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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/net/pkt_sched.h, branch v5.15</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>net: prevent user from passing illegal stab size</title>
<updated>2021-09-26T10:09:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>王贇</name>
<email>yun.wang@linux.alibaba.com</email>
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<published>2021-09-24T02:35:58+00:00</published>
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We observed below report when playing with netlink sock:

  UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in net/sched/sch_api.c:580:10
  shift exponent 249 is too large for 32-bit type
  CPU: 0 PID: 685 Comm: a.out Not tainted
  Call Trace:
   dump_stack_lvl+0x8d/0xcf
   ubsan_epilogue+0xa/0x4e
   __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x161/0x182
   __qdisc_calculate_pkt_len+0xf0/0x190
   __dev_queue_xmit+0x2ed/0x15b0

it seems like kernel won't check the stab log value passing from
user, and will use the insane value later to calculate pkt_len.

This patch just add a check on the size/cell_log to avoid insane
calculation.

Reported-by: Abaci &lt;abaci@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang &lt;yun.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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We observed below report when playing with netlink sock:

  UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in net/sched/sch_api.c:580:10
  shift exponent 249 is too large for 32-bit type
  CPU: 0 PID: 685 Comm: a.out Not tainted
  Call Trace:
   dump_stack_lvl+0x8d/0xcf
   ubsan_epilogue+0xa/0x4e
   __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x161/0x182
   __qdisc_calculate_pkt_len+0xf0/0x190
   __dev_queue_xmit+0x2ed/0x15b0

it seems like kernel won't check the stab log value passing from
user, and will use the insane value later to calculate pkt_len.

This patch just add a check on the size/cell_log to avoid insane
calculation.

Reported-by: Abaci &lt;abaci@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang &lt;yun.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: sched: fix tx action rescheduling issue during deactivation</title>
<updated>2021-05-14T22:05:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yunsheng Lin</name>
<email>linyunsheng@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-14T03:17:00+00:00</published>
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Currently qdisc_run() checks the STATE_DEACTIVATED of lockless
qdisc before calling __qdisc_run(), which ultimately clear the
STATE_MISSED when all the skb is dequeued. If STATE_DEACTIVATED
is set before clearing STATE_MISSED, there may be rescheduling
of net_tx_action() at the end of qdisc_run_end(), see below:

CPU0(net_tx_atcion)  CPU1(__dev_xmit_skb)  CPU2(dev_deactivate)
          .                   .                     .
          .            set STATE_MISSED             .
          .           __netif_schedule()            .
          .                   .           set STATE_DEACTIVATED
          .                   .                qdisc_reset()
          .                   .                     .
          .&lt;---------------   .              synchronize_net()
clear __QDISC_STATE_SCHED  |  .                     .
          .                |  .                     .
          .                |  .            some_qdisc_is_busy()
          .                |  .               return *false*
          .                |  .                     .
  test STATE_DEACTIVATED   |  .                     .
__qdisc_run() *not* called |  .                     .
          .                |  .                     .
   test STATE_MISS         |  .                     .
 __netif_schedule()--------|  .                     .
          .                   .                     .
          .                   .                     .

__qdisc_run() is not called by net_tx_atcion() in CPU0 because
CPU2 has set STATE_DEACTIVATED flag during dev_deactivate(), and
STATE_MISSED is only cleared in __qdisc_run(), __netif_schedule
is called at the end of qdisc_run_end(), causing tx action
rescheduling problem.

qdisc_run() called by net_tx_action() runs in the softirq context,
which should has the same semantic as the qdisc_run() called by
__dev_xmit_skb() protected by rcu_read_lock_bh(). And there is a
synchronize_net() between STATE_DEACTIVATED flag being set and
qdisc_reset()/some_qdisc_is_busy in dev_deactivate(), we can safely
bail out for the deactived lockless qdisc in net_tx_action(), and
qdisc_reset() will reset all skb not dequeued yet.

