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# a23e1966 15-Jul-2024 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.11 merge window.


Revision tags: v6.10, v6.10-rc7, v6.10-rc6, v6.10-rc5, v6.10-rc4, v6.10-rc3, v6.10-rc2
# 6f47c7ae 28-May-2024 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v6.9' into next

Sync up with the mainline to bring in the new cleanup API.


Revision tags: v6.10-rc1
# 60a2f25d 16-May-2024 Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@ursulin.net>

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

Some display refactoring patches are needed in order to allow conflict-
less merging.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@ursulin.net>


Revision tags: v6.9, v6.9-rc7, v6.9-rc6, v6.9-rc5, v6.9-rc4, v6.9-rc3, v6.9-rc2, v6.9-rc1, v6.8, v6.8-rc7, v6.8-rc6, v6.8-rc5, v6.8-rc4, v6.8-rc3, v6.8-rc2, v6.8-rc1
# 0ea5c948 15-Jan-2024 Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

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

Backmerge to bring Xe driver to drm-intel-next.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>


# 03c11eb3 14-Feb-2024 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v6.8-rc4' into x86/percpu, to resolve conflicts and refresh the branch

Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
arch/x86/include/asm/text-patching.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@k

Merge tag 'v6.8-rc4' into x86/percpu, to resolve conflicts and refresh the branch

Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
arch/x86/include/asm/text-patching.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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Revision tags: v6.7, v6.7-rc8, v6.7-rc7
# ab1c2470 19-Dec-2023 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf-tools-next

To pick up fixes that went thru perf-tools for v6.7 and to get in sync
with upstream to check for drift in the copies of headers,

Merge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf-tools-next

To pick up fixes that went thru perf-tools for v6.7 and to get in sync
with upstream to check for drift in the copies of headers, etc.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Revision tags: v6.7-rc6, v6.7-rc5, v6.7-rc4, v6.7-rc3, v6.7-rc2
# 3bf3e21c 15-Nov-2023 Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

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

Let's kickstart the v6.8 release cycle.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>


# 5d2d4a9f 15-Nov-2023 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent'

Avoid conflicts, base on fixes.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>


Revision tags: v6.7-rc1
# 89ed67ef 31-Oct-2023 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core & protocols:

- Support usec resolution of TCP timest

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

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core & protocols:

- Support usec resolution of TCP timestamps, enabled selectively by a
route attribute.

- Defer regular TCP ACK while processing socket backlog, try to send
a cumulative ACK at the end. Increase single TCP flow performance
on a 200Gbit NIC by 20% (100Gbit -> 120Gbit).

- The Fair Queuing (FQ) packet scheduler:
- add built-in 3 band prio / WRR scheduling
- support bypass if the qdisc is mostly idle (5% speed up for TCP RR)
- improve inactive flow reporting
- optimize the layout of structures for better cache locality

- Support TCP Authentication Option (RFC 5925, TCP-AO), a more modern
replacement for the old MD5 option.

- Add more retransmission timeout (RTO) related statistics to
TCP_INFO.

- Support sending fragmented skbs over vsock sockets.

- Make sure we send SIGPIPE for vsock sockets if socket was
shutdown().

- Add sysctl for ignoring lower limit on lifetime in Router
Advertisement PIO, based on an in-progress IETF draft.

- Add sysctl to control activation of TCP ping-pong mode.

- Add sysctl to make connection timeout in MPTCP configurable.

- Support rcvlowat and notsent_lowat on MPTCP sockets, to help apps
limit the number of wakeups.

- Support netlink GET for MDB (multicast forwarding), allowing user
space to request a single MDB entry instead of dumping the entire
table.

- Support selective FDB flushing in the VXLAN tunnel driver.

- Allow limiting learned FDB entries in bridges, prevent OOM attacks.

- Allow controlling via configfs netconsole targets which were
created via the kernel cmdline at boot, rather than via configfs at
runtime.

- Support multiple PTP timestamp event queue readers with different
filters.

- MCTP over I3C.

BPF:

- Add new veth-like netdevice where BPF program defines the logic of
the xmit routine. It can operate in L3 and L2 mode.

- Support exceptions - allow asserting conditions which should never
be true but are hard for the verifier to infer. With some extra
flexibility around handling of the exit / failure:

https://lwn.net/Articles/938435/

- Add support for local per-cpu kptr, allow allocating and storing
per-cpu objects in maps. Access to those objects operates on the
value for the current CPU.

This allows to deprecate local one-off implementations of per-CPU
storage like BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_CGROUP_STORAGE maps.

