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2011-09-08batman-adv: Remove unnecessary OOM logging messagesJoe Perches
Removing unnecessary messages saves code and text. Site specific OOM messages are duplications of a generic MM out of memory message and aren't really useful, so just delete them. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-09-08batman-adv: agglomerate all batman iv ogm sending functions in the batman iv ↵Marek Lindner
file In the process the batman iv OGM aggregation code could be merged into the batman iv code base which makes the separate aggregation files superfluous. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-09-08batman-adv: move routing packet initialization into corresponding fileMarek Lindner
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-09-08batman-adv: agglomerate all batman iv ogm processing functions in a single fileMarek Lindner
In preparation of the upcoming improved routing algorithm the code based has to be re-organized to allow choosing the routing algorithm at compile time. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-09-08batman-adv: rename all instances of batman_packet to batman_ogm_packetMarek Lindner
The follow-up routing code changes are going to introduce additional routing packet types which make this distinction necessary. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-08-22batman-adv: detect clients connected through a 802.11 deviceAntonio Quartulli
Clients connected through a 802.11 device are now marked with the TT_CLIENT_WIFI flag. This flag is also advertised with the tt announcement. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-08-22batman-adv: correct several typ0s in the commentsAntonio Quartulli
Several typos have been corrected and some sentences have been rephrased Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-06-20Merge branch 'batman-adv/next' of git://git.open-mesh.org/ecsv/linux-mergeDavid S. Miller
2011-06-20batman-adv: improved roaming mechanismAntonio Quartulli
With the current client announcement implementation, in case of roaming, an update is triggered on the new AP serving the client. At that point the new information is spread around by means of the OGM broadcasting mechanism. Until this operations is not executed, no node is able to correctly route traffic towards the client. This obviously causes packet drops and introduces a delay in the time needed by the client to recover its connections. A new packet type called ROAMING_ADVERTISEMENT is added to account this issue. This message is sent in case of roaming from the new AP serving the client to the old one and will contain the client MAC address. In this way an out-of-OGM update is immediately committed, so that the old node can update its global translation table. Traffic reaching this node will then be redirected to the correct destination utilising the fresher information. Thus reducing the packet drops and the connection recovery delay. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-06-20batman-adv: improved client announcement mechanismAntonio Quartulli
The client announcement mechanism informs every mesh node in the network of any connected non-mesh client, in order to find the path towards that client from any given point in the mesh. The old implementation was based on the simple idea of appending a data buffer to each OGM containing all the client MAC addresses the node is serving. All other nodes can populate their global translation tables (table which links client MAC addresses to node addresses) using this MAC address buffer and linking it to the node's address contained in the OGM. A node that wants to contact a client has to lookup the node the client is connected to and its address in the global translation table. It is easy to understand that this implementation suffers from several issues: - big overhead (each and every OGM contains the entire list of connected clients) - high latencies for client route updates due to long OGM trip time and OGM losses The new implementation addresses these issues by appending client changes (new client joined or a client left) to the OGM instead of filling it with all the client addresses each time. In this way nodes can modify their global tables by means of "updates", thus reducing the overhead within the OGMs. To keep the entire network in sync each node maintains a translation table version number (ttvn) and a translation table checksum. These values are spread with the OGM to allow all the network participants to determine whether or not they need to update their translation table information. When a translation table lookup is performed in order to send a packet to a client attached to another node, the destination's ttvn is added to the payload packet. Forwarding nodes can compare the packet's ttvn with their destination's ttvn (this node could have a fresher information than the source) and re-route the packet if necessary. This greatly reduces the packet loss of clients roaming from one AP to the next. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-06-09Merge branch 'batman-adv/next' of git://git.open-mesh.org/ecsv/linux-mergeDavid S. Miller
2011-06-09batman-adv: use NO_FLAGS define instead of hard-coding 0Marek Lindner
The definition NO_FLAGS was introduced to make the code more readable and shall be used to initialize flag fields. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-06-05net: Remove unnecessary semicolonsJoe Perches
