History log of /net/tipc/bearer.h
Revision Date Author Comments
a29a194a15df9840b24c6c383a9a9a1236979db5 17-Apr-2013 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> tipc: add InfiniBand media type

Add InfiniBand media type based on the ethernet media type.

The only real difference is that in case of InfiniBand, we need the entire
20 bytes of space reserved for media addresses, so the TIPC media type ID is
not explicitly stored in the packet payload.

Sample output of tipc-config:

# tipc-config -v -addr -netid -nt=all -p -m -b -n -ls

node address: <10.1.4>
current network id: 4711
Type Lower Upper Port Identity Publication Scope
0 167776257 167776257 <10.1.1:1855512577> 1855512578 cluster
167776260 167776260 <10.1.4:1216454657> 1216454658 zone
1 1 1 <10.1.4:1216479235> 1216479236 node
Ports:
1216479235: bound to {1,1}
1216454657: bound to {0,167776260}
Media:
eth
ib
Bearers:
ib:ib0
Nodes known:
<10.1.1>: up
Link <broadcast-link>
Window:20 packets
RX packets:0 fragments:0/0 bundles:0/0
TX packets:0 fragments:0/0 bundles:0/0
RX naks:0 defs:0 dups:0
TX naks:0 acks:0 dups:0
Congestion bearer:0 link:0 Send queue max:0 avg:0

Link <10.1.4:ib0-10.1.1:ib0>
ACTIVE MTU:2044 Priority:10 Tolerance:1500 ms Window:50 packets
RX packets:80 fragments:0/0 bundles:0/0
TX packets:40 fragments:0/0 bundles:0/0
TX profile sample:22 packets average:54 octets
0-64:100% -256:0% -1024:0% -4096:0% -16384:0% -32768:0% -66000:0%
RX states:410 probes:213 naks:0 defs:0 dups:0
TX states:410 probes:197 naks:0 acks:0 dups:0
Congestion bearer:0 link:0 Send queue max:1 avg:0

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
8aeb89f214cdb4c3d9e43213d52d4c5b0fb93bbb 17-Apr-2013 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> tipc: move bcast_addr from struct tipc_media to struct tipc_bearer

Some network protocols, like InfiniBand, don't have a fixed broadcast
address but one that depends on the configuration. Move the bcast_addr
to struct tipc_bearer and initialize it with the broadcast address of
the network device when the bearer is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ccc4ba2ea23e4507c174620405c5de7bee328f99 17-Apr-2013 Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> tipc: remove unused str2addr media callback

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
3c294cb374bf7ad6f5c2763f994d75935fb7814d 15-Nov-2012 Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> tipc: remove the bearer congestion mechanism

Currently at the TIPC bearer layer there is the following congestion
mechanism:

Once sending packets has failed via that bearer, the bearer will be
flagged as being in congested state at once. During bearer congestion,
all packets arriving at link will be queued on the link's outgoing
buffer. When we detect that the state of bearer congestion has
relaxed (e.g. some packets are received from the bearer) we will try
our best to push all packets in the link's outgoing buffer until the
buffer is empty, or until the bearer is congested again.

However, in fact the TIPC bearer never receives any feedback from the
device layer whether a send was successful or not, so it must always
assume it was successful. Therefore, the bearer congestion mechanism
as it exists currently is of no value.

But the bearer blocking state is still useful for us. For example,
when the physical media goes down/up, we need to change the state of
the links bound to the bearer. So the code maintaing the state
information is not removed.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
dc1aed37d17b4fe4f28a74d804c065b877bc7bed 29-Jun-2012 Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> tipc: phase out most of the struct print_buf usage

The tipc_printf is renamed to tipc_snprintf, as the new name
describes more what the function actually does. It is also
changed to take a buffer and length parameter and return
number of characters written to the buffer. All callers of
this function that used to pass a print_buf are updated.

Final removal of the struct print_buf itself will be done
synchronously with the pending removal of the deprecated
logging code that also was using it.

Functions that build up a response message with a list of
ports, nametable contents etc. are changed to return the number
of characters written to the output buffer. This information
was previously hidden in a field of the print_buf struct, and
the number of chars written was fetched with a call to
tipc_printbuf_validate. This function is removed since it
is no longer referenced nor needed.

