Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from
Sergey Senozhatsky improves zram's post-processing selection
algorithm. This leads to improved memory savings.
- Wei Yang has gone to town on the mapletree code, contributing several
series which clean up the implementation:
- "refine mas_mab_cp()"
- "Reduce the space to be cleared for maple_big_node"
- "maple_tree: simplify mas_push_node()"
- "Following cleanup after introduce mas_wr_store_type()"
- "refine storing null"
- The series "selftests/mm: hugetlb_fault_after_madv improvements" from
David Hildenbrand fixes this selftest for s390.
- The series "introduce pte_offset_map_{ro|rw}_nolock()" from Qi Zheng
implements some rationaizations and cleanups in the page mapping
code.
- The series "mm: optimize shadow entries removal" from Shakeel Butt
optimizes the file truncation code by speeding up the handling of
shadow entries.
- The series "Remove PageKsm()" from Matthew Wilcox completes the
migration of this flag over to being a folio-based flag.
- The series "Unify hugetlb into arch_get_unmapped_area functions" from
Oscar Salvador implements a bunch of consolidations and cleanups in
the hugetlb code.
- The series "Do not shatter hugezeropage on wp-fault" from Dev Jain
takes away the wp-fault time practice of turning a huge zero page
into small pages. Instead we replace the whole thing with a THP. More
consistent cleaner and potentiall saves a large number of pagefaults.
- The series "percpu: Add a test case and fix for clang" from Andy
Shevchenko enhances and fixes the kernel's built in percpu test code.
- The series "mm/mremap: Remove extra vma tree walk" from Liam Howlett
optimizes mremap() by avoiding doing things which we didn't need to
do.
- The series "Improve the tmpfs large folio read performance" from
Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to copy data into userspace at the folio
size rather than as individual pages. A 20% speedup was observed.
- The series "mm/damon/vaddr: Fix issue in
damon_va_evenly_split_region()" fro Zheng Yejian fixes DAMON
splitting.
- The series "memcg-v1: fully deprecate charge moving" from Shakeel
Butt removes the long-deprecated memcgv2 charge moving feature.
- The series "fix error handling in mmap_region() and refactor" from
Lorenzo Stoakes cleanup up some of the mmap() error handling and
addresses some potential performance issues.
- The series "x86/module: use large ROX pages for text allocations"
from Mike Rapoport teaches x86 to use large pages for
read-only-execute module text.
- The series "page allocation tag compression" from Suren Baghdasaryan
is followon maintenance work for the new page allocation profiling
feature.
- The series "page->index removals in mm" from Matthew Wilcox remove
most references to page->index in mm/. A slow march towards shrinking
struct page.
- The series "damon/{self,kunit}tests: minor fixups for DAMON debugfs
interface tests" from Andrew Paniakin performs maintenance work for
DAMON's self testing code.
- The series "mm: zswap swap-out of large folios" from Kanchana Sridhar
improves zswap's batching of compression and decompression. It is a
step along the way towards using Intel IAA hardware acceleration for
this zswap operation.
- The series "kasan: migrate the last module test to kunit" from
Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov completes the migration of the KASAN built-in
tests over to the KUnit framework.
- The series "implement lightweight guard pages" from Lorenzo Stoakes
permits userapace to place fault-generating guard pages within a
single VMA, rather than requiring that multiple VMAs be created for
this. Improved efficiencies for userspace memory allocators are
expected.
- The series "memcg: tracepoint for flushing stats" from JP Kobryn uses
tracepoints to provide increased visibility into memcg stats flushing
activity.
- The series "zram: IDLE flag handling fixes" from Sergey Senozhatsky
fixes a zram buglet which potentially affected performance.
- The series "mm: add more kernel parameters to control mTHP" from
Maíra Canal enhances our ability to control/configuremultisize THP
from the kernel boot command line.
- The series "kasan: few improvements on kunit tests" from Sabyrzhan
Tasbolatov has a couple of fixups for the KASAN KUnit tests.