Semicolons are not necessary after switch/while/for/if braces so remove them. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-05-30batman-adv: Use rcu_dereference_protected by update-sideSven Eckelmann
Usually rcu_dereference isn't necessary in situations were the RCU-protected data structure cannot change, but sparse and lockdep still need a similar functionality for analysis. rcu_dereference_protected implements the reduced version which should be used to support the dynamic and static analysis. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-30batman-adv: Calculate sizeof using variable insead of typesSven Eckelmann
Documentation/CodingStyle recommends to use the form p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...); to calculate the size of a struct and not the version where the struct name is spelled out to prevent bugs when the type of p changes. This also seems appropriate for manipulation of buffers when they are directly associated with p. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-30batman-adv: Remove explicit casts cast from void* for storeSven Eckelmann
It is not necessary to cast a void* to the pointer type when we just store it and don't want to do pointer arithmetic before the actual assignment. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-30batman-adv: Add const type qualifier for pointersSven Eckelmann
batman-adv uses pointers which are marked as const and should not violate that type qualifier by passing it to functions which force a cast to the non-const version. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-08batman-adv: rename everything from *hna* into *tt* (translation table)Antonio Quartulli
To be coherent, all the functions/variables/constants have been renamed to the TranslationTable style Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-08batman-adv: Remove unnecessary hardif_list_lockSven Eckelmann
hardif_list_lock is unneccessary because we already ensure that no multiple admin operations can take place through rtnl_lock. hardif_list_lock only adds additional overhead and complexity. Critical functions now check whether they are called with rtnl_lock using ASSERT_RTNL. It indirectly fixes the problem that orig_hash_del_if() expects that only one interface is deleted from hardif_list at a time, but hardif_remove_interfaces() removes all at once and then calls orig_hash_del_if(). Reported-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-01batman-adv: Make bat_priv->primary_if an rcu protected pointerMarek Lindner
The rcu protected macros rcu_dereference() and rcu_assign_pointer() for the bat_priv->primary_if need to be used, as well as spin/rcu locking. Otherwise we might end up using a primary_if pointer pointing to already freed memory. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-03-05batman-adv: Disallow regular interface as mesh deviceSven Eckelmann
When trying to associate a net_device with another net_device which already exists, batman-adv assumes that this interface is a fully initialized batman mesh interface without checking it. The behaviour when accessing data behind netdev_priv of a random net_device is undefined and potentially dangerous. Reported-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@ascom.ch> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: rename batman_if struct to hard_ifaceMarek Lindner
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: rename global if_list to hardif_listMarek Lindner
Batman-adv works with "hard interfaces" as well as "soft interfaces". The new name should better make clear which kind of interfaces this list stores. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: separate ethernet comparing calls from hash functionsMarek Lindner
Note: The function compare_ether_addr() provided by the Linux kernel requires aligned memory. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: Correct rcu refcounting for batman_ifMarek Lindner
It might be possible that 2 threads access the same data in the same rcu grace period. The first thread calls call_rcu() to decrement the refcount and free the data while the second thread increases the refcount to use the data. To avoid this race condition all refcount operations have to be atomic. Reported-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05batman-adv: protect bonding with rcu locksSimon Wunderlich
bonding / alternating candidates need to be secured by rcu locks as well. This patch therefore converts the bonding list from a plain pointer list to a rcu securable lists and references the bonding candidates. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-01-31batman-adv: Update copyright yearsSven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-01-31batman-adv: Remove declaration of batman_skb_recvSven Eckelmann
batman_skb_recv can be defined in hard-interface.c as static because it is never used outside of that file. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2010-12-16net: Add batman-adv meshing protocolSven Eckelmann
B.A.T.M.A.N. (better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking) is a routing protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. The networks may be wired or wireless. See http://www.open-mesh.org/ for more information and user space tools. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>