linux/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl, branch v6.8

net: increase optmem_max default value

2023-12-15T11:01:26Z

For many years, /proc/sys/net/core/optmem_max default value on a 64bit kernel has been 20 KB. Regular usage of TCP tx zerocopy needs a bit more. Google has used 128KB as the default value for 7 years without any problem. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge tag 'docs-6.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2023-11-02T03:11:41Z

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "The number of commits for documentation is not huge this time around, but there are some significant changes nonetheless: - Some more Spanish-language and Chinese translations - The much-discussed documentation of the confidential-computing threat model - Powerpc and RISCV documentation move under Documentation/arch - these complete this particular bit of documentation churn - A large traditional-Chinese documentation update - A new document on backporting and conflict resolution - Some kernel-doc and Sphinx fixes Plus the usual smattering of smaller updates and typo fixes" * tag 'docs-6.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (40 commits) scripts/kernel-doc: Fix the regex for matching -Werror flag docs: backporting: address feedback Documentation: driver-api: pps: Update PPS generator documentation speakup: Document USB support doc: blk-ioprio: Bring the doc in line with the implementation docs: usb: fix reference to nonexistent file in UVC Gadget docs: doc-guide: mention 'make refcheckdocs' Documentation: fix typo in dynamic-debug howto scripts/kernel-doc: match -Werror flag strictly Documentation/sphinx: Remove the repeated word "the" in comments. docs: sparse: add SPDX-License-Identifier docs/zh_CN: Add subsystem-apis Chinese translation docs/zh_TW: update contents for zh_TW docs: submitting-patches: encourage direct notifications to commenters docs: add backporting and conflict resolution document docs: move riscv under arch docs: update link to powerpc/vmemmap_dedup.rst mm/memory-hotplug: fix typo in documentation docs: move powerpc under arch PCI: Update the devres documentation regarding to pcim_*() ...

Merge tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

2023-11-02T01:28:33Z

Pull ia64 removal and asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann: - The ia64 architecture gets its well-earned retirement as planned, now that there is one last (mostly) working release that will be maintained as an LTS kernel. - The architecture specific system call tables are updated for the added map_shadow_stack() syscall and to remove references to the long-gone sys_lookup_dcookie() syscall. * tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: hexagon: Remove unusable symbols from the ptrace.h uapi asm-generic: Fix spelling of architecture arch: Reserve map_shadow_stack() syscall number for all architectures syscalls: Cleanup references to sys_lookup_dcookie() Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64 lib/raid6: Drop IA64 support Documentation: Drop IA64 from feature descriptions kernel: Drop IA64 support from sig_fault handlers arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture

Merge tag 'net-next-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2023-10-31T15:10:11Z

