Core
----
- Introduce a config option to tweak MAX_SKB_FRAGS. Increasing the
default value allows for better BIG TCP performances.
- Reduce compound page head access for zero-copy data transfers.
- RPS/RFS improvements, avoiding unneeded NET_RX_SOFTIRQ when possible.
- Threaded NAPI improvements, adding defer skb free support and unneeded
softirq avoidance.
- Address dst_entry reference count scalability issues, via false
sharing avoidance and optimize refcount tracking.
- Add lockless accesses annotation to sk_err[_soft].
- Optimize again the skb struct layout.
- Extends the skb drop reasons to make it usable by multiple
subsystems.
- Better const qualifier awareness for socket casts.
BPF
---
- Add skb and XDP typed dynptrs which allow BPF programs for more
ergonomic and less brittle iteration through data and variable-sized
accesses.
- Add a new BPF netfilter program type and minimal support to hook
BPF programs to netfilter hooks such as prerouting or forward.
- Add more precise memory usage reporting for all BPF map types.
- Adds support for using {FOU,GUE} encap with an ipip device operating
in collect_md mode and add a set of BPF kfuncs for controlling encap
params.
- Allow BPF programs to detect at load time whether a particular kfunc
exists or not, and also add support for this in light skeleton.
- Bigger batch of BPF verifier improvements to prepare for upcoming BPF
open-coded iterators allowing for less restrictive looping capabilities.
- Rework RCU enforcement in the verifier, add kptr_rcu and enforce BPF
programs to NULL-check before passing such pointers into kfunc.
- Add support for kptrs in percpu hashmaps, percpu LRU hashmaps and in
local storage maps.
- Enable RCU semantics for task BPF kptrs and allow referenced kptr
tasks to be stored in BPF maps.
- Add support for refcounted local kptrs to the verifier for allowing
shared ownership, useful for adding a node to both the BPF list and
rbtree.
- Add BPF verifier support for ST instructions in convert_ctx_access()
which will help new -mcpu=v4 clang flag to start emitting them.
- Add ARM32 USDT support to libbpf.
- Improve bpftool's visual program dump which produces the control
flow graph in a DOT format by adding C source inline annotations.
Protocols
---------
- IPv4: Allow adding to IPv4 address a 'protocol' tag. Such value
indicates the provenance of the IP address.
- IPv6: optimize route lookup, dropping unneeded R/W lock acquisition.
- Add the handshake upcall mechanism, allowing the user-space
to implement generic TLS handshake on kernel's behalf.
- Bridge: support per-{Port, VLAN} neighbor suppression, increasing
resilience to nodes failures.
- SCTP: add support for Fair Capacity and Weighted Fair Queueing
schedulers.
- MPTCP: delay first subflow allocation up to its first usage. This
will allow for later better LSM interaction.
- xfrm: Remove inner/outer modes from input/output path. These are
not needed anymore.
- WiFi:
- reduced neighbor report (RNR) handling for AP mode
- HW timestamping support
- support for randomized auth/deauth TA for PASN privacy
- per-link debugfs for multi-link
- TC offload support for mac80211 drivers
- mac80211 mesh fast-xmit and fast-rx support
- enable Wi-Fi 7 (EHT) mesh support
Netfilter
---------
- Add nf_tables 'brouting' support, to force a packet to be routed
instead of being bridged.
- Update bridge netfilter and ovs conntrack helpers to handle
IPv6 Jumbo packets properly, i.e. fetch the packet length
from hop-by-hop extension header. This is needed for BIT TCP
support.
- The iptables 32bit compat interface isn't compiled in by default
anymore.
- Move ip(6)tables builtin icmp matches to the udptcp one.
This has the advantage that icmp/icmpv6 match doesn't load the
iptables/ip6tables modules anymore when iptables-nft is used.
- Extended netlink error report for netdevice in flowtables and
netdev/chains. Allow for incrementally add/delete devices to netdev
basechain. Allow to create netdev chain without device.
Driver API
----------
- Remove redundant Device Control Error Reporting Enable, as PCI core
has already error reporting enabled at enumeration time.
- Move Multicast DB netlink handlers to core, allowing devices other
then bridge to use them.
- Allow the page_pool to directly recycle the pages from safely
localized NAPI.
- Implement lockless TX queue stop/wake combo macros, allowing for
further code de-duplication and sanitization.
- Add YNL support for user headers and struct attrs.
- Add partial YNL specification for devlink.
- Add partial YNL specification for ethtool.
- Add tc-mqprio and tc-taprio support for preemptible traffic classes.
