kernel/linux.git/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl, branch v6.6.131

net: make SK_MEMORY_PCPU_RESERV tunable

2024-05-02T14:32:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit 12a686c2e761f1f1f6e6e2117a9ab9c6de2ac8a7 ] This patch adds /proc/sys/net/core/mem_pcpu_rsv sysctl file, to make SK_MEMORY_PCPU_RESERV tunable. Commit 3cd3399dd7a8 ("net: implement per-cpu reserves for memory_allocated") introduced per-cpu forward alloc cache: "Implement a per-cpu cache of +1/-1 MB, to reduce number of changes to sk->sk_prot->memory_allocated, which would otherwise be cause of false sharing." sk_prot->memory_allocated points to global atomic variable: atomic_long_t tcp_memory_allocated ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp; If increasing the per-cpu cache size from 1MB to e.g. 16MB, changes to sk->sk_prot->memory_allocated can be further reduced. Performance may be improved on system with many cores. Signed-off-by: Adam Li Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Stable-dep-of: 3584718cf2ec ("net: fix sk_memory_allocated_{add|sub} vs softirqs") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge tag 'io_uring-6.6-2023-09-08' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux

2023-09-09T04:32:28+00:00

Pull io_uring fixes from Jens Axboe: "A few fixes that should go into the 6.6-rc merge window: - Fix for a regression this merge window caused by the SQPOLL affinity patch, where we can race with SQPOLL thread shutdown and cause an oops when trying to set affinity (Gabriel) - Fix for a regression this merge window where fdinfo reading with for a ring setup with IORING_SETUP_NO_SQARRAY will attempt to deference the non-existing SQ ring array (me) - Add the patch that allows more finegrained control over who can use io_uring (Matteo) - Locking fix for a regression added this merge window for IOPOLL overflow (Pavel) - IOPOLL fix for stable, breaking our loop if helper threads are exiting (Pavel) Also had a fix for unreaped iopoll requests from io-wq from Ming, but we found an issue with that and hence it got reverted. Will get this sorted for a future rc" * tag 'io_uring-6.6-2023-09-08' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: Revert "io_uring: fix IO hang in io_wq_put_and_exit from do_exit()" io_uring: fix unprotected iopoll overflow io_uring: break out of iowq iopoll on teardown io_uring: add a sysctl to disable io_uring system-wide io_uring/fdinfo: only print ->sq_array[] if it's there io_uring: fix IO hang in io_wq_put_and_exit from do_exit() io_uring: Don't set affinity on a dying sqpoll thread

io_uring: add a sysctl to disable io_uring system-wide

2023-09-05T14:34:07+00:00

Introduce a new sysctl (io_uring_disabled) which can be either 0, 1, or 2. When 0 (the default), all processes are allowed to create io_uring instances, which is the current behavior. When 1, io_uring creation is disabled (io_uring_setup() will fail with -EPERM) for unprivileged processes not in the kernel.io_uring_group group. When 2, calls to io_uring_setup() fail with -EPERM regardless of privilege. Signed-off-by: Matteo Rizzo [JEM: modified to add io_uring_group] Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/x49y1i42j1z.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Documentation: admin-guide: Add riscv sysctl_perf_user_access

2023-08-16T14:28:21+00:00

riscv now uses this sysctl so document its usage for this architecture. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti

Merge tag 'net-next-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2023-06-28T23:43:10+00:00

