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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller: 1) BBR TCP congestion control, from Neal Cardwell, Yuchung Cheng and co. at Google. https://lwn.net/Articles/701165/ 2) Do TCP Small Queues for retransmits, from Eric Dumazet. 3) Support collect_md mode for all IPV4 and IPV6 tunnels, from Alexei Starovoitov. 4) Allow cls_flower to classify packets in ip tunnels, from Amir Vadai. 5) Support DSA tagging in older mv88e6xxx switches, from Andrew Lunn. 6) Support GMAC protocol in iwlwifi mwm, from Ayala Beker. 7) Support ndo_poll_controller in mlx5, from Calvin Owens. 8) Move VRF processing to an output hook and allow l3mdev to be loopback, from David Ahern. 9) Support SOCK_DESTROY for UDP sockets. Also from David Ahern. 10) Congestion control in RXRPC, from David Howells. 11) Support geneve RX offload in ixgbe, from Emil Tantilov. 12) When hitting pressure for new incoming TCP data SKBs, perform a partial rathern than a full purge of the OFO queue (which could be huge). From Eric Dumazet. 13) Convert XFRM state and policy lookups to RCU, from Florian Westphal. 14) Support RX network flow classification to igb, from Gangfeng Huang. 15) Hardware offloading of eBPF in nfp driver, from Jakub Kicinski. 16) New skbmod packet action, from Jamal Hadi Salim. 17) Remove some inefficiencies in snmp proc output, from Jia He. 18) Add FIB notifications to properly propagate route changes to hardware which is doing forwarding offloading. From Jiri Pirko. 19) New dsa driver for qca8xxx chips, from John Crispin. 20) Implement RFC7559 ipv6 router solicitation backoff, from Maciej Żenczykowski. 21) Add L3 mode to ipvlan, from Mahesh Bandewar. 22) Support 802.1ad in mlx4, from Moshe Shemesh. 23) Support hardware LRO in mediatek driver, from Nelson Chang. 24) Add TC offloading to mlx5, from Or Gerlitz. 25) Convert various drivers to ethtool ksettings interfaces, from Philippe Reynes. 26) TX max rate limiting for cxgb4, from Rahul Lakkireddy. 27) NAPI support for ath10k, from Rajkumar Manoharan. 28) Support XDP in mlx5, from Rana Shahout and Saeed Mahameed. 29) UDP replicast support in TIPC, from Richard Alpe. 30) Per-queue statistics for qed driver, from Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru. 31) Support BQL in thunderx driver, from Sunil Goutham. 32) TSO support in alx driver, from Tobias Regnery. 33) Add stream parser engine and use it in kcm. 34) Support async DHCP replies in ipconfig module, from Uwe Kleine-König. 35) DSA port fast aging for mv88e6xxx driver, from Vivien Didelot. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1715 commits) mlxsw: switchx2: Fix misuse of hard_header_len mlxsw: spectrum: Fix misuse of hard_header_len net/faraday: Stop NCSI device on shutdown net/ncsi: Introduce ncsi_stop_dev() net/ncsi: Rework the channel monitoring net/ncsi: Allow to extend NCSI request properties net/ncsi: Rework request index allocation net/ncsi: Don't probe on the reserved channel ID (0x1f) net/ncsi: Introduce NCSI_RESERVED_CHANNEL net/ncsi: Avoid unused-value build warning from ia64-linux-gcc net: Add netdev all_adj_list refcnt propagation to fix panic net: phy: Add Edge-rate driver for Microsemi PHYs. vmxnet3: Wake queue from reset work i40e: avoid NULL pointer dereference and recursive errors on early PCI error qed: Add RoCE ll2 & GSI support qed: Add support for memory registeration verbs qed: Add support for QP verbs qed: PD,PKEY and CQ verb support qed: Add support for RoCE hw init qede: Add qedr framework ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/00-INDEX2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt33
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ena.txt305
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt45
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt90
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/strparser.txt136
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt40
9 files changed, 575 insertions, 100 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
index 415154a487d0..a7697783ac4c 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ dns_resolver.txt
- The DNS resolver module allows kernel servies to make DNS queries.
driver.txt
- Softnet driver issues.
+ena.txt
+ - info on Amazon's Elastic Network Adapter (ENA)
e100.txt
- info on Intel's EtherExpress PRO/100 line of 10/100 boards
e1000.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt b/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt
index 1b5e7a7f2185..8a8d3d96f6c6 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt
@@ -43,10 +43,15 @@ new interfaces to verify the compatibility. There is no need to
reload the module if you plug your USB wifi adapter into your ma-
chine after batman advanced was initially loaded.
