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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. 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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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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+.. iommu:
+
+=====================================
+IOMMU Userspace API
+=====================================
+
+IOMMU UAPI is used for virtualization cases where communications are
+needed between physical and virtual IOMMU drivers. For baremetal
+usage, the IOMMU is a system device which does not need to communicate
+with userspace directly.
+
+The primary use cases are guest Shared Virtual Address (SVA) and
+guest IO virtual address (IOVA), wherein the vIOMMU implementation
+relies on the physical IOMMU and for this reason requires interactions
+with the host driver.
+
+.. contents:: :local:
+
+Functionalities
+===============
+Communications of user and kernel involve both directions. The
+supported user-kernel APIs are as follows:
+
+1. Bind/Unbind guest PASID (e.g. Intel VT-d)
+2. Bind/Unbind guest PASID table (e.g. ARM SMMU)
+3. Invalidate IOMMU caches upon guest requests
+4. Report errors to the guest and serve page requests
+
+Requirements
+============
+The IOMMU UAPIs are generic and extensible to meet the following
+requirements:
+
+1. Emulated and para-virtualised vIOMMUs
+2. Multiple vendors (Intel VT-d, ARM SMMU, etc.)
+3. Extensions to the UAPI shall not break existing userspace
+
+Interfaces
+==========
+Although the data structures defined in IOMMU UAPI are self-contained,
+there are no user API functions introduced. Instead, IOMMU UAPI is
+designed to work with existing user driver frameworks such as VFIO.
+
+Extension Rules & Precautions
+-----------------------------
+When IOMMU UAPI gets extended, the data structures can *only* be
+modified in two ways:
+
+1. Adding new fields by re-purposing the padding[] field. No size change.
+2. Adding new union members at the end. May increase the structure sizes.
+
+No new fields can be added *after* the variable sized union in that it
+will break backward compatibility when offset moves. A new flag must
+be introduced whenever a change affects the structure using either
+method. The IOMMU driver processes the data based on flags which
+ensures backward compatibility.
+
+Version field is only reserved for the unlikely event of UAPI upgrade
+at its entirety.
+
+It's *always* the caller's responsibility to indicate the size of the
+structure passed by setting argsz appropriately.
+Though at the same time, argsz is user provided data which is not
+trusted. The argsz field allows the user app to indicate how much data
+it is providing; it's still the kernel's responsibility to validate
+whether it's correct and sufficient for the requested operation.
+
+Compatibility Checking
+----------------------
+When IOMMU UAPI extension results in some structure size increase,
+IOMMU UAPI code shall handle the following cases:
+
+1. User and kernel has exact size match
+2. An older user with older kernel header (smaller UAPI size) running on a
+ newer kernel (larger UAPI size)
+3. A newer user with newer kernel header (larger UAPI size) running
+ on an older kernel.
+4. A malicious/misbehaving user passing illegal/invalid size but within
+ range. The data may contain garbage.
+
+Feature Checking
+----------------
+While launching a guest with vIOMMU, it is strongly advised to check
+the compatibility upfront, as some subsequent errors happening during
+vIOMMU operation, such as cache invalidation failures cannot be nicely
+escalated to the guest due to IOMMU specifications. This can lead to
+catastrophic failures for the users.
+
+User applications such as QEMU are expected to import kernel UAPI
+headers. Backward compatibility is supported per feature flags.
+For example, an older QEMU (with older kernel header) can run on newer
+kernel. Newer QEMU (with new kernel header) may refuse to initialize
+on an older kernel if new feature flags are not supported by older
+kernel. Simply recompiling existing code with newer kernel header should
+not be an issue in that only existing flags are used.
+
+IOMMU vendor driver should report the below features to IOMMU UAPI
+consumers (e.g. via VFIO).
