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<title>linux.git/include/linux/netdevice.h, branch v6.14-rc2</title>
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<title>net: harmonize tstats and dstats</title>
<updated>2025-02-04T02:39:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Abeni</name>
<email>pabeni@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-01T18:02:51+00:00</published>
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After the blamed commits below, some UDP tunnel use dstats for
accounting. On the xmit path, all the UDP-base tunnels ends up
using iptunnel_xmit_stats() for stats accounting, and the latter
assumes the relevant (tunnel) network device uses tstats.

The end result is some 'funny' stat report for the mentioned UDP
tunnel, e.g. when no packet is actually dropped and a bunch of
packets are transmitted:

gnv2: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP&gt; mtu 1450 qdisc noqueue \
		state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether ee:7d:09:87:90:ea brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    RX:  bytes packets errors dropped  missed   mcast
         14916      23      0      15       0       0
    TX:  bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns
             0    1566      0       0       0       0

Address the issue ensuring the same binary layout for the overlapping
fields of dstats and tstats. While this solution is a bit hackish, is
smaller and with no performance pitfall compared to other alternatives
i.e. supporting both dstat and tstat in iptunnel_xmit_stats() or
reverting the blamed commit.

With time we should possibly move all the IP-based tunnel (and virtual
devices) to dstats.

Fixes: c77200c07491 ("bareudp: Handle stats using NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_DSTATS.")
Fixes: 6fa6de302246 ("geneve: Handle stats using NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_DSTATS.")
Fixes: be226352e8dc ("vxlan: Handle stats using NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_DSTATS.")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Guillaume Nault &lt;gnault@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2e1c444cf0f63ae472baff29862c4c869be17031.1738432804.git.pabeni@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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After the blamed commits below, some UDP tunnel use dstats for
accounting. On the xmit path, all the UDP-base tunnels ends up
using iptunnel_xmit_stats() for stats accounting, and the latter
assumes the relevant (tunnel) network device uses tstats.

The end result is some 'funny' stat report for the mentioned UDP
tunnel, e.g. when no packet is actually dropped and a bunch of
packets are transmitted:

gnv2: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP&gt; mtu 1450 qdisc noqueue \
		state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether ee:7d:09:87:90:ea brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    RX:  bytes packets errors dropped  missed   mcast
         14916      23      0      15       0       0
    TX:  bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns
             0    1566      0       0       0       0

Address the issue ensuring the same binary layout for the overlapping
fields of dstats and tstats. While this solution is a bit hackish, is
smaller and with no performance pitfall compared to other alternatives
i.e. supporting both dstat and tstat in iptunnel_xmit_stats() or
reverting the blamed commit.

With time we should possibly move all the IP-based tunnel (and virtual
devices) to dstats.

Fixes: c77200c07491 ("bareudp: Handle stats using NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_DSTATS.")
Fixes: 6fa6de302246 ("geneve: Handle stats using NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_DSTATS.")
Fixes: be226352e8dc ("vxlan: Handle stats using NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_DSTATS.")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Guillaume Nault &lt;gnault@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2e1c444cf0f63ae472baff29862c4c869be17031.1738432804.git.pabeni@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: the appletalk subsystem no longer uses ndo_do_ioctl</title>
<updated>2025-01-27T22:07:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>谢致邦 (XIE Zhibang)</name>
<email>Yeking@Red54.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-23T11:57:03+00:00</published>
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ndo_do_ioctl is no longer used by the appletalk subsystem after commit
45bd1c5ba758 ("net: appletalk: Drop aarp_send_probe_phase1()").

Signed-off-by: 谢致邦 (XIE Zhibang) &lt;Yeking@Red54.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/tencent_4AC6ED413FEA8116B4253D3ED6947FDBCF08@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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ndo_do_ioctl is no longer used by the appletalk subsystem after commit
45bd1c5ba758 ("net: appletalk: Drop aarp_send_probe_phase1()").

