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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt | 263 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 96 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/can.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/dccp.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/filter.txt | 127 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/gianfar.txt | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/igb.txt | 48 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/phy.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt | 81 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/scaling.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/spider_net.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/tcp.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt | 6 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt b/Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..3f24df8c6e65 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt @@ -0,0 +1,263 @@ + Altera Triple-Speed Ethernet MAC driver + +Copyright (C) 2008-2014 Altera Corporation + +This is the driver for the Altera Triple-Speed Ethernet (TSE) controllers +using the SGDMA and MSGDMA soft DMA IP components. The driver uses the +platform bus to obtain component resources. The designs used to test this +driver were built for a Cyclone(R) V SOC FPGA board, a Cyclone(R) V FPGA board, +and tested with ARM and NIOS processor hosts seperately. The anticipated use +cases are simple communications between an embedded system and an external peer +for status and simple configuration of the embedded system. + +For more information visit www.altera.com and www.rocketboards.org. Support +forums for the driver may be found on www.rocketboards.org, and a design used +to test this driver may be found there as well. Support is also available from +the maintainer of this driver, found in MAINTAINERS. + +The Triple-Speed Ethernet, SGDMA, and MSGDMA components are all soft IP +components that can be assembled and built into an FPGA using the Altera +Quartus toolchain. Quartus 13.1 and 14.0 were used to build the design that +this driver was tested against. The sopc2dts tool is used to create the +device tree for the driver, and may be found at rocketboards.org. + +The driver probe function examines the device tree and determines if the +Triple-Speed Ethernet instance is using an SGDMA or MSGDMA component. The +probe function then installs the appropriate set of DMA routines to +initialize, setup transmits, receives, and interrupt handling primitives for +the respective configurations. + +The SGDMA component is to be deprecated in the near future (over the next 1-2 +years as of this writing in early 2014) in favor of the MSGDMA component. +SGDMA support is included for existing designs and reference in case a +developer wishes to support their own soft DMA logic and driver support. Any +new designs should not use the SGDMA. + +The SGDMA supports only a single transmit or receive operation at a time, and +therefore will not perform as well compared to the MSGDMA soft IP. Please +visit www.altera.com for known, documented SGDMA errata. + +Scatter-gather DMA is not supported by the SGDMA or MSGDMA at this time. +Scatter-gather DMA will be added to a future maintenance update to this +driver. + +Jumbo frames are not supported at this time. + +The driver limits PHY operations to 10/100Mbps, and has not yet been fully +tested for 1Gbps. This support will be added in a future maintenance update. + +1) Kernel Configuration +The kernel configuration option is ALTERA_TSE: + Device Drivers ---> Network device support ---> Ethernet driver support ---> + Altera Triple-Speed Ethernet MAC support (ALTERA_TSE) + +2) Driver parameters list: + debug: message level (0: no output, 16: all); + dma_rx_num: Number of descriptors in the RX list (default is 64); + dma_tx_num: Number of descriptors in the TX list (default is 64). + +3) Command line options +Driver parameters can be also passed in command line by using: + altera_tse=dma_rx_num:128,dma_tx_num:512 + +4) Driver information and notes + +4.1) Transmit process +When the driver's transmit routine is called by the kernel, it sets up a +transmit descriptor by calling the underlying DMA transmit routine (SGDMA or +MSGDMA), and initites a transmit operation. Once the transmit is complete, an +interrupt is driven by the transmit DMA logic. The driver handles the transmit +completion in the context of the interrupt handling chain by recycling +resource required to send and track the requested transmit operation. + +4.2) Receive process +The driver will post receive buffers to the receive DMA logic during driver +intialization. Receive buffers may or may not be queued depending upon the +underlying DMA logic (MSGDMA is able queue receive buffers, SGDMA is not able +to queue receive buffers to the SGDMA receive logic). When a packet is +received, the DMA logic generates an interrupt. The driver handles a receive +interrupt by obtaining the DMA receive logic status, reaping receive +completions until no more receive completions are available. + +4.3) Interrupt Mitigation +The driver is able to mitigate the