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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-kowrk(1)
+=============
+
+NAME
+----
+perf-kwork - Tool to trace/measure kernel work properties (latencies)
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+'perf kwork' {record}
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+There are several variants of 'perf kwork':
+
+ 'perf kwork record <command>' to record the kernel work
+ of an arbitrary workload.
+
+ 'perf kwork report' to report the per kwork runtime.
+
+ 'perf kwork latency' to report the per kwork latencies.
+
+ 'perf kwork timehist' provides an analysis of kernel work events.
+
+ Example usage:
+ perf kwork record -- sleep 1
+ perf kwork report
+ perf kwork report -b
+ perf kwork latency
+ perf kwork latency -b
+ perf kwork timehist
+
+ By default it shows the individual work events such as irq, workqeueu,
+ including the run time and delay (time between raise and actually entry):
+
+ Runtime start Runtime end Cpu Kwork name Runtime Delaytime
+ (TYPE)NAME:NUM (msec) (msec)
+ ----------------- ----------------- ------ ------------------------- ---------- ----------
+ 1811186.976062 1811186.976327 [0000] (s)RCU:9 0.266 0.114
+ 1811186.978452 1811186.978547 [0000] (s)SCHED:7 0.095 0.171
+ 1811186.980327 1811186.980490 [0000] (s)SCHED:7 0.162 0.083
+ 1811186.981221 1811186.981271 [0000] (s)SCHED:7 0.050 0.077
+ 1811186.984267 1811186.984318 [0000] (s)SCHED:7 0.051 0.075
+ 1811186.987252 1811186.987315 [0000] (s)SCHED:7 0.063 0.081
+ 1811186.987785 1811186.987843 [0006] (s)RCU:9 0.058 0.645
+ 1811186.988319 1811186.988383 [0000] (s)SCHED:7 0.064 0.143
+ 1811186.989404 1811186.989607 [0002] (s)TIMER:1 0.203 0.111
+ 1811186.989660 1811186.989732 [0002] (s)SCHED:7 0.072 0.310
+ 1811186.991295 1811186.991407 [0002] eth0:10 0.112
+ 1811186.991639 1811186.991734 [0002] (s)NET_RX:3 0.095 0.277
+ 1811186.989860 1811186.991826 [0002] (w)vmstat_shepherd 1.966 0.345
+ ...
+
+ Times are in msec.usec.
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+-D::
+--dump-raw-trace=::
+ Display verbose dump of the sched data.
+
+-f::
+--force::
+ Don't complain, do it.
+
+-k::
+--kwork::
+ List of kwork to profile (irq, softirq, workqueue, etc)
+
+-v::
+--verbose::
+ Be more verbose. (show symbol address, etc)
+
+OPTIONS for 'perf kwork report'
+----------------------------
+
+-b::
+--use-bpf::
+ Use BPF to measure kwork runtime
+
+-C::
+--cpu::
+ Only show events for the given CPU(s) (comma separated list).
+
+-i::
+--input::
+ Input file name. (default: perf.data unless stdin is a fifo)
+
+-n::
+--name::
+ Only show events for the given name.
+
+-s::
+--sort::
+ Sort by key(s): runtime, max, count
+
+-S::
+--with-summary::
+ Show summary with statistics
+
+--time::
+ Only analyze samples within given time window: <start>,<stop>. Times
+ have the format seconds.microseconds. If start is not given (i.e., time
+ string is ',x.y') then analysis starts at the beginning of the file. If
+ stop time is not given (i.e, time string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes
+ to end of file.
+
+OPTIONS for 'perf kwork latency'
+----------------------------
+
+-b::
+--use-bpf::
+ Use BPF to measure kwork latency
+
+-C::
+--cpu::
+ Only show events for the given CPU(s) (comma separated list).
+
+-i::
+--input::
+ Input file name. (default: perf.data unless stdin is a fifo)
+
+-n::
+--name::
+ Only show events for the given name.
+
+-s::
+--sort::
+ Sort by key(s): avg, max, count
+
+--time::
+ Only analyze samples within given time window: <start>,<stop>. Times
+ have the format seconds.microseconds. If start is not given (i.e., time
+ string is ',x.y') then analysis starts at the beginning of the file. If
+ stop time is not given (i.e, time string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes
+ to end of file.
+
+OPTIONS for 'perf kwork timehist'
+---------------------------------
+
+-C::
+--cpu::
+ Only show events for the given CPU(s) (comma separated list).
+
+-g::
+--call-graph::
+ Display call chains if present (default off).
+
+-i::
+--input::
+ Input file name. (default: perf.data unless stdin is a fifo)
+
+-k::
+--vmlinux=<file>::
+ Vmlinux pathname
+
+-n::
+--name::
+ Only show events for the given name.
+
+--kallsyms=<file>::
+ Kallsyms pathname
+
+--max-stack::
+ Maximum number of functions to display in backtrace, default 5.
+
+--symfs=<directory>::
+ Look for files with symbols relative to this directory.
+
+--time::
+ Only analyze samples within given time window: <start>,<stop>. Times
+ have the format seconds.microseconds. If start is not given (i.e., time
+ string is ',x.y') then analysis starts at the beginning of the file. If
+ stop time is not given (i.e, time string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes
+ to end of file.
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkperf:perf-record[1]