- Add tx push buf len param to ethtool, specifies the maximum number
of bytes of a transmitted packet a driver can push directly to the
underlying device.
- Add basic LED support for switch/phy.
- Add NAPI documentation, stop relaying on external links.
- Convert dsa_master_ioctl() to netdev notifier. This is a preparatory
work to make the hardware timestamping layer selectable by user
space.
- Add transceiver support and improve the error messages for CAN-FD
controllers.
New hardware / drivers
----------------------
- Ethernet:
- AMD/Pensando core device support
- MediaTek MT7981 SoC
- MediaTek MT7988 SoC
- Broadcom BCM53134 embedded switch
- Texas Instruments CPSW9G ethernet switch
- Qualcomm EMAC3 DWMAC ethernet
- StarFive JH7110 SoC
- NXP CBTX ethernet PHY
- WiFi:
- Apple M1 Pro/Max devices
- RealTek rtl8710bu/rtl8188gu
- RealTek rtl8822bs, rtl8822cs and rtl8821cs SDIO chipset
- Bluetooth:
- Realtek RTL8821CS, RTL8851B, RTL8852BS
- Mediatek MT7663, MT7922
- NXP w8997
- Actions Semi ATS2851
- QTI WCN6855
- Marvell 88W8997
- Can:
- STMicroelectronics bxcan stm32f429
Drivers
-------
- Ethernet NICs:
- Intel (1G, icg):
- add tracking and reporting of QBV config errors.
- add support for configuring max SDU for each Tx queue.
- Intel (100G, ice):
- refactor mailbox overflow detection to support Scalable IOV
- GNSS interface optimization
- Intel (i40e):
- support XDP multi-buffer
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- add the support for linux bridge multicast offload
- enable TC offload for egress and engress MACVLAN over bond
- add support for VxLAN GBP encap/decap flows offload
- extend packet offload to fully support libreswan
- support tunnel mode in mlx5 IPsec packet offload
- extend XDP multi-buffer support
- support MACsec VLAN offload
- add support for dynamic msix vectors allocation
- drop RX page_cache and fully use page_pool
- implement thermal zone to report NIC temperature
- Netronome/Corigine:
- add support for multi-zone conntrack offload
- Solarflare/Xilinx:
- support offloading TC VLAN push/pop actions to the MAE
- support TC decap rules
- support unicast PTP
- Other NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt): enforce software based freq adjustments only
on shared PHC NIC
- RealTek (r8169): refactor to addess ASPM issues during NAPI poll.
- Micrel (lan8841): add support for PTP_PF_PEROUT
- Cadence (macb): enable PTP unicast
- Engleder (tsnep): add XDP socket zero-copy support
- virtio-net: implement exact header length guest feature
- veth: add page_pool support for page recycling
- vxlan: add MDB data path support
- gve: add XDP support for GQI-QPL format
- geneve: accept every ethertype
- macvlan: allow some packets to bypass broadcast queue
- mana: add support for jumbo frame
- Ethernet high-speed switches:
- Microchip (sparx5): Add support for TC flower templates.
- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Broadcom (b54):
- configure 6318 and 63268 RGMII ports
- Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
- faster C45 bus scan
- Microchip:
- lan966x:
- add support for IS1 VCAP
- better TX/RX from/to CPU performances
- ksz9477: add ETS Qdisc support
- ksz8: enhance static MAC table operations and error handling
- sama7g5: add PTP capability
- NXP (ocelot):
- add support for external ports
- add support for preemptible traffic classes
- Texas Instruments:
- add CPSWxG SGMII support for J7200 and J721E
- Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
- preparation for Wi-Fi 7 EHT and multi-link support
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) sniffer support
- hardware timestamping support for some devices/firwmares
- TX beacon protection on newer hardware
- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- MU-MIMO parameters support
- ack signal support for management packets
- RealTek WiFi (rtw88):
- SDIO bus support
- better support for some SDIO devices
(e.g. MAC address from efuse)
- RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
- HW scan support for 8852b
- better support for 6 GHz scanning
- support for various newer firmware APIs
- framework firmware backwards compatibility
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- P2P support
- mesh A-MSDU support
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
- coredump support
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'net-next-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"Core:
- Introduce a config option to tweak MAX_SKB_FRAGS. Increasing the
default value allows for better BIG TCP performances
- Reduce compound page head access for zero-copy data transfers
- RPS/RFS improvements, avoiding unneeded NET_RX_SOFTIRQ when
possible
- Threaded NAPI improvements, adding defer skb free support and
unneeded softirq avoidance
- Address dst_entry reference count scalability issues, via false