- The series "mm/list_lru: Split list_lru lock into per-cgroup scope"
from Kairui Song optimizes list_lru memory utilization when lockdep
is enabled.
* tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (215 commits)
cma: enforce non-zero pageblock_order during cma_init_reserved_mem()
mm/kfence: add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault()
zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show()
memcg/hugetlb: add hugeTLB counters to memcg
vmstat: call fold_vm_zone_numa_events() before show per zone NUMA event
mm: mmap_lock: check trace_mmap_lock_$type_enabled() instead of regcount
zram: ZRAM_DEF_COMP should depend on ZRAM
MAINTAINERS/MEMORY MANAGEMENT: add document files for mm
Docs/mm/damon: recommend academic papers to read and/or cite
mm: define general function pXd_init()
kmemleak: iommu/iova: fix transient kmemleak false positive
mm/list_lru: simplify the list_lru walk callback function
mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scope
mm/list_lru: simplify reparenting and initial allocation
mm/list_lru: code clean up for reparenting
mm/list_lru: don't export list_lru_add
mm/list_lru: don't pass unnecessary key parameters
kasan: add kunit tests for kmalloc_track_caller, kmalloc_node_track_caller
kasan: change kasan_atomics kunit test as KUNIT_CASE_SLOW
kasan: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT to export symbols
...
Inspired by [1], move the page fragment allocator from page_alloc into its own c file and header file, as we are about to make more change for it to replace another page_frag implementation in sock.c As this patchset is going to replace 'struct page_frag' with 'struct page_frag_cache' in sched.h, including page_frag_cache.h in sched.h has a compiler error caused by interdependence between mm_types.h and mm.h for asm-offsets.c, see [2]. So avoid the compiler error by moving 'struct page_frag_cache' to mm_types_task.h as suggested by Alexander, see [3]. 1. https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230411160902.4134381-3-dhowells@redhat.com/ 2. https://lore.kernel.org/all/15623dac-9358-4597-b3ee-3694a5956920@gmail.com/ 3. https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAKgT0UdH1yD=LSCXFJ=YM_aiA4OomD-2wXykO42bizaWMt_HOA@mail.gmail.com/ CC: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> CC: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241028115343.3405838-3-linyunsheng@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
The hugepage parameter was deprecated since commit ddc1a5cbc05d
("mempolicy: alloc_pages_mpol() for NUMA policy without vma"), for
PMD-sized THP, it still tries only preferred node if possible in
vma_alloc_folio() by checking the order of the folio allocation.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241010061556.1846751-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
folio_alloc_noprof) wasn't calling the _noprof version, causing allocations to be accounted here instead of to the caller Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240901202459.4867-1-kent.overstreet@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/hugetlb: alloc/free gigantic folios", v2.
Use __GFP_COMP for gigantic folios can greatly reduce not only the amount
of code but also the allocation and free time.
Approximate LOC to mm/hugetlb.c: +60, -240
Allocate and free 500 1GB hugeTLB memory without HVO by:
time echo 500 >/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages
time echo 0 >/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages
Before After
Alloc ~13s ~10s
Free ~15s <1s
The above magnitude generally holds for multiple x86 and arm64 CPU
models.
