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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/v4l/extended-controls.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/extended-controls.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..44fcd67f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/extended-controls.rst @@ -0,0 +1,173 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GFDL-1.1-no-invariants-or-later + +.. _extended-controls: + +********************* +Extended Controls API +********************* + + +Introduction +============ + +The control mechanism as originally designed was meant to be used for +user settings (brightness, saturation, etc). However, it turned out to +be a very useful model for implementing more complicated driver APIs +where each driver implements only a subset of a larger API. + +The MPEG encoding API was the driving force behind designing and +implementing this extended control mechanism: the MPEG standard is quite +large and the currently supported hardware MPEG encoders each only +implement a subset of this standard. Further more, many parameters +relating to how the video is encoded into an MPEG stream are specific to +the MPEG encoding chip since the MPEG standard only defines the format +of the resulting MPEG stream, not how the video is actually encoded into +that format. + +Unfortunately, the original control API lacked some features needed for +these new uses and so it was extended into the (not terribly originally +named) extended control API. + +Even though the MPEG encoding API was the first effort to use the +Extended Control API, nowadays there are also other classes of Extended +Controls, such as Camera Controls and FM Transmitter Controls. The +Extended Controls API as well as all Extended Controls classes are +described in the following text. + + +The Extended Control API +======================== + +Three new ioctls are available: +:ref:`VIDIOC_G_EXT_CTRLS <VIDIOC_G_EXT_CTRLS>`, +:ref:`VIDIOC_S_EXT_CTRLS <VIDIOC_G_EXT_CTRLS>` and +:ref:`VIDIOC_TRY_EXT_CTRLS <VIDIOC_G_EXT_CTRLS>`. These ioctls act +on arrays of controls (as opposed to the +:ref:`VIDIOC_G_CTRL <VIDIOC_G_CTRL>` and +:ref:`VIDIOC_S_CTRL <VIDIOC_G_CTRL>` ioctls that act on a single +control). This is needed since it is often required to atomically change +several controls at once. + +Each of the new ioctls expects a pointer to a struct +:c:type:`v4l2_ext_controls`. This structure +contains a pointer to the control array, a count of the number of +controls in that array and a control class. Control classes are used to +group similar controls into a single class. For example, control class +``V4L2_CTRL_CLASS_USER`` contains all user controls (i. e. all controls +that can also be set using the old :ref:`VIDIOC_S_CTRL <VIDIOC_G_CTRL>` +ioctl). Control class ``V4L2_CTRL_CLASS_CODEC`` contains controls +relating to codecs. + +All controls in the control array must belong to the specified control +class. An error is returned if this is not the case. + +It is also possible to use an empty control array (``count`` == 0) to check +whether the specified control class is supported. + +The control array is a struct +:c:type:`v4l2_ext_control` array. The +struct :c:type:`v4l2_ext_control` is very similar to +struct :c:type:`v4l2_control`, except for the fact that +it also allows for 64-bit values and pointers to be passed. + +Since the struct :c:type:`v4l2_ext_control` supports +pointers it is now also possible to have controls with compound types +such as N-dimensional arrays and/or structures. You need to specify the +``V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_COMPOUND`` when enumerating controls to actually +be able to see such compound controls. In other words, these controls +with compound types should only be used programmatically. + +Since such compound controls need to expose more information about +themselves than is possible with :ref:`VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL <VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL>` +the :ref:`VIDIOC_QUERY_EXT_CTRL <VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL>` ioctl was added. In +particular, this ioctl gives the dimensions of the N-dimensional array if +this control consists of more than one element. + +.. note:: + + #. It is important to realize that due to the flexibility of controls it is + necessary to check whether the control you want to set actually is + supported in the driver and what the valid range of values is. So use + :ref:`VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL` to check this. + + #. It is possible that some of the menu indices in a control of + type ``V4L2_CTRL_TYPE_MENU`` may not be supported (``VIDIOC_QUERYMENU`` + will return an error). A good example is the list of supported MPEG + audio bitrates. Some drivers only support one or two bitrates, others + support a wider range. + +All controls use machine endianness. + + +Enumerating Extended Controls +============================= + +The recommended way to enumerate over the extended controls is by using +:ref:`VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL` in combination with the +``V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL`` flag: + + +.. code-block:: c + + struct v4l2_queryctrl qctrl; + + qctrl.id = V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL; + while (0 == ioctl (fd, VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL, &qctrl)) { + /* ... */ + qctrl.id |= V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL; + } + +The initial control ID is set to 0 ORed with the +``V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL`` flag. The ``VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL`` ioctl will +return the first control with a higher ID than the specified one. When +no such controls are found an error is returned. + +If you want to get all controls within a specific control class, then +you can set the initial ``qctrl.id`` value to the control class and add +an extra check to break out of the loop when a control of another +control class is found: + + +.. code-block:: c + + qctrl.id = V4L2_CTRL_CLASS_CODEC | V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL; + while (0 == ioctl(fd, VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL, &qctrl)) { + if (V4L2_CTRL_ID2CLASS(qctrl.id) != V4L2_CTRL_CLASS_CODEC) + break; + /* ... */ + qctrl.id |= V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL; + } + +The 32-bit ``qctrl.id`` value is subdivided into three bit ranges: the +top 4 bits are reserved for flags (e. g. ``V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL``) +and are not actually part of the ID. The remaining 28 bits form the +control ID, of which the most significant 12 bits define the control +class and the least significant 16 bits identify the control within the +control class. It is guaranteed that these last 16 bits are always +non-zero for controls. The range of 0x1000 and up are reserved for +driver-specific controls. The macro ``V4L2_CTRL_ID2CLASS(id)`` returns +the control class ID based on a control ID. + +If the driver does not support extended controls, then +``VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL`` will fail when used in combination with +``V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL``. In that case the old method of enumerating +control should be used (see :ref:`enum_all_controls`). But if it is +supported, then it is guaranteed to enumerate over all controls, +including driver-private controls. + + +Creating Control Panels +======================= + +It is possible to create control panels for a graphical user interface +where the user can select the various controls. Basically you will have +to iterate over all controls using the method described above. Each +control class starts with a control of type +``V4L2_CTRL_TYPE_CTRL_CLASS``. ``VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL`` will return the name +of this control class which can be used as the title of a tab page +within a control panel. + +The flags field of struct :ref:`v4l2_queryctrl <v4l2-queryctrl>` also +contains hints on the behavior of the control. See the +:ref:`VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL` documentation for more +details. |