Changes in README

a4a508df2aa34f8650afde54ea804321c618f45f - Merge tag 'v6.18' into next

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:18:20 +0100

Merge tag 'v6.18' into nextSync up with the mainline to bring in the latest APIs. List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README

cb9f145f638d7afa633632a9290d6ad06caeb8ee - Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next-robclark

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:47:30 +0100

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next-robclarkBack-merge drm-next to get caught up.Signed-off-by: Rob Clark List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README

82ee50252dc891e3f3b32d923bb4f656d300b772 - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:31:49 +0200

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-nextBackmerging to bring in 6.18-rc1.Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README

2acee98fcc61052d63fab4539fcb6ee677555645 - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:37:11 +0200

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-nextSync to v6.18-rc1.Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README

9b966ae42235a88eaea714be09ff3d698535bdfe - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:19:19 +0200

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-nextUpdating drm-misc-next to the state of v6.18-rc1.Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README

2ace52718376fdb56aca863da2eebe70d7e2ddb1 - Merge branch 'objtool/core'

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:21:20 +0100

Merge branch 'objtool/core'Bring in the UDB and objtool data annotations to avoid conflicts while further extending the bug exceptions.Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README

f39b6c468c52745dbca9a842d91c8373fda208ab - Merge tag 'v6.18-rc6' into for-linus

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 08:16:55 +0100

Merge tag 'v6.18-rc6' into for-linusSync up with the mainline to bring in definition ofINPUT_PROP_HAPTIC_TOUCHPAD. List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README

4f38da1f027ea2c9f01bb71daa7a299c191b6940 - spi: Merge up v6.18-rc1

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:32:13 +0200

spi: Merge up v6.18-rc1Ensure my CI has a sensible baseline. List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README

ec2e0fb07d789976c601bec19ecced7a501c3705 - Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.18-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:14:24 +0200

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.18-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linusASoC: Fixes for v6.18A moderately large collection of driver specific fixes, plus a few newquirks and device IDs. The NAU8821 changes are a little large but morein mechanical ways than in ways that are complex. List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README

48a710760e10a4f36e11233a21860796ba204b1e - Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 10:59:58 +0200

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixesUpdating drm-misc-fixes to the state of v6.18-rc1.Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README

07fdad3a93756b872da7b53647715c48d0f4a2d0 - Merge tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:17:01 +0200

