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| 30-Jul-2025 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Merge tag 'net-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols:
- Wrap datapath globals into net_align
Merge tag 'net-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols:
- Wrap datapath globals into net_aligned_data, to avoid false sharing
- Preserve MSG_ZEROCOPY in forwarding (e.g. out of a container)
- Add SO_INQ and SCM_INQ support to AF_UNIX
- Add SIOCINQ support to AF_VSOCK
- Add TCP_MAXSEG sockopt to MPTCP
- Add IPv6 force_forwarding sysctl to enable forwarding per interface
- Make TCP validation of whether packet fully fits in the receive window and the rcv_buf more strict. With increased use of HW aggregation a single "packet" can be multiple 100s of kB
- Add MSG_MORE flag to optimize large TCP transmissions via sockmap, improves latency up to 33% for sockmap users
- Convert TCP send queue handling from tasklet to BH workque
- Improve BPF iteration over TCP sockets to see each socket exactly once
- Remove obsolete and unused TCP RFC3517/RFC6675 loss recovery code
- Support enabling kernel threads for NAPI processing on per-NAPI instance basis rather than a whole device. Fully stop the kernel NAPI thread when threaded NAPI gets disabled. Previously thread would stick around until ifdown due to tricky synchronization
- Allow multicast routing to take effect on locally-generated packets
- Add output interface argument for End.X in segment routing
- MCTP: add support for gateway routing, improve bind() handling
- Don't require rtnl_lock when fetching an IPv6 neighbor over Netlink
- Add a new neighbor flag ("extern_valid"), which cedes refresh responsibilities to userspace. This is needed for EVPN multi-homing where a neighbor entry for a multi-homed host needs to be synced across all the VTEPs among which the host is multi-homed
- Support NUD_PERMANENT for proxy neighbor entries
- Add a new queuing discipline for IETF RFC9332 DualQ Coupled AQM
- Add sequence numbers to netconsole messages. Unregister netconsole's console when all net targets are removed. Code refactoring. Add a number of selftests
- Align IPSec inbound SA lookup to RFC 4301. Only SPI and protocol should be used for an inbound SA lookup
- Support inspecting ref_tracker state via DebugFS
- Don't force bonding advertisement frames tx to ~333 ms boundaries. Add broadcast_neighbor option to send ARP/ND on all bonded links
- Allow providing upcall pid for the 'execute' command in openvswitch
- Remove DCCP support from Netfilter's conntrack
- Disallow multiple packet duplications in the queuing layer
- Prevent use of deprecated iptables code on PREEMPT_RT
Driver API:
- Support RSS and hashing configuration over ethtool Netlink
- Add dedicated ethtool callbacks for getting and setting hashing fields
- Add support for power budget evaluation strategy in PSE / Power-over-Ethernet. Generate Netlink events for overcurrent etc
- Support DPLL phase offset monitoring across all device inputs. Support providing clock reference and SYNC over separate DPLL inputs
- Support traffic classes in devlink rate API for bandwidth management
- Remove rtnl_lock dependency from UDP tunnel port configuration
Device drivers:
- Add a new Broadcom driver for 800G Ethernet (bnge)
- Add a standalone driver for Microchip ZL3073x DPLL
- Remove IBM's NETIUCV device driver
- Ethernet high-speed NICs: - Broadcom (bnxt): - support zero-copy Tx of DMABUF memory - take page size into account for page pool recycling rings - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - idpf: XDP and AF_XDP support preparations - idpf: add flow steering - add link_down_events statistic - clean up the TSPLL code - preparations for live VM migration - nVidia/Mellanox: - support zero-copy Rx/Tx interfaces (DMABUF and io_uring) - optimize context memory usage for matchers - expose serial numbers in devlink info - support PCIe congestion metrics - Meta (fbnic): - add 25G, 50G, and 100G link modes to phylink - support dumping FW logs - Marvell/Cavium: - support for CN20K generation of the Octeon chips - Amazon: - add HW clock (without timestamping, just hypervisor time access)
- Ethernet virtual: - VirtIO net: - support segmentation of UDP-tunnel-encapsulated packets - Google (gve): - support packet timestamping and clock synchronization - Microsoft vNIC: - add handler for device-originated servicing events - allow dynamic MSI-X vector allocation - support Tx bandwidth clamping
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded: - AMD: - amd-xgbe: hardware timestamping and PTP clock support - Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp): - use napi_complete_done() return value to support NAPI polling - add support for re-starting auto-negotiation - Broadcom switches (b53): - support BCM5325 switches - add bcm63xx EPHY power control - Synopsys (stmmac): - lots of code refactoring and cleanups - TI: - icssg-prueth: read firmware-names from device tree - icssg: PRP offload support - Microchip: - lan78xx: convert to PHYLINK for improved PHY and MAC management - ksz: add KSZ8463 switch support - Intel: - support similar queue priority scheme in multi-queue and time-sensitive networking (taprio) - support packet pre-emption in both - RealTek (r8169): - enable EEE at 5Gbps on RTL8126 - Airoha: - add PPPoE offload support - MDIO bus controller for Airoha AN7583
- Ethernet PHYs: - support for the IPQ5018 internal GE PHY - micrel KSZ9477 switch-integrated PHYs: - add MDI/MDI-X control support - add RX error counters - add cable test support - add Signal Quality Indicator (SQI) reporting - dp83tg720: improve reset handling and reduce link recovery time - support bcm54811 (and its MII-Lite interface type) - air_en8811h: support resume/suspend - support PHY counters for QCA807x and QCA808x - support WoL for QCA807x
- CAN drivers: - rcar_canfd: support for Transceiver Delay Compensation - kvaser: report FW versions via devlink dev info
- WiFi: - extended regulatory info support (6 GHz) - add statistics and beacon monitor for Multi-Link Operation (MLO) - support S1G aggregation, improve S1G support - add Radio Measurement action fields - support per-radio RTS threshold - some work around how FIPS affects wifi, which was wrong (RC4 is used by TKIP, not only WEP) - improvements for unsolicited probe response handling
- WiFi drivers: - RealTek (rtw88): - IBSS mode for SDIO devices - RealTek (rtw89): - BT coexistence for MLO/WiFi7 - concurrent station + P2P support - support for USB devices RTL8851BU/RTL8852BU - Intel (iwlwifi): - use embedded PNVM in (to be released) FW images to fix compatibility issues - many cleanups (unused FW APIs, PCIe code, WoWLAN) - some FIPS interoperability - MediaTek (mt76): - firmware recovery improvements - more MLO work - Qualcomm/Atheros (ath12k): - fix scan on multi-radio devices - more EHT/Wi-Fi 7 features - encapsulation/decapsulation offload - Broadcom (brcm80211): - support SDIO 43751 device
- Bluetooth: - hci_event: add support for handling LE BIG Sync Lost event - ISO: add socket option to report packet seqnum via CMSG - ISO: support SCM_TIMESTAMPING for ISO TS
- Bluetooth drivers: - intel_pcie: support Function Level Reset - nxpuart: add support for 4M baudrate - nxpuart: implement powerup sequence, reset, FW dump, and FW loading"
* tag 'net-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1742 commits) dpll: zl3073x: Fix build failure selftests: bpf: fix legacy netfilter options ipv6: annotate data-races around rt->fib6_nsiblings ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev() ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size() ipv6: add a retry logic in net6_rt_notify() vrf: Drop existing dst reference in vrf_ip6_input_dst net/sched: taprio: align entry index attr validation with mqprio net: fsl_pq_mdio: use dev_err_probe selftests: rtnetlink.sh: remove esp4_offload after test vsock: remove unnecessary null check in vsock_getname() igb: xsk: solve negative overflow of nb_pkts in zerocopy mode stmmac: xsk: fix negative overflow of budget in zerocopy mode dt-bindings: ieee802154: Convert at86rf230.txt yaml format net: dsa: microchip: Disable PTP function of KSZ8463 net: dsa: microchip: Setup fiber ports for KSZ8463 net: dsa: microchip: Write switch MAC address differently for KSZ8463 net: dsa: microchip: Use different registers for KSZ8463 net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support to KSZ DSA driver dt-bindings: net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support ...
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| 25-Jun-2025 |
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> |
Merge tag 'wireless-next-2025-06-25' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next
Johannes Berg says:
==================== The usual features/cleanups/etc., notably:
Merge tag 'wireless-next-2025-06-25' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next
Johannes Berg says:
==================== The usual features/cleanups/etc., notably:
- rtw88: IBSS mode for SDIO devices - rtw89: - BT coex for MLO/WiFi7 - work on station + P2P concurrency - ath: fix W=2 export.h warnings - ath12k: fix scan on multi-radio devices - cfg80211/mac80211: MLO statistics - mac80211: S1G aggregation - cfg80211/mac80211: per-radio RTS threshold
* tag 'wireless-next-2025-06-25' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next: (171 commits) wifi: iwlwifi: dvm: fix potential overflow in rs_fill_link_cmd() iwlwifi: Add missing check for alloc_ordered_workqueue wifi: iwlwifi: Fix memory leak in iwl_mvm_init() iwlwifi: api: delete repeated words iwlwifi: remove unused no_sleep_autoadjust declaration iwlwifi: Fix comment typo iwlwifi: use DECLARE_BITMAP macro iwlwifi: fw: simplify the iwl_fw_dbg_collect_trig() wifi: iwlwifi: mld: ftm: fix switch end indentation MAINTAINERS: update iwlwifi git link wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: fix non-MSIX handshake register wifi: iwlwifi: mld: don't exit EMLSR when we shouldn't wifi: iwlwifi: move _iwl_trans_set_bits_mask utilities wifi: iwlwifi: mld: make iwl_mld_add_all_rekeys void wifi: iwlwifi: move iwl_trans_pcie_write_mem to iwl-trans.c wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: move iwl_trans_pcie_dump_regs() to utils.c wifi: iwlwifi: mld: advertise support for TTLM changes wifi: iwlwifi: mld: Block EMLSR when scanning on P2P Device wifi: iwlwifi: mld: use the correct struct size for tracing wifi: iwlwifi: support RZL platform device ID ... ====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250625120135.41933-55-johannes@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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| 25-Jun-2025 |
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> |
Merge tag 'iwlwifi-next-2025-06-25' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-next
Miri Korenblit says: ==================== iwlwifi-next - iwlwifi features
Mostly cleanups
Merge tag 'iwlwifi-next-2025-06-25' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-next
Miri Korenblit says: ==================== iwlwifi-next - iwlwifi features
Mostly cleanups. A few fixes and small features. ====================
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Revision tags: v6.16-rc3, v6.16-rc2, v6.16-rc1, v6.15, v6.15-rc7, v6.15-rc6, v6.15-rc5, v6.15-rc4 |
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| 22-Apr-2025 |
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> |
wifi: iwlwifi: mld: ftm: fix switch end indentation
The terminating brace for the switch statement is erroneously not indented, fix that.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Link
wifi: iwlwifi: mld: ftm: fix switch end indentation
The terminating brace for the switch statement is erroneously not indented, fix that.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250422160017.6d4cff49cbf4.I8e5570a6fe94faa9f17a89352b7ba645fc875e77@changeid Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
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| 02-Jun-2025 |
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> |
Merge branch 'next' into for-linus
Prepare input updates for 6.16 merge window.
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| 16-May-2025 |
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> |
Merge tag 'v6.15-rc6' into next
Sync up with mainline to bring in xpad controller changes.
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| 29-Apr-2025 |
Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org> |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm-misc/drm-misc-next' into msm-next
Merge drm-misc-next to get commit Fixes: fec450ca15af ("drm/display: hdmi: provide central data authority for ACR params").
Signe
Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm-misc/drm-misc-next' into msm-next
Merge drm-misc-next to get commit Fixes: fec450ca15af ("drm/display: hdmi: provide central data authority for ACR params").
Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>
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| 24-Apr-2025 |
Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com> |
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next
Backmerge to bring in linux 6.15-rc.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
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Revision tags: v6.15-rc3, v6.15-rc2 |
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| 07-Apr-2025 |
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> |
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next
Backmerging to get v6.15-rc1 into drm-misc-next. Also fixes a build issue when enabling CONFIG_DRM_SCHED_KUNIT_TEST.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next
Backmerging to get v6.15-rc1 into drm-misc-next. Also fixes a build issue when enabling CONFIG_DRM_SCHED_KUNIT_TEST.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
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| 11-Apr-2025 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
Merge tag 'v6.15-rc1' into x86/cpu, to refresh the branch with upstream changes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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| 09-Apr-2025 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
Merge tag 'v6.15-rc1' into x86/asm, to refresh the branch
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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| 08-Apr-2025 |
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> |
Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes
Backmerging to get updates from v6.15-rc1.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
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| 27-Mar-2025 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Merge tag 'net-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols:
- Continue Netlink conversions to per-
Merge tag 'net-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols:
- Continue Netlink conversions to per-namespace RTNL lock (IPv4 routing, routing rules, routing next hops, ARP ioctls)
- Continue extending the use of netdev instance locks. As a driver opt-in protect queue operations and (in due course) ethtool operations with the instance lock and not RTNL lock.
