Merge branch 'linus' into x86/mm, to pick up fixes

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

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.14 merge window.

Merge tag 'v6.13-rc3' into next

Sync up with the mainline.

Merge remote-tracking branch 'pm/opp/linux-next' into HEAD

Merge pm/opp tree to get dev_pm_opp_get_bw()

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>

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

Catching up with 6.13-rc2.

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

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

A backmerge to get the PMT preparation work for
merging the BMG PMT support.

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

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

Kickstart 6.14 cycle.

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

Merge tag 'v6.13-rc1' into perf/core, to refresh the branch

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

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.13-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.13

A few small fixes for v6.13, all system specific - the biggest t

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.13-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.13

A few small fixes for v6.13, all system specific - the biggest thing is
the fix for jack handling over suspend on some Intel laptops.

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Merge branch 'ovl.fixes'

Bring in an overlayfs fix for v6.13-rc1 that fixes a bug introduced by
the overlayfs changes merged for v6.13.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'net-next-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"The most significant set of changes is the per netns RTNL. The

Merge tag 'net-next-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"The most significant set of changes is the per netns RTNL. The new
behavior is disabled by default, regression risk should be contained.

Notably the new config knob PTP_1588_CLOCK_VMCLOCK will inherit its
default value from PTP_1588_CLOCK_KVM, as the first is intended to be
a more reliable replacement for the latter.

Core:

- Started a very large, in-progress, effort to make the RTNL lock
scope per network-namespace, thus reducing the lock contention
significantly in the containerized use-case, comprising:
- RCU-ified some relevant slices of the FIB control path
- introduce basic per netns locking helpers
- namespacified the IPv4 address hash table
- remove rtnl_register{,_module}() in favour of
rtnl_register_many()
- refactor rtnl_{new,del,set}link() moving as much validation as
possible out of RTNL lock
- convert all phonet doit() and dumpit() handlers to RCU
- convert IPv4 addresses manipulation to per-netns RTNL
- convert virtual interface creation to per-netns RTNL
the per-netns lock infrastructure is guarded by the
CONFIG_DEBUG_NET_SMALL_RTNL knob, disabled by default ad interim.

- Introduce NAPI suspension, to efficiently switching between busy
polling (NAPI processing suspended) and normal processing.

- Migrate the IPv4 routing input, output and control path from direct
ToS usage to DSCP macros. This is a work in progress to make ECN
handling consistent and reliable.

- Add drop reasons support to the IPv4 rotue input path, allowing
better introspection in case of packets drop.

- Make FIB seqnum lockless, dropping RTNL protection for read access.

- Make inet{,v6} addresses hashing less predicable.

- Allow providing timestamp OPT_ID via cmsg, to correlate TX packets
and timestamps

Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:

- Add small file operations for debugfs, to reduce the struct ops
size.

- Refactoring and optimization for the implementation of page_frag
API, This is a preparatory work to consolidate the page_frag
implementation.

Netfilter:

- Optimize set element transactions to reduce memory consumption

- Extended netlink error reporting for attribute parser failure.

- Make legacy xtables configs user selectable, giving users the
option to configure iptables without enabling any other config.

- Address a lot of false-positive RCU issues, pointed by recent CI
improvements.

BPF:

- Put xsk sockets on a struct diet and add various cleanups. Overall,
this helps to bump performance by 12% for some workloads.

- Extend BPF selftests to increase coverage of XDP features in
combination with BPF cpumap.

- Optimize and homogenize bpf_csum_diff helper for all archs and also
add a batch of new BPF selftests for it.

- Extend netkit with an option to delegate skb->{mark,priority}
scrubbing to its BPF program.

- Make the bpf_get_netns_cookie() helper available also to tc(x) BPF
programs.

Protocols:

- Introduces 4-tuple hash for connected udp sockets, speeding-up
significantly connected sockets lookup.

- Add a fastpath for some TCP timers that usually expires after
close, the socket lock contention.

- Add inbound and outbound xfrm state caches to speed up state
lookups.

- Avoid sending MPTCP advertisements on stale subflows, reducing
risks on loosing them.

- Make neighbours table flushing more scalable, maintaining per
device neigh lists.

Driver API:

- Introduce a unified interface to configure transmission H/W
shaping, and expose it to user-space via generic-netlink.

- Add support for per-NAPI config via netlink. This makes napi
configuration persistent across queues removal and re-creation.
Requires driver updates, currently supported drivers are:
nVidia/Mellanox mlx4 and mlx5, Broadcom brcm and Intel ice.

- Add ethtool support for writing SFP / PHY firmware blocks.

- Track RSS context allocation from ethtool core.

