This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:
PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*<asm/uaccess.h>'
sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include <linux/uaccess.h>!" \
$(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)
to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.
Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
struct mon_bin_hdr allows for a 64-bit seconds timestamp. The code
currently uses 'struct timeval' to populate the timestamp in mon_bin_hdr,
which has a 32-bit seconds field and will overflow in year 2038 and beyond.
This patch replaces 'struct timeval' with 'struct timespec64' which is
y2038 safe. This patch is part of a larger attempt to remove instances
of struct timeval and other 32-bit timekeeping (time_t, struct timespec)
from the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
We should not be doing assignments within an if () block
so fix up the code to not do this.
change was created using Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
A long time ago, in v2.4, VM_RESERVED kept swapout process off VMA,
currently it lost original meaning but still has some effects:
| effect | alternative flags
-+------------------------+---------------------------------------------
1| account as reserved_vm | VM_IO
2| skip in core dump | VM_IO, VM_DONTDUMP
3| do not merge or expand | VM_IO, VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_HUGETLB, VM_PFNMAP
4| do not mlock | VM_IO, VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_HUGETLB, VM_PFNMAP
This patch removes reserved_vm counter from mm_struct. Seems like nobody
cares about it, it does not exported into userspace directly, it only
reduces total_vm showed in proc.
Thus VM_RESERVED can be replaced with VM_IO or pair VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP.
remap_pfn_range() and io_remap_pfn_range() set VM_IO|VM_DONTEXPAND|VM_DONTDUMP.
remap_vmalloc_range() set VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c fixup]
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With module.h being implicitly everywhere via device.h, the absence
of explicitly including something for EXPORT_SYMBOL went unnoticed.
Since we are heading to fix things up and clean module.h from the
device.h file, we need to explicitly include these files now.
Use the lightweight version of the header that has just THIS_MODULE
and EXPORT_SYMBOL variants.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Report the number of dropped packets instead of zero
when using the binary usbmon interface with tcpdump.
# tcpdump -i usbmon1 -w dump
tcpdump: listening on usbmon1, link-type USB_LINUX_MMAPPED (USB with padded Linux header), capture size 65535 bytes
^C2155 packets captured
2155 packets received by filter
1019 packets dropped by kernel
Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* usb-next: (132 commits)
USB: uas: Use GFP_NOIO instead of GFP_KERNEL in I/O submission path
USB: uas: Ensure we only bind to a UAS interface
USB: uas: Rename sense pipe and sense urb to status pipe and status urb
USB: uas: Use kzalloc instead of kmalloc
USB: uas: Fix up the Sense IU
usb: musb: core: kill unneeded #include's
DA8xx: assign name to MUSB IRQ resource
usb: gadget: g_ncm added
usb: gadget: f_ncm.c added
usb: gadget: u_ether: prepare for NCM
usb: pch_udc: Fix setup transfers with data out
usb: pch_udc: Fix compile error, warnings and checkpatch warnings
usb: add ab8500 usb transceiver driver
USB: gadget: Implement runtime PM for MSM bus glue driver
USB: gadget: Implement runtime PM for ci13xxx gadget
USB: gadget: Add USB controller driver for MSM SoC
USB: gadget: Introduce ci13xxx_udc_driver struct
USB: gadget: Initialize ci13xxx gadget device's coherent DMA mask
USB: gadget: Fix "scheduling while atomic" bugs in ci13xxx_udc
USB: gadget: Separate out PCI bus code from ci13xxx_udc
...
Usually the usbmon returns the amount of data specified in
urb->transfer_buffer_length for output submissions and urb->actual_length
for input callbacks. However, for Isochronous input transfers, this is
not enough, since the returned data buffer may contain "holes".
One easy way to fix this is to use urb->transfer_buffer_length,
but this often transfers a whole lot of unused data, so we find
how much was actually used instead.
Original patch by Márton Németh. See also kernel bug 22182.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Márton Németh <nm127@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point,
leaving only the #include.
Remove this too as a cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Enlarging the buffer size via the MON_IOCT_RING_SIZE ioctl causes
general protection faults. It appears the culprit is an incorrect
argument to mon_free_buff: instead of passing the size of the current
buffer being freed, the size of the new buffer is passed.
Use the correct size argument to mon_free_buff when changing the size of
the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Robertson <steven@strobe.cc>
Acked-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
compat_ioctl does not use the BKL, so I assume that
the native function does not need it either.
