Some unit tests intentionally trigger warning backtraces by passing bad
parameters to kernel API functions. Such unit tests typically check the
return value from such calls, not the existence of the warning backtrace.
Such intentionally generated warning backtraces are neither desirable
nor useful for a number of reasons.
- They can result in overlooked real problems.
- A warning that suddenly starts to show up in unit tests needs to be
investigated and has to be marked to be ignored, for example by
adjusting filter scripts. Such filters are ad-hoc because there is
no real standard format for warnings. On top of that, such filter
scripts would require constant maintenance.
One option to address problem would be to add messages such as "expected
warning backtraces start / end here" to the kernel log. However, that
would again require filter scripts, it might result in missing real
problematic warning backtraces triggered while the test is running, and
the irrelevant backtrace(s) would still clog the kernel log.
Solve the problem by providing a means to identify and suppress specific
warning backtraces while executing test code. Support suppressing multiple
backtraces while at the same time limiting changes to generic code to the
absolute minimum. Architecture specific changes are kept at minimum by
retaining function names only if both CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE and
CONFIG_KUNIT are enabled.
The first patch of the series introduces the necessary infrastructure.
The second patch introduces support for counting suppressed backtraces.
This capability is used in patch three to implement unit tests.
Patch four documents the new API.
The next two patches add support for suppressing backtraces in drm_rect
and dev_addr_lists unit tests. These patches are intended to serve as
examples for the use of the functionality introduced with this series.
The remaining patches implement the necessary changes for all
architectures with GENERIC_BUG support.
With CONFIG_KUNIT enabled, image size increase with this series applied is
approximately 1%. The image size increase (and with it the functionality
introduced by this series) can be avoided by disabling
CONFIG_KUNIT_SUPPRESS_BACKTRACE.
This series is based on the RFC patch and subsequent discussion at
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-kselftest/patch/02546e59-1afe-4b…
and offers a more comprehensive solution of the problem discussed there.
Design note:
Function pointers are only added to the __bug_table section if both
CONFIG_KUNIT_SUPPRESS_BACKTRACE and CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE are enabled
to avoid image size increases if CONFIG_KUNIT is disabled. There would be
some benefits to adding those pointers all the time (reduced complexity,
ability to display function names in BUG/WARNING messages). That change,
if desired, can be made later.
Checkpatch note:
Remaining checkpatch errors and warnings were deliberately ignored.
Some are triggered by matching coding style or by comments interpreted
as code, others by assembler macros which are disliked by checkpatch.
Suggestions for improvements are welcome.
Changes since RFC:
- Introduced CONFIG_KUNIT_SUPPRESS_BACKTRACE
- Minor cleanups and bug fixes
- Added support for all affected architectures
- Added support for counting suppressed warnings
- Added unit tests using those counters
- Added patch to suppress warning backtraces in dev_addr_lists tests
Changes since v1:
- Rebased to v6.9-rc1
- Added Tested-by:, Acked-by:, and Reviewed-by: tags
[I retained those tags since there have been no functional changes]
- Introduced KUNIT_SUPPRESS_BACKTRACE configuration option, enabled by
default.
Dear Linux folks,
Running the selftests in a QEMU q35 VM, they hang.
```
$ make kselftest
[…]
ok 6 selftests: pidfd: pidfd_getfd_test
# timeout set to 45
# selftests: pidfd: pidfd_setns_test
# TAP version 13
# 1..7
# # Starting 7 tests from 2 test cases.
# # RUN global.setns_einval ...
# # OK global.setns_einval
# ok 1 global.setns_einval
# # RUN current_nsset.invalid_flags ...
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:161:invalid_flags:Expected self->child_pid_exited
(0) > 0 (0)
# # OK current_nsset.invalid_flags
# ok 2 current_nsset.invalid_flags
# # RUN current_nsset.pidfd_exited_child ...
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:161:pidfd_exited_child:Expected
self->child_pid_exited (0) > 0 (0)