-To activate a given interface simply write "bat0" into its
-"mesh_iface" file inside the batman_adv subfolder:
+The batman-adv soft-interface can be created using the iproute2
+tool "ip"
-# echo bat0 > /sys/class/net/eth0/batman_adv/mesh_iface
+# ip link add name bat0 type batadv
+
+To activate a given interface simply attach it to the "bat0"
+interface
+
+# ip link set dev eth0 master bat0
Repeat this step for all interfaces you wish to add. Now batman
starts using/broadcasting on this/these interface(s).
@@ -56,10 +61,10 @@ By reading the "iface_status" file you can check its status:
# cat /sys/class/net/eth0/batman_adv/iface_status
# active
-To deactivate an interface you have to write "none" into its
-"mesh_iface" file:
+To deactivate an interface you have to detach it from the
+"bat0" interface:
-# echo none > /sys/class/net/eth0/batman_adv/mesh_iface
+# ip link set dev eth0 nomaster
All mesh wide settings can be found in batman's own interface
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
index f20c884c048a..6d6c07cf1a9a 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
@@ -227,9 +227,9 @@ to address individual switches in the tree.
dsa_switch: structure describing a switch device in the tree, referencing a
dsa_switch_tree as a backpointer, slave network devices, master network device,
-and a reference to the backing dsa_switch_driver
+and a reference to the backing dsa_switch_ops
-dsa_switch_driver: structure referencing function pointers, see below for a full
+dsa_switch_ops: structure referencing function pointers, see below for a full
description.
Design limitations
@@ -357,10 +357,10 @@ regular HWMON devices in /sys/class/hwmon/.
Driver development
==================
-DSA switch drivers need to implement a dsa_switch_driver structure which will
+DSA switch drivers need to implement a dsa_switch_ops structure which will
contain the various members described below.
-register_switch_driver() registers this dsa_switch_driver in its internal list
+register_switch_driver() registers this dsa_switch_ops in its internal list
of drivers to probe for. unregister_switch_driver() does the exact opposite.
Unless requested differently by setting the priv_size member accordingly, DSA
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ Switch configuration
buses, return a non-NULL string
- setup: setup function for the switch, this function is responsible for setting
- up the dsa_switch_driver private structure with all it needs: register maps,
+ up the dsa_switch_ops private structure with all it needs: register maps,
interrupts, mutexes, locks etc.. This function is also expected to properly
configure the switch to separate all network interfaces from each other, that
is, they should be isolated by the switch hardware itself, typically by creating
@@ -584,6 +584,29 @@ of DSA, would be the its port-based VLAN, used by the associated bridge device.
function that the driver has to call for each MAC address known to be behind
the given port. A switchdev object is used to carry the VID and FDB info.
+- port_mdb_prepare: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge prepares the
+ installation of a multicast database entry. If the operation is not supported,
+ this function should return -EOPNOTSUPP to inform the bridge code to fallback
+ to a software implementation. No hardware setup must be done in this function.
+ See port_fdb_add for this and details.
+
+- port_mdb_add: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge wants to install
+ a multicast database entry, the switch hardware should be programmed with the
+ specified address in the specified VLAN ID in the forwarding database
+ associated with this VLAN ID.
+
+Note: VLAN ID 0 corresponds to the port private database, which, in the context
+of DSA, would be the its port-based VLAN, used by the associated bridge device.
+
+- port_mdb_del: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge wants to remove a
+ multicast database entry, the switch hardware should be programmed to delete
+ the specified MAC address from the specified VLAN ID if it was mapped into
+ this port forwarding database.
+
+- port_mdb_dump: bridge layer function invoked with a switchdev callback
+ function that the driver has to call for each MAC address known to be behind
+ the given port. A switchdev object is used to carry the VID and MDB info.
+
TODO
====
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ena.txt b/Documentation/networking/ena.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2b4b6f57e549
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ena.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,305 @@
+Linux kernel driver for Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) family:
+=============================================================
+
+Overview:
+=========
+ENA is a networking interface designed to make good use of modern CPU
+features and system architectures.
+
+The ENA device exposes a lightweight management interface with a
+minimal set of memory mapped registers and extendable command set
+through an Admin Queue.
+
+The driver supports a range of ENA devices, is link-speed independent
+(i.e., the same driver is used for 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, etc.), and has
+a negotiated and extendable feature set.
+
+Some ENA devices support SR-IOV. This driver is used for both the
+SR-IOV Physical Function (PF) and Virtual Function (VF) devices.
+
+ENA devices enable high speed and low overhead network traffic
+processing by providing multiple Tx/Rx queue pairs (the maximum number
+is advertised by the device via the Admin Queue), a dedicated MSI-X
+interrupt vector per Tx/Rx queue pair, adaptive interrupt moderation,
+and CPU cacheline optimized data placement.