number of its DMA interrupts +using NAPI for receive operations. Interrupt mitigation is not yet supported +for transmit operations, but will be added in a future maintenance release. + +4.4) Ethtool support +Ethtool is supported. Driver statistics and internal errors can be taken using: +ethtool -S ethX command. It is possible to dump registers etc. + +4.5) PHY Support +The driver is compatible with PAL to work with PHY and GPHY devices. + +4.7) List of source files: + o Kconfig + o Makefile + o altera_tse_main.c: main network device driver + o altera_tse_ethtool.c: ethtool support + o altera_tse.h: private driver structure and common definitions + o altera_msgdma.h: MSGDMA implementation function definitions + o altera_sgdma.h: SGDMA implementation function definitions + o altera_msgdma.c: MSGDMA implementation + o altera_sgdma.c: SGDMA implementation + o altera_sgdmahw.h: SGDMA register and descriptor definitions + o altera_msgdmahw.h: MSGDMA register and descriptor definitions + o altera_utils.c: Driver utility functions + o altera_utils.h: Driver utility function definitions + +5) Debug Information + +The driver exports debug information such as internal statistics, +debug information, MAC and DMA registers etc. + +A user may use the ethtool support to get statistics: +e.g. using: ethtool -S ethX (that shows the statistics counters) +or sees the MAC registers: e.g. using: ethtool -d ethX + +The developer can also use the "debug" module parameter to get +further debug information. + +6) Statistics Support + +The controller and driver support a mix of IEEE standard defined statistics, +RFC defined statistics, and driver or Altera defined statistics. The four +specifications containing the standard definitions for these statistics are +as follows: + + o IEEE 802.3-2012 - IEEE Standard for Ethernet. + o RFC 2863 found at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2863.txt. + o RFC 2819 found at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2819.txt. + o Altera Triple Speed Ethernet User Guide, found at http://www.altera.com + +The statistics supported by the TSE and the device driver are as follows: + +"tx_packets" is equivalent to aFramesTransmittedOK defined in IEEE 802.3-2012, +Section 5.2.2.1.2. This statistics is the count of frames that are successfully +transmitted. + +"rx_packets" is equivalent to aFramesReceivedOK defined in IEEE 802.3-2012, +Section 5.2.2.1.5. This statistic is the count of frames that are successfully +received. This count does not include any error packets such as CRC errors, +length errors, or alignment errors. + +"rx_crc_errors" is equivalent to aFrameCheckSequenceErrors defined in IEEE +802.3-2012, Section 5.2.2.1.6. This statistic is the count of frames that are +an integral number of bytes in length and do not pass the CRC test as the frame +is received. + +"rx_align_errors" is equivalent to aAlignmentErrors defined in IEEE 802.3-2012, +Section 5.2.2.1.7. This statistic is the count of frames that are not an +integral number of bytes in length and do not pass the CRC test as the frame is +received. + +"tx_bytes" is equivalent to aOctetsTransmittedOK defined in IEEE 802.3-2012, +Section 5.2.2.1.8. This statistic is the count of data and pad bytes +successfully transmitted from the interface. + +"rx_bytes" is equivalent to aOctetsReceivedOK defined in IEEE 802.3-2012, +Section 5.2.2.1.14. This statistic is the count of data and pad bytes +successfully received by the controller. + +"tx_pause" is equivalent to aPAUSEMACCtrlFramesTransmitted defined in IEEE +802.3-2012, Section 30.3.4.2. This statistic is a count of PAUSE frames +transmitted from the network controller. + +"rx_pause" is equivalent to aPAUSEMACCtrlFramesReceived defined in IEEE +802.3-2012, Section 30.3.4.3. This statistic is a count of PAUSE frames +received by the network controller. + +"rx_errors" is equivalent to ifInErrors defined in RFC 2863. This statistic is +a count of the number of packets received containing errors that prevented the +packet from being delivered to a higher level protocol. + +"tx_errors" is equivalent to ifOutErrors defined in RFC 2863. This statistic +is a count of the number of packets that could not be transmitted due to errors. + +"rx_unicast" is equivalent to ifInUcastPkts defined in RFC 2863. This +statistic is a count of the number of packets received that were not addressed +to the broadcast address or a multicast group. + +"rx_multicast" is equivalent to ifInMulticastPkts defined in RFC 2863. This +statistic is a count of the number of packets received that were addressed to +a multicast address group. + +"rx_broadcast" is equivalent to ifInBroadcastPkts defined in RFC 2863. This +statistic is a count of the number of packets received that were addressed to +the broadcast address. + +"tx_discards" is equivalent to ifOutDiscards defined in RFC 2863. This +statistic is the number of outbound packets not transmitted even though an +error was not detected. An example of a reason this might occur is to free up +internal buffer space. + +"tx_unicast" is equivalent to ifOutUcastPkts defined in RFC 2863. This +statistic counts the number of packets transmitted that were not addressed to +a multicast group or broadcast