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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/pm/intel_idle.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_idle.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b799a43da --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_idle.rst @@ -0,0 +1,272 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +.. include:: <isonum.txt> + +============================================== +``intel_idle`` CPU Idle Time Management Driver +============================================== + +:Copyright: |copy| 2020 Intel Corporation + +:Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> + + +General Information +=================== + +``intel_idle`` is a part of the +:doc:`CPU idle time management subsystem <cpuidle>` in the Linux kernel +(``CPUIdle``). It is the default CPU idle time management driver for the +Nehalem and later generations of Intel processors, but the level of support for +a particular processor model in it depends on whether or not it recognizes that +processor model and may also depend on information coming from the platform +firmware. [To understand ``intel_idle`` it is necessary to know how ``CPUIdle`` +works in general, so this is the time to get familiar with +Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst if you have not done that yet.] + +``intel_idle`` uses the ``MWAIT`` instruction to inform the processor that the +logical CPU executing it is idle and so it may be possible to put some of the +processor's functional blocks into low-power states. That instruction takes two +arguments (passed in the ``EAX`` and ``ECX`` registers of the target CPU), the +first of which, referred to as a *hint*, can be used by the processor to +determine what can be done (for details refer to Intel Software Developer’s +Manual [1]_). Accordingly, ``intel_idle`` refuses to work with processors in +which the support for the ``MWAIT`` instruction has been disabled (for example, +via the platform firmware configuration menu) or which do not support that +instruction at all. + +``intel_idle`` is not modular, so it cannot be unloaded, which means that the +only way to pass early-configuration-time parameters to it is via the kernel +command line. + + +.. _intel-idle-enumeration-of-states: + +Enumeration of Idle States +========================== + +Each ``MWAIT`` hint value is interpreted by the processor as a license to +reconfigure itself in a certain way in order to save energy. The processor +configurations (with reduced power draw) resulting from that are referred to +as C-states (in the ACPI terminology) or idle states. The list of meaningful +``MWAIT`` hint values and idle states (i.e. low-power configurations of the +processor) corresponding to them depends on the processor model and it may also +depend on the configuration of the platform. + +In order to create a list of available idle states required by the ``CPUIdle`` +subsystem (see :ref:`idle-states-representation` in +Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst), +``intel_idle`` can use two sources of information: static tables of idle states +for different processor models included in the driver itself and the ACPI tables +of the system. The former are always used if the processor model at hand is +recognized by ``intel_idle`` and the latter are used if that is required for +the given processor model (which is the case for all server processor models +recognized by ``intel_idle``) or if the processor model is not recognized. +[There is a module parameter that can be used to make the driver use the ACPI +tables with any processor model recognized by it; see +`below <intel-idle-parameters_>`_.] + +If the ACPI tables are going to be used for building the list of available idle +states, ``intel_idle`` first looks for a ``_CST`` object under one of the ACPI +objects corresponding to the CPUs in the system (refer to the ACPI specification +[2]_ for the description of ``_CST`` and its output package). Because the +``CPUIdle`` subsystem expects that the list of idle states supplied by the +driver will be suitable for all of the CPUs handled by it and ``intel_idle`` is +registered as the ``CPUIdle`` driver for all of the CPUs in the system, the +driver looks for the first ``_CST`` object returning at least one valid idle +state description and such that all of the idle states included in its return +package are of the FFH (Functional Fixed Hardware) type, which means that the +``MWAIT`` instruction is expected to be used to tell the processor that it can +enter one of them. The return package of that ``_CST`` is then assumed to be +applicable to all of the other CPUs in the system and the idle state +descriptions extracted from it are stored in a preliminary list of idle states +coming from the ACPI tables. [This step is skipped if ``intel_idle`` is +configured to ignore the ACPI tables; see `below <intel-idle-parameters_>`_.] + +Next, the first (index 0) entry in the list of available idle states is +initialized to represent a "polling idle state" (a pseudo-idle state in which +the target CPU continuously fetches and executes instructions), and the +subsequent (real) idle state entries are populated as follows. + +If the processor model at hand is recognized by ``intel_idle``, there is a +(static) table of idle state