- Implement support for mirroring to DSA CPU port, via TC mirror
offload.

- Consolidate FDB updates notification, to avoid duplicates on
device-specific entries.

- Expose DPLL clock quality level to the user-space.

- Support master-slave PHY config via device tree.

Tests and tooling:

- forwarding: introduce deferred commands, to simplify the cleanup
phase

Drivers:

- Updated several drivers - Amazon vNic, Google vNic, Microsoft vNic,
Intel e1000e and Broadcom Tigon3 - to use netdev-genl to link the
IRQs and queues to NAPI IDs, allowing busy polling and better
introspection.

- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- mlx5:
- a large refactor to implement support for cross E-Switch
scheduling
- refactor H/W conter management to let it scale better
- H/W GRO cleanups
- Intel (100G, ice)::
- add support for ethtool reset
- implement support for per TX queue H/W shaping
- AMD/Solarflare:
- implement per device queue stats support
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- improve wildcard l4proto on IPv4/IPv6 ntuple rules
- Marvell Octeon:
- Add representor support for each Resource Virtualization Unit
(RVU) device.
- Hisilicon:
- add support for the BMC Gigabit Ethernet
- IBM (EMAC):
- driver cleanup and modernization
- Cisco (VIC):
- raise the queues number limit to 256

- Ethernet virtual:
- Google vNIC:
- implement page pool support
- macsec:
- inherit lower device's features and TSO limits when
offloading
- virtio_net:
- enable premapped mode by default
- support for XDP socket(AF_XDP) zerocopy TX
- wireguard:
- set the TSO max size to be GSO_MAX_SIZE, to aggregate larger
packets.

- Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual:
- Broadcom ASP:
- enable software timestamping
- Freescale:
- add enetc4 PF driver
- MediaTek: Airoha SoC:
- implement BQL support
- RealTek r8169:
- enable TSO by default on r8168/r8125
- implement extended ethtool stats
- Renesas AVB:
- enable TX checksum offload
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- support header splitting for vlan tagged packets
- move common code for DWMAC4 and DWXGMAC into a separate FPE
module.
- add dwmac driver support for T-HEAD TH1520 SoC
- Synopsys (xpcs):
- driver refactor and cleanup
- TI:
- icssg_prueth: add VLAN offload support
- Xilinx emaclite:
- add clock support

- Ethernet switches:
- Microchip:
- implement support for the lan969x Ethernet switch family
- add LAN9646 switch support to KSZ DSA driver

- Ethernet PHYs:
- Marvel: 88q2x: enable auto negotiation
- Microchip: add support for LAN865X Rev B1 and LAN867X Rev C1/C2

- PTP:
- Add support for the Amazon virtual clock device
- Add PtP driver for s390 clocks

- WiFi:
- mac80211
- EHT 1024 aggregation size for transmissions
- new operation to indicate that a new interface is to be added
- support radio separation of multi-band devices
- move wireless extension spy implementation to libiw
- Broadcom:
- brcmfmac: optional LPO clock support
- Microchip:
- add support for Atmel WILC3000
- Qualcomm (ath12k):
- firmware coredump collection support
- add debugfs support for a multitude of statistics
- Qualcomm (ath5k):
- Arcadyan ARV45XX AR2417 & Gigaset SX76[23] AR241[34]A support
- Realtek:
- rtw88: 8821au and 8812au USB adapters support
- rtw89: add thermal protection
- rtw89: fine tune BT-coexsitence to improve user experience
- rtw89: firmware secure boot for WiFi 6 chip

- Bluetooth
- add Qualcomm WCN785x support for ids Foxconn 0xe0fc/0xe0f3 and
0x13d3:0x3623
- add Realtek RTL8852BE support for id Foxconn 0xe123
- add MediaTek MT7920 support for wireless module ids
- btintel_pcie: add handshake between driver and firmware
- btintel_pcie: add recovery mechanism
- btnxpuart: add GPIO support to power save feature"

* tag 'net-next-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1475 commits)
mm: page_frag: fix a compile error when kernel is not compiled
Documentation: tipc: fix formatting issue in tipc.rst
selftests: nic_performance: Add selftest for performance of NIC driver
selftests: nic_link_layer: Add selftest case for speed and duplex states
selftests: nic_link_layer: Add link layer selftest for NIC driver
bnxt_en: Add FW trace coredump segments to the coredump
bnxt_en: Add a new ethtool -W dump flag
bnxt_en: Add 2 parameters to bnxt_fill_coredump_seg_hdr()
bnxt_en: Add functions to copy host context memory
bnxt_en: Do not free FW log context memory
bnxt_en: Manage the FW trace context memory
bnxt_en: Allocate backing store memory for FW trace logs
bnxt_en: Add a 'force' parameter to bnxt_free_ctx_mem()
bnxt_en: Refactor bnxt_free_ctx_mem()
bnxt_en: Add mem_valid bit to struct bnxt_ctx_mem_type
bnxt_en: Update firmware interface spec to 1.10.3.85
selftests/bpf: Add some tests with sockmap SK_PASS
bpf: fix recursive lock when verdict program return SK_PASS
wireguard: device: support big tcp GSO
wireguard: selftests: load nf_conntrack if not present
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Merge branch 'gve-adopt-page-pool'

