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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/powerpc/elf_hwcaps.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/elf_hwcaps.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3366e5b18 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/elf_hwcaps.rst @@ -0,0 +1,231 @@ +.. _elf_hwcaps_powerpc: + +================== +POWERPC ELF HWCAPs +================== + +This document describes the usage and semantics of the powerpc ELF HWCAPs. + + +1. Introduction +--------------- + +Some hardware or software features are only available on some CPU +implementations, and/or with certain kernel configurations, but have no other +discovery mechanism available to userspace code. The kernel exposes the +presence of these features to userspace through a set of flags called HWCAPs, +exposed in the auxiliary vector. + +Userspace software can test for features by acquiring the AT_HWCAP or +AT_HWCAP2 entry of the auxiliary vector, and testing whether the relevant +flags are set, e.g.:: + + bool floating_point_is_present(void) + { + unsigned long HWCAPs = getauxval(AT_HWCAP); + if (HWCAPs & PPC_FEATURE_HAS_FPU) + return true; + + return false; + } + +Where software relies on a feature described by a HWCAP, it should check the +relevant HWCAP flag to verify that the feature is present before attempting to +make use of the feature. + +HWCAP is the preferred method to test for the presence of a feature rather +than probing through other means, which may not be reliable or may cause +unpredictable behaviour. + +Software that targets a particular platform does not necessarily have to +test for required or implied features. For example if the program requires +FPU, VMX, VSX, it is not necessary to test those HWCAPs, and it may be +impossible to do so if the compiler generates code requiring those features. + +2. Facilities +------------- + +The Power ISA uses the term "facility" to describe a class of instructions, +registers, interrupts, etc. The presence or absence of a facility indicates +whether this class is available to be used, but the specifics depend on the +ISA version. For example, if the VSX facility is available, the VSX +instructions that can be used differ between the v3.0B and v3.1B ISA +versions. + +3. Categories +------------- + +The Power ISA before v3.0 uses the term "category" to describe certain +classes of instructions and operating modes which may be optional or +mutually exclusive, the exact meaning of the HWCAP flag may depend on +context, e.g., the presence of the BOOKE feature implies that the server +category is not implemented. + +4. HWCAP allocation +------------------- + +HWCAPs are allocated as described in Power Architecture 64-Bit ELF V2 ABI +Specification (which will be reflected in the kernel's uapi headers). + +5. The HWCAPs exposed in AT_HWCAP +--------------------------------- + +PPC_FEATURE_32 + 32-bit CPU + +PPC_FEATURE_64 + 64-bit CPU (userspace may be running in 32-bit mode). + +PPC_FEATURE_601_INSTR + The processor is PowerPC 601. + Unused in the kernel since f0ed73f3fa2c ("powerpc: Remove PowerPC 601") + +PPC_FEATURE_HAS_ALTIVEC + Vector (aka Altivec, VMX) facility is available. + +PPC_FEATURE_HAS_FPU + Floating point facility is available. + +PPC_FEATURE_HAS_MMU + Memory management unit is present and enabled. + +PPC_FEATURE_HAS_4xxMAC + The processor is 40x or 44x family. + +PPC_FEATURE_UNIFIED_CACHE + The processor has a unified L1 cache for instructions and data, as + found in NXP e200. + Unused in the kernel since 39c8bf2b3cc1 ("powerpc: Retire e200 core (mpc555x processor)") + +PPC_FEATURE_HAS_SPE + Signal Processing Engine facility is available. + +PPC_FEATURE_HAS_EFP_SINGLE + Embedded Floating Point single precision operations are available. + +PPC_FEATURE_HAS_EFP_DOUBLE + Embedded Floating Point double precision operations are available. + +PPC_FEATURE_NO_TB + The timebase facility (mftb instruction) is not available. + This is a 601 specific HWCAP, so if it is known that the processor + running is not a 601, via other HWCAPs or other means, it is not + required to test this bit before using the timebase. + Unused in the kernel since f0ed73f3fa2c ("powerpc: Remove PowerPC 601") + +PPC_FEATURE_POWER4 + The processor is POWER4 or PPC970/FX/MP. + POWER4 support dropped from the kernel since 471d7ff8b51b ("powerpc/64s: Remove POWER4 support") + +PPC_FEATURE_POWER5 + The processor is POWER5. + +PPC_FEATURE_POWER5_PLUS + The processor is POWER5+. + +PPC_FEATURE_CELL + The processor is Cell. + +PPC_FEATURE_BOOKE + The processor implements the embedded category ("BookE") architecture. + +PPC_FEATURE_SMT + The processor implements SMT. + +PPC_FEATURE_ICACHE_SNOOP + The processor icache is coherent with the dcache, and instruction storage + can be made consistent with data storage for the purpose of executing + instructions with the sequence (as described in, e.g., POWER9 Processor + User's Manual, 4.6.2.2 Instruction Cache Block Invalidate (icbi)):: + + sync + icbi (to any address) + isync + +PPC_FEATURE_ARCH_2_05 + The processor supports the v2.05 userlevel architecture. Processors + supporting later architectures DO NOT set this feature. + +PPC_FEATURE_PA6T + The processor is PA6T. + +PPC_FEATURE_HAS_DFP + DFP facility is available. + +PPC_FEATURE_POWER6_EXT + The processor is POWER6. + +PPC_FEATURE_ARCH_2_06 + The processor supports the v2.06 userlevel architecture. Processors + supporting later architectures also set this feature. + +PPC_FEATURE_HAS_VSX + VSX facility is available. + +PPC_FEATURE_PSERIES_PERFMON_COMPAT + The processor supports architected PMU events in the range 0xE0-0xFF. + +PPC_FEATURE_TRUE_LE + The processor supports true little-endian mode. + +PPC_FEATURE_PPC_LE + The processor supports "PowerPC Little-Endian", that uses address + munging to make storage access appear to be little-endian, but the + data is stored in a different format that is unsuitable to be + accessed by other agents not running in this mode. + +6. The HWCAPs exposed in AT_HWCAP2 +---------------------------------- + +PPC_FEATURE2_ARCH_2_07 + The processor supports the v2.07 userlevel architecture. Processors + supporting later architectures also set this feature. + +PPC_FEATURE2_HTM + Transactional Memory feature is available. + +PPC_FEATURE2_DSCR + DSCR facility is available. + +PPC_FEATURE2_EBB + EBB facility is available. + +PPC_FEATURE2_ISEL + isel instruction is available. This is superseded by ARCH_2_07 and + later. + +PPC_FEATURE2_TAR + TAR facility is available. + +PPC_FEATURE2_VEC_CRYPTO + v2.07 crypto instructions are available. + +PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC + System calls fail if called in a transactional state, see + Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst + +PPC_FEATURE2_ARCH_3_00 + The processor supports the v3.0B / v3.0C userlevel architecture. Processors + supporting later architectures also set this feature. + +PPC_FEATURE2_HAS_IEEE128 + IEEE 128-bit binary floating point is supported with VSX + quad-precision instructions and data types. + +PPC_FEATURE2_DARN + darn instruction is available. + +PPC_FEATURE2_SCV + The scv 0 instruction may be used for system calls, see + Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst. + +PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NO_SUSPEND + A limited Transactional Memory facility that does not support suspend is + available, see Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.rst. + +PPC_FEATURE2_ARCH_3_1 + The processor supports the v3.1 userlevel architecture. Processors + supporting later architectures also set this feature. + +PPC_FEATURE2_MMA + MMA facility is available. |