+
+1. IOMMU_NESTING_FEAT_SYSWIDE_PASID
+2. IOMMU_NESTING_FEAT_BIND_PGTBL
+3. IOMMU_NESTING_FEAT_BIND_PASID_TABLE
+4. IOMMU_NESTING_FEAT_CACHE_INVLD
+5. IOMMU_NESTING_FEAT_PAGE_REQUEST
+
+Take VFIO as example, upon request from VFIO userspace (e.g. QEMU),
+VFIO kernel code shall query IOMMU vendor driver for the support of
+the above features. Query result can then be reported back to the
+userspace caller. Details can be found in
+Documentation/driver-api/vfio.rst.
+
+
+Data Passing Example with VFIO
+------------------------------
+As the ubiquitous userspace driver framework, VFIO is already IOMMU
+aware and shares many key concepts such as device model, group, and
+protection domain. Other user driver frameworks can also be extended
+to support IOMMU UAPI but it is outside the scope of this document.
+
+In this tight-knit VFIO-IOMMU interface, the ultimate consumer of the
+IOMMU UAPI data is the host IOMMU driver. VFIO facilitates user-kernel
+transport, capability checking, security, and life cycle management of
+process address space ID (PASID).
+
+VFIO layer conveys the data structures down to the IOMMU driver. It
+follows the pattern below::
+
+ struct {
+ __u32 argsz;
+ __u32 flags;
+ __u8 data[];
+ };
+
+Here data[] contains the IOMMU UAPI data structures. VFIO has the
+freedom to bundle the data as well as parse data size based on its own flags.
+
+In order to determine the size and feature set of the user data, argsz
+and flags (or the equivalent) are also embedded in the IOMMU UAPI data
+structures.
+
+A "__u32 argsz" field is *always* at the beginning of each structure.
+
+For example:
+::
+
+ struct iommu_cache_invalidate_info {
+ __u32 argsz;
+ #define IOMMU_CACHE_INVALIDATE_INFO_VERSION_1 1
+ __u32 version;
+ /* IOMMU paging structure cache */
+ #define IOMMU_CACHE_INV_TYPE_IOTLB (1 << 0) /* IOMMU IOTLB */
+ #define IOMMU_CACHE_INV_TYPE_DEV_IOTLB (1 << 1) /* Device IOTLB */
+ #define IOMMU_CACHE_INV_TYPE_PASID (1 << 2) /* PASID cache */
+ #define IOMMU_CACHE_INV_TYPE_NR (3)
+ __u8 cache;
+ __u8 granularity;
+ __u8 padding[6];
+ union {
+ struct iommu_inv_pasid_info pasid_info;
+ struct iommu_inv_addr_info addr_info;
+ } granu;
+ };
+
+VFIO is responsible for checking its own argsz and flags. It then
+invokes appropriate IOMMU UAPI functions. The user pointers are passed
+to the IOMMU layer for further processing. The responsibilities are
+divided as follows:
+
+- Generic IOMMU layer checks argsz range based on UAPI data in the
+ current kernel version.
+
+- Generic IOMMU layer checks content of the UAPI data for non-zero
+ reserved bits in flags, padding fields, and unsupported version.
+ This is to ensure not breaking userspace in the future when these
+ fields or flags are used.
+
+- Vendor IOMMU driver checks argsz based on vendor flags. UAPI data
+ is consumed based on flags. Vendor driver has access to
+ unadulterated argsz value in case of vendor specific future
+ extensions. Currently, it does not perform the copy_from_user()
+ itself. A __user pointer can be provided in some future scenarios
+ where there's vendor data outside of the structure definition.
+
+IOMMU code treats UAPI data in two categories:
+
+- structure contains vendor data
+ (Example: iommu_uapi_cache_invalidate())
+
+- structure contains only generic data
+ (Example: iommu_uapi_sva_bind_gpasid())
+
+
+
+Sharing UAPI with in-kernel users
+---------------------------------
+For UAPIs that are shared with in-kernel users, a wrapper function is
+provided to distinguish the callers. For example,
+
+Userspace caller ::
+
+ int iommu_uapi_sva_unbind_gpasid(struct iommu_domain *domain,
+ struct device *dev,
+ void __user *udata)
+
+In-kernel caller ::
+
+ int iommu_sva_unbind_gpasid(struct iommu_domain *domain,
+ struct device *dev, ioasid_t ioasid);