linux/include
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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acpi ACPI: CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=n power off regression in 2.6.23-rc8 (NOT in rc7) 2007-09-25 17:58:52 -04:00
asm-alpha Fix Alpha O_CLOEXEC definition 2007-08-09 08:39:22 -07:00
asm-arm Merge branch 'omap-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6 2007-08-25 12:38:47 +01:00
asm-avr32 [AVR32] Define mmiowb() 2007-08-15 16:36:56 +02:00
asm-blackfin Blackfin arch: fix PORT_J BUG for BF537/6 EMAC driver reported by Kalle Pokki <kalle.pokki@iki.fi> 2007-10-04 00:36:18 +08:00
asm-cris remove unused TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME flag 2007-07-31 15:39:38 -07:00
asm-frv FRV: connect up fallocate 2007-08-11 15:47:40 -07:00
asm-generic Define termios_1 functions for powerpc, s390, avr32 and frv 2007-09-12 09:08:05 -07:00
asm-h8300 Binfmt_flat: Add minimum support for the Blackfin relocations 2007-10-03 23:41:43 +08:00
asm-i386 i386: remove bogus comment about memory barrier 2007-09-29 09:13:59 -07:00
asm-ia64 [IA64] Cleanup HPSIM code (was: Re: Enable early console for Ski simulator) 2007-09-01 02:52:25 -07:00
asm-m32r Binfmt_flat: Add minimum support for the Blackfin relocations 2007-10-03 23:41:43 +08:00
asm-m68k m68k(nommu): add missing syscalls 2007-09-11 17:21:20 -07:00
asm-m68knommu Binfmt_flat: Add minimum support for the Blackfin relocations 2007-10-03 23:41:43 +08:00
asm-mips [MIPS] Terminally fix local_{dec,sub}_if_positive 2007-10-03 14:30:52 +01:00
asm-parisc [PARISC] Add dummy isa_(bus|virt)_to_(virt|bus) inlines 2007-08-27 00:29:22 -04:00
asm-powerpc [POWERPC] Fix timekeeping on PowerPC 601 2007-09-19 15:26:34 +10:00
asm-ppc [WATCHDOG] mv64x60_wdt: Add arch/powerpc platform support 2007-07-24 21:16:02 +00:00
asm-s390 [S390] Change atomic_read/set to inline functions with barrier semantics. 2007-08-22 13:51:49 +02:00
asm-sh Binfmt_flat: Add minimum support for the Blackfin relocations 2007-10-03 23:41:43 +08:00
asm-sh64 sh64: Add missing dma_sync_single_for_*(). 2007-08-10 02:47:31 +09:00
asm-sparc [SPARC32]: Make flush_tlb_kernel_range() an inline function. 2007-08-26 18:49:12 -07:00
asm-sparc64 [SPARC64]: Fix lockdep, particularly on SMP. 2007-09-16 11:51:15 -07:00
asm-um UML: Fix ELF_CORE_COPY_REGS build botch 2007-09-10 18:58:05 -07:00
asm-v850 Binfmt_flat: Add minimum support for the Blackfin relocations 2007-10-03 23:41:43 +08:00
asm-x86_64 Remove unnecessary cast in prefetch() 2007-10-05 08:04:35 -07:00
asm-xtensa [patch 1/2] Xtensa: enable arbitary tty speed setting ioctls 2007-08-27 13:54:25 -07:00
crypto [CRYPTO] sha: Add header file for SHA definitions 2007-10-10 16:55:50 -07:00
keys
linux [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious 2007-10-10 21:15:29 -07:00
math-emu Fix <math-emu/soft-fp.h> tpyo 2007-08-18 17:15:17 -07:00
media V4L/DVB (6220a): fix build error for et61x251 driver 2007-09-14 13:39:12 -03:00
mtd
net [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious 2007-10-10 21:15:29 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma IB: Move the macro IB_UMEM_MAX_PAGE_CHUNK() to umem.c 2007-08-03 10:45:18 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi [SCSI] libiscsi: sync up iscsi and scsi eh's access to the connection 2007-08-15 13:09:21 -05:00
sound
video remove tx3912fb 2007-07-31 15:39:41 -07:00
xen xen: xen/page.h compile fix 2007-07-26 11:35:16 -07:00
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