+
+The ENA driver supports industry standard TCP/IP offload features such
+as checksum offload and TCP transmit segmentation offload (TSO).
+Receive-side scaling (RSS) is supported for multi-core scaling.
+
+The ENA driver and its corresponding devices implement health
+monitoring mechanisms such as watchdog, enabling the device and driver
+to recover in a manner transparent to the application, as well as
+debug logs.
+
+Some of the ENA devices support a working mode called Low-latency
+Queue (LLQ), which saves several more microseconds.
+
+Supported PCI vendor ID/device IDs:
+===================================
+1d0f:0ec2 - ENA PF
+1d0f:1ec2 - ENA PF with LLQ support
+1d0f:ec20 - ENA VF
+1d0f:ec21 - ENA VF with LLQ support
+
+ENA Source Code Directory Structure:
+====================================
+ena_com.[ch] - Management communication layer. This layer is
+ responsible for the handling all the management
+ (admin) communication between the device and the
+ driver.
+ena_eth_com.[ch] - Tx/Rx data path.
+ena_admin_defs.h - Definition of ENA management interface.
+ena_eth_io_defs.h - Definition of ENA data path interface.
+ena_common_defs.h - Common definitions for ena_com layer.
+ena_regs_defs.h - Definition of ENA PCI memory-mapped (MMIO) registers.
+ena_netdev.[ch] - Main Linux kernel driver.
+ena_syfsfs.[ch] - Sysfs files.
+ena_ethtool.c - ethtool callbacks.
+ena_pci_id_tbl.h - Supported device IDs.
+
+Management Interface:
+=====================
+ENA management interface is exposed by means of:
+- PCIe Configuration Space
+- Device Registers
+- Admin Queue (AQ) and Admin Completion Queue (ACQ)
+- Asynchronous Event Notification Queue (AENQ)
+
+ENA device MMIO Registers are accessed only during driver
+initialization and are not involved in further normal device
+operation.
+
+AQ is used for submitting management commands, and the
+results/responses are reported asynchronously through ACQ.
+
+ENA introduces a very small set of management commands with room for
+vendor-specific extensions. Most of the management operations are
+framed in a generic Get/Set feature command.
+
+The following admin queue commands are supported:
+- Create I/O submission queue
+- Create I/O completion queue
+- Destroy I/O submission queue
+- Destroy I/O completion queue
+- Get feature
+- Set feature
+- Configure AENQ
+- Get statistics
+
+Refer to ena_admin_defs.h for the list of supported Get/Set Feature
+properties.
+
+The Asynchronous Event Notification Queue (AENQ) is a uni-directional
+queue used by the ENA device to send to the driver events that cannot
+be reported using ACQ. AENQ events are subdivided into groups. Each
+group may have multiple syndromes, as shown below
+
+The events are:
+ Group Syndrome
+ Link state change - X -
+ Fatal error - X -
+ Notification Suspend traffic
+ Notification Resume traffic
+ Keep-Alive - X -
+
+ACQ and AENQ share the same MSI-X vector.
+
+Keep-Alive is a special mechanism that allows monitoring of the
+device's health. The driver maintains a watchdog (WD) handler which,
+if fired, logs the current state and statistics then resets and
+restarts the ENA device and driver. A Keep-Alive event is delivered by
+the device every second. The driver re-arms the WD upon reception of a
+Keep-Alive event. A missed Keep-Alive event causes the WD handler to
+fire.
+
+Data Path Interface:
+====================
+I/O operations are based on Tx and Rx Submission Queues (Tx SQ and Rx
+SQ correspondingly). Each SQ has a completion queue (CQ) associated
+with it.
+
+The SQs and CQs are implemented as descriptor rings in contiguous
+physical memory.
+
+The ENA driver supports two Queue Operation modes for Tx SQs:
+- Regular mode
+ * In this mode the Tx SQs reside in the host's memory. The ENA
+ device fetches the ENA Tx descriptors and packet data from host
+ memory.
+- Low Latency Queue (LLQ) mode or "push-mode".
+ * In this mode the driver pushes the transmit descriptors and the
+ first 128 bytes of the packet directly to the ENA device memory
+ space. The rest of the packet payload is fetched by the
+ device. For this operation mode, the driver uses a dedicated PCI
+ device memory BAR, which is mapped with write-combine capability.
+
+The Rx SQs support only the regular mode.
+
+Note: Not all ENA devices support LLQ, and this feature is negotiated
+ with the device upon initialization. If the ENA device does not
+ support LLQ mode, the driver falls back to the regular mode.
+
+The driver supports multi-queue for both Tx and Rx. This has various
+benefits:
+- Reduced CPU/thread/process contention on a given Ethernet interface.
+- Cache miss rate on completion is reduced, particularly for data
+ cache lines that hold the sk_buff structures.
