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Sven Eckelmann
57b7117af8 Staging: batman-adv: Remove duplicate of attached device name
batman_if has the name of the net_dev as extra string in its own
structure, but also holds a reference to the actual net_device structure
which always has the current name of the device. This makes it
unneccessary and also more complex because we must update the name in
situations when we receive a NETDEV_CHANGENAME event.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-05 00:29:50 -07:00
Marek Lindner
8c70f13832 Staging: batman-adv: multiple mesh clouds
This patch removes all remaining global variables and includes the
necessary bits into the bat_priv structure. It is the last
remaining piece to allow multiple concurrent mesh clouds on the
same device.
A few global variables have been rendered obsolete during the process
and have been removed entirely.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
[sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Rework on top of current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-05 00:29:49 -07:00
Marek Lindner
6a0e9fa88d Staging: batman-adv: attach each hard-interface to a soft-interface
This patch replaces the static bat0 interface with a dynamic/abstracted
approach. It is now possible to create multiple batX interfaces by
assigning hard interfaces to them. Each batX interface acts as an
independent mesh network. A soft interface is removed once no hard
interface references it any longer.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
[sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Rework on top of current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-05 00:29:49 -07:00
Sven Eckelmann
bf3264f6d1 Staging: batman-adv: Provide full headers and packets as linear skb
We must ensure that all interesting data is linear and not paged out to
access all information in a header or a full batman-adv related packet.
Otherwise we may drop packets which have non-linear headers but which
hold valid data.

This doesn't affect non-linear skbs which have all headers in a linear
head unless we must process the whole packet like in ogms or vis
packets.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-05 00:29:48 -07:00
Sven Eckelmann
aedbffc777 Staging: batman-adv: Create copy of skb with pre-allocated headroom
We can use skb_cow instead of a handwritten function to test and create
a writable skb buffer. This also allows us to pre-allocate headroom to
be able to send the data without re-allocating the buffer again to add
the ethernet header.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-05 00:29:48 -07:00
Sven Eckelmann
b411d498ee Staging: batman-adv: Prepare vis packets directly inside a skb
The vis information structure is used in a way that it can be transfered
directly as packet. It still had to be copied into a skb because of an
extra buffer used for the actual preparation of the data. This is
unnecessary and can be replaced by a simple clone instead of an full
copy before each send.

This makes also the send_raw_packet function obsolete.

Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-05 00:29:47 -07:00
Sven Eckelmann
b706007b89 Staging: batman-adv: Aggregate batman packets directly in skb
All originator messages are send through aggregation buffers. Those
buffers can directly be allocated as skb to reduce the cost of
allocation an extra buffer and copying them to a new allocated skb
directly before it gets send.

Now only the skb must be cloned in case of send_packet_to_if as it gets
called by send_packet for each interface. Non-primary ogms must not
cloned at all because they will only send once and the forward_packet
structure is freed by send_outstanding_bat_packet afterwards.

Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-05 00:29:47 -07:00
Sven Eckelmann
43bfee7693 Staging: batman-adv: Only clone skb data for multiple broadcasts
batman-adv tries to resend broadcasts on all interfaces up to three
times. For each round and each interface it must provide a skb which
gets consumed by the sending function.

It is unnecessary to copy the data of each broadcast because the actual
data is either not shared or already copied by add_bcast_packet_to_list.
So it is enough to just copy the skb control data

Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-05 00:29:46 -07:00
Sven Eckelmann
99eed2842c Staging: batman-adv: Keep header writable and unshared
my_skb_push provided an easy way to allocate enough headroom in
situation were we don't have enough space left and move the data pointer
to the new position, but we didn't checked wether we are allowed to
write to the new pushed header. This is for example a problem when the
skb was cloned and thus doesn't have a private data part.

my_skb_head_push now replaces my_skb_push by using skb_cow_head to
provide only a large enough, writable header without testing for the
rest of the (maybe shared) data. It will also move the data pointer
using skb_push when skb_cow_head doesn't fail.

This should give us enough flexibility in situation were skbs will be
queued by underlying layers and still doesn't unnecessarily copy the
data in situations when the skb was consumed right away during
dev_queue_xmit.

Reported-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-05 00:29:46 -07:00
Marek Lindner
15cf5523d2 Staging: batman-adv: register the batman-adv packet type per interface
Batman-adv globally registered the batman-adv packet type and installed
a hook to batman_skb_recv(). Each interface receiving a packet with that
type would end up in this function which then had to loop through all
batman-adv internal interface structures to find the its meta data. The
more interfaces a system had the longer the loops might take. Each and
every packet goes through this function making it a performance critical
loop.