address. + +"tx_multicast" is equivalent to ifOutMulticastPkts defined in RFC 2863. This +statistic counts the number of packets transmitted that were addressed to a +multicast group. + +"tx_broadcast" is equivalent to ifOutBroadcastPkts defined in RFC 2863. This +statistic counts the number of packets transmitted that were addressed to a +broadcast address. + +"ether_drops" is equivalent to etherStatsDropEvents defined in RFC 2819. +This statistic counts the number of packets dropped due to lack of internal +controller resources. + +"rx_total_bytes" is equivalent to etherStatsOctets defined in RFC 2819. +This statistic counts the total number of bytes received by the controller, +including error and discarded packets. + +"rx_total_packets" is equivalent to etherStatsPkts defined in RFC 2819. +This statistic counts the total number of packets received by the controller, +including error, discarded, unicast, multicast, and broadcast packets. + +"rx_undersize" is equivalent to etherStatsUndersizePkts defined in RFC 2819. +This statistic counts the number of correctly formed packets received less +than 64 bytes long. + +"rx_oversize" is equivalent to etherStatsOversizePkts defined in RFC 2819. +This statistic counts the number of correctly formed packets greater than 1518 +bytes long. + +"rx_64_bytes" is equivalent to etherStatsPkts64Octets defined in RFC 2819. +This statistic counts the total number of packets received that were 64 octets +in length. + +"rx_65_127_bytes" is equivalent to etherStatsPkts65to127Octets defined in RFC +2819. This statistic counts the total number of packets received that were +between 65 and 127 octets in length inclusive. + +"rx_128_255_bytes" is equivalent to etherStatsPkts128to255Octets defined in +RFC 2819. This statistic is the total number of packets received that were +between 128 and 255 octets in length inclusive. + +"rx_256_511_bytes" is equivalent to etherStatsPkts256to511Octets defined in +RFC 2819. This statistic is the total number of packets received that were +between 256 and 511 octets in length inclusive. + +"rx_512_1023_bytes" is equivalent to etherStatsPkts512to1023Octets defined in +RFC 2819. This statistic is the total number of packets received that were +between 512 and 1023 octets in length inclusive. + +"rx_1024_1518_bytes" is equivalent to etherStatsPkts1024to1518Octets define +in RFC 2819. This statistic is the total number of packets received that were +between 1024 and 1518 octets in length inclusive. + +"rx_gte_1519_bytes" is a statistic defined specific to the behavior of the +Altera TSE. This statistics counts the number of received good and errored +frames between the length of 1519 and the maximum frame length configured +in the frm_length register. See the Altera TSE User Guide for More details. + +"rx_jabbers" is equivalent to etherStatsJabbers defined in RFC 2819. This +statistic is the total number of packets received that were longer than 1518 +octets, and had either a bad CRC with an integral number of octets (CRC Error) +or a bad CRC with a non-integral number of octets (Alignment Error). + +"rx_runts" is equivalent to etherStatsFragments defined in RFC 2819. This +statistic is the total number of packets received that were less than 64 octets +in length and had either a bad CRC with an integral number of octets (CRC +error) or a bad CRC with a non-integral number of octets (Alignment Error). diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index 5cdb22971d19..a383c00392d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -270,16 +270,15 @@ arp_ip_target arp_validate Specifies whether or not ARP probes and replies should be - validated in the active-backup mode. This causes the ARP - monitor to examine the incoming ARP requests and replies, and - only consider a slave to be up if it is receiving the - appropriate ARP traffic. + validated in any mode that supports arp monitoring, or whether + non-ARP traffic should be filtered (disregarded) for link + monitoring purposes. Possible values are: none or 0 - No validation is performed. This is the default. + No validation or filtering is performed. active or 1 @@ -293,31 +292,68 @@ arp_validate Validation is performed for all slaves. - For the active slave, the validation checks ARP replies to - confirm that they were generated by an arp_ip_target. Since - backup slaves do not typically receive these replies, the - validation performed for backup slaves is on the ARP request - sent out via the active slave. It is possible that some - switch or network configurations may result in situations - wherein the backup slaves do not receive the ARP requests; in - such a situation, validation of backup slaves must be - disabled. - - The validation of ARP requests on backup slaves is mainly - helping bonding to decide which slaves are more likely to - work in case of the active slave failure, it doesn't really - guarantee that the backup slave will work if it's selected - as the next active slave. - - This option is useful in network configurations in which - multiple bonding hosts are concurrently issuing ARPs to one or - more targets beyond a common switch. Should the link between - the switch and target fail (but not the switch itself), the - probe traffic generated by the multiple bonding instances will - fool the standard ARP monitor into considering the links as - still up. Use of the arp_validate option can resolve this, as - the ARP monitor will only consider ARP requests and replies - associated with its own instance of bonding. + filter or 4 + + Filtering is applied to all slaves. No validation is + performed. + + filter_active or 5 + + Filtering is applied to all slaves, validation is performed + only for the active slave. + + filter_backup or 6 + + Filtering is applied to all slaves, validation is performed + only for backup slaves. + + Validation: + + Enabling validation causes the ARP monitor to examine the incoming + ARP requests and replies, and only consider a slave to be up if it + is receiving the appropriate ARP traffic. + + For an active slave, the validation checks ARP replies to confirm + that they were generated by an arp_ip_target. Since backup slaves + do not typically receive these replies, the validation performed + for backup slaves is on the broadcast ARP request sent out via the + active slave. It is possible that some switch or network + configurations may result in situations wherein the backup slaves + do not receive the ARP requests; in such a situation, validation + of backup slaves must be disabled. + + The validation of ARP requests on backup slaves is mainly helping + bonding to decide which slaves are more likely to work in case of + the active slave failure, it doesn't really guarantee that the + backup slave will work if it's selected as the next active slave. + + Validation is useful in network configurations in which multiple + bonding hosts are concurrently issuing ARPs to one or more targets + beyond a common switch. Should the link between the switch and + target fail (but not the switch itself), the probe traffic + generated by the multiple bonding instances will fool the standard + ARP monitor into considering the links as still up. Use of + validation can resolve this, as the ARP monitor will only consider + ARP requests and replies associated with its own instance of + bonding. + + Filtering: + + Enabling filtering causes the ARP monitor to only use incoming ARP + packets for link availability purposes. Arriving packets that are + not ARPs are delivered normally, but do not count when determining + if a slave is available. + + Filtering operates by only considering the reception of ARP + packets (any ARP packet, regardless of source or destination) when + determining if a slave has received traffic for link availability + purposes. + + Filtering is useful in network configurations in which significant + levels of third party broadcast traffic would fool the standard + ARP monitor into considering the links as still up. Use of + filtering can resolve this, as only ARP traffic is considered for + link availability purposes. This option was added in bonding version 3.1.0. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/can.txt b/Documentation/networking/can.txt index 0cbe6ec22d6f..4f7ae5261364 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/can.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/can.txt @@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ solution for a couple of reasons: RX_NO_AUTOTIMER: Prevent automatically starting the timeout monitor. - RX_ANNOUNCE_RESUME: If passed at RX_SETUP and a receive timeout occured, a + RX_ANNOUNCE_RESUME: If passed at RX_SETUP and a receive timeout occurred, a RX_CHANGED message will be generated when the (cyclic) receive restarts. TX_RESET_MULTI_IDX: Reset the index for the multiple frame transmission. @@ -1017,7 +1017,7 @@ solution for a couple of reasons: in case of a bus-off condition after the specified delay time in milliseconds. By default it's off. - "bitrate 125000 sample_point 0.875" + "bitrate 125000 sample-point 0.875" Shows the real bit-rate in bits/sec and the sample-point in the range 0.000..0.999. If the calculation of bit-timing parameters is enabled in the kernel (CONFIG_CAN_CALC_BITTIMING=y), the diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt b/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt index bf5dbe3ab8c5..55c575fcaf17 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ built-in CCIDs. DCCP_SOCKOPT_CCID is write-only and sets both the TX and RX CCIDs at the same time, combining the operation of the next two socket options. This option is -preferrable over the latter two, since often applications will use the same +preferable over the latter two, since often applications will use the same type of CCID for both directions; and mixed use of CCIDs is not currently well understood. This socket option takes as argument at least one uint8_t value, or an array of uint8_t values, which must match available CCIDS (see above). CCIDs diff --git a/Documentation/networking/filter.txt b/Documentation/networking/filter.txt index a06b48d2f5cc..e3ba753cb714 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/filter.