Harshitha Ramamurthy says:

====================
gve: adopt page pool

This patchset implements page pool support for gve.
The first patch deals with movement of c

Merge branch 'gve-adopt-page-pool'

Harshitha Ramamurthy says:

====================
gve: adopt page pool

This patchset implements page pool support for gve.
The first patch deals with movement of code to make
page pool adoption easier in the next patch. The
second patch adopts the page pool API. The third patch
adds basic per queue stats which includes page pool
allocation failures as well.
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241014202108.1051963-1-pkaligineedi@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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gve: move DQO rx buffer management related code to a new file

In preparation for the upcoming page pool adoption for DQO
raw addressing mode, move RX buffer management code to a new
file. In the fol

gve: move DQO rx buffer management related code to a new file

In preparation for the upcoming page pool adoption for DQO
raw addressing mode, move RX buffer management code to a new
file. In the follow on patches, page pool code will be added
to this file.

No functional change, just movement of code.

Reviewed-by: Praveen Kaligineedi <pkaligineedi@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Shailend Chand <shailend@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Harshitha Ramamurthy <hramamurthy@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241014202108.1051963-2-pkaligineedi@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.12 merge window.

Merge branch 'ib/6.11-rc6-matrix-keypad-spitz' into next

Bring in changes removing support for platform data from matrix-keypad
driver.

Merge tag 'v6.11-rc1' into clk-meson-next

Linux 6.11-rc1

Merge tag 'v6.11-rc3' into trace/ring-buffer/core

The "reserve_mem" kernel command line parameter has been pulled into
v6.11. Merge the latest -rc3 to allow the persistent ring buffer memory to
be a

Merge tag 'v6.11-rc3' into trace/ring-buffer/core

The "reserve_mem" kernel command line parameter has been pulled into
v6.11. Merge the latest -rc3 to allow the persistent ring buffer memory to
be able to be mapped at the address specified by the "reserve_mem" command
line parameter.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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Merge tag 'v6.11-rc1' into for-6.12

Linux 6.11-rc1

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Get drm-xe-next on v6.11-rc2 and synchronized with drm-intel-next for
the display side. This resolves the current conflict for the
enable_display module parameter

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Get drm-xe-next on v6.11-rc2 and synchronized with drm-intel-next for
the display side. This resolves the current conflict for the
enable_display module parameter and allows further pending refactors.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>

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

Get drm-misc-next to the state of v6.11-rc2.

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

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

Sync with v6.11-rc1 in general, and specifically get the new
BACKLIGHT_POWER_ constants for power states.

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

Merge branch 'linus' into x86/mm

Bring x86 and selftests up to date

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

Let's start the new drm-misc-fixes cycle by bringing in 6.11-rc1.

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

Merge tag 'net-next-6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Not much excitement - a handful of large patchsets (devmem a

Merge tag 'net-next-6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Not much excitement - a handful of large patchsets (devmem among them)
did not make it in time.

Core & protocols:

- Use local_lock in addition to local_bh_disable() to protect per-CPU
resources in networking, a step closer for local_bh_disable() not
to act as a big lock on PREEMPT_RT

- Use flex array for netdevice priv area, ensure its cache alignment

- Add a sysctl knob to allow user to specify a default rto_min at
socket init time. Bit of a big hammer but multiple companies were
independently carrying such patch downstream so clearly it's useful

- Support scheduling transmission of packets based on CLOCK_TAI

- Un-pin TCP TIMEWAIT timer to avoid it firing on CPUs later cordoned
off using cpusets

- Support multiple L2TPv3 UDP tunnels using the same 5-tuple address

- Allow configuration of multipath hash seed, to both allow
synchronizing hashing of two routers, and preventing partial
accidental sync

- Improve TCP compliance with RFC 9293 for simultaneous connect()

- Support sending NAT keepalives in IPsec ESP in UDP states.
Userspace IKE daemon had to do this before, but the kernel can
better keep track of it

