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  1. 13 Jan, 2017 5 commits
    • Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan's avatar
      ath10k: fix wifi connectivity and warning in rx with channel 169 · c486dc57
      Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan authored 
      In countries where basic operation of channel 169 is allowed,
this fixes the below WARN_ON_ONCE in Rx and fixes the station
connectivity failure in channel 169 as the packet is dropped
in the driver as the current check limits to channel 165. As of
now all the packets beyond channel 165 is dropped, fix this
by extending the range to channel 169.

Call trace:

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c:1505
ath10k_wmi_event_mgmt_rx+0x278/0x440 [ath10k_core]()
Call Trace:
 [<c158f812>] ? printk+0x2d/0x2f
 [<c105a182>] warn_slowpath_common+0x72/0xa0
 [<f8b67b58>] ? ath10k_wmi_event_mgmt_rx+0x278/0x440

 [<f8b67b58>] ? ath10k_wmi_event_mgmt_rx+0x278/0x440

 [<c105a1d2>] warn_slowpath_null+0x22/0x30
 [<f8b67b58>] ath10k_wmi_event_mgmt_rx+0x278/0x440

 [<f8b0e72b>] ? ath10k_pci_sleep+0x8b/0xb0 [ath10k_pci]
 [<f8b6ac63>] ath10k_wmi_10_2_op_rx+0xf3/0x3b0

 [<f8b6495e>] ath10k_wmi_process_rx+0x1e/0x60

 [<f8b5f077>] ath10k_htc_rx_completion_handler+0x347/0x4d0 [ath10k_core]
 [<f8b11dc3>] ? ath10k_ce_completed_recv_next+0x53/0x70 [ath10k_pci]
 [<f8b0f921>] ath10k_pci_ce_recv_data+0x171/0x1d0 [ath10k_pci]
 [<f8b0ec69>] ? ath10k_pci_write32+0x39/0x80 [ath10k_pci]
 [<f8b120bc>] ath10k_ce_per_engine_service+0x5c/0xa0 [ath10k_pci]
 [<f8b1215f>] ath10k_ce_per_engine_service_any+0x5f/0x70 [ath10k_pci]
 [<c1060dc0>] ? local_bh_enable_ip+0x90/0x90
 [<f8b1048b>] ath10k_pci_tasklet+0x1b/0x50 [ath10k_pci]

Fixes: 34c30b0a ("ath10k: enable advertising support for channel 169, 5Ghz")
Signed-off-by: default avatarMohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
      c486dc57
    • Christian Lamparter's avatar
      ath9k: move RELAY and DEBUG_FS to ATH9K[_HTC]_DEBUGFS · 1077ec47
      Christian Lamparter authored 
      Currently, the common ath9k_common module needs to have a
dependency on RELAY and DEBUG_FS in order to built. This
is usually not a problem. But for RAM and FLASH starved
AR71XX devices, every little bit counts.

This patch adds a new symbol CONFIG_ATH9K_COMMON_DEBUG
which makes it possible to drop the RELAY and DEBUG_FS
dependency there and move it to ATH_(HTC)_DEBUGFS.

Note: The shared FFT/spectral code (which is the only user
of the relayfs in ath9k*) needs DEBUG_FS to export the relayfs
interface to dump the data to userspace. So it makes no sense
to have the functions compiled in, if DEBUG_FS is not there.
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
      1077ec47
    • Christian Lamparter's avatar
      ath10k: add accounting for the extended peer statistics · c1e3330f
      Christian Lamparter authored 
      The 10.4 firmware adds extended peer information to the
firmware's statistics payload. This additional info is
stored as a separate data field and the elements are
stored in their own "peers_extd" list.

These elements can pile up in the same way as the peer
information elements. This is because the
ath10k_wmi_10_4_op_pull_fw_stats() function tries to
pull the same amount (num_peer_stats) for every statistic
data unit.