So add the rcu_read_lock() explicitly to protect the qdisc_run()
and do the STATE_DEACTIVATED checking in net_tx_action() before
calling qdisc_run_begin(). Another option is to do the checking in
the qdisc_run_end(), but it will add unnecessary overhead for
non-tx_action case, because __dev_queue_xmit() will not see qdisc
with STATE_DEACTIVATED after synchronize_net(), the qdisc with
STATE_DEACTIVATED can only be seen by net_tx_action() because of
__netif_schedule().

The STATE_DEACTIVATED checking in qdisc_run() is to avoid race
between net_tx_action() and qdisc_reset(), see:
commit d518d2ed8640 ("net/sched: fix race between deactivation
and dequeue for NOLOCK qdisc"). As the bailout added above for
deactived lockless qdisc in net_tx_action() provides better
protection for the race without calling qdisc_run() at all, so
remove the STATE_DEACTIVATED checking in qdisc_run().

After qdisc_reset(), there is no skb in qdisc to be dequeued, so
clear the STATE_MISSED in dev_reset_queue() too.

Fixes: 6b3ba9146fe6 ("net: sched: allow qdiscs to handle locking")
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin &lt;linyunsheng@huawei.com&gt;
V8: Clearing STATE_MISSED before calling __netif_schedule() has
    avoid the endless rescheduling problem, but there may still
    be a unnecessary rescheduling, so adjust the commit log.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Currently qdisc_run() checks the STATE_DEACTIVATED of lockless
qdisc before calling __qdisc_run(), which ultimately clear the
STATE_MISSED when all the skb is dequeued. If STATE_DEACTIVATED
is set before clearing STATE_MISSED, there may be rescheduling
of net_tx_action() at the end of qdisc_run_end(), see below:

CPU0(net_tx_atcion)  CPU1(__dev_xmit_skb)  CPU2(dev_deactivate)
          .                   .                     .
          .            set STATE_MISSED             .
          .           __netif_schedule()            .
          .                   .           set STATE_DEACTIVATED
          .                   .                qdisc_reset()
          .                   .                     .
          .&lt;---------------   .              synchronize_net()
clear __QDISC_STATE_SCHED  |  .                     .
          .                |  .                     .
          .                |  .            some_qdisc_is_busy()
          .                |  .               return *false*
          .                |  .                     .
  test STATE_DEACTIVATED   |  .                     .
__qdisc_run() *not* called |  .                     .
          .                |  .                     .
   test STATE_MISS         |  .                     .
 __netif_schedule()--------|  .                     .
          .                   .                     .
          .                   .                     .

__qdisc_run() is not called by net_tx_atcion() in CPU0 because
CPU2 has set STATE_DEACTIVATED flag during dev_deactivate(), and
STATE_MISSED is only cleared in __qdisc_run(), __netif_schedule
is called at the end of qdisc_run_end(), causing tx action
rescheduling problem.

qdisc_run() called by net_tx_action() runs in the softirq context,
which should has the same semantic as the qdisc_run() called by
__dev_xmit_skb() protected by rcu_read_lock_bh(). And there is a
synchronize_net() between STATE_DEACTIVATED flag being set and
qdisc_reset()/some_qdisc_is_busy in dev_deactivate(), we can safely
bail out for the deactived lockless qdisc in net_tx_action(), and
qdisc_reset() will reset all skb not dequeued yet.

So add the rcu_read_lock() explicitly to protect the qdisc_run()
and do the STATE_DEACTIVATED checking in net_tx_action() before
calling qdisc_run_begin(). Another option is to do the checking in
the qdisc_run_end(), but it will add unnecessary overhead for
non-tx_action case, because __dev_queue_xmit() will not see qdisc
with STATE_DEACTIVATED after synchronize_net(), the qdisc with
STATE_DEACTIVATED can only be seen by net_tx_action() because of
__netif_schedule().

