Even though the boot protocol stipulates otherwise, an exception has
been made for the EFI stub, and entering the core kernel with the MMU
enabled is permitted. This allows a substantial amount of cache
maintenance to be elided, wich is significant when fast boot times are
critical (e.g., for booting micro-VMs)
Once the initial ID map has been populated, the MMU is disabled as part
of the logic sequence that puts all system registers into a known state.
Any code that needs to execute within the window where the MMU is off is
cleaned to the PoC explicitly, which includes all of HYP text when
entering at EL2.
However, the current sequence of initializing the EL2 system registers
is not safe: HCR_EL2 is set to its nVHE initial state before SCTLR_EL2
is reprogrammed, and this means that a VHE-to-nVHE switch may occur
while the MMU is enabled. This switch causes some system registers as
well as page table descriptors to be interpreted in a different way,
potentially resulting in spurious exceptions relating to MMU
translation.
So disable the MMU explicitly first when entering in EL2 with the MMU
and caches enabled.
Fixes: 617861703830 ("efi: arm64: enter with MMU and caches enabled")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 6.3.x
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240415075412.2347624-6-ardb+git@google.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
The Falkor erratum that results in the need for an ISB before clearing the M bit in SCTLR_ELx only applies to execution at exception level x, and so the workaround is not needed when disabling the EL1 MMU while running at EL2. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240415075412.2347624-5-ardb+git@google.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Pull arm64 fix from Catalin Marinas: "arm64/ptrace fix to use the correct SVE layout based on the saved floating point state rather than the TIF_SVE flag. The latter may be left on during syscalls even if the SVE state is discarded" * tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: arm64/ptrace: Use saved floating point state type to determine SVE layout
The SVE register sets have two different formats, one of which is a wrapped
version of the standard FPSIMD register set and another with actual SVE
register data. At present we check TIF_SVE to see if full SVE register
state should be provided when reading the SVE regset but if we were in a
syscall we may have saved only floating point registers even though that is
set.
Fix this and simplify the logic by checking and using the format which we
recorded when deciding if we should use FPSIMD or SVE format.
Fixes: 8c845e273104 ("arm64/sve: Leave SVE enabled on syscall if we don't context switch")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 6.2.x
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240325-arm64-ptrace-fp-type-v1-1-8dc846caf11f@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Commit 3944382fa6f2 introduced checks for the FEAT_E2H0 not being
implemented. However, the check is absolutely wrong and makes a
point it testing a bit that is guaranteed to be zero.
On top of that, the detection happens way too late, after the
init_el2_state has done its job.
This went undetected because the HW this was tested on has E2H being
RAO/WI, and not RES1. However, the bug shows up when run as a nested
guest, where HCR_EL2.E2H is not necessarily set to 1. As a result,
booting the kernel in hVHE mode fails with timer accesses being
cought in a trap loop (which was fun to debug).
Fix the check for ID_AA64MMFR4_EL1.E2H0, and set the HCR_EL2.E2H bit
early so that it can be checked by the rest of the init sequence.
With this, hVHE works again in a NV environment that doesn't have
FEAT_E2H0.
Fixes: 3944382fa6f2 ("arm64: Treat HCR_EL2.E2H as RES1 when ID_AA64MMFR4_EL1.E2H0 is negative")
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240321115414.3169115-1-maz@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"S390:
- Changes to FPU handling came in via the main s390 pull request
- Only deliver to the guest the SCLP events that userspace has
requested
- More virtual vs physical address fixes (only a cleanup since
virtual and physical address spaces are currently the same)
- Fix selftests undefined behavior
x86:
- Fix a restriction that the guest can't program a PMU event whose
encoding matches an architectural event that isn't included in the
guest CPUID. The enumeration of an architectural event only says
that if a CPU supports an architectural event, then the event can
be programmed *using the architectural encoding*. The enumeration
does NOT say anything about the encoding when the CPU doesn't
report support the event *in general*. It might support it, and it
might support it using the same encoding that made it into the
architectural PMU spec
- Fix a variety of bugs in KVM's emulation of RDPMC (more details on
individual commits) and add a selftest to verify KVM correctly
emulates RDMPC, counter availability, and a variety of other
PMC-related behaviors that depend on guest CPUID and therefore are
easier to validate with selftests than with custom guests (aka
kvm-unit-tests)
- Zero out PMU state on AMD if the virtual PMU is disabled, it does
not cause any bug but it wastes time in various cases where KVM
would check if a PMC event needs to be synthesized
- Optimize triggering of emulated events, with a nice ~10%
performance improvement in VM-Exit microbenchmarks when a vPMU is
exposed to the guest
- Tighten the check for "PMI in guest" to reduce false positives if
an NMI arrives in the host while KVM is handling an IRQ VM-Exit
- Fix a bug where KVM would report stale/bogus exit qualification
information when exiting to userspace with an internal error exit
code
