50:43 +01:00
e70049b9e7 Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2009-02-24 03:50:29 -08:00
0d3a9cf5ab acpi: add some missing section markers
early_acpi_os_unmap_memory() is an __init function, and
acpi_os_unmap_memory() is allowed to access an __init function
until acpi_gbl_permanent_mmap is set up.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-23 00:10:47 +01:00
fc6fc7f1b1 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c

Semantic conflict resolution:
	arch/x86/kernel/setup.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-22 20:05:19 +01:00
5acfac5a64 Merge branches 'release', 'bugzilla-12011', 'bugzilla-12632', 'misc' and 'suspend' into release 2009-02-21 22:01:43 -05:00
ba193d64ab ACPI: remove CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM
Remove CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM.  It was always set the same as CONFIG_ACPI,
and it had no menu label, so there was no way to set it to anything
other than "y".

Some things under CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM (acpi_irq_handled, acpi_os_gpe_count(),
event_is_open, register_acpi_notifier(), etc.) are used unconditionally
by the CA, the OSPM, and drivers, so we depend on them always being
present.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-02-21 21:59:56 -05:00
56f382a087 battery: don't assume we are fully charged when not charging or discharging
On hardware like the T61 it can take a couple of seconds for the battery
to start charging after the power is connected, and we incorrectly tell
userspace that we are fully charged, and then go back to charging.

Only mark a battery as fully charged when the preset charge matches either
the last full charge, or the design charge.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12632

Signed-off-by: Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-02-21 12:36:19 -05:00
5423a0cb3f ACPI: EC: Add delay for slow MSI controller
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12011

Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-02-21 12:18:13 -05:00
b1569e99c7 ACPI: move thermal trip handling to generic thermal layer
The ACPI code currently carries its own thermal trip handling, meaning that
any other thermal implementation will need to reimplement it. Move the code
to the generic thermal layer.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-02-20 18:41:56 -05:00
6503e5df08 thermal: use integers rather than strings for thermal values
The thermal API currently uses strings to pass values to userspace. This
makes it difficult to use from within the kernel. Change the interface
to use integers and fix up the consumers.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-02-20 10:52:37 -05:00
b36128c830 alloc_percpu: change percpu_ptr to per_cpu_ptr
Impact: cleanup

There are two allocated per-cpu accessor macros with almost identical
spelling.  The original and far more popular is per_cpu_ptr (44
files), so change over the other 4 files.

tj: kill percpu_ptr() and update UP too

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: lenb@kernel.org
Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-20 16:29:08 +09:00
5e30589521 Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
2009-02-14 23:12:00 -08:00
7d97277b75 acpi/x86: introduce __apci_map_table, v4
to prevent wrongly overwriting fixmap that still want to use.

ACPI used to rely on low mappings being all linearly mapped and
grew a habit: it never really unmapped certain kinds of tables
after use.

This can cause problems - for example the hypothetical case
when some spurious access still references it.

v2: remove prev_map and prev_size in __apci_map_table
v3: let acpi_os_unmap_memory() call early_iounmap too, so remove extral calling to
early_acpi_os_unmap_memory
v4: fix typo in one acpi_get_table_with_size calling

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 13:35:07 +01:00
05876f88ed acpi: remove final __acpi_map_table mapping before setting acpi_gbl_permanent_mmap
On x86, __acpi_map_table uses early_ioremap() to create the mapping,
replacing the previous mapping with a new one.  Once enough of the
kernel is up an running it switches to using normal ioremap().  At
that point, we need to clean up the final mapping to avoid a warning
from the early_ioremap subsystem.

This can be removed after all the instances in the ACPI code are fixed
that rely on early-ioremap's implicit overmapping of previously
mapped tables.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 13:34:46 +01:00
2d29c6a075 Merge branches 'release', 'asus', 'bugzilla-12450', 'cpuidle', 'debug', 'ec', 'misc', 'printk' and 'processor' into release 2009-02-07 01:34:56 -05:00
370154bbef ACPI: Kconfig text - Fix the ACPI_CONTAINER module name according to the real module name.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-02-07 01:12:19 -05:00
386e4a8358 ACPICA: Fix table entry truncation calculation
During early boot, ACPI RSDT/XSDT table entries are gathered into the
'initial_tables[]' array.  This array is currently statically defined (see
./drivers/acpi/tables.c).  When there are more table entries than can be
held in the 'initial_tables[]' array, the message "Truncating N table
entries!" is output.  As currently implemented, this message will always
erroneously calculate N as 0.

