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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/bpf/bpf_prog_run.rst b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_prog_run.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4868c909d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_prog_run.rst @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=================================== +Running BPF programs from userspace +=================================== + +This document describes the ``BPF_PROG_RUN`` facility for running BPF programs +from userspace. + +.. contents:: + :local: + :depth: 2 + + +Overview +-------- + +The ``BPF_PROG_RUN`` command can be used through the ``bpf()`` syscall to +execute a BPF program in the kernel and return the results to userspace. This +can be used to unit test BPF programs against user-supplied context objects, and +as way to explicitly execute programs in the kernel for their side effects. The +command was previously named ``BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN``, and both constants continue +to be defined in the UAPI header, aliased to the same value. + +The ``BPF_PROG_RUN`` command can be used to execute BPF programs of the +following types: + +- ``BPF_PROG_TYPE_SOCKET_FILTER`` +- ``BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_CLS`` +- ``BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_ACT`` +- ``BPF_PROG_TYPE_XDP`` +- ``BPF_PROG_TYPE_SK_LOOKUP`` +- ``BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SKB`` +- ``BPF_PROG_TYPE_LWT_IN`` +- ``BPF_PROG_TYPE_LWT_OUT`` +- ``BPF_PROG_TYPE_LWT_XMIT`` +- ``BPF_PROG_TYPE_LWT_SEG6LOCAL`` +- ``BPF_PROG_TYPE_FLOW_DISSECTOR`` +- ``BPF_PROG_TYPE_STRUCT_OPS`` +- ``BPF_PROG_TYPE_RAW_TRACEPOINT`` +- ``BPF_PROG_TYPE_SYSCALL`` + +When using the ``BPF_PROG_RUN`` command, userspace supplies an input context +object and (for program types operating on network packets) a buffer containing +the packet data that the BPF program will operate on. The kernel will then +execute the program and return the results to userspace. Note that programs will +not have any side effects while being run in this mode; in particular, packets +will not actually be redirected or dropped, the program return code will just be +returned to userspace. A separate mode for live execution of XDP programs is +provided, documented separately below. + +Running XDP programs in "live frame mode" +----------------------------------------- + +The ``BPF_PROG_RUN`` command has a separate mode for running live XDP programs, +which can be used to execute XDP programs in a way where packets will actually +be processed by the kernel after the execution of the XDP program as if they +arrived on a physical interface. This mode is activated by setting the +``BPF_F_TEST_XDP_LIVE_FRAMES`` flag when supplying an XDP program to +``BPF_PROG_RUN``. + +The live packet mode is optimised for high performance execution of the supplied +XDP program many times (suitable for, e.g., running as a traffic generator), +which means the semantics are not quite as straight-forward as the regular test +run mode. Specifically: + +- When executing an XDP program in live frame mode, the result of the execution + will not be returned to userspace; instead, the kernel will perform the + operation indicated by the program's return code (drop the packet, redirect + it, etc). For this reason, setting the ``data_out`` or ``ctx_out`` attributes + in the syscall parameters when running in this mode will be rejected. In + addition, not all failures will be reported back to userspace directly; + specifically, only fatal errors in setup or during execution (like memory + allocation errors) will halt execution and return an error. If an error occurs + in packet processing, like a failure to redirect to a given interface, + execution will continue with the next repetition; these errors can be detected + via the same trace points as for regular XDP programs. + +- Userspace can supply an ifindex as part of the context object, just like in + the regular (non-live) mode. The XDP program will be executed as though the + packet arrived on this interface; i.e., the ``ingress_ifindex`` of the context + object will point to that interface. Furthermore, if the XDP program returns + ``XDP_PASS``, the packet will be injected into the kernel networking stack as + though it arrived on that ifindex, and if it returns ``XDP_TX``, the packet + will be transmitted *out* of that same interface. Do note, though, that + because the program execution is not happening in driver context, an + ``XDP_TX`` is actually turned into the same action as an ``XDP_REDIRECT`` to + that same interface (i.e., it will only work if the driver has support for the + ``ndo_xdp_xmit`` driver op). + +- When running the program with multiple repetitions, the execution will happen + in batches. The batch size defaults to 64 packets (which is same as the + maximum NAPI receive batch size), but can be specified by userspace through + the ``batch_size`` parameter, up to a maximum of 256 packets. For each batch, + the kernel executes the XDP program repeatedly, each invocation getting a + separate copy of the packet data. For each repetition, if the program drops + the packet, the data page is immediately recycled (see below). Otherwise, the + packet is buffered until the end of the batch, at which point all packets + buffered this way during the batch are transmitted at once. + +- When setting up the test run, the kernel will initialise a pool of memory + pages of the same size as the batch size. Each memory page will be initialised + with the initial packet data supplied by userspace at ``BPF_PROG_RUN`` + invocation. When possible, the pages will be recycled on future program + invocations, to improve performance. Pages will generally be recycled a full + batch at a time, except when a packet is dropped (by return code or because + of, say, a redirection error), in which case that page will be recycled + immediately. If a packet ends up being passed to the regular networking stack + (because the XDP program returns ``XDP_PASS``, or because it ends up being + redirected to an interface that injects it into the stack), the page will be + released and a new one will be allocated when the pool is empty. + + When recycling, the page content is not rewritten; only the packet boundary + pointers (``data``, ``data_end`` and ``data_meta``) in the context object will + be reset to the original values. This means that if a program rewrites the + packet contents, it has to be prepared to see either the original content or + the modified version on subsequent invocations. |