VM Sockets allows communication between virtual machines and the hypervisor.
User level applications both in a virtual machine and on the host can use the
VM Sockets API, which facilitates fast and efficient communication between
guest virtual machines and their host. A socket address family, designed to be
compatible with UDP and TCP at the interface level, is provided.
Today, VM Sockets is used by various VMware Tools components inside the guest
for zero-config, network-less access to VMware host services. In addition to
this, VMware's users are using VM Sockets for various applications, where
network access of the virtual machine is restricted or non-existent. Examples
of this are VMs communicating with device proxies for proprietary hardware
running as host applications and automated testing of applications running
within virtual machines.
The VMware VM Sockets are similar to other socket types, like Berkeley UNIX
socket interface. The VM Sockets module supports both connection-oriented
stream sockets like TCP, and connectionless datagram sockets like UDP. The VM
Sockets protocol family is defined as "AF_VSOCK" and the socket operations
split for SOCK_DGRAM and SOCK_STREAM.
For additional information about the use of VM Sockets, please refer to the
VM Sockets Programming Guide available at:
https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vmci-sdk/
Signed-off-by: George Zhang <georgezhang@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy king <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Synchronize with 'net' in order to sort out some l2tp, wireless, and
ipv6 GRE fixes that will be built on top of in 'net-next'.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
automount-support is broken on the parisc architecture, because the existing
#if list does not include a check for defined(__hppa__). The HPPA (parisc)
architecture is similiar to other 64bit Linux targets where we have to define
autofs_wqt_t (which is passed back and forth to user space) as int type which
has a size of 32bit across 32 and 64bit kernels.
During the discussion on the mailing list, H. Peter Anvin suggested to invert
the #if list since only specific platforms (specifically those who do not have
a 32bit userspace, like IA64 and Alpha) should have autofs_wqt_t as unsigned
long type.
This suggestion is probably the best way to go, since Arm64 (and maybe others?)
seems to have a non-working automounter. So in the long run even for other new
upcoming architectures this inverted check seem to be the best solution, since
it will not require them to change this #if again (unless they are 64bit only).
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
CC: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
CC: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
For some filesystems (e.g. GlusterFS), the cost of performing a
normal readdir and readdirplus are identical. Since adaptively
using readdirplus has no benefit for those systems, give
users/filesystems the option to control adaptive readdirplus use.
v2 of this patch incorporates Miklos's suggestion to simplify the code,
as well as improving consistency of macro names and documentation.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The library one has provisions for use in *BSD, add them to the kernel one too.
They don't hurt and ease maintenance.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
This patch adds the alias flag to support full NOTRACK target
aliasing.
Based on initial patch from Jozsef Kadlecsik.
Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hi>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
The patch adds the flag to denote the "state" alias as of the subset
of the "conntrack" match.
Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
In per-station statistics, present 32bit counters are too small
for practical purposes - with gigabit speeds, it get overlapped
every few seconds.
Expand counters in the struct station_info to be 64-bit.
Driver can still fill only 32-bit and indicate in @filled
only bits like STATION_INFO_[TR]X_BYTES; in case driver provides
full 64-bit counter, it should also set in @filled
bit STATION_INFO_[TR]RX_BYTES64
Netlink sends both 32-bit and 64-bit counters, if present, to not
break userspace.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
[change to also have 32-bit counters if driver advertises 64-bit]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
commit 626cf23660 "poll: add poll_requested_events()..." enabled us to send the
requested events to the filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The wanrouter support was identified earlier as unused for years,
and so the previous commit totally decoupled it from the kernel,
leaving the related wanrouter files present, but totally inert.
Here we take the final step in that cleanup, by doing a wholesale
removal of these files. The two step process is used so that the
large deletion is decoupled from the git history of files that we
still care about.
The drivers deleted here all were dependent on the Kconfig setting
CONFIG_WAN_ROUTER_DRIVERS.
A stub wanrouter.h header (kernel & uapi) are left behind so that
drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_x25iface.c continues to compile, and so that
we don't accidentally break userspace that expected these defines.
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Yeah, we have a capability flag for this as well, so this is not strictly
necessary, but it doesn't hurt either.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
When waking up from WoWLAN, it is useful to know
what triggered the wakeup. Support reporting the
wakeup reason(s) in cfg80211 (and a pass-through
in mac80211) to allow userspace to know.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Bring in the 'net' tree so that we can get some ipv4/ipv6 bug
fixes that some net-next work will build upon.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Marc Kleine-Budde says:
====================
this is a pull-request for net-next/master. There is are 9 patches by
Fabio Baltieri and Kurt Van Dijck which add LED infrastructure and
support for CAN devices. Bernd Krumboeck adds a driver for the USB CAN
adapter from 8 devices. Oliver Hartkopp improves the CAN gateway
functionality. There are 4 patches by me, which clean up the CAN's
Kconfig.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pablo Neira Ayuso says:
====================
This batch contains netfilter updates for you net-next tree, they are:
* The new connlabel extension for x_tables, that allows us to attach
labels to each conntrack flow. The kernel implementation uses a
bitmask and there's a file in user-space that maps the bits with the
corresponding string for each existing label. By now, you can attach
up to 128 overlapping labels. From Florian Westphal.
* A new round of improvements for the netns support for conntrack.
Gao feng has moved many of the initialization code of each module
of the netns init path. He also made several code refactoring, that
code looks cleaner to me now.
* Added documentation for all possible tweaks for nf_conntrack via
sysctl, from Jiri Pirko.
* Cisco 7941/7945 IP phone support for our SIP conntrack helper,
from Kevin Cernekee.
* Missing header file in the snmp helper, from Stephen Hemminger.
* Finally, a couple of fixes to resolve minor issues with these
changes, from myself.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a statistic counter to detect deleted frames due to misconfiguration with
a new read-only CGW_DELETED netlink attribute for the CAN gateway.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Introduce new configuration flag CGW_FLAGS_CAN_IIF_TX_OK to configure if a
CAN sk_buff that has been routed with can-gw is allowed to be send back to
the originating CAN interface.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Sarah writes:
USB/xhci: Misc fixes for 3.8.
Hi Greg,
Here's six patches for xHCI and the USB core. There's a couple of
patches to fix xHCI 1.0 field formats, some memory leaks, dead ports,
and USB 3.0 remote wakeup disabling.
All of these are marked for stable.
I know I owe you some re-works of failed stable patches from my last
patchset round, but I don't think I'm going to get to them before I head
off to Linux Conf Australia tomorrow.
Sarah Sharp
Add API to enable drivers to implement MAC address based
access control in AP/P2P GO mode. Capable drivers advertise
this capability by setting the maximum number of MAC
addresses in such a list in wiphy->max_acl_mac_addrs.
An initial ACL may be given to the NL80211_CMD_START_AP
command and/or changed later with NL80211_CMD_SET_MAC_ACL.
Black- and whitelists are supported, but not simultaneously.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
[rewrite commit log, many cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Andy King
David S. Miller
Helge Deller
John W. Linville
Eric Wong
Miklos Szeredi
Pablo Neira Ayuso
Jozsef Kadlecsik
Vladimir Kondratiev
Enke Chen
Russell King
Paul Gortmaker
Johannes Berg
Oliver Hartkopp
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
Vince Weaver