- Extend cgroup BPF sockaddr hooks for UNIX sockets. The use case is
for systemd to re-implement the LogNamespace feature which allows
running multiple instances of systemd-journald to process the logs
of different services.

- Enable open-coded task_vma iteration, after maple tree conversion
made it hard to directly walk VMAs in tracing programs.

- Add open-coded task, css_task and css iterator support. One of the
use cases is customizable OOM victim selection via BPF.

- Allow source address selection with bpf_*_fib_lookup().

- Add ability to pin BPF timer to the current CPU.

- Prevent creation of infinite loops by combining tail calls and
fentry/fexit programs.

- Add missed stats for kprobes to retrieve the number of missed
kprobe executions and subsequent executions of BPF programs.

- Inherit system settings for CPU security mitigations.

- Add BPF v4 CPU instruction support for arm32 and s390x.

Changes to common code:

- overflow: add DEFINE_FLEX() for on-stack definition of structs with
flexible array members.

- Process doc update with more guidance for reviewers.

Driver API:

- Simplify locking in WiFi (cfg80211 and mac80211 layers), use wiphy
mutex in most places and remove a lot of smaller locks.

- Create a common DPLL configuration API. Allow configuring and
querying state of PLL circuits used for clock syntonization, in
network time distribution.

- Unify fragmented and full page allocation APIs in page pool code.
Let drivers be ignorant of PAGE_SIZE.

- Rework PHY state machine to avoid races with calls to phy_stop().

- Notify DSA drivers of MAC address changes on user ports, improve
correctness of offloads which depend on matching port MAC
addresses.

- Allow antenna control on injected WiFi frames.

- Reduce the number of variants of napi_schedule().

- Simplify error handling when composing devlink health messages.

Misc:

- A lot of KCSAN data race "fixes", from Eric.

- A lot of __counted_by() annotations, from Kees.

- A lot of strncpy -> strscpy and printf format fixes.

- Replace master/slave terminology with conduit/user in DSA drivers.

- Handful of KUnit tests for netdev and WiFi core.

Removed:

- AppleTalk COPS.

- AppleTalk ipddp.

- TI AR7 CPMAC Ethernet driver.

Drivers:

- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- add a driver for the Intel E2000 IPUs
- make CRC/FCS stripping configurable
- cross-timestamping for E823 devices
- basic support for E830 devices
- use aux-bus for managing client drivers
- i40e: report firmware versions via devlink
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- support 4-port NICs
- increase max number of channels to 256
- optimize / parallelize SF creation flow
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- enhance NIC temperature reporting
- support PAM4 speeds and lane configuration
- Marvell OcteonTX2:
- PTP pulse-per-second output support
- enable hardware timestamping for VFs
- Solarflare/AMD:
- conntrack NAT offload and offload for tunnels
- Wangxun (ngbe/txgbe):
- expose HW statistics
- Pensando/AMD:
- support PCI level reset
- narrow down the condition under which skbs are linearized
- Netronome/Corigine (nfp):
- support CHACHA20-POLY1305 crypto in IPsec offload

- Ethernet NICs embedded, slower, virtual:
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- add Loongson-1 SoC support
- enable use of HW queues with no offload capabilities
- enable PPS input support on all 5 channels
- increase TX coalesce timer to 5ms
- RealTek USB (r8152): improve efficiency of Rx by using GRO frags
- xen: support SW packet timestamping
- add drivers for implementations based on TI's PRUSS (AM64x EVM)

- nVidia/Mellanox Ethernet datacenter switches:
- avoid poor HW resource use on Spectrum-4 by better block
selection for IPv6 multicast forwarding and ordering of blocks
in ACL region

- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Microchip:
- support configuring the drive strength for EMI compliance
- ksz9477: partial ACL support
- ksz9477: HSR offload
- ksz9477: Wake on LAN
- Realtek:
- rtl8366rb: respect device tree config of the CPU port

- Ethernet PHYs:
- support Broadcom BCM5221 PHYs
- TI dp83867: support hardware LED blinking

- CAN:
- add support for Linux-PHY based CAN transceivers
- at91_can: clean up and use rx-offload helpers

- WiFi:
- MediaTek (mt76):
- new sub-driver for mt7925 USB/PCIe devices
- HW wireless <> Ethernet bridging in MT7988 chips
- mt7603/mt7628 stability improvements
- Qualcomm (ath12k):
- WCN7850:
- enable 320 MHz channels in 6 GHz band
- hardware rfkill support
- enable IEEE80211_HW_SINGLE_SCAN_ON_ALL_BANDS to
make scan faster
- read board data variant name from SMBIOS
- QCN9274: mesh support
- RealTek (rtw89):
- TDMA-based multi-channel concurrency (MCC)
- Silicon Labs (wfx):
- Remain-On-Channel (ROC) support