sharing avoidance and optimize refcount tracking
- Add lockless accesses annotation to sk_err[_soft]
- Optimize again the skb struct layout
- Extends the skb drop reasons to make it usable by multiple
subsystems
- Better const qualifier awareness for socket casts
BPF:
- Add skb and XDP typed dynptrs which allow BPF programs for more
ergonomic and less brittle iteration through data and
variable-sized accesses
- Add a new BPF netfilter program type and minimal support to hook
BPF programs to netfilter hooks such as prerouting or forward
- Add more precise memory usage reporting for all BPF map types
- Adds support for using {FOU,GUE} encap with an ipip device
operating in collect_md mode and add a set of BPF kfuncs for
controlling encap params
- Allow BPF programs to detect at load time whether a particular
kfunc exists or not, and also add support for this in light
skeleton
- Bigger batch of BPF verifier improvements to prepare for upcoming
BPF open-coded iterators allowing for less restrictive looping
capabilities
- Rework RCU enforcement in the verifier, add kptr_rcu and enforce
BPF programs to NULL-check before passing such pointers into kfunc
- Add support for kptrs in percpu hashmaps, percpu LRU hashmaps and
in local storage maps
- Enable RCU semantics for task BPF kptrs and allow referenced kptr
tasks to be stored in BPF maps
- Add support for refcounted local kptrs to the verifier for allowing
shared ownership, useful for adding a node to both the BPF list and
rbtree
- Add BPF verifier support for ST instructions in
convert_ctx_access() which will help new -mcpu=v4 clang flag to
start emitting them
- Add ARM32 USDT support to libbpf
- Improve bpftool's visual program dump which produces the control
flow graph in a DOT format by adding C source inline annotations
Protocols:
- IPv4: Allow adding to IPv4 address a 'protocol' tag. Such value
indicates the provenance of the IP address
- IPv6: optimize route lookup, dropping unneeded R/W lock acquisition
- Add the handshake upcall mechanism, allowing the user-space to
implement generic TLS handshake on kernel's behalf
- Bridge: support per-{Port, VLAN} neighbor suppression, increasing
resilience to nodes failures
- SCTP: add support for Fair Capacity and Weighted Fair Queueing
schedulers
- MPTCP: delay first subflow allocation up to its first usage. This
will allow for later better LSM interaction
- xfrm: Remove inner/outer modes from input/output path. These are
not needed anymore
- WiFi:
- reduced neighbor report (RNR) handling for AP mode
- HW timestamping support
- support for randomized auth/deauth TA for PASN privacy
- per-link debugfs for multi-link
- TC offload support for mac80211 drivers
- mac80211 mesh fast-xmit and fast-rx support
- enable Wi-Fi 7 (EHT) mesh support
Netfilter:
- Add nf_tables 'brouting' support, to force a packet to be routed
instead of being bridged
- Update bridge netfilter and ovs conntrack helpers to handle IPv6
Jumbo packets properly, i.e. fetch the packet length from
hop-by-hop extension header. This is needed for BIT TCP support
- The iptables 32bit compat interface isn't compiled in by default
anymore
- Move ip(6)tables builtin icmp matches to the udptcp one. This has
the advantage that icmp/icmpv6 match doesn't load the
iptables/ip6tables modules anymore when iptables-nft is used
- Extended netlink error report for netdevice in flowtables and
netdev/chains. Allow for incrementally add/delete devices to netdev
basechain. Allow to create netdev chain without device
Driver API:
- Remove redundant Device Control Error Reporting Enable, as PCI core
has already error reporting enabled at enumeration time
- Move Multicast DB netlink handlers to core, allowing devices other
then bridge to use them
- Allow the page_pool to directly recycle the pages from safely
localized NAPI
- Implement lockless TX queue stop/wake combo macros, allowing for
further code de-duplication and sanitization
- Add YNL support for user headers and struct attrs
- Add partial YNL specification for devlink
- Add partial YNL specification for ethtool
- Add tc-mqprio and tc-taprio support for preemptible traffic classes
- Add tx push buf len param to ethtool, specifies the maximum number
of bytes of a transmitted packet a driver can push directly to the
underlying device
- Add basic LED support for switch/phy
- Add NAPI documentation, stop relaying on external links
- Convert dsa_master_ioctl() to netdev notifier. This is a
preparatory work to make the hardware timestamping layer selectable
by user space
- Add transceiver support and improve the error messages for CAN-FD
controllers
New hardware / drivers:
- Ethernet:
- AMD/Pensando core device support
- MediaTek MT7981 SoC
- MediaTek MT7988 SoC
- Broadcom BCM53134 embedded switch
- Texas Instruments CPSW9G ethernet switch
- Qualcomm EMAC3 DWMAC ethernet
- StarFive JH7110 SoC