- Support collecting TCP timestamps (data submitted, sent, acked) in BPF, allowing for transparent (to the application) and lower overhead tracking of TCP RPC performance.
- Tweak existing networking Rx zero-copy infra to support zero-copy Rx via io_uring.
- Optimize MPTCP performance in single subflow mode by 29%.
- Enable GRO on packets which went thru XDP CPU redirect (were queued for processing on a different CPU). Improving TCP stream performance up to 2x.
- Improve performance of contended connect() by 200% by searching for an available 4-tuple under RCU rather than a spin lock. Bring an additional 229% improvement by tweaking hash distribution.
- Avoid unconditionally touching sk_tsflags on RX, improving performance under UDP flood by as much as 10%.
- Avoid skb_clone() dance in ping_rcv() to improve performance under ping flood.
- Avoid FIB lookup in netfilter if socket is available, 20% perf win.
- Rework network device creation (in-kernel) API to more clearly identify network namespaces and their roles. There are up to 4 namespace roles but we used to have just 2 netns pointer arguments, interpreted differently based on context.
- Use sysfs_break_active_protection() instead of trylock to avoid deadlocks between unregistering objects and sysfs access.
- Add a new sysctl and sockopt for capping max retransmit timeout in TCP.
- Support masking port and DSCP in routing rule matches.
- Support dumping IPv4 multicast addresses with RTM_GETMULTICAST.
- Support specifying at what time packet should be sent on AF_XDP sockets.
- Expose TCP ULP diagnostic info (for TLS and MPTCP) to non-admin users.
- Add Netlink YAML spec for WiFi (nl80211) and conntrack.
- Introduce EXPORT_IPV6_MOD() and EXPORT_IPV6_MOD_GPL() for symbols which only need to be exported when IPv6 support is built as a module.
- Age FDB entries based on Rx not Tx traffic in VxLAN, similar to normal bridging.
- Allow users to specify source port range for GENEVE tunnels.
- netconsole: allow attaching kernel release, CPU ID and task name to messages as metadata
Driver API:
- Continue rework / fixing of Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) across the SW layers. Delegate the responsibilities to phylink where possible. Improve its handling in phylib.
- Support symmetric OR-XOR RSS hashing algorithm.
- Support tracking and preserving IRQ affinity by NAPI itself.
- Support loopback mode speed selection for interface selftests.
Device drivers:
- Remove the IBM LCS driver for s390
- Remove the sb1000 cable modem driver
- Add support for SFP module access over SMBus
- Add MCTP transport driver for MCTP-over-USB
- Enable XDP metadata support in multiple drivers
- Ethernet high-speed NICs: - Broadcom (bnxt): - add PCIe TLP Processing Hints (TPH) support for new AMD platforms - support dumping RoCE queue state for debug - opt into instance locking - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - ice: rework MSI-X IRQ management and distribution - ice: support for E830 devices - iavf: add support for Rx timestamping - iavf: opt into instance locking - nVidia/Mellanox: - mlx4: use page pool memory allocator for Rx - mlx5: support for one PTP device per hardware clock - mlx5: support for 200Gbps per-lane link modes - mlx5: move IPSec policy check after decryption - AMD/Solarflare: - support FW flashing via devlink - Cisco (enic): - use page pool memory allocator for Rx - enable 32, 64 byte CQEs - get max rx/tx ring size from the device - Meta (fbnic): - support flow steering and RSS configuration - report queue stats - support TCP segmentation - support IRQ coalescing - support ring size configuration - Marvell/Cavium: - support AF_XDP - Wangxun: - support for PTP clock and timestamping - Huawei (hibmcge): - checksum offload - add more statistics
- Ethernet virtual: - VirtIO net: - aggressively suppress Tx completions, improve perf by 96% with 1 CPU and 55% with 2 CPUs - expose NAPI to IRQ mapping and persist NAPI settings - Google (gve): - support XDP in DQO RDA Queue Format - opt into instance locking - Microsoft vNIC: - support BIG TCP
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded: - Synopsys (stmmac): - cleanup Tx and Tx clock setting and other link-focused cleanups - enable SGMII and 2500BASEX mode switching for Intel platforms - support Sophgo SG2044 - Broadcom switches (b53): - support for BCM53101 - TI: - iep: add perout configuration support - icssg: support XDP - Cadence (macb): - implement BQL - Xilinx (axinet): - support dynamic IRQ moderation and changing coalescing at runtime - implement BQL - report standard stats - MediaTek: - support phylink managed EEE - Intel: - igc: don't restart the interface on every XDP program change - RealTek (r8169): - support reading registers of internal PHYs directly - increase max jumbo packet size on RTL8125/RTL8126 - Airoha: - support for RISC-V NPU packet processing unit - enable scatter-gather and support MTU up to 9kB - Tehuti (tn40xx): - support cards with TN4010 MAC and an Aquantia AQR105 PHY
- Ethernet PHYs: - support for TJA1102S, TJA1121 - dp83tg720: add randomized polling intervals for link detection - dp83822: support changing the transmit amplitude voltage - support for LEDs on 88q2xxx
- CAN: - canxl: support Remote Request Substitution bit access - flexcan: add S32G2/S32G3 SoC
- WiFi: - remove cooked monitor support - strict mode for better AP testing - basic EPCS support - OMI RX bandwidth reduction support - batman-adv: add support for jumbo frames
- WiFi drivers: - RealTek (rtw88): - support RTL8814AE and RTL8814AU - RealTek (rtw89): - switch using wiphy_lock and wiphy_work - add BB context to manipulate two PHY as preparation of MLO - improve BT-coexistence mechanism to play A2DP smoothly - Intel (iwlwifi): - add new iwlmld sub-driver for latest HW/FW combinations - MediaTek (mt76): - preparation for mt7996 Multi-Link Operation (MLO) support - Qualcomm/Atheros (ath12k): - continued work on MLO - Silabs (wfx): - Wake-on-WLAN support
- Bluetooth: - add support for skb TX SND/COMPLETION timestamping - hci_core: enable buffer flow control for SCO/eSCO - coredump: log devcd dumps into the monitor
- Bluetooth drivers: - intel: add support to configure TX power - nxp: handle bootloader error during cmd5 and cmd7"
* tag 'net-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1681 commits) unix: fix up for "apparmor: add fine grained af_unix mediation" mctp: Fix incorrect tx flow invalidation condition in mctp-i2c net: usb: asix: ax88772: Increase phy_name size net: phy: Introduce PHY_ID_SIZE — minimum size for PHY ID string net: libwx: fix Tx L4 checksum net: libwx: fix Tx descriptor content for some tunnel packets atm: Fix NULL pointer dereference net: tn40xx: add pci-id of the aqr105-based Tehuti TN4010 cards net: tn40xx: prepare tn40xx driver to find phy of the TN9510 card net: tn40xx: create swnode for mdio and aqr105 phy and add to mdiobus net: phy: aquantia: add essential functions to aqr105 driver net: phy: aquantia: search for firmware-name in fwnode net: phy: aquantia: add probe function to aqr105 for firmware loading net: phy: Add swnode support to mdiobus_scan gve: add XDP DROP and PASS support for DQ gve: update XDP allocation path support RX buffer posting gve: merge packet buffer size fields gve: update GQ RX to use buf_size gve: introduce config-based allocation for XDP gve: remove xdp_xsk_done and xdp_xsk_wakeup statistics ...
