In practical terms, passt doesn't benefit from the additional
protection offered by the AGPL over the GPL, because it's not
suitable to be executed over a computer network.
Further, restricting the distribution under the version 3 of the GPL
wouldn't provide any practical advantage either, as long as the passt
codebase is concerned, and might cause unnecessary compatibility
dilemmas.
Change licensing terms to the GNU General Public License Version 2,
or any later version, with written permission from all current and
past contributors, namely: myself, David Gibson, Laine Stump, Andrea
Bolognani, Paul Holzinger, Richard W.M. Jones, Chris Kuhn, Florian
Weimer, Giuseppe Scrivano, Stefan Hajnoczi, and Vasiliy Ulyanov.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Minor style improvement suggested by cppcheck.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
...instead of argv[0], which might or might not contain a valid path
to the executable itself. Instead of mangling argv[0], use the same
link to find out if we're already running the AVX2 build where
supported.
Alternatively, we could use execvpe(), but that might result in
running a different installed version, in case e.g. the set of
binaries is present in both /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin, with both
being in $PATH.
Reported-by: Wenli Quan <wquan@redhat.com>
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2101310
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Reported by Coverity: if we fail to run the AVX2 version, once
execve() fails, we had already replaced argv[0] with the new
stack-allocated path string, and that's then passed back to
main(). Use a static variable instead.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Build-time selection of AVX2 flags and routines is not practical for
distributions, but limiting AVX2 usage to checksum routines with
specific run-time detection doesn't allow for easy performance gains
from auto-vectorisation of batched packet handling routines.
For x86_64, build non-AVX2 and AVX2 binaries, and implement a simple
wrapper replacing the current executable with the AVX2 build if it's
available, and if AVX2 is supported by the current CPU.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
