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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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+Digital TV Frontend kABI
+------------------------
+
+Digital TV Frontend
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The Digital TV Frontend kABI defines a driver-internal interface for
+registering low-level, hardware specific driver to a hardware independent
+frontend layer. It is only of interest for Digital TV device driver writers.
+The header file for this API is named ``dvb_frontend.h`` and located in
+``include/media/``.
+
+Demodulator driver
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+The demodulator driver is responsible for talking with the decoding part of the
+hardware. Such driver should implement :c:type:`dvb_frontend_ops`, which
+tells what type of digital TV standards are supported, and points to a
+series of functions that allow the DVB core to command the hardware via
+the code under ``include/media/dvb_frontend.c``.
+
+A typical example of such struct in a driver ``foo`` is::
+
+	static struct dvb_frontend_ops foo_ops = {
+		.delsys = { SYS_DVBT, SYS_DVBT2, SYS_DVBC_ANNEX_A },
+		.info = {
+			.name	= "foo DVB-T/T2/C driver",
+			.caps = FE_CAN_FEC_1_2 |
+				FE_CAN_FEC_2_3 |
+				FE_CAN_FEC_3_4 |
+				FE_CAN_FEC_5_6 |
+				FE_CAN_FEC_7_8 |
+				FE_CAN_FEC_AUTO |
+				FE_CAN_QPSK |
+				FE_CAN_QAM_16 |
+				FE_CAN_QAM_32 |
+				FE_CAN_QAM_64 |
+				FE_CAN_QAM_128 |
+				FE_CAN_QAM_256 |
+				FE_CAN_QAM_AUTO |
+				FE_CAN_TRANSMISSION_MODE_AUTO |
+				FE_CAN_GUARD_INTERVAL_AUTO |
+				FE_CAN_HIERARCHY_AUTO |
+				FE_CAN_MUTE_TS |
+				FE_CAN_2G_MODULATION,
+			.frequency_min = 42000000, /* Hz */
+			.frequency_max = 1002000000, /* Hz */
+			.symbol_rate_min = 870000,
+			.symbol_rate_max = 11700000
+		},
+		.init = foo_init,
+		.sleep = foo_sleep,
+		.release = foo_release,
+		.set_frontend = foo_set_frontend,
+		.get_frontend = foo_get_frontend,
+		.read_status = foo_get_status_and_stats,
+		.tune = foo_tune,
+		.i2c_gate_ctrl = foo_i2c_gate_ctrl,
+		.get_frontend_algo = foo_get_algo,
+	};
+
+A typical example of such struct in a driver ``bar`` meant to be used on
+Satellite TV reception is::
+
+	static const struct dvb_frontend_ops bar_ops = {
+		.delsys = { SYS_DVBS, SYS_DVBS2 },
+		.info = {
+			.name		= "Bar DVB-S/S2 demodulator",
+			.frequency_min	= 500000, /* KHz */
+			.frequency_max	= 2500000, /* KHz */
+			.frequency_stepsize	= 0,
+			.symbol_rate_min = 1000000,
+			.symbol_rate_max = 45000000,
+			.symbol_rate_tolerance = 500,
+			.caps = FE_CAN_INVERSION_AUTO |
+				FE_CAN_FEC_AUTO |
+				FE_CAN_QPSK,
+		},
+		.init = bar_init,
+		.sleep = bar_sleep,
+		.release = bar_release,
+		.set_frontend = bar_set_frontend,
+		.get_frontend = bar_get_frontend,
+		.read_status = bar_get_status_and_stats,
+		.i2c_gate_ctrl = bar_i2c_gate_ctrl,
+		.get_frontend_algo = bar_get_algo,
+		.tune = bar_tune,
+
+		/* Satellite-specific */
+		.diseqc_send_master_cmd = bar_send_diseqc_msg,
+		.diseqc_send_burst = bar_send_burst,
+		.set_tone = bar_set_tone,
+		.set_voltage = bar_set_voltage,
+	};
+
+.. note::
+
+   #) For satellite digital TV standards (DVB-S, DVB-S2, ISDB-S), the
+      frequencies are specified in kHz, while, for terrestrial and cable
+      standards, they're specified in Hz. Due to that, if the same frontend
+      supports both types, you'll need to have two separate
+      :c:type:`dvb_frontend_ops` structures, one for each standard.
+   #) The ``.i2c_gate_ctrl`` field is present only when the hardware has
+      allows controlling an I2C gate (either directly of via some GPIO pin),
+      in order to remove the tuner from the I2C bus after a channel is
+      tuned.
