linux-stable.git/Documentation/networking, branch v6.9

Documentation: Add documentation for eswitch attribute

2024-03-29T01:20:08+00:00

Provide devlink documentation for three eswitch attributes:
mode, inline-mode, and encap-mode.

Signed-off-by: William Tu 
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240325181228.6244-1-witu@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ionic: update documentation for XDP support

2024-03-21T04:05:15+00:00

Add information to our documentation for the XDP features
and related ethtool stats.

While we're here, we also add the missing timestamp stats.

Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson 
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240319163534.38796-1-shannon.nelson@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: move dev->state into net_device_read_txrx group

2024-03-19T09:47:47+00:00

dev->state can be read in rx and tx fast paths.

netif_running() which needs dev->state is called from
- enqueue_to_backlog() [RX path]
- __dev_direct_xmit()  [TX path]

Fixes: 43a71cd66b9c ("net-device: reorganize net_device fast path variables")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Coco Li 
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240314200845.3050179-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

docs: networking: fix indentation errors in multi-pf-netdev

2024-03-14T12:19:27+00:00

Stephen reports new warnings in the docs:

Documentation/networking/multi-pf-netdev.rst:94: ERROR: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/networking/multi-pf-netdev.rst:106: ERROR: Unexpected indentation.

Fixes: 77d9ec3f6c8c ("Documentation: networking: Add description for multi-pf netdev")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240312153304.0ef1b78e@canb.auug.org.au/
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski 
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240313032329.3919036-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

Merge tag 'net-next-6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2024-03-13T00:44:08+00:00

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core & protocols:

- Large effort by Eric to lower rtnl_lock pressure and remove locks:

- Make commonly used parts of rtnetlink (address, route dumps
etc) lockless, protected by RCU instead of rtnl_lock.

- Add a netns exit callback which already holds rtnl_lock,
allowing netns exit to take rtnl_lock once in the core instead
of once for each driver / callback.

- Remove locks / serialization in the socket diag interface.

- Remove 6 calls to synchronize_rcu() while holding rtnl_lock.

- Remove the dev_base_lock, depend on RCU where necessary.

- Support busy polling on a per-epoll context basis. Poll length and
budget parameters can be set independently of system defaults.

- Introduce struct net_hotdata, to make sure read-mostly global
config variables fit in as few cache lines as possible.

- Add optional per-nexthop statistics to ease monitoring / debug of
ECMP imbalance problems.

- Support TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT in MPTCP.

- Ensure that IPv6 temporary addresses' preferred lifetimes are long
enough, compared to other configured lifetimes, and at least 2 sec.

- Support forwarding of ICMP Error messages in IPSec, per RFC 4301.

- Add support for the independent control state machine for bonding
per IEEE 802.1AX-2008 5.4.15 in addition to the existing coupled
control state machine.

- Add "network ID" to MCTP socket APIs to support hosts with multiple
disjoint MCTP networks.

- Re-use the mono_delivery_time skbuff bit for packets which user
space wants to be sent at a specified time. Maintain the timing
information while traversing veth links, bridge etc.

- Take advantage of MSG_SPLICE_PAGES for RxRPC DATA and ACK packets.

- Simplify many places iterating over netdevs by using an xarray
instead of a hash table walk (hash table remains in place, for use
on fastpaths).

- Speed up scanning for expired routes by keeping a dedicated list.

- Speed up "generic" XDP by trying harder to avoid large allocations.

- Support attaching arbitrary metadata to netconsole messages.

Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:

- Enforce VM_IOREMAP flag and range in ioremap_page_range and
introduce VM_SPARSE kind and vm_area_[un]map_pages (used by
bpf_arena).

- Rework selftest harness to enable the use of the full range of ksft
exit code (pass, fail, skip, xfail, xpass).

Netfilter:

- Allow userspace to define a table that is exclusively owned by a
daemon (via netlink socket aliveness) without auto-removing this
table when the userspace program exits. Such table gets marked as
orphaned and a restarting management daemon can re-attach/regain
ownership.

- Speed up element insertions to nftables' concatenated-ranges set
type. Compact a few related data structures.

BPF:

- Add BPF token support for delegating a subset of BPF subsystem
functionality from privileged system-wide daemons such as systemd
through special mount options for userns-bound BPF fs to a trusted
& unprivileged application.

- Introduce bpf_arena which is sparse shared memory region between
BPF program and user space where structures inside the arena can
have pointers to other areas of the arena, and pointers work
seamlessly for both user-space programs and BPF programs.

