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Linus Torvalds bd6c11bc43 Networking changes for 6.6.
Core
 ----
 
  - Increase size limits for to-be-sent skb frag allocations. This
    allows tun, tap devices and packet sockets to better cope with large
    writes operations.
 
  - Store netdevs in an xarray, to simplify iterating over netdevs.
 
  - Refactor nexthop selection for multipath routes.
 
  - Improve sched class lifetime handling.
 
  - Add backup nexthop ID support for bridge.
 
  - Implement drop reasons support in openvswitch.
 
  - Several data races annotations and fixes.
 
  - Constify the sk parameter of routing functions.
 
  - Prepend kernel version to netconsole message.
 
 Protocols
 ---------
 
  - Implement support for TCP probing the peer being under memory
    pressure.
 
  - Remove hard coded limitation on IPv6 specific info placement
    inside the socket struct.
 
  - Get rid of sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale and use an auto-estimated
    per socket scaling factor.
 
  - Scaling-up the IPv6 expired route GC via a separated list of
    expiring routes.
 
  - In-kernel support for the TLS alert protocol.
 
  - Better support for UDP reuseport with connected sockets.
 
  - Add NEXT-C-SID support for SRv6 End.X behavior, reducing the SR
    header size.
 
  - Get rid of additional ancillary per MPTCP connection struct socket.
 
  - Implement support for BPF-based MPTCP packet schedulers.
 
  - Format MPTCP subtests selftests results in TAP.
 
  - Several new SMC 2.1 features including unique experimental options,
    max connections per lgr negotiation, max links per lgr negotiation.
 
 BPF
 ---
 
  - Multi-buffer support in AF_XDP.
 
  - Add multi uprobe BPF links for attaching multiple uprobes
    and usdt probes, which is significantly faster and saves extra fds.
 
  - Implement an fd-based tc BPF attach API (TCX) and BPF link support on
    top of it.
 
  - Add SO_REUSEPORT support for TC bpf_sk_assign.
 
  - Support new instructions from cpu v4 to simplify the generated code and
    feature completeness, for x86, arm64, riscv64.
 
  - Support defragmenting IPv(4|6) packets in BPF.
 
  - Teach verifier actual bounds of bpf_get_smp_processor_id()
    and fix perf+libbpf issue related to custom section handling.
 
  - Introduce bpf map element count and enable it for all program types.
 
  - Add a BPF hook in sys_socket() to change the protocol ID
    from IPPROTO_TCP to IPPROTO_MPTCP to cover migration for legacy.
 
  - Introduce bpf_me_mcache_free_rcu() and fix OOM under stress.
 
  - Add uprobe support for the bpf_get_func_ip helper.
 
  - Check skb ownership against full socket.
 
  - Support for up to 12 arguments in BPF trampoline.
 
  - Extend link_info for kprobe_multi and perf_event links.
 
 Netfilter
 ---------
 
  - Speed-up process exit by aborting ruleset validation if a
    fatal signal is pending.
 
  - Allow NLA_POLICY_MASK to be used with BE16/BE32 types.
 
 Driver API
 ----------
 
  - Page pool optimizations, to improve data locality and cache usage.
 
  - Introduce ndo_hwtstamp_get() and ndo_hwtstamp_set() to avoid the need
    for raw ioctl() handling in drivers.
 
  - Simplify genetlink dump operations (doit/dumpit) providing them
    the common information already populated in struct genl_info.
 
  - Extend and use the yaml devlink specs to [re]generate the split ops.
 
  - Introduce devlink selective dumps, to allow SF filtering SF based on
    handle and other attributes.
 
  - Add yaml netlink spec for netlink-raw families, allow route, link and
    address related queries via the ynl tool.
 
  - Remove phylink legacy mode support.
 
  - Support offload LED blinking to phy.
 
  - Add devlink port function attributes for IPsec.
 
 New hardware / drivers
 ----------------------
 
  - Ethernet:
    - Broadcom ASP 2.0 (72165) ethernet controller
    - MediaTek MT7988 SoC
    - Texas Instruments AM654 SoC
    - Texas Instruments IEP driver
    - Atheros qca8081 phy
    - Marvell 88Q2110 phy
    - NXP TJA1120 phy
 
  - WiFi:
    - MediaTek mt7981 support
 
  - Can:
    - Kvaser SmartFusion2 PCI Express devices
    - Allwinner T113 controllers
    - Texas Instruments tcan4552/4553 chips
 
  - Bluetooth:
    - Intel Gale Peak
    - Qualcomm WCN3988 and WCN7850
    - NXP AW693 and IW624
    - Mediatek MT2925
 
 Drivers
 -------
 
  - Ethernet NICs:
    - nVidia/Mellanox:
      - mlx5:
        - support UDP encapsulation in packet offload mode
        - IPsec packet offload support in eswitch mode
        - improve aRFS observability by adding new set of counters
        - extends MACsec offload support to cover RoCE traffic
        - dynamic completion EQs
      - mlx4:
        - convert to use auxiliary bus instead of custom interface logic
    - Intel
      - ice:
        - implement switchdev bridge offload, even for LAG interfaces
        - implement SRIOV support for LAG interfaces
      - igc:
        - add support for multiple in-flight TX timestamps
    - Broadcom:
      - bnxt:
        - use the unified RX page pool buffers for XDP and non-XDP
        - use the NAPI skb allocation cache
    - OcteonTX2:
      - support Round Robin scheduling HTB offload
      - TC flower offload support for SPI field
    - Freescale:
      -  add XDP_TX feature support
    - AMD:
      - ionic: add support for PCI FLR event
      - sfc:
        - basic conntrack offload
        - introduce eth, ipv4 and ipv6 pedit offloads
    - ST Microelectronics:
      - stmmac: maximze PTP timestamping resolution
 
