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authorLibravatar Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-21 18:24:12 -0800
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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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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+The Virtual Stateless Decoder Driver (visl)
+===========================================
+
+A virtual stateless decoder device for stateless uAPI development
+purposes.
+
+This tool's objective is to help the development and testing of
+userspace applications that use the V4L2 stateless API to decode media.
+
+A userspace implementation can use visl to run a decoding loop even when
+no hardware is available or when the kernel uAPI for the codec has not
+been upstreamed yet. This can reveal bugs at an early stage.
+
+This driver can also trace the contents of the V4L2 controls submitted
+to it. It can also dump the contents of the vb2 buffers through a
+debugfs interface. This is in many ways similar to the tracing
+infrastructure available for other popular encode/decode APIs out there
+and can help develop a userspace application by using another (working)
+one as a reference.
+
+.. note::
+
+ No actual decoding of video frames is performed by visl. The
+ V4L2 test pattern generator is used to write various debug information
+ to the capture buffers instead.
+
+Module parameters
+-----------------
+
+- visl_debug: Activates debug info, printing various debug messages through
+ dprintk. Also controls whether per-frame debug info is shown. Defaults to off.
+ Note that enabling this feature can result in slow performance through serial.
+
+- visl_transtime_ms: Simulated process time in milliseconds. Slowing down the
+ decoding speed can be useful for debugging.
+
+- visl_dprintk_frame_start, visl_dprintk_frame_nframes: Dictates a range of
+ frames where dprintk is activated. This only controls the dprintk tracing on a
+ per-frame basis. Note that printing a lot of data can be slow through serial.
+
+- keep_bitstream_buffers: Controls whether bitstream (i.e. OUTPUT) buffers are
+ kept after a decoding session. Defaults to false so as to reduce the amount of
+ clutter. keep_bitstream_buffers == false works well when live debugging the
+ client program with GDB.
+
+- bitstream_trace_frame_start, bitstream_trace_nframes: Similar to
+ visl_dprintk_frame_start, visl_dprintk_nframes, but controls the dumping of
+ buffer data through debugfs instead.
+
+What is the default use case for this driver?
+---------------------------------------------
+
+This driver can be used as a way to compare different userspace implementations.
+This assumes that a working client is run against visl and that the ftrace and
+OUTPUT buffer data is subsequently used to debug a work-in-progress
+implementation.
+
+Information on reference frames, their timestamps, the status of the OUTPUT and
+CAPTURE queues and more can be read directly from the CAPTURE buffers.
+
+Supported codecs
+----------------
+
+The following codecs are supported:
+
+- FWHT
+- MPEG2
+- VP8
+- VP9
+- H.264
+- HEVC
+
+visl trace events
+-----------------
+The trace events are defined on a per-codec basis, e.g.:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ ls /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/ | grep visl
+ visl_fwht_controls
+ visl_h264_controls
+ visl_hevc_controls
+ visl_mpeg2_controls
+ visl_vp8_controls
+ visl_vp9_controls
+
+For example, in order to dump HEVC SPS data:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/visl_hevc_controls/v4l2_ctrl_hevc_sps/enable
+
+The SPS data will be dumped to the trace buffer, i.e.:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
+ video_parameter_set_id 0
+ seq_parameter_set_id 0
+ pic_width_in_luma_samples 1920
+ pic_height_in_luma_samples 1080
+ bit_depth_luma_minus8 0
+ bit_depth_chroma_minus8 0
+ log2_max_pic_order_cnt_lsb_minus4 4
+ sps_max_dec_pic_buffering_minus1 6
+ sps_max_num_reorder_pics 2
+ sps_max_latency_increase_plus1 0
+ log2_min_luma_coding_block_size_minus3 0
+ log2_diff_max_min_luma_coding_block_size 3
+ log2_min_luma_transform_block_size_minus2 0
+ log2_diff_max_min_luma_transform_block_size 3
+ max_transform_hierarchy_depth_inter 2
+ max_transform_hierarchy_depth_intra 2
+ pcm_sample_bit_depth_luma_minus1 0
+ pcm_sample_bit_depth_chroma_minus1 0
+ log2_min_pcm_luma_coding_block_size_minus3 0
+ log2_diff_max_min_pcm_luma_coding_block_size 0
+ num_short_term_ref_pic_sets 0
+ num_long_term_ref_pics_sps 0
+ chroma_format_idc 1
+ sps_max_sub_layers_minus1 0
+ flags AMP_ENABLED|SAMPLE_ADAPTIVE_OFFSET|TEMPORAL_MVP_ENABLED|STRONG_INTRA_SMOOTHING_ENABLED
+
+
+Dumping OUTPUT buffer data through debugfs
+------------------------------------------
+
+If the **VISL_DEBUGFS** Kconfig is enabled, visl will populate
+**/sys/kernel/debug/visl/bitstream** with OUTPUT buffer data according to the
+values of bitstream_trace_frame_start and bitstream_trace_nframes. This can
+highlight errors as broken clients may fail to fill the buffers properly.
+
+A single file is created for each processed OUTPUT buffer. Its name contains an
+integer that denotes the buffer sequence, i.e.:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ snprintf(name, 32, "bitstream%d", run->src->sequence);
+
+Dumping the values is simply a matter of reading from the file, i.e.:
+
+For the buffer with sequence == 0:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ xxd /sys/kernel/debug/visl/bitstream/bitstream0
+ 00000000: 2601 af04 d088 bc25 a173 0e41 a4f2 3274 &......%.s.A..2t
+ 00000010: c668 cb28 e775 b4ac f53a ba60 f8fd 3aa1 .h.(.u...:.`..:.
+ 00000020: 46b4 bcfc 506c e227 2372 e5f5 d7ea 579f F...Pl.'#r....W.
+ 00000030: 6371 5eb5 0eb8 23b5 ca6a 5de5 983a 19e4 cq^...#..j]..:..
+ 00000040: e8c3 4320 b4ba a226 cbc1 4138 3a12 32d6 ..C ...&..A8:.2.
+ 00000050: fef3 247b 3523 4e90 9682 ac8e eb0c a389 ..${5#N.........
+ 00000060: ddd0 6cfc 0187 0e20 7aae b15b 1812 3d33 ..l.... z..[..=3
+ 00000070: e1c5 f425 a83a 00b7 4f18 8127 3c4c aefb ...%.:..O..'<L..
+
+For the buffer with sequence == 1:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ xxd /sys/kernel/debug/visl/bitstream/bitstream1
+ 00000000: 0201 d021 49e1 0c40 aa11 1449 14a6 01dc ...!I..@...I....
+ 00000010: 7023 889a c8cd 2cd0 13b4 dab0 e8ca 21fe p#....,.......!.
+ 00000020: c4c8 ab4c 486e 4e2f b0df 96cc c74e 8dde ...LHnN/.....N..
+ 00000030: 8ce7 ee36 d880 4095 4d64 30a0 ff4f 0c5e ...6..@.Md0..O.^
+ 00000040: f16b a6a1 d806 ca2a 0ece a673 7bea 1f37 .k.....*...s{..7
+ 00000050: 370f 5bb9 1dc4 ba21 6434 bc53 0173 cba0 7.[....!d4.S.s..
+ 00000060: dfe6 bc99 01ea b6e0 346b 92b5 c8de 9f5d ........4k.....]
+ 00000070: e7cc 3484 1769 fef2 a693 a945 2c8b 31da ..4..i.....E,.1.
+
+And so on.
+
+By default, the files are removed during STREAMOFF. This is to reduce the amount
+of clutter.