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/filter.txt @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ Possible BPF extensions are shown in the following table: mark skb->mark queue skb->queue_mapping hatype skb->dev->type - rxhash skb->rxhash + rxhash skb->hash cpu raw_smp_processor_id() vlan_tci vlan_tx_tag_get(skb) vlan_pr vlan_tx_tag_present(skb) @@ -546,6 +546,130 @@ ffffffffa0069c8f + <x>: For BPF JIT developers, bpf_jit_disasm, bpf_asm and bpf_dbg provides a useful toolchain for developing and testing the kernel's JIT compiler. +BPF kernel internals +-------------------- +Internally, for the kernel interpreter, a different BPF instruction set +format with similar underlying principles from BPF described in previous +paragraphs is being used. However, the instruction set format is modelled +closer to the underlying architecture to mimic native instruction sets, so +that a better performance can be achieved (more details later). + +It is designed to be JITed with one to one mapping, which can also open up +the possibility for GCC/LLVM compilers to generate optimized BPF code through +a BPF backend that performs almost as fast as natively compiled code. + +The new instruction set was originally designed with the possible goal in +mind to write programs in "restricted C" and compile into BPF with a optional +GCC/LLVM backend, so that it can just-in-time map to modern 64-bit CPUs with +minimal performance overhead over two steps, that is, C -> BPF -> native code. + +Currently, the new format is being used for running user BPF programs, which +includes seccomp BPF, classic socket filters, cls_bpf traffic classifier, +team driver's classifier for its load-balancing mode, netfilter's xt_bpf +extension, PTP dissector/classifier, and much more. They are all internally +converted by the kernel into the new instruction set representation and run +in the extended interpreter. For in-kernel handlers, this all works +transparently by using sk_unattached_filter_create() for setting up the +filter, resp. sk_unattached_filter_destroy() for destroying it. The macro +SK_RUN_FILTER(filter, ctx) transparently invokes the right BPF function to +run the filter. 'filter' is a pointer to struct sk_filter that we got from +sk_unattached_filter_create(), and 'ctx' the given context (e.g. skb pointer). +All constraints and restrictions from sk_chk_filter() apply before a +conversion to the new layout is being done behind the scenes! + +Currently, for JITing, the user BPF format is being used and current BPF JIT +compilers reused whenever possible. In other words, we do not (yet!) perform +a JIT compilation in the new layout, however, future work will successively +migrate traditional JIT compilers into the new instruction format as well, so +that they will profit from the very same benefits. Thus, when speaking about +JIT in the following, a JIT compiler (TBD) for the new instruction format is +meant in this context. + +Some core changes of the new internal format: + +- Number of registers increase from 2 to 10: + + The old format had two registers A and X, and a hidden frame pointer. The + new layout extends this to be 10 internal registers and a read-only frame + pointer. Since 64-bit CPUs are passing arguments to functions via registers + the number of args from BPF program to in-kernel function is restricted + to 5 and one register is used to accept return value from an in-kernel + function. Natively, x86_64 passes first 6 arguments in registers, aarch64/ + sparcv9/mips64 have 7 - 8 registers for arguments; x86_64 has 6 callee saved + registers, and aarch64/sparcv9/mips64 have 11 or more callee saved registers. + + Therefore, BPF calling convention is defined as: + + * R0 - return value from in-kernel function + * R1 - R5 - arguments from BPF program to in-kernel function + * R6 - R9 - callee saved registers that in-kernel function will preserve + * R10 - read-only frame pointer to access stack + + Thus, all BPF registers map one to one to HW registers on x86_64, aarch64, + etc, and BPF calling convention maps directly to ABIs used by the kernel on + 64-bit architectures. + + On 32-bit architectures JIT may map programs that use only 32-bit arithmetic + and may let more complex programs to be interpreted. + + R0 - R5 are scratch registers and BPF program needs spill/fill them if + necessary across calls. Note that there is only one BPF program (== one BPF + main routine) and it cannot call other BPF functions, it can only call + predefined in-kernel functions, though. + +- Register width increases from 32-bit to 64-bit: + + Still, the semantics of the original 32-bit ALU operations are preserved + via 32-bit subregisters. All BPF registers are 64-bit with 32-bit lower + subregisters that zero-extend into 64-bit if they are being written to. + That behavior maps directly to x86_64 and arm64 subregister definition, but + makes other JITs more difficult. + + 32-bit architectures run 64-bit internal BPF programs via interpreter. + Their JITs may convert BPF programs that only use 32-bit subregisters into + native instruction set and let the rest being interpreted. + + Operation is 64-bit, because on 64-bit architectures, pointers are also + 64-bit wide, and we want to pass 64-bit values in/out of kernel functions, + so 32-bit BPF registers would otherwise require to define register-pair + ABI, thus, there won't be able to use a direct BPF register to HW register + mapping and JIT would need to do