+- Increased process-level parallelism when handling received packets.
+- Increased data cache hit rate, by steering kernel processing of
+ packets to the CPU, where the application thread consuming the
+ packet is running.
+- In hardware interrupt re-direction.
+
+Interrupt Modes:
+================
+The driver assigns a single MSI-X vector per queue pair (for both Tx
+and Rx directions). The driver assigns an additional dedicated MSI-X vector
+for management (for ACQ and AENQ).
+
+Management interrupt registration is performed when the Linux kernel
+probes the adapter, and it is de-registered when the adapter is
+removed. I/O queue interrupt registration is performed when the Linux
+interface of the adapter is opened, and it is de-registered when the
+interface is closed.
+
+The management interrupt is named:
+ ena-mgmnt@pci:<PCI domain:bus:slot.function>
+and for each queue pair, an interrupt is named:
+ <interface name>-Tx-Rx-<queue index>
+
+The ENA device operates in auto-mask and auto-clear interrupt
+modes. That is, once MSI-X is delivered to the host, its Cause bit is
+automatically cleared and the interrupt is masked. The interrupt is
+unmasked by the driver after NAPI processing is complete.
+
+Interrupt Moderation:
+=====================
+ENA driver and device can operate in conventional or adaptive interrupt
+moderation mode.
+
+In conventional mode the driver instructs device to postpone interrupt
+posting according to static interrupt delay value. The interrupt delay
+value can be configured through ethtool(8). The following ethtool
+parameters are supported by the driver: tx-usecs, rx-usecs
+
+In adaptive interrupt moderation mode the interrupt delay value is
+updated by the driver dynamically and adjusted every NAPI cycle
+according to the traffic nature.
+
+By default ENA driver applies adaptive coalescing on Rx traffic and
+conventional coalescing on Tx traffic.
+
+Adaptive coalescing can be switched on/off through ethtool(8)
+adaptive_rx on|off parameter.
+
+The driver chooses interrupt delay value according to the number of
+bytes and packets received between interrupt unmasking and interrupt
+posting. The driver uses interrupt delay table that subdivides the
+range of received bytes/packets into 5 levels and assigns interrupt
+delay value to each level.
+
+The user can enable/disable adaptive moderation, modify the interrupt
+delay table and restore its default values through sysfs.
+
+The rx_copybreak is initialized by default to ENA_DEFAULT_RX_COPYBREAK
+and can be configured by the ETHTOOL_STUNABLE command of the
+SIOCETHTOOL ioctl.
+
+SKB:
+The driver-allocated SKB for frames received from Rx handling using
+NAPI context. The allocation method depends on the size of the packet.
+If the frame length is larger than rx_copybreak, napi_get_frags()
+is used, otherwise netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() is used, the buffer
+content is copied (by CPU) to the SKB, and the buffer is recycled.
+
+Statistics:
+===========
+The user can obtain ENA device and driver statistics using ethtool.
+The driver can collect regular or extended statistics (including
+per-queue stats) from the device.
+
+In addition the driver logs the stats to syslog upon device reset.
+
+MTU:
+====
+The driver supports an arbitrarily large MTU with a maximum that is
+negotiated with the device. The driver configures MTU using the
+SetFeature command (ENA_ADMIN_MTU property). The user can change MTU
+via ip(8) and similar legacy tools.
+
+Stateless Offloads:
+===================
+The ENA driver supports:
+- TSO over IPv4/IPv6
+- TSO with ECN
+- IPv4 header checksum offload
+- TCP/UDP over IPv4/IPv6 checksum offloads
+
+RSS:
+====
+- The ENA device supports RSS that allows flexible Rx traffic
+ steering.
+- Toeplitz and CRC32 hash functions are supported.
+- Different combinations of L2/L3/L4 fields can be configured as
+ inputs for hash functions.
+- The driver configures RSS settings using the AQ SetFeature command
+ (ENA_ADMIN_RSS_HASH_FUNCTION, ENA_ADMIN_RSS_HASH_INPUT and
+ ENA_ADMIN_RSS_REDIRECTION_TABLE_CONFIG properties).
+- If the NETIF_F_RXHASH flag is set, the 32-bit result of the hash
+ function delivered in the Rx CQ descriptor is set in the received
+ SKB.
+- The user can provide a hash key, hash function, and configure the
+ indirection table through ethtool(8).
+
+DATA PATH:
+==========
+Tx:
+---
+end_start_xmit() is called by the stack. This function does the following:
+- Maps data buffers (skb->data and frags).
+- Populates ena_buf for the push buffer (if the driver and device are
+ in push mode.)
+- Prepares ENA bufs for the remaining frags.