A generic max size ULTRA_STRING_MAX_LEN is defined, named
in keeping with the existing TIPC_TLV_ULTRA_STRING, and the
various definitions in port, link and nametable code that
largely duplicated this information are removed. This means
that amount of link statistics that can be returned is now
increased from 2k to 32k.

The buffer overflow check is now done just before the reply
message is passed over netlink or TIPC to a remote node and
the message indicating a truncated buffer is changed to a less
dramatic one (less CAPS), placed at the end of the message.

Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2c53040f018b6c36a46eec75b9b937aaa5f78e6d 10-Jul-2012 Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> net: Fix (nearly-)kernel-doc comments for various functions

Fix incorrect start markers, wrapped summary lines, missing section
breaks, incorrect separators, and some name mismatches.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
617d3c7a50b3dc15f558d60013047aede79dc055 30-Apr-2012 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> tipc: compress out gratuitous extra carriage returns

Some of the comment blocks are floating in limbo between two
functions, or between blocks of code. Delete the extra line
feeds between any comment and its associated following block
of code, to be consistent with the majority of the rest of
the kernel. Also delete trailing newlines at EOF and fix
a couple trivial typos in existing comments.

This is a 100% cosmetic change with no runtime impact. We get
rid of over 500 lines of non-code, and being blank line deletes,
they won't even show up as noise in git blame.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
f19765f4f7dc3cb118cf5f151ed56e01063082ed 30-Dec-2011 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> tipc: rename struct bearer_name to struct tipc_bearer_names

The addition of the "s" to indicate pluralization is intentional,
since the struct actually contains two name variants.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
a18c4bc3ea3c23f658655b1eee4f62cb71d51efd 30-Dec-2011 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> tipc: rename struct link* to struct tipc_link*

This converts the following:

struct link -> struct tipc_link
struct link_req -> struct tipc_link_req
struct link_name -> struct tipc_link_name

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
358a0d1c9edcf6ff041776d65cdc2bc59887ab9c 30-Dec-2011 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> tipc: rename struct media to struct tipc_media

Give it a meaningful prefix, as suggested by DaveM, so that it
is consistent with things like struct tipc_bearer, and so it isn't
confused with anything else. This has no impact on the actual
runtime code behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
5c216e1d28c82332db0fa53e30536577fb6130c6 18-Oct-2011 Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> tipc: Allow run-time alteration of default link settings

Permits run-time alteration of default link settings on a per-media
and per-bearer basis, in addition to the existing per-link basis.
The following syntax can now be used:

tipc-config -lt=<link-name|bearer-name|media-name>/<tolerance>
tipc-config -lp=<link-name|bearer-name|media-name>/<priority>
tipc-config -lw=<link-name|bearer-name|media-name>/<window>

Note that changes to the default settings for a given media type has
no effect on the default settings used by existing bearers. Similarly,
changes to default bearer settings has no effect on existing link
endpoints that utilize that interface.

Thanks to Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> for his contributions to
the development of this enhancement.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
3d749a6a26b0811b4b2bb4ec2c47cd630a6bbf88 07-Oct-2011 Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> tipc: Hide media-specific addressing details from generic bearer code

Reworks TIPC's media address data structure and associated processing
routines to transfer all media-specific details of address conversion
to the associated TIPC media adaptation code. TIPC's generic bearer code
now only needs to know which media type an address is associated with
and whether or not it is a broadcast address, and totally ignores the
"value" field that contains the actual media-specific addressing info.

These changes eliminate the need for a number of endianness conversion
operations and will make it easier for TIPC to support new media types
in the future.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
4d163a326fa4868cce1bb75dd95855d40e5497c6 07-Oct-2011 Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> tipc: Add new address conversion routines for Ethernet media

Enhances TIPC's Ethernet media support to provide 3 new address conversion
routines, which allow TIPC to interpret an address that is in string form
and to convert an address to and from the 20 byte format used in TIPC's
neighbor discovery messages.

These routines are pre-requisites to a follow on commit that hides all
media-specific addressing details from TIPC's generic bearer code.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
c61b666e260d5cc2e0203b21c689321e6ab0d676 07-Oct-2011 Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> tipc: Improve handling of media address printing errors

Enhances conversion of a media address to printable form so that an
unconvertable address will be displayed as a string of hex digits,
rather than not being displayed at all. (Also removes a pointless check
for the existence of the media-specific address conversion routine,
since the routine is not optional.)

