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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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+perf-ftrace(1)
+==============
+
+NAME
+----
+perf-ftrace - simple wrapper for kernel's ftrace functionality
+
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+'perf ftrace' {trace|latency} <command>
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+The 'perf ftrace' command provides a collection of subcommands which use
+kernel's ftrace infrastructure.
+
+ 'perf ftrace trace' is a simple wrapper of the ftrace. It only supports
+ single thread tracing currently and just reads trace_pipe in text and then
+ write it to stdout.
+
+ 'perf ftrace latency' calculates execution latency of a given function
+ (optionally with BPF) and display it as a histogram.
+
+The following options apply to perf ftrace.
+
+COMMON OPTIONS
+--------------
+
+-p::
+--pid=::
+ Trace on existing process id (comma separated list).
+
+--tid=::
+ Trace on existing thread id (comma separated list).
+
+-a::
+--all-cpus::
+ Force system-wide collection. Scripts run without a <command>
+ normally use -a by default, while scripts run with a <command>
+ normally don't - this option allows the latter to be run in
+ system-wide mode.
+
+-C::
+--cpu=::
+ Only trace for the list of CPUs provided. Multiple CPUs can
+ be provided as a comma separated list with no space like: 0,1.
+ Ranges of CPUs are specified with -: 0-2.
+ Default is to trace on all online CPUs.
+
+-v::
+--verbose::
+ Increase the verbosity level.
+
+
+OPTIONS for 'perf ftrace trace'
+-------------------------------
+
+-t::
+--tracer=::
+ Tracer to use when neither -G nor -F option is not
+ specified: function_graph or function.
+
+-F::
+--funcs::
+ List available functions to trace. It accepts a pattern to
+ only list interested functions.
+
+-D::
+--delay::
+ Time (ms) to wait before starting tracing after program start.
+
+-m::
+--buffer-size::
+ Set the size of per-cpu tracing buffer, <size> is expected to
+ be a number with appended unit character - B/K/M/G.
+
+--inherit::
+ Trace children processes spawned by our target.
+
+-T::
+--trace-funcs=::
+ Select function tracer and set function filter on the given
+ function (or a glob pattern). Multiple functions can be given
+ by using this option more than once. The function argument also
+ can be a glob pattern. It will be passed to 'set_ftrace_filter'
+ in tracefs.
+
+-N::
+--notrace-funcs=::
+ Select function tracer and do not trace functions given by the
+ argument. Like -T option, this can be used more than once to
+ specify multiple functions (or glob patterns). It will be
+ passed to 'set_ftrace_notrace' in tracefs.
+
+--func-opts::
+ List of options allowed to set:
+ call-graph - Display kernel stack trace for function tracer.
+ irq-info - Display irq context info for function tracer.
+
+-G::
+--graph-funcs=::
+ Select function_graph tracer and set graph filter on the given
+ function (or a glob pattern). This is useful to trace for
+ functions executed from the given function. This can be used more
+ than once to specify multiple functions. It will be passed to
+ 'set_graph_function' in tracefs.
+
+-g::
+--nograph-funcs=::
+ Select function_graph tracer and set graph notrace filter on the
+ given function (or a glob pattern). Like -G option, this is useful
+ for the function_graph tracer only and disables tracing for function
+ executed from the given function. This can be used more than once to
+ specify multiple functions. It will be passed to 'set_graph_notrace'
+ in tracefs.
+
+--graph-opts::
+ List of options allowed to set:
+ nosleep-time - Measure on-CPU time only for function_graph tracer.
+ noirqs - Ignore functions that happen inside interrupt.
+ verbose - Show process names, PIDs, timestamps, etc.
+ thresh=<n> - Setup trace duration threshold in microseconds.
+ depth=<n> - Set max depth for function graph tracer to follow.
+
+
+OPTIONS for 'perf ftrace latency'
+---------------------------------
+
+-T::
+--trace-funcs=::
+ Set the function name to get the histogram. Unlike perf ftrace trace,
+ it only allows single function to calculate the histogram.
+
+-b::
+--use-bpf::
+ Use BPF to measure function latency instead of using the ftrace (it
+ uses function_graph tracer internally).
+
+-n::
+--use-nsec::
+ Use nano-second instead of micro-second as a base unit of the histogram.
+
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-trace[1]