Perf profile before:
Alloc
- 99.99% alloc_pool_huge_folio
- __alloc_fresh_hugetlb_folio
- 83.23% alloc_contig_pages_noprof
- 47.46% alloc_contig_range_noprof
- 20.96% isolate_freepages_range
16.10% split_page
- 14.10% start_isolate_page_range
- 12.02% undo_isolate_page_range
Free
- update_and_free_pages_bulk
- 87.71% free_contig_range
- 76.02% free_unref_page
- 41.30% free_unref_page_commit
- 32.58% free_pcppages_bulk
- 24.75% __free_one_page
13.96% _raw_spin_trylock
12.27% __update_and_free_hugetlb_folio
Perf profile after:
Alloc
- 99.99% alloc_pool_huge_folio
alloc_gigantic_folio
- alloc_contig_pages_noprof
- 59.15% alloc_contig_range_noprof
- 20.72% start_isolate_page_range
20.64% prep_new_page
- 17.13% undo_isolate_page_range
Free
- update_and_free_pages_bulk
- __folio_put
- __free_pages_ok
7.46% free_tail_page_prepare
- 1.97% free_one_page
1.86% __free_one_page
This patch (of 3):
Support __GFP_COMP in alloc_contig_range(). When the flag is set, upon
success the function returns a large folio prepared by prep_new_page(),
rather than a range of order-0 pages prepared by split_free_pages() (which
is renamed from split_map_pages()).
alloc_contig_range() can be used to allocate folios larger than
MAX_PAGE_ORDER, e.g., gigantic hugeTLB folios. So on the free path,
free_one_page() needs to handle that by split_large_buddy().
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix folio_alloc_gigantic_noprof() WARN expression, per Yu Liao]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240814035451.773331-1-yuzhao@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240814035451.773331-2-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm: convert to folio_alloc_mpol()". This patch (of 4): This adds a new folio_alloc_mpol() like folio_alloc() but allocate folio according to NUMA mempolicy. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240515070709.78529-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240515070709.78529-2-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm: fix nested allocation context filtering". This patchset is the followup to the comment I made earlier today: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/ZjAyIWUzDipofHFJ@dread.disaster.area/ Tl;dr: Memory allocations that are done inside the public memory allocation API need to obey the reclaim recursion constraints placed on the allocation by the original caller, including the "don't track recursion for this allocation" case defined by __GFP_NOLOCKDEP. These nested allocations are generally in debug code that is tracking something about the allocation (kmemleak, KASAN, etc) and so are allocating private kernel objects that only that debug system will use. Neither the page-owner code nor the stack depot code get this right. They also also clear GFP_ZONEMASK as a separate operation, which is completely redundant because the constraint filter applied immediately after guarantees that GFP_ZONEMASK bits are cleared. kmemleak gets this filtering right. It preserves the allocation constraints for deadlock prevention and clears all other context flags whilst also ensuring that the nested allocation will fail quickly, silently and without depleting emergency kernel reserves if there is no memory available. This can be made much more robust, immune to whack-a-mole games and the code greatly simplified by lifting gfp_kmemleak_mask() to include/linux/gfp.h and using that everywhere. Also document it so that there is no excuse for not knowing about it when writing new debug code that nests allocations. Tested with lockdep, KASAN + page_owner=on and kmemleak=on over multiple fstests runs with XFS. This patch (of 3): Any "internal" nested allocation done from within an allocation context needs to obey the high level allocation gfp_mask constraints. This is necessary for debug code like KASAN, kmemleak, lockdep, etc that allocate memory for saving stack traces and other information during memory allocation. If they don't obey things like __GFP_NOLOCKDEP or __GFP_NOWARN, they produce false positive failure detections. kmemleak gets this right by using gfp_kmemleak_mask() to pass through the relevant context flags to the nested allocation to ensure that the allocation follows the constraints of the caller context. KASAN recently was foudn to be missing __GFP_NOLOCKDEP due to stack depot allocations, and even more recently the page owner tracking code was also found to be missing __GFP_NOLOCKDEP support. We also don't wan't want KASAN or lockdep to drive the system into OOM kill territory by exhausting emergency reserves. This is something that kmemleak also gets right by adding (__GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN) to the allocation mask. Hence it is clear that we need to define a common nested allocation filter mask for these sorts of third party nested allocations used in debug code. So to start this process, lift gfp_kmemleak_mask() to gfp.h and rename it to gfp_nested_mask(), and convert the kmemleak callers to use it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240430054604.4169568-1-david@fromorbit.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240430054604.4169568-2-david@fromorbit.com Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Redefine page allocators to record allocation tags upon their invocation. Instrument post_alloc_hook and free_pages_prepare to modify current allocation tag. [surenb@google.com: undo _noprof additions in the documentation] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326231453.1206227-3-surenb@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240321163705.3067592-19-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Co-developed-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com> Cc: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Cc: "Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- Sumanth Korikkar has taught s390 to allocate hotplug-time page frames
from hotplugged memory rather than only from main memory. Series
"implement "memmap on memory" feature on s390".
