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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/dsa/bcm_sf2.rst b/Documentation/networking/dsa/bcm_sf2.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..dee234039 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/bcm_sf2.rst @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ +============================================= +Broadcom Starfighter 2 Ethernet switch driver +============================================= + +Broadcom's Starfighter 2 Ethernet switch hardware block is commonly found and +deployed in the following products: + +- xDSL gateways such as BCM63138 +- streaming/multimedia Set Top Box such as BCM7445 +- Cable Modem/residential gateways such as BCM7145/BCM3390 + +The switch is typically deployed in a configuration involving between 5 to 13 +ports, offering a range of built-in and customizable interfaces: + +- single integrated Gigabit PHY +- quad integrated Gigabit PHY +- quad external Gigabit PHY w/ MDIO multiplexer +- integrated MoCA PHY +- several external MII/RevMII/GMII/RGMII interfaces + +The switch also supports specific congestion control features which allow MoCA +fail-over not to lose packets during a MoCA role re-election, as well as out of +band back-pressure to the host CPU network interface when downstream interfaces +are connected at a lower speed. + +The switch hardware block is typically interfaced using MMIO accesses and +contains a bunch of sub-blocks/registers: + +- ``SWITCH_CORE``: common switch registers +- ``SWITCH_REG``: external interfaces switch register +- ``SWITCH_MDIO``: external MDIO bus controller (there is another one in SWITCH_CORE, + which is used for indirect PHY accesses) +- ``SWITCH_INDIR_RW``: 64-bits wide register helper block +- ``SWITCH_INTRL2_0/1``: Level-2 interrupt controllers +- ``SWITCH_ACB``: Admission control block +- ``SWITCH_FCB``: Fail-over control block + +Implementation details +====================== + +The driver is located in ``drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c`` and is implemented as a DSA +driver; see ``Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst`` for details on the subsystem +and what it provides. + +The SF2 switch is configured to enable a Broadcom specific 4-bytes switch tag +which gets inserted by the switch for every packet forwarded to the CPU +interface, conversely, the CPU network interface should insert a similar tag for +packets entering the CPU port. The tag format is described in +``net/dsa/tag_brcm.c``. + +Overall, the SF2 driver is a fairly regular DSA driver; there are a few +specifics covered below. + +Device Tree probing +------------------- + +The DSA platform device driver is probed using a specific compatible string +provided in ``net/dsa/dsa.c``. The reason for that is because the DSA subsystem gets +registered as a platform device driver currently. DSA will provide the needed +device_node pointers which are then accessible by the switch driver setup +function to setup resources such as register ranges and interrupts. This +currently works very well because none of the of_* functions utilized by the +driver require a struct device to be bound to a struct device_node, but things +may change in the future. + +MDIO indirect accesses +---------------------- + +Due to a limitation in how Broadcom switches have been designed, external +Broadcom switches connected to a SF2 require the use of the DSA slave MDIO bus +in order to properly configure them. By default, the SF2 pseudo-PHY address, and +an external switch pseudo-PHY address will both be snooping for incoming MDIO +transactions, since they are at the same address (30), resulting in some kind of +"double" programming. Using DSA, and setting ``ds->phys_mii_mask`` accordingly, we +selectively divert reads and writes towards external Broadcom switches +pseudo-PHY addresses. Newer revisions of the SF2 hardware have introduced a +configurable pseudo-PHY address which circumvents the initial design limitation. + +Multimedia over CoAxial (MoCA) interfaces +----------------------------------------- + +MoCA interfaces are fairly specific and require the use of a firmware blob which +gets loaded onto the MoCA processor(s) for packet processing. The switch +hardware contains logic which will assert/de-assert link states accordingly for +the MoCA interface whenever the MoCA coaxial cable gets disconnected or the +firmware gets reloaded. The SF2 driver relies on such events to properly set its +MoCA interface carrier state and properly report this to the networking stack. + +The MoCA interfaces are supported using the PHY library's fixed PHY/emulated PHY +device and the switch driver registers a ``fixed_link_update`` callback for such +PHYs which reflects the link state obtained from the interrupt handler. + + +Power Management +---------------- + +Whenever possible, the SF2 driver tries to minimize the overall switch power +consumption by applying a combination of: + +- turning off internal buffers/memories +- disabling packet processing logic +- putting integrated PHYs in IDDQ/low-power +- reducing the switch core clock based on the active port count +- enabling and advertising EEE +- turning off RGMII data processing logic when the link goes down + +Wake-on-LAN +----------- + +Wake-on-LAN is currently implemented by utilizing the host processor Ethernet +MAC controller wake-on logic. Whenever Wake-on-LAN is requested, an intersection +between the user request and the supported host Ethernet interface WoL +capabilities is done and the intersection result gets configured. During +system-wide suspend/resume, only ports not participating in Wake-on-LAN are +disabled. |