Merge branch 'topic/sound-devel-6.10' into for-next

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

Sync to get the drm_printer changes to drm-intel-next.

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

Merge tag 'v6.9-rc1' into sched/core, to pick up fixes and to refresh the branch

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

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.9-rc2' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.9

A relatively large set of fixes here, the biggest piece of it is a

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.9-rc2' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.9

A relatively large set of fixes here, the biggest piece of it is a
series correcting some problems with the delay reporting for Intel SOF
cards but there's a bunch of other things. Everything here is driver
specific except for a fix in the core for an issue with sign extension
handling volume controls.

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

Backmerging to get drm-misc-fixes to the state of v6.9-rc1.

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

Merge tag 'drm-misc-next-2024-02-08' into msm-next

Merge the drm-misc tree to uprev MSM CI.

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

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

Kickstart 6.9 development cycle.

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

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

Sync to v6.8-rc1.

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

Merge tag 'net-next-6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

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

- Large effort by Eric to lower rtnl_lo

Merge tag 'net-next-6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

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

- Large effort by Eric to lower rtnl_lock pressure and remove locks:

- Make commonly used parts of rtnetlink (address, route dumps
etc) lockless, protected by RCU instead of rtnl_lock.

- Add a netns exit callback which already holds rtnl_lock,
allowing netns exit to take rtnl_lock once in the core instead
of once for each driver / callback.

- Remove locks / serialization in the socket diag interface.

- Remove 6 calls to synchronize_rcu() while holding rtnl_lock.

- Remove the dev_base_lock, depend on RCU where necessary.

- Support busy polling on a per-epoll context basis. Poll length and
budget parameters can be set independently of system defaults.

- Introduce struct net_hotdata, to make sure read-mostly global
config variables fit in as few cache lines as possible.

- Add optional per-nexthop statistics to ease monitoring / debug of
ECMP imbalance problems.

- Support TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT in MPTCP.

- Ensure that IPv6 temporary addresses' preferred lifetimes are long
enough, compared to other configured lifetimes, and at least 2 sec.

- Support forwarding of ICMP Error messages in IPSec, per RFC 4301.

- Add support for the independent control state machine for bonding
per IEEE 802.1AX-2008 5.4.15 in addition to the existing coupled
control state machine.

- Add "network ID" to MCTP socket APIs to support hosts with multiple
disjoint MCTP networks.

- Re-use the mono_delivery_time skbuff bit for packets which user
space wants to be sent at a specified time. Maintain the timing
information while traversing veth links, bridge etc.

- Take advantage of MSG_SPLICE_PAGES for RxRPC DATA and ACK packets.

- Simplify many places iterating over netdevs by using an xarray
instead of a hash table walk (hash table remains in place, for use
on fastpaths).

- Speed up scanning for expired routes by keeping a dedicated list.

- Speed up "generic" XDP by trying harder to avoid large allocations.

- Support attaching arbitrary metadata to netconsole messages.

Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:

- Enforce VM_IOREMAP flag and range in ioremap_page_range and
introduce VM_SPARSE kind and vm_area_[un]map_pages (used by
bpf_arena).

- Rework selftest harness to enable the use of the full range of ksft
exit code (pass, fail, skip, xfail, xpass).

Netfilter:

- Allow userspace to define a table that is exclusively owned by a
daemon (via netlink socket aliveness) without auto-removing this
table when the userspace program exits. Such table gets marked as
orphaned and a restarting management daemon can re-attach/regain
ownership.

- Speed up element insertions to nftables' concatenated-ranges set
type. Compact a few related data structures.

BPF:

- Add BPF token support for delegating a subset of BPF subsystem
functionality from privileged system-wide daemons such as systemd
through special mount options for userns-bound BPF fs to a trusted
& unprivileged application.

- Introduce bpf_arena which is sparse shared memory region between
BPF program and user space where structures inside the arena can
have pointers to other areas of the arena, and pointers work
seamlessly for both user-space programs and BPF programs.