Fixes: 4a49ae94 ("ath10k: fix 10.4 extended peer stats update")
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
      c1e3330f
    • Sebastian Gottschall's avatar
      ath10k: add VHT160 support · bc1efd73
      Sebastian Gottschall authored 
      This patch adds full VHT160 support for QCA9984 chipsets Tested on Netgear
R7800. 80+80 is possible, but disabled so far since it seems to contain
glitches like missing vht station flags (this may be firmware or mac80211
related).
Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall@dd-wrt.com>
[kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com: refactoring and fix few warnings]
Signed-off-by: default avatarKalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
      bc1efd73
    • Kalle Valo's avatar
      ath10k: refactor ath10k_peer_assoc_h_phymode() · 06efdbe7
      Kalle Valo authored 
      When adding VHT160 support to ath10k_peer_assoc_h_phymode() the VHT mode
selection code becomes too complex. Simplify it by refactoring the vht part to
a separate function.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
      06efdbe7
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    • Vivien Didelot's avatar
      net: dsa: select NET_SWITCHDEV · 3a89eaa6
      Vivien Didelot authored 
      The support for DSA Ethernet switch chips depends on TCP/IP networking,
thus explicit that HAVE_NET_DSA depends on INET.

DSA uses SWITCHDEV, thus select it instead of depending on it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Tested-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      3a89eaa6
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      Merge tag 'mlx5-4kuar-for-4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mellanox/linux · bda65b42
      David S. Miller authored 
      Saeed Mahameed says:

====================
mlx5 4K UAR

The following series of patches optimizes the usage of the UAR area which is
contained within the BAR 0-1. Previous versions of the firmware and the driver
assumed each system page contains a single UAR. This patch set will query the
firmware for a new capability that if published, means that the firmware can
support UARs of fixed 4K regardless of system page size. In the case of
powerpc, where page size equals 64KB, this means we can utilize 16 UARs per
system page. Since user space processes by default consume eight UARs per
context this means that with this change a process will need a single system
page to fulfill that requirement and in fact make use of more UARs which is
better in terms of performance.

In addition to optimizing user-space processes, we introduce an allocator
that can be used by kernel consumers to allocate blue flame registers
(which are areas within a UAR that are used to write doorbells). This provides
further optimization on using the UAR area since the Ethernet driver makes
use of a single blue flame register per system page and now it will use two
blue flame registers per 4K.

The series also makes changes to naming conventions and now the terms used in
the driver code match the terms used in the PRM (programmers reference manual).
Thus, what used to be called UUAR (micro UAR) is now called BFREG (blue flame
register).

In order to support compatibility between different versions of
library/driver/firmware, the library has now means to notify the kernel driver
that it supports the new scheme and the kernel can notify the library if it
supports this extension. So mixed versions of libraries can run concurrently
without any issues.
====================
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      bda65b42
    • Eric Dumazet's avatar
      tcp: make TCP_INFO more consistent · b369e7fd
      Eric Dumazet authored 
      tcp_get_info() has to lock the socket, so lets lock it
for an extended critical section, so that various fields
have consistent values.

This solves an annoying issue that some applications
reported when multiple counters are updated during one
particular rx/rx event, and TCP_INFO was called from
another cpu.
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      b369e7fd
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      Merge branch 'bpf-verifier-improvements' · c22e5c12
      David S. Miller authored 
      Alexei Starovoitov says:

====================
bpf: verifier improvements

A number of bpf verifier improvements from Gianluca.
See individual patches for details.
====================
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      c22e5c12
    • Alexei Starovoitov's avatar
      bpf: rename ARG_PTR_TO_STACK · 39f19ebb
      Alexei Starovoitov authored 
      since ARG_PTR_TO_STACK is no longer just pointer to stack
rename it to ARG_PTR_TO_MEM and adjust comment.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      39f19ebb
    • Gianluca Borello's avatar
      bpf: allow helpers access to variable memory · 06c1c049
      Gianluca Borello authored 
      Currently, helpers that read and write from/to the stack can do so using
a pair of arguments of type ARG_PTR_TO_STACK and ARG_CONST_STACK_SIZE.
ARG_CONST_STACK_SIZE accepts a constant register of type CONST_IMM, so
that the verifier can safely check the memory access. However, requiring
the argument to be a constant can be limiting in some circumstances.

Since the current logic keeps track of the minimum and maximum value of
a register throughout the simulated execution, ARG_CONST_STACK_SIZE can
be changed to also accept an UNKNOWN_VALUE register in case its
boundaries have been set and the range doesn't cause invalid memory
accesses.

