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# 1ac731c5 31-Aug-2023 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.6 merge window.


Revision tags: v6.5, v6.5-rc7, v6.5-rc6, v6.5-rc5, v6.5-rc4, v6.5-rc3
# 50501936 17-Jul-2023 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v6.4' into next

Sync up with mainline to bring in updates to shared infrastructure.


Revision tags: v6.5-rc2, v6.5-rc1, v6.4, v6.4-rc7
# db6da59c 15-Jun-2023 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next-fixes

Backmerging to sync drm-misc-next-fixes with drm-misc-next.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>


# 03c60192 12-Jun-2023 Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>

Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm into msm-next-lumag-base

Merge the drm-next tree to pick up the DRM DSC helpers (merged via
drm-intel-next tree). MSM DSC v1.2 patche

Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm into msm-next-lumag-base

Merge the drm-next tree to pick up the DRM DSC helpers (merged via
drm-intel-next tree). MSM DSC v1.2 patches depend on these helpers.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>

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Revision tags: v6.4-rc6
# 5c680050 06-Jun-2023 Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>

Merge tag 'v6.4-rc4' into wpan-next/staging

Linux 6.4-rc4


# 9ff17e6b 05-Jun-2023 Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

For conflict avoidance we need the following commit:

c9a9f18d3ad8 drm/i915/huc: use const struct bus_type pointers

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

For conflict avoidance we need the following commit:

c9a9f18d3ad8 drm/i915/huc: use const struct bus_type pointers

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>

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Revision tags: v6.4-rc5, v6.4-rc4, v6.4-rc3
# 9c3a985f 17-May-2023 Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Backmerge to get some hwmon dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>


Revision tags: v6.4-rc2
# 50282fd5 12-May-2023 Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Let's bring 6.4-rc1 in drm-misc-fixes to start the new fix cycle.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>


# ff32fcca 09-May-2023 Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Start the 6.5 release cycle.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>


Revision tags: v6.4-rc1
# 6e98b09d 27-Apr-2023 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'net-next-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"Core:

- Introduce a config option to tweak MAX_SKB_FRAGS. In

Merge tag 'net-next-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"Core:

- Introduce a config option to tweak MAX_SKB_FRAGS. Increasing the
default value allows for better BIG TCP performances

- Reduce compound page head access for zero-copy data transfers

- RPS/RFS improvements, avoiding unneeded NET_RX_SOFTIRQ when
possible

- Threaded NAPI improvements, adding defer skb free support and
unneeded softirq avoidance

- Address dst_entry reference count scalability issues, via false
sharing avoidance and optimize refcount tracking

- Add lockless accesses annotation to sk_err[_soft]

- Optimize again the skb struct layout

- Extends the skb drop reasons to make it usable by multiple
subsystems

- Better const qualifier awareness for socket casts

BPF:

- Add skb and XDP typed dynptrs which allow BPF programs for more
ergonomic and less brittle iteration through data and
variable-sized accesses

- Add a new BPF netfilter program type and minimal support to hook
BPF programs to netfilter hooks such as prerouting or forward

- Add more precise memory usage reporting for all BPF map types

- Adds support for using {FOU,GUE} encap with an ipip device
operating in collect_md mode and add a set of BPF kfuncs for
controlling encap params

- Allow BPF programs to detect at load time whether a particular
kfunc exists or not, and also add support for this in light
skeleton

- Bigger batch of BPF verifier improvements to prepare for upcoming
BPF open-coded iterators allowing for less restrictive looping
capabilities

- Rework RCU enforcement in the verifier, add kptr_rcu and enforce
BPF programs to NULL-check before passing such pointers into kfunc

- Add support for kptrs in percpu hashmaps, percpu LRU hashmaps and
in local storage maps

- Enable RCU semantics for task BPF kptrs and allow referenced kptr
tasks to be stored in BPF maps

- Add support for refcounted local kptrs to the verifier for allowing
shared ownership, useful for adding a node to both the BPF list and
rbtree

- Add BPF verifier support for ST instructions in
convert_ctx_access() which will help new -mcpu=v4 clang flag to
start emitting them

- Add ARM32 USDT support to libbpf

- Improve bpftool's visual program dump which produces the control
flow graph in a DOT format by adding C source inline annotations

Protocols:

- IPv4: Allow adding to IPv4 address a 'protocol' tag. Such value
indicates the provenance of the IP address

