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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/input/input.rst b/Documentation/input/input.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2c67fa904 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/input/input.rst @@ -0,0 +1,281 @@ +.. include:: <isonum.txt> + +============ +Introduction +============ + +:Copyright: |copy| 1999-2001 Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@ucw.cz> - Sponsored by SuSE + +Architecture +============ + +Input subsystem is a collection of drivers that is designed to support +all input devices under Linux. Most of the drivers reside in +drivers/input, although quite a few live in drivers/hid and +drivers/platform. + +The core of the input subsystem is the input module, which must be +loaded before any other of the input modules - it serves as a way of +communication between two groups of modules: + +Device drivers +-------------- + +These modules talk to the hardware (for example via USB), and provide +events (keystrokes, mouse movements) to the input module. + +Event handlers +-------------- + +These modules get events from input core and pass them where needed +via various interfaces - keystrokes to the kernel, mouse movements via +a simulated PS/2 interface to GPM and X, and so on. + +Simple Usage +============ + +For the most usual configuration, with one USB mouse and one USB keyboard, +you'll have to load the following modules (or have them built in to the +kernel):: + + input + mousedev + usbcore + uhci_hcd or ohci_hcd or ehci_hcd + usbhid + hid_generic + +After this, the USB keyboard will work straight away, and the USB mouse +will be available as a character device on major 13, minor 63:: + + crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 63 Mar 28 22:45 mice + +This device is usually created automatically by the system. The commands +to create it by hand are:: + + cd /dev + mkdir input + mknod input/mice c 13 63 + +After that you have to point GPM (the textmode mouse cut&paste tool) and +XFree to this device to use it - GPM should be called like:: + + gpm -t ps2 -m /dev/input/mice + +And in X:: + + Section "Pointer" + Protocol "ImPS/2" + Device "/dev/input/mice" + ZAxisMapping 4 5 + EndSection + +When you do all of the above, you can use your USB mouse and keyboard. + +Detailed Description +==================== + +Event handlers +-------------- + +Event handlers distribute the events from the devices to userspace and +in-kernel consumers, as needed. + +evdev +~~~~~ + +``evdev`` is the generic input event interface. It passes the events +generated in the kernel straight to the program, with timestamps. The +event codes are the same on all architectures and are hardware +independent. + +This is the preferred interface for userspace to consume user +input, and all clients are encouraged to use it. + +See :ref:`event-interface` for notes on API. + +The devices are in /dev/input:: + + crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 64 Apr 1 10:49 event0 + crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 65 Apr 1 10:50 event1 + crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 66 Apr 1 10:50 event2 + crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 67 Apr 1 10:50 event3 + ... + +There are two ranges of minors: 64 through 95 is the static legacy +range. If there are more than 32 input devices in a system, additional +evdev nodes are created with minors starting with 256. + +keyboard +~~~~~~~~ + +``keyboard`` is in-kernel input handler and is a part of VT code. It +consumes keyboard keystrokes and handles user input for VT consoles. + +mousedev +~~~~~~~~ + +``mousedev`` is a hack to make legacy programs that use mouse input +work. It takes events from either mice or digitizers/tablets and makes +a PS/2-style (a la /dev/psaux) mouse device available to the +userland. + +Mousedev devices in /dev/input (as shown above) are:: + + crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 32 Mar 28 22:45 mouse0 + crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 33 Mar 29 00:41 mouse1 + crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 34 Mar 29 00:41 mouse2 + crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 35 Apr 1 10:50 mouse3 + ... + ... + crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 62 Apr 1 10:50 mouse30 + crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 63 Apr 1 10:50 mice + +Each ``mouse`` device is assigned to a single mouse or digitizer, except +the last one - ``mice``. This single character device is shared by all +mice and digitizers, and even if none are connected, the device is +present. This is useful for hotplugging USB mice, so that older programs +that do not handle hotplug can open the device even when no mice are +present. + +CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_[XY] in the kernel configuration are +the size of your screen (in pixels) in XFree86. This is needed if you +want to use your digitizer in X, because