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols: - Support usec resolution of TCP timestamps, enabled selectively by a route attribute. - Defer regular TCP ACK while processing socket backlog, try to send a cumulative ACK at the end. Increase single TCP flow performance on a 200Gbit NIC by 20% (100Gbit -> 120Gbit). - The Fair Queuing (FQ) packet scheduler: - add built-in 3 band prio / WRR scheduling - support bypass if the qdisc is mostly idle (5% speed up for TCP RR) - improve inactive flow reporting - optimize the layout of structures for better cache locality - Support TCP Authentication Option (RFC 5925, TCP-AO), a more modern replacement for the old MD5 option. - Add more retransmission timeout (RTO) related statistics to TCP_INFO. - Support sending fragmented skbs over vsock sockets. - Make sure we send SIGPIPE for vsock sockets if socket was shutdown(). - Add sysctl for ignoring lower limit on lifetime in Router Advertisement PIO, based on an in-progress IETF draft. - Add sysctl to control activation of TCP ping-pong mode. - Add sysctl to make connection timeout in MPTCP configurable. - Support rcvlowat and notsent_lowat on MPTCP sockets, to help apps limit the number of wakeups. - Support netlink GET for MDB (multicast forwarding), allowing user space to request a single MDB entry instead of dumping the entire table. - Support selective FDB flushing in the VXLAN tunnel driver. - Allow limiting learned FDB entries in bridges, prevent OOM attacks. - Allow controlling via configfs netconsole targets which were created via the kernel cmdline at boot, rather than via configfs at runtime. - Support multiple PTP timestamp event queue readers with different filters. - MCTP over I3C. BPF: - Add new veth-like netdevice where BPF program defines the logic of the xmit routine. It can operate in L3 and L2 mode. - Support exceptions - allow asserting conditions which should never be true but are hard for the verifier to infer. With some extra flexibility around handling of the exit / failure: https://lwn.net/Articles/938435/ - Add support for local per-cpu kptr, allow allocating and storing per-cpu objects in maps. Access to those objects operates on the value for the current CPU. This allows to deprecate local one-off implementations of per-CPU storage like BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_CGROUP_STORAGE maps. - Extend cgroup BPF sockaddr hooks for UNIX sockets. The use case is for systemd to re-implement the LogNamespace feature which allows running multiple instances of systemd-journald to process the logs of different services. - Enable open-coded task_vma iteration, after maple tree conversion made it hard to directly walk VMAs in tracing programs. - Add open-coded task, css_task and css iterator support. One of the use cases is customizable OOM victim selection via BPF. - Allow source address selection with bpf_*_fib_lookup(). - Add ability to pin BPF timer to the current CPU. - Prevent creation of infinite loops by combining tail calls and fentry/fexit programs. - Add missed stats for kprobes to retrieve the number of missed kprobe executions and subsequent executions of BPF programs. - Inherit system settings for CPU security mitigations. - Add BPF v4 CPU instruction support for arm32 and s390x. Changes to common code: - overflow: add DEFINE_FLEX() for on-stack definition of structs with flexible array members. - Process doc update with more guidance for reviewers. Driver API: - Simplify locking in WiFi (cfg80211 and mac80211 layers), use wiphy mutex in most places and remove a lot of smaller locks. - Create a common DPLL configuration API. Allow configuring and querying state of PLL circuits used for clock syntonization, in network time distribution. - Unify fragmented and full page allocation APIs in page pool code. Let drivers be ignorant of PAGE_SIZE. - Rework PHY state machine to avoid races with calls to phy_stop(). - Notify DSA drivers of MAC address changes on user ports, improve correctness of offloads which depend on matching port MAC addresses. - Allow antenna control on injected WiFi frames. - Reduce the number of variants of napi_schedule(). - Simplify error handling when composing devlink health messages. Misc: - A lot of KCSAN data race "fixes", from Eric. - A lot of __counted_by() annotations, from Kees. - A lot of strncpy -> strscpy and printf format fixes. - Replace master/slave terminology with conduit/user in DSA drivers. - Handful of KUnit tests for netdev and WiFi core. Removed: - AppleTalk COPS. - AppleTalk ipddp. - TI AR7 CPMAC Ethernet driver. Drivers: - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - add a driver for the Intel E2000 IPUs - make CRC/FCS stripping configurable - cross-timestamping for E823 devices - basic support for E830 devices - use aux-bus for managing client drivers - i40e: report firmware versions via devlink - nVidia/Mellanox: - support 4-port NICs - increase max number of channels to 256 - optimize / parallelize SF creation flow - Broadcom (bnxt): - enhance NIC temperature reporting - support PAM4 speeds and lane configuration - Marvell OcteonTX2: - PTP pulse-per-second output support - enable hardware timestamping for VFs - Solarflare/AMD: - conntrack NAT offload and offload for tunnels - Wangxun (ngbe/txgbe): - expose HW statistics - Pensando/AMD: - support PCI level reset - narrow down the condition under which skbs are linearized - Netronome/Corigine (nfp): - support CHACHA20-POLY1305 crypto in IPsec offload - Ethernet NICs embedded, slower, virtual: - Synopsys (stmmac): - add Loongson-1 SoC support - enable use of HW queues with no offload capabilities - enable PPS input support on all 5 channels - increase TX coalesce timer to 5ms - RealTek USB (r8152): improve efficiency of Rx by using GRO frags - xen: support SW packet timestamping - add drivers for implementations based on TI's PRUSS (AM64x EVM) - nVidia/Mellanox Ethernet datacenter switches: - avoid poor HW resource use on Spectrum-4 by better block selection for IPv6 multicast forwarding and ordering of blocks in ACL region - Ethernet embedded switches: - Microchip: - support configuring the drive strength for EMI compliance - ksz9477: partial ACL support - ksz9477: HSR offload - ksz9477: Wake on LAN - Realtek: - rtl8366rb: respect device tree config of the CPU port - Ethernet PHYs: - support Broadcom BCM5221 PHYs - TI dp83867: support hardware LED blinking - CAN: - add support for Linux-PHY based CAN transceivers - at91_can: clean up and use rx-offload helpers - WiFi: - MediaTek (mt76): - new sub-driver for mt7925 USB/PCIe devices - HW wireless <> Ethernet bridging in MT7988 chips - mt7603/mt7628 stability improvements - Qualcomm (ath12k): - WCN7850: - enable 320 MHz channels in 6 GHz band - hardware rfkill support - enable IEEE80211_HW_SINGLE_SCAN_ON_ALL_BANDS to make scan faster - read board data variant name from SMBIOS - QCN9274: mesh support - RealTek (rtw89): - TDMA-based multi-channel concurrency (MCC) - Silicon Labs (wfx): - Remain-On-Channel (ROC) support - Bluetooth: - ISO: many improvements for broadcast support - mark BCM4378/BCM4387 as BROKEN_LE_CODED - add support for QCA2066 - btmtksdio: enable Bluetooth wakeup from suspend" * tag 'net-next-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1816 commits) net: pcs: xpcs: Add 2500BASE-X case in get state for XPCS drivers net: bpf: Use sockopt_lock_sock() in ip_sock_set_tos() net: mana: Use xdp_set_features_flag instead of direct assignment vxlan: Cleanup IFLA_VXLAN_PORT_RANGE entry in vxlan_get_size() iavf: delete the iavf client interface iavf: add a common function for undoing the interrupt scheme iavf: use unregister_netdev iavf: rely on netdev's own registered state iavf: fix the waiting time for initial reset iavf: in iavf_down, don't queue watchdog_task if comms failed iavf: simplify mutex_trylock+sleep loops iavf: fix comments about old bit locks doc/netlink: Update schema to support cmd-cnt-name and cmd-max-name tools: ynl: introduce option to process unknown attributes or types ipvlan: properly track tx_errors netdevsim: Block until all devices are released nfp: using napi_build_skb() to replace build_skb() net: dsa: microchip: ksz9477: Fix spelling mistake "Enery" -> "Energy" net: dsa: microchip: Ensure Stable PME Pin State for Wake-on-LAN net: dsa: microchip: Refactor switch shutdown routine for WoL preparation ...