- NXP CBTX ethernet PHY
- WiFi:
- Apple M1 Pro/Max devices
- RealTek rtl8710bu/rtl8188gu
- RealTek rtl8822bs, rtl8822cs and rtl8821cs SDIO chipset
- Bluetooth:
- Realtek RTL8821CS, RTL8851B, RTL8852BS
- Mediatek MT7663, MT7922
- NXP w8997
- Actions Semi ATS2851
- QTI WCN6855
- Marvell 88W8997
- Can:
- STMicroelectronics bxcan stm32f429
Drivers:
- Ethernet NICs:
- Intel (1G, icg):
- add tracking and reporting of QBV config errors
- add support for configuring max SDU for each Tx queue
- Intel (100G, ice):
- refactor mailbox overflow detection to support Scalable IOV
- GNSS interface optimization
- Intel (i40e):
- support XDP multi-buffer
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- add the support for linux bridge multicast offload
- enable TC offload for egress and engress MACVLAN over bond
- add support for VxLAN GBP encap/decap flows offload
- extend packet offload to fully support libreswan
- support tunnel mode in mlx5 IPsec packet offload
- extend XDP multi-buffer support
- support MACsec VLAN offload
- add support for dynamic msix vectors allocation
- drop RX page_cache and fully use page_pool
- implement thermal zone to report NIC temperature
- Netronome/Corigine:
- add support for multi-zone conntrack offload
- Solarflare/Xilinx:
- support offloading TC VLAN push/pop actions to the MAE
- support TC decap rules
- support unicast PTP
- Other NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt): enforce software based freq adjustments only on
shared PHC NIC
- RealTek (r8169): refactor to addess ASPM issues during NAPI poll
- Micrel (lan8841): add support for PTP_PF_PEROUT
- Cadence (macb): enable PTP unicast
- Engleder (tsnep): add XDP socket zero-copy support
- virtio-net: implement exact header length guest feature
- veth: add page_pool support for page recycling
- vxlan: add MDB data path support
- gve: add XDP support for GQI-QPL format
- geneve: accept every ethertype
- macvlan: allow some packets to bypass broadcast queue
- mana: add support for jumbo frame
- Ethernet high-speed switches:
- Microchip (sparx5): Add support for TC flower templates
- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Broadcom (b54):
- configure 6318 and 63268 RGMII ports
- Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
- faster C45 bus scan
- Microchip:
- lan966x:
- add support for IS1 VCAP
- better TX/RX from/to CPU performances
- ksz9477: add ETS Qdisc support
- ksz8: enhance static MAC table operations and error handling
- sama7g5: add PTP capability
- NXP (ocelot):
- add support for external ports
- add support for preemptible traffic classes
- Texas Instruments:
- add CPSWxG SGMII support for J7200 and J721E
- Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
- preparation for Wi-Fi 7 EHT and multi-link support
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) sniffer support
- hardware timestamping support for some devices/firwmares
- TX beacon protection on newer hardware
- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- MU-MIMO parameters support
- ack signal support for management packets
- RealTek WiFi (rtw88):
- SDIO bus support
- better support for some SDIO devices (e.g. MAC address from
efuse)
- RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
- HW scan support for 8852b
- better support for 6 GHz scanning
- support for various newer firmware APIs
- framework firmware backwards compatibility
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- P2P support
- mesh A-MSDU support
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
- coredump support"
* tag 'net-next-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2078 commits)
net: phy: hide the PHYLIB_LEDS knob
net: phy: marvell-88x2222: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions
tcp/udp: Fix memleaks of sk and zerocopy skbs with TX timestamp.
net: amd: Fix link leak when verifying config failed
net: phy: marvell: Fix inconsistent indenting in led_blink_set
lan966x: Don't use xdp_frame when action is XDP_TX
tsnep: Add XDP socket zero-copy TX support
tsnep: Add XDP socket zero-copy RX support
tsnep: Move skb receive action to separate function
tsnep: Add functions for queue enable/disable
tsnep: Rework TX/RX queue initialization
tsnep: Replace modulo operation with mask
net: phy: dp83867: Add led_brightness_set support
net: phy: Fix reading LED reg property
drivers: nfc: nfcsim: remove return value check of `dev_dir`
net: phy: dp83867: Remove unnecessary (void*) conversions
net: ethtool: coalesce: try to make user settings stick twice
net: mana: Check if netdev/napi_alloc_frag returns single page
net: mana: Rename mana_refill_rxoob and remove some empty lines
net: veth: add page_pool stats
...
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be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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