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authorTejun Heo2011-11-28 18:46:22 +0100
committerTejun Heo2011-11-28 18:46:22 +0100
commitd4bbf7e7759afc172e2bfbc5c416324590049cdd (patch)
tree7eab5ee5481cd3dcf1162329fec827177640018a /include/net/netlink.h
parentmemblock: Cast phys_addr_t to unsigned long long for printf use (diff)
parentMerge branch 'fbdev-for-linus' of git://github.com/schandinat/linux-2.6 (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' into x86/memblock
Conflicts & resolutions: * arch/x86/xen/setup.c dc91c728fd "xen: allow extra memory to be in multiple regions" 24aa07882b "memblock, x86: Replace memblock_x86_reserve/free..." conflicted on xen_add_extra_mem() updates. The resolution is trivial as the latter just want to replace memblock_x86_reserve_range() with memblock_reserve(). * drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c 166e9278a3f "x86/ia64: intel-iommu: move to drivers/iommu/" 5dfe8660a3d "bootmem: Replace work_with_active_regions() with..." conflicted as the former moved the file under drivers/iommu/. Resolved by applying the chnages from the latter on the moved file. * mm/Kconfig 6661672053a "memblock: add NO_BOOTMEM config symbol" c378ddd53f9 "memblock, x86: Make ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK a config option" conflicted trivially. Both added config options. Just letting both add their own options resolves the conflict. * mm/memblock.c d1f0ece6cdc "mm/memblock.c: small function definition fixes" ed7b56a799c "memblock: Remove memblock_memory_can_coalesce()" confliected. The former updates function removed by the latter. Resolution is trivial. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/netlink.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/netlink.h35
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h
index 02740a94f108..cb1f3504687f 100644
--- a/include/net/netlink.h
+++ b/include/net/netlink.h
@@ -192,8 +192,15 @@ enum {
* NLA_NUL_STRING Maximum length of string (excluding NUL)
* NLA_FLAG Unused
* NLA_BINARY Maximum length of attribute payload
- * NLA_NESTED_COMPAT Exact length of structure payload
- * All other Exact length of attribute payload
+ * NLA_NESTED Don't use `len' field -- length verification is
+ * done by checking len of nested header (or empty)
+ * NLA_NESTED_COMPAT Minimum length of structure payload
+ * NLA_U8, NLA_U16,
+ * NLA_U32, NLA_U64,
+ * NLA_MSECS Leaving the length field zero will verify the
+ * given type fits, using it verifies minimum length
+ * just like "All other"
+ * All other Minimum length of attribute payload
*
* Example:
* static const struct nla_policy my_policy[ATTR_MAX+1] = {
@@ -638,6 +645,30 @@ static inline int nlmsg_unicast(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid)
nlmsg_ok(pos, rem); \
pos = nlmsg_next(pos, &(rem)))
+/**
+ * nl_dump_check_consistent - check if sequence is consistent and advertise if not
+ * @cb: netlink callback structure that stores the sequence number
+ * @nlh: netlink message header to write the flag to
+ *
+ * This function checks if the sequence (generation) number changed during dump
+ * and if it did, advertises it in the netlink message header.
+ *
+ * The correct way to use it is to set cb->seq to the generation counter when
+ * all locks for dumping have been acquired, and then call this function for
+ * each message that is generated.
+ *
+ * Note that due to initialisation concerns, 0 is an invalid sequence number
+ * and must not be used by code that uses this functionality.
+ */
+static inline void
+nl_dump_check_consistent(struct netlink_callback *cb,
+ struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
+{
+ if (cb->prev_seq && cb->seq != cb->prev_seq)
+ nlh->nlmsg_flags |= NLM_F_DUMP_INTR;
+ cb->prev_seq = cb->seq;
+}
+
/**************************************************************************
* Netlink Attributes
**************************************************************************/