From ffd956eef69b212a724b1cc4cdc61828f3ad9104 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marc Kleine-Budde Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 09:02:38 +0200 Subject: can: introduce CAN midlayer private and allocate it automatically This patch introduces the CAN midlayer private structure ("struct can_ml_priv") which should be used to hold protocol specific per device data structures. For now it's only member is "struct can_dev_rcv_lists". The CAN midlayer private is allocated via alloc_netdev()'s private and assigned to "struct net_device::ml_priv" during device creation. This is done transparently for CAN drivers using alloc_candev(). The slcan, vcan and vxcan drivers which are not using alloc_candev() have been adopted manually. The memory layout of the netdev_priv allocated via alloc_candev() will looke like this: +-------------------------+ | driver's priv | +-------------------------+ | struct can_ml_priv | +-------------------------+ | array of struct sk_buff | +-------------------------+ Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde --- drivers/net/can/slcan.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/can/slcan.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/can/slcan.c b/drivers/net/can/slcan.c index aa97dbc797b6..5b2e95425e69 100644 --- a/drivers/net/can/slcan.c +++ b/drivers/net/can/slcan.c @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include MODULE_ALIAS_LDISC(N_SLCAN); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("serial line CAN interface"); @@ -514,6 +515,7 @@ static struct slcan *slc_alloc(void) char name[IFNAMSIZ]; struct net_device *dev = NULL; struct slcan *sl; + int size; for (i = 0; i < maxdev; i++) { dev = slcan_devs[i]; @@ -527,7 +529,8 @@ static struct slcan *slc_alloc(void) return NULL; sprintf(name, "slcan%d", i); - dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(*sl), name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, slc_setup); + size = ALIGN(sizeof(*sl), NETDEV_ALIGN) + sizeof(struct can_ml_priv); + dev = alloc_netdev(size, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, slc_setup); if (!dev) return NULL; -- cgit