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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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+===================================
+Light-weight System Calls for IA-64
+===================================
+
+ Started: 13-Jan-2003
+
+ Last update: 27-Sep-2003
+
+ David Mosberger-Tang
+ <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
+
+Using the "epc" instruction effectively introduces a new mode of
+execution to the ia64 linux kernel. We call this mode the
+"fsys-mode". To recap, the normal states of execution are:
+
+ - kernel mode:
+ Both the register stack and the memory stack have been
+ switched over to kernel memory. The user-level state is saved
+ in a pt-regs structure at the top of the kernel memory stack.
+
+ - user mode:
+ Both the register stack and the kernel stack are in
+ user memory. The user-level state is contained in the
+ CPU registers.
+
+ - bank 0 interruption-handling mode:
+ This is the non-interruptible state which all
+ interruption-handlers start execution in. The user-level
+ state remains in the CPU registers and some kernel state may
+ be stored in bank 0 of registers r16-r31.
+
+In contrast, fsys-mode has the following special properties:
+
+ - execution is at privilege level 0 (most-privileged)
+
+ - CPU registers may contain a mixture of user-level and kernel-level
+ state (it is the responsibility of the kernel to ensure that no
+ security-sensitive kernel-level state is leaked back to
+ user-level)
+
+ - execution is interruptible and preemptible (an fsys-mode handler
+ can disable interrupts and avoid all other interruption-sources
+ to avoid preemption)
+
+ - neither the memory-stack nor the register-stack can be trusted while
+ in fsys-mode (they point to the user-level stacks, which may
+ be invalid, or completely bogus addresses)
+
+In summary, fsys-mode is much more similar to running in user-mode
+than it is to running in kernel-mode. Of course, given that the
+privilege level is at level 0, this means that fsys-mode requires some
+care (see below).
+
+
+How to tell fsys-mode
+=====================
+
+Linux operates in fsys-mode when (a) the privilege level is 0 (most
+privileged) and (b) the stacks have NOT been switched to kernel memory
+yet. For convenience, the header file <asm-ia64/ptrace.h> provides
+three macros::
+
+ user_mode(regs)
+ user_stack(task,regs)
+ fsys_mode(task,regs)
+
+The "regs" argument is a pointer to a pt_regs structure. The "task"
+argument is a pointer to the task structure to which the "regs"
+pointer belongs to. user_mode() returns TRUE if the CPU state pointed
+to by "regs" was executing in user mode (privilege level 3).
+user_stack() returns TRUE if the state pointed to by "regs" was
+executing on the user-level stack(s). Finally, fsys_mode() returns
+TRUE if the CPU state pointed to by "regs" was executing in fsys-mode.
+The fsys_mode() macro is equivalent to the expression::
+
+ !user_mode(regs) && user_stack(task,regs)
+
+How to write an fsyscall handler
+================================
+
+The file arch/ia64/kernel/fsys.S contains a table of fsyscall-handlers
+(fsyscall_table). This table contains one entry for each system call.
+By default, a system call is handled by fsys_fallback_syscall(). This
+routine takes care of entering (full) kernel mode and calling the
+normal Linux system call handler. For performance-critical system
+calls, it is possible to write a hand-tuned fsyscall_handler. For
+example, fsys.S contains fsys_getpid(), which is a hand-tuned version
+of the getpid() system call.
+
+The entry and exit-state of an fsyscall handler is as follows:
+
+Machine state on entry to fsyscall handler
+------------------------------------------
+
+ ========= ===============================================================
+ r10 0
+ r11 saved ar.pfs (a user-level value)
+ r15 system call number
+ r16 "current" task pointer (in normal kernel-mode, this is in r13)
+ r32-r39 system call arguments
+ b6 return address (a user-level value)
+ ar.pfs previous frame-state (a user-level value)
+ PSR.be cleared to zero (i.e., little-endian byte order is in effect)
+ - all other registers may contain values passed in from user-mode
+ ========= ===============================================================
+
+Required machine state on exit to fsyscall handler
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+ ========= ===========================================================
+ r11 saved ar.pfs (as passed into the fsyscall handler)
+ r15 system call number (as passed into the fsyscall handler)
+ r32-r39 system call arguments (as passed into the fsyscall handler)
+ b6 return address (as passed into the fsyscall handler)
+ ar.pfs previous frame-state (as passed into the fsyscall handler)
+ ========= ===========================================================
+
+Fsyscall handlers can execute with very little overhead, but with that
+speed comes a set of restrictions:
+
+ * Fsyscall-handlers MUST check for any pending work in the flags
+ member of the thread-info structure and if any of the
+ TIF_ALLWORK_MASK flags are set, the handler needs to fall back on
+ doing a full system call (by calling fsys_fallback_syscall).
