Linux kernel modifications for the Kernel Hacking exam
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Another difference between IPv4 and IPv6 is the generation of RTM_DELROUTE notifications when a device is taken down (admin down) or deleted. IPv4 does not generate a message for routes evicted by the down or delete; IPv6 does. A NOS at scale really needs to avoid these messages and have IPv4 and IPv6 behave similarly, relying on userspace to handle link notifications and evict the routes. At this point existing user behavior needs to be preserved. Since notifications are a global action (not per app) the only way to preserve existing behavior and allow the messages to be skipped is to add a new sysctl (net/ipv6/route/skip_notify_on_dev_down) which can be set to disable the notificatioons. IPv6 route code already supports the option to skip the message (it is used for multipath routes for example). Besides the new sysctl we need to pass the skip_notify setting through the generic fib6_clean and fib6_walk functions to fib6_clean_node and to set skip_notify on calls to __ip_del_rt for the addrconf_ifdown path. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.