From 5b7c4cabbb65f5c469464da6c5f614cbd7f730f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 18:24:12 -0800 Subject: Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next 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(). ... --- Documentation/core-api/genalloc.rst | 144 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 144 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/core-api/genalloc.rst (limited to 'Documentation/core-api/genalloc.rst') diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/genalloc.rst b/Documentation/core-api/genalloc.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a5af2cbf5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/core-api/genalloc.rst @@ -0,0 +1,144 @@ +The genalloc/genpool subsystem +============================== + +There are a number of memory-allocation subsystems in the kernel, each +aimed at a specific need. Sometimes, however, a kernel developer needs to +implement a new allocator for a specific range of special-purpose memory; +often that memory is located on a device somewhere. The author of the +driver for that device can certainly write a little allocator to get the +job done, but that is the way to fill the kernel with dozens of poorly +tested allocators. Back in 2005, Jes Sorensen lifted one of those +allocators from the sym53c8xx_2 driver and posted_ it as a generic module +for the creation of ad hoc memory allocators. This code was merged +for the 2.6.13 release; it has been modified considerably since then. + +.. _posted: https://lwn.net/Articles/125842/ + +Code using this allocator should include . The action +begins with the creation of a pool using one of: + +.. kernel-doc:: lib/genalloc.c + :functions: gen_pool_create + +.. kernel-doc:: lib/genalloc.c + :functions: devm_gen_pool_create + +A call to gen_pool_create() will create a pool. The granularity of +allocations is set with min_alloc_order; it is a log-base-2 number like +those used by the page allocator, but it refers to bytes rather than pages. +So, if min_alloc_order is passed as 3, then all allocations will be a +multiple of eight bytes. Increasing min_alloc_order decreases the memory +required to track the memory in the pool. The nid parameter specifies +which NUMA node should be used for the allocation of the housekeeping +structures; it can be -1 if the caller doesn't care. + +The "managed" interface devm_gen_pool_create() ties the pool to a +specific device. Among other things, it will automatically clean up the +pool when the given device is destroyed. + +A pool is shut down with: + +.. kernel-doc:: lib/genalloc.c + :functions: gen_pool_destroy + +It's worth noting that, if there are still allocations outstanding from the +given pool, this function will take the rather extreme step of invoking +BUG(), crashing the entire system. You have been warned. + +A freshly created pool has no memory to allocate. It is fairly useless in +that state, so one of the first orders of business is usually to add memory +to the pool. That can be done with one of: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/genalloc.h + :functions: gen_pool_add + +.. kernel-doc:: lib/genalloc.c + :functions: gen_pool_add_owner + +A call to gen_pool_add() will place the size bytes of memory +starting at addr (in the kernel's virtual address space) into the given +pool, once again using nid as the node ID for ancillary memory allocations. +The gen_pool_add_virt() variant associates an explicit physical +address with the memory; this is only necessary if the pool will be used +for DMA allocations. + +The functions for allocating memory from the pool (and putting it back) +are: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/genalloc.h + :functions: gen_pool_alloc + +.. kernel-doc:: lib/genalloc.c + :functions: gen_pool_dma_alloc + +.. kernel-doc:: lib/genalloc.c + :functions: gen_pool_free_owner + +As one would expect, gen_pool_alloc() will allocate size< bytes +from the given pool. The gen_pool_dma_alloc() variant allocates +memory for use with DMA operations, returning the associated physical +address in the space pointed to by dma. This will only work if the memory +was added with gen_pool_add_virt(). Note that this function +departs from the usual genpool pattern of using unsigned long values to +represent kernel addresses; it returns a void * instead. + +That all seems relatively simple; indeed, some developers clearly found it +to be too simple. After all, the interface above provides no control over +how the allocation functions choose which specific piece of memory to +return. If that sort of control is needed, the following functions will be +of interest: + +.. kernel-doc:: lib/genalloc.c + :functions: gen_pool_alloc_algo_owner + +.. kernel-doc:: lib/genalloc.c + :functions: gen_pool_set_algo + +Allocations with gen_pool_alloc_algo() specify an algorithm to be +used to choose the memory to be allocated; the default algorithm can be set +with gen_pool_set_algo(). The data value is passed to the +algorithm; most ignore it, but it is occasionally needed. One can, +naturally, write a special-purpose algorithm, but there is a fair set +already available: + +- gen_pool_first_fit is a simple first-fit allocator; this is the default + algorithm if none other has been specified. + +- gen_pool_first_fit_align forces the allocation to have a specific + alignment (passed via data in a genpool_data_align structure). + +- gen_pool_first_fit_order_align aligns the allocation to the order of the + size. A 60-byte allocation will thus be 64-byte aligned, for example. + +- gen_pool_best_fit, as one would expect, is a simple best-fit allocator. + +- gen_pool_fixed_alloc allocates at a specific offset (passed in a + genpool_data_fixed structure via the data parameter) within the pool. + If the indicated memory is not available the allocation fails. + +There is a handful of other functions, mostly for purposes like querying +the space available in the pool or iterating through chunks of memory. +Most users, however, should not need much beyond what has been described +above. With luck, wider awareness of this module will help to prevent the +writing of special-purpose memory allocators in the future. + +.. kernel-doc:: lib/genalloc.c + :functions: gen_pool_virt_to_phys + +.. kernel-doc:: lib/genalloc.c + :functions: gen_pool_for_each_chunk + +.. kernel-doc:: lib/genalloc.c + :functions: gen_pool_has_addr + +.. kernel-doc:: lib/genalloc.c + :functions: gen_pool_avail + +.. kernel-doc:: lib/genalloc.c + :functions: gen_pool_size + +.. kernel-doc:: lib/genalloc.c + :functions: gen_pool_get + +.. kernel-doc:: lib/genalloc.c + :functions: of_gen_pool_get -- cgit v1.2.3