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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/open.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/open.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..18bfb9b81 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/open.rst @@ -0,0 +1,238 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GFDL-1.1-no-invariants-or-later +.. c:namespace:: V4L + +.. _open: + +*************************** +Opening and Closing Devices +*************************** + +.. _v4l2_hardware_control: + +Controlling a hardware peripheral via V4L2 +========================================== + +Hardware that is supported using the V4L2 uAPI often consists of multiple +devices or peripherals, each of which have their own driver. + +The bridge driver exposes one or more V4L2 device nodes +(see :ref:`v4l2_device_naming`). + +There are other drivers providing support for other components of +the hardware, which may also expose device nodes, called V4L2 sub-devices. + +When such V4L2 sub-devices are exposed, they allow controlling those +other hardware components - usually connected via a serial bus (like +I²C, SMBus or SPI). Depending on the bridge driver, those sub-devices +can be controlled indirectly via the bridge driver or explicitly via +the :ref:`Media Controller <media_controller>` and via the +:ref:`V4L2 sub-devices <subdev>`. + +The devices that require the use of the +:ref:`Media Controller <media_controller>` are called **MC-centric** +devices. The devices that are fully controlled via V4L2 device nodes +are called **video-node-centric**. + +Userspace can check if a V4L2 hardware peripheral is MC-centric by +calling :ref:`VIDIOC_QUERYCAP` and checking the +:ref:`device_caps field <device-capabilities>`. + +If the device returns ``V4L2_CAP_IO_MC`` flag at ``device_caps``, +then it is MC-centric, otherwise, it is video-node-centric. + +It is required for MC-centric drivers to identify the V4L2 +sub-devices and to configure the pipelines via the +:ref:`media controller API <media_controller>` before using the peripheral. +Also, the sub-devices' configuration shall be controlled via the +:ref:`sub-device API <subdev>`. + +.. note:: + + A video-node-centric may still provide media-controller and + sub-device interfaces as well. + + However, in that case the media-controller and the sub-device + interfaces are read-only and just provide information about the + device. The actual configuration is done via the video nodes. + +.. _v4l2_device_naming: + +V4L2 Device Node Naming +======================= + +V4L2 drivers are implemented as kernel modules, loaded manually by the +system administrator or automatically when a device is first discovered. +The driver modules plug into the ``videodev`` kernel module. It provides +helper functions and a common application interface specified in this +document. + +Each driver thus loaded registers one or more device nodes with major +number 81. Minor numbers are allocated dynamically unless the kernel +is compiled with the kernel option CONFIG_VIDEO_FIXED_MINOR_RANGES. +In that case minor numbers are allocated in ranges depending on the +device node type. + +The device nodes supported by the Video4Linux subsystem are: + +======================== ==================================================== +Default device node name Usage +======================== ==================================================== +``/dev/videoX`` Video and metadata for capture/output devices +``/dev/vbiX`` Vertical blank data (i.e. closed captions, teletext) +``/dev/radioX`` Radio tuners and modulators +``/dev/swradioX`` Software Defined Radio tuners and modulators +``/dev/v4l-touchX`` Touch sensors +``/dev/v4l-subdevX`` Video sub-devices (used by sensors and other + components of the hardware peripheral)\ [#]_ +======================== ==================================================== + +Where ``X`` is a non-negative integer. + +.. note:: + + 1. The actual device node name is system-dependent, as udev rules may apply. + 2. There is no guarantee that ``X`` will remain the same for the same + device, as the number depends on the device driver's probe order. + If you need an unique name, udev default rules produce + ``/dev/v4l/by-id/`` and ``/dev/v4l/by-path/`` directories containing + links that can be used uniquely to identify a V4L2 device node:: + + $ tree /dev/v4l + /dev/v4l + ├── by-id + │ └── usb-OmniVision._USB_Camera-B4.04.27.1-video-index0 -> ../../video0 + └── by-path + └── pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:2:1.0-video-index0 -> ../../video0 + +.. [#] **V4L2 sub-device nodes** (e. g. ``/dev/v4l-subdevX``) use a different + set of system calls, as covered at :ref:`subdev`. + +Many drivers support "video_nr", "radio_nr" or "vbi_nr" module +options to select specific video/radio/vbi node numbers. This allows the +user to request that the device node is named e.g. /dev/video5 instead +of leaving it to chance. When the driver supports multiple devices of +the same type more than one device node number can be assigned, +separated by commas: + +.. code-block:: none + + # modprobe mydriver video_nr=0,1 