kernel_optimize_test/arch/alpha
Pavel Emelyanov a8fc927780 sk-filter: Add ability to get socket filter program (v2)
The SO_ATTACH_FILTER option is set only. I propose to add the get
ability by using SO_ATTACH_FILTER in getsockopt. To be less
irritating to eyes the SO_GET_FILTER alias to it is declared. This
ability is required by checkpoint-restore project to be able to
save full state of a socket.

There are two issues with getting filter back.

First, kernel modifies the sock_filter->code on filter load, thus in
order to return the filter element back to user we have to decode it
into user-visible constants. Fortunately the modification in question
is interconvertible.

Second, the BPF_S_ALU_DIV_K code modifies the command argument k to
speed up the run-time division by doing kernel_k = reciprocal(user_k).
Bad news is that different user_k may result in same kernel_k, so we
can't get the original user_k back. Good news is that we don't have
to do it. What we need to is calculate a user2_k so, that

  reciprocal(user2_k) == reciprocal(user_k) == kernel_k

i.e. if it's re-loaded back the compiled again value will be exactly
the same as it was. That said, the user2_k can be calculated like this

  user2_k = reciprocal(kernel_k)

with an exception, that if kernel_k == 0, then user2_k == 1.

The optlen argument is treated like this -- when zero, kernel returns
the amount of sock_fprog elements in filter, otherwise it should be
large enough for the sock_fprog array.

changes since v1:
* Declared SO_GET_FILTER in all arch headers
* Added decode of vlan-tag codes

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-01 11:17:15 -04:00
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boot Disintegrate asm/system.h for Alpha 2012-03-28 18:11:12 +01:00
include sk-filter: Add ability to get socket filter program (v2) 2012-11-01 11:17:15 -04:00
kernel Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-10-13 10:05:52 +09:00
lib alpha: Use new generic strncpy_from_user() and strnlen_user() 2012-08-19 08:41:18 -07:00
math-emu alpha: change to new Makefile flag variables 2011-01-17 05:42:13 +01:00
mm alpha/mm/fault.c: Port OOM changes to do_page_fault 2012-08-19 08:41:19 -07:00
oprofile alpha: Fix fall-out from disintegrating asm/system.h 2012-08-19 08:41:19 -07:00
defconfig defconfig reduction 2010-08-14 22:26:53 +02:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
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