+   #) All new drivers should implement the
+      :ref:`DVBv5 statistics <dvbv5_stats>` via ``.read_status``.
+      Yet, there are a number of callbacks meant to get statistics for
+      signal strength, S/N and UCB. Those are there to provide backward
+      compatibility with legacy applications that don't support the DVBv5
+      API. Implementing those callbacks are optional. Those callbacks may be
+      removed in the future, after we have all existing drivers supporting
+      DVBv5 stats.
+   #) Other callbacks are required for satellite TV standards, in order to
+      control LNBf and DiSEqC: ``.diseqc_send_master_cmd``,
+      ``.diseqc_send_burst``, ``.set_tone``, ``.set_voltage``.
+
+.. |delta|   unicode:: U+00394
+
+The ``include/media/dvb_frontend.c`` has a kernel thread which is
+responsible for tuning the device. It supports multiple algorithms to
+detect a channel, as defined at enum :c:func:`dvbfe_algo`.
+
+The algorithm to be used is obtained via ``.get_frontend_algo``. If the driver
+doesn't fill its field at struct dvb_frontend_ops, it will default to
+``DVBFE_ALGO_SW``, meaning that the dvb-core will do a zigzag when tuning,
+e. g. it will try first to use the specified center frequency ``f``,
+then, it will do ``f`` + |delta|, ``f`` - |delta|, ``f`` + 2 x |delta|,
+``f`` - 2 x |delta| and so on.
+
+If the hardware has internally a some sort of zigzag algorithm, you should
+define a ``.get_frontend_algo`` function that would return ``DVBFE_ALGO_HW``.
+
+.. note::
+
+   The core frontend support also supports
+   a third type (``DVBFE_ALGO_CUSTOM``), in order to allow the driver to
+   define its own hardware-assisted algorithm. Very few hardware need to
+   use it nowadays. Using ``DVBFE_ALGO_CUSTOM`` require to provide other
+   function callbacks at struct dvb_frontend_ops.
+
+Attaching frontend driver to the bridge driver
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Before using the Digital TV frontend core, the bridge driver should attach
+the frontend demod, tuner and SEC devices and call
+:c:func:`dvb_register_frontend()`,
+in order to register the new frontend at the subsystem. At device
+detach/removal, the bridge driver should call
+:c:func:`dvb_unregister_frontend()` to
+remove the frontend from the core and then :c:func:`dvb_frontend_detach()`
+to free the memory allocated by the frontend drivers.
+
+The drivers should also call :c:func:`dvb_frontend_suspend()` as part of
+their handler for the :c:type:`device_driver`.\ ``suspend()``, and
+:c:func:`dvb_frontend_resume()` as
+part of their handler for :c:type:`device_driver`.\ ``resume()``.
+
+A few other optional functions are provided to handle some special cases.
+
+.. _dvbv5_stats:
+
+Digital TV Frontend statistics
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Introduction
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Digital TV frontends provide a range of
+:ref:`statistics <frontend-stat-properties>` meant to help tuning the device
+and measuring the quality of service.
+
+For each statistics measurement, the driver should set the type of scale used,
+or ``FE_SCALE_NOT_AVAILABLE`` if the statistics is not available on a given
+time. Drivers should also provide the number of statistics for each type.
+that's usually 1 for most video standards [#f2]_.
+
+Drivers should initialize each statistic counters with length and
+scale at its init code. For example, if the frontend provides signal
+strength, it should have, on its init code::
+
+	struct dtv_frontend_properties *c = &state->fe.dtv_property_cache;
+
+	c->strength.len = 1;
+	c->strength.stat[0].scale = FE_SCALE_NOT_AVAILABLE;
+
+And, when the statistics got updated, set the scale::
+
+	c->strength.stat[0].scale = FE_SCALE_DECIBEL;
+	c->strength.stat[0].uvalue = strength;
+
+.. [#f2] For ISDB-T, it may provide both a global statistics and a per-layer
+   set of statistics. On such cases, len should be equal to 4. The first
+   value corresponds to the global stat; the other ones to each layer, e. g.:
+
+   - c->cnr.stat[0] for global S/N carrier ratio,
+   - c->cnr.stat[1] for Layer A S/N carrier ratio,
+   - c->cnr.stat[2] for layer B S/N carrier ratio,
+   - c->cnr.stat[3] for layer C S/N carrier ratio.