radio_nr=0,1 + +In ``/etc/modules.conf`` this may be written as: + +:: + + options mydriver video_nr=0,1 radio_nr=0,1 + +When no device node number is given as module option the driver supplies +a default. + +Normally udev will create the device nodes in /dev automatically for +you. If udev is not installed, then you need to enable the +CONFIG_VIDEO_FIXED_MINOR_RANGES kernel option in order to be able to +correctly relate a minor number to a device node number. I.e., you need +to be certain that minor number 5 maps to device node name video5. With +this kernel option different device types have different minor number +ranges. These ranges are listed in :ref:`devices`. + +The creation of character special files (with mknod) is a privileged +operation and devices cannot be opened by major and minor number. That +means applications cannot *reliably* scan for loaded or installed +drivers. The user must enter a device name, or the application can try +the conventional device names. + +.. _related: + +Related Devices +=============== + +Devices can support several functions. For example video capturing, VBI +capturing and radio support. + +The V4L2 API creates different V4L2 device nodes for each of these functions. + +The V4L2 API was designed with the idea that one device node could +support all functions. However, in practice this never worked: this +'feature' was never used by applications and many drivers did not +support it and if they did it was certainly never tested. In addition, +switching a device node between different functions only works when +using the streaming I/O API, not with the +:c:func:`read()`/\ :c:func:`write()` API. + +Today each V4L2 device node supports just one function. + +Besides video input or output the hardware may also support audio +sampling or playback. If so, these functions are implemented as ALSA PCM +devices with optional ALSA audio mixer devices. + +One problem with all these devices is that the V4L2 API makes no +provisions to find these related V4L2 device nodes. Some really complex +hardware use the Media Controller (see :ref:`media_controller`) which can +be used for this purpose. But several drivers do not use it, and while some +code exists that uses sysfs to discover related V4L2 device nodes (see +libmedia_dev in the +`v4l-utils <http://git.linuxtv.org/cgit.cgi/v4l-utils.git/>`__ git +repository), there is no library yet that can provide a single API +towards both Media Controller-based devices and devices that do not use +the Media Controller. If you want to work on this please write to the +linux-media mailing list: +`https://linuxtv.org/lists.php <https://linuxtv.org/lists.php>`__. + +Multiple Opens +============== + +V4L2 devices can be opened more than once. [#f1]_ When this is supported +by the driver, users can for example start a "panel" application to +change controls like brightness or audio volume, while another +application captures video and audio. In other words, panel applications +are comparable to an ALSA audio mixer application. Just opening a V4L2 +device should not change the state of the device. [#f2]_ + +Once an application has allocated the memory buffers needed for +streaming data (by calling the :ref:`VIDIOC_REQBUFS` +or :ref:`VIDIOC_CREATE_BUFS` ioctls, or +implicitly by calling the :c:func:`read()` or +:c:func:`write()` functions) that application (filehandle) +becomes the owner of the device. It is no longer allowed to make changes +that would affect the buffer sizes (e.g. by calling the +:ref:`VIDIOC_S_FMT <VIDIOC_G_FMT>` ioctl) and other applications are +no longer allowed to allocate buffers or start or stop streaming. The +EBUSY error code will be returned instead. + +Merely opening a V4L2 device does not grant exclusive access. [#f3]_ +Initiating data exchange however assigns the right to read or write the +requested type of data, and to change related properties, to this file +descriptor. Applications can request additional access privileges using +the priority mechanism described in :ref:`app-pri`. + +Shared Data Streams +=================== + +V4L2 drivers should not support multiple applications reading or writing +the same data stream on a device by copying buffers, time multiplexing +or similar means. This is better handled by a proxy application in user +space. + +Functions +========= + +To open and close V4L2 devices applications use the +:c:func:`open()` and :c:func:`close()` function, +respectively. Devices are programmed using the +:ref:`ioctl() <func-ioctl>` function as explained in the following +sections. + +.. [#f1] + There are still some old and obscure drivers that have not been + updated to allow for multiple opens. This implies that for such + drivers :c:func:`open()` can return an ``EBUSY`` error code + when the device is already in use. + +.. [#f2] + Unfortunately, opening a radio device often switches the state of the + device to radio mode in many drivers. This behavior should be fixed + eventually as it violates the V4L2 specification. + +.. [#f3] + Drivers could recognize the ``O_EXCL`` open flag. Presently this is + not required, so applications cannot know if it really works. |