- Add a VMX flag in /proc/cpuinfo to report 5-level EPT support
- Rework TDP MMU root unload, free, and alloc to run with mmu_lock
held for read, e.g. to avoid serializing vCPUs when userspace
deletes a memslot
- Tear down TDP MMU page tables at 4KiB granularity (used to be
1GiB). KVM doesn't support yielding in the middle of processing a
zap, and 1GiB granularity resulted in multi-millisecond lags that
are quite impolite for CONFIG_PREEMPT kernels
- Allocate write-tracking metadata on-demand to avoid the memory
overhead when a kernel is built with i915 virtualization support
but the workloads use neither shadow paging nor i915 virtualization
- Explicitly initialize a variety of on-stack variables in the
emulator that triggered KMSAN false positives
- Fix the debugregs ABI for 32-bit KVM
- Rework the "force immediate exit" code so that vendor code
ultimately decides how and when to force the exit, which allowed
some optimization for both Intel and AMD
- Fix a long-standing bug where kvm_has_noapic_vcpu could be left
elevated if vCPU creation ultimately failed, causing extra
unnecessary work
- Cleanup the logic for checking if the currently loaded vCPU is
in-kernel
- Harden against underflowing the active mmu_notifier invalidation
count, so that "bad" invalidations (usually due to bugs elsehwere
in the kernel) are detected earlier and are less likely to hang the
kernel
x86 Xen emulation:
- Overlay pages can now be cached based on host virtual address,
instead of guest physical addresses. This removes the need to
reconfigure and invalidate the cache if the guest changes the gpa
but the underlying host virtual address remains the same
- When possible, use a single host TSC value when computing the
deadline for Xen timers in order to improve the accuracy of the
timer emulation
- Inject pending upcall events when the vCPU software-enables its
APIC to fix a bug where an upcall can be lost (and to follow Xen's
behavior)
- Fall back to the slow path instead of warning if "fast" IRQ
delivery of Xen events fails, e.g. if the guest has aliased xAPIC
IDs
RISC-V:
- Support exception and interrupt handling in selftests
- New self test for RISC-V architectural timer (Sstc extension)
- New extension support (Ztso, Zacas)
- Support userspace emulation of random number seed CSRs
ARM:
- Infrastructure for building KVM's trap configuration based on the
architectural features (or lack thereof) advertised in the VM's ID
registers
- Support for mapping vfio-pci BARs as Normal-NC (vaguely similar to
x86's WC) at stage-2, improving the performance of interacting with
assigned devices that can tolerate it
- Conversion of KVM's representation of LPIs to an xarray, utilized
to address serialization some of the serialization on the LPI
injection path
- Support for _architectural_ VHE-only systems, advertised through
the absence of FEAT_E2H0 in the CPU's ID register
- Miscellaneous cleanups, fixes, and spelling corrections to KVM and
selftests
LoongArch:
- Set reserved bits as zero in CPUCFG
- Start SW timer only when vcpu is blocking
- Do not restart SW timer when it is expired
- Remove unnecessary CSR register saving during enter guest
- Misc cleanups and fixes as usual
Generic:
- Clean up Kconfig by removing CONFIG_HAVE_KVM, which was basically
always true on all architectures except MIPS (where Kconfig
determines the available depending on CPU capabilities). It is
replaced either by an architecture-dependent symbol for MIPS, and
IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM) everywhere else
- Factor common "select" statements in common code instead of
requiring each architecture to specify it
- Remove thoroughly obsolete APIs from the uapi headers
- Move architecture-dependent stuff to uapi/asm/kvm.h
- Always flush the async page fault workqueue when a work item is
being removed, especially during vCPU destruction, to ensure that
there are no workers running in KVM code when all references to
KVM-the-module are gone, i.e. to prevent a very unlikely
use-after-free if kvm.ko is unloaded
- Grab a reference to the VM's mm_struct in the async #PF worker
itself instead of gifting the worker a reference, so that there's
no need to remember to *conditionally* clean up after the worker
Selftests:
- Reduce boilerplate especially when utilize selftest TAP
infrastructure
- Add basic smoke tests for SEV and SEV-ES, along with a pile of
library support for handling private/encrypted/protected memory
- Fix benign bugs where tests neglect to close() guest_memfd files"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (246 commits)
selftests: kvm: remove meaningless assignments in Makefiles
KVM: riscv: selftests: Add Zacas extension to get-reg-list test
RISC-V: KVM: Allow Zacas extension for Guest/VM
KVM: riscv: selftests: Add Ztso extension to get-reg-list test
RISC-V: KVM: Allow Ztso extension for Guest/VM
RISC-V: KVM: Forward SEED CSR access to user space
KVM: riscv: selftests: Add sstc timer test
KVM: riscv: selftests: Change vcpu_has_ext to a common function
KVM: riscv: selftests: Add guest helper to get vcpu id
KVM: riscv: selftests: Add exception handling support
LoongArch: KVM: Remove unnecessary CSR register saving during enter guest
LoongArch: KVM: Do not restart SW timer when it is expired
LoongArch: KVM: Start SW timer only when vcpu is blocking
LoongArch: KVM: Set reserved bits as zero in CPUCFG
KVM: selftests: Explicitly close guest_memfd files in some gmem tests
KVM: x86/xen: fix recursive deadlock in timer injection
KVM: pfncache: simplify locking and make more self-contained
KVM: x86/xen: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() with false positives in evtchn delivery
KVM: x86/xen: inject vCPU upcall vector when local APIC is enabled
KVM: x86/xen: improve accuracy of Xen timers
...