+- Allocates a new request ID from the empty req_id ring. The request
+ ID is the index of the packet in the Tx info. This is used for
+ out-of-order TX completions.
+- Adds the packet to the proper place in the Tx ring.
+- Calls ena_com_prepare_tx(), an ENA communication layer that converts
+ the ena_bufs to ENA descriptors (and adds meta ENA descriptors as
+ needed.)
+ * This function also copies the ENA descriptors and the push buffer
+ to the Device memory space (if in push mode.)
+- Writes doorbell to the ENA device.
+- When the ENA device finishes sending the packet, a completion
+ interrupt is raised.
+- The interrupt handler schedules NAPI.
+- The ena_clean_tx_irq() function is called. This function handles the
+ completion descriptors generated by the ENA, with a single
+ completion descriptor per completed packet.
+ * req_id is retrieved from the completion descriptor. The tx_info of
+ the packet is retrieved via the req_id. The data buffers are
+ unmapped and req_id is returned to the empty req_id ring.
+ * The function stops when the completion descriptors are completed or
+ the budget is reached.
+
+Rx:
+---
+- When a packet is received from the ENA device.
+- The interrupt handler schedules NAPI.
+- The ena_clean_rx_irq() function is called. This function calls
+ ena_rx_pkt(), an ENA communication layer function, which returns the
+ number of descriptors used for a new unhandled packet, and zero if
+ no new packet is found.
+- Then it calls the ena_clean_rx_irq() function.
+- ena_eth_rx_skb() checks packet length:
+ * If the packet is small (len < rx_copybreak), the driver allocates
+ a SKB for the new packet, and copies the packet payload into the
+ SKB data buffer.
+ - In this way the original data buffer is not passed to the stack
+ and is reused for future Rx packets.
+ * Otherwise the function unmaps the Rx buffer, then allocates the
+ new SKB structure and hooks the Rx buffer to the SKB frags.
+- The new SKB is updated with the necessary information (protocol,
+ checksum hw verify result, etc.), and then passed to the network
+ stack, using the NAPI interface function napi_gro_receive().
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 9ae929395b24..3db8c67d2c8d 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -575,32 +575,33 @@ tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
unconditionally generation of syncookies.
tcp_fastopen - INTEGER
- Enable TCP Fast Open feature (draft-ietf-tcpm-fastopen) to send data
- in the opening SYN packet. To use this feature, the client application
- must use sendmsg() or sendto() with MSG_FASTOPEN flag rather than
- connect() to perform a TCP handshake automatically.
+ Enable TCP Fast Open (RFC7413) to send and accept data in the opening
+ SYN packet.
- The values (bitmap) are
- 1: Enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client w/ MSG_FASTOPEN.
- 2: Enables TCP Fast Open on the server side, i.e., allowing data in
- a SYN packet to be accepted and passed to the application before
- 3-way hand shake finishes.
- 4: Send data in the opening SYN regardless of cookie availability and
- without a cookie option.
- 0x100: Accept SYN data w/o validating the cookie.
- 0x200: Accept data-in-SYN w/o any cookie option present.
- 0x400/0x800: Enable Fast Open on all listeners regardless of the
- TCP_FASTOPEN socket option. The two different flags designate two
- different ways of setting max_qlen without the TCP_FASTOPEN socket
- option.
+ The client support is enabled by flag 0x1 (on by default). The client
+ then must use sendmsg() or sendto() with the MSG_FASTOPEN flag,
+ rather than connect() to send data in SYN.
- Default: 1
+ The server support is enabled by flag 0x2 (off by default). Then
+ either enable for all listeners with another flag (0x400) or
+ enable individual listeners via TCP_FASTOPEN socket option with
+ the option value being the length of the syn-data backlog.
- Note that the client & server side Fast Open flags (1 and 2
- respectively) must be also enabled before the rest of flags can take
- effect.
+ The values (bitmap) are
+ 0x1: (client) enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client.
+ 0x2: (server) enables the server support, i.e., allowing data in
+ a SYN packet to be accepted and passed to the
+ application before 3-way handshake finishes.
+ 0x4: (client) send data in the opening SYN regardless of cookie
+ availability and without a cookie option.
+ 0x200: (server) accept data-in-SYN w/o any cookie option present.
+ 0x400: (server) enable all listeners to support Fast Open by
+ default without explicit TCP_FASTOPEN socket option.
+
+ Default: 0x1
- See include/net/tcp.h and the code for more details.
+ Note that that additional client or server features are only
+ effective if the basic support (0x1 and 0x2) are enabled respectively.
tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt b/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt
index 14422f8fcdc4..24196cef7c91 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The driver can be built into the kernel (CONFIG_IPVLAN=y) or as a module
There are no module parameters for this driver and it can be configured
using IProute2/ip utility.
