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Linus Torvalds 0ad9617c78 Networking changes for 6.14.
Core
 ----
 
  - More core refactoring to reduce the RTNL lock contention,
    including preparatory work for the per-network namespace RTNL lock,
    replacing RTNL lock with a per device-one to protect NAPI-related
    net device data and moving synchronize_net() calls outside such
    lock.
 
  - Extend drop reasons usage, adding net scheduler, AF_UNIX, bridge and
    more specific TCP coverage.
 
  - Reduce network namespace tear-down time by removing per-subsystems
    synchronize_net() in tipc and sched.
 
  - Add flow label selector support for fib rules, allowing traffic
    redirection based on such header field.
 
 Netfilter
 ---------
 
  - Do not remove netdev basechain when last device is gone, allowing
    netdev basechains without devices.
 
  - Revisit the flowtable teardown strategy, dealing better with fin,
    reset and re-open events.
 
  - Scale-up IP-vs connection dumping by avoiding linear search on
    each restart.
 
 Protocols
 ---------
 
  - A significant XDP socket refactor, consolidating and optimizing
    several helpers into the core
 
  - Better scaling of ICMP rate-limiting, by removing false-sharing in
    inet peers handling.
 
  - Introduces netlink notifications for multicast IPv4 and IPv6
    address changes.
 
  - Add ipsec support for IP-TFS/AggFrag encapsulation, allowing
    aggregation and fragmentation of the inner IP.
 
  - Add sysctl to configure TIME-WAIT reuse delay for TCP sockets,
    to avoid local port exhaustion issues when the average connection
    lifetime is very short.
 
  - Support updating keys (re-keying) for connections using kernel
    TLS (for TLS 1.3 only).
 
  - Support ipv4-mapped ipv6 address clients in smc-r v2.
 
  - Add support for jumbo data packet transmission in RxRPC sockets,
    gluing multiple data packets in a single UDP packet.
 
  - Support RxRPC RACK-TLP to manage packet loss and retransmission in
    conjunction with the congestion control algorithm.
 
 Driver API
 ----------
 
  - Introduce a unified and structured interface for reporting PHY
    statistics, exposing consistent data across different H/W via
    ethtool.
 
  - Make timestamping selectable, allow the user to select the desired
    hwtstamp provider (PHY or MAC) administratively.
 
  - Add support for configuring a header-data-split threshold (HDS)
    value via ethtool, to deal with partial or buggy H/W implementation.
 
  - Consolidate DSA drivers Energy Efficiency Ethernet support.
 
  - Add EEE management to phylink, making use of the phylib
    implementation.
 
  - Add phylib support for in-band capabilities negotiation.
 
  - Simplify how phylib-enabled mac drivers expose the supported
    interfaces.
 
 Tests and tooling
 -----------------
 
  - Make the YNL tool package-friendly to make it easier to deploy it
    separately from the kernel.
 
  - Increase TCP selftest coverage importing several packetdrill
    test-cases.
 
  - Regenerate the ethtool uapi header from the YNL spec,
    to ease maintenance and future development.
 
  - Add YNL support for decoding the link types used in net
    self-tests, allowing a single build to run both net and
    drivers/net.
 
 Drivers
 -------
 
  - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
    - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
      - add cross E-Switch QoS support
      - add SW Steering support for ConnectX-8
      - implement support for HW-Managed Flow Steering, improving the
        rule deletion/insertion rate
      - support for multi-host LAG
    - Intel (ixgbe, ice, igb):
      - ice: add support for devlink health events
      - ixgbe: add initial support for E610 chipset variant
      - igb: add support for AF_XDP zero-copy
    - Meta:
      - add support for basic RSS config
      - allow changing the number of channels
      - add hardware monitoring support
    - Broadcom (bnxt):
      - implement TCP data split and HDS threshold ethtool support,
        enabling Device Memory TCP.
    - Marvell Octeon:
      - implement egress ipsec offload support for the cn10k family
    - Hisilicon (HIBMC):
      - implement unicast MAC filtering
 
  - Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual:
    - Convert UDP tunnel drivers to NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_DSTATS, avoiding
      contented atomic operations for drop counters
    - Freescale:
      - quicc: phylink conversion
      - enetc: support Tx and Rx checksum offload and improve TSO
        performances
    - MediaTek:
      - airoha: introduce support for ETS and HTB Qdisc offload
    - Microchip:
      - lan78XX USB: preparation work for phylink conversion
    - Synopsys (stmmac):
      - support DWMAC IP on NXP Automotive SoCs S32G2xx/S32G3xx/S32R45
      - refactor EEE support to leverage the new driver API
      - optimize DMA and cache access to increase raw RX performances
        by 40%
    - TI:
      - icssg-prueth: add multicast filtering support for VLAN
        interface
    - netkit:
      - add ability to configure head/tailroom
    - VXLAN:
      - accepts packets with user-defined reserved bit
 
  - Ethernet switches:
    - Microchip:
      - lan969x: add RGMII support
      - lan969x: improve TX and RX performance using the FDMA engine
    - nVidia/Mellanox:
      - move Tx header handling to PCI driver, to ease XDP support
 
  - Ethernet PHYs:
    - Texas Instruments DP83822:
      - add support for GPIO2 clock output
    - Realtek:
      - 8169: add support for RTL8125D rev.b
      - rtl822x: add hwmon support for the temperature sensor
    - Microchip:
      - add support for RDS PTP hardware
      - consolidate periodic output signal generation
 
  - CAN:
    - several DT-bindings to DT schema conversions
    - tcan4x5x:
      - add HW standby support
      - support nWKRQ voltage selection
    - kvaser:
      - allowing Bus Error Reporting runtime configuration
 
  - WiFi:
    - the on-going Multi-Link Operation (MLO) effort continues, affecting
      both the stack and in drivers
    - mac80211/cfg80211:
      - Emergency Preparedness Communication Services (EPCS) station mode
        support
      - support for adding and removing station links for MLO
      - add support for WiFi 7/EHT mesh over 320 MHz channels
      - report Tx power info for each link
    - RealTek (rtw88):
      - enable USB Rx aggregation and USB 3 to improve performance
      - LED support
    - RealTek (rtw89):
      - refactor power save to support Multi-Link Operations
      - add support for RTL8922AE-VS variant
    - MediaTek (mt76):
      - single wiphy multiband support (preparation for MLO)
      - p2p device support
      - add TP-Link TXE50UH USB adapter support
    - Qualcomm (ath10k):
      - support for the QCA6698AQ IP core
    - Qualcomm (ath12k):
      - enable MLO for QCN9274
 
  - Bluetooth:
    - Allow sysfs to trigger hdev reset, to allow recovering devices
      not responsive from user-space
    - MediaTek: add support for MT7922, MT7925, MT7921e devices
    - Realtek: add support for RTL8851BE devices
    - Qualcomm: add support for WCN785x devices
    - ISO: allow BIG re-sync
 
 Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'net-next-6.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "This is slightly smaller than usual, with the most interesting work
  being still around RTNL scope reduction.

  Core:

   - More core refactoring to reduce the RTNL lock contention, including
     preparatory work for the per-network namespace RTNL lock, replacing
     RTNL lock with a per device-one to protect NAPI-related net device
     data and moving synchronize_net() calls outside such lock.

   - Extend drop reasons usage, adding net scheduler, AF_UNIX, bridge
     and more specific TCP coverage.

   - Reduce network namespace tear-down time by removing per-subsystems
     synchronize_net() in tipc and sched.

   - Add flow label selector support for fib rules, allowing traffic
     redirection based on such header field.

  Netfilter:

   - Do not remove netdev basechain when last device is gone, allowing
     netdev basechains without devices.

   - Revisit the flowtable teardown strategy, dealing better with fin,
     reset and re-open events.

   - Scale-up IP-vs connection dumping by avoiding linear search on each
     restart.

  Protocols:

   - A significant XDP socket refactor, consolidating and optimizing
     several helpers into the core

   - Better scaling of ICMP rate-limiting, by removing false-sharing in
     inet peers handling.

   - Introduces netlink notifications for multicast IPv4 and IPv6
     address changes.

   - Add ipsec support for IP-TFS/AggFrag encapsulation, allowing
     aggregation and fragmentation of the inner IP.

   - Add sysctl to configure TIME-WAIT reuse delay for TCP sockets, to
     avoid local port exhaustion issues when the average connection
     lifetime is very short.

   - Support updating keys (re-keying) for connections using kernel TLS
     (for TLS 1.3 only).

