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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. 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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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+=====================
+Booting AArch64 Linux
+=====================
+
+Author: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
+
+Date : 07 September 2012
+
+This document is based on the ARM booting document by Russell King and
+is relevant to all public releases of the AArch64 Linux kernel.
+
+The AArch64 exception model is made up of a number of exception levels
+(EL0 - EL3), with EL0, EL1 and EL2 having a secure and a non-secure
+counterpart. EL2 is the hypervisor level, EL3 is the highest priority
+level and exists only in secure mode. Both are architecturally optional.
+
+For the purposes of this document, we will use the term `boot loader`
+simply to define all software that executes on the CPU(s) before control
+is passed to the Linux kernel. This may include secure monitor and
+hypervisor code, or it may just be a handful of instructions for
+preparing a minimal boot environment.
+
+Essentially, the boot loader should provide (as a minimum) the
+following:
+
+1. Setup and initialise the RAM
+2. Setup the device tree
+3. Decompress the kernel image
+4. Call the kernel image
+
+
+1. Setup and initialise RAM
+---------------------------
+
+Requirement: MANDATORY
+
+The boot loader is expected to find and initialise all RAM that the
+kernel will use for volatile data storage in the system. It performs
+this in a machine dependent manner. (It may use internal algorithms
+to automatically locate and size all RAM, or it may use knowledge of
+the RAM in the machine, or any other method the boot loader designer
+sees fit.)
+
+
+2. Setup the device tree
+-------------------------
+
+Requirement: MANDATORY
+
+The device tree blob (dtb) must be placed on an 8-byte boundary and must
+not exceed 2 megabytes in size. Since the dtb will be mapped cacheable
+using blocks of up to 2 megabytes in size, it must not be placed within
+any 2M region which must be mapped with any specific attributes.
+
+NOTE: versions prior to v4.2 also require that the DTB be placed within
+the 512 MB region starting at text_offset bytes below the kernel Image.
+
+3. Decompress the kernel image
+------------------------------
+
+Requirement: OPTIONAL
+
+The AArch64 kernel does not currently provide a decompressor and
+therefore requires decompression (gzip etc.) to be performed by the boot
+loader if a compressed Image target (e.g. Image.gz) is used. For
+bootloaders that do not implement this requirement, the uncompressed
+Image target is available instead.
+
+
+4. Call the kernel image
+------------------------
+
+Requirement: MANDATORY
+
+The decompressed kernel image contains a 64-byte header as follows::
+
+ u32 code0; /* Executable code */
+ u32 code1; /* Executable code */
+ u64 text_offset; /* Image load offset, little endian */
+ u64 image_size; /* Effective Image size, little endian */
+ u64 flags; /* kernel flags, little endian */
+ u64 res2 = 0; /* reserved */
+ u64 res3 = 0; /* reserved */
+ u64 res4 = 0; /* reserved */
+ u32 magic = 0x644d5241; /* Magic number, little endian, "ARM\x64" */
+ u32 res5; /* reserved (used for PE COFF offset) */
+
+
+Header notes:
+
+- As of v3.17, all fields are little endian unless stated otherwise.
+
+- code0/code1 are responsible for branching to stext.
+
+- when booting through EFI, code0/code1 are initially skipped.
+ res5 is an offset to the PE header and the PE header has the EFI
+ entry point (efi_stub_entry). When the stub has done its work, it
+ jumps to code0 to resume the normal boot process.
+
+- Prior to v3.17, the endianness of text_offset was not specified. In
+ these cases image_size is zero and text_offset is 0x80000 in the
+ endianness of the kernel. Where image_size is non-zero image_size is
+ little-endian and must be respected. Where image_size is zero,
+ text_offset can be assumed to be 0x80000.
+
+- The flags field (introduced in v3.17) is a little-endian 64-bit field
+ composed as follows:
+
+ ============= ===============================================================
+ Bit 0 Kernel endianness. 1 if BE, 0 if LE.
+ Bit 1-2 Kernel Page size.
+
+ * 0 - Unspecified.
+ * 1 - 4K
+ * 2 - 16K
+ * 3 - 64K
+ Bit 3 Kernel physical placement
+
+ 0
+ 2MB aligned base should be as close as possible
+ to the base of DRAM, since memory below it is not
+ accessible via the linear mapping
+ 1
+ 2MB aligned base such that all image_size bytes
+ counted from the start of the image are within
+ the 48-bit addressable range of physical memory
+ Bits 4-63 Reserved.
+ ============= ===============================================================
+
+- When image_size is zero, a bootloader should attempt to keep as much
+ memory as possible free for use by the kernel immediately after the
+ end of the kernel image. The amount of space required will vary
+ depending on selected features, and is effectively unbound.
+
+The Image must be placed text_offset bytes from a 2MB aligned base
+address anywhere in usable system RAM and called there. The region
+between the 2 MB aligned base address and the start of the image has no
+special significance to the kernel, and may be used for other purposes.
+At least image_size bytes from the start of the image must be free for
+use by the kernel.
+NOTE: versions prior to v4.6 cannot make use of memory below the
+physical offset of the Image so it is recommended that the Image be
+placed as close as possible to the start of system RAM.
+
+If an initrd/initramfs is passed to the kernel at boot, it must reside
+entirely within a 1 GB aligned physical memory window of up to 32 GB in
+size that fully covers the kernel Image as well.
+
+Any memory described to the kernel (even that below the start of the
+image) which is not marked as reserved from the kernel (e.g., with a
+memreserve region in the device tree) will be considered as available to
+the kernel.
+
+Before jumping into the kernel, the following conditions must be met:
+
+- Quiesce all DMA capable devices so that memory does not get
+ corrupted by bogus network packets or disk data. This will save
+ you many hours of debug.
+
+- Primary CPU general-purpose register settings:
+
+ - x0 = physical address of device tree blob (dtb) in system RAM.
+ - x1 = 0 (reserved for future use)
+ - x2 = 0 (reserved for future use)
+ - x3 = 0 (reserved for future use)
+
+- CPU mode
+
+ All forms of interrupts must be masked in PSTATE.DAIF (Debug, SError,
+ IRQ and FIQ).
+ The CPU must be in non-secure state, either in EL2 (RECOMMENDED in order
+ to have access to the virtualisation extensions), or in EL1.
+
+- Caches, MMUs
+
+ The MMU must be off.
+
+ The instruction cache may be on or off, and must not hold any stale
+ entries corresponding to the loaded kernel image.
+
+ The address range corresponding to the loaded kernel image must be
+ cleaned to the PoC. In the presence of a system cache or other
+ coherent masters with caches enabled, this will typically require
+ cache maintenance by VA rather than set/way operations.
+ System caches which respect the architected cache maintenance by VA
+ operations must be configured and may be enabled.
+ System caches which do not respect architected cache maintenance by VA
+ operations (not recommended) must be configured and disabled.
+
+- Architected timers
+
+ CNTFRQ must be programmed with the timer frequency and CNTVOFF must
+ be programmed with a consistent value on all CPUs. If entering the
+ kernel at EL1, CNTHCTL_EL2 must have EL1PCTEN (bit 0) set where
+ available.
+
+- Coherency
+
+ All CPUs to be booted by the kernel must be part of the same coherency
+ domain on entry to the kernel. This may require IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED
+ initialisation to enable the receiving of maintenance operations on
+ each CPU.
+
+- System registers
+
+ All writable architected system registers at or below the exception
+ level where the kernel image will be entered must be initialised by
+ software at a higher exception level to prevent execution in an UNKNOWN
+ state.
+
+ For all systems:
+ - If EL3 is present:
+
+ - SCR_EL3.FIQ must have the same value across all CPUs the kernel is
+ executing on.
+ - The value of SCR_EL3.FIQ must be the same as the one present at boot
+ time whenever the kernel is executing.