Pull networking changes from Jakub Kicinski: "WiFi 7 and sendpage changes are the biggest pieces of work for this release. The latter will definitely require fixes but I think that we got it to a reasonable point. Core: - Rework the sendpage & splice implementations Instead of feeding data into sockets page by page extend sendmsg handlers to support taking a reference on the data, controlled by a new flag called MSG_SPLICE_PAGES Rework the handling of unexpected-end-of-file to invoke an additional callback instead of trying to predict what the right combination of MORE/NOTLAST flags is Remove the MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST flag completely - Implement SCM_PIDFD, a new type of CMSG type analogous to SCM_CREDENTIALS, but it contains pidfd instead of plain pid - Enable socket busy polling with CONFIG_RT - Improve reliability and efficiency of reporting for ref_tracker - Auto-generate a user space C library for various Netlink families Protocols: - Allow TCP to shrink the advertised window when necessary, prevent sk_rcvbuf auto-tuning from growing the window all the way up to tcp_rmem[2] - Use per-VMA locking for "page-flipping" TCP receive zerocopy - Prepare TCP for device-to-device data transfers, by making sure that payloads are always attached to skbs as page frags - Make the backoff time for the first N TCP SYN retransmissions linear. Exponential backoff is unnecessarily conservative - Create a new MPTCP getsockopt to retrieve all info (MPTCP_FULL_INFO) - Avoid waking up applications using TLS sockets until we have a full record - Allow using kernel memory for protocol ioctl callbacks, paving the way to issuing ioctls over io_uring - Add nolocalbypass option to VxLAN, forcing packets to be fully encapsulated even if they are destined for a local IP address - Make TCPv4 use consistent hash in TIME_WAIT and SYN_RECV. Ensure in-kernel ECMP implementation (e.g. Open vSwitch) select the same link for all packets. Support L4 symmetric hashing in Open vSwitch - PPPoE: make number of hash bits configurable - Allow DNS to be overwritten by DHCPACK in the in-kernel DHCP client (ipconfig) - Add layer 2 miss indication and filtering, allowing higher layers (e.g. ACL filters) to make forwarding decisions based on whether packet matched forwarding state in lower devices (bridge) - Support matching on Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) packets - Hide the "link becomes ready" IPv6 messages by demoting their printk level to debug - HSR: don't enable promiscuous mode if device offloads the proto - Support active scanning in IEEE 802.15.4 - Continue work on Multi-Link Operation for WiFi 7 BPF: - Add precision propagation for subprogs and callbacks. This allows maintaining verification efficiency when subprograms are used, or in fact passing the verifier at all for complex programs, especially those using open-coded iterators - Improve BPF's {g,s}setsockopt() length handling. Previously BPF assumed the length is always equal to the amount of written data. But some protos allow passing a NULL buffer to discover what the output buffer *should* be, without writing anything - Accept dynptr memory as memory arguments passed to helpers - Add routing table ID to bpf_fib_lookup BPF helper - Support O_PATH FDs in BPF_OBJ_PIN and BPF_OBJ_GET commands - Drop bpf_capable() check in BPF_MAP_FREEZE command (used to mark maps as read-only) - Show target_{obj,btf}_id in tracing link fdinfo - Addition of several new kfuncs (most of the names are self-explanatory): - Add a set of new dynptr kfuncs: bpf_dynptr_adjust(), bpf_dynptr_is_null(), bpf_dynptr_is_rdonly(), bpf_dynptr_size() and bpf_dynptr_clone(). - bpf_task_under_cgroup() - bpf_sock_destroy() - force closing sockets - bpf_cpumask_first_and(), rework bpf_cpumask_any*() kfuncs Netfilter: - Relax set/map validation checks in nf_tables. Allow checking presence of an entry in a map without using the value - Increase ip_vs_conn_tab_bits range for 64BIT builds - Allow updating size of a set - Improve NAT tuple selection when connection is closing Driver API: - Integrate netdev with LED subsystem, to allow configuring HW "offloaded" blinking of LEDs based on link state and activity (i.e. packets coming in and out) - Support configuring rate selection