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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/mm/memory-model.rst b/Documentation/mm/memory-model.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3779e562d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/mm/memory-model.rst @@ -0,0 +1,177 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +.. _physical_memory_model: + +===================== +Physical Memory Model +===================== + +Physical memory in a system may be addressed in different ways. The +simplest case is when the physical memory starts at address 0 and +spans a contiguous range up to the maximal address. It could be, +however, that this range contains small holes that are not accessible +for the CPU. Then there could be several contiguous ranges at +completely distinct addresses. And, don't forget about NUMA, where +different memory banks are attached to different CPUs. + +Linux abstracts this diversity using one of the two memory models: +FLATMEM and SPARSEMEM. Each architecture defines what +memory models it supports, what the default memory model is and +whether it is possible to manually override that default. + +All the memory models track the status of physical page frames using +struct page arranged in one or more arrays. + +Regardless of the selected memory model, there exists one-to-one +mapping between the physical page frame number (PFN) and the +corresponding `struct page`. + +Each memory model defines :c:func:`pfn_to_page` and :c:func:`page_to_pfn` +helpers that allow the conversion from PFN to `struct page` and vice +versa. + +FLATMEM +======= + +The simplest memory model is FLATMEM. This model is suitable for +non-NUMA systems with contiguous, or mostly contiguous, physical +memory. + +In the FLATMEM memory model, there is a global `mem_map` array that +maps the entire physical memory. For most architectures, the holes +have entries in the `mem_map` array. The `struct page` objects +corresponding to the holes are never fully initialized. + +To allocate the `mem_map` array, architecture specific setup code should +call :c:func:`free_area_init` function. Yet, the mappings array is not +usable until the call to :c:func:`memblock_free_all` that hands all the +memory to the page allocator. + +An architecture may free parts of the `mem_map` array that do not cover the +actual physical pages. In such case, the architecture specific +:c:func:`pfn_valid` implementation should take the holes in the +`mem_map` into account. + +With FLATMEM, the conversion between a PFN and the `struct page` is +straightforward: `PFN - ARCH_PFN_OFFSET` is an index to the +`mem_map` array. + +The `ARCH_PFN_OFFSET` defines the first page frame number for +systems with physical memory starting at address different from 0. + +SPARSEMEM +========= + +SPARSEMEM is the most versatile memory model available in Linux and it +is the only memory model that supports several advanced features such +as hot-plug and hot-remove of the physical memory, alternative memory +maps for non-volatile memory devices and deferred initialization of +the memory map for larger systems. + +The SPARSEMEM model presents the physical memory as a collection of +sections. A section is represented with struct mem_section +that contains `section_mem_map` that is, logically, a pointer to an +array of struct pages. However, it is stored with some other magic +that aids the sections management. The section size and maximal number +of section is specified using `SECTION_SIZE_BITS` and +`MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS` constants defined by each architecture that +supports SPARSEMEM. While `MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS` is an actual width of a +physical address that an architecture supports, the +`SECTION_SIZE_BITS` is an arbitrary value. + +The maximal number of sections is denoted `NR_MEM_SECTIONS` and +defined as + +.. math:: + + NR\_MEM\_SECTIONS = 2 ^ {(MAX\_PHYSMEM\_BITS - SECTION\_SIZE\_BITS)} + +The `mem_section` objects are arranged in a two-dimensional array +called `mem_sections`. The size and placement of this array depend +on `CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME` and the maximal possible number of +sections: + +* When `CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME` is disabled, the `mem_sections` + array is static and has `NR_MEM_SECTIONS` rows. Each row holds a + single `mem_section` object. +* When `CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME` is enabled, the `mem_sections` + array is dynamically allocated. Each row contains PAGE_SIZE worth of + `mem_section` objects and the number of rows is calculated to fit + all the memory sections. + +The architecture setup code should call sparse_init() to +initialize the memory sections and the memory maps. + +With SPARSEMEM there are two possible ways to convert a PFN to the +corresponding `struct page` - a "classic sparse" and "sparse +vmemmap". The selection is made at build time and it is determined by +the value of `CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP`. + +The classic sparse encodes the section number of a page in page->flags +and uses high bits of a PFN to access the section that maps that page +frame. Inside a section, the PFN is the index to the array of pages. + +The sparse vmemmap uses a virtually mapped memory map to optimize +pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. There is a global `struct +page *vmemmap` pointer that points to a virtually contiguous array of +`struct page` objects. A PFN is an index to that array and the +offset of the `struct page` from `vmemmap` is the PFN of that +page. + +To use vmemmap, an architecture has to reserve a range of virtual +addresses that will map the physical pages containing the memory +map and make sure that `vmemmap` points to that range. In addition, +the architecture should implement :c:func:`vmemmap_populate` method +that will allocate the physical memory and create page tables for the +virtual memory map. If an architecture does not have any special +requirements for the vmemmap mappings, it can use default +:c:func:`vmemmap_populate_basepages` provided by the generic memory +management. + +The virtually mapped memory map allows storing `struct page` objects +for persistent memory devices in pre-allocated storage on those +devices. This storage is represented with struct vmem_altmap +that is eventually passed to vmemmap_populate() through a long chain +of function calls. The vmemmap_populate() implementation may use the +`vmem_altmap` along with :c:func:`vmemmap_alloc_block_buf` helper to +allocate memory map on the persistent memory device. + +ZONE_DEVICE +=========== +The `ZONE_DEVICE` facility builds upon `SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP` to offer +`struct page` `mem_map` services for device driver identified physical +address ranges. The "device" aspect of `ZONE_DEVICE` relates to the fact +that the page objects for these address ranges are never marked online, +and that a reference must be taken against the device, not just the page +to keep the memory pinned for active use. `ZONE_DEVICE`, via +:c:func:`devm_memremap_pages`, performs just enough memory hotplug to +turn on :c:func:`pfn_to_page`, :c:func:`page_to_pfn`, and +:c:func:`get_user_pages` service for the given range of pfns. Since the +page reference count never drops below 1 the page is never tracked as +free memory and the page's `struct list_head lru` space is repurposed +for back referencing to the host device / driver that mapped the memory. + +While `SPARSEMEM` presents memory as a collection of sections, +optionally collected into memory blocks, `ZONE_DEVICE` users have a need +for smaller granularity of populating the `mem_map`. Given that +`ZONE_DEVICE` memory is never marked online it is subsequently never +subject to its memory ranges being exposed through the sysfs memory +hotplug api on memory block boundaries. The implementation relies on +this lack of user-api constraint to allow sub-section sized memory +ranges to be specified to :c:func:`arch_add_memory`, the top-half of +memory hotplug. Sub-section support allows for 2MB as the cross-arch +common alignment granularity for :c:func:`devm_memremap_pages`. + +The users of `ZONE_DEVICE` are: + +* pmem: Map platform persistent memory to be used as a direct-I/O target + via DAX mappings. + +* hmm: Extend `ZONE_DEVICE` with `->page_fault()` and `->page_free()` + event callbacks to allow a device-driver to coordinate memory management + events related to device-memory, typically GPU memory. See + Documentation/mm/hmm.rst. + +* p2pdma: Create `struct page` objects to allow peer devices in a + PCI/-E topology to coordinate direct-DMA operations between themselves, + i.e. bypass host memory. |