# # OK current_nsset.pidfd_exited_child
# ok 3 current_nsset.pidfd_exited_child
# # RUN current_nsset.pidfd_incremental_setns ...
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:161:pidfd_incremental_setns:Expected
self->child_pid_exited (0) > 0 (0)
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:408:pidfd_incremental_setns:Managed to correctly
setns to user namespace of 31570 via pidfd 20
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:408:pidfd_incremental_setns:Managed to correctly
setns to mnt namespace of 31570 via pidfd 20
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:408:pidfd_incremental_setns:Managed to correctly
setns to pid namespace of 31570 via pidfd 20
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:408:pidfd_incremental_setns:Managed to correctly
setns to uts namespace of 31570 via pidfd 20
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:408:pidfd_incremental_setns:Managed to correctly
setns to ipc namespace of 31570 via pidfd 20
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:408:pidfd_incremental_setns:Managed to correctly
setns to net namespace of 31570 via pidfd 20
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:408:pidfd_incremental_setns:Managed to correctly
setns to cgroup namespace of 31570 via pidfd 20
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:408:pidfd_incremental_setns:Managed to correctly
setns to pid_for_children namespace of 31570 via pidfd 20
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:391:pidfd_incremental_setns:Expected
setns(self->child_pidfd1, info->flag) (-1) == 0 (0)
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:392:pidfd_incremental_setns:Too many users -
Failed to setns to time namespace of 31570 via pidfd 20
# # pidfd_incremental_setns: Test terminated by timeout
# # FAIL current_nsset.pidfd_incremental_setns
# not ok 4 current_nsset.pidfd_incremental_setns
# # RUN current_nsset.nsfd_incremental_setns ...
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:161:nsfd_incremental_setns:Expected
self->child_pid_exited (0) > 0 (0)
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:444:nsfd_incremental_setns:Managed to correctly
setns to user namespace of 31577 via nsfd 19
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:444:nsfd_incremental_setns:Managed to correctly
setns to mnt namespace of 31577 via nsfd 24
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:444:nsfd_incremental_setns:Managed to correctly
setns to pid namespace of 31577 via nsfd 27
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:444:nsfd_incremental_setns:Managed to correctly
setns to uts namespace of 31577 via nsfd 30
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:444:nsfd_incremental_setns:Managed to correctly
setns to ipc namespace of 31577 via nsfd 33
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:444:nsfd_incremental_setns:Managed to correctly
setns to net namespace of 31577 via nsfd 36
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:444:nsfd_incremental_setns:Managed to correctly
setns to cgroup namespace of 31577 via nsfd 39
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:444:nsfd_incremental_setns:Managed to correctly
setns to pid_for_children namespace of 31577 via nsfd 42
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:427:nsfd_incremental_setns:Expected
setns(self->child_nsfds1[i], info->flag) (-1) == 0 (0)
# # pidfd_setns_test.c:428:nsfd_incremental_setns:Too many users -
Failed to setns to time namespace of 31577 via nsfd 45
```
Ctrl + c gets me back to the shell prompt.
```
$ ps auxf
[…]
build 31574 0.0 0.0 2528 1024 pts/0 D 09:57 0:00
./pidfd_setns_test
build 31575 99.9 0.0 2528 1024 pts/0 R 09:57 37:37 \_
./pidfd_setns_test
build 31576 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/0 Z 09:57 0:00
\_ [pidfd_setns_tes] <defunct>
build 31577 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/0 Z 09:57 0:00
\_ [pidfd_setns_tes] <defunct>
build 31578 0.0 0.0 2528 512 pts/0 S 09:57 0:00
\_ ./pidfd_setns_test
```
During shutdown, the system waits for that process:
[42733.704347] systemd-shutdown[1]: Waiting for process: 31578
(pidfd_setns_tes)
This is commit 8d025e2092e2 with one patch on top:
$ git log --no-decorate --oneline -2 a2ce022afcbb
a2ce022afcbb [PATCH] kbuild: Disable KCSAN for autogenerated
*.mod.c intermediaries
8d025e2092e2 Merge tag 'erofs-for-6.9-rc2-fixes' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs
KCSAN is not enabled though.
Kind regards,
Paul
As discussed on the bi-weekly call on Jan 30, and in mailing around
kernel CI effort, some changes are desirable in the suite of forwarding
selftests the better to work with the CI tooling. Namely:
- The forwarding selftests use a configuration file where names of
interfaces are defined and various variables can be overridden. There
is also forwarding.config.sample that users can use as a template to
refer to when creating the config file. What happens a fair bit is
that users either do not know about this at all, or simply forget, and
are confused by cryptic failures about interfaces that cannot be
created.
