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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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+Entry/exit handling for exceptions, interrupts, syscalls and KVM
+================================================================
+
+All transitions between execution domains require state updates which are
+subject to strict ordering constraints. State updates are required for the
+following:
+
+ * Lockdep
+ * RCU / Context tracking
+ * Preemption counter
+ * Tracing
+ * Time accounting
+
+The update order depends on the transition type and is explained below in
+the transition type sections: `Syscalls`_, `KVM`_, `Interrupts and regular
+exceptions`_, `NMI and NMI-like exceptions`_.
+
+Non-instrumentable code - noinstr
+---------------------------------
+
+Most instrumentation facilities depend on RCU, so intrumentation is prohibited
+for entry code before RCU starts watching and exit code after RCU stops
+watching. In addition, many architectures must save and restore register state,
+which means that (for example) a breakpoint in the breakpoint entry code would
+overwrite the debug registers of the initial breakpoint.
+
+Such code must be marked with the 'noinstr' attribute, placing that code into a
+special section inaccessible to instrumentation and debug facilities. Some
+functions are partially instrumentable, which is handled by marking them
+noinstr and using instrumentation_begin() and instrumentation_end() to flag the
+instrumentable ranges of code:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ noinstr void entry(void)
+ {
+ handle_entry(); // <-- must be 'noinstr' or '__always_inline'
+ ...
+
+ instrumentation_begin();
+ handle_context(); // <-- instrumentable code
+ instrumentation_end();
+
+ ...
+ handle_exit(); // <-- must be 'noinstr' or '__always_inline'
+ }
+
+This allows verification of the 'noinstr' restrictions via objtool on
+supported architectures.
+
+Invoking non-instrumentable functions from instrumentable context has no
+restrictions and is useful to protect e.g. state switching which would
+cause malfunction if instrumented.
+
+All non-instrumentable entry/exit code sections before and after the RCU
+state transitions must run with interrupts disabled.
+
+Syscalls
+--------
+
+Syscall-entry code starts in assembly code and calls out into low-level C code
+after establishing low-level architecture-specific state and stack frames. This
+low-level C code must not be instrumented. A typical syscall handling function
+invoked from low-level assembly code looks like this:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ noinstr void syscall(struct pt_regs *regs, int nr)
+ {
+ arch_syscall_enter(regs);
+ nr = syscall_enter_from_user_mode(regs, nr);
+
+ instrumentation_begin();
+ if (!invoke_syscall(regs, nr) && nr != -1)
+ result_reg(regs) = __sys_ni_syscall(regs);
+ instrumentation_end();
+
+ syscall_exit_to_user_mode(regs);
+ }
+
+syscall_enter_from_user_mode() first invokes enter_from_user_mode() which
+establishes state in the following order:
+
+ * Lockdep
+ * RCU / Context tracking
+ * Tracing
+
+and then invokes the various entry work functions like ptrace, seccomp, audit,
+syscall tracing, etc. After all that is done, the instrumentable invoke_syscall
+function can be invoked. The instrumentable code section then ends, after which
+syscall_exit_to_user_mode() is invoked.
+
+syscall_exit_to_user_mode() handles all work which needs to be done before
+returning to user space like tracing, audit, signals, task work etc. After
+that it invokes exit_to_user_mode() which again handles the state
+transition in the reverse order:
+
+ * Tracing
+ * RCU / Context tracking
+ * Lockdep
+
+syscall_enter_from_user_mode() and syscall_exit_to_user_mode() are also
+available as fine grained subfunctions in cases where the architecture code
+has to do extra work between the various steps. In such cases it has to
+ensure that enter_from_user_mode() is called first on entry and
+exit_to_user_mode() is called last on exit.
+
+Do not nest syscalls. Nested systcalls will cause RCU and/or context tracking
+to print a warning.
+
+KVM
+---
+
+Entering or exiting guest mode is very similar to syscalls. From the host
+kernel point of view the CPU goes off into user space when entering the
+guest and returns to the kernel on exit.
+
+kvm_guest_enter_irqoff() is a KVM-specific variant of exit_to_user_mode()
+and kvm_guest_exit_irqoff() is the KVM variant of enter_from_user_mode().
+The state operations have the same ordering.
+
+Task work handling is done separately for guest at the boundary of the
+vcpu_run() loop via xfer_to_guest_mode_handle_work() which is a subset of
+the work handled on return to user space.
+
+Do not nest KVM entry/exit transitions because doing so is nonsensical.
+
+Interrupts and regular exceptions
+---------------------------------
+
+Interrupts entry and exit handling is slightly more complex than syscalls
+and KVM transitions.
+
+If an interrupt is raised while the CPU executes in user space, the entry
+and exit handling is exactly the same as for syscalls.
+
+If the interrupt is raised while the CPU executes in kernel space the entry and
+exit handling is slightly different. RCU state is only updated when the
+interrupt is raised in the context of the CPU's idle task. Otherwise, RCU will
+already be watching. Lockdep and tracing have to be updated unconditionally.