- Introduce may_goto instruction that is a contract between the
verifier and the program. The verifier allows the program to loop
assuming it's behaving well, but reserves the right to terminate
it.

- Extend the BPF verifier to enable static subprog calls in spin lock
critical sections.

- Support registration of struct_ops types from modules which helps
projects like fuse-bpf that seeks to implement a new struct_ops
type.

- Add support for retrieval of cookies for perf/kprobe multi links.

- Support arbitrary TCP SYN cookie generation / validation in the TC
layer with BPF to allow creating SYN flood handling in BPF
firewalls.

- Add code generation to inline the bpf_kptr_xchg() helper which
improves performance when stashing/popping the allocated BPF
objects.

Wireless:

- Add SPP (signaling and payload protected) AMSDU support.

- Support wider bandwidth OFDMA, as required for EHT operation.

Driver API:

- Major overhaul of the Energy Efficient Ethernet internals to
support new link modes (2.5GE, 5GE), share more code between
drivers (especially those using phylib), and encourage more
uniform behavior. Convert and clean up drivers.

- Define an API for querying per netdev queue statistics from
drivers.

- IPSec: account in global stats for fully offloaded sessions.

- Create a concept of Ethernet PHY Packages at the Device Tree level,
to allow parameterizing the existing PHY package code.

- Enable Rx hashing (RSS) on GTP protocol fields.

Misc:

- Improvements and refactoring all over networking selftests.

- Create uniform module aliases for TC classifiers, actions, and
packet schedulers to simplify creating modprobe policies.

- Address all missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() warnings in networking.

- Extend the Netlink descriptions in YAML to cover message
encapsulation or "Netlink polymorphism", where interpretation of
nested attributes depends on link type, classifier type or some
other "class type".

Drivers:

- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Add a new driver for Marvell's Octeon PCI Endpoint NIC VF.
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- support E825-C devices
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- support devices with one port and multiple PCIe links
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- support n-tuple filters
- support configuring the RSS key
- Wangxun (ngbe/txgbe):
- implement irq_domain for TXGBE's sub-interrupts
- Pensando/AMD:
- support XDP
- optimize queue submission and wakeup handling (+17% bps)
- optimize struct layout, saving 28% of memory on queues

- Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual:
- Google cloud vNIC:
- refactor driver to perform memory allocations for new queue
config before stopping and freeing the old queue memory
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- obey queueMaxSDU and implement counters required by 802.1Qbv
- Renesas (ravb):
- support packet checksum offload
- suspend to RAM and runtime PM support

- Ethernet switches:
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- support for nexthop group statistics
- Microchip:
- ksz8: implement PHY loopback
- add support for KSZ8567, a 7-port 10/100Mbps switch

- PTP:
- New driver for RENESAS FemtoClock3 Wireless clock generator.
- Support OCP PTP cards designed and built by Adva.

- CAN:
- Support recvmsg() flags for own, local and remote traffic on CAN
BCM sockets.
- Support for esd GmbH PCIe/402 CAN device family.
- m_can:
- Rx/Tx submission coalescing
- wake on frame Rx

- WiFi:
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- enable signaling and payload protected A-MSDUs
- support wider-bandwidth OFDMA
- support for new devices
- bump FW API to 89 for AX devices; 90 for BZ/SC devices
- MediaTek (mt76):
- mt7915: newer ADIE version support
- mt7925: radio temperature sensor support
- Qualcomm (ath11k):
- support 6 GHz station power modes: Low Power Indoor (LPI),
Standard Power) SP and Very Low Power (VLP)
- QCA6390 & WCN6855: support 2 concurrent station interfaces
- QCA2066 support
- Qualcomm (ath12k):
- refactoring in preparation for Multi-Link Operation (MLO)
support
- 1024 Block Ack window size support
- firmware-2.bin support
- support having multiple identical PCI devices (firmware needs
to have ATH12K_FW_FEATURE_MULTI_QRTR_ID)
- QCN9274: support split-PHY devices
- WCN7850: enable Power Save Mode in station mode
- WCN7850: P2P support
- RealTek:
- rtw88: support for more rtw8811cu and rtw8821cu devices
- rtw89: support SCAN_RANDOM_SN and SET_SCAN_DWELL
- rtlwifi: speed up USB firmware initialization
- rtwl8xxxu:
- RTL8188F: concurrent interface support
- Channel Switch Announcement (CSA) support in AP mode
- Broadcom (brcmfmac):
- per-vendor feature support
- per-vendor SAE password setup
- DMI nvram filename quirk for ACEPC W5 Pro"

