In 'brcmf_cfg80211_start_ap()', not assume that
NL80211_HIDDEN_SSID_NOT_IN_USE is zero but prefer
an explicit check instead. Compile tested only.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Berezhok <a@bayrepo.ru>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240208085121.2430-1-a@bayrepo.ru
Document
ATWILC1000/ATWILC3000
Baremetal Wi-Fi/BLE Link Controller Software Design Guide
https://tinyurl.com/yer2xhyc
says that bit 0 of the CRC7 code must always be a 1.
I confirmed that today with a logic analyzer: setting bit 0 causes
wilc1000 to accept a command with CRC7 enabled, whereas clearing bit 0
causes wilc1000 to reject the command with a CRC error.
Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@egauge.net>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240207050736.2717641-1-davidm@egauge.net
During mac80211 reconfig, chanctx ops of multiple channels might not
be called in order as normal cases. However, we expect the first active
chanctx always to be put at our sub entity index 0. So, if it does not,
we do a swap there. Besides, reconfig won't allocate a new chanctx object.
So, we should reset the reference count when ops add chanctx.
Signed-off-by: Zong-Zhe Yang <kevin_yang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240206030624.23382-7-pkshih@realtek.com
After MLO, we will need to consider not only active chanctx but also active
interfaces (roles) to decide entity things. So in advance, we move handling
from chanctx_ops::add/remove to chanctx_ops::assign_vif/unassign_vif. Then,
we can recalculate and aware active interfaces' changes.
For now, behavior should not be really different, since active chanctx and
active interface are one-to-one mapping before MLO.
Signed-off-by: Zong-Zhe Yang <kevin_yang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240206030624.23382-6-pkshih@realtek.com
Originally, we consider weight only based on how many chanctxs that
mac80211 sets. However, we need to consider both active chanctxs and
active interfaces to distinguish MCC (multiple channel concurrent)
from impending MLO.
Although the logic of handling is extended, for now, behavior might
not be different under current condition.
Signed-off-by: Zong-Zhe Yang <kevin_yang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240206030624.23382-5-pkshih@realtek.com
Originally, we just declared two sub-entity, and according to rolling
down mechanism, we ensured that index 0 contained sub-entity as long
as there are sub-entity. So, we could use for-loop after deciding the
last index.
But, we are preparing to expand num of sub-entity for MLO. Then, there
won't be just two sub-entity. And, there might be holes between two bits
in the bitmap. So, we cannot simply do for-loop as before. Instead, we
need to follow the set bits.
Signed-off-by: Zong-Zhe Yang <kevin_yang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240206030624.23382-4-pkshih@realtek.com
Some of our calculation during concurrent mode depend on last beacon
TSF. Originally, we just set IEEE80211_HW_TIMING_BEACON_ONLY and get
what we want from mac80211. But, IEEE80211_HW_TIMING_BEACON_ONLY will
be restricted once we declare MLO.
Since we are about to consider the MLO stuffs, so sync beacon TSF by
ourselves now and unset IEEE80211_HW_TIMING_BEACON_ONLY.
Signed-off-by: Zong-Zhe Yang <kevin_yang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240206030624.23382-2-pkshih@realtek.com
WILC driver currently applies some default configuration whenever the firmware
is initialized, and sets the default preamble size to short. However, despite
this passed option, firmware is also able to successfully connect to access
points only using long preamble, so this setting does not really enforce short
preambles and is misleading regarding applied configuration.
Update default configuration and make it match the firmware behavior by passing
the existing WILC_FW_PREAMBLE_AUTO value (2 instead of 0). The updated setting
does not really alter firmware behavior since it is still capable to connect to
both short preamble and long preamble access points, but at list the setting now
expresses for real the corresponding firmware behavior.
More info: it has been implemented to address the transmission (Tx) blackout
issue observed in the 802.11b mode. The modification has no impact on the other
modes, which will continue to work as they did in the previous implementation.
This change will allow the 802.11b transmission (2, 5.5, 11Mbps) to use long
preamble.
Signed-off-by: Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexis Lothoré <alexis.lothore@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240115-wilc_1000_fixes-v1-1-54d29463a738@bootlin.com
Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:
- Fix performance regression introduced by moving the security
permission hook out of do_clone_file_range() and into its caller
vfs_clone_file_range().