One common situation when this is useful:

int len;
char buf[BUFSIZE]; /* BUFSIZE is 128 */

if (some_condition)
	len = 42;
else
	len = 84;

some_helper(..., buf, len & (BUFSIZE - 1));

The compiler can often decide to assign the constant values 42 or 48
into a variable on the stack, instead of keeping it in a register. When
the variable is then read back from stack into the register in order to
be passed to the helper, the verifier will not be able to recognize the
register as constant (the verifier is not currently tracking all
constant writes into memory), and the program won't be valid.

However, by allowing the helper to accept an UNKNOWN_VALUE register,
this program will work because the bitwise AND operation will set the
range of possible values for the UNKNOWN_VALUE register to [0, BUFSIZE),
so the verifier can guarantee the helper call will be safe (assuming the
argument is of type ARG_CONST_STACK_SIZE_OR_ZERO, otherwise one more
check against 0 would be needed). Custom ranges can be set not only with
ALU operations, but also by explicitly comparing the UNKNOWN_VALUE
register with constants.

Another very common example happens when intercepting system call
arguments and accessing user-provided data of variable size using
bpf_probe_read(). One can load at runtime the user-provided length in an
UNKNOWN_VALUE register, and then read that exact amount of data up to a
compile-time determined limit in order to fit into the proper local
storage allocated on the stack, without having to guess a suboptimal
access size at compile time.

Also, in case the helpers accepting the UNKNOWN_VALUE register operate
in raw mode, disable the raw mode so that the program is required to
initialize all memory, since there is no guarantee the helper will fill
it completely, leaving possibilities for data leak (just relevant when
the memory used by the helper is the stack, not when using a pointer to
map element value or packet). In other words, ARG_PTR_TO_RAW_STACK will
be treated as ARG_PTR_TO_STACK.
Signed-off-by: default avatarGianluca Borello <g.borello@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      06c1c049
    • Gianluca Borello's avatar
      bpf: allow adjusted map element values to spill · f0318d01
      Gianluca Borello authored 
      commit 48461135 ("bpf: allow access into map value arrays")
introduces the ability to do pointer math inside a map element value via
the PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE_ADJ register type.

The current support doesn't handle the case where a PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE_ADJ
is spilled into the stack, limiting several use cases, especially when
generating bpf code from a compiler.

Handle this case by explicitly enabling the register type
PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE_ADJ to be spilled. Also, make sure that min_value and
max_value are reset just for BPF_LDX operations that don't result in a
restore of a spilled register from stack.
Signed-off-by: default avatarGianluca Borello <g.borello@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      f0318d01
    • Gianluca Borello's avatar
      bpf: allow helpers access to map element values · 5722569b
      Gianluca Borello authored 
      Enable helpers to directly access a map element value by passing a
register type PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE (or PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE_ADJ) to helper
arguments ARG_PTR_TO_STACK or ARG_PTR_TO_RAW_STACK.

This enables several use cases. For example, a typical tracing program
might want to capture pathnames passed to sys_open() with:

struct trace_data {
	char pathname[PATHLEN];
};

SEC("kprobe/sys_open")
void bpf_sys_open(struct pt_regs *ctx)
{
	struct trace_data data;
	bpf_probe_read(data.pathname, sizeof(data.pathname), ctx->di);

	/* consume data.pathname, for example via
	 * bpf_trace_printk() or bpf_perf_event_output()
	 */
}

Such a program could easily hit the stack limit in case PATHLEN needs to
be large or more local variables need to exist, both of which are quite
common scenarios. Allowing direct helper access to map element values,
one could do:

struct bpf_map_def SEC("maps") scratch_map = {
	.type = BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_ARRAY,
	.key_size = sizeof(u32),
	.value_size = sizeof(struct trace_data),
	.max_entries = 1,
};

SEC("kprobe/sys_open")
int bpf_sys_open(struct pt_regs *ctx)
{
	int id = 0;
	struct trace_data *p = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&scratch_map, &id);
	if (!p)
		return;
	bpf_probe_read(p->pathname, sizeof(p->pathname), ctx->di);

	/* consume p->pathname, for example via
	 * bpf_trace_printk() or bpf_perf_event_output()
	 */
}

And wouldn't risk exhausting the stack.

