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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-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
+
+Cable Modem Device Drivers
+==========================
+
+Contents:
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 2
+
+ sb1000
+
+.. only:: subproject and html
+
+ Indices
+ =======
+
+ * :ref:`genindex`
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+===================
+SB100 device driver
+===================
+
+sb1000 is a module network device driver for the General Instrument (also known
+as NextLevel) SURFboard1000 internal cable modem board. This is an ISA card
+which is used by a number of cable TV companies to provide cable modem access.
+It's a one-way downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link
+is provided by your regular phone modem.
+
+This driver was written by Franco Venturi <fventuri@mediaone.net>. He deserves
+a great deal of thanks for this wonderful piece of code!
+
+Needed tools
+============
+
+Support for this device is now a part of the standard Linux kernel. The
+driver source code file is drivers/net/sb1000.c. In addition to this
+you will need:
+
+1. The "cmconfig" program. This is a utility which supplements "ifconfig"
+ to configure the cable modem and network interface (usually called "cm0");
+
+2. Several PPP scripts which live in /etc/ppp to make connecting via your
+ cable modem easy.
+
+ These utilities can be obtained from:
+
+ http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/
+
+ in Franco's original source code distribution .tar.gz file. Support for
+ the sb1000 driver can be found at:
+
+ - http://web.archive.org/web/%2E/http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html
+ - http://web.archive.org/web/%2E/http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/
+
+ along with these utilities.
+
+3. The standard isapnp tools. These are necessary to configure your SB1000
+ card at boot time (or afterwards by hand) since it's a PnP card.
+
+ If you don't have these installed as a standard part of your Linux
+ distribution, you can find them at:
+
+ http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/
+
+ or check your Linux distribution binary CD or their web site. For help with
+ isapnp, pnpdump, or /etc/isapnp.conf, go to:
+
+ http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/isapnpfaq.html
+
+Using the driver
+================
+
+To make the SB1000 card work, follow these steps:
+
+1. Run ``make config``, or ``make menuconfig``, or ``make xconfig``, whichever
+ you prefer, in the top kernel tree directory to set up your kernel
+ configuration. Make sure to say "Y" to "Prompt for development drivers"
+ and to say "M" to the sb1000 driver. Also say "Y" or "M" to all the standard
+ networking questions to get TCP/IP and PPP networking support.
+
+2. **BEFORE** you build the kernel, edit drivers/net/sb1000.c. Make sure
+ to redefine the value of READ_DATA_PORT to match the I/O address used
+ by isapnp to access your PnP cards. This is the value of READPORT in
+ /etc/isapnp.conf or given by the output of pnpdump.
+
+3. Build and install the kernel and modules as usual.
+
+4. Boot your new kernel following the usual procedures.
+
+5. Set up to configure the new SB1000 PnP card by capturing the output
+ of "pnpdump" to a file and editing this file to set the correct I/O ports,
+ IRQ, and DMA settings for all your PnP cards. Make sure none of the settings
+ conflict with one another. Then test this configuration by running the
+ "isapnp" command with your new config file as the input. Check for
+ errors and fix as necessary. (As an aside, I use I/O ports 0x110 and
+ 0x310 and IRQ 11 for my SB1000 card and these work well for me. YMMV.)
+ Then save the finished config file as /etc/isapnp.conf for proper
+ configuration on subsequent reboots.
+
+6. Download the original file sb1000-1.1.2.tar.gz from Franco's site or one of
+ the others referenced above. As root, unpack it into a temporary directory
+ and do a ``make cmconfig`` and then ``install -c cmconfig /usr/local/sbin``.
+ Don't do ``make install`` because it expects to find all the utilities built
+ and ready for installation, not just cmconfig.
+
+7. As root, copy all the files under the ppp/ subdirectory in Franco's
+ tar file into /etc/ppp, being careful not to overwrite any files that are
+ already in there. Then modify ppp@gi-on to set the correct login name,
+ phone number, and frequency for the cable modem. Also edit pap-secrets
+ to specify your login name and password and any site-specific information
+ you need.
+
+8. Be sure to modify /etc/ppp/firewall to use ipchains instead of
+ the older ipfwadm commands from the 2.0.x kernels. There's a neat utility to
+ convert ipfwadm commands to ipchains commands:
+
+ http://users.dhp.com/~whisper/ipfwadm2ipchains/
+
+ You may also wish to modify the firewall script to implement a different
+ firewalling scheme.
+
+9. Start the PPP connection via the script /etc/ppp/ppp@gi-on. You must be
+ root to do this. It's better to use a utility like sudo to execute
+ frequently used commands like this with root permissions if possible. If you
+ connect successfully the cable modem interface will come up and you'll see a
+ driver message like this at the console::
+
+ cm0: sb1000 at (0x110,0x310), csn 1, S/N 0x2a0d16d8, IRQ 11.