In patches #1 - #3 have lib.sh just be the single source of truth with
regards to which variables exist. That includes the topology variables
which were previously only in the sample file, and any "tweak
variables", such as what tools to use, sleep times, etc.
forwarding.config.sample then becomes just a placeholder with a couple
examples. Unless specific HW should be exercised, or specific tools
used, the defaults are usually just fine.
- Several net/forwarding/ selftests (and one net/ one) cannot be run on
veth pairs, they need an actual HW interface to run on. They are
generic in the sense that any capable HW should pass them, which is
why they have been put to net/forwarding/ as opposed to drivers/net/,
but they do not generalize to veth. The fact that these tests are in
net/forwarding/, but still complaining when run, is confusing.
In patches #4 - #6 move these tests to a new directory
drivers/net/hw.
- The following patches extend the codebase to handle well test results
other than pass and fail.
Patch #7 is preparatory. It converts several log_test_skip to XFAIL,
so that tests do not spuriously end up returning non-0 when they
are not supposed to.
In patches #8 - #10, introduce some missing ksft constants, then support
having those constants in RET, and then finally in EXIT_STATUS.
- The traffic scheduler tests generate a large amount of network traffic
to test the behavior of the scheduler. This demands a relatively
high-performance computer. On slow machines, such as with a debugging
kernel, the test would spuriously fail.
It can still be useful to "go through the motions" though, to possibly
catch bugs in setup of the scheduler graph and passing packets around.
Thus we still want to run the tests, just with lowered demands.
To that end, in patches #11 - #12, introduce an environment variable
KSFT_MACHINE_SLOW, with obvious meaning. Tests can then make checks
more lenient, such as mark failures as XFAIL. A helper, xfail_on_slow,
is provided to mark performance-sensitive parts of the selftest.
- In patch #13, use a similar mechanism to mark a NH group stats
selftest to XFAIL HW stats tests when run on VETH pairs.
- All these changes complicate the hitherto straightforward logging and
checking logic, so in patch #14, add a selftest that checks this
functionality in lib.sh.
v1 (vs. an RFC circulated through linux-kselftest):
- Patch #9:
- Clarify intended usage by s/set_ret/ret_set_ksft_status/,
s/nret/ksft_status/
Petr Machata (14):
selftests: net: libs: Change variable fallback syntax
selftests: forwarding.config.sample: Move overrides to lib.sh
selftests: forwarding: README: Document customization
selftests: forwarding: ipip_lib: Do not import lib.sh
selftests: forwarding: Move several selftests
selftests: forwarding: Ditch skip_on_veth()
selftests: forwarding: Change inappropriate log_test_skip() calls
selftests: lib: Define more kselftest exit codes
selftests: forwarding: Have RET track kselftest framework constants
selftests: forwarding: Convert log_test() to recognize RET values
selftests: forwarding: Support for performance sensitive tests
selftests: forwarding: Mark performance-sensitive tests
selftests: forwarding: router_mpath_nh_lib: Don't skip, xfail on veth
selftests: forwarding: Add a test for testing lib.sh functionality
.../testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/Makefile | 25 ++
.../net/hw}/devlink_port_split.py | 0
.../forwarding => drivers/net/hw}/ethtool.sh | 5 +-
.../net/hw}/ethtool_extended_state.sh | 5 +-
.../net/hw}/ethtool_lib.sh | 0
.../net/hw}/ethtool_mm.sh | 3 +-
.../net/hw}/ethtool_rmon.sh | 7 +-
.../net/hw}/hw_stats_l3.sh | 19 +-
.../net/hw}/hw_stats_l3_gre.sh | 7 +-
.../forwarding => drivers/net/hw}/loopback.sh | 5 +-
.../testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/settings | 1 +
.../selftests/drivers/net/mlxsw/mlxsw_lib.sh | 2 +-
.../net/mlxsw/spectrum-2/resource_scale.sh | 1 -
.../net/mlxsw/spectrum/resource_scale.sh | 1 -
tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile | 1 -
.../testing/selftests/net/forwarding/Makefile | 9 +-
tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README | 33 +++
.../net/forwarding/forwarding.config.sample | 53 ++--
