When I implemented virtio's hash-related features to tun/tap [1],
I found tun/tap does not fill the entire region reserved for the virtio
header, leaving some uninitialized hole in the middle of the buffer
after read()/recvmesg().
This series fills the uninitialized hole. More concretely, the
num_buffers field will be initialized with 1, and the other fields will
be inialized with 0. Setting the num_buffers field to 1 is mandated by
virtio 1.0 [2].
The change to virtio header is preceded by another change that refactors
tun and tap to unify their virtio-related code.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241008-rss-v5-0-f3cf68df005d@daynix.com
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241227084256-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki(a)daynix.com>
---
Changes in v5:
- s/vnet_hdr_len_sz/vnet_hdr_sz/ for patch "tun: Decouple vnet handling"
(Willem de Bruijn)
- Changed to inline vnet implementations to TUN and TAP.
- Dropped patch "tun: Avoid double-tracking iov_iter length changes" and
"tap: Avoid double-tracking iov_iter length changes".
- Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250120-tun-v4-0-ee81dda03d7f@daynix.com
Changes in v4:
- s/sz/vnet_hdr_len_sz/ for patch "tun: Decouple vnet handling"
(Willem de Bruijn)
- Reverted to add CONFIG_TUN_VNET.
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250116-tun-v3-0-c6b2871e97f7@daynix.com
Changes in v3:
- Dropped changes to fill the vnet header.
- Splitted patch "tun: Unify vnet implementation".
- Reverted spurious changes in patch "tun: Unify vnet implementation".
- Merged tun_vnet.c into TAP.
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250109-tun-v2-0-388d7d5a287a@daynix.com
Changes in v2:
- Fixed num_buffers endian.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250108-tun-v1-0-67d784b34374@daynix.com
---
Akihiko Odaki (7):
tun: Refactor CONFIG_TUN_VNET_CROSS_LE
tun: Keep hdr_len in tun_get_user()
tun: Decouple vnet from tun_struct
tun: Decouple vnet handling
tun: Extract the vnet handling code
tap: Keep hdr_len in tap_get_user()
tap: Use tun's vnet-related code
MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
drivers/net/tap.c | 168 ++++++------------------------------------
drivers/net/tun.c | 193 ++++++-------------------------------------------
drivers/net/tun_vnet.h | 184 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 231 insertions(+), 316 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: a32e14f8aef69b42826cf0998b068a43d486a9e9
change-id: 20241230-tun-66e10a49b0c7
Best regards,
--
Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki(a)daynix.com>
The current implementation of netconsole sends all log messages in
parallel, which can lead to an intermixed and interleaved output on the
receiving side. This makes it challenging to demultiplex the messages
and attribute them to their originating CPUs.
As a result, users and developers often struggle to effectively analyze
and debug the parallel log output received through netconsole.
Example of a message got from produciton hosts:
------------[ cut here ]------------
------------[ cut here ]------------
refcount_t: saturated; leaking memory.
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1613668 at lib/refcount.c:22 refcount_warn_saturate+0x5e/0xe0
refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 26 PID: 4139916 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0x7d/0xe0
Modules linked in: bpf_preload(E) vhost_net(E) tun(E) vhost(E)
This series of patches introduces a new feature to the netconsole
subsystem that allows the automatic population of the CPU number in the
userdata field for each log message. This enhancement provides several
benefits:
* Improved demultiplexing of parallel log output: When multiple CPUs are
sending messages concurrently, the added CPU number in the userdata
makes it easier to differentiate and attribute the messages to their
originating CPUs.
* Better visibility into message sources: The CPU number information
gives users and developers more insight into which specific CPU a
particular log message came from, which can be valuable for debugging
and analysis.
The changes in this series are as follows Patches::
Patch "consolidate send buffers into netconsole_target struct"
=================================================
Move the static buffers to netconsole target, from static declaration
in send_msg_no_fragmentation() and send_msg_fragmented().
Patch "netconsole: Rename userdata to extradata"
=================================================
Create the a concept of extradata, which encompasses the concept of
userdata and the upcoming sysdatao
Sysdata is a new concept being added, which is basically fields that are
populated by the kernel. At this time only the CPU#, but, there is a
desire to add current task name, kernel release version, etc.