This causes the security hook to be called in situation were it
wasn't called before as the fast permission checks were left in
do_clone_file_range().
Fix this by merging the two implementations back together and
restoring the old ordering: fast permission checks first, expensive
ones later.
- Tweak mount_setattr() permission checking so that mount properties on
the real rootfs can be changed.
When we added mount_setattr() we added additional checks compared to
legacy mount(2). If the mount had a parent then verify that the
caller and the mount namespace the mount is attached to match and if
not make sure that it's an anonymous mount.
But the real rootfs falls into neither category. It is neither an
anoymous mount because it is obviously attached to the initial mount
namespace but it also obviously doesn't have a parent mount. So that
means legacy mount(2) allows changing mount properties on the real
rootfs but mount_setattr(2) blocks this. This causes regressions (See
the commit for details).
Fix this by relaxing the check. If the mount has a parent or if it
isn't a detached mount, verify that the mount namespaces of the
caller and the mount are the same. Technically, we could probably
write this even simpler and check that the mount namespaces match if
it isn't a detached mount. But the slightly longer check makes it
clearer what conditions one needs to think about.
* tag 'vfs-6.8-rc5.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
fs: relax mount_setattr() permission checks
remap_range: merge do_clone_file_range() into vfs_clone_file_range()
During the cache sync test we verify that values we expect to have been
written only to the cache do not appear in the hardware. This works most
of the time but since we randomly generate both the original and new values
there is a low probability that these values may actually be the same.
Wrap get_random_bytes() to ensure that the values are different, there
are other tests which should have similar verification that we actually
changed something.
While we're at it refactor the test to use three changed values rather
than attempting to use one of them twice, that just complicates checking
that our new values are actually new.
We use random generation to try to avoid data dependencies in the tests.
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Link: https://msgid.link/r/20240211-regmap-kunit-random-change-v3-1-e387a9ea4468@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
MCSPI controller have few limitations regarding the transaction
size when the FIFO buffer is enabled and the WCNT feature is used
to find the end of word, in this case if WCNT is not a multiple of
the FIFO Almost Empty Level (AEL), then the FIFO empty event is not
generated correctly. In addition to this limitation, few other unknown
sequence of events that causes the FIFO empty status to not reflect the
exact status were found when FIFO is being used without DMA enabled
during extended testing in AM65x platform. Till the exact root cause
is found and fixed, revert the FIFO support without DMA.
See J721E Technical Reference Manual (SPRUI1C), section 12.1.5
for further details: http://www.ti.com/lit/pdf/spruil1
This reverts commit 75223bbea8 ("spi: omap2-mcspi: Add FIFO support
without DMA")
Signed-off-by: Vaishnav Achath <vaishnav.a@ti.com>
Link: https://msgid.link/r/20240212120049.438495-1-vaishnav.a@ti.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Eric Dumazet says:
====================
net: avoid slow rcu synchronizations in cleanup_net()
RTNL is a contended mutex, we prefer to expedite rcu synchronizations
in contexts we hold RTNL.
Similarly, cleanup_net() is a single threaded critical component and
should also use synchronize_rcu_expedited() even when not holding RTNL.
First patch removes a barrier with no clear purpose in ipv6_mc_down()
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
nf_conntrack_cleanup_net_list() is calling synchronize_net()
while RTNL is not held. This effectively calls synchronize_rcu().
synchronize_rcu() is much slower than synchronize_rcu_expedited(),
and cleanup_net() is currently single threaded. In many workloads
we want cleanup_net() to be faster, in order to free memory and various
sysfs and procfs entries as fast as possible.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
cleanup_net() is calling synchronize_rcu() right before
acquiring RTNL.
synchronize_rcu() is much slower than synchronize_rcu_expedited(),
and cleanup_net() is currently single threaded. In many workloads
we want cleanup_net() to be fast, in order to free memory and various
sysfs and procfs entries as fast as possible.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
tnode_free() should use synchronize_net()
instead of syncronize_rcu() to release RTNL sooner.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
br_vlan_flush() and nbp_vlan_flush() should use synchronize_net()
instead of syncronize_rcu() to release RTNL sooner.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
dev_change_name() holds RTNL, we better use synchronize_net()
instead of plain synchronize_rcu().