.../selftests/net/forwarding/ipip_lib.sh | 1 -
tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/lib.sh | 255 +++++++++++++-----
.../selftests/net/forwarding/lib_sh_test.sh | 208 ++++++++++++++
.../net/forwarding/router_mpath_nh_lib.sh | 12 +-
.../selftests/net/forwarding/sch_ets_tests.sh | 19 +-
.../selftests/net/forwarding/sch_red.sh | 10 +-
.../selftests/net/forwarding/sch_tbf_core.sh | 2 +-
.../selftests/net/forwarding/tc_common.sh | 2 +-
.../selftests/net/forwarding/tc_tunnel_key.sh | 2 -
tools/testing/selftests/net/lib.sh | 48 +++-
28 files changed, 565 insertions(+), 171 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/Makefile
rename tools/testing/selftests/{net => drivers/net/hw}/devlink_port_split.py (100%)
rename tools/testing/selftests/{net/forwarding => drivers/net/hw}/ethtool.sh (98%)
rename tools/testing/selftests/{net/forwarding => drivers/net/hw}/ethtool_extended_state.sh (96%)
rename tools/testing/selftests/{net/forwarding => drivers/net/hw}/ethtool_lib.sh (100%)
rename tools/testing/selftests/{net/forwarding => drivers/net/hw}/ethtool_mm.sh (99%)
rename tools/testing/selftests/{net/forwarding => drivers/net/hw}/ethtool_rmon.sh (92%)
rename tools/testing/selftests/{net/forwarding => drivers/net/hw}/hw_stats_l3.sh (96%)
rename tools/testing/selftests/{net/forwarding => drivers/net/hw}/hw_stats_l3_gre.sh (92%)
rename tools/testing/selftests/{net/forwarding => drivers/net/hw}/loopback.sh (92%)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/settings
create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/lib_sh_test.sh
--
2.43.0
Hi,
Commit 28b3df1fe6ba2cb4 ("kunit: add wireless unit tests") which I can't
seem to find on lore breaks full kunit runs on non-UML builds and is now
present in mainline. If I run:
./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --alltests --cross_compile x86_64-linux-gnu- --arch x86_64
on a clean tree then I get:
[15:09:20] Configuring KUnit Kernel ...
Generating .config ...
Populating config with:
$ make ARCH=x86_64 O=.kunit olddefconfig CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-linux-gnu-
ERROR:root:Not all Kconfig options selected in kunitconfig were in the generated .config.
This is probably due to unsatisfied dependencies.
Missing: CONFIG_IWLWIFI=y, CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_INTEL=y
UML works fine, but other real architectures (eg, arm64) seem similarly
broken. I've not looked properly yet, I'm a bit confused given that
there's not even any dependencies for WLAN_VENDOR_INTEL and it's not
mentoned in the defconfig.
Thanks,
Mark
RFC v7:
=======
Major Changes:
--------------
This revision largely rebases on top of net-next and addresses the feedback
RFCv6 received from folks, namely Jakub, Yunsheng, Arnd, David, & Pavel.
The series remains in RFC because the queue-API ndos defined in this
series are not yet implemented. I have a GVE implementation I carry out
of tree for my testing. A upstreamable GVE implementation is in the
works. Aside from that, in my estimation all the patches are ready for
review/merge. Please do take a look.
As usual the full devmem TCP changes including the full GVE driver
implementation is here:
https://github.com/mina/linux/commits/tcpdevmem-v7/
Detailed changelog:
- Use admin-perm in netlink API.
- Addressed feedback from Jakub with regards to netlink API
implementation.
- Renamed devmem.c functions to something more appropriate for that
file.
- Improve the performance seen through the page_pool benchmark.
- Fix the value definition of all the SO_DEVMEM_* uapi.
- Various fixes to documentation.
Perf - page-pool benchmark:
---------------------------
Improved performance of bench_page_pool_simple.ko tests compared to v6:
https://pastebin.com/raw/v5dYRg8L
net-next base: 8 cycle fast path.
RFC v6: 10 cycle fast path.
RFC v7: 9 cycle fast path.
RFC v7 with CONFIG_DMA_SHARED_BUFFER disabled: 8 cycle fast path,
same as baseline.
Perf - Devmem TCP benchmark:
---------------------
Perf is about the same regardless of the changes in v7, namely the
removal of the static_branch_unlikely to improve the page_pool benchmark
performance:
189/200gbps bi-directional throughput with RX devmem TCP and regular TCP
TX i.e. ~95% line rate.