This patch installs the hook for each activated interface. The called
batman_skb_recv() can distinguish these calls, therefore avoiding the
loop through the interface structures.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
[sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Rework on top of current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-05 00:29:45 -07:00
Sven Eckelmann
d52e90aeaf Staging: batman-adv: Directly prepare icmp packets in socket buffer
It is unnecessary to generate an icmp packet in an extra memory region
and than copying it to a new allocated skb.

This also resolved the problem that we do inform the user that we
couldn't send the packet because we couldn't allocate the socket buffer.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-05 00:29:45 -07:00
Andreas Langer
e63760e595 Staging: batman-adv: layer2 unicast packet fragmentation
This patch implements a simple layer2 fragmentation to allow traffic
exchange over network interfaces with a MTU smaller than 1500 bytes. The
fragmentation splits the big packets into two parts and marks the frames
accordingly. The receiving end buffers the packets to reassemble the
orignal packet before passing it to the higher layers. This feature
makes it necessary to modify the batman-adv encapsulation for unicast
packets by adding a sequence number, flags and the originator address.
This modifcation is part of a seperate packet type for fragemented
packets to keep the original overhead as low as possible. This patch
enables the feature by default to ensure the data traffic can travel
through the network. But it also prints a warning to notify the user
about the performance implications.

Note: Fragmentation should be avoided at all costs since it has a
dramatic impact on the performance, especially when it comes wifi
networks. Instead of a single packet, 2 packets have to be sent! Not
only valuable airtime is wasted but also packetloss decreases the
throughput. A link with 50% packetloss and fragmentation enabled is
pretty much unusable.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Langer <an.langer@gmx.de>
[sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Rework on top of current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-05 00:29:45 -07:00
Marek Lindner
24c76fc07b Staging: batman-adv: refactoring unicast payload code
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
[sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Rework on top of current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-05 00:29:44 -07:00
Simon Wunderlich
7d02674f71 Staging: batman-adv: move queue counters into bat_priv
to support multiple mesh devices later, we need to move global variables
like the queues into corresponding private structs bat_priv of the soft
devices.

Note that this patch still has a lot of FIXMEs and depends on the global
soft_device variable. This should be resolved later, e.g. by referencing
the parent soft device in batman_if.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
[sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Rework on top of current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-05 00:29:44 -07:00
Sven Eckelmann
8bb22a38d6 Staging: batman-adv: Calculate hamming weight using optimized kernel functions
The Kernighan algorithm is not able to calculate the number of set bits
in parallel and the compiler cannot replace it with optimized
instructions.

The kernel provides specialised functions for each cpu which can either
use a software implementation or hardware instruction depending on the
target cpu.

Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-05 00:29:43 -07:00
Simon Wunderlich
556c83ece8 Staging: batman-adv: Count Ethernet header for incoming packets
The Ethernet header is counted when transmitting a packet, so it should also
be counted when receiving a packet. With this patch, the rx_bytes and tx_bytes
statistics behave like an ordinary Ethernet interface.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-05 00:29:43 -07:00
Sven Eckelmann
b19ad29f55 Staging: batman-adv: Start new development cycle
Version 2010.1.0 of the extra kernel module was released and thus the
documentation should be updated and everything prepared for the the
upcoming patchset.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-05 00:29:42 -07:00
Sven Eckelmann
cbbdd77152 Staging: batman-adv: Remove CHANGELOG
The changelog is only generated on standalone releases. Thus it has no
real value for the in-kernel version of batman-adv.

Reported-by: Abraham Arce <abraham.arce.moreno@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-05 00:29:42 -07:00
Sven Eckelmann
de6d56723b Revert: "Staging: batman-adv: Adding netfilter-bridge hooks"
This reverts commit 96d592ed59.

The netfilter hook seems to be misused and may leak skbs in situations
when NF_HOOK returns NF_STOLEN. It may not filter everything as
expected. Also the ethernet bridge tables are not yet capable to
understand batman-adv packet correctly.

It was only added for testing purposes and can be removed again.