- ip link add link <master-dev> <slave-dev> type ipvlan mode { l2 | L3 }
+ ip link add link <master-dev> <slave-dev> type ipvlan mode { l2 | l3 | l3s }
e.g. ip link add link ipvl0 eth0 type ipvlan mode l2
@@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ master device for the L2 processing and routing from that instance will be
used before packets are queued on the outbound device. In this mode the slaves
will not receive nor can send multicast / broadcast traffic.
+4.3 L3S mode:
+ This is very similar to the L3 mode except that iptables (conn-tracking)
+works in this mode and hence it is L3-symmetric (L3s). This will have slightly less
+performance but that shouldn't matter since you are choosing this mode over plain-L3
+mode to make conn-tracking work.
5. What to choose (macvlan vs. ipvlan)?
These two devices are very similar in many regards and the specific use
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt b/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt
index 70c926ae212d..1b63bbc6b94f 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt
@@ -725,7 +725,8 @@ The kernel interface functions are as follows:
(*) End a client call.
- void rxrpc_kernel_end_call(struct rxrpc_call *call);
+ void rxrpc_kernel_end_call(struct socket *sock,
+ struct rxrpc_call *call);
This is used to end a previously begun call. The user_call_ID is expunged
from AF_RXRPC's knowledge and will not be seen again in association with
@@ -733,7 +734,9 @@ The kernel interface functions are as follows:
(*) Send data through a call.
- int rxrpc_kernel_send_data(struct rxrpc_call *call, struct msghdr *msg,
+ int rxrpc_kernel_send_data(struct socket *sock,
+ struct rxrpc_call *call,
+ struct msghdr *msg,
size_t len);
This is used to supply either the request part of a client call or the
@@ -745,9 +748,42 @@ The kernel interface functions are as follows:
The msg must not specify a destination address, control data or any flags
other than MSG_MORE. len is the total amount of data to transmit.
+ (*) Receive data from a call.
+
+ int rxrpc_kernel_recv_data(struct socket *sock,
+ struct rxrpc_call *call,
+ void *buf,
+ size_t size,
+ size_t *_offset,
+ bool want_more,
+ u32 *_abort)
+
+ This is used to receive data from either the reply part of a client call
+ or the request part of a service call. buf and size specify how much
+ data is desired and where to store it. *_offset is added on to buf and
+ subtracted from size internally; the amount copied into the buffer is
+ added to *_offset before returning.
+
+ want_more should be true if further data will be required after this is
+ satisfied and false if this is the last item of the receive phase.
+
+ There are three normal returns: 0 if the buffer was filled and want_more
+ was true; 1 if the buffer was filled, the last DATA packet has been
+ emptied and want_more was false; and -EAGAIN if the function needs to be
+ called again.
+
+ If the last DATA packet is processed but the buffer contains less than
+ the amount requested, EBADMSG is returned. If want_more wasn't set, but
+ more data was available, EMSGSIZE is returned.
+
+ If a remote ABORT is detected, the abort code received will be stored in
+ *_abort and ECONNABORTED will be returned.
+
(*) Abort a call.
- void rxrpc_kernel_abort_call(struct rxrpc_call *call, u32 abort_code);
+ void rxrpc_kernel_abort_call(struct socket *sock,
+ struct rxrpc_call *call,
+ u32 abort_code);
This is used to abort a call if it's still in an abortable state. The
abort code specified will be placed in the ABORT message sent.
@@ -820,47 +856,6 @@ The kernel interface functions are as follows:
Other errors may be returned if the call had been aborted (-ECONNABORTED)
or had timed out (-ETIME).
- (*) Record the delivery of a data message.
-
- void rxrpc_kernel_data_consumed(struct rxrpc_call *call,
- struct sk_buff *skb);
-
- This is used to record a data message as having been consumed and to
- update the ACK state for the call. The message must still be passed to
- rxrpc_kernel_free_skb() for disposal by the caller.
-
- (*) Free a message.
-
- void rxrpc_kernel_free_skb(struct sk_buff *skb);
-
- This is used to free a non-DATA socket buffer intercepted from an AF_RXRPC
- socket.
-
- (*) Determine if a data message is the last one on a call.
-
- bool rxrpc_kernel_is_data_last(struct sk_buff *skb);
-
- This is used to determine if a socket buffer holds the last data message
- to be received for a call (true will be returned if it does, false
- if not).
-
- The data message will be part of the reply on a client call and the
- request on an incoming call. In the latter case there will be more
- messages, but in the former case there will not.
-
- (*) Get the abort code from an abort message.
-
- u32 rxrpc_kernel_get_abort_code(struct sk_buff *skb);
-
- This is used to extract the abort code from a remote abort message.
-
- (*) Get the error number from a local or network error message.
