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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/kbuild/kconfig-macro-language.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-macro-language.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6163467f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-macro-language.rst @@ -0,0 +1,247 @@ +====================== +Kconfig macro language +====================== + +Concept +------- + +The basic idea was inspired by Make. When we look at Make, we notice sort of +two languages in one. One language describes dependency graphs consisting of +targets and prerequisites. The other is a macro language for performing textual +substitution. + +There is clear distinction between the two language stages. For example, you +can write a makefile like follows:: + + APP := foo + SRC := foo.c + CC := gcc + + $(APP): $(SRC) + $(CC) -o $(APP) $(SRC) + +The macro language replaces the variable references with their expanded form, +and handles as if the source file were input like follows:: + + foo: foo.c + gcc -o foo foo.c + +Then, Make analyzes the dependency graph and determines the targets to be +updated. + +The idea is quite similar in Kconfig - it is possible to describe a Kconfig +file like this:: + + CC := gcc + + config CC_HAS_FOO + def_bool $(shell, $(srctree)/scripts/gcc-check-foo.sh $(CC)) + +The macro language in Kconfig processes the source file into the following +intermediate:: + + config CC_HAS_FOO + def_bool y + +Then, Kconfig moves onto the evaluation stage to resolve inter-symbol +dependency as explained in kconfig-language.rst. + + +Variables +--------- + +Like in Make, a variable in Kconfig works as a macro variable. A macro +variable is expanded "in place" to yield a text string that may then be +expanded further. To get the value of a variable, enclose the variable name in +$( ). The parentheses are required even for single-letter variable names; $X is +a syntax error. The curly brace form as in ${CC} is not supported either. + +There are two types of variables: simply expanded variables and recursively +expanded variables. + +A simply expanded variable is defined using the := assignment operator. Its +righthand side is expanded immediately upon reading the line from the Kconfig +file. + +A recursively expanded variable is defined using the = assignment operator. +Its righthand side is simply stored as the value of the variable without +expanding it in any way. Instead, the expansion is performed when the variable +is used. + +There is another type of assignment operator; += is used to append text to a +variable. The righthand side of += is expanded immediately if the lefthand +side was originally defined as a simple variable. Otherwise, its evaluation is +deferred. + +The variable reference can take parameters, in the following form:: + + $(name,arg1,arg2,arg3) + +You can consider the parameterized reference as a function. (more precisely, +"user-defined function" in contrast to "built-in function" listed below). + +Useful functions must be expanded when they are used since the same function is +expanded differently if different parameters are passed. Hence, a user-defined +function is defined using the = assignment operator. The parameters are +referenced within the body definition with $(1), $(2), etc. + +In fact, recursively expanded variables and user-defined functions are the same +internally. (In other words, "variable" is "function with zero argument".) +When we say "variable" in a broad sense, it includes "user-defined function". + + +Built-in functions +------------------ + +Like Make, Kconfig provides several built-in functions. Every function takes a +particular number of arguments. + +In Make, every built-in function takes at least one argument. Kconfig allows +zero argument for built-in functions, such as $(filename), $(lineno). You could +consider those as "built-in variable", but it is just a matter of how we call +it after all. Let's say "built-in function" here to refer to natively supported +functionality. + +Kconfig currently supports the following built-in functions. + + - $(shell,command) + + The "shell" function accepts a single argument that is expanded and passed + to a subshell for execution. The standard output of the command is then read + and returned as the value of the function. Every newline in the output is + replaced with a space. Any trailing newlines are deleted. The standard error + is not returned, nor is any program exit status. + + - $(info,text) + + The "info" function takes a single argument and prints it to stdout. + It evaluates to an empty string. + + - $(warning-if,condition,text) + + The "warning-if" function takes two arguments. If the condition part is "y", + the text part is sent to stderr. The text is prefixed with the name of the + current Kconfig file and the current line number. + + - $(error-if,condition,text) + + The "error-if" function is similar to "warning-if", but it terminates the + parsing immediately if the condition part is "y". + + - $(filename) + + The 'filename' takes no argument, and $(filename) is expanded to the file + name being parsed. + + - $(lineno) + + The 'lineno' takes no argument, and $(lineno) is expanded to the line number + being parsed. + + +Make vs Kconfig +--------------- + +Kconfig adopts Make-like macro language, but the function call syntax is +slightly different. + +A function call in Make looks like this:: + + $(func-name arg1,arg2,arg3) + +The function name and the first argument are separated by at least one +whitespace. Then, leading whitespaces are trimmed from the first argument, +while whitespaces in the other arguments are kept. You need to use a kind of +trick to start the first parameter with spaces. For example, if you want +to make "info" function print " hello", you can write like follows:: + + empty := + space := $(empty) $(empty) + $(info $(space)$(space)hello) + +Kconfig uses only commas for delimiters, and keeps all whitespaces in the +function call. Some people prefer putting a space after each comma delimiter:: + + $(func-name, arg1, arg2, arg3) + +In this case, "func-name" will receive " arg1", " arg2", " arg3". The presence +of leading spaces may matter depending on the function. The same applies to +Make - for example, $(subst .c, .o, $(sources)) is a typical mistake; it +replaces ".c" with " .o". + +In Make, a user-defined function is referenced by using a built-in function, +'call', like this:: + + $(call my-func,arg1,arg2,arg3) + +Kconfig invokes user-defined functions and built-in functions in the same way. +The omission of 'call' makes the syntax shorter. + +In Make, some functions treat commas verbatim instead of argument separators. +For example, $(shell echo hello, world) runs the command "echo hello, world". +Likewise, $(info hello, world) prints "hello, world" to stdout. You could say +this is _useful_ inconsistency. + +In Kconfig, for simpler implementation and grammatical consistency, commas that +appear in the $( ) context are always delimiters. It means:: + + $(shell, echo hello, world) + +is an error because it is passing two parameters where the 'shell' function +accepts only one. To pass commas in arguments, you can use the following trick:: + + comma := , + $(shell, echo hello$(comma) world) + + +Caveats +------- + +A variable (or function) cannot be expanded across tokens. So, you cannot use +a variable as a shorthand for an expression that consists of multiple tokens. +The following works:: + + RANGE_MIN := 1 + RANGE_MAX := 3 + + config FOO + int "foo" + range $(RANGE_MIN) $(RANGE_MAX) + +But, the following does not work:: + + RANGES := 1 3 + + config FOO + int "foo" + range $(RANGES) + +A variable cannot be expanded to any keyword in Kconfig. The following does +not work:: + + MY_TYPE := tristate + + config FOO + $(MY_TYPE) "foo" + default y + +Obviously from the design, $(shell command) is expanded in the textual +substitution phase. You cannot pass symbols to the 'shell' function. + +The following does not work as expected:: + + config ENDIAN_FLAG + string + default "-mbig-endian" if CPU_BIG_ENDIAN + default "-mlittle-endian" if CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN + + config CC_HAS_ENDIAN_FLAG + def_bool $(shell $(srctree)/scripts/gcc-check-flag ENDIAN_FLAG) + +Instead, you can do like follows so that any function call is statically +expanded:: + + config CC_HAS_ENDIAN_FLAG + bool + default $(shell $(srctree)/scripts/gcc-check-flag -mbig-endian) if CPU_BIG_ENDIAN + default $(shell $(srctree)/scripts/gcc-check-flag -mlittle-endian) if CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN |