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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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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+.. include:: <isonum.txt>
+
+========================
+CPU Idle Time Management
+========================
+
+:Copyright: |copy| 2019 Intel Corporation
+
+:Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
+
+
+CPU Idle Time Management Subsystem
+==================================
+
+Every time one of the logical CPUs in the system (the entities that appear to
+fetch and execute instructions: hardware threads, if present, or processor
+cores) is idle after an interrupt or equivalent wakeup event, which means that
+there are no tasks to run on it except for the special "idle" task associated
+with it, there is an opportunity to save energy for the processor that it
+belongs to. That can be done by making the idle logical CPU stop fetching
+instructions from memory and putting some of the processor's functional units
+depended on by it into an idle state in which they will draw less power.
+
+However, there may be multiple different idle states that can be used in such a
+situation in principle, so it may be necessary to find the most suitable one
+(from the kernel perspective) and ask the processor to use (or "enter") that
+particular idle state. That is the role of the CPU idle time management
+subsystem in the kernel, called ``CPUIdle``.
+
+The design of ``CPUIdle`` is modular and based on the code duplication avoidance
+principle, so the generic code that in principle need not depend on the hardware
+or platform design details in it is separate from the code that interacts with
+the hardware. It generally is divided into three categories of functional
+units: *governors* responsible for selecting idle states to ask the processor
+to enter, *drivers* that pass the governors' decisions on to the hardware and
+the *core* providing a common framework for them.
+
+
+CPU Idle Time Governors
+=======================
+
+A CPU idle time (``CPUIdle``) governor is a bundle of policy code invoked when
+one of the logical CPUs in the system turns out to be idle. Its role is to
+select an idle state to ask the processor to enter in order to save some energy.
+
+``CPUIdle`` governors are generic and each of them can be used on any hardware
+platform that the Linux kernel can run on. For this reason, data structures
+operated on by them cannot depend on any hardware architecture or platform
+design details as well.
+
+The governor itself is represented by a struct cpuidle_governor object
+containing four callback pointers, :c:member:`enable`, :c:member:`disable`,
+:c:member:`select`, :c:member:`reflect`, a :c:member:`rating` field described
+below, and a name (string) used for identifying it.
+
+For the governor to be available at all, that object needs to be registered
+with the ``CPUIdle`` core by calling :c:func:`cpuidle_register_governor()` with
+a pointer to it passed as the argument. If successful, that causes the core to
+add the governor to the global list of available governors and, if it is the
+only one in the list (that is, the list was empty before) or the value of its
+:c:member:`rating` field is greater than the value of that field for the
+governor currently in use, or the name of the new governor was passed to the
+kernel as the value of the ``cpuidle.governor=`` command line parameter, the new
+governor will be used from that point on (there can be only one ``CPUIdle``
+governor in use at a time). Also, user space can choose the ``CPUIdle``
+governor to use at run time via ``sysfs``.
+
+Once registered, ``CPUIdle`` governors cannot be unregistered, so it is not
+practical to put them into loadable kernel modules.
+
+The interface between ``CPUIdle`` governors and the core consists of four
+callbacks:
+
+:c:member:`enable`
+ ::
+
+ int (*enable) (struct cpuidle_driver *drv, struct cpuidle_device *dev);
+
+ The role of this callback is to prepare the governor for handling the
+ (logical) CPU represented by the struct cpuidle_device object pointed
+ to by the ``dev`` argument. The struct cpuidle_driver object pointed
+ to by the ``drv`` argument represents the ``CPUIdle`` driver to be used
+ with that CPU (among other things, it should contain the list of
+ struct cpuidle_state objects representing idle states that the
+ processor holding the given CPU can be asked to enter).
+
+ It may fail, in which case it is expected to return a negative error
+ code, and that causes the kernel to run the architecture-specific
+ default code for idle CPUs on the CPU in question instead of ``CPUIdle``
+ until the ``->enable()`` governor callback is invoked for that CPU
+ again.
+
+:c:member:`disable`
+ ::
+
+ void (*disable) (struct cpuidle_driver *drv, struct cpuidle_device *dev);
+
+ Called to make the governor stop handling the (logical) CPU represented
+ by the struct cpuidle_device object pointed to by the ``dev``
+ argument.
+
+ It is expected to reverse any changes made by the ``->enable()``
+ callback when it was last invoked for the target CPU, free all memory
+ allocated by that callback and so on.
+
+:c:member:`select`
+ ::
+
+ int (*select) (struct cpuidle_driver *drv, struct cpuidle_device *dev,
+ bool *stop_tick);
+
+ Called to select an idle state for the processor holding the (logical)
+ CPU represented by the struct cpuidle_device object pointed to by the
+ ``dev`` argument.
+
+ The list of idle states to take into consideration is represented by the
+ :c:member:`states` array of struct cpuidle_state objects held by the
+ struct cpuidle_driver object pointed to by the ``drv`` argument (which
+ represents the ``CPUIdle`` driver to be used with the CPU at hand). The
+ value returned by this callback is interpreted as an index into that
+ array (unless it is a negative error code).
+
+ The ``stop_tick`` argument is used to indicate whether or not to stop
+ the scheduler tick before asking the processor to enter the selected
+ idle state. When the ``bool`` variable pointed to by it (which is set
+ to ``true`` before invoking this callback) is cleared to ``false``, the
+ processor will be asked to enter the selected idle state without
+ stopping the scheduler tick on the given CPU (if the tick has been
+ stopped on that CPU already, however, it will not be restarted before
+ asking the processor to enter the idle state).
+
+ This callback is mandatory (i.e. the :c:member:`select` callback pointer
+ in struct cpuidle_governor must not be ``NULL`` for the registration
+ of the governor to succeed).
+
+:c:member:`reflect`
+ ::
+
+ void (*reflect) (struct cpuidle_device *dev, int index);
+
+ Called to allow the governor to evaluate the accuracy of the idle state
+ selection made by the ``->select()`` callback (when it was invoked last
+ time) and possibly use the result of that to improve the accuracy of
+ idle state selections in the future.
+
+In addition, ``CPUIdle`` governors are required to take power management
+quality of service (PM QoS) constraints on the processor wakeup latency into
+account when selecting idle states. In order to obtain the current effective
+PM QoS wakeup latency constraint for a given CPU, a ``CPUIdle`` governor is
+expected to pass the number of the CPU to
+:c:func:`cpuidle_governor_latency_req()`. Then, the governor's ``->select()``
+callback must not return the index of an indle state whose
+:c:member:`exit_latency` value is greater than the number returned by that
+function.
+
+
+CPU Idle Time Management Drivers
+================================
+
+CPU idle time management (``CPUIdle``) drivers provide an interface between the
+other parts of ``CPUIdle`` and the hardware.
+
+First of all, a ``CPUIdle`` driver has to populate the :c:member:`states` array
+of struct cpuidle_state objects included in the struct cpuidle_driver object
+representing it. Going forward this array will represent the list of available
+idle states that the processor hardware can be asked to enter shared by all of
+the logical CPUs handled by the given driver.
+
+The entries in the :c:member:`states` array are expected to be sorted by the
+value of the :c:member:`target_residency` field in struct cpuidle_state in
+the ascending order (that is, index 0 should correspond to the idle state with
+the minimum value of :c:member:`target_residency`). [Since the
+:c:member:`target_residency` value is expected to reflect the "depth" of the
+idle state represented by the struct cpuidle_state object holding it, this
+sorting order should be the same as the ascending sorting order by the idle
+state "depth".]
+
+Three fields in struct cpuidle_state are used by the existing ``CPUIdle``
+governors for computations related to idle state selection:
+
+:c:member:`target_residency`
+ Minimum time to spend in this idle state including the time needed to
+ enter it (which may be substantial) to save more energy than could
+ be saved by staying in a shallower idle state for the same amount of
+ time, in microseconds.
+
+:c:member:`exit_latency`
+ Maximum time it will take a CPU asking the processor to enter this idle
+ state to start executing the first instruction after a wakeup from it,
+ in microseconds.
+
+:c:member:`flags`
+ Flags representing idle state properties. Currently, governors only use
+ the ``CPUIDLE_FLAG_POLLING`` flag which is set if the given object
+ does not represent a real idle state, but an interface to a software
+ "loop" that can be used in order to avoid asking the processor to enter
+ any idle state at all. [There are other flags used by the ``CPUIdle``
+ core in special situations.]
