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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-04-29 11:57:23 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-04-29 11:57:23 -0700 |
commit | 9d31d2338950293ec19d9b095fbaa9030899dcb4 (patch) | |
tree | e688040d0557c24a2eeb9f6c9c223d949f6f7ef9 /Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst | |
parent | 635de956a7f5a6ffcb04f29d70630c64c717b56b (diff) | |
parent | 4a52dd8fefb45626dace70a63c0738dbd83b7edb (diff) |
Merge tag 'net-next-5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core:
- bpf:
- allow bpf programs calling kernel functions (initially to
reuse TCP congestion control implementations)
- enable task local storage for tracing programs - remove the
need to store per-task state in hash maps, and allow tracing
programs access to task local storage previously added for
BPF_LSM
- add bpf_for_each_map_elem() helper, allowing programs to walk
all map elements in a more robust and easier to verify fashion
- sockmap: support UDP and cross-protocol BPF_SK_SKB_VERDICT
redirection
- lpm: add support for batched ops in LPM trie
- add BTF_KIND_FLOAT support - mostly to allow use of BTF on
s390 which has floats in its headers files
- improve BPF syscall documentation and extend the use of kdoc
parsing scripts we already employ for bpf-helpers
- libbpf, bpftool: support static linking of BPF ELF files
- improve support for encapsulation of L2 packets
- xdp: restructure redirect actions to avoid a runtime lookup,
improving performance by 4-8% in microbenchmarks
- xsk: build skb by page (aka generic zerocopy xmit) - improve
performance of software AF_XDP path by 33% for devices which don't
need headers in the linear skb part (e.g. virtio)
- nexthop: resilient next-hop groups - improve path stability on
next-hops group changes (incl. offload for mlxsw)
- ipv6: segment routing: add support for IPv4 decapsulation
- icmp: add support for RFC 8335 extended PROBE messages
- inet: use bigger hash table for IP ID generation
- tcp: deal better with delayed TX completions - make sure we don't
give up on fast TCP retransmissions only because driver is slow in
reporting that it completed transmitting the original
- tcp: reorder tcp_congestion_ops for better cache locality
- mptcp:
- add sockopt support for common TCP options
- add support for common TCP msg flags
- include multiple address ids in RM_ADDR
- add reset option support for resetting one subflow
- udp: GRO L4 improvements - improve 'forward' / 'frag_list'
co-existence with UDP tunnel GRO, allowing the first to take place
correctly even for encapsulated UDP traffic
- micro-optimize dev_gro_receive() and flow dissection, avoid
retpoline overhead on VLAN and TEB GRO
- use less memory for sysctls, add a new sysctl type, to allow using
u8 instead of "int" and "long" and shrink networking sysctls
- veth: allow GRO without XDP - this allows aggregating UDP packets
before handing them off to routing, bridge, OvS, etc.
- allow specifing ifindex when device is moved to another namespace
- netfilter:
- nft_socket: add support for cgroupsv2
- nftables: add catch-all set element - special element used to
define a default action in case normal lookup missed
- use net_generic infra in many modules to avoid allocating
per-ns memory unnecessarily
- xps: improve the xps handling to avoid potential out-of-bound
accesses and use-after-free when XPS change race with other
re-configuration under traffic
- add a config knob to turn off per-cpu netdev refcnt to catch
underflows in testing
Device APIs:
- add WWAN subsystem to organize the WWAN interfaces better and
hopefully start driving towards more unified and vendor-
independent APIs
- ethtool:
- add interface for reading IEEE MIB stats (incl. mlx5 and bnxt
support)
- allow network drivers to dump arbitrary SFP EEPROM data,
current offset+length API was a poor fit for modern SFP which
define EEPROM in terms of pages (incl. mlx5 support)
- act_police, flow_offload: add support for packet-per-second
policing (incl. offload for nfp)
- psample: add additional metadata attributes like transit delay for
packets sampled from switch HW (and corresponding egress and
policy-based sampling in the mlxsw driver)
- dsa: improve support for sandwiched LAGs with bridge and DSA
- netfilter:
- flowtable: use direct xmit in topologies with IP forwarding,
bridging, vlans etc.
- nftables: counter hardware offload support
- Bluetooth:
- improvements for firmware download w/ Intel devices
- add support for reading AOSP vendor capabilities
- add support for virtio transport driver
- mac80211:
- allow concurrent monitor iface and ethernet rx decap
- set priority and queue mapping for injected frames
- phy: add support for Clause-45 PHY Loopback
- pci/iov: add sysfs MSI-X vector assignment interface to distribute
MSI-X resources to VFs (incl. mlx5 support)
New hardware/drivers:
- dsa: mv88e6xxx: add support for Marvell mv88e6393x - 11-port
Ethernet switch with 8x 1-Gigabit Ethernet and 3x 10-Gigabit
interfaces.
