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<title>kernel/git/stable/linux.git/net/bluetooth/rfcomm, branch linux-2.6.16.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<updated>2007-01-26T19:49:22+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>[Bluetooth] Add locking for bt_proto array manipulation</title>
<updated>2007-01-26T19:49:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcel Holtmann</name>
<email>marcel@holtmann.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-01-25T19:38:15+00:00</published>
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The bt_proto array needs to be protected by some kind of locking to
prevent a race condition between bt_sock_create and bt_sock_register.

And in addition all calls to sk_alloc need to be made GFP_ATOMIC now.

Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO &lt;jet@gyve.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederik Deweerdt &lt;frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[Bluetooth] Return EINPROGRESS for non-blocking socket calls</title>
<updated>2007-01-26T19:49:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcel Holtmann</name>
<email>marcel@holtmann.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-01-25T19:29:55+00:00</published>
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In case of non-blocking socket calls we should return EINPROGRESS
and not EAGAIN.

Signed-off-by: Ulisses Furquim &lt;ulissesf@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[Bluetooth] Fix uninitialized return value for RFCOMM sendmsg()</title>
<updated>2007-01-25T18:40:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcel Holtmann</name>
<email>marcel@holtmann.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-01-25T18:40:43+00:00</published>
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When calling send() with a zero length parameter on a RFCOMM socket
it returns a positive value. In this rare case the variable err is
used uninitialized and unfortunately its value is returned.

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[Bluetooth] More checks if DLC is still attached to the TTY</title>
<updated>2007-01-25T18:37:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcel Holtmann</name>
<email>marcel@holtmann.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-01-25T18:37:21+00:00</published>
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If the DLC device is no longer attached to the TTY device, then return
errors or default values for various callbacks of the TTY layer.

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[Bluetooth] Check if DLC is still attached to the TTY</title>
<updated>2007-01-25T18:35:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcel Holtmann</name>
<email>marcel@holtmann.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-01-25T18:35:01+00:00</published>
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If the DLC device is no longer attached to the TTY device, then it
makes no sense to go through with changing the termios settings.

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[Bluetooth] Reduce L2CAP MTU for RFCOMM connections</title>
<updated>2006-02-13T10:39:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcel Holtmann</name>
<email>marcel@holtmann.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-02-13T10:39:57+00:00</published>
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This patch reduces the default L2CAP MTU for all RFCOMM connections
from 1024 to 1013 to improve the interoperability with some broken
RFCOMM implementations. To make this more flexible the L2CAP MTU
becomes also a module parameter and so it can changed at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/)</title>
<updated>2006-01-12T02:42:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@xenotime.net</email>
</author>
<published>2006-01-11T20:17:47+00:00</published>
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net: Use &lt;linux/capability.h&gt; where capable() is used.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@xenotime.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] TTY layer buffering revamp</title>
<updated>2006-01-10T16:01:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Cox</name>
<email>alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2006-01-10T04:54:13+00:00</published>
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The API and code have been through various bits of initial review by
serial driver people but they definitely need to live somewhere for a
while so the unconverted drivers can get knocked into shape, existing
drivers that have been updated can be better tuned and bugs whacked out.

This replaces the tty flip buffers with kmalloc objects in rings. In the
normal situation for an IRQ driven serial port at typical speeds the
behaviour is pretty much the same, two buffers end up allocated and the
kernel cycles between them as before.

When there are delays or at high speed we now behave far better as the
buffer pool can grow a bit rather than lose characters. This also means
that we can operate at higher speeds reliably.

For drivers that receive characters in blocks (DMA based, USB and
especially virtualisation) the layer allows a lot of driver specific
code that works around the tty layer with private secondary queues to be
removed. The IBM folks need this sort of layer, the smart serial port
people do, the virtualisers do (because a virtualised tty typically
operates at infinite speed rather than emulating 9600 baud).

Finally many drivers had invalid and unsafe attempts to avoid buffer
overflows by directly invoking tty methods extracted out of the innards
of work queue structs. These are no longer needed and all go away. That
fixes various random hangs with serial ports on overflow.

