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authorLibravatar Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-21 18:24:12 -0800
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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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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+===
+MHI
+===
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ mhi
+ topology
+
+.. only:: subproject and html
+
+ Indices
+ =======
+
+ * :ref:`genindex`
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+==========================
+MHI (Modem Host Interface)
+==========================
+
+This document provides information about the MHI protocol.
+
+Overview
+========
+
+MHI is a protocol developed by Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. It is used
+by the host processors to control and communicate with modem devices over high
+speed peripheral buses or shared memory. Even though MHI can be easily adapted
+to any peripheral buses, it is primarily used with PCIe based devices. MHI
+provides logical channels over the physical buses and allows transporting the
+modem protocols, such as IP data packets, modem control messages, and
+diagnostics over at least one of those logical channels. Also, the MHI
+protocol provides data acknowledgment feature and manages the power state of the
+modems via one or more logical channels.
+
+MHI Internals
+=============
+
+MMIO
+----
+
+MMIO (Memory mapped IO) consists of a set of registers in the device hardware,
+which are mapped to the host memory space by the peripheral buses like PCIe.
+Following are the major components of MMIO register space:
+
+MHI control registers: Access to MHI configurations registers
+
+MHI BHI registers: BHI (Boot Host Interface) registers are used by the host
+for downloading the firmware to the device before MHI initialization.
+
+Channel Doorbell array: Channel Doorbell (DB) registers used by the host to
+notify the device when there is new work to do.
+
+Event Doorbell array: Associated with event context array, the Event Doorbell
+(DB) registers are used by the host to notify the device when new events are
+available.
+
+Debug registers: A set of registers and counters used by the device to expose
+debugging information like performance, functional, and stability to the host.
+
+Data structures
+---------------
+
+All data structures used by MHI are in the host system memory. Using the
+physical interface, the device accesses those data structures. MHI data
+structures and data buffers in the host system memory regions are mapped for
+the device.
+
+Channel context array: All channel configurations are organized in channel
+context data array.
+
+Transfer rings: Used by the host to schedule work items for a channel. The
+transfer rings are organized as a circular queue of Transfer Descriptors (TD).
+
+Event context array: All event configurations are organized in the event context
+data array.
+
+Event rings: Used by the device to send completion and state transition messages
+to the host
+
+Command context array: All command configurations are organized in command
+context data array.
+
+Command rings: Used by the host to send MHI commands to the device. The command
+rings are organized as a circular queue of Command Descriptors (CD).
+
+Channels
+--------
+
+MHI channels are logical, unidirectional data pipes between a host and a device.
+The concept of channels in MHI is similar to endpoints in USB. MHI supports up
+to 256 channels. However, specific device implementations may support less than
+the maximum number of channels allowed.
+
+Two unidirectional channels with their associated transfer rings form a
+bidirectional data pipe, which can be used by the upper-layer protocols to
+transport application data packets (such as IP packets, modem control messages,
+diagnostics messages, and so on). Each channel is associated with a single
+transfer ring.
+
+Transfer rings
+--------------
+
+Transfers between the host and device are organized by channels and defined by
+Transfer Descriptors (TD). TDs are managed through transfer rings, which are
+defined for each channel between the device and host and reside in the host
+memory. TDs consist of one or more ring elements (or transfer blocks)::
+
+ [Read Pointer (RP)] ----------->[Ring Element] } TD
+ [Write Pointer (WP)]- [Ring Element]
+ - [Ring Element]
+ --------->[Ring Element]
+ [Ring Element]
+
+Below is the basic usage of transfer rings:
+
+* Host allocates memory for transfer ring.
+* Host sets the base pointer, read pointer, and write pointer in corresponding
+ channel context.
+* Ring is considered empty when RP == WP.
+* Ring is considered full when WP + 1 == RP.
+* RP indicates the next element to be serviced by the device.
+* When the host has a new buffer to send, it updates the ring element with
+ buffer information, increments the WP to the next element and rings the
+ associated channel DB.
+
+Event rings
+-----------
+
+Events from the device to host are organized in event rings and defined by Event
+Descriptors (ED). Event rings are used by the device to report events such as
+data transfer completion status, command completion status, and state changes
+to the host. Event rings are the array of EDs that resides in the host
+memory. EDs consist of one or more ring elements (or transfer blocks)::
+
+ [Read Pointer (RP)] ----------->[Ring Element] } ED
+ [Write Pointer (WP)]- [Ring Element]
+ - [Ring Element]
+ --------->[Ring Element]
+ [Ring Element]
+
+Below is the basic usage of event rings:
+
+* Host allocates memory for event ring.
+* Host sets the base pointer, read pointer, and write pointer in corresponding
+ channel context.
+* Both host and device has a local copy of RP, WP.
