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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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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
+
+==========================
+General Filesystem Caching
+==========================
+
+Overview
+========
+
+This facility is a general purpose cache for network filesystems, though it
+could be used for caching other things such as ISO9660 filesystems too.
+
+FS-Cache mediates between cache backends (such as CacheFiles) and network
+filesystems::
+
+ +---------+
+ | | +--------------+
+ | NFS |--+ | |
+ | | | +-->| CacheFS |
+ +---------+ | +----------+ | | /dev/hda5 |
+ | | | | +--------------+
+ +---------+ +-------------->| | |
+ | | +-------+ | |--+
+ | AFS |----->| | | FS-Cache |
+ | | | netfs |-->| |--+
+ +---------+ +-->| lib | | | |
+ | | | | | | +--------------+
+ +---------+ | +-------+ +----------+ | | |
+ | | | +-->| CacheFiles |
+ | 9P |--+ | /var/cache |
+ | | +--------------+
+ +---------+
+
+Or to look at it another way, FS-Cache is a module that provides a caching
+facility to a network filesystem such that the cache is transparent to the
+user::
+
+ +---------+
+ | |
+ | Server |
+ | |
+ +---------+
+ | NETWORK
+ ~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ |
+ | +----------+
+ V | |
+ +---------+ | |
+ | | | |
+ | NFS |----->| FS-Cache |
+ | | | |--+
+ +---------+ | | | +--------------+ +--------------+
+ | | | | | | | |
+ V +----------+ +-->| CacheFiles |-->| Ext3 |
+ +---------+ | /var/cache | | /dev/sda6 |
+ | | +--------------+ +--------------+
+ | VFS | ^ ^
+ | | | |
+ +---------+ +--------------+ |
+ | KERNEL SPACE | |
+ ~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~|~~~~
+ | USER SPACE | |
+ V | |
+ +---------+ +--------------+
+ | | | |
+ | Process | | cachefilesd |
+ | | | |
+ +---------+ +--------------+
+
+
+FS-Cache does not follow the idea of completely loading every netfs file
+opened in its entirety into a cache before permitting it to be accessed and
+then serving the pages out of that cache rather than the netfs inode because:
+
+ (1) It must be practical to operate without a cache.
+
+ (2) The size of any accessible file must not be limited to the size of the
+ cache.
+
+ (3) The combined size of all opened files (this includes mapped libraries)
+ must not be limited to the size of the cache.
+
+ (4) The user should not be forced to download an entire file just to do a
+ one-off access of a small portion of it (such as might be done with the
+ "file" program).
+
+It instead serves the cache out in chunks as and when requested by the netfs
+using it.
+
+
+FS-Cache provides the following facilities:
+
+ * More than one cache can be used at once. Caches can be selected
+ explicitly by use of tags.
+
+ * Caches can be added / removed at any time, even whilst being accessed.
+
+ * The netfs is provided with an interface that allows either party to
+ withdraw caching facilities from a file (required for (2)).
+
+ * The interface to the netfs returns as few errors as possible, preferring
+ rather to let the netfs remain oblivious.
+
+ * There are three types of cookie: cache, volume and data file cookies.
+ Cache cookies represent the cache as a whole and are not normally visible
+ to the netfs; the netfs gets a volume cookie to represent a collection of
+ files (typically something that a netfs would get for a superblock); and
+ data file cookies are used to cache data (something that would be got for
+ an inode).
+
+ * Volumes are matched using a key. This is a printable string that is used
+ to encode all the information that might be needed to distinguish one
+ superblock, say, from another. This would be a compound of things like
+ cell name or server address, volume name or share path. It must be a
+ valid pathname.
+
+ * Cookies are matched using a key. This is a binary blob and is used to
+ represent the object within a volume (so the volume key need not form
+ part of the blob). This might include things like an inode number and
+ uniquifier or a file handle.
+
+ * Cookie resources are set up and pinned by marking the cookie in-use.
+ This prevents the backing resources from being culled. Timed garbage
+ collection is employed to eliminate cookies that haven't been used for a
+ short while, thereby reducing resource overload. This is intended to be
+ used when a file is opened or closed.
+
+ A cookie can be marked in-use multiple times simultaneously; each mark
+ must be unused.
+
+ * Begin/end access functions are provided to delay cache withdrawal for the
+ duration of an operation and prevent structs from being freed whilst
+ we're looking at them.
+
+ * Data I/O is done by asynchronous DIO to/from a buffer described by the
+ netfs using an iov_iter.
+
+ * An invalidation facility is available to discard data from the cache and
+ to deal with I/O that's in progress that is accessing old data.
+
+ * Cookies can be "retired" upon release, thereby causing the object to be
+ removed from the cache.
