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Andrew Vasquez
a30c3f69e6 [SCSI] fc_transport: Add an API to allow an LLD to create vports
There's already a fc_vport_termintate() call exported by
the transport.  This patch adds a symmetric call to the API to allow
an NPIV-capable LLD to instantiate vports sans user intervention.

Additional comments/updates:

   Re: scsi_fc_transport.txt
     Add a function prototype for fc_vport_terminate similar to what's
     done for fc_vport_create

   Re: fc_vport_create
     I recommend we pass the channel number in fc_vport_create rather
     than fixing it at zero.

     Also, ids->vport_type should be set to FC_PORTTYPE_NPIV prior to
     calling fc_vport_create. The comment is also meaningless.

Added-by and
Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-10-03 11:46:15 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
b5259d9442 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc8' into core/rcu 2008-10-03 10:34:36 +02:00
David S. Miller
b262e60309 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c
	drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c
	net/core/dev.c
2008-10-01 06:12:56 -07:00
Rémi Denis-Courmont
ac2dc8ca14 Phonet: improve documentation
Fix grammar errors spotted by Randy Dunlap,
and adds some more details.

Signed-off-by: Remi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-30 02:52:01 -07:00
Hans de Goede
40f17a7981 V4L/DVB (8909): gspca: PAC 7302 webcam 093a:262a added.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-09-29 11:38:23 -03:00
Márton Németh
d0eb40628e cdrom: update ioctl documentation
Correct copy-paste problem: CDROMCLOSETRAY is about closing the tray,
not opening it.

Signed-off-by: Márton Németh <nm127@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-09-27 19:32:17 +02:00
Eric Miao
fec12a62d7 Documentation: fix the now deprecated reference to {set,reset}_scoop_gpio
Due to recent patches removing the now deprecated references to
{set,reset}_scoop_gpio() and converting them to the generic GPIO
API, the references in the documentation also need to be fixed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lrg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-09-25 09:38:14 +01:00
Oliver Hartkopp
e5d2304802 can: Add documentation for virtual CAN driver usage
This patch adds a usage documentation for the virtual CAN driver (vcan).

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-23 14:53:14 -07:00
Oliver Neukum
697e04db56 USB: update of Documentation/usb/anchors.txt
The extended anchor API is documented

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-09-23 13:58:07 -07:00
Andrew Morton
b4d19cc84e Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: fix softlockup_thresh description
- s/s/seconds/

- s/10 seconds/60 seconds/

- Mention the zero-disables-it feature.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23 08:09:14 -07:00
Marin Mitov
6675ce13ed Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt: update for pci_dma_mapping_error() changes
Make the example code consistent with changed API.

Signed-off-by: Marin Mitov <mitov@ispp.bas.bg>
Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23 08:09:14 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
63e5c39859 Merge branches 'sched/urgent' and 'sched/rt' into sched/devel 2008-09-23 16:23:05 +02:00
Martin Steigerwald
1a73ef6ac3 CFS scheduler: documentation about scheduling policies
The documentation about the CFS scheduler is scarse when it comes to
scheduling policies. This patch adds a chapter about the scheduling
policies it supports. Peter Zijlstra provided most of the information
for it in

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122210038326356&w=2

Signed-off-by: Martin Steigerwald <ms@teamix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 13:49:44 +02:00
Remi Denis-Courmont
953f551756 Phonet: kernel documentation
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-22 20:09:46 -07:00
FUJITA Tomonori
afa9fdc2f5 iommu: remove fullflush and nofullflush in IOMMU generic option
This patch against tip/x86/iommu virtually reverts
2842e5bf3115193f05dc9dac20f940e7abf44c1a. But just reverting the
commit breaks AMD IOMMU so this patch also includes some fixes.

The above commit adds new two options to x86 IOMMU generic kernel boot
options, fullflush and nofullflush. But such change that affects all
the IOMMUs needs more discussion (all IOMMU parties need the chance to
discuss it):

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/19/106

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-22 20:43:37 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
0b88641f1b Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc7' into x86/debug 2008-09-22 13:08:57 +02:00
Clemens Ladisch
7407a2e4b9 ALSA: virtuoso: add Xonar HDAV1.3 support
Add support for the Asus Xonar HDAV1.3 and the Xonar HDAV1.3 Deluxe.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
2008-09-22 09:12:11 +02:00
James Morris
ab2b49518e Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:

	MAINTAINERS

Thanks for breaking my tree :-)

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-09-21 17:41:56 -07:00
David S. Miller
d950f264ff Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2008-09-19 16:17:12 -07:00
Joerg Roedel
2842e5bf31 x86: move GART TLB flushing options to generic code
The GART currently implements the iommu=[no]fullflush command line
parameters which influence its IO/TLB flushing strategy. This patch
makes these parameters generic so that they can be used by the AMD IOMMU
too.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-19 12:59:06 +02:00
Ron Mercer
c4e84bde1d qlge: New Qlogic 10Gb Ethernet Driver.
Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-09-18 11:56:28 -04:00
Johannes Berg
62c1f95e39 mac80211: clean up kdoc
A few errors sneaked in over time, some functions no longer exist,
for some alternatives exist. This changes the docbook template to
include the right things.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:26 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
bed7aac941 rfkill: remove transmitter blocking on suspend
Currently, rfkill would stand in the way of properly supporting wireless
devices that are capable of waking the system up from sleep or hibernation
when they receive a special wireless message.  It would also get in the way
of mesh devices that need to remain operational even during platform
suspend.

To avoid that, stop trying to block the transmitters on the rfkill class
suspend handler.

Drivers that need rfkill's older behaviour will have to implement it by
themselves in their own suspend handling.

Do note that rfkill *will* attempt to restore the transmitter state on
resume in any situation.  This happens after the driver's resume method is
called by the suspend core (class devices resume after the devices they are
attached to have been resumed).

The following drivers need to check if they need to explicitly block
their transmitters in their own suspend handlers (maintainers Cc'd):
	arch/arm/mach-pxa/tosa-bt.c
	drivers/net/usb/hso.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/* (USB might need it?)
	drivers/net/wireless/b43/ (SSB over USB might need it?)
	drivers/misc/hp-wmi.c
	eeepc-laptop w/rfkill support (not in mainline yet)
	Compal laptop w/rfkill support (not in mainline yet)
	toshiba-acpi w/rfkill support (not in mainline yet)

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Bird <ajb@spheresystems.co.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Cezary Jackiewicz <cezary.jackiewicz@gmail.com>
Cc: Philip Langdale <philipl@overt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:25 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
b2e1b30290 cfg80211: Add new wireless regulatory infrastructure
This adds the new wireless regulatory infrastructure. The
main motiviation behind this was to centralize regulatory
code as each driver was implementing their own regulatory solution,
and to replace the initial centralized code we have where:

* only 3 regulatory domains are supported: US, JP and EU
* regulatory domains can only be changed through module parameter
* all rules were built statically in the kernel

We now have support for regulatory domains for many countries
and regulatory domains are now queried through a userspace agent
through udev allowing distributions to update regulatory rules
without updating the kernel.

Each driver can regulatory_hint() a regulatory domain
based on either their EEPROM mapped regulatory domain value to a
respective ISO/IEC 3166-1 country code or pass an internally built
regulatory domain. We also add support to let the user set the
regulatory domain through userspace in case of faulty EEPROMs to
further help compliance.

Support for world roaming will be added soon for cards capable of
this.

For more information see:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA

For now we leave an option to enable the old module parameter,
ieee80211_regdom, and to build the 3 old regdomains statically
(US, JP and EU). This option is CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY.
These old static definitions and the module parameter is being
scheduled for removal for 2.6.29. Note that if you use this
you won't make use of a world regulatory domain as its pointless.
If you leave this option enabled and if CRDA is present and you
use US or JP we will try to ask CRDA to update us a regulatory
domain for us.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15 16:48:19 -04:00
David Brownell
9f986a8cdf Documentation/ABI: /sys/class/gpio
Provide summary ABI docs about the /sys/class/gpio files.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13 14:41:52 -07:00
Hidehiro Kawai
b261dfea48 coredump_filter: add description of bit 4
There is no description of bit 4 of coredump_filter in the
documentation.  This patch adds it.

