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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/i2c/instantiating-devices.rst b/Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3ea056a95 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices.rst @@ -0,0 +1,272 @@ +============================== +How to instantiate I2C devices +============================== + +Unlike PCI or USB devices, I2C devices are not enumerated at the hardware +level. Instead, the software must know which devices are connected on each +I2C bus segment, and what address these devices are using. For this +reason, the kernel code must instantiate I2C devices explicitly. There are +several ways to achieve this, depending on the context and requirements. + + +Method 1: Declare the I2C devices statically +-------------------------------------------- + +This method is appropriate when the I2C bus is a system bus as is the case +for many embedded systems. On such systems, each I2C bus has a number which +is known in advance. It is thus possible to pre-declare the I2C devices +which live on this bus. + +This information is provided to the kernel in a different way on different +architectures: device tree, ACPI or board files. + +When the I2C bus in question is registered, the I2C devices will be +instantiated automatically by i2c-core. The devices will be automatically +unbound and destroyed when the I2C bus they sit on goes away (if ever). + + +Declare the I2C devices via devicetree +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +On platforms using devicetree, the declaration of I2C devices is done in +subnodes of the master controller. + +Example: + +.. code-block:: dts + + i2c1: i2c@400a0000 { + /* ... master properties skipped ... */ + clock-frequency = <100000>; + + flash@50 { + compatible = "atmel,24c256"; + reg = <0x50>; + }; + + pca9532: gpio@60 { + compatible = "nxp,pca9532"; + gpio-controller; + #gpio-cells = <2>; + reg = <0x60>; + }; + }; + +Here, two devices are attached to the bus using a speed of 100kHz. For +additional properties which might be needed to set up the device, please refer +to its devicetree documentation in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/. + + +Declare the I2C devices via ACPI +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +ACPI can also describe I2C devices. There is special documentation for this +which is currently located at Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/enumeration.rst. + + +Declare the I2C devices in board files +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +In many embedded architectures, devicetree has replaced the old hardware +description based on board files, but the latter are still used in old +code. Instantiating I2C devices via board files is done with an array of +struct i2c_board_info which is registered by calling +i2c_register_board_info(). + +Example (from omap2 h4): + +.. code-block:: c + + static struct i2c_board_info h4_i2c_board_info[] __initdata = { + { + I2C_BOARD_INFO("isp1301_omap", 0x2d), + .irq = OMAP_GPIO_IRQ(125), + }, + { /* EEPROM on mainboard */ + I2C_BOARD_INFO("24c01", 0x52), + .platform_data = &m24c01, + }, + { /* EEPROM on cpu card */ + I2C_BOARD_INFO("24c01", 0x57), + .platform_data = &m24c01, + }, + }; + + static void __init omap_h4_init(void) + { + (...) + i2c_register_board_info(1, h4_i2c_board_info, + ARRAY_SIZE(h4_i2c_board_info)); + (...) + } + +The above code declares 3 devices on I2C bus 1, including their respective +addresses and custom data needed by their drivers. + + +Method 2: Instantiate the devices explicitly +-------------------------------------------- + +This method is appropriate when a larger device uses an I2C bus for +internal communication. A typical case is TV adapters. These can have a +tuner, a video decoder, an audio decoder, etc. usually connected to the +main chip by the means of an I2C bus. You won't know the number of the I2C +bus in advance, so the method 1 described above can't be used. Instead, +you can instantiate your I2C devices explicitly. This is done by filling +a struct i2c_board_info and calling i2c_new_client_device(). + +Example (from the sfe4001 network driver): + +.. code-block:: c + + static struct i2c_board_info sfe4001_hwmon_info = { + I2C_BOARD_INFO("max6647", 0x4e), + }; + + int sfe4001_init(struct efx_nic *efx) + { + (...) + efx->board_info.hwmon_client = + i2c_new_client_device(&efx->i2c_adap, &sfe4001_hwmon_info); + + (...) + } + +The above code instantiates 1 I2C device on the I2C bus which is on the +network adapter in question. + +A variant of this is when you don't know for sure if an I2C device is +present or not (for example for an optional feature which is not present +on cheap variants of a board but you have no way to tell them apart), or +it may have different addresses from one board to the next (manufacturer +changing its design without notice). In this case, you can call +i2c_new_scanned_device() instead of i2c_new_client_device(). + +Example (from the nxp OHCI driver): + +.. code-block:: c + + static const unsigned short normal_i2c[] = { 0x2c, 0x2d, I2C_CLIENT_END }; + + static int usb_hcd_nxp_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) + { + (...) + struct i2c_adapter *i2c_adap; + struct i2c_board_info i2c_info; + + (...) + i2c_adap = i2c_get_adapter(2); + memset(&i2c_info, 0, sizeof(struct i2c_board_info)); + strscpy(i2c_info.type, "isp1301_nxp", sizeof(i2c_info.type)); + isp1301_i2c_client = i2c_new_scanned_device(i2c_adap, &i2c_info, + normal_i2c, NULL); + i2c_put_adapter(i2c_adap); + (...) + } + +The above code instantiates up to 1 I2C device on the I2C bus which is on +the OHCI adapter in question. It first tries at address 0x2c, if nothing +is found there it tries address 0x2d, and if still nothing is found, it +simply gives up. + +The driver which instantiated the I2C device is responsible for destroying +it on cleanup. This is done by calling i2c_unregister_device() on the +pointer that was earlier returned by i2c_new_client_device() or +i2c_new_scanned_device(). + + +Method 3: Probe an I2C bus for certain devices +---------------------------------------------- + +Sometimes you do not have enough information about an I2C device, not even +to call i2c_new_scanned_device(). The typical case is hardware monitoring +chips on PC mainboards. There are several dozen models, which can live +at 25 different addresses. Given the huge number of mainboards out there, +it is next to impossible to build an exhaustive list of the hardware +monitoring chips being used. Fortunately, most of these chips have +manufacturer and device ID registers, so they can be identified by +probing. + +In that case, I2C devices are neither declared nor instantiated +explicitly. Instead, i2c-core will probe for such devices as soon as their +drivers are loaded, and if any is found, an I2C device will be +instantiated automatically. In order to prevent any misbehavior of this +mechanism, the following restrictions apply: + +* The I2C device driver must implement the detect() method, which + identifies a supported device by reading from arbitrary registers. +* Only buses which are likely to have a supported device and agree to be + probed, will be probed. For example this avoids probing for hardware + monitoring chips on a TV adapter. + +Example: +See lm90_driver and lm90_detect() in drivers/hwmon/lm90.c + +I2C devices instantiated as a result of such a successful probe will be +destroyed automatically when the driver which detected them is removed, +or when the underlying I2C bus is itself destroyed, whichever happens +first. + +Those of you familiar with the I2C subsystem of 2.4 kernels and early 2.6 +kernels will find out that this method 3 is essentially similar to what +was done there. Two significant differences are: + +* Probing is only one way to instantiate I2C devices now, while it was the + only way back then. Where possible, methods 1 and 2 should be preferred. + Method 3 should only be used when there is no other way, as it can have + undesirable side effects. +* I2C buses must now explicitly say which I2C driver classes can probe + them (by the means of the class bitfield), while all I2C buses were + probed by default back then. The default is an empty class which means + that no probing happens. The purpose of the class bitfield is to limit + the aforementioned undesirable side effects. + +Once again, method 3 should be avoided wherever possible. Explicit device +instantiation (methods 1 and 2) is much preferred for it is safer and +faster. + + +Method 4: Instantiate from user-space +------------------------------------- + +In general, the kernel should know which I2C devices are connected and +what addresses they live at. However, in certain cases, it does not, so a +sysfs interface was added to let the user provide the information. This +interface is made of 2 attribute files which are created in every I2C bus +directory: ``new_device`` and ``delete_device``. Both files are write +only and you must write the right parameters to them in order to properly +instantiate, respectively delete, an I2C device. + +File ``new_device`` takes 2 parameters: the name of the I2C device (a +string) and the address of the I2C device (a number, typically expressed +in hexadecimal starting with 0x, but can also be expressed in decimal.) + +File ``delete_device`` takes a single parameter: the address of the I2C +device. As no two devices can live at the same address on a given I2C +segment, the address is sufficient to uniquely identify the device to be +deleted. + +Example:: + + # echo eeprom 0x50 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-3/new_device + +While this interface should only be used when in-kernel device declaration +can't be done, there is a variety of cases where it can be helpful: + +* The I2C driver usually detects devices (method 3 above) but the bus + segment your device lives on doesn't have the proper class bit set and + thus detection doesn't trigger. +* The I2C driver usually detects devices, but your device lives at an + unexpected address. +* The I2C driver usually detects devices, but your device is not detected, + either because the detection routine is too strict, or because your + device is not officially supported yet but you know it is compatible. +* You are developing a driver on a test board, where you soldered the I2C + device yourself. + +This interface is a replacement for the force_* module parameters some I2C +drivers implement. Being implemented in i2c-core rather than in each +device driver individually, it is much more efficient, and also has the +advantage that you do not have to reload the driver to change a setting. +You can also instantiate the device before the driver is loaded or even +available, and you don't need to know what driver the device needs. |