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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/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst b/Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..64a0b505d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst @@ -0,0 +1,155 @@ +====================== +Asymmetric 32-bit SoCs +====================== + +Author: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> + +This document describes the impact of asymmetric 32-bit SoCs on the +execution of 32-bit (``AArch32``) applications. + +Date: 2021-05-17 + +Introduction +============ + +Some Armv9 SoCs suffer from a big.LITTLE misfeature where only a subset +of the CPUs are capable of executing 32-bit user applications. On such +a system, Linux by default treats the asymmetry as a "mismatch" and +disables support for both the ``PER_LINUX32`` personality and +``execve(2)`` of 32-bit ELF binaries, with the latter returning +``-ENOEXEC``. If the mismatch is detected during late onlining of a +64-bit-only CPU, then the onlining operation fails and the new CPU is +unavailable for scheduling. + +Surprisingly, these SoCs have been produced with the intention of +running legacy 32-bit binaries. Unsurprisingly, that doesn't work very +well with the default behaviour of Linux. + +It seems inevitable that future SoCs will drop 32-bit support +altogether, so if you're stuck in the unenviable position of needing to +run 32-bit code on one of these transitionary platforms then you would +be wise to consider alternatives such as recompilation, emulation or +retirement. If neither of those options are practical, then read on. + +Enabling kernel support +======================= + +Since the kernel support is not completely transparent to userspace, +allowing 32-bit tasks to run on an asymmetric 32-bit system requires an +explicit "opt-in" and can be enabled by passing the +``allow_mismatched_32bit_el0`` parameter on the kernel command-line. + +For the remainder of this document we will refer to an *asymmetric +system* to mean an asymmetric 32-bit SoC running Linux with this kernel +command-line option enabled. + +Userspace impact +================ + +32-bit tasks running on an asymmetric system behave in mostly the same +way as on a homogeneous system, with a few key differences relating to +CPU affinity. + +sysfs +----- + +The subset of CPUs capable of running 32-bit tasks is described in +``/sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0`` and is documented further in +``Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu``. + +**Note:** CPUs are advertised by this file as they are detected and so +late-onlining of 32-bit-capable CPUs can result in the file contents +being modified by the kernel at runtime. Once advertised, CPUs are never +removed from the file. + +``execve(2)`` +------------- + +On a homogeneous system, the CPU affinity of a task is preserved across +``execve(2)``. This is not always possible on an asymmetric system, +specifically when the new program being executed is 32-bit yet the +affinity mask contains 64-bit-only CPUs. In this situation, the kernel +determines the new affinity mask as follows: + + 1. If the 32-bit-capable subset of the affinity mask is not empty, + then the affinity is restricted to that subset and the old affinity + mask is saved. This saved mask is inherited over ``fork(2)`` and + preserved across ``execve(2)`` of 32-bit programs. + + **Note:** This step does not apply to ``SCHED_DEADLINE`` tasks. + See `SCHED_DEADLINE`_. + + 2. Otherwise, the cpuset hierarchy of the task is walked until an + ancestor is found containing at least one 32-bit-capable CPU. The + affinity of the task is then changed to match the 32-bit-capable + subset of the cpuset determined by the walk. + + 3. On failure (i.e. out of memory), the affinity is changed to the set + of all 32-bit-capable CPUs of which the kernel is aware. + +A subsequent ``execve(2)`` of a 64-bit program by the 32-bit task will +invalidate the affinity mask saved in (1) and attempt to restore the CPU +affinity of the task using the saved mask if it was previously valid. +This restoration may fail due to intervening changes to the deadline +policy or cpuset hierarchy, in which case the ``execve(2)`` continues +with the affinity unchanged. + +Calls to ``sched_setaffinity(2)`` for a 32-bit task will consider only +the 32-bit-capable CPUs of the requested affinity mask. On success, the +affinity for the task is updated and any saved mask from a prior +``execve(2)`` is invalidated. + +``SCHED_DEADLINE`` +------------------ + +Explicit admission of a 32-bit deadline task to the default root domain +(e.g. by calling ``sched_setattr(2)``) is rejected on an asymmetric +32-bit system unless admission control is disabled by writing -1 to +``/proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_runtime_us``. + +``execve(2)`` of a 32-bit program from a 64-bit deadline task will +return ``-ENOEXEC`` if the root domain for the task contains any +64-bit-only CPUs and admission control is enabled. Concurrent offlining +of 32-bit-capable CPUs may still necessitate the procedure described in +`execve(2)`_, in which case step (1) is skipped and a warning is +emitted on the console. + +**Note:** It is recommended that a set of 32-bit-capable CPUs are placed +into a separate root domain if ``SCHED_DEADLINE`` is to be used with +32-bit tasks on an asymmetric system. Failure to do so is likely to +result in missed deadlines. + +Cpusets +------- + +The affinity of a 32-bit task on an asymmetric system may include CPUs +that are not explicitly allowed by the cpuset to which it is attached. +This can occur as a result of the following two situations: + + - A 64-bit task attached to a cpuset which allows only 64-bit CPUs + executes a 32-bit program. + + - All of the 32-bit-capable CPUs allowed by a cpuset containing a + 32-bit task are offlined. + +In both of these cases, the new affinity is calculated according to step +(2) of the process described in `execve(2)`_ and the cpuset hierarchy is +unchanged irrespective of the cgroup version. + +CPU hotplug +----------- + +On an asymmetric system, the first detected 32-bit-capable CPU is +prevented from being offlined by userspace and any such attempt will +return ``-EPERM``. Note that suspend is still permitted even if the +primary CPU (i.e. CPU 0) is 64-bit-only. + +KVM +--- + +Although KVM will not advertise 32-bit EL0 support to any vCPUs on an +asymmetric system, a broken guest at EL1 could still attempt to execute +32-bit code at EL0. In this case, an exit from a vCPU thread in 32-bit +mode will return to host userspace with an ``exit_reason`` of +``KVM_EXIT_FAIL_ENTRY`` and will remain non-runnable until successfully +re-initialised by a subsequent ``KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT`` operation. |