RFC v6:
=======
Major Changes:
--------------
This revision largely rebases on top of net-next and addresses the little
feedback RFCv5 received.
The series remains in RFC because the queue-API ndos defined in this
series are not yet implemented. I have a GVE implementation I carry out
of tree for my testing. A upstreamable GVE implementation is in the
works. Aside from that, in my estimation all the patches are ready for
review/merge. Please do take a look.
As usual the full devmem TCP changes including the full GVE driver
implementation is here:
https://github.com/mina/linux/commits/tcpdevmem-v6/
This version also comes with some performance data recorded in the cover
letter (see below changelog).
Detailed changelog:
- Rebased on top of the merged netmem_ref changes.
- Converted skb->dmabuf to skb->readable (Pavel). Pavel's original
suggestion was to remove the skb->dmabuf flag entirely, but when I
looked into it closely, I found the issue that if we remove the flag
we have to dereference the shinfo(skb) pointer to obtain the first
frag to tell whether an skb is readable or not. This can cause a
performance regression if it dirties the cache line when the
shinfo(skb) was not really needed. Instead, I converted the skb->dmabuf
flag into a generic skb->readable flag which can be re-used by io_uring
0-copy RX.
- Squashed a few locking optimizations from Eric Dumazet in the RX path
and the DEVMEM_DONTNEED setsockopt.
- Expanded the tests a bit. Added validation for invalid scenarios and
added some more coverage.
Perf - page-pool benchmark:
---------------------------
bench_page_pool_simple.ko tests with and without these changes:
https://pastebin.com/raw/ncHDwAbn
AFAIK the number that really matters in the perf tests is the
'tasklet_page_pool01_fast_path Per elem'. This one measures at about 8
cycles without the changes but there is some 1 cycle noise in some
results.
With the patches this regresses to 9 cycles with the changes but there
is 1 cycle noise occasionally running this test repeatedly.
Lastly I tried disable the static_branch_unlikely() in
netmem_is_net_iov() check. To my surprise disabling the
static_branch_unlikely() check reduces the fast path back to 8 cycles,
but the 1 cycle noise remains.
Perf - Devmem TCP benchmark:
---------------------
189/200gbps bi-directional throughput with RX devmem TCP and regular TCP
TX i.e. ~95% line rate.
Major changes in RFC v5:
========================
1. Rebased on top of 'Abstract page from net stack' series and used the
new netmem type to refer to LSB set pointers instead of re-using
struct page.
2. Downgraded this series back to RFC and called it RFC v5. This is
because this series is now dependent on 'Abstract page from net
stack'[1] and the queue API. Both are removed from the series to
reduce the patch # and those bits are fairly independent or
pre-requisite work.
3. Reworked the page_pool devmem support to use netmem and for some
more unified handling.
4. Reworked the reference counting of net_iov (renamed from
page_pool_iov) to use pp_ref_count for refcounting.
The full changes including the dependent series and GVE page pool
support is here:
https://github.com/mina/linux/commits/tcpdevmem-rfcv5/
[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/list/?series=810774
Major changes in v1:
====================
1. Implemented MVP queue API ndos to remove the userspace-visible
driver reset.
2. Fixed issues in the napi_pp_put_page() devmem frag unref path.
3. Removed RFC tag.
Many smaller addressed comments across all the patches (patches have
individual change log).
Full tree including the rest of the GVE driver changes:
https://github.com/mina/linux/commits/tcpdevmem-v1
Changes in RFC v3:
==================
1. Pulled in the memory-provider dependency from Jakub's RFC[1] to make the
series reviewable and mergeable.
2. Implemented multi-rx-queue binding which was a todo in v2.
3. Fix to cmsg handling.
The sticking point in RFC v2[2] was the device reset required to refill
the device rx-queues after the dmabuf bind/unbind. The solution
suggested as I understand is a subset of the per-queue management ops
Jakub suggested or similar:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230815171638.4c057dcd@kernel.org/
This is not addressed in this revision, because:
1. This point was discussed at netconf & netdev and there is openness to
using the current approach of requiring a device reset.
2. Implementing individual queue resetting seems to be difficult for my
test bed with GVE. My prototype to test this ran into issues with the
rx-queues not coming back up properly if reset individually. At the
moment I'm unsure if it's a mistake in the POC or a genuine issue in
the virtualization stack behind GVE, which currently doesn't test
individual rx-queue restart.
