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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/admin-guide/media/building.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/building.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2d660b76c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/building.rst @@ -0,0 +1,357 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=================================== +Building support for a media device +=================================== + +The first step is to download the Kernel's source code, either via a +distribution-specific source file or via the Kernel's main git tree\ [1]_. + +Please notice, however, that, if: + +- you're a braveheart and want to experiment with new stuff; +- if you want to report a bug; +- if you're developing new patches + +you should use the main media development tree ``master`` branch: + + https://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git/ + +In this case, you may find some useful information at the +`LinuxTv wiki pages <https://linuxtv.org/wiki>`_: + + https://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_Obtain,_Build_and_Install_V4L-DVB_Device_Drivers + +.. [1] The upstream Linux Kernel development tree is located at + + https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/li nux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/ + +Configuring the Linux Kernel +============================ + +You can access a menu of Kernel building options with:: + + $ make menuconfig + +Then, select all desired options and exit it, saving the configuration. + +The changed configuration will be at the ``.config`` file. It would +look like:: + + ... + # CONFIG_RC_CORE is not set + # CONFIG_CEC_CORE is not set + CONFIG_MEDIA_SUPPORT=m + CONFIG_MEDIA_SUPPORT_FILTER=y + ... + +The media subsystem is controlled by those menu configuration options:: + + Device Drivers ---> + <M> Remote Controller support ---> + [ ] HDMI CEC RC integration + [ ] Enable CEC error injection support + [*] HDMI CEC drivers ---> + <*> Multimedia support ---> + +The ``Remote Controller support`` option enables the core support for +remote controllers\ [2]_. + +The ``HDMI CEC RC integration`` option enables integration of HDMI CEC +with Linux, allowing to receive data via HDMI CEC as if it were produced +by a remote controller directly connected to the machine. + +The ``HDMI CEC drivers`` option allow selecting platform and USB drivers +that receives and/or transmits CEC codes via HDMI interfaces\ [3]_. + +The last option (``Multimedia support``) enables support for cameras, +audio/video grabbers and TV. + +The media subsystem support can either be built together with the main +Kernel or as a module. For most use cases, it is preferred to have it +built as modules. + +.. note:: + + Instead of using a menu, the Kernel provides a script with allows + enabling configuration options directly. To enable media support + and remote controller support using Kernel modules, you could use:: + + $ scripts/config -m RC_CORE + $ scripts/config -m MEDIA_SUPPORT + +.. [2] ``Remote Controller support`` should also be enabled if you + want to use some TV card drivers that may depend on the remote + controller core support. + +.. [3] Please notice that the DRM subsystem also have drivers for GPUs + that use the media HDMI CEC support. + + Those GPU-specific drivers are selected via the ``Graphics support`` + menu, under ``Device Drivers``. + + When a GPU driver supports HDMI CEC, it will automatically + enable the CEC core support at the media subsystem. + +Media dependencies +------------------ + +It should be noticed that enabling the above from a clean config is +usually not enough. The media subsystem depends on several other Linux +core support in order to work. + +For example, most media devices use a serial communication bus in +order to talk with some peripherals. Such bus is called I²C +(Inter-Integrated Circuit). In order to be able to build support +for such hardware, the I²C bus support should be enabled, either via +menu or with:: + + ./scripts/config -m I2C + +Another example: the remote controller core requires support for +input devices, with can be enabled with:: + + ./scripts/config -m INPUT + +Other core functionality may also be needed (like PCI and/or USB support), +depending on the specific driver(s) you would like to enable. + +Enabling Remote Controller Support +---------------------------------- + +The remote controller menu allows selecting drivers for specific devices. +It's menu looks like this:: + + --- Remote Controller support + <M> Compile Remote Controller keymap modules + [*] LIRC user interface + [*] Support for eBPF programs attached to lirc devices + [*] Remote controller decoders ---> + [*] Remote Controller devices ---> + +The ``Compile Remote Controller keymap modules`` option creates key maps for +several popular remote controllers. + +The ``LIRC user interface`` option adds enhanced functionality when using the +``lirc`` program, by enabling an API that allows userspace to receive raw data +from remote controllers. + +The ``Support for eBPF programs attached to lirc devices`` option allows +the usage of special programs (called eBPF) that would allow aplications +to add extra remote controller decoding functionality to the Linux Kernel. + +The ``Remote controller decoders`` option allows selecting the +protocols that will be recognized by the Linux Kernel. Except if you +want to disable some specific decoder, it is suggested to keep all +sub-options enabled. + +The ``Remote Controller devices`` allows you to select the drivers +that would be needed to support your device. + +The same configuration can also be set via the ``script/config`` +script. So, for instance, in order to support the ITE remote controller +driver (found on Intel NUCs and on some ASUS x86 desktops), you could do:: + + $ scripts/config -e INPUT + $ scripts/config -e ACPI + $ scripts/config -e MODULES + $ scripts/config -m RC_CORE + $ scripts/config -e RC_DEVICES + $ scripts/config -e RC_DECODERS + $ scripts/config -m IR_RC5_DECODER + $ scripts/config -m IR_ITE_CIR + +Enabling HDMI CEC Support +------------------------- + +The HDMI CEC support is set automatically when a driver requires it. So, +all you need to do is to enable support either for a graphics