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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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+Intel hybrid support
+--------------------
+Support for Intel hybrid events within perf tools.
+
+For some Intel platforms, such as AlderLake, which is hybrid platform and
+it consists of atom cpu and core cpu. Each cpu has dedicated event list.
+Part of events are available on core cpu, part of events are available
+on atom cpu and even part of events are available on both.
+
+Kernel exports two new cpu pmus via sysfs:
+/sys/devices/cpu_core
+/sys/devices/cpu_atom
+
+The 'cpus' files are created under the directories. For example,
+
+cat /sys/devices/cpu_core/cpus
+0-15
+
+cat /sys/devices/cpu_atom/cpus
+16-23
+
+It indicates cpu0-cpu15 are core cpus and cpu16-cpu23 are atom cpus.
+
+As before, use perf-list to list the symbolic event.
+
+perf list
+
+inst_retired.any
+ [Fixed Counter: Counts the number of instructions retired. Unit: cpu_atom]
+inst_retired.any
+ [Number of instructions retired. Fixed Counter - architectural event. Unit: cpu_core]
+
+The 'Unit: xxx' is added to brief description to indicate which pmu
+the event is belong to. Same event name but with different pmu can
+be supported.
+
+Enable hybrid event with a specific pmu
+
+To enable a core only event or atom only event, following syntax is supported:
+
+ cpu_core/<event name>/
+or
+ cpu_atom/<event name>/
+
+For example, count the 'cycles' event on core cpus.
+
+ perf stat -e cpu_core/cycles/
+
+Create two events for one hardware event automatically
+
+When creating one event and the event is available on both atom and core,
+two events are created automatically. One is for atom, the other is for
+core. Most of hardware events and cache events are available on both
+cpu_core and cpu_atom.
+
+For hardware events, they have pre-defined configs (e.g. 0 for cycles).
+But on hybrid platform, kernel needs to know where the event comes from
+(from atom or from core). The original perf event type PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE
+can't carry pmu information. So now this type is extended to be PMU aware
+type. The PMU type ID is stored at attr.config[63:32].
+
+PMU type ID is retrieved from sysfs.
+/sys/devices/cpu_atom/type
+/sys/devices/cpu_core/type
+
+The new attr.config layout for PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE:
+
+PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE: 0xEEEEEEEE000000AA
+ AA: hardware event ID
+ EEEEEEEE: PMU type ID
+
+Cache event is similar. The type PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE is extended to be
+PMU aware type. The PMU type ID is stored at attr.config[63:32].
+
+The new attr.config layout for PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE:
+
+PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE: 0xEEEEEEEE00DDCCBB
+ BB: hardware cache ID
+ CC: hardware cache op ID
+ DD: hardware cache op result ID
+ EEEEEEEE: PMU type ID
+
+When enabling a hardware event without specified pmu, such as,
+perf stat -e cycles -a (use system-wide in this example), two events
+are created automatically.
+
+ ------------------------------------------------------------
+ perf_event_attr:
+ size 120
+ config 0x400000000
+ sample_type IDENTIFIER
+ read_format TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING
+ disabled 1
+ inherit 1
+ exclude_guest 1
+ ------------------------------------------------------------
+
+and
+
+ ------------------------------------------------------------
+ perf_event_attr:
+ size 120
+ config 0x800000000
+ sample_type IDENTIFIER
+ read_format TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING
+ disabled 1
+ inherit 1
+ exclude_guest 1
+ ------------------------------------------------------------
+
+type 0 is PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE.
+0x4 in 0x400000000 indicates it's cpu_core pmu.
+0x8 in 0x800000000 indicates it's cpu_atom pmu (atom pmu type id is random).
+
+The kernel creates 'cycles' (0x400000000) on cpu0-cpu15 (core cpus),
+and create 'cycles' (0x800000000) on cpu16-cpu23 (atom cpus).
+
+For perf-stat result, it displays two events:
+
+ Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
+
+ 6,744,979 cpu_core/cycles/
+ 1,965,552 cpu_atom/cycles/
+
+The first 'cycles' is core event, the second 'cycles' is atom event.
+
+Thread mode example:
+
+perf-stat reports the scaled counts for hybrid event and with a percentage
+displayed. The percentage is the event's running time/enabling time.
+
+One example, 'triad_loop' runs on cpu16 (atom core), while we can see the
+scaled value for core cycles is 160,444,092 and the percentage is 0.47%.
+
+perf stat -e cycles \-- taskset -c 16 ./triad_loop
+
+As previous, two events are created.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+perf_event_attr:
+ size 120
+ config 0x400000000
+ sample_type IDENTIFIER
+ read_format TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING
+ disabled 1
+ inherit 1
+ enable_on_exec 1
+ exclude_guest 1
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+and
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+perf_event_attr:
+ size 120
+ config 0x800000000
+ sample_type IDENTIFIER
+ read_format TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING
+ disabled 1
+ inherit 1
+ enable_on_exec 1
+ exclude_guest 1
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ Performance counter stats for 'taskset -c 16 ./triad_loop':
+
+ 233,066,666 cpu_core/cycles/ (0.43%)
+ 604,097,080 cpu_atom/cycles/ (99.57%)
+
+perf-record:
+
+If there is no '-e' specified in perf record, on hybrid platform,
+it creates two default 'cycles' and adds them to event list. One
+is for core, the other is for atom.
+
+perf-stat:
+
+If there is no '-e' specified in perf stat, on hybrid platform,
+besides of software events, following events are created and
+added to event list in order.
+
+cpu_core/cycles/,
+cpu_atom/cycles/,
+cpu_core/instructions/,
+cpu_atom/instructions/,
+cpu_core/branches/,
+cpu_atom/branches/,
+cpu_core/branch-misses/,
+cpu_atom/branch-misses/
+
+Of course, both perf-stat and perf-record support to enable
+hybrid event with a specific pmu.
+
+e.g.
+perf stat -e cpu_core/cycles/
+perf stat -e cpu_atom/cycles/
+perf stat -e cpu_core/r1a/
+perf stat -e cpu_atom/L1-icache-loads/
+perf stat -e cpu_core/cycles/,cpu_atom/instructions/
+perf stat -e '{cpu_core/cycles/,cpu_core/instructions/}'
+
+But '{cpu_core/cycles/,cpu_atom/instructions/}' will return
+warning and disable grouping, because the pmus in group are
+not matched (cpu_core vs. cpu_atom).