Merge tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextPull networking updates from Paolo Abeni: "Core & protocols: - Improve drop account scalability on NUMA hosts for RAW and UDP sockets and the backlog, almost doubling the Pps capacity under DoS - Optimize the UDP RX performance under stress, reducing contention, revisiting the binary layout of the involved data structs and implementing NUMA-aware locking. This improves UDP RX performance by an additional 50%, even more under extreme conditions - Add support for PSP encryption of TCP connections; this mechanism has some similarities with IPsec and TLS, but offers superior HW offloads capabilities - Ongoing work to support Accurate ECN for TCP. AccECN allows more than one congestion notification signal per RTT and is a building block for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) - Reorganize the TCP socket binary layout for data locality, reducing the number of touched cachelines in the fastpath - Refactor skb deferral free to better scale on large multi-NUMA hosts, this improves TCP and UDP RX performances significantly on such HW - Increase the default socket memory buffer limits from 256K to 4M to better fit modern link speeds - Improve handling of setups with a large number of nexthop, making dump operating scaling linearly and avoiding unneeded synchronize_rcu() on delete - Improve bridge handling of VLAN FDB, storing a single entry per bridge instead of one entry per port; this makes the dump order of magnitude faster on large switches - Restore IP ID correctly for encapsulated packets at GSO segmentation time, allowing GRO to merge packets in more scenarios - Improve netfilter matching performance on large sets - Improve MPTCP receive path performance by leveraging recently introduced core infrastructure (skb deferral free) and adopting recent TCP autotuning changes - Allow bridges to redirect to a backup port when the bridge port is administratively down - Introduce MPTCP 'laminar' endpoint that con be used only once per connection and simplify common MPTCP setups - Add RCU safety to dst->dev, closing a lot of possible races - A significant crypto library API for SCTP, MPTCP and IPv6 SR, reducing code duplication - Supports pulling data from an skb frag into the linear area of an XDP buffer Things we sprinkled into general kernel code: - Generate netlink documentation from YAML using an integrated YAML parser Driver API: - Support using IPv6 Flow Label in Rx hash computation and RSS queue selection - Introduce API for fetching the DMA device for a given queue, allowing TCP zerocopy RX on more H/W setups - Make XDP helpers compatible with unreadable memory, allowing more easily building DevMem-enabled drivers with a unified XDP/skbs datapath - Add a new dedicated ethtool callback enabling drivers to provide the number of RX rings directly, improving efficiency and clarity in RX ring queries and RSS configuration - Introduce a burst period for the health reporter, allowing better handling of multiple errors due to the same root cause - Support for DPLL phase offset exponential moving average, controlling the average smoothing factor Device drivers: - Add a new Huawei driver for 3rd gen NIC (hinic3) - Add a new SpacemiT driver for K1 ethernet MAC - Add a generic abstraction for shared memory communication devices (dibps) - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - nVidia/Mellanox: - Use multiple per-queue doorbell, to avoid MMIO contention issues - support adjacent functions, allowing them to delegate their SR-IOV VFs to sibling PFs - support RSS for IPSec offload - support exposing raw cycle counters in PTP and mlx5 - support for disabling host PFs. - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - ice: support for SRIOV VFs over an Active-Active link aggregate - ice: support for firmware logging via debugfs - ice: support for Earliest TxTime First (ETF) hardware offload - idpf: support basic XDP functionalities and XSk - Broadcom (bnxt): - support Hyper-V VF ID - dynamic SRIOV resource allocations for RoCE - Meta (fbnic): - support queue API, zero-copy Rx and Tx - support basic XDP functionalities - devlink health support for FW crashes and OTP mem corruptions - expand hardware stats coverage to FEC, PHY, and Pause - Wangxun: - support ethtool coalesce options - support for multiple RSS contexts - Ethernet virtual: - Macsec: - replace custom netlink attribute checks with policy-level checks - Bonding: - support aggregator selection based on port priority - Microsoft vNIC: - use page pool fragments for RX buffers instead of full pages to improve memory efficiency - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded: - Qualcomm: support Ethernet function for IPQ9574 SoC - Airoha: implement wlan offloading via NPU - Freescale - enetc: add NETC timer PTP driver and add PTP support - fec: enable the Jumbo frame support for i.MX8QM - Renesas (R-Car S4): - support HW offloading for layer 2 switching - support for RZ/{T2H, N2H} SoCs - Cadence (macb): support TAPRIO traffic scheduling - TI: - support for Gigabit ICSS ethernet SoC (icssm-prueth) - Synopsys (stmmac): a lot of cleanups - Ethernet PHYs: - Support 10g-qxgmi phy-mode for AQR412C, Felix DSA and Lynx PCS driver - Support bcm63268 GPHY power control - Support for Micrel lan8842 PHY and PTP - Support for Aquantia AQR412 and AQR115 - CAN: - a large CAN-XL preparation work - reorganize raw_sock and uniqframe struct to minimize memory usage - rcar_canfd: update the CAN-FD handling - WiFi: - extended Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support - S1G channel representation cleanup - improve S1G support - WiFi drivers: - Intel (iwlwifi): - major refactor and cleanup - Broadcom (brcm80211): - support for AP isolation - RealTek (rtw88/89) rtw88/89: - preparation work for RTL8922DE support - MediaTek (mt76): - HW restart improvements - MLO support - Qualcomm/Atheros (ath10k): - GTK rekey fixes - Bluetooth drivers: - btusb: support for several new IDs for MT7925 - btintel: support for BlazarIW core - btintel_pcie: support for _suspend() / _resume() - btintel_pcie: support for Scorpious, Panther Lake-H484 IDs"* tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1536 commits) net: stmmac: Add support for Allwinner A523 GMAC200 dt-bindings: net: sun8i-emac: Add A523 GMAC200 compatible Revert "Documentation: net: add flow control guide and document ethtool API" octeontx2-pf: fix bitmap leak octeontx2-vf: fix bitmap leak net/mlx5e: Use extack in set rxfh callback net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_params for RSS configuration net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_init_params net/mlx5e: Remove unused mdev param from RSS indir init net/mlx5: Improve QoS error messages with actual depth values net/mlx5e: Prevent entering switchdev mode with inconsistent netns net/mlx5: HWS, Generalize complex matchers net/mlx5: Improve write-combining test reliability for ARM64 Grace CPUs selftests/net: add tcp_port_share to .gitignore Revert "net/mlx5e: Update and set Xon/Xoff upon MTU set" net: add NUMA awareness to skb_attempt_defer_free() net: use llist for sd->defer_list net: make softnet_data.defer_count an atomic selftests: drv-net: psp: add tests for destroying devices selftests: drv-net: psp: add test for auto-adjusting TCP MSS ... List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README