- Introduce may_goto instruction that is a contract between the
verifier and the program. The verifier allows the program to loop
assuming it's behaving well, but reserves the right to terminate
it.

- Extend the BPF verifier to enable static subprog calls in spin lock
critical sections.

- Support registration of struct_ops types from modules which helps
projects like fuse-bpf that seeks to implement a new struct_ops
type.

- Add support for retrieval of cookies for perf/kprobe multi links.

- Support arbitrary TCP SYN cookie generation / validation in the TC
layer with BPF to allow creating SYN flood handling in BPF
firewalls.

- Add code generation to inline the bpf_kptr_xchg() helper which
improves performance when stashing/popping the allocated BPF
objects.

Wireless:

- Add SPP (signaling and payload protected) AMSDU support.

- Support wider bandwidth OFDMA, as required for EHT operation.

Driver API:

- Major overhaul of the Energy Efficient Ethernet internals to
support new link modes (2.5GE, 5GE), share more code between
drivers (especially those using phylib), and encourage more
uniform behavior. Convert and clean up drivers.

- Define an API for querying per netdev queue statistics from
drivers.

- IPSec: account in global stats for fully offloaded sessions.

- Create a concept of Ethernet PHY Packages at the Device Tree level,
to allow parameterizing the existing PHY package code.

- Enable Rx hashing (RSS) on GTP protocol fields.

Misc:

- Improvements and refactoring all over networking selftests.

- Create uniform module aliases for TC classifiers, actions, and
packet schedulers to simplify creating modprobe policies.

- Address all missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() warnings in networking.

- Extend the Netlink descriptions in YAML to cover message
encapsulation or "Netlink polymorphism", where interpretation of
nested attributes depends on link type, classifier type or some
other "class type".

Drivers:

- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Add a new driver for Marvell's Octeon PCI Endpoint NIC VF.
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- support E825-C devices
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- support devices with one port and multiple PCIe links
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- support n-tuple filters
- support configuring the RSS key
- Wangxun (ngbe/txgbe):
- implement irq_domain for TXGBE's sub-interrupts
- Pensando/AMD:
- support XDP
- optimize queue submission and wakeup handling (+17% bps)
- optimize struct layout, saving 28% of memory on queues

- Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual:
- Google cloud vNIC:
- refactor driver to perform memory allocations for new queue
config before stopping and freeing the old queue memory
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- obey queueMaxSDU and implement counters required by 802.1Qbv
- Renesas (ravb):
- support packet checksum offload
- suspend to RAM and runtime PM support

- Ethernet switches:
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- support for nexthop group statistics
- Microchip:
- ksz8: implement PHY loopback
- add support for KSZ8567, a 7-port 10/100Mbps switch

- PTP:
- New driver for RENESAS FemtoClock3 Wireless clock generator.
- Support OCP PTP cards designed and built by Adva.

- CAN:
- Support recvmsg() flags for own, local and remote traffic on CAN
BCM sockets.
- Support for esd GmbH PCIe/402 CAN device family.
- m_can:
- Rx/Tx submission coalescing
- wake on frame Rx

- WiFi:
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- enable signaling and payload protected A-MSDUs
- support wider-bandwidth OFDMA
- support for new devices
- bump FW API to 89 for AX devices; 90 for BZ/SC devices
- MediaTek (mt76):
- mt7915: newer ADIE version support
- mt7925: radio temperature sensor support
- Qualcomm (ath11k):
- support 6 GHz station power modes: Low Power Indoor (LPI),
Standard Power) SP and Very Low Power (VLP)
- QCA6390 & WCN6855: support 2 concurrent station interfaces
- QCA2066 support
- Qualcomm (ath12k):
- refactoring in preparation for Multi-Link Operation (MLO)
support
- 1024 Block Ack window size support
- firmware-2.bin support
- support having multiple identical PCI devices (firmware needs
to have ATH12K_FW_FEATURE_MULTI_QRTR_ID)
- QCN9274: support split-PHY devices
- WCN7850: enable Power Save Mode in station mode
- WCN7850: P2P support
- RealTek:
- rtw88: support for more rtw8811cu and rtw8821cu devices
- rtw89: support SCAN_RANDOM_SN and SET_SCAN_DWELL
- rtlwifi: speed up USB firmware initialization
- rtwl8xxxu:
- RTL8188F: concurrent interface support
- Channel Switch Announcement (CSA) support in AP mode
- Broadcom (brcmfmac):
- per-vendor feature support
- per-vendor SAE password setup
- DMI nvram filename quirk for ACEPC W5 Pro"

* tag 'net-next-6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2255 commits)
nexthop: Fix splat with CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y
nexthop: Fix out-of-bounds access during attribute validation
nexthop: Only parse NHA_OP_FLAGS for dump messages that require it
nexthop: Only parse NHA_OP_FLAGS for get messages that require it
bpf: move sleepable flag from bpf_prog_aux to bpf_prog
bpf: hardcode BPF_PROG_PACK_SIZE to 2MB * num_possible_nodes()
selftests/bpf: Add kprobe multi triggering benchmarks
ptp: Move from simple ida to xarray
vxlan: Remove generic .ndo_get_stats64
vxlan: Do not alloc tstats manually
devlink: Add comments to use netlink gen tool
nfp: flower: handle acti_netdevs allocation failure
net/packet: Add getsockopt support for PACKET_COPY_THRESH
net/netlink: Add getsockopt support for NETLINK_LISTEN_ALL_NSID
selftests/bpf: Add bpf_arena_htab test.
selftests/bpf: Add bpf_arena_list test.
selftests/bpf: Add unit tests for bpf_arena_alloc/free_pages
bpf: Add helper macro bpf_addr_space_cast()
libbpf: Recognize __arena global variables.
bpftool: Recognize arena map type
...

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Merge tag 'wireless-next-2024-02-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next

Kalle Valo says:

====================
wireless-next patches for v6.9

The third "new fea

Merge tag 'wireless-next-2024-02-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next

Kalle Valo says:

====================
wireless-next patches for v6.9

The third "new features" pull request for v6.9. This is a quick
followup to send commit 04edb5dc68f4 ("wifi: ath12k: Fix uninitialized
use of ret in ath12k_mac_allocate()") to fix the ath12k clang warning
introduced in the previous pull request.

We also have support for QCA2066 in ath11k, several new features in
ath12k and few other changes in drivers. In stack it's mostly cleanup
and refactoring.

Major changes:

ath12k
* firmware-2.bin support
* support having multiple identical PCI devices (firmware needs to
have ATH12K_FW_FEATURE_MULTI_QRTR_ID)
* QCN9274: support split-PHY devices
* WCN7850: enable Power Save Mode in station mode
* WCN7850: P2P support

ath11k:
* QCA6390 & WCN6855: support 2 concurrent station interfaces
* QCA2066 support

iwlwifi
* mvm: support wider-bandwidth OFDMA
* bump firmware API to 90 for BZ/SC devices

brcmfmac
* DMI nvram filename quirk for ACEPC W5 Pro

* tag 'wireless-next-2024-02-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next: (75 commits)
wifi: wilc1000: revert reset line logic flip
wifi: brcmfmac: Add DMI nvram filename quirk for ACEPC W5 Pro
wifi: rtlwifi: set initial values for unexpected cases of USB endpoint priority
wifi: rtl8xxxu: check vif before using in rtl8xxxu_tx()
wifi: rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix TX aggregation
wifi: wilc1000: remove AKM suite be32 conversion for external auth request
wifi: nl80211: refactor parsing CSA offsets
wifi: nl80211: force WLAN_AKM_SUITE_SAE in big endian in NL80211_CMD_EXTERNAL_AUTH
wifi: iwlwifi: load b0 version of ucode for HR1/HR2
wifi: iwlwifi: handle per-phy statistics from fw
wifi: iwlwifi: iwl-fh.h: fix kernel-doc issues
wifi: iwlwifi: api: fix kernel-doc reference
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: unlock mvm if there is no primary link
wifi: iwlwifi: bump FW API to 90 for BZ/SC devices
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: support PHY context version 6
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: partially support PHY context version 6
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: support wider-bandwidth OFDMA
wifi: cfg80211: use ML element parsing helpers
wifi: mac80211: align ieee80211_mle_get_bss_param_ch_cnt()
wifi: cfg80211: refactor RNR parsing
...
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240222105205.CEC54C433F1@smtp.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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Merge tag 'ath-next-20240222' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath

ath.git patches for v6.9

We have support for QCA2066 now and also several new features in ath12k.

Major cha

Merge tag 'ath-next-20240222' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath

ath.git patches for v6.9

We have support for QCA2066 now and also several new features in ath12k.

Major changes:

ath12k

* firmware-2.bin support

* support having multiple identical PCI devices (firmware needs to
have ATH12K_FW_FEATURE_MULTI_QRTR_ID)

* QCN9274: support split-PHY devices

* WCN7850: enable Power Save Mode in station mode

* WCN7850: P2P support

ath11k:

* QCA6390 & WCN6855: support 2 concurrent station interfaces

* QCA2066 support

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Merge tag 'wireless-next-2024-02-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next

Kalle Valo says:

====================
wireless-next patches for v6.9

The second "new fe

Merge tag 'wireless-next-2024-02-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next

Kalle Valo says:

====================
wireless-next patches for v6.9

The second "new features" pull request for v6.9. Lots of iwlwifi and
stack changes this time. And naturally smaller changes to other drivers.

We also twice merged wireless into wireless-next to avoid conflicts
between the trees.

Major changes:

stack

* mac80211: negotiated TTLM request support

* SPP A-MSDU support

* mac80211: wider bandwidth OFDMA config support

iwlwifi

* kunit tests

* bump FW API to 89 for AX/BZ/SC devices

* enable SPP A-MSDUs

* support for new devices

ath12k

* refactoring in preparation for Multi-Link Operation (MLO) support

* 1024 Block Ack window size support

* provide firmware wmi logs via a trace event

ath11k

* 36 bit DMA mask support

* support 6 GHz station power modes: Low Power Indoor (LPI), Standard
Power) SP and Very Low Power (VLP)

rtl8xxxu

* TP-Link TL-WN823N V2 support
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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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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wifi: ath12k: Add logic to write QRTR node id to scratch

Currently only one MHI device is registered successfully on platform
having two or more identical MHI devices. This is beacuse QMI service
ru

wifi: ath12k: Add logic to write QRTR node id to scratch

Currently only one MHI device is registered successfully on platform
having two or more identical MHI devices. This is beacuse QMI service
runs with identical QRTR node ID. And, qrtr-lookup cannot register
more than one QMI service with identical node ID.

Hence, generate a unique QRTR instance ID from PCIe domain number and
bus number. QMI allows node id to be written on scratch register.
Add logic to write QRTR node id to the register. It is available for
firmware to uniquely identify an instance.

Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.1.1-00188-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.0.1-00029-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.0.c5-00481-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-3

Signed-off-by: P Praneesh <quic_ppranees@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Raj Kumar Bhagat <quic_rajkbhag@quicinc.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@quicinc.com>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240129065724.2310207-6-quic_rajkbhag@quicinc.com

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Merge tag 'ath-next-20240130' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath

ath.git patches for v6.9

We have new features for both ath11k and ath12k. ath12k is now under
heavy refactor

Merge tag 'ath-next-20240130' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath

ath.git patches for v6.9

We have new features for both ath11k and ath12k. ath12k is now under
heavy refactoring in preparation for MLO support.

Major changes:

ath12k

* refactoring in preparation for Multi-Link Operation (MLO) support

* 1024 Block Ack window size support

* provide firmware wmi logs via a trace event

ath11k

* 36 bit DMA mask support

* support 6 GHz station power modes: Low Power Indoor (LPI), Standard
Power) SP and Very Low Power (VLP)

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

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

wifi: ath12k: add support for collecting firmware log

Currently there is no way to collect firmware log because firmware
does not send it to host. Also host does not handle WMI_DIAG_EVENTID
which is

wifi: ath12k: add support for collecting firmware log

Currently there is no way to collect firmware log because firmware
does not send it to host. Also host does not handle WMI_DIAG_EVENTID
which is used by firmware to upload firmware log.

So add support for it by firstly enabling firmware log upload via a
QMI message, and secondly processing WMI DIAG event to expose it to
userspace via trace event.

This change applies to both WCN7850 and QCN9274.

Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.0-03427-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-1.15378.4

Signed-off-by: Baochen Qiang <quic_bqiang@quicinc.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@quicinc.com>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240115023726.2866-1-quic_bqiang@quicinc.com

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wifi: ath12k: add QMI PHY capability learn support

Currently, the number of PHY is learned from the firmware service ready
event message. However, on the QCN9274 platform, number of PHY is a
variabl

wifi: ath12k: add QMI PHY capability learn support

Currently, the number of PHY is learned from the firmware service ready
event message. However, on the QCN9274 platform, number of PHY is a
variable parameter. To enable MLO capability in the QMI host capability
request message, the driver needs the PHY count information earlier than
the firmware service ready event. Therefore, a new QMI message,
"PHY capability message", is introduced to retrieve this information.
This message allows the driver to fill in the MLO parameter in the QMI
host capability request message. If the new QMI PHY capability message
fails, the default configuration in the HW params will be used.

Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.0.1-00029-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.0.c5-00481-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-3

Signed-off-by: Karthikeyan Periyasamy <quic_periyasa@quicinc.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@quicinc.com>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240113001659.1022465-3-quic_periyasa@quicinc.com

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Merge branch 'master' into mm-hotfixes-stable

Merge v6.8-rc1 into drm-misc-fixes

Let's kickstart the 6.8 fix cycle.

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

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

Let's kickstart the v6.8 release cycle.

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

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

Work that needs to land in drm-intel-gt-next depends on two patches only
present in drm-intel-next, absence of which is causing a merge conflict:

3b918f4

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

Work that needs to land in drm-intel-gt-next depends on two patches only
present in drm-intel-next, absence of which is causing a merge conflict:

3b918f4f0c8b ("drm/i915/pxp: Optimize GET_PARAM:PXP_STATUS")
ac765b7018f6 ("drm/i915/pxp/mtl: intel_pxp_init_hw needs runtime-pm inside pm-complete")

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

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Merge tag 'net-next-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"The most interesting thing is probably the networking structs

Merge tag 'net-next-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"The most interesting thing is probably the networking structs
reorganization and a significant amount of changes is around
self-tests.

Core & protocols:

- Analyze and reorganize core networking structs (socks, netdev,
netns, mibs) to optimize cacheline consumption and set up build
time warnings to safeguard against future header changes

This improves TCP performances with many concurrent connections up
to 40%

- Add page-pool netlink-based introspection, exposing the memory
usage and recycling stats. This helps indentify bad PP users and
possible leaks

- Refine TCP/DCCP source port selection to no longer favor even
source port at connect() time when IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE is set. This
lowers the time taken by connect() for hosts having many active
connections to the same destination

- Refactor the TCP bind conflict code, shrinking related socket
structs

- Refactor TCP SYN-Cookie handling, as a preparation step to allow
arbitrary SYN-Cookie processing via eBPF

- Tune optmem_max for 0-copy usage, increasing the default value to
128KB and namespecifying it

- Allow coalescing for cloned skbs coming from page pools, improving
RX performances with some common configurations

- Reduce extension header parsing overhead at GRO time

- Add bridge MDB bulk deletion support, allowing user-space to
request the deletion of matching entries

- Reorder nftables struct members, to keep data accessed by the
datapath first

- Introduce TC block ports tracking and use. This allows supporting
multicast-like behavior at the TC layer

