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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. 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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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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+Overview
+========
+The Linux kernel contains a variety of code for running as a fully
+enlightened guest on Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor. Hyper-V
+consists primarily of a bare-metal hypervisor plus a virtual machine
+management service running in the parent partition (roughly
+equivalent to KVM and QEMU, for example). Guest VMs run in child
+partitions. In this documentation, references to Hyper-V usually
+encompass both the hypervisor and the VMM service without making a
+distinction about which functionality is provided by which
+component.
+
+Hyper-V runs on x86/x64 and arm64 architectures, and Linux guests
+are supported on both. The functionality and behavior of Hyper-V is
+generally the same on both architectures unless noted otherwise.
+
+Linux Guest Communication with Hyper-V
+--------------------------------------
+Linux guests communicate with Hyper-V in four different ways:
+
+* Implicit traps: As defined by the x86/x64 or arm64 architecture,
+ some guest actions trap to Hyper-V. Hyper-V emulates the action and
+ returns control to the guest. This behavior is generally invisible
+ to the Linux kernel.
+
+* Explicit hypercalls: Linux makes an explicit function call to
+ Hyper-V, passing parameters. Hyper-V performs the requested action
+ and returns control to the caller. Parameters are passed in
+ processor registers or in memory shared between the Linux guest and
+ Hyper-V. On x86/x64, hypercalls use a Hyper-V specific calling
+ sequence. On arm64, hypercalls use the ARM standard SMCCC calling
+ sequence.
+
+* Synthetic register access: Hyper-V implements a variety of
+ synthetic registers. On x86/x64 these registers appear as MSRs in
+ the guest, and the Linux kernel can read or write these MSRs using
+ the normal mechanisms defined by the x86/x64 architecture. On
+ arm64, these synthetic registers must be accessed using explicit
+ hypercalls.
+
+* VMbus: VMbus is a higher-level software construct that is built on
+ the other 3 mechanisms. It is a message passing interface between
+ the Hyper-V host and the Linux guest. It uses memory that is shared
+ between Hyper-V and the guest, along with various signaling
+ mechanisms.
+
+The first three communication mechanisms are documented in the
+`Hyper-V Top Level Functional Spec (TLFS)`_. The TLFS describes
+general Hyper-V functionality and provides details on the hypercalls
+and synthetic registers. The TLFS is currently written for the
+x86/x64 architecture only.
+
+.. _Hyper-V Top Level Functional Spec (TLFS): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/tlfs/tlfs
+
+VMbus is not documented. This documentation provides a high-level
+overview of VMbus and how it works, but the details can be discerned
+only from the code.
+
+Sharing Memory
+--------------
+Many aspects are communication between Hyper-V and Linux are based
+on sharing memory. Such sharing is generally accomplished as
+follows:
+
+* Linux allocates memory from its physical address space using
+ standard Linux mechanisms.
+
+* Linux tells Hyper-V the guest physical address (GPA) of the
+ allocated memory. Many shared areas are kept to 1 page so that a
+ single GPA is sufficient. Larger shared areas require a list of
+ GPAs, which usually do not need to be contiguous in the guest
+ physical address space. How Hyper-V is told about the GPA or list
+ of GPAs varies. In some cases, a single GPA is written to a
+ synthetic register. In other cases, a GPA or list of GPAs is sent
+ in a VMbus message.
+
+* Hyper-V translates the GPAs into "real" physical memory addresses,
+ and creates a virtual mapping that it can use to access the memory.
+
+* Linux can later revoke sharing it has previously established by
+ telling Hyper-V to set the shared GPA to zero.
+
+Hyper-V operates with a page size of 4 Kbytes. GPAs communicated to
+Hyper-V may be in the form of page numbers, and always describe a
+range of 4 Kbytes. Since the Linux guest page size on x86/x64 is
+also 4 Kbytes, the mapping from guest page to Hyper-V page is 1-to-1.
+On arm64, Hyper-V supports guests with 4/16/64 Kbyte pages as
+defined by the arm64 architecture. If Linux is using 16 or 64
+Kbyte pages, Linux code must be careful to communicate with Hyper-V
+only in terms of 4 Kbyte pages. HV_HYP_PAGE_SIZE and related macros
+are used in code that communicates with Hyper-V so that it works
+correctly in all configurations.