+
+
+The netfs API to FS-Cache can be found in:
+
+ Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.rst
+
+The cache backend API to FS-Cache can be found in:
+
+ Documentation/filesystems/caching/backend-api.rst
+
+
+Statistical Information
+=======================
+
+If FS-Cache is compiled with the following options enabled::
+
+ CONFIG_FSCACHE_STATS=y
+
+then it will gather certain statistics and display them through:
+
+ /proc/fs/fscache/stats
+
+This shows counts of a number of events that can happen in FS-Cache:
+
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|CLASS |EVENT |MEANING |
++==============+=======+=======================================================+
+|Cookies |n=N |Number of data storage cookies allocated |
++ +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+| |v=N |Number of volume index cookies allocated |
++ +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+| |vcol=N |Number of volume index key collisions |
++ +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+| |voom=N |Number of OOM events when allocating volume cookies |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|Acquire |n=N |Number of acquire cookie requests seen |
++ +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+| |ok=N |Number of acq reqs succeeded |
++ +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+| |oom=N |Number of acq reqs failed on ENOMEM |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|LRU |n=N |Number of cookies currently on the LRU |
++ +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+| |exp=N |Number of cookies expired off of the LRU |
++ +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+| |rmv=N |Number of cookies removed from the LRU |
++ +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+| |drp=N |Number of LRU'd cookies relinquished/withdrawn |
++ +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+| |at=N |Time till next LRU cull (jiffies) |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|Invals |n=N |Number of invalidations |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|Updates |n=N |Number of update cookie requests seen |
++ +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+| |rsz=N |Number of resize requests |
++ +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+| |rsn=N |Number of skipped resize requests |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|Relinqs |n=N |Number of relinquish cookie requests seen |
++ +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+| |rtr=N |Number of rlq reqs with retire=true |
++ +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+| |drop=N |Number of cookies no longer blocking re-acquisition |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|NoSpace |nwr=N |Number of write requests refused due to lack of space |
++ +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+| |ncr=N |Number of create requests refused due to lack of space |
++ +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+| |cull=N |Number of objects culled to make space |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+|IO |rd=N |Number of read operations in the cache |
++ +-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+| |wr=N |Number of write operations in the cache |
++--------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+
+Netfslib will also add some stats counters of its own.
+
+
+Cache List
+==========
+
+FS-Cache provides a list of cache cookies:
+
+ /proc/fs/fscache/cookies
+
+This will look something like::
+
+ # cat /proc/fs/fscache/caches
+ CACHE REF VOLS OBJS ACCES S NAME
+ ======== ===== ===== ===== ===== = ===============
+ 00000001 2 1 2123 1 A default
+
+where the columns are:
+
+ ======= ===============================================================
+ COLUMN DESCRIPTION
+ ======= ===============================================================
+ CACHE Cache cookie debug ID (also appears in traces)
+ REF Number of references on the cache cookie
+ VOLS Number of volumes cookies in this cache
+ OBJS Number of cache objects in use
+ ACCES Number of accesses pinning the cache
+ S State
+ NAME Name of the cache.
+ ======= ===============================================================
+
+The state can be (-) Inactive, (P)reparing, (A)ctive, (E)rror or (W)ithdrawing.
+
+
+Volume List
+===========
+
+FS-Cache provides a list of volume cookies:
+
+ /proc/fs/fscache/volumes
+
+This will look something like::
+
+ VOLUME REF nCOOK ACC FL CACHE KEY
+ ======== ===== ===== === == =============== ================
+ 00000001 55 54 1 00 default afs,example.com,100058
+
+where the columns are:
+
+ ======= ===============================================================
+ COLUMN DESCRIPTION
+ ======= ===============================================================
+ VOLUME The volume cookie debug ID (also appears in traces)
+ REF Number of references on the volume cookie
+ nCOOK Number of cookies in the volume
+ ACC Number of accesses pinning the cache
+ FL Flags on the volume cookie
+ CACHE Name of the cache or "-"
+ KEY The indexing key for the volume
+ ======= ===============================================================
+
+
+Cookie List
+===========
+
+FS-Cache provides a list of cookies:
+
+ /proc/fs/fscache/cookies
+
+This will look something like::
+
+ # head /proc/fs/fscache/cookies
+ COOKIE VOLUME REF ACT ACC S FL DEF
+ ======== ======== === === === = == ================
+ 00000435 00000001 1 0 -1 - 08 0000000201d080070000000000000000, 0000000000000000
+ 00000436 00000001 1 0 -1 - 00 0000005601d080080000000000000000, 0000000000000051
+ 00000437 00000001 1 0 -1 - 08 00023b3001d0823f0000000000000000, 0000000000000000
+ 00000438 00000001 1 0 -1 - 08 0000005801d0807b0000000000000000, 0000000000000000
+ 00000439 00000001 1 0 -1 - 08 00023b3201d080a10000000000000000, 0000000000000000
+ 0000043a 00000001 1 0 -1 - 08 00023b3401d080a30000000000000000, 0000000000000000
+ 0000043b 00000001 1 0 -1 - 08 00023b3601d080b30000000000000000, 0000000000000000
+ 0000043c 00000001 1 0 -1 - 08 00023b3801d080b40000000000000000, 0000000000000000
+
+where the columns are:
+
+ ======= ===============================================================
+ COLUMN DESCRIPTION
+ ======= ===============================================================
+ COOKIE The cookie debug ID (also appears in traces)
+ VOLUME The parent volume cookie debug ID
+ REF Number of references on the volume cookie
+ ACT Number of times the cookie is marked for in use
+ ACC Number of access pins in the cookie
+ S State of the cookie
+ FL Flags on the cookie
+ DEF Key, auxiliary data
+ ======= ===============================================================
+
+
+Debugging
+=========
+
+If CONFIG_FSCACHE_DEBUG is enabled, the FS-Cache facility can have runtime
+debugging enabled by adjusting the value in::
+
+ /sys/module/fscache/parameters/debug
+
+This is a bitmask of debugging streams to enable:
+
+ ======= ======= =============================== =======================
+ BIT VALUE STREAM POINT
+ ======= ======= =============================== =======================
+ 0 1 Cache management Function entry trace
+ 1 2 Function exit trace
+ 2 4 General
+ 3 8 Cookie management Function entry trace
+ 4 16 Function exit trace
+ 5 32 General
+ 6-8 (Not used)
+ 9 512 I/O operation management Function entry trace
+ 10 1024 Function exit trace
+ 11 2048 General
+ ======= ======= =============================== =======================
+
+The appropriate set of values should be OR'd together and the result written to
+the control file. For example::
+
+ echo $((1|8|512)) >/sys/module/fscache/parameters/debug
+
+will turn on all function entry debugging.