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| 25-Mar-2025 |
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> |
Merge tag 'wireless-next-2025-03-20' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next
Johannes Berg says:
==================== More features for 6.15, major changes: * cfg
Merge tag 'wireless-next-2025-03-20' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next
Johannes Berg says:
==================== More features for 6.15, major changes: * cfg80211/mac80211: fix and enable link reconfiguration * rtw88: support RTL8814AE/RTL8814AU * mt7996: preparations for MLO * ath12k: continued work on MLO * iwlwifi: add new iwlmld sub-driver/op-mode for some current and future devices * wfx: wowlan support
* tag 'wireless-next-2025-03-20' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next: (311 commits) wifi: mt76: mt7996: fix locking in mt7996_mac_sta_rc_work() wifi: mt76: mt76x2u: add TP-Link TL-WDN6200 ID to device table wifi: mt76: mt792x: re-register CHANCTX_STA_CSA only for the mt7921 series wifi: mt76: mt7996: Update mt7996_tx to MLO support wifi: mt76: mt7996: rework mt7996_ampdu_action to support MLO wifi: mt76: mt7996: rework set/get_tsf callabcks to support MLO wifi: mt76: mt7996: set vif default link_id adding/removing vif links wifi: mt76: mt7996: rework mt7996_mcu_beacon_inband_discov to support MLO wifi: mt76: mt7996: rework mt7996_mcu_add_obss_spr to support MLO wifi: mt76: mt7996: rework mt7996_net_fill_forward_path to support MLO wifi: mt76: mt7996: rework mt7996_update_mu_group to support MLO wifi: mt76: mt7996: rework mt7996_mac_sta_poll to support MLO wifi: mt76: mt7996: rework mt7996_mac_sta_rc_work to support MLO wifi: mt76: mt7996: remove mt7996_mac_enable_rtscts() wifi: mt76: mt7996: rework mt7996_sta_hw_queue_read to support MLO wifi: mt76: mt7996: rework mt7996_set_hw_key to support MLO wifi: mt76: mt7996: Add mt7996_sta_link to mt7996_mcu_add_bss_info signature wifi: mt76: mt7996: rework mt7996_sta_set_4addr and mt7996_sta_set_decap_offload to support MLO wifi: mt76: mt7996: rework mt7996_rx_get_wcid to support MLO wifi: mt76: mt7996: Rely on wcid_to_sta in mt7996_mac_add_txs_skb() ... ====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250320131106.33266-3-johannes@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Revision tags: v6.14, v6.14-rc7, v6.14-rc6, v6.14-rc5, v6.14-rc4, v6.14-rc3 |
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| 16-Feb-2025 |
Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com> |
wifi: iwlwifi: add iwlmld sub-driver
iwlwifi is the driver of all Intel wifi devices since 2008. Since then, the hardware has changed a lot, but the firmware API has changed even more. The need to k
wifi: iwlwifi: add iwlmld sub-driver
iwlwifi is the driver of all Intel wifi devices since 2008. Since then, the hardware has changed a lot, but the firmware API has changed even more. The need to keep one driver that supports all those different APIs led us to introduce a new architecture circa 2012 which allowed us to keep the same interface to the hardware (DMAs, Tx queues, etc...) with a new layer to implement the mid-layer between mac80211 and the firmware. The first component is called the 'transport' and the latter is called 'operation_mode' a.k.a op_mode.
In 2013 we took advantage of the new architecture to introduce iwlmvm which allowed us to implement the, then, new firmware API. This op_mode supports 7260 and up, those devices supports support at least VHT.
Since then, wifi evolved and so did the firmware. It became much bigger and took a lot of functionality from the driver. It became increasingly hard to keep the same op_mode for the newest devices and we experienced frequent regressions on older devices. In order to avoid those regressions and keep the code maintainable, we decided it was about time to start a new op_mode.
iwlmld is a new op_mode that supports BE200 or newer if the firmware being used is 97.ucode or newer. If the user has an older devices or BE200 with .96.ucode, iwlmvm will be loaded. Of course, this op_mode selection is seamless.
All the features supported in iwlmvm are supported in iwlmld besides a few seldom used use cases: injection and Hotspot 2.0. Those are under work.
A few points about the implementation: * iwlmld doesn't have any mutexes, it relies on the wiphy_lock * iwlmld is more "resource oriented": stations, links and interfaces are allocated and freed only after all the relevant flows are completed. * Firmware notifications' sizes are validated in a more structured way.
We would love to see this new op_mode merged in 6.15. The firmware for this new driver (.97.ucode) is not yet publicly available but it'll be sent very soon. People eager to get an early version of this firmware can contact Emmanuel at: emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com
I've listed the people who directly contributed code, but many others from various teams have contributed in other ways.
Co-developed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Co-developed-by: Avraham Stern <avraham.stern@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avraham Stern <avraham.stern@intel.com> Co-developed-by: Daniel Gabay <daniel.gabay@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Gabay <daniel.gabay@intel.com> Co-developed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Co-developed-by: Anjaneyulu <pagadala.yesu.anjaneyulu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Anjaneyulu <pagadala.yesu.anjaneyulu@intel.com> Co-developed-by: Yedidya Benshimol <yedidya.ben.shimol@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Yedidya Benshimol <yedidya.ben.shimol@intel.com> Co-developed-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com> Co-developed-by: Shaul Triebitz <shaul.triebitz@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shaul Triebitz <shaul.triebitz@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20250216094321.537988-1-miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com/ [fix Kconfig, fix api/phy.h includes, SPDX tag and coding style issues, duplicated includes per 0-day robot] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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