combine/split/move operations for every + register in and out of the function, which is complex, bug prone and slow. + Another reason is the use of atomic 64-bit counters. + +- Conditional jt/jf targets replaced with jt/fall-through: + + While the original design has constructs such as "if (cond) jump_true; + else jump_false;", they are being replaced into alternative constructs like + "if (cond) jump_true; /* else fall-through */". + +- Introduces bpf_call insn and register passing convention for zero overhead + calls from/to other kernel functions: + + After a kernel function call, R1 - R5 are reset to unreadable and R0 has a + return type of the function. Since R6 - R9 are callee saved, their state is + preserved across the call. + +Also in the new design, BPF is limited to 4096 insns, which means that any +program will terminate quickly and will only call a fixed number of kernel +functions. Original BPF and the new format are two operand instructions, +which helps to do one-to-one mapping between BPF insn and x86 insn during JIT. + +The input context pointer for invoking the interpreter function is generic, +its content is defined by a specific use case. For seccomp register R1 points +to seccomp_data, for converted BPF filters R1 points to a skb. + +A program, that is translated internally consists of the following elements: + + op:16, jt:8, jf:8, k:32 ==> op:8, a_reg:4, x_reg:4, off:16, imm:32 + +Just like the original BPF, the new format runs within a controlled environment, +is deterministic and the kernel can easily prove that. The safety of the program +can be determined in two steps: first step does depth-first-search to disallow +loops and other CFG validation; second step starts from the first insn and +descends all possible paths. It simulates execution of every insn and observes +the state change of registers and stack. + Misc ---- @@ -561,3 +685,4 @@ the underlying architecture. Jay Schulist <jschlst@samba.org> Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> +Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/gianfar.txt b/Documentation/networking/gianfar.txt index ad474ea07d07..ba1daea7f2e4 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/gianfar.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/gianfar.txt @@ -1,38 +1,8 @@ The Gianfar Ethernet Driver -Sysfs File description Author: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> Updated: 2005-07-28 -SYSFS - -Several of the features of the gianfar driver are controlled -through sysfs files. These are: - -bd_stash: -To stash RX Buffer Descriptors in the L2, echo 'on' or '1' to -bd_stash, echo 'off' or '0' to disable - -rx_stash_len: -To stash the first n bytes of the packet in L2, echo the number -of bytes to buf_stash_len. echo 0 to disable. - -WARNING: You could really screw these up if you set them too low or high! -fifo_threshold: -To change the number of bytes the controller needs in the -fifo before it starts transmission, echo the number of bytes to -fifo_thresh. Range should be 0-511. - -fifo_starve: -When the FIFO has less than this many bytes during a transmit, it -enters starve mode, and increases the priority of TX memory -transactions. To change, echo the number of bytes to -fifo_starve. Range should be 0-511. - -fifo_starve_off: -Once in starve mode, the FIFO remains there until it has this -many bytes. To change, echo the number of bytes to -fifo_starve_off. Range should be 0-511. CHECKSUM OFFLOADING diff --git a/Documentation/networking/igb.txt b/Documentation/networking/igb.txt index 4ebbd659256f..43d3549366a0 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/igb.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/igb.txt @@ -36,54 +36,6 @@ Default Value: 0 This parameter adds support for SR-IOV. It causes the driver to spawn up to max_vfs worth of virtual function. -QueuePairs ----------- -Valid Range: 0-1 -Default Value: 1 (TX and RX will be paired onto one interrupt vector) - -If set to 0, when MSI-X is enabled, the TX and RX will attempt to occupy -separate vectors. - -This option can be overridden to 1 if there are not sufficient interrupts -available. This can occur if any combination of RSS, VMDQ, and max_vfs -results in more than 4 queues being used. - -Node ----- -Valid Range: 0-n -Default Value: -1 (off) - - 0 - n: where n is the number of the NUMA node that should be used to - allocate memory for this adapter port. - -1: uses the driver default of allocating memory on whichever processor is - running insmod/modprobe. - - The Node parameter will allow you to pick which NUMA node you want to have - the adapter allocate memory from. All driver structures, in-memory queues, - and receive buffers will be allocated on the node specified. This parameter - is only useful when interrupt affinity is specified, otherwise some portion - of the time the interrupt could run on a different core than the memory is - allocated on, causing slower memory access and impacting throughput, CPU, or - both. - -EEE ---- -Valid Range: 0-1 -Default Value: 1 (enabled) - - A link between two EEE-compliant devices will result in periodic bursts of - data followed by long periods where in the link is in an idle state. This Low - Power Idle (LPI) state is supported in