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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/vmemmap_dedup.rst b/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a4b12ff90 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst @@ -0,0 +1,249 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +========================================= +A vmemmap diet for HugeTLB and Device DAX +========================================= + +HugeTLB +======= + +This section is to explain how HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) works. + +The ``struct page`` structures are used to describe a physical page frame. By +default, there is a one-to-one mapping from a page frame to it's corresponding +``struct page``. + +HugeTLB pages consist of multiple base page size pages and is supported by many +architectures. See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst for more +details. On the x86-64 architecture, HugeTLB pages of size 2MB and 1GB are +currently supported. Since the base page size on x86 is 4KB, a 2MB HugeTLB page +consists of 512 base pages and a 1GB HugeTLB page consists of 4096 base pages. +For each base page, there is a corresponding ``struct page``. + +Within the HugeTLB subsystem, only the first 4 ``struct page`` are used to +contain unique information about a HugeTLB page. ``__NR_USED_SUBPAGE`` provides +this upper limit. The only 'useful' information in the remaining ``struct page`` +is the compound_head field, and this field is the same for all tail pages. + +By removing redundant ``struct page`` for HugeTLB pages, memory can be returned +to the buddy allocator for other uses. + +Different architectures support different HugeTLB pages. For example, the +following table is the HugeTLB page size supported by x86 and arm64 +architectures. Because arm64 supports 4k, 16k, and 64k base pages and +supports contiguous entries, so it supports many kinds of sizes of HugeTLB +page. + ++--------------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------+ +| Architecture | Page Size | HugeTLB Page Size | ++--------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ +| x86-64 | 4KB | 2MB | 1GB | | | ++--------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ +| | 4KB | 64KB | 2MB | 32MB | 1GB | +| +-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ +| arm64 | 16KB | 2MB | 32MB | 1GB | | +| +-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ +| | 64KB | 2MB | 512MB | 16GB | | ++--------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ + +When the system boot up, every HugeTLB page has more than one ``struct page`` +structs which size is (unit: pages):: + + struct_size = HugeTLB_Size / PAGE_SIZE * sizeof(struct page) / PAGE_SIZE + +Where HugeTLB_Size is the size of the HugeTLB page. We know that the size +of the HugeTLB page is always n times PAGE_SIZE. So we can get the following +relationship:: + + HugeTLB_Size = n * PAGE_SIZE + +Then:: + + struct_size = n * PAGE_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE * sizeof(struct page) / PAGE_SIZE + = n * sizeof(struct page) / PAGE_SIZE + +We can use huge mapping at the pud/pmd level for the HugeTLB page. + +For the HugeTLB page of the pmd level mapping, then:: + + struct_size = n * sizeof(struct page) / PAGE_SIZE + = PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(pte_t) * sizeof(struct page) / PAGE_SIZE + = sizeof(struct page) / sizeof(pte_t) + = 64 / 8 + = 8 (pages) + +Where n is how many pte entries which one page can contains. So the value of +n is (PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(pte_t)). + +This optimization only supports 64-bit system, so the value of sizeof(pte_t) +is 8. And this optimization also applicable only when the size of ``struct page`` +is a power of two. In most cases, the size of ``struct page`` is 64 bytes (e.g. +x86-64 and arm64). So if we use pmd level mapping for a HugeTLB page, the +size of ``struct page`` structs of it is 8 page frames which size depends on the +size of the base page. + +For the HugeTLB page of the pud level mapping, then:: + + struct_size = PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(pmd_t) * struct_size(pmd) + = PAGE_SIZE / 8 * 8 (pages) + = PAGE_SIZE (pages) + +Where the struct_size(pmd) is the size of the ``struct page`` structs of a +HugeTLB page of the pmd level mapping. + +E.g.: A 2MB HugeTLB page on x86_64 consists in 8 page frames while 1GB +HugeTLB page consists in 4096. + +Next, we take the pmd level mapping of the HugeTLB page as an example to +show the internal implementation of this optimization. There are 8 pages +``struct page`` structs associated with a HugeTLB page which is pmd mapped. + +Here is how things look before optimization:: + + HugeTLB struct pages(8 pages) page frame(8 pages) + +-----------+ ---virt_to_page---> +-----------+ mapping to +-----------+ + | | | 0 | -------------> | 0 | + | | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | | | 1 | -------------> | 1 | + | | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | | | 2 | -------------> | 2 | + | | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | | | 3 | -------------> | 3 | + | | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | | | 4 | -------------> | 4 | + | PMD | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | level | | 5 | -------------> | 5 | + | mapping | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | | | 6 | -------------> | 6 | + | | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | | | 7 | -------------> | 7 | + | | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | | + | | + | | + +-----------+ + +The value of page->compound_head is the same for all tail pages. The first +page of ``struct page`` (page 0) associated with the HugeTLB page contains the 4 +``struct page`` necessary to describe the HugeTLB. The only use of the remaining +pages of ``struct page`` (page 1 to page 7) is to point to page->compound_head. +Therefore, we can remap pages 1 to 7 to page 0. Only 1 page of ``struct page`` +will be used for each HugeTLB page. This will allow us to free the remaining +7 pages to the buddy allocator. + +Here is how things look after remapping:: + + HugeTLB struct pages(8 pages) page frame(8 pages) + +-----------+ ---virt_to_page---> +-----------+ mapping to +-----------+ + | | | 0 | -------------> | 0 | + | | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | | | 1 | ---------------^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ + | | +-----------+ | | | | | | + | | | 2 | -----------------+ | | | | | + | | +-----------+ | | | | | + | | | 3 | -------------------+ | | | | + | | +-----------+ | | | | + | | | 4 | ---------------------+ | | | + | PMD | +-----------+ | | | + | level | | 5 | -----------------------+ | | + | mapping | +-----------+ | | + | | | 6 | -------------------------+ | + | | +-----------+ | + | | | 7 | ---------------------------+ + | | +-----------+ + | | + | | + | | + +-----------+ + +When a HugeTLB is freed to the buddy system, we should allocate 7 pages for +vmemmap pages and restore the previous mapping relationship. + +For the HugeTLB page of the pud level mapping. It is similar to the former. +We also can use this approach to free (PAGE_SIZE - 1) vmemmap pages. + +Apart from the HugeTLB page of the pmd/pud level mapping, some architectures +(e.g. aarch64) provides a contiguous bit in the translation table entries +that hints to the MMU to indicate that it is one of a contiguous set of +entries that can be cached in a single TLB entry. + +The contiguous bit is used to increase the mapping size at the pmd and pte +(last) level. So this type of HugeTLB page can be optimized only when its +size of the ``struct page`` structs is greater than **1** page. + +Notice: The head vmemmap page is not freed to the buddy allocator and all +tail vmemmap pages are mapped to the head vmemmap page frame. So we can see +more than one ``struct page`` struct with ``PG_head`` (e.g. 8 per 2 MB HugeTLB +page) associated with each HugeTLB page. The ``compound_head()`` can handle +this correctly. There is only **one** head ``struct page``, the tail +``struct page`` with ``PG_head`` are fake head ``struct page``. We need an +approach to distinguish between those two different types of ``struct page`` so +that ``compound_head()`` can return the real head ``struct page`` when the +parameter is the tail ``struct page`` but with ``PG_head``. The following code +snippet describes how to distinguish between real and fake head ``struct page``. + +.. code-block:: c + + if (test_bit(PG_head, &page->flags)) { + unsigned long head = READ_ONCE(page[1].compound_head); + + if (head & 1) { + if (head == (unsigned long)page + 1) + /* head struct page */ + else + /* tail struct page */ + } else { + /* head struct page */ + } + } + +We can safely access the field of the **page[1]** with ``PG_head`` because the +page is a compound page composed with at least two contiguous pages. +The implementation refers to ``page_fixed_fake_head()``. + +Device DAX +========== + +The device-dax interface uses the same tail deduplication technique explained +in the previous chapter, except when used with the vmemmap in +the device (altmap). + +The following page sizes are supported in DAX: PAGE_SIZE (4K on x86_64), +PMD_SIZE (2M on x86_64) and PUD_SIZE (1G on x86_64). + +The differences with HugeTLB are relatively minor. + +It only use 3 ``struct page`` for storing all information as opposed +to 4 on HugeTLB pages. + +There's no remapping of vmemmap given that device-dax memory is not part of +System RAM ranges initialized at boot. Thus the tail page deduplication +happens at a later stage when we populate the sections. HugeTLB reuses the +the head vmemmap page representing, whereas device-dax reuses the tail +vmemmap page. This results in only half of the savings compared to HugeTLB. + +Deduplicated tail pages are not mapped read-only. + +Here's how things look like on device-dax after the sections are populated:: + + +-----------+ ---virt_to_page---> +-----------+ mapping to +-----------+ + | | | 0 | -------------> | 0 | + | | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | | | 1 | -------------> | 1 | + | | +-----------+ +-----------+ + | | | 2 | ----------------^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ + | | +-----------+ | | | | | + | | | 3 | ------------------+ | | | | + | | +-----------+ | | | | + | | | 4 | --------------------+ | | | + | PMD | +-----------+ | | | + | level | | 5 | ----------------------+ | | + | mapping | +-----------+ | | + | | | 6 | ------------------------+ | + | | +-----------+ | + | | | 7 | --------------------------+ + | | +-----------+ + | | + | | + | | + +-----------+ |