3. Our usecases are not bothered by requiring a device reset to refill
the buffer queues, and we'd like to support NICs that run into this
limitation with resetting individual queues.
My thought is that drivers that have trouble with per-queue configs can
use the support in this series, while drivers that support new netdev
ops to reset individual queues can automatically reset the queue as
part of the dma-buf bind/unbind.
The same approach with device resets is presented again for consideration
with other sticking points addressed.
This proposal includes the rx devmem path only proposed for merge. For a
snapshot of my entire tree which includes the GVE POC page pool support &
device memory support:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/compare/master...mina:linux:tcpdevmem-v3
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/f8270765-a27b-6ccf-33ea-cda097168d79@redhat.…
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAHS8izOVJGJH5WF68OsRWFKJid1_huzzUK+hpKbLcL4…
Changes in RFC v2:
==================
The sticking point in RFC v1[1] was the dma-buf pages approach we used to
deliver the device memory to the TCP stack. RFC v2 is a proof-of-concept
that attempts to resolve this by implementing scatterlist support in the
networking stack, such that we can import the dma-buf scatterlist
directly. This is the approach proposed at a high level here[2].
Detailed changes:
1. Replaced dma-buf pages approach with importing scatterlist into the
page pool.
2. Replace the dma-buf pages centric API with a netlink API.
3. Removed the TX path implementation - there is no issue with
implementing the TX path with scatterlist approach, but leaving
out the TX path makes it easier to review.
4. Functionality is tested with this proposal, but I have not conducted
perf testing yet. I'm not sure there are regressions, but I removed
perf claims from the cover letter until they can be re-confirmed.
5. Added Signed-off-by: contributors to the implementation.
6. Fixed some bugs with the RX path since RFC v1.
Any feedback welcome, but specifically the biggest pending questions
needing feedback IMO are:
1. Feedback on the scatterlist-based approach in general.
2. Netlink API (Patch 1 & 2).
3. Approach to handle all the drivers that expect to receive pages from
the page pool (Patch 6).
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/dfe4bae7-13a0-3c5d-d671-f61b375cb0b4@gmail.c…
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAHS8izPm6XRS54LdCDZVd0C75tA1zHSu6jLVO8nzTLX…
==================
* TL;DR:
Device memory TCP (devmem TCP) is a proposal for transferring data to and/or
from device memory efficiently, without bouncing the data to a host memory
buffer.
* Problem:
A large amount of data transfers have device memory as the source and/or
destination. Accelerators drastically increased the volume of such transfers.
Some examples include:
- ML accelerators transferring large amounts of training data from storage into
GPU/TPU memory. In some cases ML training setup time can be as long as 50% of
TPU compute time, improving data transfer throughput & efficiency can help
improving GPU/TPU utilization.
- Distributed training, where ML accelerators, such as GPUs on different hosts,
exchange data among them.
- Distributed raw block storage applications transfer large amounts of data with
remote SSDs, much of this data does not require host processing.
Today, the majority of the Device-to-Device data transfers the network are
implemented as the following low level operations: Device-to-Host copy,
Host-to-Host network transfer, and Host-to-Device copy.
The implementation is suboptimal, especially for bulk data transfers, and can
put significant strains on system resources, such as host memory bandwidth,
PCIe bandwidth, etc. One important reason behind the current state is the
kernel’s lack of semantics to express device to network transfers.
* Proposal:
In this patch series we attempt to optimize this use case by implementing
socket APIs that enable the user to:
1. send device memory across the network directly, and
2. receive incoming network packets directly into device memory.
Packet _payloads_ go directly from the NIC to device memory for receive and from
device memory to NIC for transmit.
Packet _headers_ go to/from host memory and are processed by the TCP/IP stack
normally. The NIC _must_ support header split to achieve this.
Advantages:
- Alleviate host memory bandwidth pressure, compared to existing
network-transfer + device-copy semantics.
- Alleviate PCIe BW pressure, by limiting data transfer to the lowest level
of the PCIe tree, compared to traditional path which sends data through the
root complex.
* Patch overview:
** Part 1: netlink API
Gives user ability to bind dma-buf to an RX queue.