   - Support ipv4-mapped ipv6 address clients in smc-r v2.

   - Add support for jumbo data packet transmission in RxRPC sockets,
     gluing multiple data packets in a single UDP packet.

   - Support RxRPC RACK-TLP to manage packet loss and retransmission in
     conjunction with the congestion control algorithm.

  Driver API:

   - Introduce a unified and structured interface for reporting PHY
     statistics, exposing consistent data across different H/W via
     ethtool.

   - Make timestamping selectable, allow the user to select the desired
     hwtstamp provider (PHY or MAC) administratively.

   - Add support for configuring a header-data-split threshold (HDS)
     value via ethtool, to deal with partial or buggy H/W
     implementation.

   - Consolidate DSA drivers Energy Efficiency Ethernet support.

   - Add EEE management to phylink, making use of the phylib
     implementation.

   - Add phylib support for in-band capabilities negotiation.

   - Simplify how phylib-enabled mac drivers expose the supported
     interfaces.

  Tests and tooling:

   - Make the YNL tool package-friendly to make it easier to deploy it
     separately from the kernel.

   - Increase TCP selftest coverage importing several packetdrill
     test-cases.

   - Regenerate the ethtool uapi header from the YNL spec, to ease
     maintenance and future development.

   - Add YNL support for decoding the link types used in net self-tests,
     allowing a single build to run both net and drivers/net.

  Drivers:

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
         - add cross E-Switch QoS support
         - add SW Steering support for ConnectX-8
         - implement support for HW-Managed Flow Steering, improving the
           rule deletion/insertion rate
         - support for multi-host LAG
      - Intel (ixgbe, ice, igb):
         - ice: add support for devlink health events
         - ixgbe: add initial support for E610 chipset variant
         - igb: add support for AF_XDP zero-copy
      - Meta:
         - add support for basic RSS config
         - allow changing the number of channels
         - add hardware monitoring support
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - implement TCP data split and HDS threshold ethtool support,
           enabling Device Memory TCP.
      - Marvell Octeon:
         - implement egress ipsec offload support for the cn10k family
      - Hisilicon (HIBMC):
         - implement unicast MAC filtering

   - Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual:
      - Convert UDP tunnel drivers to NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_DSTATS, avoiding
        contented atomic operations for drop counters
      - Freescale:
         - quicc: phylink conversion
         - enetc: support Tx and Rx checksum offload and improve TSO
           performances
      - MediaTek:
         - airoha: introduce support for ETS and HTB Qdisc offload
      - Microchip:
         - lan78XX USB: preparation work for phylink conversion
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - support DWMAC IP on NXP Automotive SoCs S32G2xx/S32G3xx/S32R45
         - refactor EEE support to leverage the new driver API
         - optimize DMA and cache access to increase raw RX performances
           by 40%
      - TI:
         - icssg-prueth: add multicast filtering support for VLAN
           interface
      - netkit:
         - add ability to configure head/tailroom
      - VXLAN:
         - accepts packets with user-defined reserved bit

   - Ethernet switches:
      - Microchip:
         - lan969x: add RGMII support
         - lan969x: improve TX and RX performance using the FDMA engine
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - move Tx header handling to PCI driver, to ease XDP support

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - Texas Instruments DP83822:
         - add support for GPIO2 clock output
      - Realtek:
         - 8169: add support for RTL8125D rev.b
         - rtl822x: add hwmon support for the temperature sensor
      - Microchip:
         - add support for RDS PTP hardware
         - consolidate periodic output signal generation

   - CAN:
      - several DT-bindings to DT schema conversions
      - tcan4x5x:
         - add HW standby support
         - support nWKRQ voltage selection
      - kvaser:
         - allowing Bus Error Reporting runtime configuration

   - WiFi:
      - the on-going Multi-Link Operation (MLO) effort continues,
        affecting both the stack and in drivers
      - mac80211/cfg80211:
         - Emergency Preparedness Communication Services (EPCS) station
           mode support
         - support for adding and removing station links for MLO
         - add support for WiFi 7/EHT mesh over 320 MHz channels
         - report Tx power info for each link
      - RealTek (rtw88):
         - enable USB Rx aggregation and USB 3 to improve performance
         - LED support
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - refactor power save to support Multi-Link Operations
         - add support for RTL8922AE-VS variant
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - single wiphy multiband support (preparation for MLO)
         - p2p device support
         - add TP-Link TXE50UH USB adapter support
      - Qualcomm (ath10k):
         - support for the QCA6698AQ IP core
      - Qualcomm (ath12k):
         - enable MLO for QCN9274

   - Bluetooth:
      - Allow sysfs to trigger hdev reset, to allow recovering devices
        not responsive from user-space
      - MediaTek: add support for MT7922, MT7925, MT7921e devices
      - Realtek: add support for RTL8851BE devices
      - Qualcomm: add support for WCN785x devices
      - ISO: allow BIG re-sync"

* tag 'net-next-6.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1386 commits)
  net/rose: prevent integer overflows in rose_setsockopt()
  net: phylink: fix regression when binding a PHY
  net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: streamline TX queue creation and cleanup
  net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: streamline RX queue creation and cleanup
  net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: ensure proper channel cleanup in error path
  ipv6: Convert inet6_rtm_deladdr() to per-netns RTNL.
  ipv6: Convert inet6_rtm_newaddr() to per-netns RTNL.
  ipv6: Move lifetime validation to inet6_rtm_newaddr().
  ipv6: Set cfg.ifa_flags before device lookup in inet6_rtm_newaddr().
  ipv6: Pass dev to inet6_addr_add().
  ipv6: Convert inet6_ioctl() to per-netns RTNL.
  ipv6: Hold rtnl_net_lock() in addrconf_init() and addrconf_cleanup().
  ipv6: Hold rtnl_net_lock() in addrconf_dad_work().
  ipv6: Hold rtnl_net_lock() in addrconf_verify_work().
  ipv6: Convert net.ipv6.conf.${DEV}.XXX sysctl to per-netns RTNL.
  ipv6: Add __in6_dev_get_rtnl_net().
  net: stmmac: Drop redundant skb_mark_for_recycle() for SKB frags
  net: mii: Fix the Speed display when the network cable is not connected
  sysctl net: Remove macro checks for CONFIG_SYSCTL
  eth: bnxt: update header sizing defaults
  ...
2025-01-22 08:28:57 -08:00
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irq Documentation: irqdomain: Fix typo of "at least once" 2022-08-18 11:11:52 -06:00
wrappers docs: put atomic*.txt and memory-barriers.txt into the core-api book 2022-09-29 12:55:06 -06:00
asm-annotations.rst docs: move x86 documentation into Documentation/arch/ 2023-03-30 12:58:51 -06:00
assoc_array.rst Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst" 2018-11-20 09:30:43 -07:00
boot-time-mm.rst docs/boot-time-mm: remove bootmem documentation 2018-10-31 08:54:16 -07:00
cachetlb.rst mm: remove ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_FOLIO 2023-08-24 16:20:19 -07:00
cgroup.rst doc/cgroup: Fix title underline length 2025-01-15 09:46:18 +01:00
circular-buffers.rst doc: Remove ".vnet" from paulmck email addresses 2019-05-28 09:02:57 -07:00
cleanup.rst cleanup: Add usage and style documentation 2024-08-05 16:54:41 +02:00
cpu_hotplug.rst Documentation: core-api/cpuhotplug: Fix missing prefix 2024-10-07 11:50:54 -06:00
debug-objects.rst doc: debugobjects: actually pull in the kerneldoc comments 2016-11-29 14:44:14 -07:00
debugging-via-ohci1394.rst Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64 2023-09-11 08:13:18 +00:00
dma-api-howto.rst docs: dma: correct dma_set_mask() sample code 2024-04-02 10:07:15 -06:00
dma-api.rst docs: dma-api: Fix description of the sync_sg API 2023-11-17 08:52:13 -07:00
dma-attributes.rst Reinstate some of "swiotlb: rework "fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE"" 2022-03-28 11:37:05 -07:00
dma-isa-lpc.rst docs: core-api: avoid using ReST :doc:foo markup 2021-06-17 13:24:37 -06:00
entry.rst Docs: typos/spelling 2024-05-02 10:02:29 -06:00
errseq.rst errseq: Add to documentation tree 2018-01-01 12:40:27 -07:00
floating-point.rst arch: add ARCH_HAS_KERNEL_FPU_SUPPORT 2024-05-19 14:36:17 -07:00