pins of SFP modules - Factor Clause 73 auto-negotiation code out of the drivers, provide common helper routines - Add more fool-proof helpers for managing lifetime of MDIO devices associated with the PCS layer - Allow drivers to report advanced statistics related to Time Aware scheduler offload (taprio) - Allow opting out of VF statistics in link dump, to allow more VFs to fit into the message - Split devlink instance and devlink port operations New hardware / drivers: - Ethernet: - Synopsys EMAC4 IP support (stmmac) - Marvell 88E6361 8 port (5x1GE + 3x2.5GE) switches - Marvell 88E6250 7 port switches - Microchip LAN8650/1 Rev.B0 PHYs - MediaTek MT7981/MT7988 built-in 1GE PHY driver - WiFi: - Realtek RTL8192FU, 2.4 GHz, b/g/n mode, 2T2R, 300 Mbps - Realtek RTL8723DS (SDIO variant) - Realtek RTL8851BE - CAN: - Fintek F81604 Drivers: - Ethernet NICs: - Intel (100G, ice): - support dynamic interrupt allocation - use meta data match instead of VF MAC addr on slow-path - nVidia/Mellanox: - extend link aggregation to handle 4, rather than just 2 ports - spawn sub-functions without any features by default - OcteonTX2: - support HTB (Tx scheduling/QoS) offload - make RSS hash generation configurable - support selecting Rx queue using TC filters - Wangxun (ngbe/txgbe): - add basic Tx/Rx packet offloads - add phylink support (SFP/PCS control) - Freescale/NXP (enetc): - report TAPRIO packet statistics - Solarflare/AMD: - support matching on IP ToS and UDP source port of outer header - VxLAN and GENEVE tunnel encapsulation over IPv4 or IPv6 - add devlink dev info support for EF10 - Virtual NICs: - Microsoft vNIC: - size the Rx indirection table based on requested configuration - support VLAN tagging - Amazon vNIC: - try to reuse Rx buffers if not fully consumed, useful for ARM servers running with 16kB pages - Google vNIC: - support TCP segmentation of >64kB frames - Ethernet embedded switches: - Marvell (mv88e6xxx): - enable USXGMII (88E6191X) - Microchip: - lan966x: add support for Egress Stage 0 ACL engine - lan966x: support mapping packet priority to internal switch priority (based on PCP or DSCP) - Ethernet PHYs: - Broadcom PHYs: - support for Wake-on-LAN for BCM54210E/B50212E - report LPI counter - Microsemi PHYs: support RGMII delay configuration (VSC85xx) - Micrel PHYs: receive timestamp in the frame (LAN8841) - Realtek PHYs: support optional external PHY clock - Altera TSE PCS: merge the driver into Lynx PCS which it is a variant of - CAN: Kvaser PCIEcan: - support packet timestamping - WiFi: - Intel (iwlwifi): - major update for new firmware and Multi-Link Operation (MLO) - configuration rework to drop test devices and split the different families - support for segmented PNVM images and power tables - new vendor entries for PPAG (platform antenna gain) feature - Qualcomm 802.11ax (ath11k): - Multiple Basic Service Set Identifier (MBSSID) and Enhanced MBSSID Advertisement (EMA) support in AP mode - support factory test mode - RealTek (rtw89): - add RSSI based antenna diversity - support U-NII-4 channels on 5 GHz band - RealTek (rtl8xxxu): - AP mode support for 8188f - support USB RX aggregation for the newer chips" * tag 'net-next-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1602 commits) net: scm: introduce and use scm_recv_unix helper af_unix: Skip SCM_PIDFD if scm->pid is NULL. net: lan743x: Simplify comparison netlink: Add __sock_i_ino() for __netlink_diag_dump(). net: dsa: avoid suspicious RCU usage for synced VLAN-aware MAC addresses Revert "af_unix: Call scm_recv() only after scm_set_cred()." phylink: ReST-ify the phylink_pcs_neg_mode() kdoc libceph: Partially revert changes to support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES net: phy: mscc: fix packet loss due to RGMII delays net: mana: use vmalloc_array and vcalloc net: enetc: use vmalloc_array and vcalloc ionic: use vmalloc_array and vcalloc pds_core: use vmalloc_array and vcalloc gve: use vmalloc_array and vcalloc octeon_ep: use vmalloc_array and vcalloc net: usb: qmi_wwan: add u-blox 0x1312 composition perf trace: fix MSG_SPLICE_PAGES build error ipvlan: Fix return value of ipvlan_queue_xmit() netfilter: nf_tables: fix underflow in chain reference counter netfilter: nf_tables: unbind non-anonymous set if rule construction fails ...