both 1Gbps and 100Mbps link speeds. - NOTE: EEE support requires autonegotiation. - -DMAC ----- -Valid Range: 0-1 -Default Value: 1 (enabled) - Enables or disables DMA Coalescing feature. - - - Additional Configurations ========================= diff --git a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt index 6fea79efb4cb..38112d512f47 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ processes. This also works in combination with mmap(2) on packet sockets. Currently implemented fanout policies are: - - PACKET_FANOUT_HASH: schedule to socket by skb's rxhash + - PACKET_FANOUT_HASH: schedule to socket by skb's packet hash - PACKET_FANOUT_LB: schedule to socket by round-robin - PACKET_FANOUT_CPU: schedule to socket by CPU packet arrives on - PACKET_FANOUT_RND: schedule to socket by random selection diff --git a/Documentation/networking/phy.txt b/Documentation/networking/phy.txt index ebf270719402..3544c98401fd 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/phy.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/phy.txt @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ The MDIO bus time, so it is safe for them to block, waiting for an interrupt to signal the operation is complete - 2) A reset function is necessary. This is used to return the bus to an + 2) A reset function is optional. This is used to return the bus to an initialized state. 3) A probe function is needed. This function should set up anything the bus @@ -253,16 +253,25 @@ Writing a PHY driver Each driver consists of a number of function pointers: + soft_reset: perform a PHY software reset config_init: configures PHY into a sane state after a reset. For instance, a Davicom PHY requires descrambling disabled. probe: Allocate phy->priv, optionally refuse to bind. PHY may not have been reset or had fixups run yet. suspend/resume: power management config_aneg: Changes the speed/duplex/negotiation settings + aneg_done: Determines the auto-negotiation result read_status: Reads the current speed/duplex/negotiation settings ack_interrupt: Clear a pending interrupt + did_interrupt: Checks if the PHY generated an interrupt config_intr: Enable or disable interrupts remove: Does any driver take-down + ts_info: Queries about the HW timestamping status + hwtstamp: Set the PHY HW timestamping configuration + rxtstamp: Requests a receive timestamp at the PHY level for a 'skb' + txtsamp: Requests a transmit timestamp at the PHY level for a 'skb' + set_wol: Enable Wake-on-LAN at the PHY level + get_wol: Get the Wake-on-LAN status at the PHY level Of these, only config_aneg and read_status are required to be assigned by the driver code. The rest are optional. Also, it is diff --git a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt index 5a61a240a652..0e30c7845b2b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt @@ -102,13 +102,18 @@ Examples: The 'minimum' MAC is what you set with dstmac. pgset "flag [name]" Set a flag to determine behaviour. Current flags - are: IPSRC_RND #IP Source is random (between min/max), - IPDST_RND, UDPSRC_RND, - UDPDST_RND, MACSRC_RND, MACDST_RND + are: IPSRC_RND # IP source is random (between min/max) + IPDST_RND # IP destination is random + UDPSRC_RND, UDPDST_RND, + MACSRC_RND, MACDST_RND + TXSIZE_RND, IPV6, MPLS_RND, VID_RND, SVID_RND + FLOW_SEQ, QUEUE_MAP_RND # queue map random QUEUE_MAP_CPU # queue map mirrors smp_processor_id() - IPSEC # Make IPsec encapsulation for packet + UDPCSUM, + IPSEC # IPsec encapsulation (needs CONFIG_XFRM) + NODE_ALLOC # node specific memory allocation pgset spi SPI_VALUE Set specific SA used to transform packet. @@ -233,13 +238,22 @@ udp_dst_max flag IPSRC_RND - TXSIZE_RND IPDST_RND UDPSRC_RND UDPDST_RND MACSRC_RND MACDST_RND + TXSIZE_RND + IPV6 + MPLS_RND + VID_RND + SVID_RND + FLOW_SEQ + QUEUE_MAP_RND + QUEUE_MAP_CPU + UDPCSUM IPSEC + NODE_ALLOC dst_min dst_max diff --git a/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt b/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt index b89bc82eed46..16a924c486bf 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ Contents of this document: (*) AF_RXRPC kernel interface. + (*) Configurable parameters. + ======== OVERVIEW @@ -864,3 +866,82 @@ 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. + + +======================= +CONFIGURABLE PARAMETERS +======================= + +The RxRPC protocol driver has a number of configurable parameters that can be +adjusted through sysctls in /proc/net/rxrpc/: + + (*) req_ack_delay + + The amount of time in milliseconds after receiving a packet with the + request-ack flag set before we honour the flag and actually send the + requested ack. + + Usually the other side won't stop sending packets until the advertised + reception window is full (to a maximum of 255 packets), so delaying the + ACK permits several packets to be ACK'd in one go. + + (*) soft_ack_delay + + The amount of time in milliseconds after receiving a new packet before we + generate a soft-ACK to tell the sender that it doesn't need to resend. + + (*) idle_ack_delay + + The amount of time in milliseconds after all the packets currently in the + received queue have been consumed before we generate a hard-ACK to tell + the sender it can free its buffers, assuming