Code changes are loosely modeled after commit 6841de8b ("bpf: allow
helpers access the packet directly"). Unlike with PTR_TO_PACKET, these
changes just work with ARG_PTR_TO_STACK and ARG_PTR_TO_RAW_STACK (not
ARG_PTR_TO_MAP_KEY, ARG_PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE, ...): adding those would be
trivial, but since there is not currently a use case for that, it's
reasonable to limit the set of changes.

Also, add new tests to make sure accesses to map element values from
helpers never go out of boundary, even when adjusted.
Signed-off-by: default avatarGianluca Borello <g.borello@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      5722569b
    • Gianluca Borello's avatar
      bpf: split check_mem_access logic for map values · dbcfe5f7
      Gianluca Borello authored 
      Move the logic to check memory accesses to a PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE_ADJ from
check_mem_access() to a separate helper check_map_access_adj(). This
enables to use those checks in other parts of the verifier as well,
where boundaries on PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE_ADJ might need to be checked, for
example when checking helper function arguments. The same thing is
already happening for other types such as PTR_TO_PACKET and its
check_packet_access() helper.

The code has been copied verbatim, with the only difference of removing
the "off += reg->max_value" statement and moving the sum into the call
statement to check_map_access(), as that was only needed due to the
earlier common check_map_access() call.
Signed-off-by: default avatarGianluca Borello <g.borello@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      dbcfe5f7
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      Merge branch 'net-smc' · f3a3e248
      David S. Miller authored 
      Ursula Braun says:

====================
net/smc: Shared Memory Communications - RDMA

here is now V4 of the SMC-R patches having processed your feedback from end
of November. The most important change is the replacement of sysfs by a
generic netlink solution in patch 04. And I tried to get rid of the __packed
attributes. There are still a few usages left due to SMC-R protocol defined
structures.

V4 changes:
The order of patches 03 and 04 for pnet table management and SMC IB-client
establishing has been exchanged, since pnet table management is now built on
top of smc_ib_devices.
Patch 01: Use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().
Patch 02: Define "use_fallback" as bool.
          Get rid of useless smc_sock fields clearing in smc_sock_alloc(),
          since sk_alloc() clears out the memory.
Patch 03: Postpone smc_ib_remember_port_attr() call till ib_device is
          mentioned in the pnet table.
Patch 04: Replace sysfs-usage by a generic netlink approach for pnet table
          configuration.
          Change layout of pnet table entries to reference net_device and
          ib_device instead of dealing with names of net_devices and
          ib_devices.
Patch 05: Adapt "use_fallback" usages to new type bool.
          Get rid of useless smc_sock fields clearing in smc_sock_alloc()
          Avoid __packed where possible.
          Check if clc responses are not too big.
Patch 09: Postpone smc_setup_per_ibdev till the first connection with this
          ib_device is really created.
Patch 11: Get rid of __packed usage.

V3 changes:
Patch 05: Remove unneeded DEFINE_WAIT
Patch 06: Improve synchronization of link group creation
Patch 07: Rename peer_rmbe_len into peer_rmbe_size to be more consistent
Patch 09: Avoid calls of ib_get_memory_region with IB_ACCESS_LOCAL_WRITE,
          use new default local_dma_lkey from protection domain as lkey
          instead.
          Remove no longer needed function smc_ib_dereg_memory_region().
Patch 14: Switch to state ACTIVE only if still in state INIT.
          Return 0 for recvmsg invoked in a socket closing state.
          Allow getname call in state APPCLOSEWAIT1
          Do not trigger destruction of a socket-in-error queued in accept
          queue.
          During cleanup of accept queue, make sure sockets are destructed,
          and sockets in fallback mode are handled appropriately.
          When freeing sndbufs/rmbs, remove them from their list and free
          the entry.
          Use add_wait_queue() and remove_wait_queue() in close wait
          functions.
          If actively closing a socket in state for PEERFINCLOSEWAIT, keep
          this state.
          If passively closing a socket while bytes are to be received, move
          to state APPCLOSEWAIT1.
          If actively aborting a socket, skip sending the close_abort flag,
          since RDMA communication is no longer possible.
          When terminating a link group, do not schedule link group freeing a
          2nd time, since already done when unregistering the last remaining
          connection.
Patch 15: Introduce smc_diag module for monitoring SMC protocol sockets.
          This replaces the old patch 0015 dealing with procfs.