Reported-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-05 00:29:41 -07:00
Prashant P. Shah
602f2c9620 Staging: xgifb: fixed many style issues in vb_util.c
This is a patch to the vb_util.c file that fixes many style
issues found by the checkpatch.pl tool.
- extra spaces
- invalid code indent
- extra braces
- invalid comment style

Signed-off-by: Prashant P. Shah <pshah.mumbai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:44:02 -07:00
Prashant P. Shah
a24d60f45b Staging: xgifb: fixed many style issues in vb_init.c
This is a patch to the vb_init.c file that fixes many style
issues found by the checkpatch.pl tool.
- extra spaces
- invalid code indent
- extra braces
- invalid comment style

Signed-off-by: Prashant P. Shah <pshah.mumbai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:43:01 -07:00
Prashant P. Shah
21df8fc82c Staging: xgifb: fixed many style issue in vb_setmode.c
This is a patch to the vb_setmode.c file that fixes many style
issues found by the checkpatch.pl tool.
- extra spaces
- invalid code indent
- extra braces
- invalid comment style

Signed-off-by: Prashant P. Shah <pshah.mumbai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:37:47 -07:00
Prashant P. Shah
914a402dc5 Staging: xgifb: fixed many style issue in vb_ext.c
This is a patch to the vb_ext.c file that fixes many style
issues found by the checkpatch.pl tool.
- extra spaces
- invalid code indent
- extra braces
- invalid comment style

Signed-off-by: Prashant P. Shah <pshah.mumbai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:36:31 -07:00
Andre Nogueira
3dc3494ba2 Staging: rtl8186se: Remove a duplicate include directive in ieee80211.h
This patch removes a duplicate include directive in
drivers/staging/rtl8187se/ieee80211/ieee80211.h.

Signed-off-by: Andre Nogueira <andre.neo.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:28:18 -07:00
Andrea Gelmini
10b476a2fc staging: spectra: Kconfig: add missing '.'
All help messages end with full stop.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gelma.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:28:18 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
2a4724a76d Staging: ath6kl, remove unneeded ptr checking
In wmi_bssInfo_event_rx, there is unneeded check for bss, because it
is in the branch where the bss is checked to be non-null already.

Remove the superfluous check.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Vipin Mehta <vmehta@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:26:06 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
ff7d368ed9 Staging: lirc, fix lock imbalance
[2nd version -- melded all three together]

1) There is a missing return or goto statement in one fail path in
sasem_probe, so that the code contiues its normal execution (and
unlocks a mutex twice). Fix that by jumping to the right place.

Anyway the code is very broken on its fail paths and there are many
leaks. But that's a different story.

2) There is an omitted unlock in one fail path in vfd_write, jump to
the right place to unlock the lock.

3) In the probe function, there is one more error where the lock is
not unlocked. Fix that by jumping to the proper place.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:26:06 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
cc92ac2049 Staging: lirc, fix NULL dereference
When 'context' allocation fails in imon_probe, we jump to unlock
context->ctx_lock. This is wrong as context is NULL and the lock is
not locked.

Fix the labels.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:26:05 -07:00
Uwe Kleine-König
54669fdeb2 staging/trivial: fix typos concerning "through"
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:23:27 -07:00
Uwe Kleine-König
0e324fbdb7 staging/trivial: fix typos concerning "management"
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:23:26 -07:00
Uwe Kleine-König
9b0131cb24 staging/trivial: fix typos concerning "initiali[zs]e"
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:23:26 -07:00
Uwe Kleine-König
25a606c36a staging/trivial: fix typos concerning "address"
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:23:25 -07:00
Uwe Kleine-König
6cd5a9a35c staging/trivial: fix typos concerning "access"
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:23:25 -07:00
Uwe Kleine-König
ded1e38d7f staging/comedi: fix syntax error
I don't know how gcc interprets this, but it wouldn't surprise me if it
choose something different than start-of-comment

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:23:24 -07:00
Jonathan Cameron
853098b6e5 staging: iio: documentation - partial update to make more of it true.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Manuel Stahl <manuel.stahl@iis.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:19:02 -07:00
Jonathan Cameron
04b708124a staging: iio: lis3l02dqbuffersimple.c bring example up to date.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Manuel Stahl <manuel.stahl@iis.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:19:02 -07:00
Jonathan Cameron
299475e0d9 staging: iio: remove odd structure definition.
I've no idea where this came from!
Also fixed form -> from in comment