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
As discussed in the past (commit 2d3916f318 ("ipv6: fix skb drops
in igmp6_event_query() and igmp6_event_report()")) I think the
synchronize_net() call in ipv6_mc_down() is not needed.
Under load, synchronize_net() can last between 200 usec and 5 ms.
KASAN seems to agree as well.
Fixes: f185de28d9 ("mld: add new workqueues for process mld events")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-statistics documentation
is pointing to the wrong path for the interface. Documentation is
pointing to /sys/class/<iface>, instead of /sys/class/net/<iface>.
Fix it by adding the `net/` directory before the interface.
Fixes: 6044f97006 ("net: sysfs: document /sys/class/net/statistics/*")
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Suraj Jaiswal says:
====================
Ethernet common fault IRQ support
Changes since v13:
- Update correct sender email
Changes since v12:
- Update correct sender email
Changes since v11:
- Update debug message print
Changes since v10:
- Update commit message
Changes since v9:
- prevent race condition of safety IRQ handling
Changes since v8:
- Use shared IRQ for sfty
- update error message
Changes since v7:
- Add support of common sfty irq on stmmac_request_irq_multi_msi.
- Remove uncecessary blank line.
Changes since v6:
- use name sfty_irq instead of safety_common_irq.
Changes since v5:
- Add description of ECC, DPP, FSM
Changes since v4:
- Fix DT_CHECKER warning
- use name safety for the IRQ.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add support to listen HW safety IRQ like ECC(error
correction code), DPP(data path parity), FSM(finite state
machine) fault in common IRQ line.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jaiswal <quic_jsuraj@quicinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add binding doc for safety IRQ. The safety IRQ will be
triggered for ECC(error correction code), DPP(data path
parity), FSM(finite state machine) error.
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jaiswal <quic_jsuraj@quicinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The #ifdef check around the function definition for two functions was
changed without also changing the one on the declaration:
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/uefi.c:359:6: error: redefinition of 'iwl_uefi_get_sgom_table'
359 | void iwl_uefi_get_sgom_table(struct iwl_trans *trans,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/uefi.c:11:
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/uefi.h:294:6: note: previous definition of 'iwl_uefi_get_sgom_table' with type 'void(struct iwl_trans *, struct iwl_fw_runtime *)'
294 | void iwl_uefi_get_sgom_table(struct iwl_trans *trans, struct iwl_fw_runtime *fwrt)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/uefi.c:392:5: error: redefinition of 'iwl_uefi_get_uats_table'
392 | int iwl_uefi_get_uats_table(struct iwl_trans *trans,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/uefi.h:299:5: note: previous definition of 'iwl_uefi_get_uats_table' with type 'int(struct iwl_trans *, struct iwl_fw_runtime *)'
299 | int iwl_uefi_get_uats_table(struct iwl_trans *trans,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Adapt it by merging the declarations into the existing #ifdef block.
Fixes: 74f4cd7107 ("wifi: iwlwifi: take SGOM and UATS code out of ACPI ifdef")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240212112343.1148931-1-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The reported bug is caused by using mii_eee_cap1_mod_linkmode_t()
with an uninitialized bitmap. Fix this by zero-initializing the
struct containing the bitmap.
Fixes: 9bc791341b ("tg3: convert EEE handling to use linkmode bitmaps")
Reported-by: Srikanth Aithal <sraithal@amd.com>
Tested-by: Srikanth Aithal <sraithal@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavan Chebbi <pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca says:
====================
net: dsa: realtek: variants to drivers, interfaces to a common module
The current driver consists of two interface modules (SMI and MDIO) and
two family/variant modules (RTL8365MB and RTL8366RB). The SMI and MDIO
modules serve as the platform and MDIO drivers, respectively, calling
functions from the variant modules. In this setup, one interface module
can be loaded independently of the other, but both variants must be
loaded (if not disabled at build time) for any type of interface. This
approach doesn't scale well, especially with the addition of more switch
variants (e.g., RTL8366B), leading to loaded but unused modules.
Additionally, this also seems upside down, as the specific driver code
normally depends on the more generic functions and not the other way
around.
