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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/power/powercap/dtpm.rst b/Documentation/power/powercap/dtpm.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a38dee3d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/power/powercap/dtpm.rst @@ -0,0 +1,212 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +========================================== +Dynamic Thermal Power Management framework +========================================== + +On the embedded world, the complexity of the SoC leads to an +increasing number of hotspots which need to be monitored and mitigated +as a whole in order to prevent the temperature to go above the +normative and legally stated 'skin temperature'. + +Another aspect is to sustain the performance for a given power budget, +for example virtual reality where the user can feel dizziness if the +performance is capped while a big CPU is processing something else. Or +reduce the battery charging because the dissipated power is too high +compared with the power consumed by other devices. + +The user space is the most adequate place to dynamically act on the +different devices by limiting their power given an application +profile: it has the knowledge of the platform. + +The Dynamic Thermal Power Management (DTPM) is a technique acting on +the device power by limiting and/or balancing a power budget among +different devices. + +The DTPM framework provides an unified interface to act on the +device power. + +Overview +======== + +The DTPM framework relies on the powercap framework to create the +powercap entries in the sysfs directory and implement the backend +driver to do the connection with the power manageable device. + +The DTPM is a tree representation describing the power constraints +shared between devices, not their physical positions. + +The nodes of the tree are a virtual description aggregating the power +characteristics of the children nodes and their power limitations. + +The leaves of the tree are the real power manageable devices. + +For instance:: + + SoC + | + `-- pkg + | + |-- pd0 (cpu0-3) + | + `-- pd1 (cpu4-5) + +The pkg power will be the sum of pd0 and pd1 power numbers:: + + SoC (400mW - 3100mW) + | + `-- pkg (400mW - 3100mW) + | + |-- pd0 (100mW - 700mW) + | + `-- pd1 (300mW - 2400mW) + +When the nodes are inserted in the tree, their power characteristics are propagated to the parents:: + + SoC (600mW - 5900mW) + | + |-- pkg (400mW - 3100mW) + | | + | |-- pd0 (100mW - 700mW) + | | + | `-- pd1 (300mW - 2400mW) + | + `-- pd2 (200mW - 2800mW) + +Each node have a weight on a 2^10 basis reflecting the percentage of power consumption along the siblings:: + + SoC (w=1024) + | + |-- pkg (w=538) + | | + | |-- pd0 (w=231) + | | + | `-- pd1 (w=794) + | + `-- pd2 (w=486) + + Note the sum of weights at the same level are equal to 1024. + +When a power limitation is applied to a node, then it is distributed along the children given their weights. For example, if we set a power limitation of 3200mW at the 'SoC' root node, the resulting tree will be:: + + SoC (w=1024) <--- power_limit = 3200mW + | + |-- pkg (w=538) --> power_limit = 1681mW + | | + | |-- pd0 (w=231) --> power_limit = 378mW + | | + | `-- pd1 (w=794) --> power_limit = 1303mW + | + `-- pd2 (w=486) --> power_limit = 1519mW + + +Flat description +---------------- + +A root node is created and it is the parent of all the nodes. This +description is the simplest one and it is supposed to give to user +space a flat representation of all the devices supporting the power +limitation without any power limitation distribution. + +Hierarchical description +------------------------ + +The different devices supporting the power limitation are represented +hierarchically. There is one root node, all intermediate nodes are +grouping the child nodes which can be intermediate nodes also or real +devices. + +The intermediate nodes aggregate the power information and allows to +set the power limit given the weight of the nodes. + +User space API +============== + +As stated in the overview, the DTPM framework is built on top of the +powercap framework. Thus the sysfs interface is the same, please refer +to the powercap documentation for further details. + + * power_uw: Instantaneous power consumption. If the node is an + intermediate node, then the power consumption will be the sum of all + children power consumption. + + * max_power_range_uw: The power range resulting of the maximum power + minus the minimum power. + + * name: The name of the node. This is implementation dependent. Even + if it is not recommended for the user space, several nodes can have + the same name. + + * constraint_X_name: The name of the constraint. + + * constraint_X_max_power_uw: The maximum power limit to be applicable + to the node. + + * constraint_X_power_limit_uw: The power limit to be applied to the + node. If the value contained in constraint_X_max_power_uw is set, + the constraint will be removed. + + * constraint_X_time_window_us: The meaning of this file will depend + on the constraint number. + +Constraints +----------- + + * Constraint 0: The power limitation is immediately applied, without + limitation in time. + +Kernel API +========== + +Overview +-------- + +The DTPM framework has no power limiting backend support. It is +generic and provides a set of API to let the different drivers to +implement the backend part for the power limitation and create the +power constraints tree. + +It is up to the platform to provide the initialization function to +allocate and link the different nodes of the tree. + +A special macro has the role of declaring a node and the corresponding +initialization function via a description structure. This one contains +an optional parent field allowing to hook different devices to an +already existing tree at boot time. + +For instance:: + + struct dtpm_descr my_descr = { + .name = "my_name", + .init = my_init_func, + }; + + DTPM_DECLARE(my_descr); + +The nodes of the DTPM tree are described with dtpm structure. The +steps to add a new power limitable device is done in three steps: + + * Allocate the dtpm node + * Set the power number of the dtpm node + * Register the dtpm node + +The registration of the dtpm node is done with the powercap +ops. Basically, it must implements the callbacks to get and set the +power and the limit. + +Alternatively, if the node to be inserted is an intermediate one, then +a simple function to insert it as a future parent is available. + +If a device has its power characteristics changing, then the tree must +be updated with the new power numbers and weights. + +Nomenclature +------------ + + * dtpm_alloc() : Allocate and initialize a dtpm structure + + * dtpm_register() : Add the dtpm node to the tree + + * dtpm_unregister() : Remove the dtpm node from the tree + + * dtpm_update_power() : Update the power characteristics of the dtpm node diff --git a/Documentation/power/powercap/powercap.rst b/Documentation/power/powercap/powercap.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e75d12596 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/power/powercap/powercap.rst @@ -0,0 +1,262 @@ +======================= +Power Capping Framework +======================= + +The power capping framework provides a consistent interface between the kernel +and the user space that allows power capping drivers to expose the settings to +user space in a uniform way. + +Terminology +=========== + +The framework exposes power capping devices to user space via sysfs in the +form of a tree of objects. The objects at the root level of the tree represent +'control types', which correspond to different methods of power capping. For +example, the intel-rapl control type represents the Intel "Running Average +Power Limit" (RAPL) technology, whereas the 'idle-injection' control type +corresponds to the use of idle injection for controlling power. + +Power zones represent different parts of the system, which can be controlled and +monitored using the power capping method determined by the control type the +given zone belongs to. They each contain attributes for monitoring power, as +well as controls represented in the form of power constraints. If the parts of +the system represented by different power zones are hierarchical (that is, one +bigger part consists of multiple smaller parts that each have their own power +controls), those power zones may also be organized in a hierarchy with one +parent power zone containing multiple subzones and so on to reflect the power +control topology of the system. In that case, it is possible to apply power +capping to a set of devices together using the parent power zone and if more +fine grained control is required, it can be applied through the subzones. + + +Example sysfs interface tree:: + + /sys/devices/virtual/powercap + └──intel-rapl + ├──intel-rapl:0 + │ ├──constraint_0_name + │ ├──constraint_0_power_limit_uw + │ ├──constraint_0_time_window_us + │ ├──constraint_1_name + │ ├──constraint_1_power_limit_uw + │ ├──constraint_1_time_window_us + │ ├──device -> ../../intel-rapl + │ ├──energy_uj + │ ├──intel-rapl:0:0 + │ │ ├──constraint_0_name + │ │ ├──constraint_0_power_limit_uw + │ │ ├──constraint_0_time_window_us + │ │ ├──constraint_1_name + │ │ ├──constraint_1_power_limit_uw + │ │ ├──constraint_1_time_window_us + │ │ ├──device -> ../../intel-rapl:0 + │ │ ├──energy_uj + │ │ ├──max_energy_range_uj + │ │ ├──name + │ │ ├──enabled + │ │ ├──power + │ │ │ ├──async + │ │ │ [] + │ │ ├──subsystem -> ../../../../../../class/power_cap + │ │ └──uevent + │ ├──intel-rapl:0:1 + │ │ ├──constraint_0_name + │ │ ├──constraint_0_power_limit_uw + │ │ ├──constraint_0_time_window_us + │ │ ├──constraint_1_name + │ │ ├──constraint_1_power_limit_uw + │ │ ├──constraint_1_time_window_us + │ │ ├──device -> ../../intel-rapl:0 + │ │ ├──energy_uj + │ │ ├──max_energy_range_uj + │ │ ├──name + │ │ ├──enabled + │ │ ├──power + │ │ │ ├──async + │ │ │ [] + │ │ ├──subsystem -> ../../../../../../class/power_cap + │ │ └──uevent + │ ├──max_energy_range_uj + │ ├──max_power_range_uw + │ ├──name + │ ├──enabled + │ ├──power + │ │ ├──async + │ │ [] + │ ├──subsystem -> ../../../../../class/power_cap + │ ├──enabled + │ ├──uevent + ├──intel-rapl:1 + │ ├──constraint_0_name + │ ├──constraint_0_power_limit_uw + │ ├──constraint_0_time_window_us + │ ├──constraint_1_name + │ ├──constraint_1_power_limit_uw + │ ├──constraint_1_time_window_us + │ ├──device -> ../../intel-rapl + │ ├──energy_uj + │ ├──intel-rapl:1:0 + │ │ ├──constraint_0_name + │ │ ├──constraint_0_power_limit_uw + │ │ ├──constraint_0_time_window_us + │ │ ├──constraint_1_name + │ │ ├──constraint_1_power_limit_uw + │ │ ├──constraint_1_time_window_us + │ │ ├──device -> ../../intel-rapl:1 + │ │ ├──energy_uj + │ │ ├──max_energy_range_uj + │ │ ├──name + │ │ ├──enabled + │ │ ├──power + │ │ │ ├──async + │ │ │ [] + │ │ ├──subsystem -> ../../../../../../class/power_cap + │ │ └──uevent + │ ├──intel-rapl:1:1 + │ │ ├──constraint_0_name + │ │ ├──constraint_0_power_limit_uw + │ │ ├──constraint_0_time_window_us + │ │ ├──constraint_1_name + │ │ ├──constraint_1_power_limit_uw + │ │ ├──constraint_1_time_window_us + │ │ ├──device -> ../../intel-rapl:1 + │ │ ├──energy_uj + │ │ ├──max_energy_range_uj + │ │ ├──name + │ │ ├──enabled + │ │ ├──power + │ │ │ ├──async + │ │ │ [] + │ │ ├──subsystem -> ../../../../../../class/power_cap + │ │ └──uevent + │ ├──max_energy_range_uj + │ ├──max_power_range_uw + │ ├──name + │ ├──enabled + │ ├──power + │ │ ├──async + │ │ [] + │ ├──subsystem -> ../../../../../class/power_cap + │ ├──uevent + ├──power + │ ├──async + │ [] + ├──subsystem -> ../../../../class/power_cap + ├──enabled + └──uevent + +The above example illustrates a case in which the Intel RAPL technology, +available in Intel® IA-64 and IA-32 Processor Architectures, is used. There is one +control type called intel-rapl which contains two power zones, intel-rapl:0 and +intel-rapl:1, representing CPU packages. Each of these power zones contains +two subzones, intel-rapl:j:0 and intel-rapl:j:1 (j = 0, 1), representing the +"core" and the "uncore" parts of the given CPU package, respectively. All of +the zones and subzones contain energy monitoring attributes (energy_uj, +max_energy_range_uj) and constraint attributes (constraint_*) allowing controls +to be applied (the constraints in the 'package' power zones apply to the whole +CPU packages and the subzone constraints only apply to the respective parts of +the given package individually). Since Intel RAPL doesn't provide instantaneous +power value, there is no power_uw attribute. + +In addition to that, each power zone contains a name attribute, allowing the +part of the system represented by that zone to be identified. +For example:: + + cat /sys/class/power_cap/intel-rapl/intel-rapl:0/name + +package-0 +--------- + +Depending on different power zones, the Intel RAPL technology allows +one or multiple constraints like short term, long term and peak power, +with different time windows to be applied to each power zone. +All the zones contain attributes representing the constraint names, +power limits and the sizes of the time windows. Note that time window +is not applicable to peak power. Here, constraint_j_* attributes +correspond to the jth constraint (j = 0,1,2). + +For example:: + + constraint_0_name + constraint_0_power_limit_uw + constraint_0_time_window_us + constraint_1_name + constraint_1_power_limit_uw + constraint_1_time_window_us + constraint_2_name + constraint_2_power_limit_uw + constraint_2_time_window_us + +Power Zone Attributes +===================== + +Monitoring attributes +--------------------- + +energy_uj (rw) + Current energy counter in micro joules. Write "0" to reset. + If the counter can not be reset, then this attribute is read only. + +max_energy_range_uj (ro) + Range of the above energy counter in micro-joules. + +power_uw (ro) + Current power in micro watts. + +max_power_range_uw (ro) + Range of the above power value in micro-watts. + +name (ro) + Name of this power zone. + +It is possible that some domains have both power ranges and energy counter ranges; +however, only one is mandatory. + +Constraints +----------- + +constraint_X_power_limit_uw (rw) + Power limit in micro watts, which should be applicable for the + time window specified by "constraint_X_time_window_us". + +constraint_X_time_window_us (rw) + Time window in micro seconds. + +constraint_X_name (ro) + An optional name of the constraint + +constraint_X_max_power_uw(ro) + Maximum allowed power in micro watts. + +constraint_X_min_power_uw(ro) + Minimum allowed power in micro watts. + +constraint_X_max_time_window_us(ro) + Maximum allowed time window in micro seconds. + +constraint_X_min_time_window_us(ro) + Minimum allowed time window in micro seconds. + +Except power_limit_uw and time_window_us other fields are optional. + +Common zone and control type attributes +--------------------------------------- + +enabled (rw): Enable/Disable controls at zone level or for all zones using +a control type. + +Power Cap Client Driver Interface +================================= + +The API summary: + +Call powercap_register_control_type() to register control type object. +Call powercap_register_zone() to register a power zone (under a given +control type), either as a top-level power zone or as a subzone of another +power zone registered earlier. +The number of constraints in a power zone and the corresponding callbacks have +to be defined prior to calling powercap_register_zone() to register that zone. + +To Free a power zone call powercap_unregister_zone(). +To free a control type object call powercap_unregister_control_type(). +Detailed API can be generated using kernel-doc on include/linux/powercap.h. |