Patch "netconsole: Helper to count number of used entries"
===========================================================
Create a simple helper to count number of entries in extradata. I am
separating this in a function since it will need to count userdata and
sysdata. For instance, when the user adds an extra userdata, we need to
check if there is space, counting the previous data entries (from
userdata and cpu data)
Patch "Introduce configfs helpers for sysdata features"
======================================================
Create the concept of sysdata feature in the netconsole target, and
create the configfs helpers to enable the bit in nt->sysdata
Patch "Include sysdata in extradata entry count"
================================================
Add the concept of sysdata when counting for available space in the
buffer. This will protect users from creating new userdata/sysdata if
there is no more space
Patch "netconsole: add support for sysdata and CPU population"
===============================================================
This is the core patch. Basically add a new option to enable automatic
CPU number population in the netconsole userdata Provides a new "cpu_nr"
sysfs attribute to control this feature
Patch "netconsole: selftest: test CPU number auto-population"
=============================================================
Expands the existing netconsole selftest to verify the CPU number
auto-population functionality Ensures the received netconsole messages
contain the expected "cpu=<CPU>" entry in the message. Test different
permutation with userdata
Patch "netconsole: docs: Add documentation for CPU number auto-population"
=============================================================================
Updates the netconsole documentation to explain the new CPU number
auto-population feature Provides instructions on how to enable and use
the feature
I believe these changes will be a valuable addition to the netconsole
subsystem, enhancing its usefulness for kernel developers and users.
PS: This patchset is on top of the patch that created
netcons_fragmented_msg selftest:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250203-netcons_frag_msgs-v1-1-5bc6bedf2ac0@de…
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao(a)debian.org>
---
Changes in v4:
- Fixed Kernel doc for netconsole_target (Simon)
- Fixed a typo in disable_sysdata_feature (Simon)
- Improved sysdata_cpu_nr_show() to return !! in a bit-wise operation
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250124-netcon_cpu-v3-0-12a0d286ba1d@debian.org
Changes in v3:
- Moved the buffer into netconsole_target, avoiding static functions in
the send path (Jakub).
- Fix a documentation error (Randy Dunlap)
- Created a function that handle all the extradata, consolidating it in
a single place (Jakub)
- Split the patch even more, trying to simplify the review.
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250115-netcon_cpu-v2-0-95971b44dc56@debian.org
Changes in v2:
- Create the concept of extradata and sysdata. This will make the design
easier to understand, and the code easier to read.
* Basically extradata encompasses userdata and the new sysdata.
Userdata originates from user, and sysdata originates in kernel.
- Improved the test to send from a very specific CPU, which can be
checked to be correct on the other side, as suggested by Jakub.
- Fixed a bug where CPU # was populated at the wrong place
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241113-netcon_cpu-v1-0-d187bf7c0321@debian.org
---
Breno Leitao (8):
netconsole: consolidate send buffers into netconsole_target struct
netconsole: Rename userdata to extradata
netconsole: Helper to count number of used entries
netconsole: Introduce configfs helpers for sysdata features
netconsole: Include sysdata in extradata entry count
netconsole: add support for sysdata and CPU population
netconsole: selftest: test for sysdata CPU
netconsole: docs: Add documentation for CPU number auto-population
Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst | 45 ++++
drivers/net/netconsole.c | 261 ++++++++++++++++-----
tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/Makefile | 1 +
.../selftests/drivers/net/lib/sh/lib_netcons.sh | 17 ++
.../selftests/drivers/net/netcons_sysdata.sh | 167 +++++++++++++
5 files changed, 427 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 145702ca2544bf82c6b244a49163f603fbe746f4
change-id: 20241108-netcon_cpu-ce3917e88f4b
Best regards,
--
Breno Leitao <leitao(a)debian.org>
Support for 32-bit s390 is very easy to implement and useful for
testing. For example I used to test some generic compat_ptr() logic,
which is only testable on 32-bit s390.
The series depends on my other series
"selftests/nolibc: test kernel configuration cleanups".