+
+ - If EL3 is present and the kernel is entered at EL2:
+
+ - SCR_EL3.HCE (bit 8) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+ For systems with a GICv3 interrupt controller to be used in v3 mode:
+ - If EL3 is present:
+
+ - ICC_SRE_EL3.Enable (bit 3) must be initialised to 0b1.
+ - ICC_SRE_EL3.SRE (bit 0) must be initialised to 0b1.
+ - ICC_CTLR_EL3.PMHE (bit 6) must be set to the same value across
+ all CPUs the kernel is executing on, and must stay constant
+ for the lifetime of the kernel.
+
+ - If the kernel is entered at EL1:
+
+ - ICC.SRE_EL2.Enable (bit 3) must be initialised to 0b1
+ - ICC_SRE_EL2.SRE (bit 0) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+ - The DT or ACPI tables must describe a GICv3 interrupt controller.
+
+ For systems with a GICv3 interrupt controller to be used in
+ compatibility (v2) mode:
+
+ - If EL3 is present:
+
+ ICC_SRE_EL3.SRE (bit 0) must be initialised to 0b0.
+
+ - If the kernel is entered at EL1:
+
+ ICC_SRE_EL2.SRE (bit 0) must be initialised to 0b0.
+
+ - The DT or ACPI tables must describe a GICv2 interrupt controller.
+
+ For CPUs with pointer authentication functionality:
+
+ - If EL3 is present:
+
+ - SCR_EL3.APK (bit 16) must be initialised to 0b1
+ - SCR_EL3.API (bit 17) must be initialised to 0b1
+
+ - If the kernel is entered at EL1:
+
+ - HCR_EL2.APK (bit 40) must be initialised to 0b1
+ - HCR_EL2.API (bit 41) must be initialised to 0b1
+
+ For CPUs with Activity Monitors Unit v1 (AMUv1) extension present:
+
+ - If EL3 is present:
+
+ - CPTR_EL3.TAM (bit 30) must be initialised to 0b0
+ - CPTR_EL2.TAM (bit 30) must be initialised to 0b0
+ - AMCNTENSET0_EL0 must be initialised to 0b1111
+ - AMCNTENSET1_EL0 must be initialised to a platform specific value
+ having 0b1 set for the corresponding bit for each of the auxiliary
+ counters present.
+
+ - If the kernel is entered at EL1:
+
+ - AMCNTENSET0_EL0 must be initialised to 0b1111
+ - AMCNTENSET1_EL0 must be initialised to a platform specific value
+ having 0b1 set for the corresponding bit for each of the auxiliary
+ counters present.
+
+ For CPUs with the Fine Grained Traps (FEAT_FGT) extension present:
+
+ - If EL3 is present and the kernel is entered at EL2:
+
+ - SCR_EL3.FGTEn (bit 27) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+ For CPUs with support for HCRX_EL2 (FEAT_HCX) present:
+
+ - If EL3 is present and the kernel is entered at EL2:
+
+ - SCR_EL3.HXEn (bit 38) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+ For CPUs with Advanced SIMD and floating point support:
+
+ - If EL3 is present:
+
+ - CPTR_EL3.TFP (bit 10) must be initialised to 0b0.
+
+ - If EL2 is present and the kernel is entered at EL1:
+
+ - CPTR_EL2.TFP (bit 10) must be initialised to 0b0.
+
+ For CPUs with the Scalable Vector Extension (FEAT_SVE) present:
+
+ - if EL3 is present:
+
+ - CPTR_EL3.EZ (bit 8) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+ - ZCR_EL3.LEN must be initialised to the same value for all CPUs the
+ kernel is executed on.
+
+ - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present:
+
+ - CPTR_EL2.TZ (bit 8) must be initialised to 0b0.
+
+ - CPTR_EL2.ZEN (bits 17:16) must be initialised to 0b11.
+
+ - ZCR_EL2.LEN must be initialised to the same value for all CPUs the
+ kernel will execute on.
+
+ For CPUs with the Scalable Matrix Extension (FEAT_SME):
+
+ - If EL3 is present:
+
+ - CPTR_EL3.ESM (bit 12) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+ - SCR_EL3.EnTP2 (bit 41) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+ - SMCR_EL3.LEN must be initialised to the same value for all CPUs the
+ kernel will execute on.