Signed-off-by: 谢致邦 (XIE Zhibang) &lt;Yeking@Red54.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/tencent_4AC6ED413FEA8116B4253D3ED6947FDBCF08@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: provide pending ring configuration in net_device</title>
<updated>2025-01-20T19:44:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-19T02:05:13+00:00</published>
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Record the pending configuration in net_device struct.
ethtool core duplicates the current config and the specific
handlers (for now just ringparam) can modify it.

Reviewed-by: Michael Chan &lt;michael.chan@broadcom.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250119020518.1962249-4-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Record the pending configuration in net_device struct.
ethtool core duplicates the current config and the specific
handlers (for now just ringparam) can modify it.

Reviewed-by: Michael Chan &lt;michael.chan@broadcom.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250119020518.1962249-4-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: move HDS config from ethtool state</title>
<updated>2025-01-20T19:44:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-19T02:05:11+00:00</published>
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Separate the HDS config from the ethtool state struct.
The HDS config contains just simple parameters, not state.
Having it as a separate struct will make it easier to clone / copy
and also long term potentially make it per-queue.

Reviewed-by: Michael Chan &lt;michael.chan@broadcom.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250119020518.1962249-2-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Separate the HDS config from the ethtool state struct.
The HDS config contains just simple parameters, not state.
Having it as a separate struct will make it easier to clone / copy
and also long term potentially make it per-queue.

Reviewed-by: Michael Chan &lt;michael.chan@broadcom.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250119020518.1962249-2-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: protect NAPI config fields with netdev_lock()</title>
<updated>2025-01-16T03:13:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-15T03:53:18+00:00</published>
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Protect the following members of netdev and napi by netdev_lock:
 - defer_hard_irqs,
 - gro_flush_timeout,
 - irq_suspend_timeout.

The first two are written via sysfs (which this patch switches
to new lock), and netdev genl which holds both netdev and rtnl locks.

irq_suspend_timeout is only written by netdev genl.

Reviewed-by: Joe Damato &lt;jdamato@fastly.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250115035319.559603-11-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Protect the following members of netdev and napi by netdev_lock:
 - defer_hard_irqs,
 - gro_flush_timeout,
 - irq_suspend_timeout.

The first two are written via sysfs (which this patch switches
to new lock), and netdev genl which holds both netdev and rtnl locks.

irq_suspend_timeout is only written by netdev genl.

Reviewed-by: Joe Damato &lt;jdamato@fastly.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250115035319.559603-11-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: protect napi-&gt;irq with netdev_lock()</title>
<updated>2025-01-16T03:13:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-15T03:53:17+00:00</published>
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Take netdev_lock() in netif_napi_set_irq(). All NAPI "control fields"
are now protected by that lock (most of the other ones are set during
napi add/del). The napi_hash_node is fully protected by the hash
spin lock, but close enough for the kdoc...

Reviewed-by: Joe Damato &lt;jdamato@fastly.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250115035319.559603-10-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Take netdev_lock() in netif_napi_set_irq(). All NAPI "control fields"
are now protected by that lock (most of the other ones are set during
napi add/del). The napi_hash_node is fully protected by the hash
spin lock, but close enough for the kdoc...

Reviewed-by: Joe Damato &lt;jdamato@fastly.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250115035319.559603-10-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: protect threaded status of NAPI with netdev_lock()</title>
<updated>2025-01-16T03:13:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-15T03:53:16+00:00</published>
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Now that NAPI instances can't come and go without holding
netdev-&gt;lock we can trivially switch from rtnl_lock() to
netdev_lock() for setting netdev-&gt;threaded via sysfs.

Note that since we do not lock netdev_lock around sysfs
calls in the core we don't have to "trylock" like we do
with rtnl_lock.

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250115035319.559603-9-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Now that NAPI instances can't come and go without holding
netdev-&gt;lock we can trivially switch from rtnl_lock() to
netdev_lock() for setting netdev-&gt;threaded via sysfs.