This patch fixes the calculation that determines how many table entries
will be missing (truncated).

This modification may be used under either the GPL or the BSD-style
license used for Intel ACPI CA code.

Signed-off-by: Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-02-07 00:51:23 -05:00
db1461ad43 ACPI: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-02-07 00:41:13 -05:00
4d9391557b ACPI: add missing KERN_* constants to printks
According to kerneljanitors todo list all printk calls (beginning
a new line) should have an according KERN_* constant.
Those are the missing peaces here for the acpi subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Frank Seidel <frank@f-seidel.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-02-07 00:29:32 -05:00
fc5a9f8841 ACPI: dock: Don't eval _STA on every show_docked sysfs read
Some devices trigger a DEVICE_CHECK on every evalutation of _STA. This
can also be seen in commit 8b59560a3baf2e7c24e0fb92ea5d09eca92805db
(ACPI: dock: avoid check _STA method).  If an undock is processed, the
dock driver sends a uevent and userspace might read the show_docked
property in sysfs. This causes an evaluation of _STA of the particular
device which causes the dock driver to immediately dock again.

In any case, evaluation of _STA (show_docked) does not necessarily mean
that we are docked, so check with the internal device structure.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12360

Signed-off-by: Holger Macht <hmacht@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-02-06 22:08:15 -05:00
9e3a9d1ed8 ACPI: disable ACPI cleanly when bad RSDP found
When ACPI is disabled in the BIOS of this VIA C3 box,
it invalidates the RSDP, which Linux notices:

ACPI Error (tbxfroot-0218): A valid RSDP was not found [20080926]

Bug Linux neglected to disable ACPI at that stage,
and later scribbled on smp_found_config:

ACPI: No APIC-table, disabling MPS

But this box doesn't run well in legacy PIC mode,
it needed IOAPIC mode to perform correctly:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/5/39

So exit ACPI mode cleanly when we first detect
that it is hopeless.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-02-06 14:00:56 -05:00
9fdd54f206 ACPI: delete CPU_IDLE=n code
CPU_IDLE=y has been default for ACPI=y since Nov-2007,
and has shipped in many distributions since then.

Here we delete the CPU_IDLE=n ACPI idle code, since
nobody should be using it, and we don't want to
maintain two versions.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-02-06 12:34:39 -05:00
ff491a7334 netlink: change return-value logic of netlink_broadcast()
Currently, netlink_broadcast() reports errors to the caller if no
messages at all were delivered:

1) If, at least, one message has been delivered correctly, returns 0.
2) Otherwise, if no messages at all were delivered due to skb_clone()
   failure, return -ENOBUFS.
3) Otherwise, if there are no listeners, return -ESRCH.

With this patch, the caller knows if the delivery of any of the
messages to the listeners have failed:

1) If it fails to deliver any message (for whatever reason), return
   -ENOBUFS.
2) Otherwise, if all messages were delivered OK, returns 0.
3) Otherwise, if no listeners, return -ESRCH.

In the current ctnetlink code and in Netfilter in general, we can add
reliable logging and connection tracking event delivery by dropping the
packets whose events were not successfully delivered over Netlink. Of
course, this option would be settable via /proc as this approach reduces
performance (in terms of filtered connections per seconds by a stateful
firewall) but providing reliable logging and event delivery (for
conntrackd) in return.

This patch also changes some clients of netlink_broadcast() that
may report ENOBUFS errors via printk. This error handling is not
of any help. Instead, the userspace daemons that are listening to
those netlink messages should resync themselves with the kernel-side
if they hit ENOBUFS.

BTW, netlink_broadcast() clients include those that call
cn_netlink_send(), nlmsg_multicast() and genlmsg_multicast() since they
internally call netlink_broadcast() and return its error value.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05 23:56:36 -08:00