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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. 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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
+
+V4L2 events
+-----------
+
+The V4L2 events provide a generic way to pass events to user space.
+The driver must use :c:type:`v4l2_fh` to be able to support V4L2 events.
+
+Events are subscribed per-filehandle. An event specification consists of a
+``type`` and is optionally associated with an object identified through the
+``id`` field. If unused, then the ``id`` is 0. So an event is uniquely
+identified by the ``(type, id)`` tuple.
+
+The :c:type:`v4l2_fh` struct has a list of subscribed events on its
+``subscribed`` field.
+
+When the user subscribes to an event, a :c:type:`v4l2_subscribed_event`
+struct is added to :c:type:`v4l2_fh`\ ``.subscribed``, one for every
+subscribed event.
+
+Each :c:type:`v4l2_subscribed_event` struct ends with a
+:c:type:`v4l2_kevent` ringbuffer, with the size given by the caller
+of :c:func:`v4l2_event_subscribe`. This ringbuffer is used to store any events
+raised by the driver.
+
+So every ``(type, ID)`` event tuple will have its own
+:c:type:`v4l2_kevent` ringbuffer. This guarantees that if a driver is
+generating lots of events of one type in a short time, then that will
+not overwrite events of another type.
+
+But if you get more events of one type than the size of the
+:c:type:`v4l2_kevent` ringbuffer, then the oldest event will be dropped
+and the new one added.
+
+The :c:type:`v4l2_kevent` struct links into the ``available``
+list of the :c:type:`v4l2_fh` struct so :ref:`VIDIOC_DQEVENT` will
+know which event to dequeue first.
+
+Finally, if the event subscription is associated with a particular object
+such as a V4L2 control, then that object needs to know about that as well
+so that an event can be raised by that object. So the ``node`` field can
+be used to link the :c:type:`v4l2_subscribed_event` struct into a list of
+such objects.
+
+So to summarize:
+
+- struct v4l2_fh has two lists: one of the ``subscribed`` events,
+ and one of the ``available`` events.
+
+- struct v4l2_subscribed_event has a ringbuffer of raised
+ (pending) events of that particular type.
+
+- If struct v4l2_subscribed_event is associated with a specific
+ object, then that object will have an internal list of
+ struct v4l2_subscribed_event so it knows who subscribed an
+ event to that object.
+
+Furthermore, the internal struct v4l2_subscribed_event has
+``merge()`` and ``replace()`` callbacks which drivers can set. These
+callbacks are called when a new event is raised and there is no more room.
+
+The ``replace()`` callback allows you to replace the payload of the old event
+with that of the new event, merging any relevant data from the old payload
+into the new payload that replaces it. It is called when this event type has
+a ringbuffer with size is one, i.e. only one event can be stored in the
+ringbuffer.
+
+The ``merge()`` callback allows you to merge the oldest event payload into
+that of the second-oldest event payload. It is called when
+the ringbuffer has size is greater than one.
+
+This way no status information is lost, just the intermediate steps leading
+up to that state.
+
+A good example of these ``replace``/``merge`` callbacks is in v4l2-event.c:
+``ctrls_replace()`` and ``ctrls_merge()`` callbacks for the control event.
+
+.. note::
+ these callbacks can be called from interrupt context, so they must
+ be fast.
+
+In order to queue events to video device, drivers should call:
+
+ :c:func:`v4l2_event_queue <v4l2_event_queue>`
+ (:c:type:`vdev <video_device>`, :c:type:`ev <v4l2_event>`)
+
+The driver's only responsibility is to fill in the type and the data fields.
+The other fields will be filled in by V4L2.
+
+Event subscription
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Subscribing to an event is via:
+
+ :c:func:`v4l2_event_subscribe <v4l2_event_subscribe>`
+ (:c:type:`fh <v4l2_fh>`, :c:type:`sub <v4l2_event_subscription>` ,
+ elems, :c:type:`ops <v4l2_subscribed_event_ops>`)
+
+
+This function is used to implement :c:type:`video_device`->
+:c:type:`ioctl_ops <v4l2_ioctl_ops>`-> ``vidioc_subscribe_event``,
+but the driver must check first if the driver is able to produce events
+with specified event id, and then should call
+:c:func:`v4l2_event_subscribe` to subscribe the event.
+
+The elems argument is the size of the event queue for this event. If it is 0,
+then the framework will fill in a default value (this depends on the event
+type).
+
+The ops argument allows the driver to specify a number of callbacks:
+
+.. tabularcolumns:: |p{1.5cm}|p{16.0cm}|
+
+======== ==============================================================
+Callback Description
+======== ==============================================================
+add called when a new listener gets added (subscribing to the same
+ event twice will only cause this callback to get called once)
+del called when a listener stops listening
+replace replace event 'old' with event 'new'.
+merge merge event 'old' into event 'new'.
+======== ==============================================================
+
+All 4 callbacks are optional, if you don't want to specify any callbacks
+the ops argument itself maybe ``NULL``.
+
+Unsubscribing an event
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Unsubscribing to an event is via:
+
+ :c:func:`v4l2_event_unsubscribe <v4l2_event_unsubscribe>`
+ (:c:type:`fh <v4l2_fh>`, :c:type:`sub <v4l2_event_subscription>`)
+
+This function is used to implement :c:type:`video_device`->
+:c:type:`ioctl_ops <v4l2_ioctl_ops>`-> ``vidioc_unsubscribe_event``.
+A driver may call :c:func:`v4l2_event_unsubscribe` directly unless it
+wants to be involved in unsubscription process.
+
+The special type ``V4L2_EVENT_ALL`` may be used to unsubscribe all events. The
+drivers may want to handle this in a special way.
+
+Check if there's a pending event
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Checking if there's a pending event is via:
+
+ :c:func:`v4l2_event_pending <v4l2_event_pending>`
+ (:c:type:`fh <v4l2_fh>`)
+
+
+This function returns the number of pending events. Useful when implementing
+poll.
+
+How events work
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Events are delivered to user space through the poll system call. The driver
+can use :c:type:`v4l2_fh`->wait (a wait_queue_head_t) as the argument for
+``poll_wait()``.
+
+There are standard and private events. New standard events must use the
+smallest available event type. The drivers must allocate their events from
+their own class starting from class base. Class base is
+``V4L2_EVENT_PRIVATE_START`` + n * 1000 where n is the lowest available number.
+The first event type in the class is reserved for future use, so the first
+available event type is 'class base + 1'.
+
+An example on how the V4L2 events may be used can be found in the OMAP
+3 ISP driver (``drivers/media/platform/ti/omap3isp``).
+
+A subdev can directly send an event to the :c:type:`v4l2_device` notify
+function with ``V4L2_DEVICE_NOTIFY_EVENT``. This allows the bridge to map
+the subdev that sends the event to the video node(s) associated with the
+subdev that need to be informed about such an event.
+
+V4L2 event functions and data structures
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/media/v4l2-event.h
+