Note that since we do not lock netdev_lock around sysfs
calls in the core we don't have to "trylock" like we do
with rtnl_lock.

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250115035319.559603-9-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: protect NAPI enablement with netdev_lock()</title>
<updated>2025-01-16T03:13:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-15T03:53:14+00:00</published>
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Wrap napi_enable() / napi_disable() with netdev_lock().
Provide the "already locked" flavor of the API.

iavf needs the usual adjustment. A number of drivers call
napi_enable() under a spin lock, so they have to be modified
to take netdev_lock() first, then spin lock then call
napi_enable_locked().

Protecting napi_enable() implies that napi-&gt;napi_id is protected
by netdev_lock().

Acked-by: Francois Romieu &lt;romieu@fr.zoreil.com&gt; # via-velocity
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250115035319.559603-7-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Wrap napi_enable() / napi_disable() with netdev_lock().
Provide the "already locked" flavor of the API.

iavf needs the usual adjustment. A number of drivers call
napi_enable() under a spin lock, so they have to be modified
to take netdev_lock() first, then spin lock then call
napi_enable_locked().

Protecting napi_enable() implies that napi-&gt;napi_id is protected
by netdev_lock().

Acked-by: Francois Romieu &lt;romieu@fr.zoreil.com&gt; # via-velocity
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250115035319.559603-7-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: protect netdev-&gt;napi_list with netdev_lock()</title>
<updated>2025-01-16T03:13:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-15T03:53:13+00:00</published>
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Hold netdev-&gt;lock when NAPIs are getting added or removed.
This will allow safe access to NAPI instances of a net_device
without rtnl_lock.

Create a family of helpers which assume the lock is already taken.
Switch iavf to them, as it makes extensive use of netdev-&gt;lock,
already.

Reviewed-by: Joe Damato &lt;jdamato@fastly.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250115035319.559603-6-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Hold netdev-&gt;lock when NAPIs are getting added or removed.
This will allow safe access to NAPI instances of a net_device
without rtnl_lock.

Create a family of helpers which assume the lock is already taken.
Switch iavf to them, as it makes extensive use of netdev-&gt;lock,
already.

Reviewed-by: Joe Damato &lt;jdamato@fastly.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250115035319.559603-6-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: add netdev-&gt;up protected by netdev_lock()</title>
<updated>2025-01-16T03:13:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-15T03:53:12+00:00</published>
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Some uAPI (netdev netlink) hide net_device's sub-objects while
the interface is down to ensure uniform behavior across drivers.
To remove the rtnl_lock dependency from those uAPIs we need a way
to safely tell if the device is down or up.

Add an indication of whether device is open or closed, protected
by netdev-&gt;lock. The semantics are the same as IFF_UP, but taking
netdev_lock around every write to -&gt;flags would be a lot of code
churn.

We don't want to blanket the entire open / close path by netdev_lock,
because it will prevent us from applying it to specific structures -
core helpers won't be able to take that lock from any function
called by the drivers on open/close paths.

So the state of the flag is "pessimistic", as in it may report false
negatives, but never false positives.

Reviewed-by: Joe Damato &lt;jdamato@fastly.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250115035319.559603-5-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Some uAPI (netdev netlink) hide net_device's sub-objects while
the interface is down to ensure uniform behavior across drivers.
To remove the rtnl_lock dependency from those uAPIs we need a way
to safely tell if the device is down or up.

Add an indication of whether device is open or closed, protected
by netdev-&gt;lock. The semantics are the same as IFF_UP, but taking
netdev_lock around every write to -&gt;flags would be a lot of code
churn.

We don't want to blanket the entire open / close path by netdev_lock,
because it will prevent us from applying it to specific structures -
core helpers won't be able to take that lock from any function
called by the drivers on open/close paths.

So the state of the flag is "pessimistic", as in it may report false
negatives, but never false positives.

Reviewed-by: Joe Damato &lt;jdamato@fastly.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250115035319.559603-5-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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