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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/usb/gadget_configfs.rst b/Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e4566ffb2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.rst @@ -0,0 +1,390 @@ +============================================ +Linux USB gadget configured through configfs +============================================ + + +25th April 2013 + + + + +Overview +======== + +A USB Linux Gadget is a device which has a UDC (USB Device Controller) and can +be connected to a USB Host to extend it with additional functions like a serial +port or a mass storage capability. + +A gadget is seen by its host as a set of configurations, each of which contains +a number of interfaces which, from the gadget's perspective, are known as +functions, each function representing e.g. a serial connection or a SCSI disk. + +Linux provides a number of functions for gadgets to use. + +Creating a gadget means deciding what configurations there will be +and which functions each configuration will provide. + +Configfs (please see `Documentation/filesystems/configfs.rst`) lends itself nicely +for the purpose of telling the kernel about the above mentioned decision. +This document is about how to do it. + +It also describes how configfs integration into gadget is designed. + + + + +Requirements +============ + +In order for this to work configfs must be available, so CONFIGFS_FS must be +'y' or 'm' in .config. As of this writing USB_LIBCOMPOSITE selects CONFIGFS_FS. + + + + +Usage +===== + +(The original post describing the first function +made available through configfs can be seen here: +http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg76388.html) + +:: + + $ modprobe libcomposite + $ mount none $CONFIGFS_HOME -t configfs + +where CONFIGFS_HOME is the mount point for configfs + +1. Creating the gadgets +----------------------- + +For each gadget to be created its corresponding directory must be created:: + + $ mkdir $CONFIGFS_HOME/usb_gadget/<gadget name> + +e.g.:: + + $ mkdir $CONFIGFS_HOME/usb_gadget/g1 + + ... + ... + ... + + $ cd $CONFIGFS_HOME/usb_gadget/g1 + +Each gadget needs to have its vendor id <VID> and product id <PID> specified:: + + $ echo <VID> > idVendor + $ echo <PID> > idProduct + +A gadget also needs its serial number, manufacturer and product strings. +In order to have a place to store them, a strings subdirectory must be created +for each language, e.g.:: + + $ mkdir strings/0x409 + +Then the strings can be specified:: + + $ echo <serial number> > strings/0x409/serialnumber + $ echo <manufacturer> > strings/0x409/manufacturer + $ echo <product> > strings/0x409/product + +2. Creating the configurations +------------------------------ + +Each gadget will consist of a number of configurations, their corresponding +directories must be created: + +$ mkdir configs/<name>.<number> + +where <name> can be any string which is legal in a filesystem and the +<number> is the configuration's number, e.g.:: + + $ mkdir configs/c.1 + + ... + ... + ... + +Each configuration also needs its strings, so a subdirectory must be created +for each language, e.g.:: + + $ mkdir configs/c.1/strings/0x409 + +Then the configuration string can be specified:: + + $ echo <configuration> > configs/c.1/strings/0x409/configuration + +Some attributes can also be set for a configuration, e.g.:: + + $ echo 120 > configs/c.1/MaxPower + +3. Creating the functions +------------------------- + +The gadget will provide some functions, for each function its corresponding +directory must be created:: + + $ mkdir functions/<name>.<instance name> + +where <name> corresponds to one of allowed function names and instance name +is an arbitrary string allowed in a filesystem, e.g.:: + + $ mkdir functions/ncm.usb0 # usb_f_ncm.ko gets loaded with request_module() + + ... + ... + ... + +Each function provides its specific set of attributes, with either read-only +or read-write access. Where applicable they need to be written to as +appropriate. +Please refer to Documentation/ABI/testing/configfs-usb-gadget for more information. + +4. Associating the functions with their configurations +------------------------------------------------------ + +At this moment a number of gadgets is created, each of which has a number of +configurations specified and a number of functions available. What remains +is specifying which function is available in which configuration (the same +function can be used in multiple configurations). This is achieved with +creating symbolic links:: + + $ ln -s functions/<name>.<instance name> configs/<name>.<number> + +e.g.:: + + $ ln -s functions/ncm.usb0 configs/c.1 + + ... + ... + ... + +5. Enabling the gadget +---------------------- + +All the above steps serve the purpose of composing the gadget of +configurations and functions. + +An example directory structure might look like this:: + + . + ./strings + ./strings/0x409 + ./strings/0x409/serialnumber + ./strings/0x409/product + ./strings/0x409/manufacturer + ./configs + ./configs/c.1 + ./configs/c.1/ncm.usb0 -> ../../../../usb_gadget/g1/functions/ncm.usb0 + ./configs/c.1/strings + ./configs/c.1/strings/0x409 + ./configs/c.1/strings/0x409/configuration + ./configs/c.1/bmAttributes + ./configs/c.1/MaxPower + ./functions + ./functions/ncm.usb0 + ./functions/ncm.usb0/ifname + ./functions/ncm.usb0/qmult + ./functions/ncm.usb0/host_addr + ./functions/ncm.usb0/dev_addr + ./UDC + ./bcdUSB + ./bcdDevice + ./idProduct + ./idVendor + ./bMaxPacketSize0 + ./bDeviceProtocol + ./bDeviceSubClass + ./bDeviceClass + + +Such a gadget must be finally enabled so that the USB host can enumerate it. + +In order to enable the gadget it must be bound to a UDC (USB Device +Controller):: + + $ echo <udc name> > UDC + +where <udc name> is one of those found in /sys/class/udc/* +e.g.:: + + $ echo s3c-hsotg > UDC + + +6. Disabling the gadget +----------------------- + +:: + + $ echo "" > UDC + +7. Cleaning up +-------------- + +Remove functions from configurations:: + + $ rm configs/<config name>.