- Support sending supervision HSR frames with MAC addresses stored in
ProxyNodeTable when RedBox (i.e. HSR-SAN) is enabled

- Introduce IPPROTO_SMC for selecting SMC when socket is created

- Allow UDP GSO transmit from devices with no checksum offload

- openvswitch: add packet sampling via psample, separating the
sampled traffic from "upcall" packets sent to user space for
forwarding

- nf_tables: shrink memory consumption for transaction objects

Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:

- Power Sequencing subsystem (used by Qualcomm Bluetooth driver for
QCA6390) [ Already merged separately - Linus ]

- Add IRQ information in sysfs for auxiliary bus

- Introduce guard definition for local_lock

- Add aligned flavor of __cacheline_group_{begin, end}() markings for
grouping fields in structures

BPF:

- Notify user space (via epoll) when a struct_ops object is getting
detached/unregistered

- Add new kfuncs for a generic, open-coded bits iterator

- Enable BPF programs to declare arrays of kptr, bpf_rb_root, and
bpf_list_head

- Support resilient split BTF which cuts down on duplication and
makes BTF as compact as possible WRT BTF from modules

- Add support for dumping kfunc prototypes from BTF which enables
both detecting as well as dumping compilable prototypes for kfuncs

- riscv64 BPF JIT improvements in particular to add 12-argument
support for BPF trampolines and to utilize bpf_prog_pack for the
latter

- Add the capability to offload the netfilter flowtable in XDP layer
through kfuncs

Driver API:

- Allow users to configure IRQ tresholds between which automatic IRQ
moderation can choose

- Expand Power Sourcing (PoE) status with power, class and failure
reason. Support setting power limits

- Track additional RSS contexts in the core, make sure configuration
changes don't break them

- Support IPsec crypto offload for IPv6 ESP and IPv4 UDP-encapsulated
ESP data paths

- Support updating firmware on SFP modules

Tests and tooling:

- mptcp: use net/lib.sh to manage netns

- TCP-AO and TCP-MD5: replace debug prints used by tests with
tracepoints

- openvswitch: make test self-contained (don't depend on OvS CLI
tools)

Drivers:

- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- increase the max total outstanding PTP TX packets to 4
- add timestamping statistics support
- implement netdev_queue_mgmt_ops
- support new RSS context API
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- implement FEC statistics and dumping signal quality indicators
- support E825C products (with 56Gbps PHYs)
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- support HW-GRO
- mlx4/mlx5: support per-queue statistics via netlink
- obey the max number of EQs setting in sub-functions
- AMD/Solarflare:
- support new RSS context API
- AMD/Pensando:
- ionic: rework fix for doorbell miss to lower overhead and
skip it on new HW
- Wangxun:
- txgbe: support Flow Director perfect filters

- Ethernet NICs consumer, embedded and virtual:
- Add driver for Tehuti Networks TN40xx chips
- Add driver for Meta's internal NIC chips
- Add driver for Ethernet MAC on Airoha EN7581 SoCs
- Add driver for Renesas Ethernet-TSN devices
- Google cloud vNIC:
- flow steering support
- Microsoft vNIC:
- support page sizes other than 4KB on ARM64
- vmware vNIC:
- support latency measurement (update to version 9)
- VirtIO net:
- support for Byte Queue Limits
- support configuring thresholds for automatic IRQ moderation
- support for AF_XDP Rx zero-copy
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- support for STM32MP13 SoC
- let platforms select the right PCS implementation
- TI:
- icssg-prueth: add multicast filtering support
- icssg-prueth: enable PTP timestamping and PPS
- Renesas:
- ravb: improve Rx performance 30-400% by using page pool,
theaded NAPI and timer-based IRQ coalescing
- ravb: add MII support for R-Car V4M
- Cadence (macb):
- macb: add ARP support to Wake-On-LAN
- Cortina:
- use phylib for RX and TX pause configuration

- Ethernet switches:
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- support configuration of multipath hash seed
- report more accurate max MTU
- use page_pool to improve Rx performance
- MediaTek:
- mt7530: add support for bridge port isolation
- Qualcomm:
- qca8k: add support for bridge port isolation
- Microchip:
- lan9371/2: add 100BaseTX PHY support
- NXP:
- vsc73xx: implement VLAN operations

- Ethernet PHYs:
- aquantia: enable support for aqr115c
- aquantia: add support for PHY LEDs
- realtek: add support for rtl8224 2.5Gbps PHY
- xpcs: add memory-mapped device support
- add BroadR-Reach link mode and support in Broadcom's PHY driver

- CAN:
- add document for ISO 15765-2 protocol support
- mcp251xfd: workaround for erratum DS80000789E, use timestamps to
catch when device returns incorrect FIFO status