V2 changes:
Patch 0002: Add SMC versions for family key strings in net/core/sock.c.
Patch 0006: initialize rb_tree.
Patch 0007: Get rid of unneeded use of xchg() in smc_sndbuf_unuse() and
            smc_rmb_unuse().
Patch 0008: Correct error checking logic for ib_function calls.
            Define struct smc_link field wr_tx_id as atomic_long_t.
            Use "do_div" instead of "%" to be architecture-independent.
Patch 0009: Correct error checking logic for ib_function calls.
Patch 0011: Remove xchg() calls in cursor handling. Use atomic64_t for cursor
            overlays on 64-bit architectures. If not available, use plain u64
            and add locking for cursor reading and writing.
            Implement smc_curs_add() without modulo operator "%".
Patch 0012: Remove xchg() calls in cursor handling.
            Implement smc_tx_rdma_writes() without module operator "%".
Patch 0013: Remove xchg() calls in cursor handling.
Patch 0014: Return type bool in smc_wr_tx_has_pending().
            Remove unneeded semicolon in smc_close_shutdown_write().
            Call smc_close_active() in non-fallback case only.
            Get rid of duplicate schedule of sock_put_work().
            Take nested sock_lock in smc_listen_work().
            Start close stream_wait in case of prepared sends only.
Patch 0015: Remove unneeded socket ref_count in smc_proc_seq_show().
            Take lock before list_empty check in smc_proc_sock_list_del().

These patches are the initial part of the implementation of the
"Shared Memory Communications-RDMA" (SMC-R) protocol as defined in
RFC7609 [1]. While SMC-R does not aim to replace TCP,
it taps a wealth of existing data center TCP socket applications
to become more efficient without the need for rewriting them.
SMC-R uses RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) to save CPU consumption.
For instance, when running 10 parallel connections with uperf, we measured
a decrease of 60% in CPU consumption with SMC-R compared to TCP/IP
(with throughput and latency comparable;
measured on x86_64 with the same RoCE card and port).

SMC-R does not require an RDMA communication manager (RDMA CM).

SMC-R inherits TCP qualities such as reliable connections, host-based
firewall packet filtering (on connection establishment) and unmodified
application of communication encryption such as TLS (transport layer
security) or SSL (secure sockets layer). Since original TCP is used to
establish SMC-R connections, load balancers and packet inspection based
on TCP/IP connection establishment continue to work for SMC-R.

On the other hand, using SMC-R implies:
- either involving a preload library when invoking the unchanged TCP-application
  or slightly modifying the source by simply changing the socket family in
  the socket() call
- accepting extra overhead and latency in connection establishment due to
  SMC Connection Layer Control (CLC) handshake
- explicit coupling of RoCE ports with Ethernet ports
- not routable as currently built on RoCE V1
- bypassing of packet-based networking features
    - filtering (netfilter)
    - sniffing (libpcap, packet sockets, (E)BPF)
    - traffic control (scheduling, shaping)
- bypassing of IP-header based socket options
- bypassing of memory buffer (pressure) management
- unusable together with IPsec

Overview of the SMC-R Protocol described in informational RFC 7609

SMC-R is an open protocol that provides RDMA capabilities over RoCE
transparently for applications exploiting TCP sockets.
A new socket protocol family PF_SMC is introduced.
There are no changes required to applications using the sockets API for TCP
stream sockets other than the specification of the new socket family AF_SMC.
Unmodified applications can be used by means of a dynamic preload shared
library which rewrites the socket API call
socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) into
socket(AF_SMC,  SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP).
SMC-R re-uses the address family AF_INET for all addressing purposes around
struct sockaddr.