- Bluetooth:
- ISO: many improvements for broadcast support
- mark BCM4378/BCM4387 as BROKEN_LE_CODED
- add support for QCA2066
- btmtksdio: enable Bluetooth wakeup from suspend"

* tag 'net-next-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1816 commits)
net: pcs: xpcs: Add 2500BASE-X case in get state for XPCS drivers
net: bpf: Use sockopt_lock_sock() in ip_sock_set_tos()
net: mana: Use xdp_set_features_flag instead of direct assignment
vxlan: Cleanup IFLA_VXLAN_PORT_RANGE entry in vxlan_get_size()
iavf: delete the iavf client interface
iavf: add a common function for undoing the interrupt scheme
iavf: use unregister_netdev
iavf: rely on netdev's own registered state
iavf: fix the waiting time for initial reset
iavf: in iavf_down, don't queue watchdog_task if comms failed
iavf: simplify mutex_trylock+sleep loops
iavf: fix comments about old bit locks
doc/netlink: Update schema to support cmd-cnt-name and cmd-max-name
tools: ynl: introduce option to process unknown attributes or types
ipvlan: properly track tx_errors
netdevsim: Block until all devices are released
nfp: using napi_build_skb() to replace build_skb()
net: dsa: microchip: ksz9477: Fix spelling mistake "Enery" -> "Energy"
net: dsa: microchip: Ensure Stable PME Pin State for Wake-on-LAN
net: dsa: microchip: Refactor switch shutdown routine for WoL preparation
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Revision tags: v6.6, v6.6-rc7, v6.6-rc6
# 6e55b1cb 11-Oct-2023 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

docs: try to encourage (netdev?) reviewers

Add a section to netdev maintainer doc encouraging reviewers
to chime in on the mailing list.

The questions about "when is it okay to share feedback"
keep

docs: try to encourage (netdev?) reviewers

Add a section to netdev maintainer doc encouraging reviewers
to chime in on the mailing list.

The questions about "when is it okay to share feedback"
keep coming up (most recently at netconf) and the answer
is "pretty much always".

Extend the section of 7.AdvancedTopics.rst which deals
with reviews a little bit to add stuff we had been recommending
locally.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Habets <habetsm.xilinx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Revision tags: v6.6-rc5, v6.6-rc4, v6.6-rc3, v6.6-rc2, v6.6-rc1, v6.5, v6.5-rc7, v6.5-rc6, v6.5-rc5, v6.5-rc4, v6.5-rc3, v6.5-rc2, v6.5-rc1, v6.4, v6.4-rc7, v6.4-rc6, v6.4-rc5, v6.4-rc4, v6.4-rc3, v6.4-rc2, v6.4-rc1, v6.3, v6.3-rc7, v6.3-rc6, 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, v6.1, v6.1-rc8, v6.1-rc7, v6.1-rc6, v6.1-rc5, v6.1-rc4, v6.1-rc3, v6.1-rc2, v6.1-rc1, v6.0, v6.0-rc7, v6.0-rc6, v6.0-rc5, v6.0-rc4, v6.0-rc3, v6.0-rc2, v6.0-rc1, v5.19, v5.19-rc8, v5.19-rc7, v5.19-rc6, v5.19-rc5, v5.19-rc4, v5.19-rc3, v5.19-rc2, v5.19-rc1, v5.18, v5.18-rc7, v5.18-rc6, v5.18-rc5, v5.18-rc4, v5.18-rc3, v5.18-rc2, v5.18-rc1, v5.17, v5.17-rc8, v5.17-rc7, v5.17-rc6, v5.17-rc5, v5.17-rc4, v5.17-rc3, v5.17-rc2, v5.17-rc1, v5.16, v5.16-rc8, v5.16-rc7, v5.16-rc6, v5.16-rc5, v5.16-rc4, v5.16-rc3, v5.16-rc2, v5.16-rc1, v5.15, v5.15-rc7, v5.15-rc6, v5.15-rc5, v5.15-rc4, v5.15-rc3, v5.15-rc2, v5.15-rc1, v5.14, v5.14-rc7, v5.14-rc6, v5.14-rc5, v5.14-rc4, v5.14-rc3, v5.14-rc2, v5.14-rc1, v5.13, v5.13-rc7, v5.13-rc6, v5.13-rc5, v5.13-rc4, v5.13-rc3, v5.13-rc2, v5.13-rc1, v5.12, v5.12-rc8, v5.12-rc7, v5.12-rc6, v5.12-rc5, v5.12-rc4, v5.12-rc3, v5.12-rc2, v5.12-rc1-dontuse, v5.11, v5.11-rc7, v5.11-rc6, v5.11-rc5, v5.11-rc4, v5.11-rc3, v5.11-rc2, v5.11-rc1
# 4b419325 15-Dec-2020 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 5.11 merge window.