The open function is already protected by the
driver's mutex, the BKL is probably not needed
here either.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'bkl/ioctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing:
uml: Pushdown the bkl from harddog_kern ioctl
sunrpc: Pushdown the bkl from sunrpc cache ioctl
sunrpc: Pushdown the bkl from ioctl
autofs4: Pushdown the bkl from ioctl
uml: Convert to unlocked_ioctls to remove implicit BKL
ncpfs: BKL ioctl pushdown
coda: Clean-up whitespace problems in pioctl.c
coda: BKL ioctl pushdown
drivers: Push down BKL into various drivers
isdn: Push down BKL into ioctl functions
scsi: Push down BKL into ioctl functions
dvb: Push down BKL into ioctl functions
smbfs: Push down BKL into ioctl function
coda/psdev: Remove BKL from ioctl function
um/mmapper: Remove BKL usage
sn_hwperf: Kill BKL usage
hfsplus: Push down BKL into ioctl function
Change the type of the URB's 'sg' pointer from a usb_sg_request to
a scatterlist. This allows drivers to submit scatter-gather lists
without using the usb_sg_wait() interface. It has the added benefit
of removing the typecasts that were added as part of patch as1368 (and
slightly decreasing the number of pointer dereferences).
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Tested-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1368) fixes a rather obscure bug in usbmon: When tracing
URBs sent by the scatter-gather library, it accesses the data buffers
while they are still mapped for DMA.
The solution is to move the mapping and unmapping out of the s-g
library and into the usual place in hcd.c. This requires the addition
of new URB flag bits to describe the kind of mapping needed, since we
have to call dma_map_sg() if the HCD supports native scatter-gather
operation and dma_map_page() if it doesn't. The nice thing about
having the new flags is that they simplify the testing for unmapping.
The patch removes the only caller of usb_buffer_[un]map_sg(), so those
functions are #if'ed out. A later patch will remove them entirely.
As a result of this change, urb->sg will be set in situations where
it wasn't set previously. Hence the xhci and whci drivers are
adjusted to test urb->num_sgs instead, which retains its original
meaning and is nonzero only when the HCD has to handle a scatterlist.
Finally, even when a submission error occurs we don't want to hand
URBs to usbmon before they are unmapped. The submission path is
rearranged so that map_urb_for_dma() is called only for non-root-hub
URBs and unmap_urb_for_dma() is called immediately after a submission
error. This simplifies the error handling.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
CC: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
These are the last remaining device drivers using
the ->ioctl file operation in the drivers directory
(except from v4l drivers).
[fweisbec: drop i8k pushdown as it has been done from
procfs pushdown branch already]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Due to a simple oversight when bus zero was added, the text API fails to
deliver the bus number in 'E' messages (which are equivalent of 'C'
messages, only for error case). This makes it harder, for instance,
use a search-and-highlight in a text editor. So fix it.
Also, Alan Stern requested adding timestamps to 'E' messages. This is
purely cosmetic, but makes it easier to read the trace. This is done
for both text and binary APIs.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1301) adds support to usbmon for scatter-gather URBs.
The text interface looks at only the first scatterlist element, since
it never copies more than 32 bytes of data anyway. The binary
interface copies as much data as possible up to the first
non-addressable buffer.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
CC: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1299b) fixes a bug in an error-handling path of usbmon's
binary interface. The storage area for URB data is divided into
fixed-size blocks. If an URB's data can't be copied, the area
reserved for it should be decreased to the size of the truncated
information (rounded up to a block boundary). Rounding up the amount
to be removed and subtracting it from the reserved size is definitely
the wrong thing to do.
Also, when the data for an isochronous URB can't be copied, we can
still copy the isoc packet descriptors. In fact the current code does
copy the descriptors, but then sets the capture length to 0 so they
remain inaccessible. The capture length should be reduced to the
length of the descriptors, not set to 0.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
CC: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* mark struct vm_area_struct::vm_ops as const
* mark vm_ops in AGP code
But leave TTM code alone, something is fishy there with global vm_ops
being used.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch fixes crashes when usbmon attempts to access GART aperture.
The old code attempted to take a bus address and convert it into a
virtual address, which clearly was impossible on systems with actual
IOMMUs. Let us not persist in this foolishness, and use transfer_buffer
in all cases instead.
I think downsides are negligible. The ones I see are:
- A driver may pass an address of one buffer down as transfer_buffer,
and entirely different entity mapped for DMA, resulting in misleading
output of usbmon. Note, however, that PIO based controllers would
do transfer the same data that usbmon sees here.
- Out of tree drivers may crash usbmon if they store garbage in
transfer_buffer. I inspected the in-tree drivers, and clarified
the documentation in comments.
- Drivers that use get_user_pages will not be possible to monitor.
I only found one driver with this problem (drivers/staging/rspiusb).