<number>/<function> + +where <config name>.<number> specify the configuration and <function> is +a symlink to a function being removed from the configuration, e.g.:: + + $ rm configs/c.1/ncm.usb0 + + ... + ... + ... + +Remove strings directories in configurations: + + $ rmdir configs/<config name>.<number>/strings/<lang> + +e.g.:: + + $ rmdir configs/c.1/strings/0x409 + + ... + ... + ... + +and remove the configurations:: + + $ rmdir configs/<config name>.<number> + +e.g.:: + + rmdir configs/c.1 + + ... + ... + ... + +Remove functions (function modules are not unloaded, though): + + $ rmdir functions/<name>.<instance name> + +e.g.:: + + $ rmdir functions/ncm.usb0 + + ... + ... + ... + +Remove strings directories in the gadget:: + + $ rmdir strings/<lang> + +e.g.:: + + $ rmdir strings/0x409 + +and finally remove the gadget:: + + $ cd .. + $ rmdir <gadget name> + +e.g.:: + + $ rmdir g1 + + + + +Implementation design +===================== + +Below the idea of how configfs works is presented. +In configfs there are items and groups, both represented as directories. +The difference between an item and a group is that a group can contain +other groups. In the picture below only an item is shown. +Both items and groups can have attributes, which are represented as files. +The user can create and remove directories, but cannot remove files, +which can be read-only or read-write, depending on what they represent. + +The filesystem part of configfs operates on config_items/groups and +configfs_attributes which are generic and of the same type for all +configured elements. However, they are embedded in usage-specific +larger structures. In the picture below there is a "cs" which contains +a config_item and an "sa" which contains a configfs_attribute. + +The filesystem view would be like this:: + + ./ + ./cs (directory) + | + +--sa (file) + | + . + . + . + +Whenever a user reads/writes the "sa" file, a function is called +which accepts a struct config_item and a struct configfs_attribute. +In the said function the "cs" and "sa" are retrieved using the well +known container_of technique and an appropriate sa's function (show or +store) is called and passed the "cs" and a character buffer. The "show" +is for displaying the file's contents (copy data from the cs to the +buffer), while the "store" is for modifying the file's contents (copy data +from the buffer to the cs), but it is up to the implementer of the +two functions to decide what they actually do. + +:: + + typedef struct configured_structure cs; + typedef struct specific_attribute sa; + + sa + +----------------------------------+ + cs | (*show)(cs *, buffer); | + +-----------------+ | (*store)(cs *, buffer, length); | + | | | | + | +-------------+ | | +------------------+ | + | | struct |-|----|------>|struct | | + | | config_item | | | |configfs_attribute| | + | +-------------+ | | +------------------+ | + | | +----------------------------------+ + | data to be set | . + | | . + +-----------------+ . + +The file names are decided by the config item/group designer, while +the directories in general can be named at will. A group can have +a number of its default sub-groups created automatically. + +For more information on configfs please see +`Documentation/filesystems/configfs.rst`. + +The concepts described above translate to USB gadgets like this: + +1. A gadget has its config group, which has some attributes (idVendor, +idProduct etc) and default sub-groups (configs, functions, strings). +Writing to the attributes causes the information to be stored in +appropriate locations. In the configs, functions and strings sub-groups +a user can create their sub-groups to represent configurations, functions, +and groups of strings in a given language. + +2. The user creates configurations and functions, in the configurations +creates symbolic links to functions. This information is used when the +gadget's UDC attribute is written to, which means binding the gadget +to the UDC. The code in drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c iterates over +all configurations, and in each configuration it iterates over all +functions and binds them. This way the whole gadget is bound. + +3. The file drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c contains code for + + - gadget's config_group + - gadget's default groups (configs, functions, strings) + - associating functions with configurations (symlinks) + +4. Each USB function naturally has its own view of what it wants +configured, so config_groups for particular functions are defined +in the functions implementation files drivers/usb/gadget/f_*.c. + +5. Function's code is written in such a way that it uses + +usb_get_function_instance(), which, in turn, calls request_module. +So, provided that modprobe works, modules for particular functions +are loaded automatically. Please note that the converse is not true: +after a gadget is disabled and torn down, the modules remain loaded. |