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This new ioctl pair allows two ppp channels to be bridged together: frames arriving in one channel are transmitted in the other channel and vice versa. The practical use for this is primarily to support the L2TP Access Concentrator use-case. The end-user session is presented as a ppp channel (typically PPPoE, although it could be e.g. PPPoA, or even PPP over a serial link) and is switched into a PPPoL2TP session for transmission to the LNS. At the LNS the PPP session is terminated in the ISP's network. When a PPP channel is bridged to another it takes a reference on the other's struct ppp_file. This reference is dropped when the channels are unbridged, which can occur either explicitly on userspace calling the PPPIOCUNBRIDGECHAN ioctl, or implicitly when either channel in the bridge is unregistered. In order to implement the channel bridge, struct channel is extended with a new field, 'bridge', which points to the other struct channel making up the bridge. This pointer is RCU protected to avoid adding another lock to the data path. To guard against concurrent writes to the pointer, the existing struct channel lock 'upl' coverage is extended rather than adding a new lock. The 'upl' lock is used to protect the existing unit pointer. Since the bridge effectively replaces the unit (they're mutually exclusive for a channel) it makes coding easier to use the same lock to cover them both. Signed-off-by: Tom Parkin <tparkin@katalix.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
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.
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.