+
+ * Fsyscall-handlers MUST preserve incoming arguments (r32-r39, r11,
+ r15, b6, and ar.pfs) because they will be needed in case of a
+ system call restart. Of course, all "preserved" registers also
+ must be preserved, in accordance to the normal calling conventions.
+
+ * Fsyscall-handlers MUST check argument registers for containing a
+ NaT value before using them in any way that could trigger a
+ NaT-consumption fault. If a system call argument is found to
+ contain a NaT value, an fsyscall-handler may return immediately
+ with r8=EINVAL, r10=-1.
+
+ * Fsyscall-handlers MUST NOT use the "alloc" instruction or perform
+ any other operation that would trigger mandatory RSE
+ (register-stack engine) traffic.
+
+ * Fsyscall-handlers MUST NOT write to any stacked registers because
+ it is not safe to assume that user-level called a handler with the
+ proper number of arguments.
+
+ * Fsyscall-handlers need to be careful when accessing per-CPU variables:
+ unless proper safe-guards are taken (e.g., interruptions are avoided),
+ execution may be pre-empted and resumed on another CPU at any given
+ time.
+
+ * Fsyscall-handlers must be careful not to leak sensitive kernel'
+ information back to user-level. In particular, before returning to
+ user-level, care needs to be taken to clear any scratch registers
+ that could contain sensitive information (note that the current
+ task pointer is not considered sensitive: it's already exposed
+ through ar.k6).
+
+ * Fsyscall-handlers MUST NOT access user-memory without first
+ validating access-permission (this can be done typically via
+ probe.r.fault and/or probe.w.fault) and without guarding against
+ memory access exceptions (this can be done with the EX() macros
+ defined by asmmacro.h).
+
+The above restrictions may seem draconian, but remember that it's
+possible to trade off some of the restrictions by paying a slightly
+higher overhead. For example, if an fsyscall-handler could benefit
+from the shadow register bank, it could temporarily disable PSR.i and
+PSR.ic, switch to bank 0 (bsw.0) and then use the shadow registers as
+needed. In other words, following the above rules yields extremely
+fast system call execution (while fully preserving system call
+semantics), but there is also a lot of flexibility in handling more
+complicated cases.
+
+Signal handling
+===============
+
+The delivery of (asynchronous) signals must be delayed until fsys-mode
+is exited. This is accomplished with the help of the lower-privilege
+transfer trap: arch/ia64/kernel/process.c:do_notify_resume_user()
+checks whether the interrupted task was in fsys-mode and, if so, sets
+PSR.lp and returns immediately. When fsys-mode is exited via the
+"br.ret" instruction that lowers the privilege level, a trap will
+occur. The trap handler clears PSR.lp again and returns immediately.
+The kernel exit path then checks for and delivers any pending signals.
+
+PSR Handling
+============
+
+The "epc" instruction doesn't change the contents of PSR at all. This
+is in contrast to a regular interruption, which clears almost all
+bits. Because of that, some care needs to be taken to ensure things
+work as expected. The following discussion describes how each PSR bit
+is handled.
+
+======= =======================================================================
+PSR.be Cleared when entering fsys-mode. A srlz.d instruction is used
+ to ensure the CPU is in little-endian mode before the first
+ load/store instruction is executed. PSR.be is normally NOT
+ restored upon return from an fsys-mode handler. In other
+ words, user-level code must not rely on PSR.be being preserved
+ across a system call.
+PSR.up Unchanged.
+PSR.ac Unchanged.
+PSR.mfl Unchanged. Note: fsys-mode handlers must not write-registers!
+PSR.mfh Unchanged. Note: fsys-mode handlers must not write-registers!
+PSR.ic Unchanged. Note: fsys-mode handlers can clear the bit, if needed.
