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Linus Torvalds 1a9239bb42 Networking changes for 6.15.
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
 
 Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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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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