no other reason occurs that + we would send an ACK. + + (*) resend_timeout + + The amount of time in milliseconds after transmitting a packet before we + transmit it again, assuming no ACK is received from the receiver telling + us they got it. + + (*) max_call_lifetime + + The maximum amount of time in seconds that a call may be in progress + before we preemptively kill it. + + (*) dead_call_expiry + + The amount of time in seconds before we remove a dead call from the call + list. Dead calls are kept around for a little while for the purpose of + repeating ACK and ABORT packets. + + (*) connection_expiry + + The amount of time in seconds after a connection was last used before we + remove it from the connection list. Whilst a connection is in existence, + it serves as a placeholder for negotiated security; when it is deleted, + the security must be renegotiated. + + (*) transport_expiry + + The amount of time in seconds after a transport was last used before we + remove it from the transport list. Whilst a transport is in existence, it + serves to anchor the peer data and keeps the connection ID counter. + + (*) rxrpc_rx_window_size + + The size of the receive window in packets. This is the maximum number of + unconsumed received packets we're willing to hold in memory for any + particular call. + + (*) rxrpc_rx_mtu + + The maximum packet MTU size that we're willing to receive in bytes. This + indicates to the peer whether we're willing to accept jumbo packets. + + (*) rxrpc_rx_jumbo_max + + The maximum number of packets that we're willing to accept in a jumbo + packet. Non-terminal packets in a jumbo packet must contain a four byte + header plus exactly 1412 bytes of data. The terminal packet must contain + a four byte header plus any amount of data. In any event, a jumbo packet + may not exceed rxrpc_rx_mtu in size. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt index ca6977f5b2ed..99ca40e8e810 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt @@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ RPS and RFS were introduced in kernel 2.6.35. XPS was incorporated into (therbert@google.com) Accelerated RFS was introduced in 2.6.35. Original patches were -submitted by Ben Hutchings (bhutchings@solarflare.com) +submitted by Ben Hutchings (bwh@kernel.org) Authors: Tom Herbert (therbert@google.com) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/spider_net.txt b/Documentation/networking/spider_net.txt index 4b4adb8eb14f..b0b75f8463b3 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/spider_net.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/spider_net.txt @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Thus, in an idle system, the GDACTDPA, tail and head pointers will all be pointing at the same descr, which should be "empty". All of the other descrs in the ring should be "empty" as well. -The show_rx_chain() routine will print out the the locations of the +The show_rx_chain() routine will print out the locations of the GDACTDPA, tail and head pointers. It will also summarize the contents of the ring, starting at the tail pointer, and listing the status of the descrs that follow. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tcp.txt b/Documentation/networking/tcp.txt index 7d11bb5dc30a..bdc4c0db51e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/tcp.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/tcp.txt @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ A congestion control mechanism can be registered through functions in tcp_cong.c. The functions used by the congestion control mechanism are registered via passing a tcp_congestion_ops struct to tcp_register_congestion_control. As a minimum name, ssthresh, -cong_avoid, min_cwnd must be valid. +cong_avoid must be valid. Private data for a congestion control mechanism is stored in tp->ca_priv. tcp_ca(tp) returns a pointer to this space. This is preallocated space - it diff --git a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt index 048c92b487f6..bc3554124903 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt @@ -202,6 +202,9 @@ Time stamps for outgoing packets are to be generated as follows: and not free the skb. A driver not supporting hardware time stamping doesn't do that. A driver must never touch sk_buff::tstamp! It is used to store software generated time stamps by the network subsystem. +- Driver should call skb_tx_timestamp() as close to passing sk_buff to hardware + as possible. skb_tx_timestamp() provides a software time stamp if requested + and hardware timestamping is not possible (SKBTX_IN_PROGRESS not set). - As soon as the driver has sent the packet and/or obtained a hardware time stamp for it, it passes the time stamp back by calling skb_hwtstamp_tx() with the original skb, the raw @@ -212,6 +215,3 @@ Time stamps for outgoing packets are to be generated as follows: this would occur at a later time in the processing pipeline than other software time stamping and therefore could lead to unexpected deltas between time stamps. -- If the driver did not set the SKBTX_IN_PROGRESS flag (see above), then - dev_hard_start_xmit() checks whether software time stamping - is wanted as fallback and potentially generates the time stamp. |