* tag 'net-next-6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2255 commits)
nexthop: Fix splat with CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y
nexthop: Fix out-of-bounds access during attribute validation
nexthop: Only parse NHA_OP_FLAGS for dump messages that require it
nexthop: Only parse NHA_OP_FLAGS for get messages that require it
bpf: move sleepable flag from bpf_prog_aux to bpf_prog
bpf: hardcode BPF_PROG_PACK_SIZE to 2MB * num_possible_nodes()
selftests/bpf: Add kprobe multi triggering benchmarks
ptp: Move from simple ida to xarray
vxlan: Remove generic .ndo_get_stats64
vxlan: Do not alloc tstats manually
devlink: Add comments to use netlink gen tool
nfp: flower: handle acti_netdevs allocation failure
net/packet: Add getsockopt support for PACKET_COPY_THRESH
net/netlink: Add getsockopt support for NETLINK_LISTEN_ALL_NSID
selftests/bpf: Add bpf_arena_htab test.
selftests/bpf: Add bpf_arena_list test.
selftests/bpf: Add unit tests for bpf_arena_alloc/free_pages
bpf: Add helper macro bpf_addr_space_cast()
libbpf: Recognize __arena global variables.
bpftool: Recognize arena map type
...

Merge tag 'docs-6.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2024-03-12T22:18:34+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A moderatly busy cycle for development this time around.

   - Some cleanup of the main index page for easier navigation

   - Rework some of the other top-level pages for better readability
     and, with luck, fewer merge conflicts in the future.

   - Submit-checklist improvements, hopefully the first of many.

   - New Italian translations

   - A fair number of kernel-doc fixes and improvements. We have also
     dropped the recommendation to use an old version of Sphinx.

   - A new document from Thorsten on bisection

  ... and lots of fixes and updates"

* tag 'docs-6.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (54 commits)
  docs: verify/bisect: fixes, finetuning, and support for Arch
  docs: Makefile: Add dependency to $(YNL_INDEX) for targets other than htmldocs
  docs: Move ja_JP/howto.rst to ja_JP/process/howto.rst
  docs: submit-checklist: use subheadings
  docs: submit-checklist: structure by category
  docs: new text on bisecting which also covers bug validation
  docs: drop the version constraints for sphinx and dependencies
  docs: kerneldoc-preamble.sty: Remove code for Sphinx <2.4
  docs: Restore "smart quotes" for quotes
  docs/zh_CN: accurate translation of "function"
  docs: Include simplified link titles in main index
  docs: Correct formatting of title in admin-guide/index.rst
  docs: kernel_feat.py: fix build error for missing files
  MAINTAINERS: Set the field name for subsystem profile section
  kasan: Add documentation for CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA_INFO
  Fixed case issue with 'fault-injection' in documentation
  kernel-doc: handle #if in enums as well
  Documentation: update mailing list addresses
  doc: kerneldoc.py: fix indentation
  scripts/kernel-doc: simplify signature printing
  ...

net: netconsole: Add continuation line prefix to userdata messages

2024-03-11T21:07:57+00:00

Add a space (' ') prefix to every userdata line to match docs for
dev-kmsg. To account for this extra character in each userdata entry,
reduce userdata entry names (directory name) from 54 characters to 53.

According to the dev-kmsg docs, a space is used for subsequent lines to
mark them as continuation lines.

> A line starting with ' ', is a continuation line, adding
> key/value pairs to the log message, which provide the machine
> readable context of the message, for reliable processing in
> userspace.

Testing for this patch::

 cd /sys/kernel/config/netconsole && mkdir cmdline0
 cd cmdline0
 mkdir userdata/test && echo "hello" > userdata/test/value
 mkdir userdata/test2 && echo "hello2" > userdata/test2/value
 echo "message" > /dev/kmsg

Outputs::

 6.8.0-rc5-virtme,12,493,231373579,-;message
  test=hello
  test2=hello2

And I confirmed all testing works as expected from the original patchset

Fixes: df03f830d099 ("net: netconsole: cache userdata formatted string in netconsole_target")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wood 
Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240308002525.248672-1-thepacketgeek@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge branch '100GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tnguy/next-queue

2024-03-11T09:33:01+00:00

Tony Nguyen says:

====================
ethtool: ice: Support for RSS settings to GTP

Takeru Hayasaka enables RSS functionality for GTP packets on ice driver
with ethtool.