+
+irqentry_enter() and irqentry_exit() provide the implementation for this.
+
+The architecture-specific part looks similar to syscall handling:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ noinstr void interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs, int nr)
+ {
+ arch_interrupt_enter(regs);
+ state = irqentry_enter(regs);
+
+ instrumentation_begin();
+
+ irq_enter_rcu();
+ invoke_irq_handler(regs, nr);
+ irq_exit_rcu();
+
+ instrumentation_end();
+
+ irqentry_exit(regs, state);
+ }
+
+Note that the invocation of the actual interrupt handler is within a
+irq_enter_rcu() and irq_exit_rcu() pair.
+
+irq_enter_rcu() updates the preemption count which makes in_hardirq()
+return true, handles NOHZ tick state and interrupt time accounting. This
+means that up to the point where irq_enter_rcu() is invoked in_hardirq()
+returns false.
+
+irq_exit_rcu() handles interrupt time accounting, undoes the preemption
+count update and eventually handles soft interrupts and NOHZ tick state.
+
+In theory, the preemption count could be updated in irqentry_enter(). In
+practice, deferring this update to irq_enter_rcu() allows the preemption-count
+code to be traced, while also maintaining symmetry with irq_exit_rcu() and
+irqentry_exit(), which are described in the next paragraph. The only downside
+is that the early entry code up to irq_enter_rcu() must be aware that the
+preemption count has not yet been updated with the HARDIRQ_OFFSET state.
+
+Note that irq_exit_rcu() must remove HARDIRQ_OFFSET from the preemption count
+before it handles soft interrupts, whose handlers must run in BH context rather
+than irq-disabled context. In addition, irqentry_exit() might schedule, which
+also requires that HARDIRQ_OFFSET has been removed from the preemption count.
+
+Even though interrupt handlers are expected to run with local interrupts
+disabled, interrupt nesting is common from an entry/exit perspective. For
+example, softirq handling happens within an irqentry_{enter,exit}() block with
+local interrupts enabled. Also, although uncommon, nothing prevents an
+interrupt handler from re-enabling interrupts.
+
+Interrupt entry/exit code doesn't strictly need to handle reentrancy, since it
+runs with local interrupts disabled. But NMIs can happen anytime, and a lot of
+the entry code is shared between the two.
+
+NMI and NMI-like exceptions
+---------------------------
+
+NMIs and NMI-like exceptions (machine checks, double faults, debug
+interrupts, etc.) can hit any context and must be extra careful with
+the state.
+
+State changes for debug exceptions and machine-check exceptions depend on
+whether these exceptions happened in user-space (breakpoints or watchpoints) or
+in kernel mode (code patching). From user-space, they are treated like
+interrupts, while from kernel mode they are treated like NMIs.
+
+NMIs and other NMI-like exceptions handle state transitions without
+distinguishing between user-mode and kernel-mode origin.
+
+The state update on entry is handled in irqentry_nmi_enter() which updates
+state in the following order:
+
+ * Preemption counter
+ * Lockdep
+ * RCU / Context tracking
+ * Tracing
+
+The exit counterpart irqentry_nmi_exit() does the reverse operation in the
+reverse order.
+
+Note that the update of the preemption counter has to be the first
+operation on enter and the last operation on exit. The reason is that both
+lockdep and RCU rely on in_nmi() returning true in this case. The
+preemption count modification in the NMI entry/exit case must not be
+traced.
+
+Architecture-specific code looks like this:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ noinstr void nmi(struct pt_regs *regs)
+ {
+ arch_nmi_enter(regs);
+ state = irqentry_nmi_enter(regs);
+
+ instrumentation_begin();
+ nmi_handler(regs);
+ instrumentation_end();
+
+ irqentry_nmi_exit(regs);
+ }
+
+and for e.g. a debug exception it can look like this:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ noinstr void debug(struct pt_regs *regs)
+ {
+ arch_nmi_enter(regs);
+
+ debug_regs = save_debug_regs();
+
+ if (user_mode(regs)) {
+ state = irqentry_enter(regs);
+
+ instrumentation_begin();
+ user_mode_debug_handler(regs, debug_regs);
+ instrumentation_end();
+
+ irqentry_exit(regs, state);
+ } else {
+ state = irqentry_nmi_enter(regs);
+
+ instrumentation_begin();
+ kernel_mode_debug_handler(regs, debug_regs);
+ instrumentation_end();
+
+ irqentry_nmi_exit(regs, state);
+ }
+ }
+
+There is no combined irqentry_nmi_if_kernel() function available as the
+above cannot be handled in an exception-agnostic way.
+
+NMIs can happen in any context. For example, an NMI-like exception triggered
+while handling an NMI. So NMI entry code has to be reentrant and state updates
+need to handle nesting.