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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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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/display/dcn-overview.rst b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/display/dcn-overview.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9fea65004 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/display/dcn-overview.rst @@ -0,0 +1,230 @@ +======================= +Display Core Next (DCN) +======================= + +To equip our readers with the basic knowledge of how AMD Display Core Next +(DCN) works, we need to start with an overview of the hardware pipeline. Below +you can see a picture that provides a DCN overview, keep in mind that this is a +generic diagram, and we have variations per ASIC. + +.. kernel-figure:: dc_pipeline_overview.svg + +Based on this diagram, we can pass through each block and briefly describe +them: + +* **Display Controller Hub (DCHUB)**: This is the gateway between the Scalable + Data Port (SDP) and DCN. This component has multiple features, such as memory + arbitration, rotation, and cursor manipulation. + +* **Display Pipe and Plane (DPP)**: This block provides pre-blend pixel + processing such as color space conversion, linearization of pixel data, tone + mapping, and gamut mapping. + +* **Multiple Pipe/Plane Combined (MPC)**: This component performs blending of + multiple planes, using global or per-pixel alpha. + +* **Output Pixel Processing (OPP)**: Process and format pixels to be sent to + the display. + +* **Output Pipe Timing Combiner (OPTC)**: It generates time output to combine + streams or divide capabilities. CRC values are generated in this block. + +* **Display Output (DIO)**: Codify the output to the display connected to our + GPU. + +* **Display Writeback (DWB)**: It provides the ability to write the output of + the display pipe back to memory as video frames. + +* **Multi-Media HUB (MMHUBBUB)**: Memory controller interface for DMCUB and DWB + (Note that DWB is not hooked yet). + +* **DCN Management Unit (DMU)**: It provides registers with access control and + interrupts the controller to the SOC host interrupt unit. This block includes + the Display Micro-Controller Unit - version B (DMCUB), which is handled via + firmware. + +* **DCN Clock Generator Block (DCCG)**: It provides the clocks and resets + for all of the display controller clock domains. + +* **Azalia (AZ)**: Audio engine. + +The above diagram is an architecture generalization of DCN, which means that +every ASIC has variations around this base model. Notice that the display +pipeline is connected to the Scalable Data Port (SDP) via DCHUB; you can see +the SDP as the element from our Data Fabric that feeds the display pipe. + +Always approach the DCN architecture as something flexible that can be +configured and reconfigured in multiple ways; in other words, each block can be +setup or ignored accordingly with userspace demands. For example, if we +want to drive an 8k@60Hz with a DSC enabled, our DCN may require 4 DPP and 2 +OPP. It is DC's responsibility to drive the best configuration for each +specific scenario. Orchestrate all of these components together requires a +sophisticated communication interface which is highlighted in the diagram by +the edges that connect each block; from the chart, each connection between +these blocks represents: + +1. Pixel data interface (red): Represents the pixel data flow; +2. Global sync signals (green): It is a set of synchronization signals composed + by VStartup, VUpdate, and VReady; +3. Config interface: Responsible to configure blocks; +4. Sideband signals: All other signals that do not fit the previous one. + +These signals are essential and play an important role in DCN. Nevertheless, +the Global Sync deserves an extra level of detail described in the next +section. + +All of these components are represented by a data structure named dc_state. +From DCHUB to MPC, we have a representation called dc_plane; from MPC to OPTC, +we have dc_stream, and the output (DIO) is handled by dc_link. Keep in mind +that HUBP accesses a surface using a specific format read from memory, and our +dc_plane should work to convert all pixels in the plane to something that can +be sent to the display via dc_stream and dc_link. + +Front End and Back End +---------------------- + +Display pipeline can be broken down into two components that are usually +referred as **Front End (FE)** and **Back End (BE)**, where FE consists of: + +* DCHUB (Mainly referring to a subcomponent named HUBP) +* DPP +* MPC + +On the other hand, BE consist of + +* OPP +* OPTC +* DIO (DP/HDMI stream encoder and link encoder) + +OPP and OPTC are two joining blocks between FE and BE. On a side note, this is +a one-to-one mapping of the link encoder to PHY, but we can configure the DCN +to choose which link encoder to connect to which PHY. FE's main responsibility +is to change, blend and compose pixel data, while BE's job is to frame a +generic pixel stream to a specific display's pixel stream. + +Data Flow +--------- + +Initially, data is passed in from VRAM through Data Fabric (DF) in native pixel +formats. Such data format stays through till HUBP in DCHUB, where HUBP unpacks +different pixel formats and outputs them to DPP in uniform streams through 4 +channels (1 for alpha + 3 for colors). + +The Converter and Cursor (CNVC) in DPP would then normalize the data +representation and convert them to a DCN specific