+
+The :c:member:`enter` callback pointer in struct cpuidle_state, which must not
+be ``NULL``, points to the routine to execute in order to ask the processor to
+enter this particular idle state:
+
+::
+
+ void (*enter) (struct cpuidle_device *dev, struct cpuidle_driver *drv,
+ int index);
+
+The first two arguments of it point to the struct cpuidle_device object
+representing the logical CPU running this callback and the
+struct cpuidle_driver object representing the driver itself, respectively,
+and the last one is an index of the struct cpuidle_state entry in the driver's
+:c:member:`states` array representing the idle state to ask the processor to
+enter.
+
+The analogous ``->enter_s2idle()`` callback in struct cpuidle_state is used
+only for implementing the suspend-to-idle system-wide power management feature.
+The difference between in and ``->enter()`` is that it must not re-enable
+interrupts at any point (even temporarily) or attempt to change the states of
+clock event devices, which the ``->enter()`` callback may do sometimes.
+
+Once the :c:member:`states` array has been populated, the number of valid
+entries in it has to be stored in the :c:member:`state_count` field of the
+struct cpuidle_driver object representing the driver. Moreover, if any
+entries in the :c:member:`states` array represent "coupled" idle states (that
+is, idle states that can only be asked for if multiple related logical CPUs are
+idle), the :c:member:`safe_state_index` field in struct cpuidle_driver needs
+to be the index of an idle state that is not "coupled" (that is, one that can be
+asked for if only one logical CPU is idle).
+
+In addition to that, if the given ``CPUIdle`` driver is only going to handle a
+subset of logical CPUs in the system, the :c:member:`cpumask` field in its
+struct cpuidle_driver object must point to the set (mask) of CPUs that will be
+handled by it.
+
+A ``CPUIdle`` driver can only be used after it has been registered. If there
+are no "coupled" idle state entries in the driver's :c:member:`states` array,
+that can be accomplished by passing the driver's struct cpuidle_driver object
+to :c:func:`cpuidle_register_driver()`. Otherwise, :c:func:`cpuidle_register()`
+should be used for this purpose.
+
+However, it also is necessary to register struct cpuidle_device objects for
+all of the logical CPUs to be handled by the given ``CPUIdle`` driver with the
+help of :c:func:`cpuidle_register_device()` after the driver has been registered
+and :c:func:`cpuidle_register_driver()`, unlike :c:func:`cpuidle_register()`,
+does not do that automatically. For this reason, the drivers that use
+:c:func:`cpuidle_register_driver()` to register themselves must also take care
+of registering the struct cpuidle_device objects as needed, so it is generally
+recommended to use :c:func:`cpuidle_register()` for ``CPUIdle`` driver
+registration in all cases.
+
+The registration of a struct cpuidle_device object causes the ``CPUIdle``
+``sysfs`` interface to be created and the governor's ``->enable()`` callback to
+be invoked for the logical CPU represented by it, so it must take place after
+registering the driver that will handle the CPU in question.
+
+``CPUIdle`` drivers and struct cpuidle_device objects can be unregistered
+when they are not necessary any more which allows some resources associated with
+them to be released. Due to dependencies between them, all of the
+struct cpuidle_device objects representing CPUs handled by the given
+``CPUIdle`` driver must be unregistered, with the help of
+:c:func:`cpuidle_unregister_device()`, before calling
+:c:func:`cpuidle_unregister_driver()` to unregister the driver. Alternatively,
+:c:func:`cpuidle_unregister()` can be called to unregister a ``CPUIdle`` driver
+along with all of the struct cpuidle_device objects representing CPUs handled
+by it.
+
+``CPUIdle`` drivers can respond to runtime system configuration changes that
+lead to modifications of the list of available processor idle states (which can
+happen, for example, when the system's power source is switched from AC to
+battery or the other way around). Upon a notification of such a change,
+a ``CPUIdle`` driver is expected to call :c:func:`cpuidle_pause_and_lock()` to
+turn ``CPUIdle`` off temporarily and then :c:func:`cpuidle_disable_device()` for
+all of the struct cpuidle_device objects representing CPUs affected by that
+change. Next, it can update its :c:member:`states` array in accordance with
+the new configuration of the system, call :c:func:`cpuidle_enable_device()` for
+all of the relevant struct cpuidle_device objects and invoke
+:c:func:`cpuidle_resume_and_unlock()` to allow ``CPUIdle`` to be used again.