Each variant module was converted into real drivers, serving as both a
platform driver (for switches connected using the SMI interface) and an
MDIO driver (for MDIO-connected switches). The relationship between the
variant and interface modules is reversed, with the variant module now
calling both interface functions (if not disabled at build time). While
in most devices only one interface is likely used, the interface code is
significantly smaller than a variant module, consuming fewer resources
than the previous code. With variant modules now functioning as real
drivers, compatible strings are published only in a single variant
module, preventing conflicts.
The patch series introduces a new common module for functions shared by
both variants. This module also absorbs the two previous interface
modules, as they would always be loaded anyway.
The series relocates the user MII driver from realtek-smi to rtl83xx. It
is now used by MDIO-connected switches instead of the generic DSA
driver. There's a change in how this driver locates the MDIO node. It
now only searches for a child node named "mdio".
The dsa_switch in realtek_priv->ds is now embedded in the struct. It is
always in use and avoids dynamic memory allocation.
Testing has been performed with an RTL8367S (rtl8365mb) using MDIO
interface and an RTL8366RB (rtl8366) with SMI interface.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The realtek-mdio will now use this driver instead of the generic DSA
driver ("dsa user smi"), which should not be used with OF[1].
With a single ds_ops for both interfaces, the ds_ops in realtek_priv is
no longer necessary. Now, the realtek_variant.ds_ops can be used
directly.
The realtek_priv.setup_interface() has been removed as we can directly
call the new common function.
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/netdev/20220630200423.tieprdu5fpabflj7@bang-olufsen.dk/T/
Signed-off-by: Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In the user MDIO driver, despite numerous references to SMI, including
its compatible string, there's nothing inherently specific about the SMI
interface in the user MDIO bus. Consequently, the code has been migrated
to the rtl83xx module. All references to SMI have been eliminated.
The MDIO bus id was changed from Realtek-<switch id> to the switch
devname suffixed with :user_mii, giving more information about the bus
it is referencing.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Remove the line assigning dev.of_node in mdio_bus as subsequent
of_mdiobus_register will always overwrite it.
As discussed in [1], allow the DSA core to be simplified, by not
assigning ds->user_mii_bus when the MDIO bus is described in OF, as it
is unnecessary.
Since commit 3b73a7b8ec ("net: mdio_bus: add refcounting for fwnodes
to mdiobus"), we can put the "mdio" node just after the MDIO bus
registration.
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/netdev/20231213120656.x46fyad6ls7sqyzv@skbuf/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The binding docs requires for SMI-connected devices that the switch
must have a child node named "mdio" and with a compatible string of
"realtek,smi-mdio". Meanwile, for MDIO-connected switches, the binding
docs only requires a child node named "mdio".
This patch changes the driver to use the common denominator for both
interfaces, looking for the MDIO node by name, ignoring the compatible
string.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Some code can be shared between both interface modules (MDIO and SMI)
and among variants. These interface functions migrated to a common
module:
- rtl83xx_lock
- rtl83xx_unlock
- rtl83xx_probe
- rtl83xx_register_switch
- rtl83xx_unregister_switch
- rtl83xx_shutdown
- rtl83xx_remove
The reset during probe was moved to the end of the common probe. This way,
we avoid a reset if anything else fails.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Instead of copying values from the variant, we can keep a reference in
realtek_priv.
This is a preliminary change for sharing code betwen interfaces. It will
allow to move most of the probe into a common module while still allow
code specific to each interface to read variant fields.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Previously, the interface modules realtek-smi and realtek-mdio served as
a platform and an MDIO driver, respectively. Each interface module
redundantly specified the same compatible strings for both variants and
referenced symbols from the variants.
Now, each variant module has been transformed into a unified driver
serving both as a platform and an MDIO driver. This modification
reverses the relationship between the interface and variant modules,
with the variant module now utilizing symbols from the interface
modules.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
TSO and TBS cannot co-exist. TBS requires special descriptor to be
allocated at bootup. Initialising Tx queues at probe to support
TSO and TBS can help in allocating those resources at bootup.
TX queues with TBS can support etf qdisc hw offload.
This is similar to the patch raised by NXP
commit 3b12ec8f61 ("net: stmmac: dwmac-imx: set TSO/TBS TX queues default settings")
Tested-by: Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@redhat.com> # sa8775p-ride
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Chauhan <quic_abchauha@quicinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Kui-Feng Lee says:
====================
Remove expired routes with a separated list of routes.