** Part 2: scatterlist support
Currently the standard for device memory sharing is DMABUF, which doesn't
generate struct pages. On the other hand, networking stack (skbs, drivers, and
page pool) operate on pages. We have 2 options:
1. Generate struct pages for dmabuf device memory, or,
2. Modify the networking stack to process scatterlist.
Approach #1 was attempted in RFC v1. RFC v2 implements approach #2.
** part 3: page pool support
We piggy back on page pool memory providers proposal:
https://github.com/kuba-moo/linux/tree/pp-providers
It allows the page pool to define a memory provider that provides the
page allocation and freeing. It helps abstract most of the device memory
TCP changes from the driver.
** part 4: support for unreadable skb frags
Page pool iovs are not accessible by the host; we implement changes
throughput the networking stack to correctly handle skbs with unreadable
frags.
** Part 5: recvmsg() APIs
We define user APIs for the user to send and receive device memory.
Not included with this series is the GVE devmem TCP support, just to
simplify the review. Code available here if desired:
https://github.com/mina/linux/tree/tcpdevmem
This series is built on top of net-next with Jakub's pp-providers changes
cherry-picked.
* NIC dependencies:
1. (strict) Devmem TCP require the NIC to support header split, i.e. the
capability to split incoming packets into a header + payload and to put
each into a separate buffer. Devmem TCP works by using device memory
for the packet payload, and host memory for the packet headers.
2. (optional) Devmem TCP works better with flow steering support & RSS support,
i.e. the NIC's ability to steer flows into certain rx queues. This allows the
sysadmin to enable devmem TCP on a subset of the rx queues, and steer
devmem TCP traffic onto these queues and non devmem TCP elsewhere.
The NIC I have access to with these properties is the GVE with DQO support
running in Google Cloud, but any NIC that supports these features would suffice.
I may be able to help reviewers bring up devmem TCP on their NICs.
* Testing:
The series includes a udmabuf kselftest that show a simple use case of
devmem TCP and validates the entire data path end to end without
a dependency on a specific dmabuf provider.
** Test Setup
Kernel: net-next with this series and memory provider API cherry-picked
locally.
Hardware: Google Cloud A3 VMs.
NIC: GVE with header split & RSS & flow steering support.
Cc: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence(a)gmail.com>
Cc: David Wei <dw(a)davidwei.uk>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg(a)ziepe.ca>
Cc: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng(a)huawei.com>
Cc: Shailend Chand <shailend(a)google.com>
Cc: Harshitha Ramamurthy <hramamurthy(a)google.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt(a)linux.dev>
Cc: Jeroen de Borst <jeroendb(a)google.com>
Cc: Praveen Kaligineedi <pkaligineedi(a)google.com>
Jakub Kicinski (1):
net: page_pool: create hooks for custom page providers
Mina Almasry (13):
queue_api: define queue api
net: netdev netlink api to bind dma-buf to a net device
netdev: support binding dma-buf to netdevice
netdev: netdevice devmem allocator
page_pool: convert to use netmem
page_pool: devmem support
memory-provider: dmabuf devmem memory provider
net: support non paged skb frags
net: add support for skbs with unreadable frags
tcp: RX path for devmem TCP
net: add SO_DEVMEM_DONTNEED setsockopt to release RX frags
net: add devmem TCP documentation
selftests: add ncdevmem, netcat for devmem TCP
Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml | 57 +++
Documentation/networking/devmem.rst | 256 +++++++++++
Documentation/networking/index.rst | 1 +
arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/socket.h | 6 +
arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/socket.h | 6 +
arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/socket.h | 6 +
arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/socket.h | 6 +
include/linux/netdevice.h | 3 +
include/linux/skbuff.h | 73 +++-
include/linux/socket.h | 1 +
include/net/devmem.h | 124 ++++++
include/net/netdev_queues.h | 27 ++
include/net/netdev_rx_queue.h | 2 +
include/net/netmem.h | 234 +++++++++-
include/net/page_pool/helpers.h | 155 +++++--
include/net/page_pool/types.h | 33 +-
include/net/sock.h | 2 +
include/net/tcp.h | 5 +-
include/trace/events/page_pool.h | 29 +-
include/uapi/asm-generic/socket.h | 6 +
include/uapi/linux/netdev.h | 19 +
include/uapi/linux/uio.h | 17 +
net/bpf/test_run.c | 5 +-
net/core/Makefile | 2 +-
net/core/datagram.c | 6 +
net/core/dev.c | 6 +-
net/core/devmem.c | 425 ++++++++++++++++++
net/core/gro.c | 8 +-
net/core/netdev-genl-gen.c | 23 +