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 arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
"The major features are support for LPA2 (52-bit VA/PA with 4K and 16K
pages), the dpISA extension and Rust enabled on arm64. The changes are
mostly contained within the usual arch/arm64/, drivers/perf, the arm64
Documentation and kselftests. The exception is the Rust support which
touches some generic build files.
Summary:
- Reorganise the arm64 kernel VA space and add support for LPA2 (at
stage 1, KVM stage 2 was merged earlier) - 52-bit VA/PA address
range with 4KB and 16KB pages
- Enable Rust on arm64
- Support for the 2023 dpISA extensions (data processing ISA), host
only
- arm64 perf updates:
- StarFive's StarLink (integrates one or more CPU cores with a
shared L3 memory system) PMU support
- Enable HiSilicon Erratum 162700402 quirk for HIP09
- Several updates for the HiSilicon PCIe PMU driver
- Arm CoreSight PMU support
- Convert all drivers under drivers/perf/ to use .remove_new()
- Miscellaneous:
- Don't enable workarounds for "rare" errata by default
- Clean up the DAIF flags handling for EL0 returns (in preparation
for NMI support)
- Kselftest update for ptrace()
- Update some of the sysreg field definitions
- Slight improvement in the code generation for inline asm I/O
accessors to permit offset addressing
- kretprobes: acquire regs via a BRK exception (previously done
via a trampoline handler)
- SVE/SME cleanups, comment updates
- Allow CALL_OPS+CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE with clang (previously
disabled due to gcc silently ignoring -falign-functions=N)"
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (134 commits)
Revert "mm: add arch hook to validate mmap() prot flags"
Revert "arm64: mm: add support for WXN memory translation attribute"
Revert "ARM64: Dynamically allocate cpumasks and increase supported CPUs to 512"
ARM64: Dynamically allocate cpumasks and increase supported CPUs to 512
kselftest/arm64: Add 2023 DPISA hwcap test coverage
kselftest/arm64: Add basic FPMR test
kselftest/arm64: Handle FPMR context in generic signal frame parser
arm64/hwcap: Define hwcaps for 2023 DPISA features
arm64/ptrace: Expose FPMR via ptrace
arm64/signal: Add FPMR signal handling
arm64/fpsimd: Support FEAT_FPMR
arm64/fpsimd: Enable host kernel access to FPMR
arm64/cpufeature: Hook new identification registers up to cpufeature
docs: perf: Fix build warning of hisi-pcie-pmu.rst
perf: starfive: Only allow COMPILE_TEST for 64-bit architectures
MAINTAINERS: Add entry for StarFive StarLink PMU
docs: perf: Add description for StarFive's StarLink PMU
dt-bindings: perf: starfive: Add JH8100 StarLink PMU
perf: starfive: Add StarLink PMU support
docs: perf: Update usage for target filter of hisi-pcie-pmu
...
This reverts commit 50e3ed0f93f4f62ed2aa83de5db6cb84ecdd5707. The SCTLR_EL1.WXN control forces execute-never when a page has write permissions. While the idea of hardening such write/exec combinations is good, with permissions indirection enabled (FEAT_PIE) this control becomes RES0. FEAT_PIE introduces a slightly different form of WXN which only has an effect when the base permission is RWX and the write is toggled by the permission overlay (FEAT_POE, not yet supported by the arm64 kernel). Revert the patch for now. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZfGESD3a91lxH367@arm.com
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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