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Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextgrafted
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core:
- Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having
to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use.
- Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs.
- Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to
describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers.
Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers.
- Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns.
- Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on
boot.
- Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan.
- Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack.
- Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers.
Protocols:
- Support IPv4 big TCP (TSO frames larger than 64kB).
- Add IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option, to control local port range
on socket by socket basis.
- Track and report in procfs number of MPTCP sockets used.
- Support mixing IPv4 and IPv6 flows in the in-kernel MPTCP path
manager.
- IPv6: don't check net.ipv6.route.max_size and rely on garbage
collection to free memory (similarly to IPv4).
- Support Penultimate Segment Pop (PSP) flavor in SRv6 (RFC8986).
- ICMP: add per-rate limit counters.
- Add support for user scanning requests in ieee802154.
- Remove static WEP support.
- Support minimal Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) rate
reporting.
- WiFi 7 EHT channel puncturing support (client & AP).
BPF:
- Add a rbtree data structure following the "next-gen data structure"
precedent set by recently added linked list, that is, by using
kfunc + kptr instead of adding a new BPF map type.
- Expose XDP hints via kfuncs with initial support for RX hash and
timestamp metadata.
- Add BPF_F_NO_TUNNEL_KEY extension to bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key to
better support decap on GRE tunnel devices not operating in collect
metadata.
- Improve x86 JIT's codegen for PROBE_MEM runtime error checks.
- Remove the need for trace_printk_lock for bpf_trace_printk and
bpf_trace_vprintk helpers.
- Extend libbpf's bpf_tracing.h support for tracing arguments of
kprobes/uprobes and syscall as a special case.
- Significantly reduce the search time for module symbols by
livepatch and BPF.
- Enable cpumasks to be used as kptrs, which is useful for tracing
programs tracking which tasks end up running on which CPUs in
different time intervals.
- Add support for BPF trampoline on s390x and riscv64.
- Add capability to export the XDP features supported by the NIC.
- Add __bpf_kfunc tag for marking kernel functions as kfuncs.
- Add cgroup.memory=nobpf kernel parameter option to disable BPF
memory accounting for container environments.
Netfilter:
- Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for
years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band
/proc interface installed by this target.
- Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the
existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the
referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist.
Driver API:
- Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right
IRQ affinity on AMD platforms.
- Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly.
- Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress.
- Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA)
Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of
shared medium Ethernet.
- Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing
preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames.
- Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET.
- Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and
de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into
multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and
factor out common parts of netlink operation handling.
- Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers).
- Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning
messages with notifications for debug.
- Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct.
- Add support for per action HW stats in TC.
- Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from
a specific point in the action chain).
- Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with
modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless
Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. Everyone should switch to
using nl80211 interface instead.
- Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return
error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling,
including the definition of a new default value that will benefit
CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance.
New hardware / drivers:
- Ethernet:
- nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver)
- Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs
- Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY
- onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA)
- Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP)
- Amlogic gxl MDIO mux
- WiFi:
- RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu)
- Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k)
- CAN:
- Renesas R-Car V4H
Drivers:
- Bluetooth:
- Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers.
- Ethernet NICs:
- Intel (1G, igc):
- support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model
- Intel (100G, ice):
- use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY
- multi-buffer XDP support
- extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands
- implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control
- TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload
- more efficient crypto key management method
- multi-port eswitch support
- Netronome/Corigine:
- add DCB IEEE support
- support IPsec offloading for NFP3800
- Freescale/NXP (enetc):
- support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers
- improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle
- support MAC Merge layer
- Other NICs:
- sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100
- ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO)
- bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA
- r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout
- cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G
- cpts: support pulse-per-second output
- ngbe: add an mdio bus driver
- usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing
- r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support
- amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation
- virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP
- virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff
- tsnep: XDP support
- Ethernet high-speed switches:
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw):
- add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages)
- Microchip (sparx5):
- separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make
the implicit rules always active
- add support for egress DSCP rewrite
- IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification)
- IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS
etc.)
- ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control)
- support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q,
8.6.5.1)
- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
- add MAB (port auth) offload support
- enable PTP receive for mv88e6390
- NXP (ocelot):
- support MAC Merge layer
- support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys
- Microchip:
- lan9303: convert to PHYLINK
- lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics
- lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x
- lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration
- ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet
- other:
- qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations
- rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy
- Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting
- STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio
on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the
BIOS to the firmware.
- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- IPQ5018 support
- Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support
- channel 177 support
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- per-PHY LED support
- mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
- Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support
- switch to using page pool allocator
- RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
- support new version of Bluetooth co-existance
- Mobile:
- rmnet: support TX aggregation"
* tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits)
page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage
net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation
ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments
xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c
sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal
selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit
net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware
net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance
net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG
net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function
net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension
net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier
net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie
sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB
sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings
net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning
net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP
net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp().
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-cxl b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-cxl new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8494ef27e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-cxl @@ -0,0 +1,390 @@ +What: /sys/bus/cxl/flush +Date: Januarry, 2022 +KernelVersion: v5.18 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (WO) If userspace manually unbinds a port the kernel schedules + all descendant memdevs for unbind. Writing '1' to this attribute + flushes that work. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/memX/firmware_version +Date: December, 2020 +KernelVersion: v5.12 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RO) "FW Revision" string as reported by the Identify + Memory Device Output Payload in the CXL-2.0 + specification. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/memX/ram/size +Date: December, 2020 +KernelVersion: v5.12 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RO) "Volatile Only Capacity" as bytes. Represents the + identically named field in the Identify Memory Device Output + Payload in the CXL-2.0 specification. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/memX/pmem/size +Date: December, 2020 +KernelVersion: v5.12 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RO) "Persistent Only Capacity" as bytes. Represents the + identically named field in the Identify Memory Device Output + Payload in the CXL-2.0 specification. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/memX/serial +Date: January, 2022 +KernelVersion: v5.18 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RO) 64-bit serial number per the PCIe Device Serial Number + capability. Mandatory for CXL devices, see CXL 2.0 8.1.12.2 + Memory Device PCIe Capabilities and Extended Capabilities. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/memX/numa_node +Date: January, 2022 +KernelVersion: v5.18 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RO) If NUMA is enabled and the platform has affinitized the + host PCI device for this memory device, emit the CPU node + affinity for this device. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/*/devtype +Date: June, 2021 +KernelVersion: v5.14 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RO) CXL device objects export the devtype attribute which + mirrors the same value communicated in the DEVTYPE environment + variable for uevents for devices on the "cxl" bus. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/*/modalias +Date: December, 2021 +KernelVersion: v5.18 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RO) CXL device objects export the modalias attribute which + mirrors the same value communicated in the MODALIAS environment + variable for uevents for devices on the "cxl" bus. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/portX/uport +Date: June, 2021 +KernelVersion: v5.14 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RO) CXL port objects are enumerated from either a platform + firmware device (ACPI0017 and ACPI0016) or PCIe switch upstream + port with CXL component registers. The 'uport' symlink connects + the CXL portX object to the device that published the CXL port + capability. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/portX/dportY +Date: June, 2021 +KernelVersion: v5.14 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RO) CXL port objects are enumerated from either a platform + firmware device (ACPI0017 and ACPI0016) or PCIe switch upstream + port with CXL component registers. The 'dportY' symlink + identifies one or more downstream ports that the upstream port + may target in its decode of CXL memory resources. The 'Y' + integer reflects the hardware port unique-id used in the + hardware decoder target list. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y +Date: June, 2021 +KernelVersion: v5.14 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RO) CXL decoder objects are enumerated from either a platform + firmware description, or a CXL HDM decoder register set in a + PCIe device (see CXL 2.0 section 8.2.5.12 CXL HDM Decoder + Capability Structure). The 'X' in decoderX.Y represents the + cxl_port container of this decoder, and 'Y' represents the + instance id of a given decoder resource. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/{start,size} +Date: June, 2021 +KernelVersion: v5.14 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RO) The 'start' and 'size' attributes together convey the + physical address base and number of bytes mapped in the + decoder's decode window. For decoders of devtype + "cxl_decoder_root" the address range is fixed. For decoders of + devtype "cxl_decoder_switch" the address is bounded by the + decode range of the cxl_port ancestor of the decoder's cxl_port, + and dynamically updates based on the active memory regions in + that address space. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/locked +Date: June, 2021 +KernelVersion: v5.14 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RO) CXL HDM decoders have the capability to lock the + configuration until the next device reset. For decoders of + devtype "cxl_decoder_root" there is no standard facility to + unlock them. For decoders of devtype "cxl_decoder_switch" a + secondary bus reset, of the PCIe bridge that provides the bus + for this decoders uport, unlocks / resets the decoder. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/target_list +Date: June, 2021 +KernelVersion: v5.14 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RO) Display a comma separated list of the current decoder + target configuration. The list is ordered by the current + configured interleave order of the decoder's dport instances. + Each entry in the list is a dport id. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/cap_{pmem,ram,type2,type3} +Date: June, 2021 +KernelVersion: v5.14 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RO) When a CXL decoder is of devtype "cxl_decoder_root", it + represents a fixed memory window identified by platform + firmware. A fixed window may only support a subset of memory + types. The 'cap_*' attributes indicate whether persistent + memory, volatile memory, accelerator memory, and / or expander + memory may be mapped behind this decoder's memory window. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/target_type +Date: June, 2021 +KernelVersion: v5.14 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RO) When a CXL decoder is of devtype "cxl_decoder_switch", it + can optionally decode either accelerator memory (type-2) or + expander memory (type-3). The 'target_type' attribute indicates + the current setting which may dynamically change based on what + memory regions are activated in this decode hierarchy. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/endpointX/CDAT +Date: July, 2022 +KernelVersion: v5.20 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RO) If this sysfs entry is not present no DOE mailbox was + found to support CDAT data. If it is present and the length of + the data is 0 reading the CDAT data failed. Otherwise the CDAT + data is reported. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/mode +Date: May, 2022 +KernelVersion: v5.20 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RW) When a CXL decoder is of devtype "cxl_decoder_endpoint" it + translates from a host physical address range, to a device local + address range. Device-local address ranges are further split + into a 'ram' (volatile memory) range and 'pmem' (persistent + memory) range. The 'mode' attribute emits one of 'ram', 'pmem', + 'mixed', or 'none'. The 'mixed' indication is for error cases + when a decoder straddles the volatile/persistent partition + boundary, and 'none' indicates the decoder is not actively + decoding, or no DPA allocation policy has been set. + + 'mode' can be written, when the decoder is in the 'disabled' + state, with either 'ram' or 'pmem' to set the boundaries for the + next allocation. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/dpa_resource +Date: May, 2022 +KernelVersion: v5.20 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RO) When a CXL decoder is of devtype "cxl_decoder_endpoint", + and its 'dpa_size' attribute is non-zero, this attribute + indicates the device physical address (DPA) base address of the + allocation. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/dpa_size +Date: May, 2022 +KernelVersion: v5.20 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RW) When a CXL decoder is of devtype "cxl_decoder_endpoint" it + translates from a host physical address range, to a device local + address range. The range, base address plus length in bytes, of + DPA allocated to this decoder is conveyed in these 2 attributes. + Allocations can be mutated as long as the decoder is in the + disabled state. A write to 'dpa_size' releases the previous DPA + allocation and then attempts to allocate from the free capacity + in the device partition referred to by 'decoderX.Y/mode'. + Allocate and free requests can only be performed on the highest + instance number disabled decoder with non-zero size. I.e. + allocations are enforced to occur in increasing 'decoderX.Y/id' + order and frees are enforced to occur in decreasing + 'decoderX.Y/id' order. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/interleave_ways +Date: May, 2022 +KernelVersion: v5.20 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RO) The number of targets across which this decoder's host + physical address (HPA) memory range is interleaved. The device + maps every Nth block of HPA (of size == + 'interleave_granularity') to consecutive DPA addresses. The + decoder's position in the interleave is determined by the + device's (endpoint or switch) switch ancestry. For root + decoders their interleave is specified by platform firmware and + they only specify a downstream target order for host bridges. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/interleave_granularity +Date: May, 2022 +KernelVersion: v5.20 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RO) The number of consecutive bytes of host physical address + space this decoder claims at address N before the decode rotates + to the next target in the interleave at address N + + interleave_granularity (assuming N is aligned to + interleave_granularity). + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/create_pmem_region +Date: May, 2022 +KernelVersion: v5.20 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RW) Write a string in the form 'regionZ' to start the process + of defining a new persistent memory region (interleave-set) + within the decode range bounded by root decoder 'decoderX.Y'. + The value written must match the current value returned from + reading this attribute. An atomic compare exchange operation is + done on write to assign the requested id to a region and + allocate the region-id for the next creation attempt. EBUSY is + returned if the region name written does not match the current + cached value. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/delete_region +Date: May, 2022 +KernelVersion: v5.20 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (WO) Write a string in the form 'regionZ' to delete that region, + provided it is currently idle / not bound to a driver. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/regionZ/uuid +Date: May, 2022 +KernelVersion: v5.20 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RW) Write a unique identifier for the region. This field must + be set for persistent regions and it must not conflict with the + UUID of another region. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/regionZ/interleave_granularity +Date: May, 2022 +KernelVersion: v5.20 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RW) Set the number of consecutive bytes each device in the + interleave set will claim. The possible interleave granularity + values are determined by the CXL spec and the participating + devices. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/regionZ/interleave_ways +Date: May, 2022 +KernelVersion: v5.20 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RW) Configures the number of devices participating in the + region is set by writing this value. Each device will provide + 1/interleave_ways of storage for the region. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/regionZ/size +Date: May, 2022 +KernelVersion: v5.20 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RW) System physical address space to be consumed by the region. + When written trigger the driver to allocate space out of the + parent root decoder's address space. When read the size of the + address space is reported and should match the span of the + region's resource attribute. Size shall be set after the + interleave configuration parameters. Once set it cannot be + changed, only freed by writing 0. The kernel makes no guarantees + that data is maintained over an address space freeing event, and + there is no guarantee that a free followed by an allocate + results in the same address being allocated. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/regionZ/resource +Date: May, 2022 +KernelVersion: v5.20 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RO) A region is a contiguous partition of a CXL root decoder + address space. Region capacity is allocated by writing to the + size attribute, the resulting physical address space determined + by the driver is reflected here. It is therefore not useful to + read this before writing a value to the size attribute. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/regionZ/target[0..N] +Date: May, 2022 +KernelVersion: v5.20 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RW) Write an endpoint decoder object name to 'targetX' where X + is the intended position of the endpoint device in the region + interleave and N is the 'interleave_ways' setting for the + region. ENXIO is returned if the write results in an impossible + to map decode scenario, like the endpoint is unreachable at that + position relative to the root decoder interleave. EBUSY is + returned if the position in the region is already occupied, or + if the region is not in a state to accept interleave + configuration changes. EINVAL is returned if the object name is + not an endpoint decoder. Once all positions have been + successfully written a final validation for decode conflicts is + performed before activating the region. + + +What: /sys/bus/cxl/devices/regionZ/commit +Date: May, 2022 +KernelVersion: v5.20 +Contact: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org +Description: + (RW) Write a boolean 'true' string value to this attribute to + trigger the region to transition from the software programmed + state to the actively decoding in hardware state. The commit + operation in addition to validating that the region is in proper + configured state, validates that the decoders are being + committed in spec mandated order (last committed decoder id + + 1), and checks that the hardware accepts the commit request. + Reading this value indicates whether the region is committed or + not. |