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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>
2013-04-02netfilter: xt_NFQUEUE: introduce CPU fanoutholger@eitzenberger.org
Current NFQUEUE target uses a hash, computed over source and destination address (and other parameters), for steering the packet to the actual NFQUEUE. This, however forgets about the fact that the packet eventually is handled by a particular CPU on user request. If E. g. 1) IRQ affinity is used to handle packets on a particular CPU already (both single-queue or multi-queue case) and/or 2) RPS is used to steer packets to a specific softirq the target easily chooses an NFQUEUE which is not handled by a process pinned to the same CPU. The idea is therefore to use the CPU index for determining the NFQUEUE handling the packet. E. g. when having a system with 4 CPUs, 4 MQ queues and 4 NFQUEUEs it looks like this: +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ |NFQ#0| |NFQ#1| |NFQ#2| |NFQ#3| +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ ^ ^ ^ ^ | |NFQUEUE | | + + + + +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ |rx-0 | |rx-1 | |rx-2 | |rx-3 | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ The NFQUEUEs not necessarily have to start with number 0, setups with less NFQUEUEs than packet-handling CPUs are not a problem as well. This patch extends the NFQUEUE target to accept a new NFQ_FLAG_CPU_FANOUT flag. If this is specified the target uses the CPU index for determining the NFQUEUE being used. I have to introduce rev3 for this. The 'flags' are folded into _v2 'bypass'. By changing the way which queue is assigned, I'm able to improve the performance if the processes reading on the NFQUEUs are pinned correctly. Signed-off-by: Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-10-09UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux/netfilterDavid Howells
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>