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
706767da1bd0726d8fbc62e4818cb29193676a74 06-Oct-2011 Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> tipc: Register new media using pre-compiled structure

Speeds up the registration of TIPC media types by passing in a structure
containing the required information, rather than by passing in the various
fields describing the media type individually.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
909234cdd2b5954374e346c105b648f6c2800f55 27-May-2011 Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> tipc: Lower limits for number of bearers and media types

Reduces the number of bearers a node can support to 2, which can use
identical or non-identical media. This change won't impact users,
since they are currently limited to a maximum of 2 Ethernet bearers,
and will save memory by eliminating a number of unused entries in
TIPC's media and bearer arrays.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
f01a2b6378f757727b205419b677d45edfcc5a3b 30-May-2011 Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> tipc: Eliminate unused field in bearer structure

Gets rid of counter that records the number of times a bearer has
resumed after congestion or blocking, since the value is never
referenced anywhere.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
50d492321a2d94aa2ff5e26e73af08d937f8acb0 28-Feb-2011 Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> tipc: Remove bearer flag indicating existence of broadcast address

Eliminates the flag in the TIPC bearer structure that indicates if
the bearer supports broadcasting, since the flag is always set to 1
and serves no useful purpose.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
a2b58de2e3993a23b092ae54a35c38bf0dacb618 28-Feb-2011 Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> tipc: Remove unused field in bearer structure

Eliminates a field in TIPC's bearer objects that is set, but never
referenced.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
50d3e6399a61fca53c5c440a79f71299db66b803 28-Feb-2011 Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> tipc: Correct misnamed references to neighbor discovery domain

Renames items that are improperly labelled as "network scope" items
(which are represented by simple integer values) rather than "network
domain" items (which are represented by <Z.C.N>-type network addresses).
This change is purely cosmetic, and does not affect the operation of TIPC.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2d627b92fd1e39d83c3ee0b9d410403f98cb3981 07-Jan-2011 Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> tipc: Combine bearer structure with tipc_bearer structure

Combines two distinct structures containing information about a TIPC bearer
into a single structure. The structures were previously kept separate so
that public information about a bearer could be made available to plug-in
media types using TIPC's native API, while the remaining information was
kept private for use by TIPC itself. However, now that the native API has
been removed there is no longer any need for this arrangement.

Since one of the structures was already embedded within the other, the
change largely involves replacing instances of "publ.foo" with "foo".
The changes do not otherwise alter the operation of TIPC bearers.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
528c771e87c3fa661bc6983b5bf0ba464d9f7c3a 30-Nov-2010 Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> tipc: Delete useless function prototypes

Removes several function declarations that aren't used anywhere,
either because they reference routines that no longer exist or
because all users of the function reference it after it has already
been defined.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
c80262829769419e19527f972672e8df0480235a 30-Nov-2010 Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> tipc: Remove obsolete inclusions of header files

Gets rid of #include statements that are no longer required as a
result of the merging of obsolete native API header file content
into other TIPC include files.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
d265fef6ddf9042195aae551e1fde211c2a1588b 30-Nov-2010 Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> tipc: Remove obsolete native API files and exports

As part of the removal of TIPC's native API support it is no longer
necessary for TIPC to export symbols for routines that can be called
by kernel-based applications, nor for it to have header files that
kernel-based applications can include to access the declarations for
those routines. This commit eliminates the exporting of symbols by
TIPC and migrates the contents of each obsolete native API include
file into its corresponding non-native API equivalent.

The code which was migrated in this commit was migrated intact, in
that there are no technical changes combined with the relocation.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
b274f4ab8e674db1757371a21e7217e0766cb574 11-May-2010 Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> tipc: Reduce footprint by un-inlining bearer congestion routine

Convert bearer congestion inline routine that is more than one line into
a standard function, thereby eliminating some repeated code.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
d0021b252eaf65ca07ed14f0d66425dd9ccab9a6 03-Mar-2010 Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> tipc: Fix oops on send prior to entering networked mode (v3)

Fix TIPC to disallow sending to remote addresses prior to entering NET_MODE

user programs can oops the kernel by sending datagrams via AF_TIPC prior to
entering networked mode. The following backtrace has been observed:

