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authorPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2013-04-17 08:47:01 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-04-19 20:57:57 +0200
commitccdfcc398594ddf3f77348c5a10938dbe9efefbe (patch)
tree5458e0eca52d0488e8c24c8587028b5bd29b60de /include
parentnetlink: add netlink_skb_set_owner_r() (diff)
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netlink: mmaped netlink: ring setup
Add support for mmap'ed RX and TX ring setup and teardown based on the af_packet.c code. The following patches will use this to add the real mmap'ed receive and transmit functionality. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/netlink.h32
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h b/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
index 32a354f67ba4..1a85940f8ab7 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
#ifndef _UAPI__LINUX_NETLINK_H
#define _UAPI__LINUX_NETLINK_H
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/socket.h> /* for __kernel_sa_family_t */
#include <linux/types.h>
@@ -105,11 +106,42 @@ struct nlmsgerr {
#define NETLINK_PKTINFO 3
#define NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR 4
#define NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS 5
+#define NETLINK_RX_RING 6
+#define NETLINK_TX_RING 7
struct nl_pktinfo {
__u32 group;
};
+struct nl_mmap_req {
+ unsigned int nm_block_size;
+ unsigned int nm_block_nr;
+ unsigned int nm_frame_size;
+ unsigned int nm_frame_nr;
+};
+
+struct nl_mmap_hdr {
+ unsigned int nm_status;
+ unsigned int nm_len;
+ __u32 nm_group;
+ /* credentials */
+ __u32 nm_pid;
+ __u32 nm_uid;
+ __u32 nm_gid;
+};
+
+enum nl_mmap_status {
+ NL_MMAP_STATUS_UNUSED,
+ NL_MMAP_STATUS_RESERVED,
+ NL_MMAP_STATUS_VALID,
+ NL_MMAP_STATUS_COPY,
+ NL_MMAP_STATUS_SKIP,
+};
+
+#define NL_MMAP_MSG_ALIGNMENT NLMSG_ALIGNTO
+#define NL_MMAP_MSG_ALIGN(sz) __ALIGN_KERNEL(sz, NL_MMAP_MSG_ALIGNMENT)
+#define NL_MMAP_HDRLEN NL_MMAP_MSG_ALIGN(sizeof(struct nl_mmap_hdr))
+
#define NET_MAJOR 36 /* Major 36 is reserved for networking */
enum {