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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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+=====================
+The errseq_t datatype
+=====================
+
+An errseq_t is a way of recording errors in one place, and allowing any
+number of "subscribers" to tell whether it has changed since a previous
+point where it was sampled.
+
+The initial use case for this is tracking errors for file
+synchronization syscalls (fsync, fdatasync, msync and sync_file_range),
+but it may be usable in other situations.
+
+It's implemented as an unsigned 32-bit value. The low order bits are
+designated to hold an error code (between 1 and MAX_ERRNO). The upper bits
+are used as a counter. This is done with atomics instead of locking so that
+these functions can be called from any context.
+
+Note that there is a risk of collisions if new errors are being recorded
+frequently, since we have so few bits to use as a counter.
+
+To mitigate this, the bit between the error value and counter is used as
+a flag to tell whether the value has been sampled since a new value was
+recorded. That allows us to avoid bumping the counter if no one has
+sampled it since the last time an error was recorded.
+
+Thus we end up with a value that looks something like this:
+
++--------------------------------------+----+------------------------+
+| 31..13 | 12 | 11..0 |
++--------------------------------------+----+------------------------+
+| counter | SF | errno |
++--------------------------------------+----+------------------------+
+
+The general idea is for "watchers" to sample an errseq_t value and keep
+it as a running cursor. That value can later be used to tell whether
+any new errors have occurred since that sampling was done, and atomically
+record the state at the time that it was checked. This allows us to
+record errors in one place, and then have a number of "watchers" that
+can tell whether the value has changed since they last checked it.
+
+A new errseq_t should always be zeroed out. An errseq_t value of all zeroes
+is the special (but common) case where there has never been an error. An all
+zero value thus serves as the "epoch" if one wishes to know whether there
+has ever been an error set since it was first initialized.
+
+API usage
+=========
+
+Let me tell you a story about a worker drone. Now, he's a good worker
+overall, but the company is a little...management heavy. He has to
+report to 77 supervisors today, and tomorrow the "big boss" is coming in
+from out of town and he's sure to test the poor fellow too.
+
+They're all handing him work to do -- so much he can't keep track of who
+handed him what, but that's not really a big problem. The supervisors
+just want to know when he's finished all of the work they've handed him so
+far and whether he made any mistakes since they last asked.
+
+He might have made the mistake on work they didn't actually hand him,
+but he can't keep track of things at that level of detail, all he can
+remember is the most recent mistake that he made.
+
+Here's our worker_drone representation::
+
+ struct worker_drone {
+ errseq_t wd_err; /* for recording errors */
+ };
+
+Every day, the worker_drone starts out with a blank slate::
+
+ struct worker_drone wd;
+
+ wd.wd_err = (errseq_t)0;
+
+The supervisors come in and get an initial read for the day. They
+don't care about anything that happened before their watch begins::
+
+ struct supervisor {
+ errseq_t s_wd_err; /* private "cursor" for wd_err */
+ spinlock_t s_wd_err_lock; /* protects s_wd_err */
+ }
+
+ struct supervisor su;
+
+ su.s_wd_err = errseq_sample(&wd.wd_err);
+ spin_lock_init(&su.s_wd_err_lock);
+
+Now they start handing him tasks to do. Every few minutes they ask him to
+finish up all of the work they've handed him so far. Then they ask him
+whether he made any mistakes on any of it::
+
+ spin_lock(&su.su_wd_err_lock);
+ err = errseq_check_and_advance(&wd.wd_err, &su.s_wd_err);
+ spin_unlock(&su.su_wd_err_lock);
+
+Up to this point, that just keeps returning 0.
+
+Now, the owners of this company are quite miserly and have given him
+substandard equipment with which to do his job. Occasionally it
+glitches and he makes a mistake. He sighs a heavy sigh, and marks it
+down::
+
+ errseq_set(&wd.wd_err, -EIO);
+
+...and then gets back to work. The supervisors eventually poll again
+and they each get the error when they next check. Subsequent calls will
+return 0, until another error is recorded, at which point it's reported
+to each of them once.
+
+Note that the supervisors can't tell how many mistakes he made, only
+whether one was made since they last checked, and the latest value
+recorded.
+
+Occasionally the big boss comes in for a spot check and asks the worker
+to do a one-off job for him. He's not really watching the worker
+full-time like the supervisors, but he does need to know whether a
+mistake occurred while his job was processing.
+
+He can just sample the current errseq_t in the worker, and then use that
+to tell whether an error has occurred later::
+
+ errseq_t since = errseq_sample(&wd.wd_err);
+ /* submit some work and wait for it to complete */
+ err = errseq_check(&wd.wd_err, since);
+
+Since he's just going to discard "since" after that point, he doesn't
+need to advance it here. He also doesn't need any locking since it's
+not usable by anyone else.
+
+Serializing errseq_t cursor updates
+===================================
+
+Note that the errseq_t API does not protect the errseq_t cursor during a
+check_and_advance_operation. Only the canonical error code is handled
+atomically. In a situation where more than one task might be using the
+same errseq_t cursor at the same time, it's important to serialize
+updates to that cursor.
+
+If that's not done, then it's possible for the cursor to go backward
+in which case the same error could be reported more than once.
+
+Because of this, it's often advantageous to first do an errseq_check to
+see if anything has changed, and only later do an
+errseq_check_and_advance after taking the lock. e.g.::
+
+ if (errseq_check(&wd.wd_err, READ_ONCE(su.s_wd_err)) {
+ /* su.s_wd_err is protected by s_wd_err_lock */
+ spin_lock(&su.s_wd_err_lock);
+ err = errseq_check_and_advance(&wd.wd_err, &su.s_wd_err);
+ spin_unlock(&su.s_wd_err_lock);
+ }
+
+That avoids the spinlock in the common case where nothing has changed
+since the last time it was checked.
+
+Functions
+=========
+
+.. kernel-doc:: lib/errseq.c