1493c18fe8696bfc758a97130a485fc4e08387f5 - Merge branch 'selftests-mark-auto-deferring-functions-clearly'

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 02:54:36 +0200

Merge branch 'selftests-mark-auto-deferring-functions-clearly'Petr Machata says:====================selftests: Mark auto-deferring functions clearlyselftests/net/lib.sh contains a suite of iproute2 wrappers thatautomatically schedule the corresponding cleanup through defer. The factthey do so is however not immediately obvious, one needs to know whichfunctions are handling the deferral behind the scenes, and which expect thecaller to handle cleanups themselves.A convention for these auto-deferring functions would help both writing andpatch review. This patchset does so by marking these functions with an adf_prefix. We already have a few such functions: forwarding/lib.sh hasadf_mcd_start() and a few selftests add private helpers that conform tothis convention.Patches #1 to #8 gradually convert individual functions, one per patch.Patch #9 renames an auto-deferring private helpers named dfr_* to adf_*.The plan is not to retro-rename all private helpers, but I happened to knowabout this one.Patches #10 to #12 introduce several autodefer helpers for commonly usedforwarding/lib.sh functions, and opportunistically convert straightforwardinstances of 'action; defer counteraction' to the new helpers.Patch #13 adds some README verbiage to pitch defer and the adf_*convention.====================Link: https://patch.msgid.link/cover.1758821127.git.petrm@nvidia.comSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README

fca6ff9191bd60167d5fe1d1fea89bf988d9e355 - selftests: forwarding: README: Mention defer, adf_

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 19:31:56 +0200

selftests: forwarding: README: Mention defer, adf_Mention how it would be nice if new code used defer. Also if it does thatin dirtying helpers, how it would be nice if these were named adf_*.Signed-off-by: Petr Machata Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0764bdb9266cd516da23ddeec110e01118cf981e.1758821127.git.petrm@nvidia.comSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README

bbfd5594756011167b8f8de9a00e0c946afda1e6 - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Wed, 28 May 2025 09:20:17 +0200

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-nextNeed to pull in a67221b5eb8d ("drm/i915/dp: Return min bpc supported by source instead of 0")in order to fix build breakage on GCC 9.4.0 (from Ubuntu 20.04).Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README

db5302ae571beec635c1a96e7f72926a4e65195e - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Fri, 16 May 2025 09:22:36 +0200

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-nextBackmerge to sync with v6.15-rc, xe, and specifically async flip changesin drm-misc.Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README

4f9786035f9e519db41375818e1d0b5f20da2f10 - Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 06:41:07 +0200

Merge branch 'next' into for-linusPrepare input updates for 6.16 merge window. List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README

d51b9d81f7883f526b26e3ab903e646274aebeb1 - Merge tag 'v6.15-rc6' into next

Fri, 16 May 2025 01:20:39 +0200

Merge tag 'v6.15-rc6' into nextSync up with mainline to bring in xpad controller changes. List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README

844e31bbaef7c8a6ff2c0fbac45c0c85b5484482 - Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm-misc/drm-misc-next' into msm-next

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 22:42:29 +0200

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm-misc/drm-misc-next' into msm-nextMerge drm-misc-next to get commit Fixes: fec450ca15af ("drm/display:hdmi: provide central data authority for ACR params").Signed-off-by: Rob Clark List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README

3ab7ae8e07f888f223027f0ef84d33e43919ad55 - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:34:55 +0200

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-nextBackmerge to bring in linux 6.15-rc.Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README

1afba39f9305fe4061a4e70baa6ebab9d41459da - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:47:40 +0200

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-nextBackmerging to get v6.15-rc1 into drm-misc-next. Also fixes abuild issue when enabling CONFIG_DRM_SCHED_KUNIT_TEST.Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README