+
+ - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present:
+
+ - CPTR_EL2.TSM (bit 12) must be initialised to 0b0.
+
+ - CPTR_EL2.SMEN (bits 25:24) must be initialised to 0b11.
+
+ - SCTLR_EL2.EnTP2 (bit 60) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+ - SMCR_EL2.LEN must be initialised to the same value for all CPUs the
+ kernel will execute on.
+
+ - HWFGRTR_EL2.nTPIDR2_EL0 (bit 55) must be initialised to 0b01.
+
+ - HWFGWTR_EL2.nTPIDR2_EL0 (bit 55) must be initialised to 0b01.
+
+ - HWFGRTR_EL2.nSMPRI_EL1 (bit 54) must be initialised to 0b01.
+
+ - HWFGWTR_EL2.nSMPRI_EL1 (bit 54) must be initialised to 0b01.
+
+ For CPUs with the Scalable Matrix Extension FA64 feature (FEAT_SME_FA64):
+
+ - If EL3 is present:
+
+ - SMCR_EL3.FA64 (bit 31) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+ - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present:
+
+ - SMCR_EL2.FA64 (bit 31) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+ For CPUs with the Memory Tagging Extension feature (FEAT_MTE2):
+
+ - If EL3 is present:
+
+ - SCR_EL3.ATA (bit 26) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+ - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present:
+
+ - HCR_EL2.ATA (bit 56) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+ For CPUs with the Scalable Matrix Extension version 2 (FEAT_SME2):
+
+ - If EL3 is present:
+
+ - SMCR_EL3.EZT0 (bit 30) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+ - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present:
+
+ - SMCR_EL2.EZT0 (bit 30) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+The requirements described above for CPU mode, caches, MMUs, architected
+timers, coherency and system registers apply to all CPUs. All CPUs must
+enter the kernel in the same exception level. Where the values documented
+disable traps it is permissible for these traps to be enabled so long as
+those traps are handled transparently by higher exception levels as though
+the values documented were set.
+
+The boot loader is expected to enter the kernel on each CPU in the
+following manner:
+
+- The primary CPU must jump directly to the first instruction of the
+ kernel image. The device tree blob passed by this CPU must contain
+ an 'enable-method' property for each cpu node. The supported
+ enable-methods are described below.
+
+ It is expected that the bootloader will generate these device tree
+ properties and insert them into the blob prior to kernel entry.
+
+- CPUs with a "spin-table" enable-method must have a 'cpu-release-addr'
+ property in their cpu node. This property identifies a
+ naturally-aligned 64-bit zero-initalised memory location.
+
+ These CPUs should spin outside of the kernel in a reserved area of
+ memory (communicated to the kernel by a /memreserve/ region in the
+ device tree) polling their cpu-release-addr location, which must be
+ contained in the reserved region. A wfe instruction may be inserted
+ to reduce the overhead of the busy-loop and a sev will be issued by
+ the primary CPU. When a read of the location pointed to by the
+ cpu-release-addr returns a non-zero value, the CPU must jump to this
+ value. The value will be written as a single 64-bit little-endian
+ value, so CPUs must convert the read value to their native endianness
+ before jumping to it.
+
+- CPUs with a "psci" enable method should remain outside of
+ the kernel (i.e. outside of the regions of memory described to the
+ kernel in the memory node, or in a reserved area of memory described
+ to the kernel by a /memreserve/ region in the device tree). The
+ kernel will issue CPU_ON calls as described in ARM document number ARM
+ DEN 0022A ("Power State Coordination Interface System Software on ARM
+ processors") to bring CPUs into the kernel.
+
+ The device tree should contain a 'psci' node, as described in
+ Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/psci.yaml.
+
+- Secondary CPU general-purpose register settings
+
+ - x0 = 0 (reserved for future use)
+ - x1 = 0 (reserved for future use)
+ - x2 = 0 (reserved for future use)
+ - x3 = 0 (reserved for future use)