- IPv6: optimize route lookup, dropping unneeded R/W lock acquisition

- Add the handshake upcall mechanism, allowing the user-space to
implement generic TLS handshake on kernel's behalf

- Bridge: support per-{Port, VLAN} neighbor suppression, increasing
resilience to nodes failures

- SCTP: add support for Fair Capacity and Weighted Fair Queueing
schedulers

- MPTCP: delay first subflow allocation up to its first usage. This
will allow for later better LSM interaction

- xfrm: Remove inner/outer modes from input/output path. These are
not needed anymore

- WiFi:
- reduced neighbor report (RNR) handling for AP mode
- HW timestamping support
- support for randomized auth/deauth TA for PASN privacy
- per-link debugfs for multi-link
- TC offload support for mac80211 drivers
- mac80211 mesh fast-xmit and fast-rx support
- enable Wi-Fi 7 (EHT) mesh support

Netfilter:

- Add nf_tables 'brouting' support, to force a packet to be routed
instead of being bridged

- Update bridge netfilter and ovs conntrack helpers to handle IPv6
Jumbo packets properly, i.e. fetch the packet length from
hop-by-hop extension header. This is needed for BIT TCP support

- The iptables 32bit compat interface isn't compiled in by default
anymore

- Move ip(6)tables builtin icmp matches to the udptcp one. This has
the advantage that icmp/icmpv6 match doesn't load the
iptables/ip6tables modules anymore when iptables-nft is used

- Extended netlink error report for netdevice in flowtables and
netdev/chains. Allow for incrementally add/delete devices to netdev
basechain. Allow to create netdev chain without device

Driver API:

- Remove redundant Device Control Error Reporting Enable, as PCI core
has already error reporting enabled at enumeration time

- Move Multicast DB netlink handlers to core, allowing devices other
then bridge to use them

- Allow the page_pool to directly recycle the pages from safely
localized NAPI

- Implement lockless TX queue stop/wake combo macros, allowing for
further code de-duplication and sanitization

- Add YNL support for user headers and struct attrs

- Add partial YNL specification for devlink

- Add partial YNL specification for ethtool

- Add tc-mqprio and tc-taprio support for preemptible traffic classes

- Add tx push buf len param to ethtool, specifies the maximum number
of bytes of a transmitted packet a driver can push directly to the
underlying device

- Add basic LED support for switch/phy

- Add NAPI documentation, stop relaying on external links

- Convert dsa_master_ioctl() to netdev notifier. This is a
preparatory work to make the hardware timestamping layer selectable
by user space

- Add transceiver support and improve the error messages for CAN-FD
controllers

New hardware / drivers:

- Ethernet:
- AMD/Pensando core device support
- MediaTek MT7981 SoC
- MediaTek MT7988 SoC
- Broadcom BCM53134 embedded switch
- Texas Instruments CPSW9G ethernet switch
- Qualcomm EMAC3 DWMAC ethernet
- StarFive JH7110 SoC
- NXP CBTX ethernet PHY

- WiFi:
- Apple M1 Pro/Max devices
- RealTek rtl8710bu/rtl8188gu
- RealTek rtl8822bs, rtl8822cs and rtl8821cs SDIO chipset

- Bluetooth:
- Realtek RTL8821CS, RTL8851B, RTL8852BS
- Mediatek MT7663, MT7922
- NXP w8997
- Actions Semi ATS2851
- QTI WCN6855
- Marvell 88W8997

- Can:
- STMicroelectronics bxcan stm32f429

Drivers:

- Ethernet NICs:
- Intel (1G, icg):
- add tracking and reporting of QBV config errors
- add support for configuring max SDU for each Tx queue
- Intel (100G, ice):
- refactor mailbox overflow detection to support Scalable IOV
- GNSS interface optimization
- Intel (i40e):
- support XDP multi-buffer
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- add the support for linux bridge multicast offload
- enable TC offload for egress and engress MACVLAN over bond
- add support for VxLAN GBP encap/decap flows offload
- extend packet offload to fully support libreswan
- support tunnel mode in mlx5 IPsec packet offload
- extend XDP multi-buffer support
- support MACsec VLAN offload
- add support for dynamic msix vectors allocation
- drop RX page_cache and fully use page_pool
- implement thermal zone to report NIC temperature
- Netronome/Corigine:
- add support for multi-zone conntrack offload
- Solarflare/Xilinx:
- support offloading TC VLAN push/pop actions to the MAE
- support TC decap rules
- support unicast PTP

