linux/kernel
Denis V. Lunev cd40b7d398 [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious
This patch make processing netlink user -> kernel messages synchronious.
This change was inspired by the talk with Alexey Kuznetsov about current
netlink messages processing. He says that he was badly wrong when introduced 
asynchronious user -> kernel communication.

The call netlink_unicast is the only path to send message to the kernel
netlink socket. But, unfortunately, it is also used to send data to the
user.

Before this change the user message has been attached to the socket queue
and sk->sk_data_ready was called. The process has been blocked until all
pending messages were processed. The bad thing is that this processing
may occur in the arbitrary process context.

This patch changes nlk->data_ready callback to get 1 skb and force packet
processing right in the netlink_unicast.

Kernel -> user path in netlink_unicast remains untouched.

EINTR processing for in netlink_run_queue was changed. It forces rtnl_lock
drop, but the process remains in the cycle until the message will be fully
processed. So, there is no need to use this kludges now.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 21:15:29 -07:00
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irq request_irq: fix DEBUG_SHIRQ handling 2007-08-31 01:42:23 -07:00
power hibernation doesn't even build on frv - tons of helpers are missing 2007-09-26 09:22:04 -07:00
time Fix timer_stats printout of events/sec 2007-10-07 16:28:43 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.preempt [PATCH] sched: arch preempt notifier mechanism 2007-07-26 13:40:43 +02:00
Makefile user namespace: add the framework 2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
acct.c Cleanup non-arch xtime uses, use get_seconds() or current_kernel_time(). 2007-07-25 10:09:20 -07:00
audit.c [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious 2007-10-10 21:15:29 -07:00
audit.h Audit: add TTY input auditing 2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
auditfilter.c [PATCH] allow audit filtering on bit & operations 2007-07-22 09:57:02 -04:00
auditsc.c kernel/auditsc.c: fix an off-by-one 2007-08-22 19:52:44 -07:00
capability.c
compat.c
configs.c
cpu.c PM: Fix dependencies of CONFIG_SUSPEND and CONFIG_HIBERNATION 2007-08-31 01:42:22 -07:00
cpuset.c usermodehelper: Tidy up waiting 2007-07-18 08:47:40 -07:00
delayacct.c sched: update delay-accounting to use CFS's precise stats 2007-07-09 18:52:00 +02:00
die_notifier.c
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c signalfd simplification 2007-09-20 13:19:59 -07:00
extable.c
fork.c [NET]: Add network namespace clone & unshare support. 2007-10-10 16:52:46 -07:00
futex.c robust futex thread exit race 2007-10-01 07:52:23 -07:00
futex_compat.c robust futex thread exit race 2007-10-01 07:52:23 -07:00
hrtimer.c [KTIME]: Introduce ktime_sub_ns and ktime_sub_us 2007-10-10 16:48:12 -07:00
itimer.c
kallsyms.c kallsyms: make KSYM_NAME_LEN include space for trailing '\0' 2007-07-17 10:23:03 -07:00
kexec.c
kfifo.c is_power_of_2: kernel/kfifo.c 2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
kmod.c Restore call_usermodehelper_pipe() behaviour 2007-09-11 17:21:20 -07:00
kprobes.c fix compilation with gcc 4.2 2007-08-11 15:47:42 -07:00
ksysfs.c FRV: Fix linkage problems 2007-07-20 12:01:34 -07:00
kthread.c kthread: silence bogus section mismatch warning 2007-07-31 15:39:42 -07:00
latency.c
lockdep.c lockdep debugging: give stacktrace for init_error 2007-07-19 10:04:49 -07:00
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c Fix leak on /proc/lockdep_stats 2007-07-31 15:39:40 -07:00
module.c Fix Off-by-one in /sys/module/*/refcnt 2007-08-22 14:35:35 -07:00
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c lockstat: measure lock bouncing 2007-07-19 10:04:49 -07:00
mutex.h
nsproxy.c [NET]: Add network namespace clone & unshare support. 2007-10-10 16:52:46 -07:00
panic.c Report that kernel is tainted if there was an OOPS 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
params.c modules: better error messages when modules fail to load due to a sysfs problem. 2007-07-30 14:25:23 -07:00
pid.c namespace: ensure clone_flags are always stored in an unsigned long 2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
posix-cpu-timers.c sched: make posix-cpu-timers use CFS's accounting information 2007-07-09 18:51:58 +02:00
posix-timers.c posix-timers: fix creation race 2007-08-22 19:52:46 -07:00
printk.c fix - ensure we don't use bootconsoles after init has been released 2007-08-21 20:23:53 -07:00
profile.c fix compilation with gcc 4.2 2007-08-11 15:47:42 -07:00
ptrace.c Fix spurious syscall tracing after PTRACE_DETACH + PTRACE_ATTACH 2007-09-10 18:57:47 -07:00
rcupdate.c
rcutorture.c Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
relay.c Fix a use after free bug in kernel->userspace relay file support 2007-07-31 15:39:42 -07:00
resource.c
rtmutex-debug.c FUTEX: Tidy up the code 2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
rtmutex.c FUTEX: Tidy up the code 2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
rtmutex.h
rtmutex_common.h FUTEX: Tidy up the code 2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
rwsem.c lockstat: hook into spinlock_t, rwlock_t, rwsem and mutex 2007-07-19 10:04:49 -07:00
sched.c sched: fix invalid sched_class use 2007-09-19 23:34:46 +02:00
sched_debug.c sched: debug: fix sum_exec_runtime clearing 2007-09-05 14:32:49 +02:00
sched_fair.c sched: fix profile=sleep 2007-10-02 14:13:08 +02:00
sched_idletask.c sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->put_prev_task() 2007-08-09 11:16:49 +02:00
sched_rt.c sched: optimize task_tick_rt() a bit 2007-08-24 20:39:10 +02:00
sched_stats.h [PATCH] sched: add schedstat_set() API 2007-08-02 17:41:40 +02:00
seccomp.c make seccomp zerocost in schedule 2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
signal.c fix bogus reporting of signals by audit 2007-10-07 16:28:43 -07:00
softirq.c [KERNEL]: Unexport raise_softirq_irqoff 2007-10-10 16:49:18 -07:00
softlockup.c Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
spinlock.c lockstat: hook into spinlock_t, rwlock_t, rwsem and mutex 2007-07-19 10:04:49 -07:00
srcu.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c Fix stop_machine_run problem with naughty real time process 2007-07-16 09:05:41 -07:00
sys.c Fix SMP poweroff hangs 2007-10-01 07:52:23 -07:00
sys_ni.c diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures 2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
sysctl.c sched: add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_compat_yield 2007-09-19 23:34:46 +02:00
taskstats.c taskstats: add context-switch counters 2007-07-16 09:05:46 -07:00
time.c Cleanup non-arch xtime uses, use get_seconds() or current_kernel_time(). 2007-07-25 10:09:20 -07:00
timer.c Pull ia64-clocksource into release branch 2007-07-20 11:26:47 -07:00
tsacct.c Cleanup non-arch xtime uses, use get_seconds() or current_kernel_time(). 2007-07-25 10:09:20 -07:00
uid16.c
user.c Fix user namespace exiting OOPs 2007-09-19 11:24:18 -07:00
user_namespace.c Fix user namespace exiting OOPs 2007-09-19 11:24:18 -07:00
utsname.c Fix UTS corruption during clone(CLONE_NEWUTS) 2007-09-19 11:24:17 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c remove CONFIG_UTS_NS and CONFIG_IPC_NS 2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
wait.c
workqueue.c fix bogus hotplug cpu warning 2007-08-27 10:27:48 -07:00