descriptions for it in the driver. In that case, +the "internal" table is the primary source of information on idle states and the +information from it is copied to the final list of available idle states. If +using the ACPI tables for the enumeration of idle states is not required +(depending on the processor model), all of the listed idle state are enabled by +default (so all of them will be taken into consideration by ``CPUIdle`` +governors during CPU idle state selection). Otherwise, some of the listed idle +states may not be enabled by default if there are no matching entries in the +preliminary list of idle states coming from the ACPI tables. In that case user +space still can enable them later (on a per-CPU basis) with the help of +the ``disable`` idle state attribute in ``sysfs`` (see +:ref:`idle-states-representation` in +Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst). This basically means that +the idle states "known" to the driver may not be enabled by default if they have +not been exposed by the platform firmware (through the ACPI tables). + +If the given processor model is not recognized by ``intel_idle``, but it +supports ``MWAIT``, the preliminary list of idle states coming from the ACPI +tables is used for building the final list that will be supplied to the +``CPUIdle`` core during driver registration. For each idle state in that list, +the description, ``MWAIT`` hint and exit latency are copied to the corresponding +entry in the final list of idle states. The name of the idle state represented +by it (to be returned by the ``name`` idle state attribute in ``sysfs``) is +"CX_ACPI", where X is the index of that idle state in the final list (note that +the minimum value of X is 1, because 0 is reserved for the "polling" state), and +its target residency is based on the exit latency value. Specifically, for +C1-type idle states the exit latency value is also used as the target residency +(for compatibility with the majority of the "internal" tables of idle states for +various processor models recognized by ``intel_idle``) and for the other idle +state types (C2 and C3) the target residency value is 3 times the exit latency +(again, that is because it reflects the target residency to exit latency ratio +in the majority of cases for the processor models recognized by ``intel_idle``). +All of the idle states in the final list are enabled by default in this case. + + +.. _intel-idle-initialization: + +Initialization +============== + +The initialization of ``intel_idle`` starts with checking if the kernel command +line options forbid the use of the ``MWAIT`` instruction. If that is the case, +an error code is returned right away. + +The next step is to check whether or not the processor model is known to the +driver, which determines the idle states enumeration method (see +`above <intel-idle-enumeration-of-states_>`_), and whether or not the processor +supports ``MWAIT`` (the initialization fails if that is not the case). Then, +the ``MWAIT`` support in the processor is enumerated through ``CPUID`` and the +driver initialization fails if the level of support is not as expected (for +example, if the total number of ``MWAIT`` substates returned is 0). + +Next, if the driver is not configured to ignore the ACPI tables (see +`below <intel-idle-parameters_>`_), the idle states information provided by the +platform firmware is extracted from them. + +Then, ``CPUIdle`` device objects are allocated for all CPUs and the list of +available idle states is created as explained +`above <intel-idle-enumeration-of-states_>`_. + +Finally, ``intel_idle`` is registered with the help of cpuidle_register_driver() +as the ``CPUIdle`` driver for all CPUs in the system and a CPU online callback +for configuring individual CPUs is registered via cpuhp_setup_state(), which +(among other things) causes the callback routine to be invoked for all of the +CPUs present in the system at that time (each CPU executes its own instance of +the callback routine). That routine registers a ``CPUIdle`` device for the CPU +running it (which enables the ``CPUIdle`` subsystem to operate that CPU) and +optionally performs some CPU-specific initialization actions that may be +required for the given processor model. + + +.. _intel-idle-parameters: + +Kernel Command Line Options and Module Parameters +================================================= + +The *x86* architecture support code recognizes three kernel command line +options related to CPU idle time management: ``idle=poll``, ``idle=halt``, +and ``idle=nomwait``. If any of them is present in the kernel command line, the +``MWAIT`` instruction is not allowed to be used, so the initialization of +``intel_idle`` will fail. + +Apart from that there are four module parameters recognized by ``intel_idle`` +itself that can be set via the kernel command line (they cannot be updated via +sysfs, so that is the only way to change their values). + +The ``max_cstate`` parameter value is the maximum idle state index in the list +of idle states supplied to the ``CPUIdle`` core during the registration of the +driver. It is also the maximum number of regular (non-polling) idle states that +can be used by ``intel_idle``, so the enumeration of idle states is terminated +after finding that number of usable idle states (the other idle states