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2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman
Many user space API headers have licensing information, which is either incomplete, badly formatted or just a shorthand for referring to the license under which the file is supposed to be. This makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license. Update these files with an SPDX license identifier. The identifier was chosen based on the license information in the file. GPL/LGPL licensed headers get the matching GPL/LGPL SPDX license identifier with the added 'WITH Linux-syscall-note' exception, which is the officially assigned exception identifier for the kernel syscall exception: NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". This exception makes it possible to include GPL headers into non GPL code, without confusing license compliance tools. Headers which have either explicit dual licensing or are just licensed under a non GPL license are updated with the corresponding SPDX identifier and the GPLv2 with syscall exception identifier. The format is: ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR SPDX-ID-OF-OTHER-LICENSE) SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. The update does not remove existing license information as this has to be done on a case by case basis and the copyright holders might have to be consulted. This will happen in a separate step. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. See the previous patch in this series for the methodology of how this patch was researched. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-04-17nbd: add a status netlink commandJosef Bacik
Allow users to query the status of existing nbd devices. Right now this only returns whether or not the device is connected, but could be extended in the future to include more information. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-17nbd: handle dead connectionsJosef Bacik
Sometimes we like to upgrade our server without making all of our clients freak out and reconnect. This patch provides a way to specify a dead connection timeout to allow us to pause all requests and wait for new connections to be opened. With this in place I can take down the nbd server for less than the dead connection timeout time and bring it back up and everything resumes gracefully. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-17nbd: multicast dead link notificationsJosef Bacik
Provide a mechanism to notify userspace that there's been a link problem on a NBD device. This will allow userspace to re-establish a connection and provide the new socket to the device without disrupting the device. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-17nbd: add a reconfigure netlink commandJosef Bacik
We want to be able to reconnect dead connections to existing block devices, so add a reconfigure netlink command. We will also allow users to change their timeout on the fly, but everything else will require a disconnect and reconnect. You won't be able to add more connections either, simply replace dead connections with new more lively connections. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-17nbd: add a basic netlink interfaceJosef Bacik
The existing ioctl interface for configuring NBD devices is a bit cumbersome and hard to extend. The other problem is we leave a userspace app sitting in it's syscall until the device disconnects, which is less than ideal. This patch introduces a netlink interface for adding and disconnecting nbd devices. This has the benefits of being easily extendable without breaking older userspace applications, and allows us to configure a nbd device without leaving a userspace app sitting waiting for the device to disconnect. With this interface we also gain the ability to configure more devices than are preallocated at insmod time. We also have gained the ability to not specify a particular device and be provided one for us so that userspace doesn't need to find a free device to configure. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>