ID: 13459 TASK: ffff810014640040 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "tipc-client"
[exception RIP: tipc_node_select_next_hop+90]
RIP: ffffffff8869d3c3 RSP: ffff81002d9a5ab8 RFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000001001001
RBP: 0000000001001001 R8: 0074736575716552 R9: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff81003fbd0680 R11: 00000000000000c8 R12: 0000000000000008
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff810015c6ca00
ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
RIP: 0000003cbd8d49a3 RSP: 00007fffc84e0be8 RFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 000000000000002c RBX: ffffffff8005d116 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000008 RSI: 00007fffc84e0c00 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000000000 R8: 00007fffc84e0c10 R9: 0000000000000010
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fffc84e0d10 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00007fffc84e0c30
ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c CS: 0033 SS: 002b

What happens is that, when the tipc module in inserted it enters a standalone
node mode in which communication to its own address is allowed <0.0.0> but not
to other addresses, since the appropriate data structures have not been
allocated yet (specifically the tipc_net pointer). There is nothing stopping a
client from trying to send such a message however, and if that happens, we
attempt to dereference tipc_net.zones while the pointer is still NULL, and
explode. The fix is pretty straightforward. Since these oopses all arise from
the dereference of global pointers prior to their assignment to allocated
values, and since these allocations are small (about 2k total), lets convert
these pointers to static arrays of the appropriate size. All the accesses to
these bits consider 0/NULL to be a non match when searching, so all the lookups
still work properly, and there is no longer a chance of a bad dererence
anywhere. As a bonus, this lets us eliminate the setup/teardown routines for
those pointers, and elimnates the need to preform any locking around them to
prevent access while their being allocated/freed.

I've updated the tipc_net structure to behave this way to fix the exact reported
problem, and also fixed up the tipc_bearers and media_list arrays to fix an
obvious simmilar problem that arises from issuing tipc-config commands to
manipulate bearers/links prior to entering networked mode

I've tested this for a few hours by running the sanity tests and stress test
with the tipcutils suite, and nothing has fallen over. There have been a few
lockdep warnings, but those were there before, and can be addressed later, as
they didn't actually result in any deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net

bearer.c | 37 ++++++-------------------------------
bearer.h | 2 +-
net.c | 25 ++++---------------------
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
6c00055a819ce8a6e2c3af2f65d4ea1a8559c491 03-Sep-2008 David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> tipc: Don't use structure names which easily globally conflict.

Andrew Morton reported a build failure on sparc32, because TIPC
uses names like "struct node" and there is a like named data
structure defined in linux/node.h

This just regexp replaces "struct node*" to "struct tipc_node*"
to avoid this and any future similar problems.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
c43072852649d8382b81237ce51195bcec36f24a 09-Feb-2007 YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> [NET] TIPC: Fix whitespace errors.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
4323add67792ced172d0d93b8b2e6187023115f1 18-Jan-2006 Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com> [TIPC] Avoid polluting the global namespace

This patch adds a tipc_ prefix to all externally visible symbols.

Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
5f7c3ff6a2e227418d363069ff89cf9d7f01fbc1 13-Jan-2006 Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> [TIPC] Minor changes to #includes

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
593a5f22d8035b1396a958b6bbde9f13c0f09549 11-Jan-2006 Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com> [TIPC] More updates of file headers

Updated copyright notice to include the year the file was
actually created. Information about file creation dates
was extracted from the files in the old CVS repository
at tipc.sourceforge.net.

Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>
9da1c8b694f8e72a16f259614caaae50cbcdaf10 11-Jan-2006 Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com> [TIPC] Update of file headers

The copyright statements from different parts of Ericsson
have been merged into one.

Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>
9ea1fd3c1a15c620d1e3d0aa269d34b705477003 11-Jan-2006 Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com> [TIPC] License header update

The license header in each file now more clearly state that this
code is licensed under a dual BSD/GPL. Before this was only
evident if you looked at the MODULE_LICENSE line in core.c.

Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>
b97bf3fd8f6a16966d4f18983b2c40993ff937d4 02-Jan-2006 Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com> [TIPC] Initial merge

TIPC (Transparent Inter Process Communication) is a protocol designed for
intra cluster communication. For more information see
http://tipc.sourceforge.net

Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>