+PSR.i Unchanged. Note: fsys-mode handlers can clear the bit, if needed.
+PSR.pk Unchanged.
+PSR.dt Unchanged.
+PSR.dfl Unchanged. Note: fsys-mode handlers must not write-registers!
+PSR.dfh Unchanged. Note: fsys-mode handlers must not write-registers!
+PSR.sp Unchanged.
+PSR.pp Unchanged.
+PSR.di Unchanged.
+PSR.si Unchanged.
+PSR.db Unchanged. The kernel prevents user-level from setting a hardware
+ breakpoint that triggers at any privilege level other than
+ 3 (user-mode).
+PSR.lp Unchanged.
+PSR.tb Lazy redirect. If a taken-branch trap occurs while in
+ fsys-mode, the trap-handler modifies the saved machine state
+ such that execution resumes in the gate page at
+ syscall_via_break(), with privilege level 3. Note: the
+ taken branch would occur on the branch invoking the
+ fsyscall-handler, at which point, by definition, a syscall
+ restart is still safe. If the system call number is invalid,
+ the fsys-mode handler will return directly to user-level. This
+ return will trigger a taken-branch trap, but since the trap is
+ taken _after_ restoring the privilege level, the CPU has already
+ left fsys-mode, so no special treatment is needed.
+PSR.rt Unchanged.
+PSR.cpl Cleared to 0.
+PSR.is Unchanged (guaranteed to be 0 on entry to the gate page).
+PSR.mc Unchanged.
+PSR.it Unchanged (guaranteed to be 1).
+PSR.id Unchanged. Note: the ia64 linux kernel never sets this bit.
+PSR.da Unchanged. Note: the ia64 linux kernel never sets this bit.
+PSR.dd Unchanged. Note: the ia64 linux kernel never sets this bit.
+PSR.ss Lazy redirect. If set, "epc" will cause a Single Step Trap to
+ be taken. The trap handler then modifies the saved machine
+ state such that execution resumes in the gate page at
+ syscall_via_break(), with privilege level 3.
+PSR.ri Unchanged.
+PSR.ed Unchanged. Note: This bit could only have an effect if an fsys-mode
+ handler performed a speculative load that gets NaTted. If so, this
+ would be the normal & expected behavior, so no special treatment is
+ needed.
+PSR.bn Unchanged. Note: fsys-mode handlers may clear the bit, if needed.
+ Doing so requires clearing PSR.i and PSR.ic as well.
+PSR.ia Unchanged. Note: the ia64 linux kernel never sets this bit.
+======= =======================================================================
+
+Using fast system calls
+=======================
+
+To use fast system calls, userspace applications need simply call
+__kernel_syscall_via_epc(). For example
+
+-- example fgettimeofday() call --
+
+-- fgettimeofday.S --
+
+::
+
+ #include <asm/asmmacro.h>
+
+ GLOBAL_ENTRY(fgettimeofday)
+ .prologue
+ .save ar.pfs, r11
+ mov r11 = ar.pfs
+ .body
+
+ mov r2 = 0xa000000000020660;; // gate address
+ // found by inspection of System.map for the
+ // __kernel_syscall_via_epc() function. See
+ // below for how to do this for real.
+
+ mov b7 = r2
+ mov r15 = 1087 // gettimeofday syscall
+ ;;
+ br.call.sptk.many b6 = b7
+ ;;
+
+ .restore sp
+
+ mov ar.pfs = r11
+ br.ret.sptk.many rp;; // return to caller
+ END(fgettimeofday)
+
+-- end fgettimeofday.S --
+
+In reality, getting the gate address is accomplished by two extra
+values passed via the ELF auxiliary vector (include/asm-ia64/elf.h)
+
+ * AT_SYSINFO : is the address of __kernel_syscall_via_epc()
+ * AT_SYSINFO_EHDR : is the address of the kernel gate ELF DSO
+
+The ELF DSO is a pre-linked library that is mapped in by the kernel at
+the gate page. It is a proper ELF shared object so, with a dynamic
+loader that recognises the library, you should be able to make calls to
+the exported functions within it as with any other shared library.
+AT_SYSINFO points into the kernel DSO at the
+__kernel_syscall_via_epc() function for historical reasons (it was
+used before the kernel DSO) and as a convenience.