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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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+====================
+rtla-timerlat-top
+====================
+-------------------------------------------
+Measures the operating system timer latency
+-------------------------------------------
+
+:Manual section: 1
+
+SYNOPSIS
+========
+**rtla timerlat top** [*OPTIONS*] ...
+
+DESCRIPTION
+===========
+
+.. include:: common_timerlat_description.rst
+
+The **rtla timerlat top** displays a summary of the periodic output
+from the *timerlat* tracer. It also provides information for each
+operating system noise via the **osnoise:** tracepoints that can be
+seem with the option **-T**.
+
+OPTIONS
+=======
+
+.. include:: common_timerlat_options.rst
+
+.. include:: common_top_options.rst
+
+.. include:: common_options.rst
+
+EXAMPLE
+=======
+
+In the example below, the *timerlat* tracer is set to capture the stack trace at
+the IRQ handler, printing it to the buffer if the *Thread* timer latency is
+higher than *30 us*. It is also set to stop the session if a *Thread* timer
+latency higher than *30 us* is hit. Finally, it is set to save the trace
+buffer if the stop condition is hit::
+
+ [root@alien ~]# rtla timerlat top -s 30 -T 30 -t
+ Timer Latency
+ 0 00:00:59 | IRQ Timer Latency (us) | Thread Timer Latency (us)
+ CPU COUNT | cur min avg max | cur min avg max
+ 0 #58634 | 1 0 1 10 | 11 2 10 23
+ 1 #58634 | 1 0 1 9 | 12 2 9 23
+ 2 #58634 | 0 0 1 11 | 10 2 9 23
+ 3 #58634 | 1 0 1 11 | 11 2 9 24
+ 4 #58634 | 1 0 1 10 | 11 2 9 26
+ 5 #58634 | 1 0 1 8 | 10 2 9 25
+ 6 #58634 | 12 0 1 12 | 30 2 10 30 <--- CPU with spike
+ 7 #58634 | 1 0 1 9 | 11 2 9 23
+ 8 #58633 | 1 0 1 9 | 11 2 9 26
+ 9 #58633 | 1 0 1 9 | 10 2 9 26
+ 10 #58633 | 1 0 1 13 | 11 2 9 28
+ 11 #58633 | 1 0 1 13 | 12 2 9 24
+ 12 #58633 | 1 0 1 8 | 10 2 9 23
+ 13 #58633 | 1 0 1 10 | 10 2 9 22
+ 14 #58633 | 1 0 1 18 | 12 2 9 27
+ 15 #58633 | 1 0 1 10 | 11 2 9 28
+ 16 #58633 | 0 0 1 11 | 7 2 9 26
+ 17 #58633 | 1 0 1 13 | 10 2 9 24
+ 18 #58633 | 1 0 1 9 | 13 2 9 22
+ 19 #58633 | 1 0 1 10 | 11 2 9 23
+ 20 #58633 | 1 0 1 12 | 11 2 9 28
+ 21 #58633 | 1 0 1 14 | 11 2 9 24
+ 22 #58633 | 1 0 1 8 | 11 2 9 22
+ 23 #58633 | 1 0 1 10 | 11 2 9 27
+ timerlat hit stop tracing
+ saving trace to timerlat_trace.txt
+ [root@alien bristot]# tail -60 timerlat_trace.txt
+ [...]
+ timerlat/5-79755 [005] ....... 426.271226: #58634 context thread timer_latency 10823 ns
+ sh-109404 [006] dnLh213 426.271247: #58634 context irq timer_latency 12505 ns
+ sh-109404 [006] dNLh313 426.271258: irq_noise: local_timer:236 start 426.271245463 duration 12553 ns
+ sh-109404 [006] d...313 426.271263: thread_noise: sh:109404 start 426.271245853 duration 4769 ns
+ timerlat/6-79756 [006] ....... 426.271264: #58634 context thread timer_latency 30328 ns
+ timerlat/6-79756 [006] ....1.. 426.271265: <stack trace>
+ => timerlat_irq
+ => __hrtimer_run_queues
+ => hrtimer_interrupt
+ => __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt
+ => sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt
+ => asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt
+ => _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore <---- spinlock that disabled interrupt.
+ => try_to_wake_up
+ => autoremove_wake_function
+ => __wake_up_common
+ => __wake_up_common_lock
+ => ep_poll_callback
+ => __wake_up_common
+ => __wake_up_common_lock
+ => fsnotify_add_event
+ => inotify_handle_inode_event
+ => fsnotify
+ => __fsnotify_parent
+ => __fput
+ => task_work_run
+ => exit_to_user_mode_prepare
+ => syscall_exit_to_user_mode
+ => do_syscall_64
+ => entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
+ => 0x7265000001378c
+ => 0x10000cea7
+ => 0x25a00000204a
+ => 0x12e302d00000000
+ => 0x19b51010901b6
+ => 0x283ce00726500
+ => 0x61ea308872
+ => 0x00000fe3
+ bash-109109 [007] d..h... 426.271265: #58634 context irq timer_latency 1211 ns
+ timerlat/6-79756 [006] ....... 426.271267: timerlat_main: stop tracing hit on cpu 6
+
+In the trace, it is possible the notice that the *IRQ* timer latency was
+already high, accounting *12505 ns*. The IRQ delay was caused by the
+*bash-109109* process that disabled IRQs in the wake-up path
+(*_try_to_wake_up()* function). The duration of the IRQ handler that woke
+up the timerlat thread, informed with the **osnoise:irq_noise** event, was
+also high and added more *12553 ns* to the Thread latency. Finally, the
+**osnoise:thread_noise** added by the currently running thread (including
+the scheduling overhead) added more *4769 ns*. Summing up these values,
+the *Thread* timer latency accounted for *30328 ns*.
+
+The primary reason for this high value is the wake-up path that was hit
+twice during this case: when the *bash-109109* was waking up a thread
+and then when the *timerlat* thread was awakened. This information can
+then be used as the starting point of a more fine-grained analysis.
+
+Note that **rtla timerlat** was dispatched without changing *timerlat* tracer
+threads' priority. That is generally not needed because these threads hava
+priority *FIFO:95* by default, which is a common priority used by real-time
+kernel developers to analyze scheduling delays.
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+**rtla-timerlat**\(1), **rtla-timerlat-hist**\(1)
+
+*timerlat* tracer documentation: <https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/trace/timerlat-tracer.html>
+
+AUTHOR
+------
+Written by Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
+
+.. include:: common_appendix.rst