- Other NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt): enforce software based freq adjustments only on
shared PHC NIC
- RealTek (r8169): refactor to addess ASPM issues during NAPI poll
- Micrel (lan8841): add support for PTP_PF_PEROUT
- Cadence (macb): enable PTP unicast
- Engleder (tsnep): add XDP socket zero-copy support
- virtio-net: implement exact header length guest feature
- veth: add page_pool support for page recycling
- vxlan: add MDB data path support
- gve: add XDP support for GQI-QPL format
- geneve: accept every ethertype
- macvlan: allow some packets to bypass broadcast queue
- mana: add support for jumbo frame

- Ethernet high-speed switches:
- Microchip (sparx5): Add support for TC flower templates

- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Broadcom (b54):
- configure 6318 and 63268 RGMII ports
- Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
- faster C45 bus scan
- Microchip:
- lan966x:
- add support for IS1 VCAP
- better TX/RX from/to CPU performances
- ksz9477: add ETS Qdisc support
- ksz8: enhance static MAC table operations and error handling
- sama7g5: add PTP capability
- NXP (ocelot):
- add support for external ports
- add support for preemptible traffic classes
- Texas Instruments:
- add CPSWxG SGMII support for J7200 and J721E

- Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
- preparation for Wi-Fi 7 EHT and multi-link support
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) sniffer support
- hardware timestamping support for some devices/firwmares
- TX beacon protection on newer hardware

- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- MU-MIMO parameters support
- ack signal support for management packets

- RealTek WiFi (rtw88):
- SDIO bus support
- better support for some SDIO devices (e.g. MAC address from
efuse)

- RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
- HW scan support for 8852b
- better support for 6 GHz scanning
- support for various newer firmware APIs
- framework firmware backwards compatibility

- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- P2P support
- mesh A-MSDU support
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
- coredump support"

* tag 'net-next-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2078 commits)
net: phy: hide the PHYLIB_LEDS knob
net: phy: marvell-88x2222: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions
tcp/udp: Fix memleaks of sk and zerocopy skbs with TX timestamp.
net: amd: Fix link leak when verifying config failed
net: phy: marvell: Fix inconsistent indenting in led_blink_set
lan966x: Don't use xdp_frame when action is XDP_TX
tsnep: Add XDP socket zero-copy TX support
tsnep: Add XDP socket zero-copy RX support
tsnep: Move skb receive action to separate function
tsnep: Add functions for queue enable/disable
tsnep: Rework TX/RX queue initialization
tsnep: Replace modulo operation with mask
net: phy: dp83867: Add led_brightness_set support
net: phy: Fix reading LED reg property
drivers: nfc: nfcsim: remove return value check of `dev_dir`
net: phy: dp83867: Remove unnecessary (void*) conversions
net: ethtool: coalesce: try to make user settings stick twice
net: mana: Check if netdev/napi_alloc_frag returns single page
net: mana: Rename mana_refill_rxoob and remove some empty lines
net: veth: add page_pool stats
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Revision tags: v6.3, v6.3-rc7
# 4033eaa6 13-Apr-2023 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

Merge branch 'net-use-read_once-write_once-for-ring-index-accesses'

Jakub Kicinski says:

====================
net: use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE for ring index accesses

Small follow up to the lockless

Merge branch 'net-use-read_once-write_once-for-ring-index-accesses'

Jakub Kicinski says:

====================
net: use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE for ring index accesses

Small follow up to the lockless ring stop/start macros.
Update the doc and the drivers suggested by Eric:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CANn89iJrBGSybMX1FqrhCEMWT3Nnz2=2+aStsbbwpWzKHjk51g@mail.gmail.com/

====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230412015038.674023-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

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# 50762d9a 12-Apr-2023 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

net: docs: update the sample code in driver.rst

The sample code talks about single-queue devices and uses locks.
Update it to something resembling more modern code.
Make sure we mention use of READ_

net: docs: update the sample code in driver.rst

The sample code talks about single-queue devices and uses locks.
Update it to something resembling more modern code.
Make sure we mention use of READ_ONCE() / WRITE_ONCE().

Change the comment which talked about consumer on the xmit side.
AFAIU xmit is the producer and completions are a consumer.