net/core/netdev-genl-gen.h | 6 +
net/core/netdev-genl.c | 107 +++++
net/core/page_pool.c | 364 +++++++++-------
net/core/skbuff.c | 110 ++++-
net/core/sock.c | 61 +++
net/ipv4/esp4.c | 2 +-
net/ipv4/tcp.c | 254 ++++++++++-
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 13 +-
net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 9 +
net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c | 2 +
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 5 +-
net/ipv6/esp6.c | 2 +-
net/packet/af_packet.c | 4 +-
tools/include/uapi/linux/netdev.h | 19 +
tools/testing/selftests/net/.gitignore | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile | 5 +
tools/testing/selftests/net/ncdevmem.c | 546 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
46 files changed, 2776 insertions(+), 277 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/networking/devmem.rst
create mode 100644 include/net/devmem.h
create mode 100644 net/core/devmem.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/net/ncdevmem.c
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Cleaning up after tests is implemented separately for individual tests
and called at the end of each test execution. Since these functions are
very similar and a more generalized test framework was introduced a
function pointer in the resctrl_test struct can be used to reduce the
amount of function calls.
These functions are also all called in the ctrl-c handler because the
handler isn't aware which test is currently running. Since the handler
is implemented with a sigaction no function parameters can be passed
there but information about what test is currently running can be passed
with a global variable.
Series applies cleanly on top of kselftests/next.
Changelog v5:
- Rebase onto kselftests/next.
- Add Reinette's reviewed-by tag.
Changelog v4:
- Check current_test pointer and reset it in signal unregistering.
- Move cleanup call to test_cleanup function.
Changelog v3:
- Make current_test static.
- Add callback NULL check to the ctrl-c handler.
Changelog v2:
- Make current_test a const pointer limited in scope to resctrl_val
file.
- Remove tests_cleanup from resctrl.h.
- Cleanup 'goto out' path and labels in individual test functions.
Older versions of this series:
[v1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1708434017.git.maciej.wieczor-retman@inte…
[v2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1708596015.git.maciej.wieczor-retman@inte…
[v3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1708599491.git.maciej.wieczor-retman@inte…
[v4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1708949785.git.maciej.wieczor-retman@inte…
Maciej Wieczor-Retman (3):
selftests/resctrl: Add cleanup function to test framework
selftests/resctrl: Simplify cleanup in ctrl-c handler
selftests/resctrl: Move cleanups out of individual tests
tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cat_test.c | 8 +++-----
tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cmt_test.c | 4 ++--
tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c | 8 +++-----
tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c | 8 +++-----
tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h | 9 +++------
.../testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c | 20 +++++++------------
tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_val.c | 8 ++++++--
7 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
--
2.43.2
This is required, as CONFIG_DAMON_DEBUGFS is enabled, and --alltests UML
builds will fail due to the missing config option otherwise.
Fixes: f4cba4bf6777 ("mm/damon: rename CONFIG_DAMON_DBGFS to DAMON_DBGFS_DEPRECATED")
Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow(a)google.com>
---
This is breaking all UML alltests builds, so we'd like to fix it sooner
rather than later. SeongJae, would you rather take this yourself, or can
we push it alongside any other KUnit fixes?
Johannes: Does this conflict with the CONFIG_NETDEVICES / CONFIG_WLAN
fixes to all_tests.config? I'd assume not, but I'm happy to take them
via KUnit if you'd prefer anyway.
Thanks,
-- David
---
tools/testing/kunit/configs/all_tests.config | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/kunit/configs/all_tests.config b/tools/testing/kunit/configs/all_tests.config
index aa5ec149f96c..f388742cf266 100644
--- a/tools/testing/kunit/configs/all_tests.config
+++ b/tools/testing/kunit/configs/all_tests.config
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ CONFIG_DAMON_VADDR=y
CONFIG_DAMON_PADDR=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y
CONFIG_DAMON_DBGFS=y
+CONFIG_DAMON_DBGFS_DEPRECATED=y
CONFIG_REGMAP_BUILD=y
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