Re: [PATCH 4/5] initdev:kernel: Await network init devicediscovery, v2

From: Sergey Vlasov
Date: Sat May 02 2009 - 09:47:20 EST


On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 07:28:58PM -0700, David VomLehn wrote:
> Delay IP autoconfiguration until network boot devices have been initialized.
> This depends on the boot device discovery code and on the asynchronous
> function call infrastructure.
>
> History
> v2 Change bootdev_* to initdev_*
> v1 Initial release
>
> Signed-off-by: David VomLehn <dvomlehn@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/core/dev.c | 2 +
> net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index 308a7d0..73cb282 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -93,6 +93,7 @@
> #include <linux/ethtool.h>
> #include <linux/notifier.h>
> #include <linux/skbuff.h>
> +#include <linux/device.h>
> #include <net/net_namespace.h>
> #include <net/sock.h>
> #include <linux/rtnetlink.h>
> @@ -4497,6 +4498,7 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
> dev->reg_state = NETREG_UNREGISTERED;
> }
>
> + initdev_registered(BOOTDEV_NETDEV);
> out:
> return ret;
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
> index 90d22ae..65a7ecd 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
> @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
> #include <linux/root_dev.h>
> #include <linux/delay.h>
> #include <linux/nfs_fs.h>
> +#include <linux/async.h>
> #include <net/net_namespace.h>
> #include <net/arp.h>
> #include <net/ip.h>
> @@ -182,12 +183,48 @@ struct ic_device {
> static struct ic_device *ic_first_dev __initdata = NULL;/* List of open device */
> static struct net_device *ic_dev __initdata = NULL; /* Selected device */
>
> +/*
> + * Wait for required network devices to come up
> + * If the networking device name was specified on the kernel command line
> + * and that device is now registered, we have the device we want to configure
> + * and we return true. Otherwise, we return false. So, if no device was
> + * specified on the command line, we wait for all possible network devices to
> + * be initialized.
> + */
> +static bool have_all_netdevs(void)
> +{
> + struct net_device *dev;
> + bool result = false;
> +
> + rtnl_lock();
> +
> + for_each_netdev(&init_net, dev) {
> + if (dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK)
> + continue;
> +
> + /* If a specific device name was specified and that name is
> + * registered, we have the device we need. */
> + if (user_dev_name[0] && !strcmp(dev->name, user_dev_name)) {
> + result = true;
> + break;
> + }
> + }
> +
> + rtnl_unlock();
> +
> + return result;
> +
> +}
> +
> static int __init ic_open_devs(void)
> {
> struct ic_device *d, **last;
> struct net_device *dev;
> unsigned short oflags;
>
> + /* Wait for networking devices */
> + initdev_wait(BOOTDEV_NETDEV, have_all_netdevs);
> +
> last = &ic_first_dev;
> rtnl_lock();
>
> @@ -1263,6 +1300,7 @@ __be32 __init root_nfs_parse_addr(char *name)
>
> /*
> * IP Autoconfig dispatcher.
> + * Return zero on success, negative one on failure
> */
>
> static int __init ip_auto_config(void)
> @@ -1397,7 +1435,23 @@ static int __init ip_auto_config(void)
> return 0;
> }
>
> -late_initcall(ip_auto_config);
> +static void __init ip_auto_config_async(void *data, async_cookie_t cookie)
> +{
> + ip_auto_config();
> +}
> +
> +static async_cookie_t ic_cookie;

This write-only variable is useless.

> +/*
> + * Start a thread to do IP autoconfiguration
> + */
> +static int __init ip_auto_configurator(void)
> +{
> + ic_cookie = async_schedule(ip_auto_config_async, NULL);
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +late_initcall(ip_auto_configurator);
>
>
> /*
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