- More folio conversions from Matthew Wilcox in the series
"Convert memcontrol charge moving to use folios"
"mm: convert mm counter to take a folio"
- Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's rbtree locking, providing
significant reductions in system time and modest but measurable
reductions in overall runtimes. The series is "mm/zswap: optimize the
scalability of zswap rb-tree".
- Chengming Zhou has also provided the series "mm/zswap: optimize zswap
lru list" which provides measurable runtime benefits in some
swap-intensive situations.
- And Chengming Zhou further optimizes zswap in the series "mm/zswap:
optimize for dynamic zswap_pools". Measured improvements are modest.
- zswap cleanups and simplifications from Yosry Ahmed in the series
"mm: zswap: simplify zswap_swapoff()".
- In the series "Add DAX ABI for memmap_on_memory", Vishal Verma has
contributed several DAX cleanups as well as adding a sysfs tunable to
control the memmap_on_memory setting when the dax device is
hotplugged as system memory.
- Johannes Weiner has added the large series "mm: zswap: cleanups",
which does that.
- More DAMON work from SeongJae Park in the series
"mm/damon: make DAMON debugfs interface deprecation unignorable"
"selftests/damon: add more tests for core functionalities and corner cases"
"Docs/mm/damon: misc readability improvements"
"mm/damon: let DAMOS feeds and tame/auto-tune itself"
- In the series "mm/mempolicy: weighted interleave mempolicy and sysfs
extension" Rakie Kim has developed a new mempolicy interleaving
policy wherein we allocate memory across nodes in a weighted fashion
rather than uniformly. This is beneficial in heterogeneous memory
environments appearing with CXL.
- Christophe Leroy has contributed some cleanup and consolidation work
against the ARM pagetable dumping code in the series "mm: ptdump:
Refactor CONFIG_DEBUG_WX and check_wx_pages debugfs attribute".
- Luis Chamberlain has added some additional xarray selftesting in the
series "test_xarray: advanced API multi-index tests".
- Muhammad Usama Anjum has reworked the selftest code to make its
human-readable output conform to the TAP ("Test Anything Protocol")
format. Amongst other things, this opens up the use of third-party
tools to parse and process out selftesting results.
- Ryan Roberts has added fork()-time PTE batching of THP ptes in the
series "mm/memory: optimize fork() with PTE-mapped THP". Mainly
targeted at arm64, this significantly speeds up fork() when the
process has a large number of pte-mapped folios.
- David Hildenbrand also gets in on the THP pte batching game in his
series "mm/memory: optimize unmap/zap with PTE-mapped THP". It
implements batching during munmap() and other pte teardown
situations. The microbenchmark improvements are nice.
- And in the series "Transparent Contiguous PTEs for User Mappings"
Ryan Roberts further utilizes arm's pte's contiguous bit ("contpte
mappings"). Kernel build times on arm64 improved nicely. Ryan's
series "Address some contpte nits" provides some followup work.
- In the series "mm/hugetlb: Restore the reservation" Breno Leitao has
fixed an obscure hugetlb race which was causing unnecessary page
faults. He has also added a reproducer under the selftest code.
- In the series "selftests/mm: Output cleanups for the compaction
test", Mark Brown did what the title claims.
- Kinsey Ho has added the series "mm/mglru: code cleanup and
refactoring".
- Even more zswap material from Nhat Pham. The series "fix and extend
zswap kselftests" does as claimed.