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Manuel Stahl <manuel.stahl@iis.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:19:01 -07:00
Jonathan Cameron
9dbfb6f14a staging: iio: Make use of the convenient IIO_TRIGGER_NAME_ATTR macro
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Manuel Stahl <manuel.stahl@iis.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:19:01 -07:00
Jonathan Cameron
2d7770a942 staging: iio: Remove deprecated ATTR_TEMP in favour of ATTR_TEMP_RAW
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Manuel Stahl <manuel.stahl@iis.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:19:00 -07:00
Jonathan Cameron
99e5dc45b8 staging: iio: Remove long dead function definitions from headers
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Manuel Stahl <manuel.stahl@iis.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:19:00 -07:00
Jonathan Cameron
c3e5d410bb staging: iio: unecessary header removal and kernel doc clean up
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Manuel Stahl <manuel.stahl@iis.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:19:00 -07:00
Jonathan Cameron
b6e5d69a9e staging: iio: simplify logic in iio_interrupt_handler
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Manuel Stahl <manuel.stahl@iis.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:18:59 -07:00
Jonathan Cameron
b156cf70e1 staging: iio: convert idr to ida as pointer never provided
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Manuel Stahl <manuel.stahl@iis.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-04 21:18:59 -07:00
Vipin Mehta
30295c8936 staging: add ath6kl driver for AR6003 chip
AR6003 is a single stream, SDIO based 802.11 chipset from
Atheros optimized for mobile and embedded devices. ath6kl is a
cfg80211 driver for AR6003 and supports both the station and
AP mode of operation.

Station mode supports 802.11 a/b/g/n with HT20 on 2.4/5GHz and
HT40 only on 5GHz. Some of the other features include WPA/WPA2,
WPS, WMM, WMM-PS, and BT coexistence. AP mode can be operated
only in b/g mode with support for a subset of features mentioned
above.

The driver supports cfg80211 but comes with its own set of
wext ioctls which have historically supported some of our
customers with features like BT 3.0 and AP mode of operation.

For further details, please refer to:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath6kl

The driver requires firmware that runs on the chip's network
processor. The majority of it is stored in ROM. The binaries
that are downloaded and executed from RAM are as follows:

1) Patch against the code in ROM for bug fixes and feature
   enhancements.
2) Code to copy the data from the OTP region of the memory
   into RAM.
3) Calibration file carrying board specific data.

The above files need to be present in the directory
'/lib/firmware/ath6k/AR6003/hw2.0/' for the driver to initialize
the chip upon enumeration. The files can be downloaded from the
link specified at the following location:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath6kl#Download

This driver is only provided in the interim while we work on
the mac80211 replacement, ath6k. Once the mac80211 driver
achieves feature parity with the ath6kl driver, the ath6kl will
be deprecated and removed from staging.

Signed-off-by: Vipin Mehta <vmehta@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-02 11:43:26 -07:00
Nitin Gupta
9b9913d80b Staging: zram: Update zram documentation
Update zram documentation to reflect transition form
ioctl to sysfs interface.

Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-31 15:36:36 -07:00
Nitin Gupta
484875adbc Staging: zram: Remove need for explicit device initialization
Currently, the user has to explicitly write a positive value to
initstate sysfs node before the device can be used. This event
triggers allocation of per-device metadata like memory pool,
table array and so on.

We do not pre-initialize all zram devices since the 'table' array,
mapping disk blocks to compressed chunks, takes considerable amount
of memory (8 bytes per page). So, pre-initializing all devices will
be quite wasteful if only few or none of the devices are actually
used.

This explicit device initialization from user is an odd requirement and
can be easily avoided. We now initialize the device when first write is
done to the device.

Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-31 15:36:36 -07:00
Nitin Gupta
e98419c23b Staging: zram: Document sysfs entries
Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-31 15:34:36 -07:00
Nitin Gupta
33863c21e6 Staging: zram: Replace ioctls with sysfs interface
Creates per-device sysfs nodes in /sys/block/zram<id>/
Currently following stats are exported:
 - disksize
 - num_reads
 - num_writes
 - invalid_io
 - zero_pages
 - orig_data_size
 - compr_data_size
 - mem_used_total

By default, disksize is set to 0. So, to start using
a zram device, fist write a disksize value and then
initialize device by writing any positive value to
initstate. For example:

        # initialize /dev/zram0 with 50MB disksize
        echo 50*1024*1024 | bc > /sys/block/zram0/disksize
        echo 1 > /sys/block/zram0/initstate

When done using a disk, issue reset to free its memory
by writing any positive value to reset node:

        echo 1 > /sys/block/zram0/reset

This change also obviates the need for 'rzscontrol' utility.

Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-31 15:33:54 -07:00
Markus Grabner
e1a164d7a3 Staging: line6: another upstream sync
Everything should be in sync now.

Signed-off-by: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-31 15:28:16 -07:00
Markus Grabner
1027f476f5 staging: line6: sync with upstream
Big upstream sync.

Signed-off-by: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-31 15:28:15 -07:00