floating-point format (i.e., +different from the IEEE floating-point format). In the process, CNVC also +applies a degamma function to transform the data from non-linear to linear +space to relax the floating-point calculations following. Data would stay in +this floating-point format from DPP to OPP. + +Starting OPP, because color transformation and blending have been completed +(i.e alpha can be dropped), and the end sinks do not require the precision and +dynamic range that floating points provide (i.e. all displays are in integer +depth format), bit-depth reduction/dithering would kick in. In OPP, we would +also apply a regamma function to introduce the gamma removed earlier back. +Eventually, we output data in integer format at DIO. + +AMD Hardware Pipeline +--------------------- + +When discussing graphics on Linux, the **pipeline** term can sometimes be +overloaded with multiple meanings, so it is important to define what we mean +when we say **pipeline**. In the DCN driver, we use the term **hardware +pipeline** or **pipeline** or just **pipe** as an abstraction to indicate a +sequence of DCN blocks instantiated to address some specific configuration. DC +core treats DCN blocks as individual resources, meaning we can build a pipeline +by taking resources for all individual hardware blocks to compose one pipeline. +In actuality, we can't connect an arbitrary block from one pipe to a block from +another pipe; they are routed linearly, except for DSC, which can be +arbitrarily assigned as needed. We have this pipeline concept for trying to +optimize bandwidth utilization. + +.. kernel-figure:: pipeline_4k_no_split.svg + +Additionally, let's take a look at parts of the DTN log (see +'Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/display/dc-debug.rst' for more information) since +this log can help us to see part of this pipeline behavior in real-time:: + + HUBP: format addr_hi width height ... + [ 0]: 8h 81h 3840 2160 + [ 1]: 0h 0h 0 0 + [ 2]: 0h 0h 0 0 + [ 3]: 0h 0h 0 0 + [ 4]: 0h 0h 0 0 + ... + MPCC: OPP DPP ... + [ 0]: 0h 0h ... + +The first thing to notice from the diagram and DTN log it is the fact that we +have different clock domains for each part of the DCN blocks. In this example, +we have just a single **pipeline** where the data flows from DCHUB to DIO, as +we intuitively expect. Nonetheless, DCN is flexible, as mentioned before, and +we can split this single pipe differently, as described in the below diagram: + +.. kernel-figure:: pipeline_4k_split.svg + +Now, if we inspect the DTN log again we can see some interesting changes:: + + HUBP: format addr_hi width height ... + [ 0]: 8h 81h 1920 2160 ... + ... + [ 4]: 0h 0h 0 0 ... + [ 5]: 8h 81h 1920 2160 ... + ... + MPCC: OPP DPP ... + [ 0]: 0h 0h ... + [ 5]: 0h 5h ... + +From the above example, we now split the display pipeline into two vertical +parts of 1920x2160 (i.e., 3440x2160), and as a result, we could reduce the +clock frequency in the DPP part. This is not only useful for saving power but +also to better handle the required throughput. The idea to keep in mind here is +that the pipe configuration can vary a lot according to the display +configuration, and it is the DML's responsibility to set up all required +configuration parameters for multiple scenarios supported by our hardware. + +Global Sync +----------- + +Many DCN registers are double buffered, most importantly the surface address. +This allows us to update DCN hardware atomically for page flips, as well as +for most other updates that don't require enabling or disabling of new pipes. + +(Note: There are many scenarios when DC will decide to reserve extra pipes +in order to support outputs that need a very high pixel clock, or for +power saving purposes.) + +These atomic register updates are driven by global sync signals in DCN. In +order to understand how atomic updates interact with DCN hardware, and how DCN +signals page flip and vblank events it is helpful to understand how global sync +is programmed. + +Global sync consists of three signals, VSTARTUP, VUPDATE, and VREADY. These are +calculated by the Display Mode Library - DML (drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dml) +based on a large number of parameters and ensure our hardware is able to feed +the DCN pipeline without underflows or hangs in any given system configuration. +The global sync signals always happen during VBlank, are independent from the +VSync signal, and do not overlap each other. + +VUPDATE is the only signal that is of interest to the rest of the driver stack +or userspace clients as it signals the point at which hardware latches to +atomically programmed (i.e. double buffered) registers. Even though it is +independent of the VSync signal we use VUPDATE to signal the VSync event as it +provides the best indication of how atomic commits and hardware interact. + +Since DCN hardware is double-buffered the DC driver is able to program the +hardware at any point during the frame. + +The below picture illustrates the global sync signals: + +.. kernel-figure:: global_sync_vblank.svg + +These signals affect core DCN behavior. Programming them incorrectly will lead +to a number of negative consequences, most of them quite catastrophic. + +The following picture shows how global sync allows for a mailbox style of +updates, i.e. it allows for multiple re-configurations between VUpdate +events where only the last configuration programmed before the VUpdate signal +becomes effective. + +.. kernel-figure:: config_example.svg |