The STATE_DEACTIVATED checking in qdisc_run() is to avoid race
between net_tx_action() and qdisc_reset(), see:
commit d518d2ed8640 ("net/sched: fix race between deactivation
and dequeue for NOLOCK qdisc"). As the bailout added above for
deactived lockless qdisc in net_tx_action() provides better
protection for the race without calling qdisc_run() at all, so
remove the STATE_DEACTIVATED checking in qdisc_run().

After qdisc_reset(), there is no skb in qdisc to be dequeued, so
clear the STATE_MISSED in dev_reset_queue() too.

Fixes: 6b3ba9146fe6 ("net: sched: allow qdiscs to handle locking")
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin &lt;linyunsheng@huawei.com&gt;
V8: Clearing STATE_MISSED before calling __netif_schedule() has
    avoid the endless rescheduling problem, but there may still
    be a unnecessary rescheduling, so adjust the commit log.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: add a helper to avoid issues with HW TX timestamping and SO_TXTIME</title>
<updated>2021-03-10T20:45:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>olteanv@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-10T14:50:44+00:00</published>
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As explained in commit 29d98f54a4fe ("net: enetc: allow hardware
timestamping on TX queues with tc-etf enabled"), hardware TX
timestamping requires an skb with skb-&gt;tstamp = 0. When a packet is sent
with SO_TXTIME, the skb-&gt;skb_mstamp_ns corrupts the value of skb-&gt;tstamp,
so the drivers need to explicitly reset skb-&gt;tstamp to zero after
consuming the TX time.

Create a helper named skb_txtime_consumed() which does just that. All
drivers which offload TC_SETUP_QDISC_ETF should implement it, and it
would make it easier to assess during review whether they do the right
thing in order to be compatible with hardware timestamping or not.

Suggested-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes &lt;vinicius.gomes@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes &lt;vinicius.gomes@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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As explained in commit 29d98f54a4fe ("net: enetc: allow hardware
timestamping on TX queues with tc-etf enabled"), hardware TX
timestamping requires an skb with skb-&gt;tstamp = 0. When a packet is sent
with SO_TXTIME, the skb-&gt;skb_mstamp_ns corrupts the value of skb-&gt;tstamp,
so the drivers need to explicitly reset skb-&gt;tstamp to zero after
consuming the TX time.

Create a helper named skb_txtime_consumed() which does just that. All
drivers which offload TC_SETUP_QDISC_ETF should implement it, and it
would make it easier to assess during review whether they do the right
thing in order to be compatible with hardware timestamping or not.

Suggested-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes &lt;vinicius.gomes@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes &lt;vinicius.gomes@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: sched: convert tasklets to use new tasklet_setup() API</title>
<updated>2020-11-07T18:41:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Allen Pais</name>
<email>apais@linux.microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-03T09:18:21+00:00</published>
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In preparation for unconditionally passing the
struct tasklet_struct pointer to all tasklet
callbacks, switch to using the new tasklet_setup()
and from_tasklet() to pass the tasklet pointer explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Romain Perier &lt;romain.perier@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Allen Pais &lt;apais@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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In preparation for unconditionally passing the
struct tasklet_struct pointer to all tasklet
callbacks, switch to using the new tasklet_setup()
and from_tasklet() to pass the tasklet pointer explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Romain Perier &lt;romain.perier@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Allen Pais &lt;apais@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net/sched: get rid of qdisc-&gt;padded</title>
<updated>2020-10-09T15:08:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-07T16:51:11+00:00</published>
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kmalloc() of sufficiently big portion of memory is cache-aligned
in regular conditions. If some debugging options are used,
there is no reason qdisc structures would need 64-byte alignment
if most other kernel structures are not aligned.

This get rid of QDISC_ALIGN and QDISC_ALIGNTO.

Addition of privdata field will help implementing
the reverse of qdisc_priv() and documents where
the private data is.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Allen Pais &lt;allen.lkml@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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kmalloc() of sufficiently big portion of memory is cache-aligned
in regular conditions. If some debugging options are used,
there is no reason qdisc structures would need 64-byte alignment
if most other kernel structures are not aligned.