docs: mm: fix vm overcommit documentation for OVERCOMMIT_GUESS

2023-10-10T19:35:55Z

Commit 8c7829b04c52 "mm: fix false-positive OVERCOMMIT_GUESS failures" changed the behavior of the default OVERCOMMIT_GUESS setting. Reflect the change also in the Documentation, namely files: Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst Documentation/mm/overcommit-accounting.rst Reported-by: Jozef Bacik Signed-off-by: Vratislav Bendel Acked-by: Mike Rapoport Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220829124638.63748-1-vbendel@redhat.com

sched/topology: Change behaviour of the 'sched_energy_aware' sysctl, based on the platform

2023-10-09T15:24:44Z

The 'sched_energy_aware' sysctl is available for the admin to disable/enable energy aware scheduling(EAS). EAS is enabled only if few conditions are met by the platform. They are, asymmetric CPU capacity, no SMT, schedutil CPUfreq governor, frequency invariant load tracking etc. A platform may boot without EAS capability, but could gain such capability at runtime. For example, changing/registering the cpufreq governor to schedutil. At present, though platform doesn't support EAS, this sysctl returns 1 and it ends up calling build_perf_domains on write to 1 and NOP when writing to 0. That is confusing and un-necessary. Desired behavior would be to have this sysctl to enable/disable the EAS on supported platform. On non-supported platform write to the sysctl would return not supported error and read of the sysctl would return empty. So sched_energy_aware returns empty - EAS is not possible at this moment This will include EAS capable platforms which have at least one EAS condition false during startup, e.g. not using the schedutil cpufreq governor sched_energy_aware returns 0 - EAS is supported but disabled by admin. sched_energy_aware returns 1 - EAS is supported and enabled. User can find out the reason why EAS is not possible by checking info messages. sched_is_eas_possible returns true if the platform can do EAS at this moment. Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Tested-by: Pierre Gondois Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231009060037.170765-3-sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com

docs: admin-guide: sysctl: fix details of struct dentry_stat_t

2023-10-03T15:25:55Z

Commit c8c0c239d5ab moved struct dentry_stat_t to fs/dcache.c but did not update its location in Documentation, so update that now. Also change each struct member from int to long as done in commit 3942c07ccf98. Fixes: c8c0c239d5ab ("fs: move dcache sysctls to its own file") Fixes: 3942c07ccf98 ("fs: bump inode and dentry counters to long") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Glauber Costa Acked-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230923195144.26043-1-rdunlap@infradead.org

bpf, docs: Add loongarch64 as arch supporting BPF JIT

2023-09-21T22:30:09Z

As BPF JIT support for loongarch64 was added about one year ago with commit 5dc615520c4d ("LoongArch: Add BPF JIT support"), it is appropriate to add loongarch64 as arch supporting BPF JIT in bpf and sysctl docs as well. Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1695111937-19697-1-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau

Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64

2023-09-11T08:13:18Z

Drop or update mentions of IA64, as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel

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

2023-09-09T04:32:28Z

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