- Same happens with with usb_storage transferring from highmem, but
it works fine on 64-bit systems, so I think it's not a concern.
At least we don't crash anymore.
Why didn't we do this in 2.6.10? That's because back in those days
it was popular not to fill in transfer_buffer, so almost all
traffic would be invisible (e.g. all of HID was like that).
But now, the tree is almost 100% PIO friendly, so we can do the
right thing at last.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
These warnings were observed on MIPS32 using 2.6.31-rc1 and gcc-4.2.0:
mm/page_alloc.c: In function 'alloc_pages_exact':
mm/page_alloc.c:1986: warning: passing argument 1 of 'virt_to_phys' makes pointer from integer without a cast
drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c: In function 'mon_alloc_buff':
drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c:1264: warning: passing argument 1 of 'virt_to_phys' makes pointer from integer without a cast
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kernel/perf_counter.c too]
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds an extension to the binary API so it reaches parity with
existing text API (so-called "1u"). The extension delivers additional data,
such as ISO descriptors and the interrupt interval.
Signed-Off-By: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Running a 32-bit usbmon(8) on 2.6.28-rc9 produces the following:
ioctl32(usbmon:28563): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(400c9206){t:ffffff92;sz:12} arg(ffd3f458) on /dev/usbmon0
It happens because the compatibility mode was implemented for 2.6.18
and not updated for the fsops.compat_ioctl API.
This patch relocates the pieces from under #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT into
compat_ioctl with no other changes except one new whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
There's a bug in the usbmon binary reader: When using read() to fetch
the packets and a packet's data is partially read, the next read call
will once again return up to len_cap bytes of data. The b_read counter
is not regarded when determining the remaining chunk size.
So, when dumping USB data with "cat /dev/usbmon0 > usbmon.trace" while
reading from a USB storage device and analyzing the dump file
afterwards it will get out of sync after a couple of packets.
Signed-off-by: Ingo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
device_create() is race-prone, so use the race-free
device_create_drvdata() instead as device_create() is going away.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Paolo asked to enable the mmap. I kept it off because I'm do not
entirely understand how it workse these days after ->nopage etc.
But it seems like working somewhat at least.
Signed-Off-By: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@gmail.com>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <paolo.abeni@email.it>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Convert USB mon driver from nopage to fault.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
- make the needlessly global struct mon_fops_binary static
- #if 0 the unused mon_bin_mmap() and related code
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as978) reorganizes the way usbmon uses urb->status. It
now accepts the status value as an argument.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Setup packet must be visible in virtual space. There's absolutely no
good reason to implement any kind of zero-copy transfer of 8 bytes, and
the documentation in usb.h is explicit about it. So, drop DMA remapping.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This is a set of small updates to Alan's work to make the code more to
my liking. Mostly premature optimizations, but also direction of control
transfers in the binary interface was always out.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as949) changes the usbmon driver to use the new urb->ep
field rather than urb->pipe.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add a class which allows for an easier integration with udev.
This code was originally written by Paolo Abeni, and arrived to my tree
as a part of big patch to add binary API on December 18. As I understand,
Paolo always meant the class to be a part of the whole thing. This is his
udev rule to go along with the patch:
KERNEL=="usbmon[0-9]*", NAME="usbmon%n", MODE="0440",OWNER="root",GROUP="bin"
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add the "bus zero" feature to the usbmon. If a user process specifies bus
with number zero, it receives events from all buses. This is useful when
we wish to see initial enumeration when a bus is created, typically after
a modprobe. Until now, an application had to loop until a new bus could
be open, then start capturing on it. This procedure was cumbersome and
could lose initial events. Also, often it's too bothersome to find exactly
to which bus a specific device is attached.
Paolo Albeni provided the original concept implementation. I added the
handling of "bus->monitored" flag and generally fixed it up.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
mon_bin_exit() and mon_text_exit() are called from __init code, so don't mark
them as __exit.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch adds a new, "binary" API in addition to the old, text API usbmon
had before. The new API allows for less CPU use, and it allows to capture
all data from a packet where old API only captured 32 bytes at most. There
are some limitations and conditions to this, e.g. in case someone constructs
a URB with 1GB of data, it's not likely to be captured, because even the
huge buffers of the new reader are finite. Nonetheless, I expect this new
capability to capture all data for all real life scenarios.
The downside is, a special user mode application is required where cat(1)
worked before. I have sample code at http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/linux/
and Paolo Abeni is working on patching libpcap.
This patch was initially written by Paolo and later I tweaked it, and
we had a little back-and-forth. So this is a jointly authored patch, but
I am submitting this I am responsible for the bugs.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <paolo.abeni@email.it>
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