SMC-R system architecture layers:

+=============================================================================+
|                                      | unmodified TCP application           |
| native SMC application               +--------------------------------------+
|                                      | dynamic preload shared library       |
+=============================================================================+
|                                 SMC socket                                  |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                    | TCP socket (for connection establishment and fallback) |
| IB verbs           +--------------------------------------------------------+
|                    | IP                                                     |
+--------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
| RoCE device driver | some network device driver                             |
+=============================================================================+

Terms:

A link group is determined by an ordered peer pair of TCP client and TCP server
(IP addresses and subnet). Reversed client server roles cause an own link group.
A link is a logical point-to-point connection based on an
infiniband reliable connected queue pair (RC-QP) between two RoCE ports
(MACs and GIDs) of a peer pair.
A link group can have 1..8 links for failover and load balancing.
This initial Linux implementation always has 1 link per link group.
Each link group on a peer can have 1..255 remote memory buffers (RMBs).
If more RMBs are needed, a peer can open another link group
(this initial Linux implementation) or fall back to TCP.
Each RMB has its own particular size and its own (R)DMA mapping and credentials
(rtoken consisting of rkey and RDMA "virtual address").
This initial Linux implementation uses physically contiguous memory for RMBs
but we are working towards scattered memory because of memory fragmentation.
Each RMB has 1..255 RMB elements (RMBEs) of equal size
to provide multiplexing of connections within an RMB.
An RMBE is the RDMA Write destination organized as wrapping ring buffer
for data transmit of a particular connection in one direction
(duplex by means of mirror symmetry as with TCP).
This initial Linux implementation always has 1 RMBE per RMB
and thus an individual RMB for each connection.

SMC-R connection establishment with subsequent data transfer:

   CLIENT                                                   SERVER

TCP three-way handshake:
                         regular TCP SYN
      -------------------------------------------------------->
                       regular TCP SYN ACK
      <--------------------------------------------------------
                         regular TCP ACK
      -------------------------------------------------------->

SMC Connection Layer Control (CLC) handshake
exchanges RDMA credentials between peers:
             via above TCP connection: SMC CLC Proposal
      -------------------------------------------------------->
              via above TCP connection: SMC CLC Accept
      <--------------------------------------------------------
             via above TCP connection: SMC CLC Confirm
      -------------------------------------------------------->

SMC Link Layer Control (LLC) (only once per link, i.e. 1st conn. of link group):
                 RoCE RC-QP: SMC LLC Confirm Link
      <========================================================
             RoCE RC-QP: SMC LLC Confirm Link response
      ========================================================>

SMC data transmission (incl. SMC Connection Data Control (CDC) message):
                       RoCE RC-QP: RDMA Write
      ========================================================>
             RoCE RC-QP: SMC CDC message (flow control)
      ========================================================>
                          ...

                       RoCE RC-QP: RDMA Write
      <========================================================
             RoCE RC-QP: SMC CDC message (flow control)
      <========================================================
                          ...

Data flow within an established connection:

+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|            SENDER
| sendmsg()
|    |
|    | produces into sndbuf [sender's process context]
|    v
| +--------+
| | sndbuf | [ring buffer]
| +--------+
|    |
|    | consumes from sndbuf and produces into receiver's RMBE [any context]
|    | by sending RDMA Write followed by SMC CDC message over RoCE RC-QP
|    |
+----|-----------------------------------------------------------------------
     |
+----|-----------------------------------------------------------------------
|    v       RECEIVER
| +------+
| | RMBE | [ring buffer, can have size different from sender's sndbuf]
| |      | [RMBE represents rcvbuf, no further de-coupling as on sender side]
| +------+
|    |
|    | consumes from RMBE [receiver's process context]
|    v
| recvmsg()
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Flow control ("cursor" updates) by means of SMC CDC messages:

               SENDER                            RECEIVER

        sends updates via CDC-------------+   sends updates via CDC
        on consuming from sndbuf          |   on consuming from RMBE
        and producing into RMBE           |   by means of recvmsg()
                                          |            |
                                          |            |
      +-----------------------------------|------------+
      |                                   |
   +--v-------------------------+      +--v-----------------------+
   | receiver's consumer cursor |      | sender's producer cursor----+
   +----------------|-----------+      +--------------------------+  |
                    |                                                |
                    |                        receiver's RMBE         |
                    |                  +--------------------------+  |
                    |                  |                          |  |
                    +--------------------------------+            |  |
                                       |             |            |  |
                                       |             v            |  |
                                       |             +------------|  |
                                       |-------------+////////////|  |
                                       |//RDMA data written by////|  |
                                       |////sender that is////////|  |
                                       |/available to be consumed/|  |
                                       |///////// +---------------|  |
                                       |----------+^              |  |
                                       |           |              |  |
                                       |           +-----------------+
                                       |                          |
                                       +--------------------------+

Sending updates of the producer cursor is immediate for low latency;
something like Nagle's algorithm (absence of TCP_NODELAY) is optional and
currently not part of this initial Linux implementation.
Sending updates of the consumer cursor is conditional to avoid the
silly window syndrome.