+* Ring is considered empty (no events to service) when WP + 1 == RP.
+* Ring is considered full of events when RP == WP.
+* When there is a new event the device needs to send, the device updates ED
+ pointed by RP, increments the RP to the next element and triggers the
+ interrupt.
+
+Ring Element
+------------
+
+A Ring Element is a data structure used to transfer a single block
+of data between the host and the device. Transfer ring element types contain a
+single buffer pointer, the size of the buffer, and additional control
+information. Other ring element types may only contain control and status
+information. For single buffer operations, a ring descriptor is composed of a
+single element. For large multi-buffer operations (such as scatter and gather),
+elements can be chained to form a longer descriptor.
+
+MHI Operations
+==============
+
+MHI States
+----------
+
+MHI_STATE_RESET
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+MHI is in reset state after power-up or hardware reset. The host is not allowed
+to access device MMIO register space.
+
+MHI_STATE_READY
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+MHI is ready for initialization. The host can start MHI initialization by
+programming MMIO registers.
+
+MHI_STATE_M0
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+MHI is running and operational in the device. The host can start channels by
+issuing channel start command.
+
+MHI_STATE_M1
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+MHI operation is suspended by the device. This state is entered when the
+device detects inactivity at the physical interface within a preset time.
+
+MHI_STATE_M2
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+MHI is in low power state. MHI operation is suspended and the device may
+enter lower power mode.
+
+MHI_STATE_M3
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+MHI operation stopped by the host. This state is entered when the host suspends
+MHI operation.
+
+MHI Initialization
+------------------
+
+After system boots, the device is enumerated over the physical interface.
+In the case of PCIe, the device is enumerated and assigned BAR-0 for
+the device's MMIO register space. To initialize the MHI in a device,
+the host performs the following operations:
+
+* Allocates the MHI context for event, channel and command arrays.
+* Initializes the context array, and prepares interrupts.
+* Waits until the device enters READY state.
+* Programs MHI MMIO registers and sets device into MHI_M0 state.
+* Waits for the device to enter M0 state.
+
+MHI Data Transfer
+-----------------
+
+MHI data transfer is initiated by the host to transfer data to the device.
+Following are the sequence of operations performed by the host to transfer
+data to device:
+
+* Host prepares TD with buffer information.
+* Host increments the WP of the corresponding channel transfer ring.
+* Host rings the channel DB register.
+* Device wakes up to process the TD.
+* Device generates a completion event for the processed TD by updating ED.
+* Device increments the RP of the corresponding event ring.
+* Device triggers IRQ to wake up the host.
+* Host wakes up and checks the event ring for completion event.
+* Host updates the WP of the corresponding event ring to indicate that the
+ data transfer has been completed successfully.
+
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+============
+MHI Topology
+============
+
+This document provides information about the MHI topology modeling and
+representation in the kernel.
+
+MHI Controller
+--------------
+
+MHI controller driver manages the interaction with the MHI client devices
+such as the external modems and WiFi chipsets. It is also the MHI bus master
+which is in charge of managing the physical link between the host and device.
+It is however not involved in the actual data transfer as the data transfer
+is taken care by the physical bus such as PCIe. Each controller driver exposes
+channels and events based on the client device type.
+
+Below are the roles of the MHI controller driver:
+
+* Turns on the physical bus and establishes the link to the device
+* Configures IRQs, IOMMU, and IOMEM
+* Allocates struct mhi_controller and registers with the MHI bus framework
+ with channel and event configurations using mhi_register_controller.
+* Initiates power on and shutdown sequence
+* Initiates suspend and resume power management operations of the device.
+
+MHI Device
+----------
+
+MHI device is the logical device which binds to a maximum of two MHI channels
+for bi-directional communication. Once MHI is in powered on state, the MHI
+core will create MHI devices based on the channel configuration exposed
+by the controller. There can be a single MHI device for each channel or for a
+couple of channels.
+
+Each supported device is enumerated in::
+
+ /sys/bus/mhi/devices/
+
+MHI Driver
+----------
+
+MHI driver is the client driver which binds to one or more MHI devices. The MHI
+driver sends and receives the upper-layer protocol packets like IP packets,
+modem control messages, and diagnostics messages over MHI. The MHI core will
+bind the MHI devices to the MHI driver.
+
+Each supported driver is enumerated in::
+
+ /sys/bus/mhi/drivers/
+
+Below are the roles of the MHI driver:
+
+* Registers the driver with the MHI bus framework using mhi_driver_register.
+* Prepares the device for transfer by calling mhi_prepare_for_transfer.
+* Initiates data transfer by calling mhi_queue_transfer.
+* Once the data transfer is finished, calls mhi_unprepare_from_transfer to
+ end data transfer.