Revision tags: v5.10, v5.10-rc7, v5.10-rc6, v5.10-rc5
# 05909cd9 18-Nov-2020 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v5.9' into next

Sync up with mainline to bring in the latest DTS files.


Revision tags: v5.10-rc4, v5.10-rc3, v5.10-rc2, v5.10-rc1, v5.9, v5.9-rc8, v5.9-rc7, v5.9-rc6, v5.9-rc5, v5.9-rc4
# ead5d1f4 01-Sep-2020 Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Merge branch 'master' into for-next

Sync with Linus' branch in order to be able to apply fixups
of more recent patches.


Revision tags: v5.9-rc3, v5.9-rc2, v5.9-rc1
# 3b5d1afd 03-Aug-2020 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus


Revision tags: v5.8, v5.8-rc7, v5.8-rc6, v5.8-rc5, v5.8-rc4
# 98817a84 30-Jun-2020 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Merge tag 'irqchip-fixes-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms into irq/urgent

Pull irqchip fixes from Marc Zyngier:

- Fix atomicity of affinity update in the G

Merge tag 'irqchip-fixes-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms into irq/urgent

Pull irqchip fixes from Marc Zyngier:

- Fix atomicity of affinity update in the GIC driver
- Don't sleep in atomic when waiting for a GICv4.1 RD to respond
- Fix a couple of typos in user-visible messages

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# 77346a70 30-Jun-2020 Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>

Merge tag 'v5.8-rc3' into arm/qcom

Linux 5.8-rc3


# 60e9eabf 29-Jun-2020 Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>

Backmerge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into drm-misc-next

Some conflicts with ttm_bo->offset removal, but drm-misc-next needs updating to v5.8.

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.la

Backmerge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into drm-misc-next

Some conflicts with ttm_bo->offset removal, but drm-misc-next needs updating to v5.8.

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>

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Revision tags: v5.8-rc3
# 0f69403d 25-Jun-2020 Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

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

Catch up with upstream, in particular to get c1e8d7c6a7a6 ("mmap locking
API: convert mmap_sem comments").

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@inte

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

Catch up with upstream, in particular to get c1e8d7c6a7a6 ("mmap locking
API: convert mmap_sem comments").

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

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Revision tags: v5.8-rc2
# 08a7c777 17-Jun-2020 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf/urgent

To get some newer headers that got out of sync with the copies in tools/
so that we can try to have the tools/perf/ build clean for v5

Merge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf/urgent

To get some newer headers that got out of sync with the copies in tools/
so that we can try to have the tools/perf/ build clean for v5.8 with
fewer pull requests.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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# 6870112c 17-Jun-2020 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v5.8-rc1' into regulator-5.8

Linux 5.8-rc1


# 07c7b547 16-Jun-2020 Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>

Merge tag 'v5.8-rc1' into fixes

Linux 5.8-rc1


# 4b3c1f1b 16-Jun-2020 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge v5.8-rc1 into drm-misc-fixes

Beginning a new release cycles for what will become v5.8. Updating
drm-misc-fixes accordingly.

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


Revision tags: v5.8-rc1
# 8440d4a7 12-Jun-2020 Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'dt/schema-cleanups' into dt/linus


# f77d26a9 11-Jun-2020 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Merge branch 'x86/entry' into ras/core

to fixup conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c so MCE specific follow
up patches can be applied without creating a horrible merge conflict
afterwards.


# 6d62c5b2 10-Jun-2020 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'docs-5.8-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of late-arriving docs fixes, along with a patch changing a
lot of HTTP links to

Merge tag 'docs-5.8-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of late-arriving docs fixes, along with a patch changing a
lot of HTTP links to HTTPS that had to be yanked and redone before the
first pull"

* tag 'docs-5.8-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic(): update Documentation
Documentation: devres: add missing entry for devm_platform_get_and_ioremap_resource()
Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: documentation
docs: it_IT: address invalid reference warnings
doc: zh_CN: use doc reference to resolve undefined label warning
docs: Update the location of the LF NDA program
docs: dev-tools: coccinelle: underlines

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