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13 14:41:51 -07:00
Li Zefan
024994310e cpuset: hotplug documentation fix
If all the cpus in a cpuset are offlined, the tasks in it will be moved to
the nearest ancestor with non-empty cpus.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13 14:41:51 -07:00
Alexander Duyck
f07d150129 multiq: Further multiqueue cleanup
This patch resolves a few issues found with multiq including wording
suggestions and a problem seen in the allocation of queues.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-12 17:57:23 -07:00
Alexander Duyck
67333bb567 skbedit: Fix a typo in the documentation
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-12 17:56:50 -07:00
Alexander Duyck
ca9b0e27e0 pkt_action: add new action skbedit
This new action will have the ability to change the priority and/or
queue_mapping fields on an sk_buff.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-12 16:30:20 -07:00
Alexander Duyck
92651940ab pkt_sched: Add multiqueue scheduler support
This patch is intended to add a qdisc to support the new tx multiqueue
architecture by providing a band for each hardware queue.  By doing
this it is possible to support a different qdisc per physical hardware
queue.

This qdisc uses the skb->queue_mapping to select which band to place
the traffic onto.  It then uses a round robin w/ a check to see if the
subqueue is stopped to determine which band to dequeue the packet from.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-12 16:29:34 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
09b22a2f67 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into sched/devel 2008-09-11 13:37:28 +02:00
FUJITA Tomonori
46dfa040f6 add deprecated ide-scsi to feature-removal-schedule.txt
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-09-10 22:22:34 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
e8aed68614 doc/RCU: fix pseudocode in rcuref.txt
atomic_inc_not_zero(v) return 0 if *v = 0.
use spin_lock instead of write_lock for update lock.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-10 08:36:07 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
429b022af4 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into core/rcu 2008-09-10 08:35:40 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
adaae7215e update Documentation/filesystems/Locking for 2.6.27 changes
In the 2.6.27 circle ->fasync lost the BKL, and the last remaining
->open variant that takes the BKL is also gone.  ->get_sb and ->kill_sb
didn't have BKL forever, so updated the entries while we're at that.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-09 11:51:15 -07:00
Gerrit Renker
410e27a49b This reverts "Merge branch 'dccp' of git://eden-feed.erg.abdn.ac.uk/dccp_exp"
as it accentally contained the wrong set of patches. These will be
submitted separately.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-09 13:27:22 +02:00
David S. Miller
0a68a20cc3 Merge branch 'dccp' of git://eden-feed.erg.abdn.ac.uk/dccp_exp
Conflicts:

	net/dccp/input.c
	net/dccp/options.c
2008-09-08 17:28:59 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
7f79d852ed Merge branch 'linus' into sched/devel 2008-09-06 16:51:57 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
14408c4f41 Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (98 commits)
  V4L/DVB (8881): gspca: After 'while (retry--) {...}', retry will be -1 but not 0.
  V4L/DVB (8880): PATCH: Fix parents on some webcam drivers
  V4L/DVB (8877): b2c2 and bt8xx: udelay to mdelay
  V4L/DVB (8876): budget: udelay changed to mdelay
  V4L/DVB (8874): gspca: Adjust hstart for sn9c103/ov7630 and update usb-id's.
  V4L/DVB (8873): gspca: Bad image offset with rev012a of spca561 and adjust exposure.
  V4L/DVB (8872): gspca: Bad image format and offset with rev072a of spca561.
  V4L/DVB (8870): gspca: Fix dark room problem with sonixb.
  V4L/DVB (8869): gspca: Move the Sonix webcams with TAS5110C1B from sn9c102 to gspca.
  V4L/DVB (8868): gspca: Support for vga modes with sif sensors in sonixb.
  V4L/DVB (8844): dabusb_fpga_download(): fix a memory leak
  V4L/DVB (8843): tda10048_firmware_upload(): fix a memory leak
  V4L/DVB (8842): vivi_release(): fix use-after-free
  V4L/DVB (8840): dib0700: add basic support for Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 (84xxx)
  V4L/DVB (8839): dib0700: add comment to identify 35th USB id pair
  V4L/DVB (8837): dvb: fix I2C adapters name size
  V4L/DVB (8835): gspca: Same pixfmt as the sn9c102 driver and raw Bayer added in sonixb.
  V4L/DVB (8834): gspca: Have a bigger buffer for sn9c10x compressed images.
  V4L/DVB (8833): gspca: Cleanup the sonixb code.
  V4L/DVB (8832): gspca: Bad pixelformat of vc0321 webcams.
  ...
2008-09-05 14:29:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
41c9229498 Merge branch 'release-2.6.27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release-2.6.27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-acpi-2.6:
  acer-wmi: remove debugfs entries upon unloading
  ACPI: Avoid bogus timeout about SMbus check
  fujitsu-laptop: fix regression for P8010 in 2.6.27-rc
  ACPI: Make Len Brown the ACPI maintainer again
  ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: wan radio control is not experimental
  PNPACPI: ignore the producer/consumer bit for extended IRQ descriptors
  acpi: add checking for NULL early param
  ACPI: Fix typo in "Disable MWAIT via DMI on broken Compal board"
  ACPI: Fix now signed module parameter.
  ACPI: Change package length error to warning
  ACPI: Fix now signed module parameter.
2008-09-05 14:27:12 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
db0a2901a3 Merge branch 'fixes_stg' of ../git_old into fixes 2008-09-04 16:24:02 -03:00
Michael Kerrisk
90f31e382b ALSA: Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt: fix typo
As noted by Gu Rui in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11444,
there is a typo in Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt.
After checking the source (sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c), the report
looks correct to me.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-09-04 10:33:49 +02:00
Tomasz Grobelny
d6da3511d6 dccp: Policy-based packet dequeueing infrastructure
This patch adds a generic infrastructure for policy-based dequeueing of 
TX packets and provides two policies:
 * a simple FIFO policy (which is the default) and
 * a priority based policy (set via socket options).
Both policies honour the tx_qlen sysctl for the maximum size of the write
queue (can be overridden via socket options). 

The priority policy uses skb->priority internally to assign an u32 priority
identifier, using the same ranking as SO_PRIORITY. The skb->priority field
is set to 0 when the packet leaves DCCP. The priority is supplied as ancillary
data using cmsg(3), the patch also provides the requisite parsing routines.

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Grobelny <tomasz@grobelny.oswiecenia.net>
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:39 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
51c7d4fa26 dccp: Implement both feature-local and feature-remote Sequence Window feature
This adds full support for local/remote Sequence Window feature, from which the 
  * sequence-number-validity (W) and 
  * acknowledgment-number-validity (W') windows 
derive as specified in RFC 4340, 7.5.3. 

Specifically, the following changes are introduced:
  * integrated new socket fields into dccp_sk;
  * updated the update_gsr/gss routines with regard to these fields;
  * updated handler code: the Sequence Window feature is located at the TX side,
    so the local feature is meant if the handler-rx flag is false;
  * the initialisation of `rcv_wnd' in reqsk is removed, since
    - rcv_wnd is not used by the code anywhere;
    - sequence number checks are not done in the LISTEN state (cf. 7.5.3);
    - dccp_check_req checks the Ack number validity more rigorously;
  * the `struct dccp_minisock' became empty and is now removed.

Until the handshake completes with activating negotiated values, the local/remote
Sequence-Window values are undefined and thus can not reliably be estimated.
This issue is addressed in a separate patch.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:32 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
b235dc4abb dccp ccid-2: Phase out the use of boolean Ack Vector sysctl
This removes the use of the sysctl and the minisock variable for the Send Ack
Vector feature, which is now handled fully dynamically via feature negotiation;
i.e. when CCID2 is enabled, Ack Vectors are automatically enabled (as per
RFC 4341, 4.).

Using a sysctl in parallel to this implementation would open the door to
crashes, since much of the code relies on tests of the boolean minisock /
sysctl variable. Thus, this patch replaces all tests of type

	if (dccp_msk(sk)->dccpms_send_ack_vector)
		/* ... */
with
	if (dp->dccps_hc_rx_ackvec != NULL)
		/* ... */

The dccps_hc_rx_ackvec is allocated by the dccp_hdlr_ackvec() when feature
negotiation concluded that Ack Vectors are to be used on the half-connection.
Otherwise, it is NULL (due to dccp_init_sock/dccp_create_openreq_child),
so that the test is a valid one.

The activation handler for Ack Vectors is called as soon as the feature
negotiation has concluded at the
 * server when the Ack marking the transition RESPOND => OPEN arrives;
 * client after it has sent its ACK, marking the transition REQUEST => PARTOPEN.

