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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/net/netdevsim/netdevsim.h, branch linux-6.14.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>netdevsim: call napi_schedule from a timer context</title>
<updated>2025-05-29T09:13:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Breno Leitao</name>
<email>leitao@debian.org</email>
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<published>2025-02-19T16:41:20+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit bf3624cf1c3708284c53ed99a1c43f2e104dc2dd ]

The netdevsim driver was experiencing NOHZ tick-stop errors during packet
transmission due to pending softirq work when calling napi_schedule().
This issue was observed when running the netconsole selftest, which
triggered the following error message:

  NOHZ tick-stop error: local softirq work is pending, handler #08!!!

To fix this issue, introduce a timer that schedules napi_schedule()
from a timer context instead of calling it directly from the TX path.

Create an hrtimer for each queue and kick it from the TX path,
which then schedules napi_schedule() from the timer context.

Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250219-netdevsim-v3-1-811e2b8abc4c@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit bf3624cf1c3708284c53ed99a1c43f2e104dc2dd ]

The netdevsim driver was experiencing NOHZ tick-stop errors during packet
transmission due to pending softirq work when calling napi_schedule().
This issue was observed when running the netconsole selftest, which
triggered the following error message:

  NOHZ tick-stop error: local softirq work is pending, handler #08!!!

To fix this issue, introduce a timer that schedules napi_schedule()
from a timer context instead of calling it directly from the TX path.

Create an hrtimer for each queue and kick it from the TX path,
which then schedules napi_schedule() from the timer context.

Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250219-netdevsim-v3-1-811e2b8abc4c@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: netdevsim: try to close UDP port harness races</title>
<updated>2025-01-27T22:24:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-22T22:45:03+00:00</published>
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syzbot discovered that we remove the debugfs files after we free
the netdev. Try to clean up the relevant dir while the device
is still around.

Reported-by: syzbot+2e5de9e3ab986b71d2bf@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 424be63ad831 ("netdevsim: add UDP tunnel port offload support")
Reviewed-by: Michal Swiatkowski &lt;michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250122224503.762705-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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syzbot discovered that we remove the debugfs files after we free
the netdev. Try to clean up the relevant dir while the device
is still around.

Reported-by: syzbot+2e5de9e3ab986b71d2bf@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 424be63ad831 ("netdevsim: add UDP tunnel port offload support")
Reviewed-by: Michal Swiatkowski &lt;michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250122224503.762705-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netdevsim: add HDS feature</title>
<updated>2025-01-15T22:42:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Taehee Yoo</name>
<email>ap420073@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-14T14:28:51+00:00</published>
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HDS options(tcp-data-split, hds-thresh) have dependencies between other
features like XDP. Basic dependencies are checked in the core API.
netdevsim is very useful to check basic dependencies.

The default tcp-data-split mode is UNKNOWN but netdevsim driver
returns ENABLED when ethtool dumps tcp-data-split mode.
The default value of HDS threshold is 0 and the maximum value is 1024.

ethtool shows like this.

ethtool -g eni1np1
Ring parameters for eni1np1:
Pre-set maximums:
...
HDS thresh:             1024
Current hardware settings:
...
TCP data split:         on
HDS thresh:             0

ethtool -G eni1np1 tcp-data-split on hds-thresh 1024
ethtool -g eni1np1
Ring parameters for eni1np1:
Pre-set maximums:
...
HDS thresh:             1024
Current hardware settings:
...
TCP data split:         on
HDS thresh:             1024

Signed-off-by: Taehee Yoo &lt;ap420073@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250114142852.3364986-10-ap420073@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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HDS options(tcp-data-split, hds-thresh) have dependencies between other
features like XDP. Basic dependencies are checked in the core API.
netdevsim is very useful to check basic dependencies.

The default tcp-data-split mode is UNKNOWN but netdevsim driver
returns ENABLED when ethtool dumps tcp-data-split mode.
The default value of HDS threshold is 0 and the maximum value is 1024.

ethtool shows like this.

ethtool -g eni1np1
Ring parameters for eni1np1:
Pre-set maximums:
...
HDS thresh:             1024
Current hardware settings:
...
TCP data split:         on
HDS thresh:             0

ethtool -G eni1np1 tcp-data-split on hds-thresh 1024
ethtool -g eni1np1
Ring parameters for eni1np1:
Pre-set maximums:
...
HDS thresh:             1024
Current hardware settings:
...
TCP data split:         on
HDS thresh:             1024

Signed-off-by: Taehee Yoo &lt;ap420073@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250114142852.3364986-10-ap420073@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netdevsim: add debugfs-triggered queue reset</title>
<updated>2025-01-09T14:33:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-07T16:08:45+00:00</published>
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Support triggering queue reset via debugfs for an upcoming test.

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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Support triggering queue reset via debugfs for an upcoming test.

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netdevsim: add queue management API support</title>
<updated>2025-01-09T14:33:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-07T16:08:44+00:00</published>
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Add queue management API support. We need a way to reset queues
to test NAPI reordering, the queue management API provides a
handy scaffolding for that.

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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Add queue management API support. We need a way to reset queues
to test NAPI reordering, the queue management API provides a
handy scaffolding for that.

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netdevsim: allocate rqs individually</title>
<updated>2025-01-09T14:33:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-07T16:08:42+00:00</published>
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Make nsim-&gt;rqs an array of pointers and allocate them individually
so that we can swap them out one by one.

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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Make nsim-&gt;rqs an array of pointers and allocate them individually
so that we can swap them out one by one.