The other change in here is to optimise the receive_room path that is
used by some callers. It turns out that only one ldisc uses receive room
except asa constant and it updates it far far less than the value is
read. We thus make it a variable not a function call.

I expect the code to contain bugs due to the size alone but I'll be
watching and squashing them and feeding out new patches as it goes.

Because the buffers now dynamically expand you should only run out of
buffering when the kernel runs out of memory for real.  That means a lot of
the horrible hacks high performance drivers used to do just aren't needed any
more.

Description:

tty_insert_flip_char is an old API and continues to work as before, as does
tty_flip_buffer_push() [this is why many drivers dont need modification].  It
does now also return the number of chars inserted

There are also

tty_buffer_request_room(tty, len)

which asks for a buffer block of the length requested and returns the space
found.  This improves efficiency with hardware that knows how much to
transfer.

and tty_insert_flip_string_flags(tty, str, flags, len)

to insert a string of characters and flags

For a smart interface the usual code is

    len = tty_request_buffer_room(tty, amount_hardware_says);
    tty_insert_flip_string(tty, buffer_from_card, len);

More description!

At the moment tty buffers are attached directly to the tty.  This is causing a
lot of the problems related to tty layer locking, also problems at high speed
and also with bursty data (such as occurs in virtualised environments)

I'm working on ripping out the flip buffers and replacing them with a pool of
dynamically allocated buffers.  This allows both for old style "byte I/O"
devices and also helps virtualisation and smart devices where large blocks of
data suddenely materialise and need storing.

So far so good.  Lots of drivers reference tty-&gt;flip.*.  Several of them also
call directly and unsafely into function pointers it provides.  This will all
break.  Most drivers can use tty_insert_flip_char which can be kept as an API
but others need more.

At the moment I've added the following interfaces, if people think more will
be needed now is a good time to say

 int tty_buffer_request_room(tty, size)

Try and ensure at least size bytes are available, returns actual room (may be
zero).  At the moment it just uses the flipbuf space but that will change.
Repeated calls without characters being added are not cumulative.  (ie if you
call it with 1, 1, 1, and then 4 you'll have four characters of space.  The
other functions will also try and grow buffers in future but this will be a
more efficient way when you know block sizes.

 int tty_insert_flip_char(tty, ch, flag)

As before insert a character if there is room.  Now returns 1 for success, 0
for failure.

 int tty_insert_flip_string(tty, str, len)

Insert a block of non error characters.  Returns the number inserted.

 int tty_prepare_flip_string(tty, strptr, len)

Adjust the buffer to allow len characters to be added.  Returns a buffer
pointer in strptr and the length available.  This allows for hardware that
needs to use functions like insl or mencpy_fromio.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Fulghum &lt;paulkf@microgate.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata &lt;takata@linux-m32r.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes &lt;hawkes@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>[NET]: move struct proto_ops to const</title>
<updated>2006-01-03T21:11:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>dada1@cosmosbay.com</email>
</author>
<published>2005-12-22T20:49:22+00:00</published>
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I noticed that some of 'struct proto_ops' used in the kernel may share
a cache line used by locks or other heavily modified data. (default
linker alignement is 32 bytes, and L1_CACHE_LINE is 64 or 128 at
least)

This patch makes sure a 'struct proto_ops' can be declared as const,
so that all cpus can share all parts of it without false sharing.

This is not mandatory : a driver can still use a read/write structure
if it needs to (and eventually a __read_mostly)

I made a global stubstitute to change all existing occurences to make
them const.

This should reduce the possibility of false sharing on SMP, and
speedup some socket system calls.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;dada1@cosmosbay.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[Bluetooth]: Remove the usage of /proc completely</title>
<updated>2005-11-08T17:57:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcel Holtmann</name>
<email>marcel@holtmann.org</email>
</author>
<published>2005-11-08T17:57:38+00:00</published>
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This patch removes all relics of the /proc usage from the Bluetooth
subsystem core and its upper layers. All the previous information are
now available via /sys/class/bluetooth through appropriate functions.

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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