- Remove UAPI support for retired TC qdiscs (dsmark, CBQ and ATM) and
classifiers (RSVP and tcindex)

- More data-race annotations

- Extend the diag interface to dump TCP bound-only sockets

- Conditional notification of events for TC qdisc class and actions

- Support for WPAN dynamic associations with nearby devices, to form
a sub-network using a specific PAN ID

- Implement SMCv2.1 virtual ISM device support

- Add support for Batman-avd mulicast packet type

BPF:

- Tons of verifier improvements:
- BPF register bounds logic and range support along with a large
test suite
- log improvements
- complete precision tracking support for register spills
- track aligned STACK_ZERO cases as imprecise spilled registers.
This improves the verifier "instructions processed" metric from
single digit to 50-60% for some programs
- support for user's global BPF subprogram arguments with few
commonly requested annotations for a better developer
experience
- support tracking of BPF_JNE which helps cases when the compiler
transforms (unsigned) "a > 0" into "if a == 0 goto xxx" and the
like
- several fixes

- Add initial TX metadata implementation for AF_XDP with support in
mlx5 and stmmac drivers. Two types of offloads are supported right
now, that is, TX timestamp and TX checksum offload

- Fix kCFI bugs in BPF all forms of indirect calls from BPF into
kernel and from kernel into BPF work with CFI enabled. This allows
BPF to work with CONFIG_FINEIBT=y

- Change BPF verifier logic to validate global subprograms lazily
instead of unconditionally before the main program, so they can be
guarded using BPF CO-RE techniques

- Support uid/gid options when mounting bpffs

- Add a new kfunc which acquires the associated cgroup of a task
within a specific cgroup v1 hierarchy where the latter is
identified by its id

- Extend verifier to allow bpf_refcount_acquire() of a map value
field obtained via direct load which is a use-case needed in
sched_ext

- Add BPF link_info support for uprobe multi link along with bpftool
integration for the latter

- Support for VLAN tag in XDP hints

- Remove deprecated bpfilter kernel leftovers given the project is
developed in user-space (https://github.com/facebook/bpfilter)

Misc:

- Support for parellel TC self-tests execution

- Increase MPTCP self-tests coverage

- Updated the bridge documentation, including several so-far
undocumented features

- Convert all the net self-tests to run in unique netns, to avoid
random failures due to conflict and allow concurrent runs

- Add TCP-AO self-tests

- Add kunit tests for both cfg80211 and mac80211

- Autogenerate Netlink families documentation from YAML spec

- Add yml-gen support for fixed headers and recursive nests, the tool
can now generate user-space code for all genetlink families for
which we have specs

- A bunch of additional module descriptions fixes

- Catch incorrect freeing of pages belonging to a page pool

Driver API:

- Rust abstractions for network PHY drivers; do not cover yet the
full C API, but already allow implementing functional PHY drivers
in rust

- Introduce queue and NAPI support in the netdev Netlink interface,
allowing complete access to the device <> NAPIs <> queues
relationship

- Introduce notifications filtering for devlink to allow control
application scale to thousands of instances

- Improve PHY validation, requesting rate matching information for
each ethtool link mode supported by both the PHY and host

- Add support for ethtool symmetric-xor RSS hash

- ACPI based Wifi band RFI (WBRF) mitigation feature for the AMD
platform

- Expose pin fractional frequency offset value over new DPLL generic
netlink attribute

- Convert older drivers to platform remove callback returning void

- Add support for PHY package MMD read/write

New hardware / drivers:

- Ethernet:
- Octeon CN10K devices
- Broadcom 5760X P7
- Qualcomm SM8550 SoC
- Texas Instrument DP83TG720S PHY

- Bluetooth:
- IMC Networks Bluetooth radio

Removed:

- WiFi:
- libertas 16-bit PCMCIA support
- Atmel at76c50x drivers
- HostAP ISA/PCMCIA style 802.11b driver
- zd1201 802.11b USB dongles
- Orinoco ISA/PCMCIA 802.11b driver
- Aviator/Raytheon driver
- Planet WL3501 driver
- RNDIS USB 802.11b driver