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netdevsim: add NAPI support</title>
<updated>2024-05-09T01:59:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Wei</name>
<email>dw@davidwei.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-07T16:32:27+00:00</published>
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Add NAPI support to netdevim, similar to veth.

* Add a nsim_rq rx queue structure to hold a NAPI instance and a skb
  queue.
* During xmit, store the skb in the peer skb queue and schedule NAPI.
* During napi_poll(), drain the skb queue and pass up the stack.
* Add assoc between rxq and NAPI instance using netif_queue_set_napi().

Signed-off-by: David Wei &lt;dw@davidwei.uk&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240507163228.2066817-2-dw@davidwei.uk
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Add NAPI support to netdevim, similar to veth.

* Add a nsim_rq rx queue structure to hold a NAPI instance and a skb
  queue.
* During xmit, store the skb in the peer skb queue and schedule NAPI.
* During napi_poll(), drain the skb queue and pass up the stack.
* Add assoc between rxq and NAPI instance using netif_queue_set_napi().

Signed-off-by: David Wei &lt;dw@davidwei.uk&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240507163228.2066817-2-dw@davidwei.uk
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: netdevsim: add some fake page pool use</title>
<updated>2024-04-15T18:21:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-12T14:14:31+00:00</published>
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Add very basic page pool use so that we can exercise
the netlink uAPI in a selftest.

Page pool gets created on open, destroyed on close.
But we control allocating of a single page thru debugfs.
This page may survive past the page pool itself so that
we can test orphaned page pools.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240412141436.828666-2-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Add very basic page pool use so that we can exercise
the netlink uAPI in a selftest.

Page pool gets created on open, destroyed on close.
But we control allocating of a single page thru debugfs.
This page may survive past the page pool itself so that
we can test orphaned page pools.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240412141436.828666-2-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netdevsim: forward skbs from one connected port to another</title>
<updated>2024-03-01T10:43:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Wei</name>
<email>dw@davidwei.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-28T23:22:50+00:00</published>
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Forward skbs sent from one netdevsim port to its connected netdevsim
port using dev_forward_skb, in a spirit similar to veth.

Add a tx_dropped variable to struct netdevsim, tracking the number of
skbs that could not be forwarded using dev_forward_skb().

The xmit() function accessing the peer ptr is protected by an RCU read
critical section. The rcu_read_lock() is functionally redundant as since
v5.0 all softirqs are implicitly RCU read critical sections; but it is
useful for human readers.

If another CPU is concurrently in nsim_destroy(), then it will first set
the peer ptr to NULL. This does not affect any existing readers that
dereferenced a non-NULL peer. Then, in unregister_netdevice(), there is
a synchronize_rcu() before the netdev is actually unregistered and
freed. This ensures that any readers i.e. xmit() that got a non-NULL
peer will complete before the netdev is freed.

Any readers after the RCU_INIT_POINTER() but before synchronize_rcu()
will dereference NULL, making it safe.

The codepath to nsim_destroy() and nsim_create() takes both the newly
added nsim_dev_list_lock and rtnl_lock. This makes it safe with
concurrent calls to linking two netdevsims together.

Signed-off-by: David Wei &lt;dw@davidwei.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maciek Machnikowski &lt;maciek@machnikowski.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Forward skbs sent from one netdevsim port to its connected netdevsim
port using dev_forward_skb, in a spirit similar to veth.

Add a tx_dropped variable to struct netdevsim, tracking the number of
skbs that could not be forwarded using dev_forward_skb().

The xmit() function accessing the peer ptr is protected by an RCU read
critical section. The rcu_read_lock() is functionally redundant as since
v5.0 all softirqs are implicitly RCU read critical sections; but it is
useful for human readers.

If another CPU is concurrently in nsim_destroy(), then it will first set
the peer ptr to NULL. This does not affect any existing readers that
dereferenced a non-NULL peer. Then, in unregister_netdevice(), there is
a synchronize_rcu() before the netdev is actually unregistered and
freed. This ensures that any readers i.e. xmit() that got a non-NULL
peer will complete before the netdev is freed.

Any readers after the RCU_INIT_POINTER() but before synchronize_rcu()
will dereference NULL, making it safe.

The codepath to nsim_destroy() and nsim_create() takes both the newly
added nsim_dev_list_lock and rtnl_lock. This makes it safe with
concurrent calls to linking two netdevsims together.

Signed-off-by: David Wei &lt;dw@davidwei.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maciek Machnikowski &lt;maciek@machnikowski.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netdevsim: allow two netdevsim ports to be connected</title>
<updated>2024-03-01T10:43:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Wei</name>
<email>dw@davidwei.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-28T23:22:49+00:00</published>
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Add two netdevsim bus attribute to sysfs:
/sys/bus/netdevsim/link_device
/sys/bus/netdevsim/unlink_device

Writing "A M B N" to link_device will link netdevsim M in netnsid A with
netdevsim N in netnsid B.

Writing "A M" to unlink_device will unlink netdevsim M in netnsid A from
its peer, if any.

rtnl_lock is taken to ensure nothing changes during the linking.

Signed-off-by: David Wei &lt;dw@davidwei.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maciek Machnikowski &lt;maciek@machnikowski.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add two netdevsim bus attribute to sysfs:
/sys/bus/netdevsim/link_device
/sys/bus/netdevsim/unlink_device

Writing "A M B N" to link_device will link netdevsim M in netnsid A with
netdevsim N in netnsid B.

Writing "A M" to unlink_device will unlink netdevsim M in netnsid A from
its peer, if any.

rtnl_lock is taken to ensure nothing changes during the linking.

Signed-off-by: David Wei &lt;dw@davidwei.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maciek Machnikowski &lt;maciek@machnikowski.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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