This get rid of QDISC_ALIGN and QDISC_ALIGNTO.

Addition of privdata field will help implementing
the reverse of qdisc_priv() and documents where
the private data is.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Allen Pais &lt;allen.lkml@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched: consistently handle layer3 header accesses in the presence of VLANs</title>
<updated>2020-07-03T21:34:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Toke Høiland-Jørgensen</name>
<email>toke@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-03T20:26:43+00:00</published>
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There are a couple of places in net/sched/ that check skb-&gt;protocol and act
on the value there. However, in the presence of VLAN tags, the value stored
in skb-&gt;protocol can be inconsistent based on whether VLAN acceleration is
enabled. The commit quoted in the Fixes tag below fixed the users of
skb-&gt;protocol to use a helper that will always see the VLAN ethertype.

However, most of the callers don't actually handle the VLAN ethertype, but
expect to find the IP header type in the protocol field. This means that
things like changing the ECN field, or parsing diffserv values, stops
working if there's a VLAN tag, or if there are multiple nested VLAN
tags (QinQ).

To fix this, change the helper to take an argument that indicates whether
the caller wants to skip the VLAN tags or not. When skipping VLAN tags, we
make sure to skip all of them, so behaviour is consistent even in QinQ
mode.

To make the helper usable from the ECN code, move it to if_vlan.h instead
of pkt_sched.h.

v3:
- Remove empty lines
- Move vlan variable definitions inside loop in skb_protocol()
- Also use skb_protocol() helper in IP{,6}_ECN_decapsulate() and
  bpf_skb_ecn_set_ce()

v2:
- Use eth_type_vlan() helper in skb_protocol()
- Also fix code that reads skb-&gt;protocol directly
- Change a couple of 'if/else if' statements to switch constructs to avoid
  calling the helper twice

Reported-by: Ilya Ponetayev &lt;i.ponetaev@ndmsystems.com&gt;
Fixes: d8b9605d2697 ("net: sched: fix skb-&gt;protocol use in case of accelerated vlan path")
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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There are a couple of places in net/sched/ that check skb-&gt;protocol and act
on the value there. However, in the presence of VLAN tags, the value stored
in skb-&gt;protocol can be inconsistent based on whether VLAN acceleration is
enabled. The commit quoted in the Fixes tag below fixed the users of
skb-&gt;protocol to use a helper that will always see the VLAN ethertype.

However, most of the callers don't actually handle the VLAN ethertype, but
expect to find the IP header type in the protocol field. This means that
things like changing the ECN field, or parsing diffserv values, stops
working if there's a VLAN tag, or if there are multiple nested VLAN
tags (QinQ).

To fix this, change the helper to take an argument that indicates whether
the caller wants to skip the VLAN tags or not. When skipping VLAN tags, we
make sure to skip all of them, so behaviour is consistent even in QinQ
mode.

To make the helper usable from the ECN code, move it to if_vlan.h instead
of pkt_sched.h.

v3:
- Remove empty lines
- Move vlan variable definitions inside loop in skb_protocol()
- Also use skb_protocol() helper in IP{,6}_ECN_decapsulate() and
  bpf_skb_ecn_set_ce()

v2:
- Use eth_type_vlan() helper in skb_protocol()
- Also fix code that reads skb-&gt;protocol directly
- Change a couple of 'if/else if' statements to switch constructs to avoid
  calling the helper twice

Reported-by: Ilya Ponetayev &lt;i.ponetaev@ndmsystems.com&gt;
Fixes: d8b9605d2697 ("net: sched: fix skb-&gt;protocol use in case of accelerated vlan path")
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net_sched: add qdisc_watchdog_schedule_range_ns()</title>
<updated>2020-03-18T04:16:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-17T02:12:49+00:00</published>
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Some packet schedulers might want to add a slack
when programming hrtimers. This can reduce number
of interrupts and increase batch sizes and thus
give good xmit_more savings.

