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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/fs/cramfs/README b/fs/cramfs/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..778df5c4d --- /dev/null +++ b/fs/cramfs/README @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +Notes on Filesystem Layout +-------------------------- + +These notes describe what mkcramfs generates. Kernel requirements are +a bit looser, e.g. it doesn't care if the <file_data> items are +swapped around (though it does care that directory entries (inodes) in +a given directory are contiguous, as this is used by readdir). + +All data is currently in host-endian format; neither mkcramfs nor the +kernel ever do swabbing. (See section `Block Size' below.) + +<filesystem>: + <superblock> + <directory_structure> + <data> + +<superblock>: struct cramfs_super (see cramfs_fs.h). + +<directory_structure>: + For each file: + struct cramfs_inode (see cramfs_fs.h). + Filename. Not generally null-terminated, but it is + null-padded to a multiple of 4 bytes. + +The order of inode traversal is described as "width-first" (not to be +confused with breadth-first); i.e. like depth-first but listing all of +a directory's entries before recursing down its subdirectories: the +same order as `ls -AUR' (but without the /^\..*:$/ directory header +lines); put another way, the same order as `find -type d -exec +ls -AU1 {} \;'. + +Beginning in 2.4.7, directory entries are sorted. This optimization +allows cramfs_lookup to return more quickly when a filename does not +exist, speeds up user-space directory sorts, etc. + +<data>: + One <file_data> for each file that's either a symlink or a + regular file of non-zero st_size. + +<file_data>: + nblocks * <block_pointer> + (where nblocks = (st_size - 1) / blksize + 1) + nblocks * <block> + padding to multiple of 4 bytes + +The i'th <block_pointer> for a file stores the byte offset of the +*end* of the i'th <block> (i.e. one past the last byte, which is the +same as the start of the (i+1)'th <block> if there is one). The first +<block> immediately follows the last <block_pointer> for the file. +<block_pointer>s are each 32 bits long. + +When the CRAMFS_FLAG_EXT_BLOCK_POINTERS capability bit is set, each +<block_pointer>'s top bits may contain special flags as follows: + +CRAMFS_BLK_FLAG_UNCOMPRESSED (bit 31): + The block data is not compressed and should be copied verbatim. + +CRAMFS_BLK_FLAG_DIRECT_PTR (bit 30): + The <block_pointer> stores the actual block start offset and not + its end, shifted right by 2 bits. The block must therefore be + aligned to a 4-byte boundary. The block size is either blksize + if CRAMFS_BLK_FLAG_UNCOMPRESSED is also specified, otherwise + the compressed data length is included in the first 2 bytes of + the block data. This is used to allow discontiguous data layout + and specific data block alignments e.g. for XIP applications. + + +The order of <file_data>'s is a depth-first descent of the directory +tree, i.e. the same order as `find -size +0 \( -type f -o -type l \) +-print'. + + +<block>: The i'th <block> is the output of zlib's compress function +applied to the i'th blksize-sized chunk of the input data if the +corresponding CRAMFS_BLK_FLAG_UNCOMPRESSED <block_ptr> bit is not set, +otherwise it is the input data directly. +(For the last <block> of the file, the input may of course be smaller.) +Each <block> may be a different size. (See <block_pointer> above.) + +<block>s are merely byte-aligned, not generally u32-aligned. + +When CRAMFS_BLK_FLAG_DIRECT_PTR is specified then the corresponding +<block> may be located anywhere and not necessarily contiguous with +the previous/next blocks. In that case it is minimally u32-aligned. +If CRAMFS_BLK_FLAG_UNCOMPRESSED is also specified then the size is always +blksize except for the last block which is limited by the file length. +If CRAMFS_BLK_FLAG_DIRECT_PTR is set and CRAMFS_BLK_FLAG_UNCOMPRESSED +is not set then the first 2 bytes of the block contains the size of the +remaining block data as this cannot be determined from the placement of +logically adjacent blocks. + + +Holes +----- + +This kernel supports cramfs holes (i.e. [efficient representation of] +blocks in uncompressed data consisting entirely of NUL bytes), but by +default mkcramfs doesn't test for & create holes, since cramfs in +kernels up to at least 2.3.39 didn't support holes. Run mkcramfs +with -z if you want it to create files that can have holes in them. + + +Tools +----- + +The cramfs user-space tools, including mkcramfs and cramfsck, are +located at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/cramfs/>. + + +Future Development +================== + +Block Size +---------- + +(Block size in cramfs refers to the size of input data that is +compressed at a time. It's intended to be somewhere around +PAGE_SIZE for cramfs_read_folio's convenience.) + +The superblock ought to indicate the block size that the fs was +written for, since comments in <linux/pagemap.h> indicate that +PAGE_SIZE may grow in future (if I interpret the comment +correctly). + +Currently, mkcramfs #define's PAGE_SIZE as 4096 and uses that +for blksize, whereas Linux-2.3.39 uses its PAGE_SIZE, which in +turn is defined as PAGE_SIZE (which can be as large as 32KB on arm). +This discrepancy is a bug, though it's not clear which should be +changed. + +One option is to change mkcramfs to take its PAGE_SIZE from +<asm/page.h>. Personally I don't like this option, but it does +require the least amount of change: just change `#define +PAGE_SIZE (4096)' to `#include <asm/page.h>'. The disadvantage +is that the generated cramfs cannot always be shared between different +kernels, not even necessarily kernels of the same architecture if +PAGE_SIZE is subject to change between kernel versions +(currently possible with arm and ia64). + +The remaining options try to make cramfs more sharable. + +One part of that is addressing endianness. The two options here are +`always use little-endian' (like ext2fs) or `writer chooses +endianness; kernel adapts at runtime'. Little-endian wins because of +code simplicity and little CPU overhead even on big-endian machines. + +The cost of swabbing is changing the code to use the le32_to_cpu +etc. macros as used by ext2fs. We don't need to swab the compressed +data, only the superblock, inodes and block pointers. + + +The other part of making cramfs more sharable is choosing a block +size. The options are: + + 1. Always 4096 bytes. + + 2. Writer chooses blocksize; kernel adapts but rejects blocksize > + PAGE_SIZE. + + 3. Writer chooses blocksize; kernel adapts even to blocksize > + PAGE_SIZE. + +It's easy enough to change the kernel to use a smaller value than +PAGE_SIZE: just make cramfs_read_folio read multiple blocks. + +The cost of option 1 is that kernels with a larger PAGE_SIZE +value don't get as good compression as they can. + +The cost of option 2 relative to option 1 is that the code uses +variables instead of #define'd constants. The gain is that people +with kernels having larger PAGE_SIZE can make use of that if +they don't mind their cramfs being inaccessible to kernels with +smaller PAGE_SIZE values. + +Option 3 is easy to implement if we don't mind being CPU-inefficient: +e.g. get read_folio to decompress to a buffer of size MAX_BLKSIZE (which +must be no larger than 32KB) and discard what it doesn't need. +Getting read_folio to read into all the covered pages is harder. + +The main advantage of option 3 over 1, 2, is better compression. The +cost is greater complexity. Probably not worth it, but I hope someone +will disagree. (If it is implemented, then I'll re-use that code in +e2compr.) + + +Another cost of 2 and 3 over 1 is making mkcramfs use a different +block size, but that just means adding and parsing a -b option. + + +Inode Size +---------- + +Given that cramfs will probably be used for CDs etc. as well as just +silicon ROMs, it might make sense to expand the inode a little from +its current 12 bytes. Inodes other than the root inode are followed +by filename, so the expansion doesn't even have to be a multiple of 4 +bytes. |