Driver updates:

- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- allow one by one port representors creation and removal
- add temperature and clock information reporting
- add get/set for ethtool's header split ringparam
- add again FW logging
- adds support switchdev hardware packet mirroring
- iavf: implement symmetric-xor RSS hash
- igc: add support for concurrent physical and free-running
timers
- i40e: increase the allowable descriptors
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- Preparation for Socket-Direct multi-dev netdev. That will
allow in future releases combining multiple PFs devices
attached to different NUMA nodes under the same netdev
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- TX completion handling improvements
- add basic ntuple filter support
- reduce MSIX vectors usage for MQPRIO offload
- add VXLAN support, USO offload and TX coalesce completion
for P7
- Marvell Octeon EP:
- xmit-more support
- add PF-VF mailbox support and use it for FW notifications
for VFs
- Wangxun (ngbe/txgbe):
- implement ethtool functions to operate pause param, ring
param, coalesce channel number and msglevel
- Netronome/Corigine (nfp):
- add flow-steering support
- support UDP segmentation offload

- Ethernet NICs embedded, slower, virtual:
- Xilinx AXI: remove duplicate DMA code adopting the dma engine
driver
- stmmac: add support for HW-accelerated VLAN stripping
- TI AM654x sw: add mqprio, frame preemption & coalescing
- gve: add support for non-4k page sizes.
- virtio-net: support dynamic coalescing moderation

- nVidia/Mellanox Ethernet datacenter switches:
- allow firmware upgrade without a reboot
- more flexible support for bridge flooding via the compressed
FID flooding mode

- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Microchip:
- fine-tune flow control and speed configurations in KSZ8xxx
- KSZ88X3: enable setting rmii reference
- Renesas:
- add jumbo frames support
- Marvell:
- 88E6xxx: add "eth-mac" and "rmon" stats support

- Ethernet PHYs:
- aquantia: add firmware load support
- at803x: refactor the driver to simplify adding support for more
chip variants
- NXP C45 TJA11xx: Add MACsec offload support

- Wifi:
- MediaTek (mt76):
- NVMEM EEPROM improvements
- mt7996 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) improvements
- mt7996 Wireless Ethernet Dispatcher (WED) support
- mt7996 36-bit DMA support
- Qualcomm (ath12k):
- support for a single MSI vector
- WCN7850: support AP mode
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- new debugfs file fw_dbg_clear
- allow concurrent P2P operation on DFS channels

- Bluetooth:
- QCA2066: support HFP offload
- ISO: more broadcast-related improvements
- NXP: better recovery in case receiver/transmitter get out of sync"

* tag 'net-next-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1714 commits)
lan78xx: remove redundant statement in lan78xx_get_eee
lan743x: remove redundant statement in lan743x_ethtool_get_eee
bnxt_en: Fix RCU locking for ntuple filters in bnxt_rx_flow_steer()
bnxt_en: Fix RCU locking for ntuple filters in bnxt_srxclsrldel()
bnxt_en: Remove unneeded variable in bnxt_hwrm_clear_vnic_filter()
tcp: Revert no longer abort SYN_SENT when receiving some ICMP
Revert "mlx5 updates 2023-12-20"
Revert "net: stmmac: Enable Per DMA Channel interrupt"
ipvlan: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API
ipvlan: Fix a typo in a comment
net/sched: Remove ipt action tests
net: stmmac: Use interrupt mode INTM=1 for per channel irq
net: stmmac: Add support for TX/RX channel interrupt
net: stmmac: Make MSI interrupt routine generic
dt-bindings: net: snps,dwmac: per channel irq
net: phy: at803x: make read_status more generic
net: phy: at803x: add support for cdt cross short test for qca808x
net: phy: at803x: refactor qca808x cable test get status function
net: phy: at803x: generalize cdt fault length function
net: ethernet: cortina: Drop TSO support
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