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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/networking/devlink/devlink-info.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-info.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1242b0e68 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-info.rst @@ -0,0 +1,215 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause) + +============ +Devlink Info +============ + +The ``devlink-info`` mechanism enables device drivers to report device +(hardware and firmware) information in a standard, extensible fashion. + +The original motivation for the ``devlink-info`` API was twofold: + + - making it possible to automate device and firmware management in a fleet + of machines in a vendor-independent fashion (see also + :ref:`Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-flash.rst <devlink_flash>`); + - name the per component FW versions (as opposed to the crowded ethtool + version string). + +``devlink-info`` supports reporting multiple types of objects. Reporting driver +versions is generally discouraged - here, and via any other Linux API. + +.. list-table:: List of top level info objects + :widths: 5 95 + + * - Name + - Description + * - ``driver`` + - Name of the currently used device driver, also available through sysfs. + + * - ``serial_number`` + - Serial number of the device. + + This is usually the serial number of the ASIC, also often available + in PCI config space of the device in the *Device Serial Number* + capability. + + The serial number should be unique per physical device. + Sometimes the serial number of the device is only 48 bits long (the + length of the Ethernet MAC address), and since PCI DSN is 64 bits long + devices pad or encode additional information into the serial number. + One example is adding port ID or PCI interface ID in the extra two bytes. + Drivers should make sure to strip or normalize any such padding + or interface ID, and report only the part of the serial number + which uniquely identifies the hardware. In other words serial number + reported for two ports of the same device or on two hosts of + a multi-host device should be identical. + + * - ``board.serial_number`` + - Board serial number of the device. + + This is usually the serial number of the board, often available in + PCI *Vital Product Data*. + + * - ``fixed`` + - Group for hardware identifiers, and versions of components + which are not field-updatable. + + Versions in this section identify the device design. For example, + component identifiers or the board version reported in the PCI VPD. + Data in ``devlink-info`` should be broken into the smallest logical + components, e.g. PCI VPD may concatenate various information + to form the Part Number string, while in ``devlink-info`` all parts + should be reported as separate items. + + This group must not contain any frequently changing identifiers, + such as serial numbers. See + :ref:`Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-flash.rst <devlink_flash>` + to understand why. + + * - ``running`` + - Group for information about currently running software/firmware. + These versions often only update after a reboot, sometimes device reset. + + * - ``stored`` + - Group for software/firmware versions in device flash. + + Stored values must update to reflect changes in the flash even + if reboot has not yet occurred. If device is not capable of updating + ``stored`` versions when new software is flashed, it must not report + them. + +Each version can be reported at most once in each version group. Firmware +components stored on the flash should feature in both the ``running`` and +``stored`` sections, if device is capable of reporting ``stored`` versions +(see :ref:`Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-flash.rst <devlink_flash>`). +In case software/firmware components are loaded from the disk (e.g. +``/lib/firmware``) only the running version should be reported via +the kernel API. + +Generic Versions +================ + +It is expected that drivers use the following generic names for exporting +version information. If a generic name for a given component doesn't exist yet, +driver authors should consult existing driver-specific versions and attempt +reuse. As last resort, if a component is truly unique, using driver-specific +names is allowed, but these should be documented in the driver-specific file. + +All versions should try to use the following terminology: + +.. list-table:: List of common version suffixes + :widths: 10 90 + + * - Name + - Description + * - ``id``, ``revision`` + - Identifiers of designs and revision, mostly used for hardware versions. + + * - ``api`` + - Version of API between components. API items are usually of limited + value to the user, and can be inferred from other versions by the vendor, + so adding API versions is generally discouraged as noise. + + * - ``bundle_id`` + - Identifier of a distribution package which was flashed onto the device. + This is an attribute of a firmware package which covers multiple versions + for ease of managing firmware images (see + :ref:`Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-flash.rst <devlink_flash>`). + + ``bundle_id`` can appear in both ``running`` and ``stored`` versions, + but it must not be reported if any of the components covered by the + ``bundle_id`` was changed and no longer matches the version from + the bundle. + +board.id +-------- + +Unique identifier of the board design. + +board.rev +--------- + +Board design revision. + +asic.id +------- + +ASIC design identifier. + +asic.rev +-------- + +ASIC design revision/stepping. + +board.manufacture +----------------- + +An identifier of the company or the facility which produced the part. + +fw +-- + +Overall firmware version, often representing the collection of +fw.mgmt, fw.app, etc. + +fw.mgmt +------- + +Control unit firmware version. This firmware is responsible for house +keeping tasks, PHY control etc. but not the packet-by-packet data path +operation. + +fw.mgmt.api +----------- + +Firmware interface specification version of the software interfaces between +driver and firmware. + +fw.app +------ + +Data path microcode controlling high-speed packet processing. + +fw.undi +------- + +UNDI software, may include the UEFI driver, firmware or both. + +fw.ncsi +------- + +Version of the software responsible for supporting/handling the +Network Controller Sideband Interface. + +fw.psid +------- + +Unique identifier of the firmware parameter set. These are usually +parameters of a particular board, defined at manufacturing time. + +fw.roce +------- + +RoCE firmware version which is responsible for handling roce +management. + +fw.bundle_id +------------ + +Unique identifier of the entire firmware bundle. + +fw.bootloader +------------- + +Version of the bootloader. + +Future work +=========== + +The following extensions could be useful: + + - on-disk firmware file names - drivers list the file names of firmware they + may need to load onto devices via the ``MODULE_FIRMWARE()`` macro. These, + however, are per module, rather than per device. It'd be useful to list + the names of firmware files the driver will try to load for a given device, + in order of priority. |