TCP/IP socket.c

linux/net/socket.c

 

1. pops is inited in the sock_register() function, and sock_register is called in inet_proto_init/ipx_proto_init, and inet_proto_init/ipx_proto_init is used to initialize the global protocol table.

 

/*
 *      The protocol list. Each protocol is registered in here.
 */
static struct proto_ops *pops[NPROTO];

 

/*
 *      Protocol Table
 */
struct net_proto protocols[] = {
#ifdef  CONFIG_IPX
  { "IPX",      ipx_proto_init },

#endif

...

}

 

and the protocols init is like following,

 

void proto_init(void)
{
        extern struct net_proto protocols[];    /* Network protocols */
        struct net_proto *pro;

        /* Kick all configured protocols. */
        pro = protocols;
        while (pro->name != NULL)
        {
                (*pro->init_func)(pro);
                pro++;
        }
        /* We're all done... */
}

 

and start_kernel -> sock_init -> proto_init

 

2. definition of sockaddr

 

struct sockaddr {
  unsigned short        sa_family;      /* address family, AF_xxx       */
  char                  sa_data[14];    /* 14 bytes of protocol address */
};

 

3. __asm__ and __volatile__ 内嵌汇编用法

 

例如： # define barrier() _asm__volatile_("": : :"memory")

 

refer to : http://www.dzsc.com/data/html/2009-5-31/76505.html

 

4. the struct of socket is below,

 

/*
 * Internal representation of a socket. not all the fields are used by
 * all configurations:
 *
 *              server                  client
 * conn         client connected to     server connected to
 * iconn        list of clients         -unused-
 *               awaiting connections
 * wait         sleep for clients,      sleep for connection,
 *              sleep for i/o           sleep for i/o
 */
struct socket {
  short                 type;           /* SOCK_STREAM, ...             */
  socket_state          state;
  long                  flags;
  struct proto_ops      *ops;           /* protocols do most everything */
  void                  *data;          /* protocol data                */
  struct socket         *conn;          /* server socket connected to   */
  struct socket         *iconn;         /* incomplete client conn.s     */
  struct socket         *next;
  struct wait_queue     **wait;         /* ptr to place to wait on      */
  struct inode          *inode;
  struct fasync_struct  *fasync_list;   /* Asynchronous wake up list    */
};

 

when creating a new socket using function sock_socket(), it will call sock_alloc() and get_fd(), return the file descriptor.

 

5. sys_socketcall 是所有sock_*函数的入口。

 

6. socket.c 文件中定义的函数作为BSD 层的函数集，对于INET 正常网络操作而言，其下层即对应inet/af_inet.c 文件中定义的函数。从对af_inet.c 文件的分析来看，其中定义的函数实际上也没有进行具体功能的实现，而是将请求继续传递给下一层(此时即传输层)。

 

reference: LINUX-2.4.0内核网络栈实现源代码分析