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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+
+
+======================================================
+IBM Virtual Management Channel Kernel Driver (IBMVMC)
+======================================================
+
+:Authors:
+ Dave Engebretsen <engebret@us.ibm.com>,
+ Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
+ Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
+ Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+Note: Knowledge of virtualization technology is required to understand
+this document.
+
+A good reference document would be:
+
+https://openpowerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/LoPAPR_DRAFT_v11_24March2016_cmt1.pdf
+
+The Virtual Management Channel (VMC) is a logical device which provides an
+interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface
+is like a message passing interface. This management partition is intended
+to provide an alternative to systems that use a Hardware Management
+Console (HMC) - based system management.
+
+The primary hardware management solution that is developed by IBM relies
+on an appliance server named the Hardware Management Console (HMC),
+packaged as an external tower or rack-mounted personal computer. In a
+Power Systems environment, a single HMC can manage multiple POWER
+processor-based systems.
+
+Management Application
+----------------------
+
+In the management partition, a management application exists which enables
+a system administrator to configure the system’s partitioning
+characteristics via a command line interface (CLI) or Representational
+State Transfer Application (REST API's).
+
+The management application runs on a Linux logical partition on a
+POWER8 or newer processor-based server that is virtualized by PowerVM.
+System configuration, maintenance, and control functions which
+traditionally require an HMC can be implemented in the management
+application using a combination of HMC to hypervisor interfaces and
+existing operating system methods. This tool provides a subset of the
+functions implemented by the HMC and enables basic partition configuration.
+The set of HMC to hypervisor messages supported by the management
+application component are passed to the hypervisor over a VMC interface,
+which is defined below.
+
+The VMC enables the management partition to provide basic partitioning
+functions:
+
+- Logical Partitioning Configuration
+- Start, and stop actions for individual partitions
+- Display of partition status
+- Management of virtual Ethernet
+- Management of virtual Storage
+- Basic system management
+
+Virtual Management Channel (VMC)
+--------------------------------
+
+A logical device, called the Virtual Management Channel (VMC), is defined
+for communicating between the management application and the hypervisor. It
+basically creates the pipes that enable virtualization management
+software. This device is presented to a designated management partition as
+a virtual device.
+
+This communication device uses Command/Response Queue (CRQ) and the
+Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) interfaces. A three-way handshake is
+defined that must take place to establish that both the hypervisor and
+management partition sides of the channel are running prior to
+sending/receiving any of the protocol messages.
+
+This driver also utilizes Transport Event CRQs. CRQ messages are sent
+when the hypervisor detects one of the peer partitions has abnormally
+terminated, or one side has called H_FREE_CRQ to close their CRQ.
+Two new classes of CRQ messages are introduced for the VMC device. VMC
+Administrative messages are used for each partition using the VMC to
+communicate capabilities to their partner. HMC Interface messages are used
+for the actual flow of HMC messages between the management partition and
+the hypervisor. As most HMC messages far exceed the size of a CRQ buffer,
+a virtual DMA (RMDA) of the HMC message data is done prior to each HMC
+Interface CRQ message. Only the management partition drives RDMA
+operations; hypervisors never directly cause the movement of message data.
+
+
+Terminology
+-----------
+RDMA
+ Remote Direct Memory Access is DMA transfer from the server to its
+ client or from the server to its partner partition. DMA refers
+ to both physical I/O to and from memory operations and to memory
+ to memory move operations.
+CRQ
+ Command/Response Queue a facility which is used to communicate
+ between partner partitions. Transport events which are signaled
+ from the hypervisor to partition are also reported in this queue.
+
+Example Management Partition VMC Driver Interface
+=================================================
+
+This section provides an example for the management application
+implementation where a device driver is used to interface to the VMC
+device. This driver consists of a new device, for example /dev/ibmvmc,
+which provides interfaces to open, close, read, write, and perform
+ioctl’s against the VMC device.
+
+VMC Interface Initialization
+----------------------------
+
+The device driver is responsible for initializing the VMC when the driver
+is loaded. It first creates and initializes the CRQ. Next, an exchange of
+VMC capabilities is performed to indicate the code version and number of
+resources available in both the management partition and the hypervisor.
