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[NET] link_watch: Move link watch list into net_device 

These days the link watch mechanism is an integral part of the
network subsystem as it manages the carrier status.  So it now
makes sense to allocate some memory for it in net_device rather
than allocating it on demand.

In fact, this is necessary because we can't tolerate a memory
allocation failure since that means we'd have to potentially
throw a link up event away.

It also simplifies the code greatly.

In doing so I discovered a subtle race condition in the use
of singleevent.  This race condition still exists (and is
somewhat magnified) without singleevent but it's now plugged
thanks to an smp_mb__before_clear_bit.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Herbert Xu 2007-05-08 18:34:17 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent c33be3c362
commit 572a103ded
2 changed files with 17 additions and 35 deletions
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include/linux/netdevice.h
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@ -467,6 +467,8 @@ struct net_device
/* device index hash chain */
struct hlist_node index_hlist;
struct net_device *link_watch_next;
/* register/unregister state machine */
enum { NETREG_UNINITIALIZED=0,
NETREG_REGISTERED, /* completed register_netdevice */

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net/core/link_watch.c
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@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
#include <linux/rtnetlink.h>
#include <linux/jiffies.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/workqueue.h>
#include <linux/bitops.h>
@ -28,7 +27,6 @@
enum lw_bits {
LW_RUNNING = 0,
LW_SE_USED
};
static unsigned long linkwatch_flags;
@ -37,17 +35,9 @@ static unsigned long linkwatch_nextevent;
static void linkwatch_event(struct work_struct *dummy);
static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(linkwatch_work, linkwatch_event);
static LIST_HEAD(lweventlist);
static struct net_device *lweventlist;
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(lweventlist_lock);
struct lw_event {
struct list_head list;
struct net_device *dev;
};
/* Avoid kmalloc() for most systems */
static struct lw_event singleevent;
static unsigned char default_operstate(const struct net_device *dev)
{
if (!netif_carrier_ok(dev))
@ -90,21 +80,23 @@ static void rfc2863_policy(struct net_device *dev)
/* Must be called with the rtnl semaphore held */
void linkwatch_run_queue(void)
{
struct list_head head, *n, *next;
struct net_device *next;
spin_lock_irq(&lweventlist_lock);
list_replace_init(&lweventlist, &head);
next = lweventlist;
lweventlist = NULL;
spin_unlock_irq(&lweventlist_lock);
list_for_each_safe(n, next, &head) {
struct lw_event *event = list_entry(n, struct lw_event, list);
struct net_device *dev = event->dev;
while (next) {
struct net_device *dev = next;
if (event == &singleevent) {
clear_bit(LW_SE_USED, &linkwatch_flags);
} else {
kfree(event);
}
next = dev->link_watch_next;
/*
* Make sure the above read is complete since it can be
* rewritten as soon as we clear the bit below.
*/
smp_mb__before_clear_bit();
/* We are about to handle this device,
* so new events can be accepted
@ -147,24 +139,12 @@ void linkwatch_fire_event(struct net_device *dev)
{
if (!test_and_set_bit(__LINK_STATE_LINKWATCH_PENDING, &dev->state)) {
unsigned long flags;
struct lw_event *event;
if (test_and_set_bit(LW_SE_USED, &linkwatch_flags)) {
event = kmalloc(sizeof(struct lw_event), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (unlikely(event == NULL)) {
clear_bit(__LINK_STATE_LINKWATCH_PENDING, &dev->state);
return;
}
} else {
event = &singleevent;
}
dev_hold(dev);
event->dev = dev;
spin_lock_irqsave(&lweventlist_lock, flags);
list_add_tail(&event->list, &lweventlist);
dev->link_watch_next = lweventlist;
lweventlist = dev;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lweventlist_lock, flags);
if (!test_and_set_bit(LW_RUNNING, &linkwatch_flags)) {