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

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# 6c6d5349 11-Apr-2023 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'net-lockless-stop-wake-combo-macros'

Jakub Kicinski says:

====================
net: lockless stop/wake combo macros

A lot of drivers follow the same scheme to stop / start queues
wit

Merge branch 'net-lockless-stop-wake-combo-macros'

Jakub Kicinski says:

====================
net: lockless stop/wake combo macros

A lot of drivers follow the same scheme to stop / start queues
without introducing locks between xmit and NAPI tx completions.
I'm guessing they all copy'n'paste each other's code.
The original code dates back all the way to e1000 and Linux 2.6.19.

v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230405223134.94665-1-kuba@kernel.org/
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230401051221.3160913-2-kuba@kernel.org/
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230322233028.269410-1-kuba@kernel.org/
rfc: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230311050130.115138-1-kuba@kernel.org/
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230407012536.273382-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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Revision tags: v6.3-rc6
# c91c46de 07-Apr-2023 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

net: provide macros for commonly copied lockless queue stop/wake code

A lot of drivers follow the same scheme to stop / start queues
without introducing locks between xmit and NAPI tx completions.
I

net: provide macros for commonly copied lockless queue stop/wake code

A lot of drivers follow the same scheme to stop / start queues
without introducing locks between xmit and NAPI tx completions.
I'm guessing they all copy'n'paste each other's code.
The original code dates back all the way to e1000 and Linux 2.6.19.

Smaller drivers shy away from the scheme and introduce a lock
which may cause deadlocks in netpoll.

Provide macros which encapsulate the necessary logic.

The macros do not prevent false wake ups, the extra barrier
required to close that race is not worth it. See discussion in:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/c39312a2-4537-14b4-270c-9fe1fbb91e89@gmail.com/

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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# 83364625 07-Apr-2023 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

docs: net: use C syntax highlight in driver.rst

Use syntax highlight, comment out the "..." since they are
not valid C.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>


# da4f0f82 07-Apr-2023 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

docs: net: move the probe and open/close sections of driver.rst up

Somehow it feels more right to start from the probe then open,
then tx... Much like the lifetime of the driver itself.

Signed-off-

docs: net: move the probe and open/close sections of driver.rst up

Somehow it feels more right to start from the probe then open,
then tx... Much like the lifetime of the driver itself.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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# d2f5c68e 07-Apr-2023 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

docs: net: reformat driver.rst from a list to sections

driver.rst had a historical form of list of common problems.
In the age os Sphinx and rendered documentation it's better
to use the more usual

docs: net: reformat driver.rst from a list to sections

driver.rst had a historical form of list of common problems.
In the age os Sphinx and rendered documentation it's better
to use the more usual title + text format.

This will allow us to render kdoc into the output more naturally.

No changes to the actual text.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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Revision tags: v6.3-rc5, v6.3-rc4, v6.3-rc3, v6.3-rc2, v6.3-rc1, v6.2, v6.2-rc8, v6.2-rc7, v6.2-rc6, v6.2-rc5, v6.2-rc4, v6.2-rc3, v6.2-rc2, v6.2-rc1
# 4f2c0a4a 14-Dec-2022 Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>

Merge branch 'main' into zstd-linus


# e291c116 12-Dec-2022 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.2 merge window.


Revision tags: v6.1, v6.1-rc8, v6.1-rc7
# 29583dfc 21-Nov-2022 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next-fixes

Backmerging to update drm-misc-next-fixes for the final phase
of the release cycle.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>


Revision tags: v6.1-rc6
# 002c6ca7 14-Nov-2022 Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Catch up on 6.1-rc cycle in order to solve the intel_backlight
conflict on linux-next.

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>


Revision tags: v6.1-rc5, v6.1-rc4
# d93618da 04-Nov-2022 Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Needed to bring in v6.1-rc1 which contains commit f683b9d61319 ("i915: use the VMA iterator")
which is needed for series https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/s

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Needed to bring in v6.1-rc1 which contains commit f683b9d61319 ("i915: use the VMA iterator")
which is needed for series https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/110083/ .

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

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Revision tags: v6.1-rc3, v6.1-rc2
# 14e77332 22-Oct-2022 Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>

Merge branch 'main' into zstd-next


# 1aca5ce0 20-Oct-2022 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Backmerging to get v6.1-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>


# a140a6a2 18-Oct-2022 Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Let's kick-off this release cycle.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>


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