+Finally, the hypervisor requests that the management partition create an
+initial pool of VMC buffers, one buffer for each possible HMC connection,
+which will be used for management application session initialization.
+Prior to completion of this initialization sequence, the device returns
+EBUSY to open() calls. EIO is returned for all open() failures.
+
+::
+
+ Management Partition Hypervisor
+ CRQ INIT
+ ---------------------------------------->
+ CRQ INIT COMPLETE
+ <----------------------------------------
+ CAPABILITIES
+ ---------------------------------------->
+ CAPABILITIES RESPONSE
+ <----------------------------------------
+ ADD BUFFER (HMC IDX=0,1,..) _
+ <---------------------------------------- |
+ ADD BUFFER RESPONSE | - Perform # HMCs Iterations
+ ----------------------------------------> -
+
+VMC Interface Open
+------------------
+
+After the basic VMC channel has been initialized, an HMC session level
+connection can be established. The application layer performs an open() to
+the VMC device and executes an ioctl() against it, indicating the HMC ID
+(32 bytes of data) for this session. If the VMC device is in an invalid
+state, EIO will be returned for the ioctl(). The device driver creates a
+new HMC session value (ranging from 1 to 255) and HMC index value (starting
+at index 0 and ranging to 254) for this HMC ID. The driver then does an
+RDMA of the HMC ID to the hypervisor, and then sends an Interface Open
+message to the hypervisor to establish the session over the VMC. After the
+hypervisor receives this information, it sends Add Buffer messages to the
+management partition to seed an initial pool of buffers for the new HMC
+connection. Finally, the hypervisor sends an Interface Open Response
+message, to indicate that it is ready for normal runtime messaging. The
+following illustrates this VMC flow:
+
+::
+
+ Management Partition Hypervisor
+ RDMA HMC ID
+ ---------------------------------------->
+ Interface Open
+ ---------------------------------------->
+ Add Buffer _
+ <---------------------------------------- |
+ Add Buffer Response | - Perform N Iterations
+ ----------------------------------------> -
+ Interface Open Response
+ <----------------------------------------
+
+VMC Interface Runtime
+---------------------
+
+During normal runtime, the management application and the hypervisor
+exchange HMC messages via the Signal VMC message and RDMA operations. When
+sending data to the hypervisor, the management application performs a
+write() to the VMC device, and the driver RDMA’s the data to the hypervisor
+and then sends a Signal Message. If a write() is attempted before VMC
+device buffers have been made available by the hypervisor, or no buffers
+are currently available, EBUSY is returned in response to the write(). A
+write() will return EIO for all other errors, such as an invalid device
+state. When the hypervisor sends a message to the management, the data is
+put into a VMC buffer and an Signal Message is sent to the VMC driver in
+the management partition. The driver RDMA’s the buffer into the partition
+and passes the data up to the appropriate management application via a
+read() to the VMC device. The read() request blocks if there is no buffer
+available to read. The management application may use select() to wait for
+the VMC device to become ready with data to read.
+
+::
+
+ Management Partition Hypervisor
+ MSG RDMA
+ ---------------------------------------->
+ SIGNAL MSG
+ ---------------------------------------->
+ SIGNAL MSG
+ <----------------------------------------
+ MSG RDMA
+ <----------------------------------------
+
+VMC Interface Close
+-------------------
+
+HMC session level connections are closed by the management partition when
+the application layer performs a close() against the device. This action
+results in an Interface Close message flowing to the hypervisor, which
+causes the session to be terminated. The device driver must free any
+storage allocated for buffers for this HMC connection.
+
+::
+
+ Management Partition Hypervisor
+ INTERFACE CLOSE
+ ---------------------------------------->
+ INTERFACE CLOSE RESPONSE
+ <----------------------------------------
+
+Additional Information
+======================
+
+For more information on the documentation for CRQ Messages, VMC Messages,
+HMC interface Buffers, and signal messages please refer to the Linux on
+Power Architecture Platform Reference. Section F.