-
- int rxrpc_kernel_get_error_number(struct sk_buff *skb);
-
- This is used to extract the error number from a message indicating either
- a local error occurred or a network error occurred.
-
(*) Allocate a null key for doing anonymous security.
struct key *rxrpc_get_null_key(const char *keyname);
@@ -868,6 +863,13 @@ The kernel interface functions are as follows:
This is used to allocate a null RxRPC key that can be used to indicate
anonymous security for a particular domain.
+ (*) Get the peer address of a call.
+
+ void rxrpc_kernel_get_peer(struct socket *sock, struct rxrpc_call *call,
+ struct sockaddr_rxrpc *_srx);
+
+ This is used to find the remote peer address of a call.
+
=======================
CONFIGURABLE PARAMETERS
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/strparser.txt b/Documentation/networking/strparser.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a0bf573dfa61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/networking/strparser.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+Stream Parser
+-------------
+
+The stream parser (strparser) is a utility that parses messages of an
+application layer protocol running over a TCP connection. The stream
+parser works in conjunction with an upper layer in the kernel to provide
+kernel support for application layer messages. For instance, Kernel
+Connection Multiplexor (KCM) uses the Stream Parser to parse messages
+using a BPF program.
+
+Interface
+---------
+
+The API includes a context structure, a set of callbacks, utility
+functions, and a data_ready function. The callbacks include
+a parse_msg function that is called to perform parsing (e.g.
+BPF parsing in case of KCM), and a rcv_msg function that is called
+when a full message has been completed.
+
+A stream parser can be instantiated for a TCP connection. This is done
+by:
+
+strp_init(struct strparser *strp, struct sock *csk,
+ struct strp_callbacks *cb)
+
+strp is a struct of type strparser that is allocated by the upper layer.
+csk is the TCP socket associated with the stream parser. Callbacks are
+called by the stream parser.
+
+Callbacks
+---------
+
+There are four callbacks:
+
+int (*parse_msg)(struct strparser *strp, struct sk_buff *skb);
+
+ parse_msg is called to determine the length of the next message
+ in the stream. The upper layer must implement this function. It
+ should parse the sk_buff as containing the headers for the
+ next application layer messages in the stream.
+
+ The skb->cb in the input skb is a struct strp_rx_msg. Only
+ the offset field is relevant in parse_msg and gives the offset
+ where the message starts in the skb.
+
+ The return values of this function are:
+
+ >0 : indicates length of successfully parsed message
+ 0 : indicates more data must be received to parse the message
+ -ESTRPIPE : current message should not be processed by the
+ kernel, return control of the socket to userspace which
+ can proceed to read the messages itself
+ other < 0 : Error is parsing, give control back to userspace
+ assuming that synchronization is lost and the stream
+ is unrecoverable (application expected to close TCP socket)
+
+ In the case that an error is returned (return value is less than
+ zero) the stream parser will set the error on TCP socket and wake
+ it up. If parse_msg returned -ESTRPIPE and the stream parser had
+ previously read some bytes for the current message, then the error
+ set on the attached socket is ENODATA since the stream is
+ unrecoverable in that case.
+
+void (*rcv_msg)(struct strparser *strp, struct sk_buff *skb);
+
+ rcv_msg is called when a full message has been received and
+ is queued. The callee must consume the sk_buff; it can
+ call strp_pause to prevent any further messages from being
+ received in rcv_msg (see strp_pause below). This callback
+ must be set.
+
+ The skb->cb in the input skb is a struct strp_rx_msg. This
+ struct contains two fields: offset and full_len. Offset is
+ where the message starts in the skb, and full_len is the
+ the length of the message. skb->len - offset may be greater
+ then full_len since strparser does not trim the skb.
+
+int (*read_sock_done)(struct strparser *strp, int err);
+
+ read_sock_done is called when the stream parser is done reading
+ the TCP socket. The stream parser may read multiple messages
+ in a loop and this function allows cleanup to occur when existing
+ the loop. If the callback is not set (NULL in strp_init) a
+ default function is used.
+
+void (*abort_parser)(struct strparser *strp, int err);
+
+ This function is called when stream parser encounters an error
+ in parsing. The default function stops the stream parser for the
+ TCP socket and sets the error in the socket. The default function
+ can be changed by setting the callback to non-NULL in strp_init.
+
+Functions
+---------
+
+The upper layer calls strp_tcp_data_ready when data is ready on the lower
+socket for strparser to process. This should be called from a data_ready
+callback that is set on the socket.
+
+strp_stop is called to completely stop stream parser operations. This
+is called internally when the stream parser encounters an error, and
+it is called from the upper layer when unattaching a TCP socket.
+
+strp_done is called to unattach the stream parser from the TCP socket.