Adding the sequence number of the Response packet to the Ack Vector has been 
removed, since
 (a) connection establishment implies that the Response has been received;
 (b) the CCIDs only look at packets received in the (PART)OPEN state, i.e.
     this entry will always be ignored;
 (c) it can not be used for anything useful - to detect loss for instance, only
     packets received after the loss can serve as pseudo-dupacks.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:31 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
68e074bfce dccp: Remove manual influence on NDP Count feature
Updating the NDP count feature is handled automatically now:
 * for CCID-2 it is disabled, since the code does not use NDP counts;
 * for CCID-3 it is enabled, as NDP counts are used to determine loss lengths.

Allowing the user to change NDP values leads to unpredictable and failing
behaviour, since it is then possible to disable NDP counts even when they
are needed (e.g. in CCID-3).

This means that only those user settings are sensible that agree with the
values for Send NDP Count implied by the choice of CCID. But those settings
are already activated by the feature negotiation (CCID dependency tracking),
hence this form of support is redundant.

At startup the initialisation of the NDP count feature is with the default
value of 0, which is done implicitly by the zeroing-out of the socket when
it is allocated. If the choice of CCID or feature negotiation enables NDP
count, this will then be updated via the NDP activation handler.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:31 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
78673e24df dccp: Remove obsolete parts of the old CCID interface
The TX/RX CCIDs of the minisock are now redundant: similar to the Ack Vector
case, their value equals initially that of the sysctl, but at the end of
feature negotiation may be something different.

The old interface removed by this patch thus has been replaced by the newer
interface to dynamically query the currently loaded CCIDs earlier in this
patch set.

Also removed the constructors for the TX CCID and the RX CCID, since the
switch rx/non-rx is done by the handler in minisocks.c (and the handler is
the only place in the code where CCIDs are loaded).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
2008-09-04 07:45:31 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
fade756f18 dccp: Set per-connection CCIDs via socket options
With this patch, TX/RX CCIDs can now be changed on a per-connection basis, which
overrides the defaults set by the global sysctl variables for TX/RX CCIDs.

To make full use of this facility, the remaining patches of this patch set are
needed, which track dependencies and activate negotiated feature values.

Note on the maximum number of CCIDs that can be registered:
-----------------------------------------------------------
The maximum number of CCIDs that can be registered on the socket is constrained
by the space in a Confirm/Change feature negotiation option. 

The space in these in turn depends on the size of header options as defined
in RFC 4340, 5.8. Since this is a recurring constant, it has been moved from
ackvec.h into linux/dccp.h, clarifying its purpose.

Relative to this size, the maximum number of CCID identifiers that can be 
present in a Confirm option (which always consumes 1 byte more than a Change
option, cf. 6.1) is 2 bytes less than the maximum TLV size: one for the
CCID-feature-type and one for the selected value.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-09-04 07:45:28 +02:00
Gerrit Renker
17c30b40ed dccp: Deprecate Ack Ratio sysctl
This patch deprecates the Ack Ratio sysctl, since
 * Ack Ratio is entirely ignored by CCID-3 and CCID-4,
 * Ack Ratio currently doesn't work in CCID-2 (i.e. is always set to 1);
 * even if it would work in CCID-2, there is no point for a user to change it:
   - Ack Ratio is constrained by cwnd (RFC 4341, 6.1.2),
   - if Ack Ratio > cwnd, the system resorts to spurious RTO timeouts 
     (since waiting for Acks which will never arrive in this window),
   - cwnd is not a user-configurable value.	

The only reasonable place for Ack Ratio is to print it for debugging. It is
planned to do this later on, as part of e.g. dccp_probe.

With this patch Ack Ratio is now under full control of feature negotiation:
 * Ack Ratio is resolved as a dependency of the selected CCID;
 * if the chosen CCID supports it (i.e. CCID == CCID-2), Ack Ratio is set to
   the default of 2, following RFC 4340, 11.3 - "New connections start with Ack
   Ratio 2 for both endpoints";
 * what happens then is part of another patch set, since it concerns the 
   dynamic update of Ack Ratio while the connection is in full flight.

Thanks to Tomasz Grobelny for discussion leading up to this patch.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2008-09-04 07:45:28 +02:00