card +that needs it or by one of the existing HDMI drivers. + +The HDMI-specific drivers are available at the ``HDMI CEC drivers`` +menu\ [4]_:: + + --- HDMI CEC drivers + < > ChromeOS EC CEC driver + < > Amlogic Meson AO CEC driver + < > Amlogic Meson G12A AO CEC driver + < > Generic GPIO-based CEC driver + < > Samsung S5P CEC driver + < > STMicroelectronics STiH4xx HDMI CEC driver + < > STMicroelectronics STM32 HDMI CEC driver + < > Tegra HDMI CEC driver + < > SECO Boards HDMI CEC driver + [ ] SECO Boards IR RC5 support + < > Pulse Eight HDMI CEC + < > RainShadow Tech HDMI CEC + +.. [4] The above contents is just an example. The actual options for + HDMI devices depends on the system's architecture and may vary + on new Kernels. + +Enabling Media Support +---------------------- + +The Media menu has a lot more options than the remote controller menu. +Once selected, you should see the following options:: + + --- Media support + [ ] Filter media drivers + [*] Autoselect ancillary drivers + Media device types ---> + Media core support ---> + Video4Linux options ---> + Media controller options ---> + Digital TV options ---> + HDMI CEC options ---> + Media drivers ---> + Media ancillary drivers ---> + +Except if you know exactly what you're doing, or if you want to build +a driver for a SoC platform, it is strongly recommended to keep the +``Autoselect ancillary drivers`` option turned on, as it will auto-select +the needed I²C ancillary drivers. + +There are now two ways to select media device drivers, as described +below. + +``Filter media drivers`` menu +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +This menu is meant to easy setup for PC and Laptop hardware. It works +by letting the user to specify what kind of media drivers are desired, +with those options:: + + [ ] Cameras and video grabbers + [ ] Analog TV + [ ] Digital TV + [ ] AM/FM radio receivers/transmitters + [ ] Software defined radio + [ ] Platform-specific devices + [ ] Test drivers + +So, if you want to add support to a camera or video grabber only, +select just the first option. Multiple options are allowed. + +Once the options on this menu are selected, the building system will +auto-select the needed core drivers in order to support the selected +functionality. + +.. note:: + + Most TV cards are hybrid: they support both Analog TV and Digital TV. + + If you have an hybrid card, you may need to enable both ``Analog TV`` + and ``Digital TV`` at the menu. + +When using this option, the defaults for the media support core +functionality are usually good enough to provide the basic functionality +for the driver. Yet, you could manually enable some desired extra (optional) +functionality using the settings under each of the following +``Media support`` sub-menus:: + + Media core support ---> + Video4Linux options ---> + Media controller options ---> + Digital TV options ---> + HDMI CEC options ---> + +Once you select the desired filters, the drivers that matches the filtering +criteria will be available at the ``Media support->Media drivers`` sub-menu. + +``Media Core Support`` menu without filtering +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +If you disable the ``Filter media drivers`` menu, all drivers available +for your system whose dependencies are met should be shown at the +``Media drivers`` menu. + +Please notice, however, that you should first ensure that the +``Media Core Support`` menu has all the core functionality your drivers +would need, as otherwise the corresponding device drivers won't be shown. + +Example +------- + +In order to enable modular support for one of the boards listed on +:doc:`this table <cx231xx-cardlist>`, with modular media core modules, the +``.config`` file should contain those lines:: + + CONFIG_MODULES=y + CONFIG_USB=y + CONFIG_I2C=y + CONFIG_INPUT=y + CONFIG_RC_CORE=m + CONFIG_MEDIA_SUPPORT=m + CONFIG_MEDIA_SUPPORT_FILTER=y + CONFIG_MEDIA_ANALOG_TV_SUPPORT=y + CONFIG_MEDIA_DIGITAL_TV_SUPPORT=y + CONFIG_MEDIA_USB_SUPPORT=y + CONFIG_VIDEO_CX231XX=y + CONFIG_VIDEO_CX231XX_DVB=y + +Building and installing a new Kernel +==================================== + +Once the ``.config`` file has everything needed, all it takes to build +is to run the ``make`` command:: + + $ make + +And then install the new Kernel and its modules:: + + $ sudo make modules_install + $ sudo make install + +Building just the new media drivers and core +============================================ + +Running a new development Kernel from the development tree is usually risky, +because it may have experimental changes that may have bugs. So, there are +some ways to build just the new drivers, using alternative trees. + +There is the `Linux Kernel backports project +<https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page>`_, with contains +newer drivers meant to be compiled against stable Kernels. + +The LinuxTV developers, with are responsible for maintaining the media +subsystem also maintains a backport tree, with just the media drivers +daily updated from the newest kernel. Such tree is available at: + +https://git.linuxtv.org/media_build.git/ + +It should be noticed that, while it should be relatively safe to use the +``media_build`` tree for testing purposes, there are not warranties that +it would work (or even build) on a random Kernel. This tree is maintained +using a "best-efforts" principle, as time permits us to fix issues there. + +If you notice anything wrong on it, feel free to submit patches at the +Linux media subsystem's mailing list: media@vger.kernel.org. Please +add ``[PATCH media-build]`` at the e-mail's subject if you submit a new +patch for the media-build. + +Before using it, you should run:: + + $ ./build + +.. note:: + + 1) you may need to run it twice if the ``media-build`` tree gets + updated; + 2) you may need to do a ``make distclean`` if you had built it + in the past for a different Kernel version than the one you're + currently using; + 3) by default, it will use the same config options for media as + the ones defined on the Kernel you're running. + +In order to select different drivers or different config options, +use:: + + $ make menuconfig + +Then, you can build and install the new drivers:: + + $ make && sudo make install + +This will override the previous media drivers that your Kernel were +using. |