- In the series "Introduce cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to fix DAX
regression" Mathieu Desnoyers has cleaned up and fixed rather a mess
in our handling of DAX on archiecctures which have virtually aliasing
data caches. The arm architecture is the main beneficiary.
- Lokesh Gidra's series "per-vma locks in userfaultfd" provides
dramatic improvements in worst-case mmap_lock hold times during
certain userfaultfd operations.
- Some page_owner enhancements and maintenance work from Oscar Salvador
in his series
"page_owner: print stacks and their outstanding allocations"
"page_owner: Fixup and cleanup"
- Uladzislau Rezki has contributed some vmalloc scalability
improvements in his series "Mitigate a vmap lock contention". It
realizes a 12x improvement for a certain microbenchmark.
- Some kexec/crash cleanup work from Baoquan He in the series "Split
crash out from kexec and clean up related config items".
- Some zsmalloc maintenance work from Chengming Zhou in the series
"mm/zsmalloc: fix and optimize objects/page migration"
"mm/zsmalloc: some cleanup for get/set_zspage_mapping()"
- Zi Yan has taught the MM to perform compaction on folios larger than
order=0. This a step along the path to implementaton of the merging
of large anonymous folios. The series is named "Enable >0 order folio
memory compaction".
- Christoph Hellwig has done quite a lot of cleanup work in the
pagecache writeback code in his series "convert write_cache_pages()
to an iterator".
- Some modest hugetlb cleanups and speedups in Vishal Moola's series
"Handle hugetlb faults under the VMA lock".
- Zi Yan has changed the page splitting code so we can split huge pages
into sizes other than order-0 to better utilize large folios. The
series is named "Split a folio to any lower order folios".
- David Hildenbrand has contributed the series "mm: remove
total_mapcount()", a cleanup.
- Matthew Wilcox has sought to improve the performance of bulk memory
freeing in his series "Rearrange batched folio freeing".
- Gang Li's series "hugetlb: parallelize hugetlb page init on boot"
provides large improvements in bootup times on large machines which
are configured to use large numbers of hugetlb pages.
- Matthew Wilcox's series "PageFlags cleanups" does that.
- Qi Zheng's series "minor fixes and supplement for ptdesc" does that
also. S390 is affected.
- Cleanups to our pagemap utility functions from Peter Xu in his series
"mm/treewide: Replace pXd_large() with pXd_leaf()".
- Nico Pache has fixed a few things with our hugepage selftests in his
series "selftests/mm: Improve Hugepage Test Handling in MM
Selftests".
- Also, of course, many singleton patches to many things. Please see
the individual changelogs for details.
* tag 'mm-stable-2024-03-13-20-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (435 commits)
mm/zswap: remove the memcpy if acomp is not sleepable
crypto: introduce: acomp_is_async to expose if comp drivers might sleep
memtest: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE in memory scanning
mm: prohibit the last subpage from reusing the entire large folio
mm: recover pud_leaf() definitions in nopmd case
selftests/mm: skip the hugetlb-madvise tests on unmet hugepage requirements
selftests/mm: skip uffd hugetlb tests with insufficient hugepages
selftests/mm: dont fail testsuite due to a lack of hugepages
mm/huge_memory: skip invalid debugfs new_order input for folio split
mm/huge_memory: check new folio order when split a folio
mm, vmscan: retry kswapd's priority loop with cache_trim_mode off on failure
mm: add an explicit smp_wmb() to UFFDIO_CONTINUE
mm: fix list corruption in put_pages_list
mm: remove folio from deferred split list before uncharging it
filemap: avoid unnecessary major faults in filemap_fault()
mm,page_owner: drop unnecessary check
mm,page_owner: check for null stack_record before bumping its refcount
mm: swap: fix race between free_swap_and_cache() and swapoff()
mm/treewide: align up pXd_leaf() retval across archs
mm/treewide: drop pXd_large()
...
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
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