Normal connection termination:

Normal connection termination starts transitioning from socket state
ACTIVE via either "Active Close" or "Passive Close".

shutdown rdwr               +-----------------+
or close,   +-------------->|  INIT / CLOSED  |<-------------+
send PeerCon|nClosed        +-----------------+              | PeerConnClosed
            |                       |                        | received
            |            connection | established            |
            |                       V                        |
    +----------------+     +-----------------+     +----------------+
    |AppFinCloseWait |     |     ACTIVE      |     |PeerFinCloseWait|
    +----------------+     +-----------------+     +----------------+
            |                   |         |                   |
            |     Active Close: |         |Passive Close:     |
            |     close or      |         |PeerConnClosed or  |
            |     shutdown wr or|         |PeerDoneWriting    |
            |     shutdown rdwr |         |received           |

    |                   V         V                   |
 PeerConnClo|sed    +--------------+   +-------------+        | close or
 received   +--<----|PeerCloseWait1|   |AppCloseWait1|--->----+ shutdown rdwr,
            |       +--------------+   +-------------+        | send
            |  PeerDoneWri|ting                | shutdown wr, | PeerConnClosed
            |  received   |            send Pee|rDoneWriting  |
            |             V                    V              |
            |       +--------------+   +-------------+        |
            +--<----|PeerCloseWait2|   |AppCloseWait2|--->----+
                    +--------------+   +-------------+

In state CLOSED, the socket can be destructed only, once the application has
issued a close().

Abnormal connection termination:

                            +-----------------+
            +-------------->|  INIT / CLOSED  |<-------------+
            |               +-----------------+              |
            |                                                |
            |           +-----------------------+            |
            |           |     Any state         |            |
 PeerConnAbo|rt         | (before setting       |            | send
 received   |           |  PeerConnClosed       |            | PeerConnAbort
            |           |  indicator in         |            |
            |           |  peer's RMBE)         |            |
            |           +-----------------------+            |
            |                   |         |                  |
            |     Active Abort: |         | Passive Abort:   |
            |     problem,      |         | PeerConnAbort    |
            |     send          |         | received,        |
            |     PeerConnAbort,|         | ECONNRESET       |
            |     ECONNABORTED  |         |                  |
            |                   V         V                  |
            |       +--------------+   +--------------+      |
            +-------|PeerAbortWait |   | ProcessAbort |------+
                    +--------------+   +--------------+

Implementation notes beyond RFC 7609:

A PNET table in sysfs provides the mapping between network device names and
RoCE Infiniband device names for the transparent switch of data communication.
A PNET table can contain an arbitrary number of PNETIDs.
Each PNETID contains exactly one (Ethernet) network device name
and one or more RoCE Infiniband device names.
Each device name can only exist in at most one PNETID (no overlapping).
This initial Linux implementation allows at most one RoCE Infiniband device
name per PNETID.
After a new TCP connection is established, the network device name
used for egress traffic with the TCP connection's local source IP address
is used as key to lookup the unique PNETID, and the RoCE Infiniband device
of this PNETID is used to switch data communication from TCP to RDMA
during SMC CLC handshake.

Problem determination:

A protocol dissector is available with upstream wireshark for formatting
SMC-R related RoCE LAN traffic.
[https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=blob;f=epan/dissectors/packet-smcr.c]

We are working on enhancing the Linux implementation to cover:

- Improve default socket closing asynchronicity
- Address corner cases with many parallel connections
- Tracing
- Integrated load balancing and fail-over within a link group
- Splice and sendpage support
- IPv6 addressing support
- Keepalive, Cork
- Namespaces support
- Urgent data
- More socket options
- Diagnostics
- Statistics support
- SNMP support

References:

[1] SMC-R Informational RFC: http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7609
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