folio_queue.rst netfs: Add folio_queue API documentation 2024-09-30 14:10:51 +02:00
genalloc.rst lib/genalloc.c: rename addr_in_gen_pool to gen_pool_has_addr 2019-12-04 19:44:13 -08:00
generic-radix-tree.rst generic radix trees 2019-03-12 10:04:02 -07:00
genericirq.rst Updates for the interrupt subsystem: 2024-07-22 13:52:05 -07:00
gfp_mask-from-fs-io.rst docs: core-api/gfp_mask-from-fs-io: indicate that vmalloc supports GFP_NOFS/GFP_NOIO 2024-11-22 10:42:37 -07:00
idr.rst IDR: Note that the IDR API is deprecated 2022-07-10 21:17:30 -04:00
index.rst Documentation changes this time around include: 2025-01-21 18:00:00 -08:00
kernel-api.rst Documentation: core-api: Drop :export: for int_log.h 2023-07-25 17:40:25 +01:00
kobject.rst kobject documentation: remove default_attrs information 2022-01-07 11:23:37 +01:00
kref.rst kref: Improve documentation 2024-12-13 08:49:31 -07:00
librs.rst docs-rst: convert librs book to ReST 2017-05-16 08:44:16 -03:00
local_ops.rst timers: Update the documentation to reflect on the new timer_shutdown() API 2022-11-24 15:09:12 +01:00
maple_tree.rst maple_tree: update the documentation of maple tree 2023-12-10 16:51:32 -08:00
memory-allocation.rst docs/core-api: memory-allocation: GFP_NOWAIT doesn't need __GFP_NOWARN 2024-07-29 15:10:25 -06:00
memory-hotplug.rst mm/memory_hotplug: remove HIGHMEM leftovers 2021-11-06 13:30:42 -07:00
min_heap.rst Documentation/core-api: add min heap API introduction 2024-11-05 17:12:37 -08:00
mm-api.rst mm/slab, docs: switch mm-api docs generation from slab.c to slub.c 2023-12-05 11:11:34 +01:00
netlink.rst doc/netlink: Update genetlink-legacy documentation 2023-08-27 17:17:09 -07:00
packing.rst lib: packing: document recently added APIs 2024-12-11 20:13:00 -08:00
padata.rst Documentation: core-api: padata: correct spelling 2023-02-16 16:58:01 -07:00
parser.rst Documentation: core-api: add generic parser docbook 2024-12-11 09:07:40 -07:00
pin_user_pages.rst mm: remove page_mkclean() 2024-07-03 19:30:17 -07:00
printk-basics.rst printk: Move the printk() kerneldoc comment to its new home 2021-07-26 12:36:44 +02:00
printk-formats.rst printf: Add print format (%pra) for struct range 2024-10-28 14:32:43 -07:00
printk-index.rst docs:core-api: fixed typos and grammar in printk-index page 2024-05-07 08:01:11 -06:00
protection-keys.rst Documentation/protection-keys: add AArch64 to documentation 2024-10-14 17:27:48 +01:00
rbtree.rst docs: rbtree.rst: Fix a typo 2021-03-25 11:38:51 -06:00
refcount-vs-atomic.rst docs: remove :c:func: from refcount-vs-atomic.rst 2019-10-07 09:08:56 -06:00
swiotlb.rst docs/core-api: swiotlb: fix typos 2024-10-17 09:37:05 -06:00
symbol-namespaces.rst doc: module: DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE must be defined before #includes 2025-01-09 12:36:55 -07:00
this_cpu_ops.rst arch: Remove cmpxchg_double 2023-06-05 09:36:39 +02:00
timekeeping.rst timekeeping: Introduce fast accessor to clock tai 2022-04-14 16:19:30 +02:00
tracepoint.rst doc: Sphinxify the tracepoint docbook 2016-11-29 14:44:23 -07:00
unaligned-memory-access.rst move asm/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h 2024-10-02 17:23:23 -04:00
union_find.rst Documentation: Fix the compilation errors in union_find.rst 2024-08-02 08:58:16 -10:00
watch_queue.rst Documentation: move watch_queue to core-api 2022-04-22 09:47:25 -06:00
workqueue.rst workqueue: Adjust WQ_MAX_ACTIVE from 512 to 2048 2024-10-08 08:46:54 -10:00
xarray.rst XArray: Document the locking requirement for the xa_state 2022-02-03 15:56:50 -05:00