+
+.. note:: Please prefer to use ``FE_SCALE_DECIBEL`` instead of
+   ``FE_SCALE_RELATIVE`` for signal strength and CNR measurements.
+
+Groups of statistics
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+There are several groups of statistics currently supported:
+
+Signal strength (:ref:`DTV-STAT-SIGNAL-STRENGTH`)
+  - Measures the signal strength level at the analog part of the tuner or
+    demod.
+
+  - Typically obtained from the gain applied to the tuner and/or frontend
+    in order to detect the carrier. When no carrier is detected, the gain is
+    at the maximum value (so, strength is on its minimal).
+
+  - As the gain is visible through the set of registers that adjust the gain,
+    typically, this statistics is always available [#f3]_.
+
+  - Drivers should try to make it available all the times, as these statistics
+    can be used when adjusting an antenna position and to check for troubles
+    at the cabling.
+
+  .. [#f3] On a few devices, the gain keeps floating if there is no carrier.
+     On such devices, strength report should check first if carrier is
+     detected at the tuner (``FE_HAS_CARRIER``, see :c:type:`fe_status`),
+     and otherwise return the lowest possible value.
+
+Carrier Signal to Noise ratio (:ref:`DTV-STAT-CNR`)
+  - Signal to Noise ratio for the main carrier.
+
+  - Signal to Noise measurement depends on the device. On some hardware, it is
+    available when the main carrier is detected. On those hardware, CNR
+    measurement usually comes from the tuner (e. g. after ``FE_HAS_CARRIER``,
+    see :c:type:`fe_status`).
+
+    On other devices, it requires inner FEC decoding,
+    as the frontend measures it indirectly from other parameters (e. g. after
+    ``FE_HAS_VITERBI``, see :c:type:`fe_status`).
+
+    Having it available after inner FEC is more common.
+
+Bit counts post-FEC (:ref:`DTV-STAT-POST-ERROR-BIT-COUNT` and :ref:`DTV-STAT-POST-TOTAL-BIT-COUNT`)
+  - Those counters measure the number of bits and bit errors after
+    the forward error correction (FEC) on the inner coding block
+    (after Viterbi, LDPC or other inner code).
+
+  - Due to its nature, those statistics depend on full coding lock
+    (e. g. after ``FE_HAS_SYNC`` or after ``FE_HAS_LOCK``,
+    see :c:type:`fe_status`).
+
+Bit counts pre-FEC (:ref:`DTV-STAT-PRE-ERROR-BIT-COUNT` and :ref:`DTV-STAT-PRE-TOTAL-BIT-COUNT`)
+  - Those counters measure the number of bits and bit errors before
+    the forward error correction (FEC) on the inner coding block
+    (before Viterbi, LDPC or other inner code).
+
+  - Not all frontends provide this kind of statistics.
+
+  - Due to its nature, those statistics depend on inner coding lock (e. g.
+    after ``FE_HAS_VITERBI``, see :c:type:`fe_status`).
+
+Block counts (:ref:`DTV-STAT-ERROR-BLOCK-COUNT` and :ref:`DTV-STAT-TOTAL-BLOCK-COUNT`)
+  - Those counters measure the number of blocks and block errors after
+    the forward error correction (FEC) on the inner coding block
+    (before Viterbi, LDPC or other inner code).
+
+  - Due to its nature, those statistics depend on full coding lock
+    (e. g. after ``FE_HAS_SYNC`` or after
+    ``FE_HAS_LOCK``, see :c:type:`fe_status`).
+
+.. note:: All counters should be monotonically increased as they're
+   collected from the hardware.
+
+A typical example of the logic that handle status and statistics is::
+
+	static int foo_get_status_and_stats(struct dvb_frontend *fe)
+	{
+		struct foo_state *state = fe->demodulator_priv;
+		struct dtv_frontend_properties *c = &fe->dtv_property_cache;
+
+		int rc;
+		enum fe_status *status;
+
+		/* Both status and strength are always available */
+		rc = foo_read_status(fe, &status);
+		if (rc < 0)
+			return rc;
+
+		rc = foo_read_strength(fe);
+		if (rc < 0)
+			return rc;
+
+		/* Check if CNR is available */
+		if (!(fe->status & FE_HAS_CARRIER))
+			return 0;
+
+		rc = foo_read_cnr(fe);
+		if (rc < 0)
+			return rc;
+
+		/* Check if pre-BER stats are available */
+		if (!(fe->status & FE_HAS_VITERBI))
+			return 0;
+
+		rc = foo_get_pre_ber(fe);
+		if (rc < 0)
+			return rc;
+
+		/* Check if post-BER stats are available */
+		if (!(fe->status & FE_HAS_SYNC))
+			return 0;
+
+		rc = foo_get_post_ber(fe);
+		if (rc < 0)
+			return rc;
+	}
+
+	static const struct dvb_frontend_ops ops = {
+		/* ... */
+		.read_status = foo_get_status_and_stats,
+	};
+
+Statistics collection
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+On almost all frontend hardware, the bit and byte counts are stored by
+the hardware after a certain amount of time or after the total bit/block
+counter reaches a certain value (usually programmable), for example, on
+every 1000 ms or after receiving 1,000,000 bits.
