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authorNatanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>2013-05-27 11:33:43 +0000
committerNatanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>2013-05-27 12:05:29 +0000
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+From 1225b1090991bdcab819bdab96be329397563f1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Timo=20Ter=C3=A4s?= <timo.teras@iki.fi>
+Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 11:30:23 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH 1/6] net: inform NETDEV_CHANGE callbacks which flags were
+ changed
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+In certain cases (like the follow up commit to arp.c) will need to
+check which flags actually changed to avoid excessive work.
+
+Ben Hutchings nicely worded why to put these transient flags to
+struct net_device for the time being:
+> It's inelegant to put transient data associated with an event in a
+> persistent data structure. On the other hand, having every user cache
+> the old state is pretty awful as well.
+>
+> Really, netdev notifiers should be changed to accept a structure that
+> encapsulates the changes rather than just a pointer to the net_device.
+> But making such a change would be an enormous pain and error-prone
+> because notifier functions aren't type-safe.
+>
+> As an interim solution, I think either the general flags_changed or
+> old_flags would be preferable to defining extra transient flags.
+
+Signed-off-by: Timo Teräs <timo.teras@iki.fi>
+Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
+---
+ include/linux/netdevice.h | 4 +++-
+ net/core/dev.c | 5 ++++-
+ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
+index 6151e90..8b3c649 100644
+--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
++++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
+@@ -1112,7 +1112,9 @@ struct net_device {
+ /* Hardware header description */
+ const struct header_ops *header_ops;
+
+- unsigned int flags; /* interface flags (a la BSD) */
++ unsigned int flags; /* interface flags (a la BSD) */
++ unsigned int flags_changed; /* flags that are being changed
++ * valid during NETDEV_CHANGE notifier */
+ unsigned int priv_flags; /* Like 'flags' but invisible to userspace.
+ * See if.h for definitions. */
+ unsigned short gflags;
+diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
+index 9a278e9..2f3feae 100644
+--- a/net/core/dev.c
++++ b/net/core/dev.c
+@@ -4683,8 +4683,11 @@ void __dev_notify_flags(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int old_flags)
+ }
+
+ if (dev->flags & IFF_UP &&
+- (changes & ~(IFF_UP | IFF_PROMISC | IFF_ALLMULTI | IFF_VOLATILE)))
++ (changes & ~(IFF_UP | IFF_PROMISC | IFF_ALLMULTI | IFF_VOLATILE))) {
++ dev->flags_changed = changes;
+ call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_CHANGE, dev);
++ dev->flags_changed = 0;
++ }
+ }
+
+ /**
+--
+1.8.2.3
+