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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/userspace-api/media/dvb/intro.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/intro.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6784ae796 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/intro.rst @@ -0,0 +1,183 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GFDL-1.1-no-invariants-or-later + +.. _dvb_introdution: + +************ +Introduction +************ + + +.. _requisites: + +What you need to know +===================== + +The reader of this document is required to have some knowledge in the +area of digital video broadcasting (Digital TV) and should be familiar with +part I of the MPEG2 specification ISO/IEC 13818 (aka ITU-T H.222), i.e +you should know what a program/transport stream (PS/TS) is and what is +meant by a packetized elementary stream (PES) or an I-frame. + +Various Digital TV standards documents are available for download at: + +- European standards (DVB): http://www.dvb.org and/or http://www.etsi.org. +- American standards (ATSC): https://www.atsc.org/standards/ +- Japanese standards (ISDB): http://www.dibeg.org/ + +It is also necessary to know how to access Linux devices and how to +use ioctl calls. This also includes the knowledge of C or C++. + + +.. _history: + +History +======= + +The first API for Digital TV cards we used at Convergence in late 1999 was an +extension of the Video4Linux API which was primarily developed for frame +grabber cards. As such it was not really well suited to be used for Digital +TV cards and their new features like recording MPEG streams and filtering +several section and PES data streams at the same time. + +In early 2000, Convergence was approached by Nokia with a proposal for a new +standard Linux Digital TV API. As a commitment to the development of terminals +based on open standards, Nokia and Convergence made it available to all +Linux developers and published it on https://linuxtv.org in September +2000. With the Linux driver for the Siemens/Hauppauge DVB PCI card, +Convergence provided a first implementation of the Linux Digital TV API. +Convergence was the maintainer of the Linux Digital TV API in the early +days. + +Now, the API is maintained by the LinuxTV community (i.e. you, the reader +of this document). The Linux Digital TV API is constantly reviewed and +improved together with the improvements at the subsystem's core at the +Kernel. + + +.. _overview: + +Overview +======== + + +.. _stb_components: + +.. kernel-figure:: dvbstb.svg + :alt: dvbstb.svg + :align: center + + Components of a Digital TV card/STB + +A Digital TV card or set-top-box (STB) usually consists of the +following main hardware components: + +Frontend consisting of tuner and digital TV demodulator + Here the raw signal reaches the digital TV hardware from a satellite dish or + antenna or directly from cable. The frontend down-converts and + demodulates this signal into an MPEG transport stream (TS). In case + of a satellite frontend, this includes a facility for satellite + equipment control (SEC), which allows control of LNB polarization, + multi feed switches or dish rotors. + +Conditional Access (CA) hardware like CI adapters and smartcard slots + The complete TS is passed through the CA hardware. Programs to which + the user has access (controlled by the smart card) are decoded in + real time and re-inserted into the TS. + + .. note:: + + Not every digital TV hardware provides conditional access hardware. + +Demultiplexer which filters the incoming Digital TV MPEG-TS stream + The demultiplexer splits the TS into its components like audio and + video streams. Besides usually several of such audio and video + streams it also contains data streams with information about the + programs offered in this or other streams of the same provider. + +Audio and video decoder + The main targets of the demultiplexer are audio and video + decoders. After decoding, they pass on the uncompressed audio and + video to the computer screen or to a TV set. + + .. note:: + + Modern hardware usually doesn't have a separate decoder hardware, as + such functionality can be provided by the main CPU, by the graphics + adapter of the system or by a signal processing hardware embedded on + a Systems on a Chip (SoC) integrated circuit. + + It may also not be needed for certain usages (e.g. for data-only + uses like "internet over satellite"). + +:ref:`stb_components` shows a crude schematic of the control and data +flow between those components. + + + +.. _dvb_devices: + +Linux Digital TV Devices +======================== + +The Linux Digital TV API lets you control these hardware components through +currently six Unix-style character devices for video, audio, frontend, +demux, CA and IP-over-DVB networking. The video and audio devices +control the MPEG2 decoder hardware, the frontend device the tuner and +the Digital TV demodulator. The demux device gives you control over the PES +and section filters of the hardware. If the hardware does not support +filtering these filters can be implemented in software. Finally, the CA +device controls all the conditional access capabilities of the hardware. +It can depend on the individual security requirements of the platform, +if and how many of the CA functions are made available to the +application through this device. + +All devices can be found in the ``/dev`` tree under ``/dev/dvb``. The +individual devices are called: + +- ``/dev/dvb/adapterN/audioM``, + +- ``/dev/dvb/adapterN/videoM``, + +- ``/dev/dvb/adapterN/frontendM``, + +- ``/dev/dvb/adapterN/netM``, + +- ``/dev/dvb/adapterN/demuxM``, + +- ``/dev/dvb/adapterN/dvrM``, + +- ``/dev/dvb/adapterN/caM``, + +where ``N`` enumerates the Digital TV cards in a system starting from 0, and +``M`` enumerates the devices of each type within each adapter, starting +from 0, too. We will omit the "``/dev/dvb/adapterN/``\ " in the further +discussion of these devices. + +More details about the data structures and function calls of all the +devices are described in the following chapters. + + +.. _include_files: + +API include files +================= + +For each of the Digital TV devices a corresponding include file exists. The +Digital TV API include files should be included in application sources with a +partial path like: + + +.. code-block:: c + + #include <linux/dvb/ca.h> + + #include <linux/dvb/dmx.h> + + #include <linux/dvb/frontend.h> + + #include <linux/dvb/net.h> + + +To enable applications to support different API version, an additional +include file ``linux/dvb/version.h`` exists, which defines the constant +``DVB_API_VERSION``. This document describes ``DVB_API_VERSION 5.10``. |