+
+So, if you read the registers too soon, you'll end by reading the same
+value as in the previous reading, causing the monotonic value to be
+incremented too often.
+
+Drivers should take the responsibility to avoid too often reads. That
+can be done using two approaches:
+
+if the driver have a bit that indicates when a collected data is ready
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+Driver should check such bit before making the statistics available.
+
+An example of such behavior can be found at this code snippet (adapted
+from mb86a20s driver's logic)::
+
+	static int foo_get_pre_ber(struct dvb_frontend *fe)
+	{
+		struct foo_state *state = fe->demodulator_priv;
+		struct dtv_frontend_properties *c = &fe->dtv_property_cache;
+		int rc, bit_error;
+
+		/* Check if the BER measures are already available */
+		rc = foo_read_u8(state, 0x54);
+		if (rc < 0)
+			return rc;
+
+		if (!rc)
+			return 0;
+
+		/* Read Bit Error Count */
+		bit_error = foo_read_u32(state, 0x55);
+		if (bit_error < 0)
+			return bit_error;
+
+		/* Read Total Bit Count */
+		rc = foo_read_u32(state, 0x51);
+		if (rc < 0)
+			return rc;
+
+		c->pre_bit_error.stat[0].scale = FE_SCALE_COUNTER;
+		c->pre_bit_error.stat[0].uvalue += bit_error;
+		c->pre_bit_count.stat[0].scale = FE_SCALE_COUNTER;
+		c->pre_bit_count.stat[0].uvalue += rc;
+
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+If the driver doesn't provide a statistics available check bit
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+A few devices, however, may not provide a way to check if the stats are
+available (or the way to check it is unknown). They may not even provide
+a way to directly read the total number of bits or blocks.
+
+On those devices, the driver need to ensure that it won't be reading from
+the register too often and/or estimate the total number of bits/blocks.
+
+On such drivers, a typical routine to get statistics would be like
+(adapted from dib8000 driver's logic)::
+
+	struct foo_state {
+		/* ... */
+
+		unsigned long per_jiffies_stats;
+	}
+
+	static int foo_get_pre_ber(struct dvb_frontend *fe)
+	{
+		struct foo_state *state = fe->demodulator_priv;
+		struct dtv_frontend_properties *c = &fe->dtv_property_cache;
+		int rc, bit_error;
+		u64 bits;
+
+		/* Check if time for stats was elapsed */
+		if (!time_after(jiffies, state->per_jiffies_stats))
+			return 0;
+
+		/* Next stat should be collected in 1000 ms */
+		state->per_jiffies_stats = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(1000);
+
+		/* Read Bit Error Count */
+		bit_error = foo_read_u32(state, 0x55);
+		if (bit_error < 0)
+			return bit_error;
+
+		/*
+		 * On this particular frontend, there's no register that
+		 * would provide the number of bits per 1000ms sample. So,
+		 * some function would calculate it based on DTV properties
+		 */
+		bits = get_number_of_bits_per_1000ms(fe);
+
+		c->pre_bit_error.stat[0].scale = FE_SCALE_COUNTER;
+		c->pre_bit_error.stat[0].uvalue += bit_error;
+		c->pre_bit_count.stat[0].scale = FE_SCALE_COUNTER;
+		c->pre_bit_count.stat[0].uvalue += bits;
+
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+Please notice that, on both cases, we're getting the statistics using the
+:c:type:`dvb_frontend_ops` ``.read_status`` callback. The rationale is that
+the frontend core will automatically call this function periodically
+(usually, 3 times per second, when the frontend is locked).
+
+That warrants that we won't miss to collect a counter and increment the
+monotonic stats at the right time.
+
+Digital TV Frontend functions and types
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/media/dvb_frontend.h