its movement is sent to X +via a virtual PS/2 mouse and thus needs to be scaled +accordingly. These values won't be used if you use a mouse only. + +Mousedev will generate either PS/2, ImPS/2 (Microsoft IntelliMouse) or +ExplorerPS/2 (IntelliMouse Explorer) protocols, depending on what the +program reading the data wishes. You can set GPM and X to any of +these. You'll need ImPS/2 if you want to make use of a wheel on a USB +mouse and ExplorerPS/2 if you want to use extra (up to 5) buttons. + +joydev +~~~~~~ + +``joydev`` implements v0.x and v1.x Linux joystick API. See +:ref:`joystick-api` for details. + +As soon as any joystick is connected, it can be accessed in /dev/input on:: + + crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 0 Apr 1 10:50 js0 + crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 1 Apr 1 10:50 js1 + crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 2 Apr 1 10:50 js2 + crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 3 Apr 1 10:50 js3 + ... + +And so on up to js31 in legacy range, and additional nodes with minors +above 256 if there are more joystick devices. + +Device drivers +-------------- + +Device drivers are the modules that generate events. + +hid-generic +~~~~~~~~~~~ + +``hid-generic`` is one of the largest and most complex driver of the +whole suite. It handles all HID devices, and because there is a very +wide variety of them, and because the USB HID specification isn't +simple, it needs to be this big. + +Currently, it handles USB mice, joysticks, gamepads, steering wheels, +keyboards, trackballs and digitizers. + +However, USB uses HID also for monitor controls, speaker controls, UPSs, +LCDs and many other purposes. + +The monitor and speaker controls should be easy to add to the hid/input +interface, but for the UPSs and LCDs it doesn't make much sense. For this, +the hiddev interface was designed. See Documentation/hid/hiddev.rst +for more information about it. + +The usage of the usbhid module is very simple, it takes no parameters, +detects everything automatically and when a HID device is inserted, it +detects it appropriately. + +However, because the devices vary wildly, you might happen to have a +device that doesn't work well. In that case #define DEBUG at the beginning +of hid-core.c and send me the syslog traces. + +usbmouse +~~~~~~~~ + +For embedded systems, for mice with broken HID descriptors and just any +other use when the big usbhid wouldn't be a good choice, there is the +usbmouse driver. It handles USB mice only. It uses a simpler HIDBP +protocol. This also means the mice must support this simpler protocol. Not +all do. If you don't have any strong reason to use this module, use usbhid +instead. + +usbkbd +~~~~~~ + +Much like usbmouse, this module talks to keyboards with a simplified +HIDBP protocol. It's smaller, but doesn't support any extra special keys. +Use usbhid instead if there isn't any special reason to use this. + +psmouse +~~~~~~~ + +This is driver for all flavors of pointing devices using PS/2 +protocol, including Synaptics and ALPS touchpads, Intellimouse +Explorer devices, Logitech PS/2 mice and so on. + +atkbd +~~~~~ + +This is driver for PS/2 (AT) keyboards. + +iforce +~~~~~~ + +A driver for I-Force joysticks and wheels, both over USB and RS232. +It includes Force Feedback support now, even though Immersion +Corp. considers the protocol a trade secret and won't disclose a word +about it. + +Verifying if it works +===================== + +Typing a couple keys on the keyboard should be enough to check that +a keyboard works and is correctly connected to the kernel keyboard +driver. + +Doing a ``cat /dev/input/mouse0`` (c, 13, 32) will verify that a mouse +is also emulated; characters should appear if you move it. + +You can test the joystick emulation with the ``jstest`` utility, +available in the joystick package (see :ref:`joystick-doc`). + +You can test the event devices with the ``evtest`` utility. + +.. _event-interface: + +Event interface +=============== + +You can use blocking and nonblocking reads, and also select() on the +/dev/input/eventX devices, and you'll always get a whole number of input +events on a read. Their layout is:: + + struct input_event { + struct timeval time; + unsigned short type; + unsigned short code; + unsigned int value; + }; + +``time`` is the timestamp, it returns the time at which the event happened. +Type is for example EV_REL for relative movement, EV_KEY for a keypress or +release. More types are defined in include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h. + +``code`` is event code, for example REL_X or KEY_BACKSPACE, again a complete +list is in include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h. + +``value`` is the value the event carries. Either a relative change for +EV_REL, absolute new value for EV_ABS (joysticks ...), or 0 for EV_KEY for +release, 1 for keypress and 2 for autorepeat. + +See :ref:`input-event-codes` for more information about various even codes. |