that +potentially might have been used if ``max_cstate`` had been greater are not +taken into consideration at all). Setting ``max_cstate`` can prevent +``intel_idle`` from exposing idle states that are regarded as "too deep" for +some reason to the ``CPUIdle`` core, but it does so by making them effectively +invisible until the system is shut down and started again which may not always +be desirable. In practice, it is only really necessary to do that if the idle +states in question cannot be enabled during system startup, because in the +working state of the system the CPU power management quality of service (PM +QoS) feature can be used to prevent ``CPUIdle`` from touching those idle states +even if they have been enumerated (see :ref:`cpu-pm-qos` in +Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst). +Setting ``max_cstate`` to 0 causes the ``intel_idle`` initialization to fail. + +The ``no_acpi`` and ``use_acpi`` module parameters (recognized by ``intel_idle`` +if the kernel has been configured with ACPI support) can be set to make the +driver ignore the system's ACPI tables entirely or use them for all of the +recognized processor models, respectively (they both are unset by default and +``use_acpi`` has no effect if ``no_acpi`` is set). + +The value of the ``states_off`` module parameter (0 by default) represents a +list of idle states to be disabled by default in the form of a bitmask. + +Namely, the positions of the bits that are set in the ``states_off`` value are +the indices of idle states to be disabled by default (as reflected by the names +of the corresponding idle state directories in ``sysfs``, :file:`state0`, +:file:`state1` ... :file:`state<i>` ..., where ``<i>`` is the index of the given +idle state; see :ref:`idle-states-representation` in +Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst). + +For example, if ``states_off`` is equal to 3, the driver will disable idle +states 0 and 1 by default, and if it is equal to 8, idle state 3 will be +disabled by default and so on (bit positions beyond the maximum idle state index +are ignored). + +The idle states disabled this way can be enabled (on a per-CPU basis) from user +space via ``sysfs``. + + +.. _intel-idle-core-and-package-idle-states: + +Core and Package Levels of Idle States +====================================== + +Typically, in a processor supporting the ``MWAIT`` instruction there are (at +least) two levels of idle states (or C-states). One level, referred to as +"core C-states", covers individual cores in the processor, whereas the other +level, referred to as "package C-states", covers the entire processor package +and it may also involve other components of the system (GPUs, memory +controllers, I/O hubs etc.). + +Some of the ``MWAIT`` hint values allow the processor to use core C-states only +(most importantly, that is the case for the ``MWAIT`` hint value corresponding +to the ``C1`` idle state), but the majority of them give it a license to put +the target core (i.e. the core containing the logical CPU executing ``MWAIT`` +with the given hint value) into a specific core C-state and then (if possible) +to enter a specific package C-state at the deeper level. For example, the +``MWAIT`` hint value representing the ``C3`` idle state allows the processor to +put the target core into the low-power state referred to as "core ``C3``" (or +``CC3``), which happens if all of the logical CPUs (SMT siblings) in that core +have executed ``MWAIT`` with the ``C3`` hint value (or with a hint value +representing a deeper idle state), and in addition to that (in the majority of +cases) it gives the processor a license to put the entire package (possibly +including some non-CPU components such as a GPU or a memory controller) into the +low-power state referred to as "package ``C3``" (or ``PC3``), which happens if +all of the cores have gone into the ``CC3`` state and (possibly) some additional +conditions are satisfied (for instance, if the GPU is covered by ``PC3``, it may +be required to be in a certain GPU-specific low-power state for ``PC3`` to be +reachable). + +As a rule, there is no simple way to make the processor use core C-states only +if the conditions for entering the corresponding package C-states are met, so +the logical CPU executing ``MWAIT`` with a hint value that is not core-level +only (like for ``C1``) must always assume that this may cause the processor to +enter a package C-state. [That is why the exit latency and target residency +values corresponding to the majority of ``MWAIT`` hint values in the "internal" +tables of idle states in ``intel_idle`` reflect the properties of package +C-states.] If using package C-states is not desirable at all, either +:ref:`PM QoS <cpu-pm-qos>` or the ``max_cstate`` module parameter of +``intel_idle`` described `above <intel-idle-parameters_>`_ must be used to +restrict the range of permissible idle states to the ones with core-level only +``MWAIT`` hint values (like ``C1``). + + +References +========== + +.. [1] *Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual Volume 2B*, + https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/64-ia-32-architectures-software-developer-vol-2b-manual.html + +.. [2] *Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) Specification*, + https://uefi.org/specifications |