(It's not a hard dependency, only a minor diff conflict)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux(a)weissschuh.net>
---
Changes in v2:
- Rebase unto nolibc-next
- Use 96 bytes of stack frame size
- Pick up Ack from Willy
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250122-nolibc-s390-v1-0-8c765f00e871@weissschuh…
---
Thomas Weißschuh (2):
selftests/nolibc: rename s390 to s390x
tools/nolibc: add support for 32-bit s390
tools/include/nolibc/arch-s390.h | 5 +++++
tools/include/nolibc/arch.h | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile | 10 ++++++++--
tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/run-tests.sh | 7 ++++++-
4 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: c1f4a7a84037249d086a4114c0c4332a260e9091
change-id: 20250122-nolibc-s390-e57141682c88
Best regards,
--
Thomas Weißschuh <linux(a)weissschuh.net>
This series expands the XDP TX metadata framework to allow user
applications to pass per packet 64-bit launch time directly to the kernel
driver, requesting launch time hardware offload support. The XDP TX
metadata framework will not perform any clock conversion or packet
reordering.
Please note that the role of Tx metadata is just to pass the launch time,
not to enable the offload feature. Users will need to enable the launch
time hardware offload feature of the device by using the respective
command, such as the tc-etf command.
Although some devices use the tc-etf command to enable their launch time
hardware offload feature, xsk packets will not go through the etf qdisc.
Therefore, in my opinion, the launch time should always be based on the PTP
Hardware Clock (PHC). Thus, i did not include a clock ID to indicate the
clock source.
To simplify the test steps, I modified the xdp_hw_metadata bpf self-test
tool in such a way that it will set the launch time based on the offset
provided by the user and the value of the Receive Hardware Timestamp, which
is against the PHC. This will eliminate the need to discipline System Clock
with the PHC and then use clock_gettime() to get the time.
Please note that AF_XDP lacks a feedback mechanism to inform the
application if the requested launch time is invalid. So, users are expected
to familiar with the horizon of the launch time of the device they use and
not request a launch time that is beyond the horizon. Otherwise, the driver
might interpret the launch time incorrectly and react wrongly. For stmmac
and igc, where modulo computation is used, a launch time larger than the
horizon will cause the device to transmit the packet earlier that the
requested launch time.
Although there is no feedback mechanism for the launch time request
for now, user still can check whether the requested launch time is
working or not, by requesting the Transmit Completion Hardware Timestamp.
V8:
- check the number of used descriptor in xsk_tx_metadata_request()
by using used_desc of struct igc_metadata_request, and then decreases
the budget with it (Maciej)
V7: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250204004907.789330-1-yoong.siang.song@int…
- split the refactoring code of igc empty packet insertion into a separate
commit (Faizal)
- add explanation on why the value "4" is used as igc transmit budget
(Faizal)
- perform a stress test by sending 1000 packets with 10ms interval and
launch time set to 500us in the future (Faizal & Yong Liang)
V6: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250116155350.555374-1-yoong.siang.song@int…
- fix selftest build errors by using asprintf() and realloc(), instead of
managing the buffer sizes manually (Daniel, Stanislav)
V5: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250114152718.120588-1-yoong.siang.song@int…
- change netdev feature name from tx-launch-time to tx-launch-time-fifo
to explicitly state the FIFO behaviour (Stanislav)
- improve the looping of xdp_hw_metadata app to wait for packet tx
completion to be more readable by using clock_gettime() (Stanislav)
- add launch time setup steps into xdp_hw_metadata app (Stanislav)
V4: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250106135506.9687-1-yoong.siang.song@intel…
- added XDP launch time support to the igc driver (Jesper & Florian)
- added per-driver launch time limitation on xsk-tx-metadata.rst (Jesper)
- added explanation on FIFO behavior on xsk-tx-metadata.rst (Jakub)
- added step to enable launch time in the commit message (Jesper & Willem)
- explicitly documented the type of launch_time and which clock source
it is against (Willem)
V3: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231203165129.1740512-1-yoong.siang.song@in…
- renamed to use launch time (Jesper & Willem)
- changed the default launch time in xdp_hw_metadata apps from 1s to 0.1s
because some NICs do not support such a large future time.