A user can include TEID and make RSS work for GTP-U over IPv4 by doing the
following:`ethtool -N ens3 rx-flow-hash gtpu4 sde`

In addition to gtpu(4|6), we now support gtpc(4|6),gtpc(4|6)t,gtpu(4|6)e,
gtpu(4|6)u, and gtpu(4|6)d.

gtpc(4|6): Used for GTP-C in IPv4 and IPv6, where the GTP header format does
not include a TEID.
gtpc(4|6)t: Used for GTP-C in IPv4 and IPv6, with a GTP header format that
includes a TEID.
gtpu(4|6): Used for GTP-U in both IPv4 and IPv6 scenarios.
gtpu(4|6)e: Used for GTP-U with extended headers in both IPv4 and IPv6.
gtpu(4|6)u: Used when the PSC (PDU session container) in the GTP-U extended
header includes Uplink, applicable to both IPv4 and IPv6.
gtpu(4|6)d: Used when the PSC in the GTP-U extended header includes Downlink,
for both IPv4 and IPv6.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge tag 'mlx5-socket-direct-v3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/saeed/linux

2024-03-09T04:45:17+00:00

Saeed Mahameed says:

====================
Support Multi-PF netdev (Socket Direct)

This series adds support for combining multiple devices (PFs) of the
same port under one netdev instance. Passing traffic through different
devices belonging to different NUMA sockets saves cross-numa traffic and
allows apps running on the same netdev from different numas to still
feel a sense of proximity to the device and achieve improved
performance.

We achieve this by grouping PFs together, and creating the netdev only
once all group members are probed. Symmetrically, we destroy the netdev
once any of the PFs is removed.

The channels are distributed between all devices, a proper configuration
would utilize the correct close numa when working on a certain app/cpu.

We pick one device to be a primary (leader), and it fills a special
role.  The other devices (secondaries) are disconnected from the network
in the chip level (set to silent mode). All RX/TX traffic is steered
through the primary to/from the secondaries.

Currently, we limit the support to PFs only, and up to two devices
(sockets).

* tag 'mlx5-socket-direct-v3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/saeed/linux:
  Documentation: networking: Add description for multi-pf netdev
  net/mlx5: Enable SD feature
  net/mlx5e: Block TLS device offload on combined SD netdev
  net/mlx5e: Support per-mdev queue counter
  net/mlx5e: Support cross-vhca RSS
  net/mlx5e: Let channels be SD-aware
  net/mlx5e: Create EN core HW resources for all secondary devices
  net/mlx5e: Create single netdev per SD group
  net/mlx5: SD, Add debugfs
  net/mlx5: SD, Add informative prints in kernel log
  net/mlx5: SD, Implement steering for primary and secondaries
  net/mlx5: SD, Implement devcom communication and primary election
  net/mlx5: SD, Implement basic query and instantiation
  net/mlx5: SD, Introduce SD lib
  net/mlx5: Add MPIR bit in mcam_access_reg
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240307084229.500776-1-saeed@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netdev: add per-queue statistics

2024-03-08T05:13:25+00:00

The ethtool-nl family does a good job exposing various protocol
related and IEEE/IETF statistics which used to get dumped under
ethtool -S, with creative names. Queue stats don't have a netlink
API, yet, and remain a lion's share of ethtool -S output for new
drivers. Not only is that bad because the names differ driver to
driver but it's also bug-prone. Intuitively drivers try to report
only the stats for active queues, but querying ethtool stats
involves multiple system calls, and the number of stats is
read separately from the stats themselves. Worse still when user
space asks for values of the stats, it doesn't inform the kernel
how big the buffer is. If number of stats increases in the meantime
kernel will overflow user buffer.

Add a netlink API for dumping queue stats. Queue information is
exposed via the netdev-genl family, so add the stats there.
Support per-queue and sum-for-device dumps. Latter will be useful
when subsequent patches add more interesting common stats than
just bytes and packets.

The API does not currently distinguish between HW and SW stats.
The expectation is that the source of the stats will either not
matter much (good packets) or be obvious (skb alloc errors).

Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev 
Reviewed-by: Amritha Nambiar 
Reviewed-by: Xuan Zhuo 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240306195509.1502746-2-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski