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| 27-Apr-2026 |
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> |
Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes
Getting fixes and updates from v7.1-rc1.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
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| 20-Apr-2026 |
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> |
Merge branch 'next' into for-linus
Prepare input updates for 7.1 merge window.
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| 12-Mar-2026 |
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> |
Merge tag 'v7.0-rc3' into next
Sync up with the mainline to brig up the latest changes, specifically changes to ALPS driver.
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| 20-Apr-2026 |
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> |
Merge branch 'for-7.1-printf-kunit-build' into for-linus
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| 16-Apr-2026 |
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com> |
Merge branch 'for-7.1/core-v2' into for-linus
- fixed handling of 0-sized reports (Dmitry Torokhov) - convert core code to __free() (Dmitry Torokhov) - support for multiple batteries per HID device
Merge branch 'for-7.1/core-v2' into for-linus
- fixed handling of 0-sized reports (Dmitry Torokhov) - convert core code to __free() (Dmitry Torokhov) - support for multiple batteries per HID device (Lucas Zampieri)
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| 15-Apr-2026 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Merge tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols:
- Support HW queue leasing, allowing co
Merge tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols:
- Support HW queue leasing, allowing containers to be granted access to HW queues for zero-copy operations and AF_XDP
- Number of code moves to help the compiler with inlining. Avoid output arguments for returning drop reason where possible
- Rework drop handling within qdiscs to include more metadata about the reason and dropping qdisc in the tracepoints
- Remove the rtnl_lock use from IP Multicast Routing
- Pack size information into the Rx Flow Steering table pointer itself. This allows making the table itself a flat array of u32s, thus making the table allocation size a power of two
- Report TCP delayed ack timer information via socket diag
- Add ip_local_port_step_width sysctl to allow distributing the randomly selected ports more evenly throughout the allowed space
- Add support for per-route tunsrc in IPv6 segment routing
- Start work of switching sockopt handling to iov_iter
- Improve dynamic recvbuf sizing in MPTCP, limit burstiness and avoid buffer size drifting up
- Support MSG_EOR in MPTCP
- Add stp_mode attribute to the bridge driver for STP mode selection. This addresses concerns about call_usermodehelper() usage
- Remove UDP-Lite support (as announced in 2023)
- Remove support for building IPv6 as a module. Remove the now unnecessary function calling indirection
Cross-tree stuff:
- Move Michael MIC code from generic crypto into wireless, it's considered insecure but some WiFi networks still need it
Netfilter:
- Switch nft_fib_ipv6 module to no longer need temporary dst_entry object allocations by using fib6_lookup() + RCU.
Florian W reports this gets us ~13% higher packet rate
- Convert IPVS's global __ip_vs_mutex to per-net service_mutex and switch the service tables to be per-net. Convert some code that walks the service lists to use RCU instead of the service_mutex
- Add more opinionated input validation to lower security exposure
- Make IPVS hash tables to be per-netns and resizable
Wireless:
- Finished assoc frame encryption/EPPKE/802.1X-over-auth
- Radar detection improvements
- Add 6 GHz incumbent signal detection APIs
- Multi-link support for FILS, probe response templates and client probing
- New APIs and mac80211 support for NAN (Neighbor Aware Networking, aka Wi-Fi Aware) so less work must be in firmware
Driver API:
- Add numerical ID for devlink instances (to avoid having to create fake bus/device pairs just to have an ID). Support shared devlink instances which span multiple PFs
- Add standard counters for reporting pause storm events (implement in mlx5 and fbnic)
- Add configuration API for completion writeback buffering (implement in mana)
- Support driver-initiated change of RSS context sizes
- Support DPLL monitoring input frequency (implement in zl3073x)
- Support per-port resources in devlink (implement in mlx5)
Misc:
- Expand the YAML spec for Netfilter
Drivers
- Software: - macvlan: support multicast rx for bridge ports with shared source MAC address - team: decouple receive and transmit enablement for IEEE 802.3ad LACP "independent control"
- Ethernet high-speed NICs: - nVidia/Mellanox: - support high order pages in zero-copy mode (for payload coalescing) - support multiple packets in a page (for systems with 64kB pages) - Broadcom 25-400GE (bnxt): - implement XDP RSS hash metadata extraction - add software fallback for UDP GSO, lowering the IOMMU cost - Broadcom 800GE (bnge): - add link status and configuration handling - add various HW and SW statistics - Marvell/Cavium: - NPC HW block support for cn20k - Huawei (hinic3): - add mailbox / control queue - add rx VLAN offload - add driver info and link management
- Ethernet NICs: - Marvell/Aquantia: - support reading SFP module info on some AQC100 cards - Realtek PCI (r8169): - add support for RTL8125cp - Realtek USB (r8152): - support for the RTL8157 5Gbit chip - add 2500baseT EEE status/configuration support
- Ethernet NICs embedded and off-the-shelf IP: - Synopsys (stmmac): - cleanup and reorganize SerDes handling and PCS support - cleanup descriptor handling and per-platform data - cleanup and consolidate MDIO defines and handling - shrink driver memory use for internal structures - improve Tx IRQ coalescing - improve TCP segmentation handling - add support for Spacemit K3 - Cadence (macb): - support PHYs that have inband autoneg disabled with GEM - support IEEE 802.3az EEE - rework usrio capabilities and handling - AMD (xgbe): - improve power management for S0i3 - improve TX resilience for link-down handling
- Virtual: - Google cloud vNIC: - support larger ring sizes in DQO-QPL mode - improve HW-GRO handling - support UDP GSO for DQO format - PCIe NTB: - support queue count configuration
- Ethernet PHYs: - automatically disable PHY autonomous EEE if MAC is in charge - Broadcom: - add BCM84891/BCM84892 support - Micrel: - support for LAN9645X internal PHY - Realtek: - add RTL8224 pair order support - support PHY LEDs on RTL8211F-VD - support spread spectrum clocking (SSC) - Maxlinear: - add PHY-level statistics via ethtool
- Ethernet switches: - Maxlinear (mxl862xx): - support for bridge offloading - support for VLANs - support driver statistics
- Bluetooth: - large number of fixes and new device IDs - Mediatek: - support MT6639 (MT7927) - support MT7902 SDIO
- WiFi: - Intel (iwlwifi): - UNII-9 and continuing UHR work - MediaTek (mt76): - mt7996/mt7925 MLO fixes/improvements - mt7996 NPU support (HW eth/wifi traffic offload) - Qualcomm (ath12k): - monitor mode support on IPQ5332 - basic hwmon temperature reporting - support IPQ5424 - Realtek: - add USB RX aggregation to improve performance - add USB TX flow control by tracking in-flight URBs
- Cellular: - IPA v5.2 support"
* tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1561 commits) net: pse-pd: fix kernel-doc function name for pse_control_find_by_id() wireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit wireguard: allowedips: remove redundant space tools: ynl: add sample for wireguard wireguard: allowedips: Use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu() MAINTAINERS: Add netkit selftest files selftests/net: Add additional test coverage in nk_qlease selftests/net: Split netdevsim tests from HW tests in nk_qlease tools/ynl: Make YnlFamily closeable as a context manager net: airoha: Add missing PPE configurations in airoha_ppe_hw_init() net: airoha: Fix VIP configuration for AN7583 SoC net: caif: clear client service pointer on teardown net: strparser: fix skb_head leak in strp_abort_strp() net: usb: cdc-phonet: fix skb frags[] overflow in rx_complete() selftests/bpf: add test for xdp_master_redirect with bond not up net, bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for down master net: airoha: Remove PCE_MC_EN_MASK bit in REG_FE_PCE_CFG configuration sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb() sctp: fix missing encap_port propagation for GSO fragments net: airoha: Rely on net_device pointer in ETS callbacks ...
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| 12-Apr-2026 |
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> |
Merge tag 'wireless-next-2026-04-10' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next
Johannes Berg says:
==================== Final updates, notably: - crypto: move Micha
Merge tag 'wireless-next-2026-04-10' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next
Johannes Berg says:
==================== Final updates, notably: - crypto: move Michael MIC code into wireless (only) - mac80211: - multi-link 4-addr support - NAN data support (but no drivers yet) - ath10k: DT quirk to make it work on some devices - ath12k: IPQ5424 support - rtw89: USB improvements for performance
* tag 'wireless-next-2026-04-10' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next: (124 commits) wifi: cfg80211: Explicitly include <linux/export.h> in michael-mic.c wifi: ath10k: Add device-tree quirk to skip host cap QMI requests dt-bindings: wireless: ath10k: Add quirk to skip host cap QMI requests crypto: Remove michael_mic from crypto_shash API wifi: ipw2x00: Use michael_mic() from cfg80211 wifi: ath12k: Use michael_mic() from cfg80211 wifi: ath11k: Use michael_mic() from cfg80211 wifi: mac80211, cfg80211: Export michael_mic() and move it to cfg80211 wifi: ipw2x00: Rename michael_mic() to libipw_michael_mic() wifi: libertas_tf: refactor endpoint lookup wifi: libertas: refactor endpoint lookup wifi: at76c50x: refactor endpoint lookup wifi: ath12k: Enable IPQ5424 WiFi device support wifi: ath12k: Add CE remap hardware parameters for IPQ5424 wifi: ath12k: add ath12k_hw_regs for IPQ5424 wifi: ath12k: add ath12k_hw_version_map entry for IPQ5424 wifi: ath12k: Add ath12k_hw_params for IPQ5424 dt-bindings: net: wireless: add ath12k wifi device IPQ5424 wifi: ath10k: fix station lookup failure during disconnect wifi: ath12k: Create symlink for each radio in a wiphy ... ====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410064703.735099-3-johannes@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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| 07-Apr-2026 |
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> |
Merge tag 'rtw-next-2026-04-02' of https://github.com/pkshih/rtw into wireless-next
Ping-Ke Shih says: ================== rtw-next patches for -next
Improve MLO and some random fixes. Notable chang
Merge tag 'rtw-next-2026-04-02' of https://github.com/pkshih/rtw into wireless-next
Ping-Ke Shih says: ================== rtw-next patches for -next
Improve MLO and some random fixes. Notable changes are:
* drop usb device reference across drivers
rtw89:
* add RTL8922DE but not enabled yet, because BT coexistence is still cooking.
* add USB RX aggregation to improve performance.
* add USB TX flow control by tracking in-flight URBs. ==================
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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| 02-Apr-2026 |
Lucid Duck <lucid_duck@justthetip.ca> |
wifi: rtw89: usb: fix TX flow control by tracking in-flight URBs
rtw89_usb_ops_check_and_reclaim_tx_resource() returns a hardcoded placeholder value (42) instead of actual TX resource availability.
wifi: rtw89: usb: fix TX flow control by tracking in-flight URBs
rtw89_usb_ops_check_and_reclaim_tx_resource() returns a hardcoded placeholder value (42) instead of actual TX resource availability. This violates mac80211's flow control contract, preventing backpressure and causing uncontrolled URB accumulation under sustained TX load.
Fix by adding per-channel atomic counters (tx_inflight[]) that track in-flight URBs. Increment before usb_submit_urb() with rollback on failure, decrement in the completion callback, and return the remaining capacity to mac80211. The firmware command channel (CH12) always returns 1 since it has its own flow control.
The pre-increment pattern prevents a race where USB core completes the URB on another CPU before the submitting code increments the counter.
128 URBs per channel provides headroom for RTL8832CU at 160 MHz bandwidth. Tested on RTL8852AU (USB3 80 MHz) where 64 and 128 showed equivalent throughput, and on RTL8832AU where 128 sustained full throughput under 8-stream parallel load.
Tested on D-Link DWA-X1850 (RTL8832AU), kernel 6.19.8, Fedora 43:
Unpatched -> Patched (128 URBs) USB3 5GHz UL: 844 -> 837 Mbps (no regression) USB3 5GHz retx: 3 -> 0 USB3 2.4GHz UL: 162 -> 164 Mbps (no regression) 4-stream UL: 858 -> 826 Mbps (within variance) 8-stream UL: 872 -> 826 Mbps (within variance) UDP flood: 0% loss (690K datagrams) 60-second soak: 855 Mbps, 0 retransmits
Reported-by: morrownr <morrownr@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Lucid Duck <lucid_duck@justthetip.ca> Acked-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com> Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260402052216.207858-1-lucid_duck@justthetip.ca
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| 12-Mar-2026 |
Shin-Yi Lin <isaiah@realtek.com> |
wifi: rtw89: usb: Rx aggregation for RTL8832CU/RTL8851BU
USB RX Aggregation is a performance optimization technique used in USB network devices to increase throughput.
Instead of sending every rece
wifi: rtw89: usb: Rx aggregation for RTL8832CU/RTL8851BU
USB RX Aggregation is a performance optimization technique used in USB network devices to increase throughput.
Instead of sending every received network packet to the host computer individually, the device hardware groups multiple smaller packets into a single, large USB Bulk Transfer.
* toAP/toNB use iperf3 respectively.
With Cisco BE6000 - iperf3 tcp 10 pair (to another NB)
[6G 160Mhz]:
RTL8832CU-USB3.0 before after TX 941 941 RX 847 919
RTL8832CU-USB2.0 before after TX 293 286 RX 342 356
[5G 80Mhz]:
RTL8832CU-USB3.0 before after TX 864 877 RX 864 902
RTL8832CU-USB2.0 before after TX 279 271 RX 327 349
RTL8851BU before after TX 115 114 RX 295 306
Signed-off-by: Shin-Yi Lin <isaiah@realtek.com> Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260312055724.12177-1-pkshih@realtek.com
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| 06-Mar-2026 |
Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> |
wifi: rtw89: drop redundant device reference
Driver core holds a reference to the USB interface and its parent USB device while the interface is bound to a driver and there is no need to take additi
wifi: rtw89: drop redundant device reference
Driver core holds a reference to the USB interface and its parent USB device while the interface is bound to a driver and there is no need to take additional references unless the structures are needed after disconnect.
Drop the redundant device reference to reduce cargo culting, make it easier to spot drivers where an extra reference is needed, and reduce the risk of memory leaks when drivers fail to release it.
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260306093206.21081-1-johan@kernel.org
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| 12-Mar-2026 |
Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com> |
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next
Backmerging to bring in 7.00-rc3. Important ahead GPU SVM merging THP support.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
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| 26-Feb-2026 |
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-7.0-rc2).
Conflicts:
tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/rss_ctx.py 19c3a2
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-7.0-rc2).
Conflicts:
tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/rss_ctx.py 19c3a2a81d2b ("selftests: drv-net: rss: Generate unique ports for RSS context tests") ce5a0f4612db ("selftests: drv-net: rss_ctx: test RSS contexts persist after ifdown/up")
include/net/inet_connection_sock.h 858d2a4f67ff6 ("tcp: fix potential race in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock()") fcd3d039fab69 ("tcp: make tcp_v{4,6}_send_check() static") https://lore.kernel.org/aZ8PSFLzBrEU3I89@sirena.org.uk
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/setup.c drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/pool.c 69050f8d6d075 ("treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types") bf4afc53b77ae ("Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument") 8a96b9144f18a ("net/mlx5e: Alloc xsk channel param out of mlx5e_open_xsk()")
Adjacent changes:
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c c59bd9e62e06 ("ipvs: use more counters to avoid service lookups") bf4afc53b77a ("Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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| 25-Feb-2026 |
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> |
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next
Sync with v7.0-rc1 which contains a few treewide changes affecting i915.
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
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| 23-Feb-2026 |
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf after 7.0-rc1
Cross-merge trees after 7.0-rc1.
No conflicts.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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| 23-Feb-2026 |
Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org> |
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next
Let's merge 7.0-rc1 to start the new drm-misc-next window
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
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| 23-Feb-2026 |
Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org> |
Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes
7.0-rc1 was just released, let's merge it to kick the new release cycle.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
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| 22-Feb-2026 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments
This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split over multiple lines. I only did the ones that are easy to verify
Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments
This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split over multiple lines. I only did the ones that are easy to verify the resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next line.
Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the middle of the script. I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.
So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed' scripts.
The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want whitespace cleanup anyway.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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| 21-Feb-2026 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Merge tag 'kmalloc_obj-treewide-v7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull kmalloc_obj conversion from Kees Cook: "This does the tree-wide conversion to kmalloc_obj(
Merge tag 'kmalloc_obj-treewide-v7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull kmalloc_obj conversion from Kees Cook: "This does the tree-wide conversion to kmalloc_obj() and friends using coccinelle, with a subsequent small manual cleanup of whitespace alignment that coccinelle does not handle.
This uncovered a clang bug in __builtin_counted_by_ref(), so the conversion is preceded by disabling that for current versions of clang. The imminent clang 22.1 release has the fix.
I've done allmodconfig build tests for x86_64, arm64, i386, and arm. I did defconfig builds for alpha, m68k, mips, parisc, powerpc, riscv, s390, sparc, sh, arc, csky, xtensa, hexagon, and openrisc"
* tag 'kmalloc_obj-treewide-v7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: kmalloc_obj: Clean up after treewide replacements treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types compiler_types: Disable __builtin_counted_by_ref for Clang
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| 21-Feb-2026 |
Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> |
treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid sc
treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances:
Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)
Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)
Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)
(where TYPE may also be *VAR)
The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *".
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
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| 12-Feb-2026 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Merge tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni: "Core & protocols:
- A significant effort all around the stac
Merge tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni: "Core & protocols:
- A significant effort all around the stack to guide the compiler to make the right choice when inlining code, to avoid unneeded calls for small helper and stack canary overhead in the fast-path.
This generates better and faster code with very small or no text size increases, as in many cases the call generated more code than the actual inlined helper.
- Extend AccECN implementation so that is now functionally complete, also allow the user-space enabling it on a per network namespace basis.
- Add support for memory providers with large (above 4K) rx buffer. Paired with hw-gro, larger rx buffer sizes reduce the number of buffers traversing the stack, dincreasing single stream CPU usage by up to ~30%.
- Do not add HBH header to Big TCP GSO packets. This simplifies the RX path, the TX path and the NIC drivers, and is possible because user-space taps can now interpret correctly such packets without the HBH hint.
- Allow IPv6 routes to be configured with a gateway address that is resolved out of a different interface than the one specified, aligning IPv6 to IPv4 behavior.
- Multi-queue aware sch_cake. This makes it possible to scale the rate shaper of sch_cake across multiple CPUs, while still enforcing a single global rate on the interface.
- Add support for the nbcon (new buffer console) infrastructure to netconsole, enabling lock-free, priority-based console operations that are safer in crash scenarios.
- Improve the TCP ipv6 output path to cache the flow information, saving cpu cycles, reducing cache line misses and stack use.
- Improve netfilter packet tracker to resolve clashes for most protocols, avoiding unneeded drops on rare occasions.
- Add IP6IP6 tunneling acceleration to the flowtable infrastructure.
- Reduce tcp socket size by one cache line.
- Notify neighbour changes atomically, avoiding inconsistencies between the notification sequence and the actual states sequence.
- Add vsock namespace support, allowing complete isolation of vsocks across different network namespaces.
- Improve xsk generic performances with cache-alignment-oriented optimizations.
- Support netconsole automatic target recovery, allowing netconsole to reestablish targets when underlying low-level interface comes back online.
Driver API:
- Support for switching the working mode (automatic vs manual) of a DPLL device via netlink.
- Introduce PHY ports representation to expose multiple front-facing media ports over a single MAC.
- Introduce "rx-polarity" and "tx-polarity" device tree properties, to generalize polarity inversion requirements for differential signaling.
- Add helper to create, prepare and enable managed clocks.
Device drivers:
- Add Huawei hinic3 PF etherner driver.
- Add DWMAC glue driver for Motorcomm YT6801 PCIe ethernet controller.
- Add ethernet driver for MaxLinear MxL862xx switches
- Remove parallel-port Ethernet driver.
- Convert existing driver timestamp configuration reporting to hwtstamp_get and remove legacy ioctl().
- Convert existing drivers to .get_rx_ring_count(), simplifing the RX ring count retrieval. Also remove the legacy fallback path.
- Ethernet high-speed NICs: - Broadcom (bnxt, bng): - bnxt: add FW interface update to support FEC stats histogram and NVRAM defragmentation - bng: add TSO and H/W GRO support - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5): - improve latency of channel restart operations, reducing the used H/W resources - add TSO support for UDP over GRE over VLAN - add flow counters support for hardware steering (HWS) rules - use a static memory area to store headers for H/W GRO, leading to 12% RX tput improvement - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - ice: reorganizes layout of Tx and Rx rings for cacheline locality and utilizes __cacheline_group* macros on the new layouts - ice: introduces Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) support - Meta (fbnic): - adds debugfs for firmware mailbox and tx/rx rings vectors
- Ethernet virtual: - geneve: introduce GRO/GSO support for double UDP encapsulation
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded: - Synopsys (stmmac): - some code refactoring and cleanups - RealTek (r8169): - add support for RTL8127ATF (10G Fiber SFP) - add dash and LTR support - Airoha: - AN8811HB 2.5 Gbps phy support - Freescale (fec): - add XDP zero-copy support - Thunderbolt: - add get link setting support to allow bonding - Renesas: - add support for RZ/G3L GBETH SoC
- Ethernet switches: - Maxlinear: - support R(G)MII slow rate configuration - add support for Intel GSW150 - Motorcomm (yt921x): - add DCB/QoS support - TI: - icssm-prueth: support bridging (STP/RSTP) via the switchdev framework
- Ethernet PHYs: - Realtek: - enable SGMII and 2500Base-X in-band auto-negotiation - simplify and reunify C22/C45 drivers - Micrel: convert bindings to DT schema
- CAN: - move skb headroom content into skb extensions, making CAN metadata access more robust
- CAN drivers: - rcar_canfd: - add support for FD-only mode - add support for the RZ/T2H SoC - sja1000: cleanup the CAN state handling
- WiFi: - implement EPPKE/802.1X over auth frames support - split up drop reasons better, removing generic RX_DROP - additional FTM capabilities: 6 GHz support, supported number of spatial streams and supported number of LTF repetitions - better mac80211 iterators to enumerate resources - initial UHR (Wi-Fi 8) support for cfg80211/mac80211
- WiFi drivers: - Qualcomm/Atheros: - ath11k: support for Channel Frequency Response measurement - ath12k: a significant driver refactor to support multi-wiphy devices and and pave the way for future device support in the same driver (rather than splitting to ath13k) - ath12k: support for the QCC2072 chipset - Intel: - iwlwifi: partial Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support - iwlwifi: initial support for U-NII-9 and IEEE 802.11bn - RealTek (rtw89): - preparations for RTL8922DE support
- Bluetooth: - implement setsockopt(BT_PHY) to set the connection packet type/PHY - set link_policy on incoming ACL connections
- Bluetooth drivers: - btusb: add support for MediaTek7920, Realtek RTL8761BU and 8851BE - btqca: add WCN6855 firmware priority selection feature"
* tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1254 commits) bnge/bng_re: Add a new HSI net: macb: Fix tx/rx malfunction after phy link down and up af_unix: Fix memleak of newsk in unix_stream_connect(). net: ti: icssg-prueth: Add optional dependency on HSR net: dsa: add basic initial driver for MxL862xx switches net: mdio: add unlocked mdiodev C45 bus accessors net: dsa: add tag format for MxL862xx switches dt-bindings: net: dsa: add MaxLinear MxL862xx selftests: drivers: net: hw: Modify toeplitz.c to poll for packets octeontx2-pf: Unregister devlink on probe failure net: renesas: rswitch: fix forwarding offload statemachine ionic: Rate limit unknown xcvr type messages tcp: inet6_csk_xmit() optimization tcp: populate inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock() tcp: populate inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_connect() ipv6: inet6_csk_xmit() and inet6_csk_update_pmtu() use inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 ipv6: use inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 and np->final in ip6_datagram_dst_update() ipv6: use np->final in inet6_sk_rebuild_header() ipv6: add daddr/final storage in struct ipv6_pinfo net: stmmac: qcom-ethqos: fix qcom_ethqos_serdes_powerup() ...
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Merge tag 'wireless-next-2026-01-29' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next
Johannes Berg says:
==================== Another fairly large set of changes, notably:
Merge tag 'wireless-next-2026-01-29' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next
Johannes Berg says:
==================== Another fairly large set of changes, notably: - cfg80211/mac80211 - most of EPPKE/802.1X over auth frames support - additional FTM capabilities - split up drop reasons better, removing generic RX_DROP - NAN cleanups/fixes - ath11k: - support for Channel Frequency Response measurement - ath12k: - support for the QCC2072 chipset - iwlwifi: - partial NAN support - UNII-9 support - some UHR/802.11bn FW APIs - remove most of MLO/EHT from iwlmvm (such devices use iwlmld) - rtw89: - preparations for RTL8922DE support
* tag 'wireless-next-2026-01-29' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next: (184 commits) wifi: iwlegacy: add missing mutex protection in il4965_store_tx_power() wifi: iwlegacy: add missing mutex protection in il3945_store_measurement() wifi: mac80211: use u64_stats_t with u64_stats_sync properly wifi: p54: Fix memory leak in p54_beacon_update() wifi: cfg80211: treat deprecated INDOOR_SP_AP_OLD control value as LPI mode wifi: rtw88: sdio: Migrate to use sdio specific shutdown function wifi: rsi: sdio: Migrate to use sdio specific shutdown function sdio: Provide a bustype shutdown function wifi: nl80211/cfg80211: support operating as RSTA in PMSR FTM request wifi: nl80211/cfg80211: add negotiated burst period to FTM result wifi: nl80211/cfg80211: clarify periodic FTM parameters for non-EDCA based ranging wifi: nl80211/cfg80211: add new FTM capabilities wifi: iwlwifi: rename struct iwl_mcc_allowed_ap_type_cmd::offset_map wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: Remove link_id from time_events wifi: iwlwifi: mld: change cluster_id type to u8 array wifi: iwlwifi: support V13 of iwl_lari_config_change_cmd wifi: iwlwifi: split bios_value_u32 to separate the header wifi: iwlwifi: uefi: cache the DSM functions wifi: iwlwifi: acpi: cache the DSM functions wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: Cleanup MLO code ... ====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260129110136.176980-39-johannes@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@oss.qualcomm.com> |
Merge tag 'v6.19-rc1' into msm-next
Merge Linux 6.19-rc1 in order to catch up with other changes (e.g. UBWC config database defining UBWC_6).
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@oss.q
Merge tag 'v6.19-rc1' into msm-next
Merge Linux 6.19-rc1 in order to catch up with other changes (e.g. UBWC config database defining UBWC_6).
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@oss.qualcomm.com>
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Merge tag 'rtw-next-2026-01-15' of https://github.com/pkshih/rtw
Ping-Ke Shih says: ================== rtw-next patches for -next release.
Main changes are to prepare to support RTL8922DE, includin
Merge tag 'rtw-next-2026-01-15' of https://github.com/pkshih/rtw
Ping-Ke Shih says: ================== rtw-next patches for -next release.
Main changes are to prepare to support RTL8922DE, including refactor/add register settings in common flow, and add newly firmware command/event handlers.
Others are some random fixes and improvements across all drivers. ==================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/006be16d-61ba-4af8-b76a-bc94100c3555@RTKEXHMBS03.realtek.com.tw Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com> |
wifi: rtw89: add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue users
This continues the effort to refactor workqueue APIs, which began with the introduction of new workqueues and a new alloc_workqueue flag in:
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wifi: rtw89: add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue users
This continues the effort to refactor workqueue APIs, which began with the introduction of new workqueues and a new alloc_workqueue flag in:
commit 128ea9f6ccfb ("workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq") commit 930c2ea566af ("workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag")
The refactoring is going to alter the default behavior of alloc_workqueue() to be unbound by default.
With the introduction of the WQ_PERCPU flag (equivalent to !WQ_UNBOUND), any alloc_workqueue() caller that doesn’t explicitly specify WQ_UNBOUND must now use WQ_PERCPU. For more details see the Link tag below.
In order to keep alloc_workqueue() behavior identical, explicitly request WQ_PERCPU.
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250221112003.1dSuoGyc@linutronix.de/ Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251210101209.47176-1-marco.crivellari@suse.com
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