This patchset is resent due to previous reverting. [1]
FIB6 GC walks trees of fib6_tables to remove expired routes. Walking a tree
can be expensive if the number of routes in a table is big, even if most of
them are permanent. Checking routes in a separated list of routes having
expiration will avoid this potential issue.
Background
==========
The size of a Linux IPv6 routing table can become a big problem if not
managed appropriately. Now, Linux has a garbage collector to remove
expired routes periodically. However, this may lead to a situation in
which the routing path is blocked for a long period due to an
excessive number of routes.
For example, years ago, there is a commit c7bb4b8903 ("ipv6: tcp:
drop silly ICMPv6 packet too big messages"). The root cause is that
malicious ICMPv6 packets were sent back for every small packet sent to
them. These packets add routes with an expiration time that prompts
the GC to periodically check all routes in the tables, including
permanent ones.
Why Route Expires
=================
Users can add IPv6 routes with an expiration time manually. However,
the Neighbor Discovery protocol may also generate routes that can
expire. For example, Router Advertisement (RA) messages may create a
default route with an expiration time. [RFC 4861] For IPv4, it is not
possible to set an expiration time for a route, and there is no RA, so
there is no need to worry about such issues.
Create Routes with Expires
==========================
You can create routes with expires with the command.
For example,
ip -6 route add 2001:b000:591::3 via fe80::5054:ff:fe12:3457 \
dev enp0s3 expires 30
The route that has been generated will be deleted automatically in 30
seconds.
GC of FIB6
==========
The function called fib6_run_gc() is responsible for performing
garbage collection (GC) for the Linux IPv6 stack. It checks for the
expiration of every route by traversing the trees of routing
tables. The time taken to traverse a routing table increases with its
size. Holding the routing table lock during traversal is particularly
undesirable. Therefore, it is preferable to keep the lock for the
shortest possible duration.
Solution
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The cause of the issue is keeping the routing table locked during the
traversal of large trees. To solve this problem, we can create a separate
list of routes that have expiration. This will prevent GC from checking
permanent routes.
Result
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We conducted a test to measure the execution times of fib6_gc_timer_cb()
and observed that it enhances the GC of FIB6. During the test, we added
permanent routes with the following numbers: 1000, 3000, 6000, and
9000. Additionally, we added a route with an expiration time.
Here are the average execution times for the kernel without the patch.
- 120020 ns with 1000 permanent routes
- 308920 ns with 3000 ...
- 581470 ns with 6000 ...
- 855310 ns with 9000 ...
The kernel with the patch consistently takes around 14000 ns to execute,
regardless of the number of permanent routes that are installed.
Majro changes from v5:
- Force syncrhonize GC before query expired routes with
"sysctl -wq net.ipv6.route.flush=1".
Major changes from v4:
- Fix the comment of fib6_add_gc_list().
Major changes from v3:
- Move the checks of f6i->fib6_node to fib6_add_gc_list().
- Make spin_lock_bh() and spin_unlock_bh() stands out.
- Explain the reason of the changes in the commit message of the
patch 4.
Major changes from v2:
- Refactory the boilerplate checks in the test case.
- check_rt_num() and check_rt_num_clean()
Major changes from v1:
- Reduce the numbers of routes (5) in the test cases to work with
slow environments. Due to the failure on patchwork.
- Remove systemd related commands in the test case.
Major changes from the previous patchset [2]:
- Split helpers.
- fib6_set_expires() -> fib6_set_expires() and fib6_add_gc_list().
- fib6_clean_expires() -> fib6_clean_expires() and
fib6_remove_gc_list().
- Fix rt6_add_dflt_router() to avoid racing of setting expires.
- Remove unnecessary calling to fib6_clean_expires() in
ip6_route_info_create().
- Add test cases of toggling routes between permanent and temporary
and handling routes from RA messages.
- Clean up routes by deleting the existing device and adding a new
one.
- Fix a potential issue in modify_prefix_route().
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add tests of changing permanent routes to temporary routes and the reversed
case to make sure GC working correctly in these cases. Add tests for the
temporary routes from RA.
The existing device will be deleted between tests to remove all routes
associated with it, so that the earlier tests don't mess up the later ones.
Reviewed-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kui-Feng Lee <thinker.li@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