- dsa: support for legacy Broadcom tags used on BCM5325, BCM5365 and
BCM63xx switches
- Microchip KSZ8863 and KSZ8873; 3x 10/100Mbps Ethernet switches
- ath11k: support for QCN9074 a 802.11ax device
- Bluetooth: Broadcom BCM4330 and BMC4334
- phy: Marvell 88X2222 transceiver support
- mdio: add BCM6368 MDIO mux bus controller
- r8152: support RTL8153 and RTL8156 (USB Ethernet) chips
- mana: driver for Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA)
- Actions Semi Owl Ethernet MAC
- can: driver for ETAS ES58X CAN/USB interfaces
Pure driver changes:
- add XDP support to: enetc, igc, stmmac
- add AF_XDP support to: stmmac
- virtio:
- page_to_skb() use build_skb when there's sufficient tailroom
(21% improvement for 1000B UDP frames)
- support XDP even without dedicated Tx queues - share the Tx
queues with the stack when necessary
- mlx5:
- flow rules: add support for mirroring with conntrack, matching
on ICMP, GTP, flex filters and more
- support packet sampling with flow offloads
- persist uplink representor netdev across eswitch mode changes
- allow coexistence of CQE compression and HW time-stamping
- add ethtool extended link error state reporting
- ice, iavf: support flow filters, UDP Segmentation Offload
- dpaa2-switch:
- move the driver out of staging
- add spanning tree (STP) support
- add rx copybreak support
- add tc flower hardware offload on ingress traffic
- ionic:
- implement Rx page reuse
- support HW PTP time-stamping
- octeon: support TC hardware offloads - flower matching on ingress
and egress ratelimitting.
- stmmac:
- add RX frame steering based on VLAN priority in tc flower
- support frame preemption (FPE)
- intel: add cross time-stamping freq difference adjustment
- ocelot:
- support forwarding of MRP frames in HW
- support multiple bridges
- support PTP Sync one-step timestamping
- dsa: mv88e6xxx, dpaa2-switch: offload bridge port flags like
learning, flooding etc.
- ipa: add IPA v4.5, v4.9 and v4.11 support (Qualcomm SDX55, SM8350,
SC7280 SoCs)
- mt7601u: enable TDLS support
- mt76:
- add support for 802.3 rx frames (mt7915/mt7615)
- mt7915 flash pre-calibration support
- mt7921/mt7663 runtime power management fixes"
* tag 'net-next-5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2451 commits)
net: selftest: fix build issue if INET is disabled
net: netrom: nr_in: Remove redundant assignment to ns
net: tun: Remove redundant assignment to ret
net: phy: marvell: add downshift support for M88E1240
net: dsa: ksz: Make reg_mib_cnt a u8 as it never exceeds 255
net/sched: act_ct: Remove redundant ct get and check
icmp: standardize naming of RFC 8335 PROBE constants
bpf, selftests: Update array map tests for per-cpu batched ops
bpf: Add batched ops support for percpu array
bpf: Implement formatted output helpers with bstr_printf
seq_file: Add a seq_bprintf function
sfc: adjust efx->xdp_tx_queue_count with the real number of initialized queues
net:nfc:digital: Fix a double free in digital_tg_recv_dep_req
net: fix a concurrency bug in l2tp_tunnel_register()
net/smc: Remove redundant assignment to rc
mpls: Remove redundant assignment to err
llc2: Remove redundant assignment to rc
net/tls: Remove redundant initialization of record
rds: Remove redundant assignment to nr_sig
dt-bindings: net: mdio-gpio: add compatible for microchip,mdio-smi0
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diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst index 2ed89abbf9a4..253496af8fef 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ list: This may also include issues related to XDP, BPF tracing, etc. Given netdev has a high volume of traffic, please also add the BPF -maintainers to Cc (from kernel MAINTAINERS_ file): +maintainers to Cc (from kernel ``MAINTAINERS`` file): * Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> * Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> @@ -234,11 +234,11 @@ be subject to change. Q: samples/bpf preference vs selftests? --------------------------------------- -Q: When should I add code to `samples/bpf/`_ and when to BPF kernel -selftests_ ? +Q: When should I add code to ``samples/bpf/`` and when to BPF kernel +selftests_? A: In general, we prefer additions to BPF kernel selftests_ rather than -`samples/bpf/`_. The rationale is very simple: kernel selftests are +``samples/bpf/``. The rationale is very simple: kernel selftests are regularly run by various bots to test for kernel regressions. The more test cases we add to BPF selftests, the better the coverage @@ -246,9 +246,9 @@ and the less likely it is that those could accidentally break. It is not that BPF kernel selftests cannot demo how a specific feature can be used. -That said, `samples/bpf/`_ may be a good place for people to get started, +That said, ``samples/bpf/`` may be a good place for people to get started, so it might be advisable that simple demos of features could go into -`samples/bpf/`_, but advanced functional and corner-case testing rather +``samples/bpf/``, but advanced functional and corner-case testing rather into kernel selftests. If your sample looks like a test case, then go for BPF kernel selftests @@ -449,6 +449,19 @@ from source at https://github.com/acmel/dwarves +pahole starts to use libbpf definitions and APIs since v1.13 after the +commit 21507cd3e97b ("pahole: add libbpf as submodule under lib/bpf"). +It works well with the git repository because the libbpf submodule will +use "git submodule update --init --recursive" to update. + +Unfortunately, the default github release source code does not contain +libbpf submodule source code and this will cause build issues, the tarball +from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/pahole/pahole.git/ is same with +github, you can get the source tarball with corresponding libbpf submodule +codes from + +https://fedorapeople.org/~acme/dwarves + Some distros have pahole version 1.16 packaged already, e.g. Fedora, Gentoo. @@ -645,10 +658,9 @@ when: .. Links .. _Documentation/process/: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/ -.. _MAINTAINERS: ../../MAINTAINERS .. _netdev-FAQ: ../networking/netdev-FAQ.rst -.. _samples/bpf/: ../../samples/bpf/ -.. _selftests: ../../tools/testing/selftests/bpf/ +.. _selftests: + https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/ .. _Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/dev-tools/kselftest.html .. _Documentation/bpf/btf.rst: btf.rst |