V2: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231201062421.1074768-1-yoong.siang.song@in…
- renamed to use Earliest TxTime First (Willem)
- renamed to use txtime (Willem)
V1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231130162028.852006-1-yoong.siang.song@int…
Song Yoong Siang (5):
xsk: Add launch time hardware offload support to XDP Tx metadata
selftests/bpf: Add launch time request to xdp_hw_metadata
net: stmmac: Add launch time support to XDP ZC
igc: Refactor empty packet insertion into a reusable function
igc: Add launch time support to XDP ZC
Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml | 4 +
Documentation/networking/xsk-tx-metadata.rst | 62 +++++++
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc.h | 1 +
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c | 94 +++++++---
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac.h | 2 +
.../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 13 ++
include/net/xdp_sock.h | 10 ++
include/net/xdp_sock_drv.h | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/if_xdp.h | 10 ++
include/uapi/linux/netdev.h | 3 +
net/core/netdev-genl.c | 2 +
net/xdp/xsk.c | 3 +
tools/include/uapi/linux/if_xdp.h | 10 ++
tools/include/uapi/linux/netdev.h | 3 +
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_hw_metadata.c | 168 +++++++++++++++++-
15 files changed, 359 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
--
2.34.1
The '-f' parameter is there to force the kernel to emit MPTCP FASTCLOSE
by closing the connection with unread bytes in the receive queue.
The xdisconnect() helper was used to stop the connection, but it does
more than that: it will shut it down, then wait before reconnecting to
the same address. This causes the mptcp_join's "fastclose test" to fail
all the time.
This failure is due to a recent change, with commit 218cc166321f
("selftests: mptcp: avoid spurious errors on disconnect"), but that went
unnoticed because the test is currently ignored. The recent modification
only shown an existing issue: xdisconnect() doesn't need to be used
here, only the shutdown() part is needed.
Fixes: 6bf41020b72b ("selftests: mptcp: update and extend fastclose test-cases")
Cc: stable(a)vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau <martineau(a)kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe(a)kernel.org>
---
Notes:
- The failure was not clearly visible on NIPA, because the results for
the two impacted sub-tests are currently ignored (unstable). Still,
it looks important to fix that, as this will help when the tests will
be improved not to be unstable any more.
---
tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.c b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.c
index 414addef9a4514c489ecd09249143fe0ce2af649..d240d02fa443a1cd802f0e705ab36db5c22063a8 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.c
@@ -1302,7 +1302,7 @@ int main_loop(void)
return ret;
if (cfg_truncate > 0) {
- xdisconnect(fd);
+ shutdown(fd, SHUT_WR);
} else if (--cfg_repeat > 0) {
xdisconnect(fd);
---
base-commit: 4241a702e0d0c2ca9364cfac08dbf134264962de
change-id: 20250204-net-mptcp-sft-conn-f-d1c14274ba66
Best regards,
--
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe(a)kernel.org>
When compiling selftests files under tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/ ,
some compiling errors and warnings will pop out as the following.
CC pidfd_fdinfo_test
pidfd_fdinfo_test.c: In function ‘child_fdinfo_nspid_test’:
pidfd_fdinfo_test.c:231:13: warning: implicit declaration of function \
‘mount’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
231 | r = mount(NULL, "/", NULL, MS_REC | MS_PRIVATE, 0);
| ^~~~~
pidfd_fdinfo_test.c:231:36: error: ‘MS_REC’ undeclared \
(first use in this function)
231 | r = mount(NULL, "/", NULL, MS_REC | MS_PRIVATE, 0);
| ^~~~~~
pidfd_fdinfo_test.c:231:36: note: each undeclared identifier is \
reported only once for each function it appears in
pidfd_fdinfo_test.c:231:45: error: ‘MS_PRIVATE’ undeclared \
(first use in this function); did you mean ‘MAP_PRIVATE’?
231 | r = mount(NULL, "/", NULL, MS_REC | MS_PRIVATE, 0);
| ^~~~~~~~~~
| MAP_PRIVATE
pidfd_fdinfo_test.c:237:15: warning: implicit declaration of function \
‘umount2’; did you mean ‘SYS_umount2’? \
[-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
237 | (void)umount2("/proc", MNT_DETACH);
| ^~~~~~~
| SYS_umount2
pidfd_fdinfo_test.c:237:32: error: ‘MNT_DETACH’ undeclared \
(first use in this function)
237 | (void)umount2("/proc", MNT_DETACH);
| ^~~~~~~~~~
make: *** [../lib.mk:222: \
~/linux/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_fdinfo_test] Error 1
Solve these errors and warnings by including header file <sys/mount.h>.
Signed-off-by: I Hsin Cheng <richard120310(a)gmail.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_fdinfo_test.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_fdinfo_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_fdinfo_test.c
index f062a986e..f718aac75 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_fdinfo_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_fdinfo_test.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <syscall.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <sys/mount.h>
#include "pidfd.h"
#include "../kselftest.h"
--
2.43.0