+
+As described in the TLFS, a few memory pages shared between Hyper-V
+and the Linux guest are "overlay" pages. With overlay pages, Linux
+uses the usual approach of allocating guest memory and telling
+Hyper-V the GPA of the allocated memory. But Hyper-V then replaces
+that physical memory page with a page it has allocated, and the
+original physical memory page is no longer accessible in the guest
+VM. Linux may access the memory normally as if it were the memory
+that it originally allocated. The "overlay" behavior is visible
+only because the contents of the page (as seen by Linux) change at
+the time that Linux originally establishes the sharing and the
+overlay page is inserted. Similarly, the contents change if Linux
+revokes the sharing, in which case Hyper-V removes the overlay page,
+and the guest page originally allocated by Linux becomes visible
+again.
+
+Before Linux does a kexec to a kdump kernel or any other kernel,
+memory shared with Hyper-V should be revoked. Hyper-V could modify
+a shared page or remove an overlay page after the new kernel is
+using the page for a different purpose, corrupting the new kernel.
+Hyper-V does not provide a single "set everything" operation to
+guest VMs, so Linux code must individually revoke all sharing before
+doing kexec. See hv_kexec_handler() and hv_crash_handler(). But
+the crash/panic path still has holes in cleanup because some shared
+pages are set using per-CPU synthetic registers and there's no
+mechanism to revoke the shared pages for CPUs other than the CPU
+running the panic path.
+
+CPU Management
+--------------
+Hyper-V does not have a ability to hot-add or hot-remove a CPU
+from a running VM. However, Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V and
+earlier versions may provide guests with ACPI tables that indicate
+more CPUs than are actually present in the VM. As is normal, Linux
+treats these additional CPUs as potential hot-add CPUs, and reports
+them as such even though Hyper-V will never actually hot-add them.
+Starting in Windows Server 2022 Hyper-V, the ACPI tables reflect
+only the CPUs actually present in the VM, so Linux does not report
+any hot-add CPUs.
+
+A Linux guest CPU may be taken offline using the normal Linux
+mechanisms, provided no VMbus channel interrupts are assigned to
+the CPU. See the section on VMbus Interrupts for more details
+on how VMbus channel interrupts can be re-assigned to permit
+taking a CPU offline.
+
+32-bit and 64-bit
+-----------------
+On x86/x64, Hyper-V supports 32-bit and 64-bit guests, and Linux
+will build and run in either version. While the 32-bit version is
+expected to work, it is used rarely and may suffer from undetected
+regressions.
+
+On arm64, Hyper-V supports only 64-bit guests.
+
+Endian-ness
+-----------
+All communication between Hyper-V and guest VMs uses Little-Endian
+format on both x86/x64 and arm64. Big-endian format on arm64 is not
+supported by Hyper-V, and Linux code does not use endian-ness macros
+when accessing data shared with Hyper-V.
+
+Versioning
+----------
+Current Linux kernels operate correctly with older versions of
+Hyper-V back to Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. Support for running
+on the original Hyper-V release in Windows Server 2008/2008 R2
+has been removed.
+
+A Linux guest on Hyper-V outputs in dmesg the version of Hyper-V
+it is running on. This version is in the form of a Windows build
+number and is for display purposes only. Linux code does not
+test this version number at runtime to determine available features
+and functionality. Hyper-V indicates feature/function availability
+via flags in synthetic MSRs that Hyper-V provides to the guest,
+and the guest code tests these flags.
+
+VMbus has its own protocol version that is negotiated during the
+initial VMbus connection from the guest to Hyper-V. This version
+number is also output to dmesg during boot. This version number
+is checked in a few places in the code to determine if specific
+functionality is present.
+
+Furthermore, each synthetic device on VMbus also has a protocol
+version that is separate from the VMbus protocol version. Device
+drivers for these synthetic devices typically negotiate the device
+protocol version, and may test that protocol version to determine
+if specific device functionality is present.
+
+Code Packaging
+--------------
+Hyper-V related code appears in the Linux kernel code tree in three
+main areas:
+
+1. drivers/hv
+
+2. arch/x86/hyperv and arch/arm64/hyperv
+
+3. individual device driver areas such as drivers/scsi, drivers/net,
+ drivers/clocksource, etc.
+
+A few miscellaneous files appear elsewhere. See the full list under
+"Hyper-V/Azure CORE AND DRIVERS" and "DRM DRIVER FOR HYPERV
+SYNTHETIC VIDEO DEVICE" in the MAINTAINERS file.
+
+The code in #1 and #2 is built only when CONFIG_HYPERV is set.
+Similarly, the code for most Hyper-V related drivers is built only
+when CONFIG_HYPERV is set.
+
+Most Hyper-V related code in #1 and #3 can be built as a module.
+The architecture specific code in #2 must be built-in. Also,
+drivers/hv/hv_common.c is low-level code that is common across
+architectures and must be built-in.