- WiFi:
- mac80211/cfg80211:
- parse Transmit Power Envelope (TPE) data in mac80211 instead
of in drivers
- improvements for 6 GHz regulatory flexibility
- multi-link improvements
- support multiple radios per wiphy
- remove DEAUTH_NEED_MGD_TX_PREP flag
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- bump FW API to 91 for BZ/SC devices
- report 64-bit radiotap timestamp
- enable P2P low latency by default
- handle Transmit Power Envelope (TPE) advertised by AP
- remove support for older FW for new devices
- fast resume (keeping the device configured)
- mvm: re-enable Multi-Link Operation (MLO)
- aggregation (A-MSDU) optimizations
- MediaTek (mt76):
- mt7925 Multi-Link Operation (MLO) support
- Qualcomm (ath10k):
- LED support for various chipsets
- Qualcomm (ath12k):
- remove unsupported Tx monitor handling
- support channel 2 in 6 GHz band
- support Spatial Multiplexing Power Save (SMPS) in 6 GHz band
- supprt multiple BSSID (MBSSID) and Enhanced Multi-BSSID
Advertisements (EMA)
- support dynamic VLAN
- add panic handler for resetting the firmware state
- DebugFS support for datapath statistics
- WCN7850: support for Wake on WLAN
- Microchip (wilc1000):
- read MAC address during probe to make it visible to user space
- suspend/resume improvements
- TI (wl18xx):
- support newer firmware versions
- RealTek (rtw89):
- preparation for RTL8852BE-VT support
- Wake on WLAN support for WiFi 6 chips
- 36-bit PCI DMA support
- RealTek (rtlwifi):
- RTL8192DU support
- Broadcom (brcmfmac):
- Management Frame Protection support (to enable WPA3)

- Bluetooth:
- qualcomm: use the power sequencer for QCA6390
- btusb: mediatek: add ISO data transmission functions
- hci_bcm4377: add BCM4388 support
- btintel: add support for BlazarU core
- btintel: add support for Whale Peak2
- btnxpuart: add support for AW693 A1 chipset
- btnxpuart: add support for IW615 chipset
- btusb: add Realtek RTL8852BE support ID 0x13d3:0x3591"

* tag 'net-next-6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1589 commits)
eth: fbnic: Fix spelling mistake "tiggerring" -> "triggering"
tcp: Replace strncpy() with strscpy()
wifi: ath12k: fix build vs old compiler
tcp: Don't access uninit tcp_rsk(req)->ao_keyid in tcp_create_openreq_child().
eth: fbnic: Write the TCAM tables used for RSS control and Rx to host
eth: fbnic: Add L2 address programming
eth: fbnic: Add basic Rx handling
eth: fbnic: Add basic Tx handling
eth: fbnic: Add link detection
eth: fbnic: Add initial messaging to notify FW of our presence
eth: fbnic: Implement Rx queue alloc/start/stop/free
eth: fbnic: Implement Tx queue alloc/start/stop/free
eth: fbnic: Allocate a netdevice and napi vectors with queues
eth: fbnic: Add FW communication mechanism
eth: fbnic: Add message parsing for FW messages
eth: fbnic: Add register init to set PCIe/Ethernet device config
eth: fbnic: Allocate core device specific structures and devlink interface
eth: fbnic: Add scaffolding for Meta's NIC driver
PCI: Add Meta Platforms vendor ID
net/sched: cls_flower: propagate tca[TCA_OPTIONS] to NL_REQ_ATTR_CHECK
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Merge branch 'gve-add-flow-steering-support'

Ziwei Xiao says:

====================
gve: Add flow steering support

To support flow steering in GVE driver, there are two adminq changes
need to be ma

Merge branch 'gve-add-flow-steering-support'

Ziwei Xiao says:

====================
gve: Add flow steering support

To support flow steering in GVE driver, there are two adminq changes
need to be made in advance.

The first one is adding adminq mutex lock, which is to allow the
incoming flow steering operations to be able to temporarily drop the
rtnl_lock to reduce the latency for registering flow rules among
several NICs at the same time. This could be achieved by the future
changes to reduce the drivers' dependencies on the rtnl lock for
particular ethtool ops.

The second one is to add the extended adminq command so that we can
support larger adminq command such as configure_flow_rule command. In
that patch, there is a new added function called
gve_adminq_execute_extended_cmd with the attribute of __maybe_unused.
That attribute will be removed in the third patch of this series where
it will use the previously unused function.

And the other three patches are needed for the actual flow steering
feature support in driver.
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240625001232.1476315-1-ziweixiao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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