docs: arm64: Move arm64 documentation under Documentation/arch/

2023-06-21T14:51:51+00:00

Architecture-specific documentation is being moved into Documentation/arch/ as a way of cleaning up the top-level documentation directory and making the docs hierarchy more closely match the source hierarchy. Move Documentation/arm64 into arch/ (along with the Chinese equvalent translations) and fix up documentation references. Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Hu Haowen Cc: Paolo Bonzini Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Reviewed-by: Yantengsi Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: net: net.core.txrehash is not specific to listening sockets

2023-05-25T11:20:45+00:00

The net.core.txrehash documentation mentions this knob is for listening sockets only, while sk_rethink_txhash can be called on SYN and RTO retransmits on all TCP sockets. Remove the listening socket part. Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

docs: move x86 documentation into Documentation/arch/

2023-03-30T18:58:51+00:00

Move the x86 documentation under Documentation/arch/ as a way of cleaning up the top-level directory and making the structure of our docs more closely match the structure of the source directories it describes. All in-kernel references to the old paths have been updated. Acked-by: Dave Hansen Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230315211523.108836-1-corbet@lwn.net/ Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-02-20-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2023-02-24T01:55:40+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: "There is no particular theme here - mainly quick hits all over the tree. Most notable is a set of zlib changes from Mikhail Zaslonko which enhances and fixes zlib's use of S390 hardware support: 'lib/zlib: Set of s390 DFLTCC related patches for kernel zlib'" * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-02-20-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (55 commits) Update CREDITS file entry for Jesper Juhl sparc: allow PM configs for sparc32 COMPILE_TEST hung_task: print message when hung_task_warnings gets down to zero. arch/Kconfig: fix indentation scripts/tags.sh: fix the Kconfig tags generation when using latest ctags nilfs2: prevent WARNING in nilfs_dat_commit_end() lib/zlib: remove redundation assignement of avail_in dfltcc_gdht() lib/Kconfig.debug: do not enable DEBUG_PREEMPT by default lib/zlib: DFLTCC always switch to software inflate for Z_PACKET_FLUSH option lib/zlib: DFLTCC support inflate with small window lib/zlib: Split deflate and inflate states for DFLTCC lib/zlib: DFLTCC not writing header bits when avail_out == 0 lib/zlib: fix DFLTCC ignoring flush modes when avail_in == 0 lib/zlib: fix DFLTCC not flushing EOBS when creating raw streams lib/zlib: implement switching between DFLTCC and software lib/zlib: adjust offset calculation for dfltcc_state nilfs2: replace WARN_ONs for invalid DAT metadata block requests scripts/spelling.txt: add "exsits" pattern and fix typo instances fs: gracefully handle ->get_block not mapping bh in __mpage_writepage cramfs: Kconfig: fix spelling & punctuation ...

Merge tag 'docs-6.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2023-02-22T20:00:20+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It has been a moderately calm cycle for documentation; the significant changes include: - Some significant additions to the memory-management documentation - Some improvements to navigation in the HTML-rendered docs - More Spanish and Chinese translations ... and the usual set of typo fixes and such" * tag 'docs-6.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (68 commits) Documentation/watchdog/hpwdt: Fix Format Documentation/watchdog/hpwdt: Fix Reference Documentation: core-api: padata: correct spelling docs/mm: Physical Memory: correct spelling in reference to CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION docs: Use HTML comments for the kernel-toc SPDX line docs: Add more information to the HTML sidebar Documentation: KVM: Update AMD memory encryption link printk: Document that CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY required for boot_delay= Documentation: userspace-api: correct spelling Documentation: sparc: correct spelling Documentation: driver-api: correct spelling Documentation: admin-guide: correct spelling docs: add workload-tracing document to admin-guide docs/admin-guide/mm: remove useless markup docs/mm: remove useless markup docs/mm: Physical Memory: remove useless markup docs/sp_SP: Add process magic-number translation docs: ftrace: always use canonical ftrace path Doc/damon: fix the data path error dma-buf: Add "dma-buf" to title of documentation ...