This commit adds qdisc_watchdog_schedule_range_ns()
helper, with an extra delta_ns parameter.

Legacy qdisc_watchdog_schedule_n() becomes an inline
passing a zero slack.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Some packet schedulers might want to add a slack
when programming hrtimers. This can reduce number
of interrupts and increase batch sizes and thus
give good xmit_more savings.

This commit adds qdisc_watchdog_schedule_range_ns()
helper, with an extra delta_ns parameter.

Legacy qdisc_watchdog_schedule_n() becomes an inline
passing a zero slack.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: sched: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member</title>
<updated>2020-03-01T05:27:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavo@embeddedor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-27T20:58:44+00:00</published>
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The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
introduced in C99:

struct foo {
        int stuff;
        struct boo array[];
};

By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning
in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which
will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.

Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by
this change:

"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]

This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
introduced in C99:

struct foo {
        int stuff;
        struct boo array[];
};

By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning
in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which
will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.

Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by
this change:

"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]

This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>Merge ra.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2019-09-17T21:51:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-17T21:51:10+00:00</published>
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Pull in bug fixes from 'net' tree for the merge window.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Pull in bug fixes from 'net' tree for the merge window.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>taprio: Add support for hardware offloading</title>
<updated>2019-09-16T19:32:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vinicius Costa Gomes</name>
<email>vinicius.gomes@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-15T01:59:58+00:00</published>
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This allows taprio to offload the schedule enforcement to capable
network cards, resulting in more precise windows and less CPU usage.

The gate mask acts on traffic classes (groups of queues of same
priority), as specified in IEEE 802.1Q-2018, and following the existing
taprio and mqprio semantics.
It is up to the driver to perform conversion between tc and individual
netdev queues if for some reason it needs to make that distinction.

Full offload is requested from the network interface by specifying
"flags 2" in the tc qdisc creation command, which in turn corresponds to
the TCA_TAPRIO_ATTR_FLAG_FULL_OFFLOAD bit.

The important detail here is the clockid which is implicitly /dev/ptpN
for full offload, and hence not configurable.

A reference counting API is added to support the use case where Ethernet
drivers need to keep the taprio offload structure locally (i.e. they are
a multi-port switch driver, and configuring a port depends on the
settings of other ports as well). The refcount_t variable is kept in a
private structure (__tc_taprio_qopt_offload) and not exposed to drivers.

In the future, the private structure might also be expanded with a
backpointer to taprio_sched *q, to implement the notification system
described in the patch (of when admin became oper, or an error occurred,
etc, so the offload can be monitored with 'tc qdisc show').

Signed-off-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes &lt;vinicius.gomes@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Voon Weifeng &lt;weifeng.voon@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This allows taprio to offload the schedule enforcement to capable
network cards, resulting in more precise windows and less CPU usage.

The gate mask acts on traffic classes (groups of queues of same
priority), as specified in IEEE 802.1Q-2018, and following the existing
taprio and mqprio semantics.
It is up to the driver to perform conversion between tc and individual
netdev queues if for some reason it needs to make that distinction.

Full offload is requested from the network interface by specifying
"flags 2" in the tc qdisc creation command, which in turn corresponds to
the TCA_TAPRIO_ATTR_FLAG_FULL_OFFLOAD bit.

The important detail here is the clockid which is implicitly /dev/ptpN
for full offload, and hence not configurable.

A reference counting API is added to support the use case where Ethernet
drivers need to keep the taprio offload structure locally (i.e. they are
a multi-port switch driver, and configuring a port depends on the
settings of other ports as well). The refcount_t variable is kept in a
private structure (__tc_taprio_qopt_offload) and not exposed to drivers.

In the future, the private structure might also be expanded with a
backpointer to taprio_sched *q, to implement the notification system
described in the patch (of when admin became oper, or an error occurred,
etc, so the offload can be monitored with 'tc qdisc show').

Signed-off-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes &lt;vinicius.gomes@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Voon Weifeng &lt;weifeng.voon@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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