+This must be called after the stream processor has be stopped.
+
+strp_check_rcv is called to check for new messages on the socket. This
+is normally called at initialization of the a stream parser instance
+of after strp_unpause.
+
+Statistics
+----------
+
+Various counters are kept for each stream parser for a TCP socket.
+These are in the strp_stats structure. strp_aggr_stats is a convenience
+structure for accumulating statistics for multiple stream parser
+instances. save_strp_stats and aggregate_strp_stats are helper functions
+to save and aggregate statistics.
+
+Message assembly limits
+-----------------------
+
+The stream parser provide mechanisms to limit the resources consumed by
+message assembly.
+
+A timer is set when assembly starts for a new message. The message
+timeout is taken from rcvtime for the associated TCP socket. If the
+timer fires before assembly completes the stream parser is aborted
+and the ETIMEDOUT error is set on the TCP socket.
+
+Message length is limited to the receive buffer size of the associated
+TCP socket. If the length returned by parse_msg is greater than
+the socket buffer size then the stream parser is aborted with
+EMSGSIZE error set on the TCP socket. Note that this makes the
+maximum size of receive skbuffs for a socket with a stream parser
+to be 2*sk_rcvbuf of the TCP socket.
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
index 31c39115834d..2bbac05ab9e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
@@ -283,15 +283,10 @@ be sent to the port netdev for processing by the bridge driver. The
bridge should not reflood the packet to the same ports the device flooded,
otherwise there will be duplicate packets on the wire.
-To avoid duplicate packets, the device/driver should mark a packet as already
-forwarded using skb->offload_fwd_mark. The same mark is set on the device
-ports in the domain using dev->offload_fwd_mark. If the skb->offload_fwd_mark
-is non-zero and matches the forwarding egress port's dev->skb_mark, the kernel
-will drop the skb right before transmit on the egress port, with the
-understanding that the device already forwarded the packet on same egress port.
-The driver can use switchdev_port_fwd_mark_set() to set a globally unique mark
-for port's dev->offload_fwd_mark, based on the port's parent ID (switch ID) and
-a group ifindex.
+To avoid duplicate packets, the switch driver should mark a packet as already
+forwarded by setting the skb->offload_fwd_mark bit. The bridge driver will mark
+the skb using the ingress bridge port's mark and prevent it from being forwarded
+through any bridge port with the same mark.
It is possible for the switch device to not handle flooding and push the
packets up to the bridge driver for flooding. This is not ideal as the number
@@ -319,30 +314,29 @@ the kernel, with the device doing the FIB lookup and forwarding. The device
does a longest prefix match (LPM) on FIB entries matching route prefix and
forwards the packet to the matching FIB entry's nexthop(s) egress ports.
-To program the device, the driver implements support for
-SWITCHDEV_OBJ_IPV[4|6]_FIB object using switchdev_port_obj_xxx ops.
-switchdev_port_obj_add is used for both adding a new FIB entry to the device,
-or modifying an existing entry on the device.
+To program the device, the driver has to register a FIB notifier handler
+using register_fib_notifier. The following events are available:
+FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_ADD: used for both adding a new FIB entry to the device,
+ or modifying an existing entry on the device.
+FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_DEL: used for removing a FIB entry
+FIB_EVENT_RULE_ADD, FIB_EVENT_RULE_DEL: used to propagate FIB rule changes
-XXX: Currently, only SWITCHDEV_OBJ_ID_IPV4_FIB objects are supported.
+FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_ADD and FIB_EVENT_ENTRY_DEL events pass:
-SWITCHDEV_OBJ_ID_IPV4_FIB object passes:
-
- struct switchdev_obj_ipv4_fib { /* IPV4_FIB */
+ struct fib_entry_notifier_info {
+ struct fib_notifier_info info; /* must be first */
u32 dst;
int dst_len;
struct fib_info *fi;
u8 tos;
u8 type;
- u32 nlflags;
u32 tb_id;
- } ipv4_fib;
+ u32 nlflags;
+ };
to add/modify/delete IPv4 dst/dest_len prefix on table tb_id. The *fi
structure holds details on the route and route's nexthops. *dev is one of the
-port netdevs mentioned in the routes next hop list. If the output port netdevs
-referenced in the route's nexthop list don't all have the same switch ID, the
-driver is not called to add/modify/delete the FIB entry.
+port netdevs mentioned in the route's next hop list.
Routes offloaded to the device are labeled with "offload" in the ip route
listing:
@@ -360,6 +354,8 @@ listing:
12.0.0.4 via 11.0.0.9 dev sw1p2 proto zebra metric 20 offload
192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.15
+The "offload" flag is set in case at least one device offloads the FIB entry.
+
XXX: add/mod/del IPv6 FIB API
Nexthop Resolution
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