+ sb1000.c:v1.1.2 6/01/98 (fventuri@mediaone.net)
+
+ The "ifconfig" command should show two new interfaces, ppp0 and cm0.
+
+ The command "cmconfig cm0" will give you information about the cable modem
+ interface.
+
+10. Try pinging a site via ``ping -c 5 www.yahoo.com``, for example. You should
+ see packets received.
+
+11. If you can't get site names (like www.yahoo.com) to resolve into
+ IP addresses (like 204.71.200.67), be sure your /etc/resolv.conf file
+ has no syntax errors and has the right nameserver IP addresses in it.
+ If this doesn't help, try something like ``ping -c 5 204.71.200.67`` to
+ see if the networking is running but the DNS resolution is where the
+ problem lies.
+
+12. If you still have problems, go to the support web sites mentioned above
+ and read the information and documentation there.
+
+Common problems
+===============
+
+1. Packets go out on the ppp0 interface but don't come back on the cm0
+ interface. It looks like I'm connected but I can't even ping any
+ numerical IP addresses. (This happens predominantly on Debian systems due
+ to a default boot-time configuration script.)
+
+Solution
+ As root ``echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/cm0/rp_filter`` so it
+ can share the same IP address as the ppp0 interface. Note that this
+ command should probably be added to the /etc/ppp/cablemodem script
+ *right*between* the "/sbin/ifconfig" and "/sbin/cmconfig" commands.
+ You may need to do this to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/ppp0/rp_filter as well.
+ If you do this to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/rp_filter on each reboot
+ (in rc.local or some such) then any interfaces can share the same IP
+ addresses.
+
+2. I get "unresolved symbol" error messages on executing ``insmod sb1000.o``.
+
+Solution
+ You probably have a non-matching kernel source tree and
+ /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm header files. Make sure you
+ install the correct versions of the header files in these two directories.
+ Then rebuild and reinstall the kernel.
+
+3. When isapnp runs it reports an error, and my SB1000 card isn't working.
+
+Solution
+ There's a problem with later versions of isapnp using the "(CHECK)"
+ option in the lines that allocate the two I/O addresses for the SB1000 card.
+ This first popped up on RH 6.0. Delete "(CHECK)" for the SB1000 I/O addresses.
+ Make sure they don't conflict with any other pieces of hardware first! Then
+ rerun isapnp and go from there.
+
+4. I can't execute the /etc/ppp/ppp@gi-on file.
+
+Solution
+ As root do ``chmod ug+x /etc/ppp/ppp@gi-on``.
+
+5. The firewall script isn't working (with 2.2.x and higher kernels).
+
+Solution
+ Use the ipfwadm2ipchains script referenced above to convert the
+ /etc/ppp/firewall script from the deprecated ipfwadm commands to ipchains.
+
+6. I'm getting *tons* of firewall deny messages in the /var/kern.log,
+ /var/messages, and/or /var/syslog files, and they're filling up my /var
+ partition!!!
+
+Solution
+ First, tell your ISP that you're receiving DoS (Denial of Service)
+ and/or portscanning (UDP connection attempts) attacks! Look over the deny
+ messages to figure out what the attack is and where it's coming from. Next,
+ edit /etc/ppp/cablemodem and make sure the ",nobroadcast" option is turned on
+ to the "cmconfig" command (uncomment that line). If you're not receiving these
+ denied packets on your broadcast interface (IP address xxx.yyy.zzz.255
+ typically), then someone is attacking your machine in particular. Be careful
+ out there....
+
+7. Everything seems to work fine but my computer locks up after a while
+ (and typically during a lengthy download through the cable modem)!
+
+Solution
+ You may need to add a short delay in the driver to 'slow down' the
+ SURFboard because your PC might not be able to keep up with the transfer rate
+ of the SB1000. To do this, it's probably best to download Franco's
+ sb1000-1.1.2.tar.gz archive and build and install sb1000.o manually. You'll
+ want to edit the 'Makefile' and look for the 'SB1000_DELAY'
+ define. Uncomment those 'CFLAGS' lines (and comment out the default ones)
+ and try setting the delay to something like 60 microseconds with:
+ '-DSB1000_DELAY=60'. Then do ``make`` and as root ``make install`` and try
+ it out. If it still doesn't work or you like playing with the driver, you may
+ try other numbers. Remember though that the higher the delay, the slower the
+ driver (which slows down the rest of the PC too when it is actively
+ used). Thanks to Ed Daiga for this tip!
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+This README came from Franco Venturi's original README file which is
+still supplied with his driver .tar.gz archive. I and all other sb1000 users
+owe Franco a tremendous "Thank you!" Additional thanks goes to Carl Patten
+and Ralph Bonnell who are now managing the Linux SB1000 web site, and to
+the SB1000 users who reported and helped debug the common problems listed
+above.
+
+
+ Clemmitt Sigler
+ csigler@vt.edu