  - Virtual NICs:
    - Microsoft vNIC:
      - batch ringing RX queue doorbell on receiving packets
      - add page pool for RX buffers
    - Virtio vNIC:
      - add per queue interrupt coalescing support
    - Google vNIC:
      - add queue-page-list mode support
 
  - Ethernet high-speed switches:
    - nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw):
      - add port range matching tc-flower offload
      - permit enslavement to netdevices with uppers
 
  - Ethernet embedded switches:
    - Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
      - convert to phylink_pcs
    - Renesas:
      - r8A779fx: add speed change support
      - rzn1: enables vlan support
 
  - Ethernet PHYs:
    - convert mv88e6xxx to phylink_pcs
 
  - WiFi:
    - Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 (ath12k):
      - extremely High Throughput (EHT) PHY support
    - RealTek (rtl8xxxu):
      - enable AP mode for: RTL8192FU, RTL8710BU (RTL8188GU),
        RTL8192EU and RTL8723BU
    - RealTek (rtw89):
      - Introduce Time Averaged SAR (TAS) support
 
  - Connector:
    - support for event filtering
 
 Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'net-next-6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core:

   - Increase size limits for to-be-sent skb frag allocations. This
     allows tun, tap devices and packet sockets to better cope with
     large writes operations

   - Store netdevs in an xarray, to simplify iterating over netdevs

   - Refactor nexthop selection for multipath routes

   - Improve sched class lifetime handling

   - Add backup nexthop ID support for bridge

   - Implement drop reasons support in openvswitch

   - Several data races annotations and fixes

   - Constify the sk parameter of routing functions

   - Prepend kernel version to netconsole message

  Protocols:

   - Implement support for TCP probing the peer being under memory
     pressure

   - Remove hard coded limitation on IPv6 specific info placement inside
     the socket struct

   - Get rid of sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale and use an auto-estimated per
     socket scaling factor

   - Scaling-up the IPv6 expired route GC via a separated list of
     expiring routes

   - In-kernel support for the TLS alert protocol

   - Better support for UDP reuseport with connected sockets

   - Add NEXT-C-SID support for SRv6 End.X behavior, reducing the SR
     header size

   - Get rid of additional ancillary per MPTCP connection struct socket

   - Implement support for BPF-based MPTCP packet schedulers

   - Format MPTCP subtests selftests results in TAP

   - Several new SMC 2.1 features including unique experimental options,
     max connections per lgr negotiation, max links per lgr negotiation

  BPF:

   - Multi-buffer support in AF_XDP

   - Add multi uprobe BPF links for attaching multiple uprobes and usdt
     probes, which is significantly faster and saves extra fds

   - Implement an fd-based tc BPF attach API (TCX) and BPF link support
     on top of it

   - Add SO_REUSEPORT support for TC bpf_sk_assign

   - Support new instructions from cpu v4 to simplify the generated code
     and feature completeness, for x86, arm64, riscv64

   - Support defragmenting IPv(4|6) packets in BPF

   - Teach verifier actual bounds of bpf_get_smp_processor_id() and fix
     perf+libbpf issue related to custom section handling

   - Introduce bpf map element count and enable it for all program types

   - Add a BPF hook in sys_socket() to change the protocol ID from
     IPPROTO_TCP to IPPROTO_MPTCP to cover migration for legacy

   - Introduce bpf_me_mcache_free_rcu() and fix OOM under stress

   - Add uprobe support for the bpf_get_func_ip helper

   - Check skb ownership against full socket

   - Support for up to 12 arguments in BPF trampoline

   - Extend link_info for kprobe_multi and perf_event links

  Netfilter:

   - Speed-up process exit by aborting ruleset validation if a fatal
     signal is pending

   - Allow NLA_POLICY_MASK to be used with BE16/BE32 types

  Driver API:

   - Page pool optimizations, to improve data locality and cache usage

   - Introduce ndo_hwtstamp_get() and ndo_hwtstamp_set() to avoid the
     need for raw ioctl() handling in drivers

   - Simplify genetlink dump operations (doit/dumpit) providing them the
     common information already populated in struct genl_info

   - Extend and use the yaml devlink specs to [re]generate the split ops

   - Introduce devlink selective dumps, to allow SF filtering SF based
     on handle and other attributes

   - Add yaml netlink spec for netlink-raw families, allow route, link
     and address related queries via the ynl tool

   - Remove phylink legacy mode support

   - Support offload LED blinking to phy

   - Add devlink port function attributes for IPsec

  New hardware / drivers:

   - Ethernet:
      - Broadcom ASP 2.0 (72165) ethernet controller
      - MediaTek MT7988 SoC
      - Texas Instruments AM654 SoC
      - Texas Instruments IEP driver
      - Atheros qca8081 phy
      - Marvell 88Q2110 phy
      - NXP TJA1120 phy

   - WiFi:
      - MediaTek mt7981 support

   - Can:
      - Kvaser SmartFusion2 PCI Express devices
      - Allwinner T113 controllers
      - Texas Instruments tcan4552/4553 chips

   - Bluetooth:
      - Intel Gale Peak
      - Qualcomm WCN3988 and WCN7850
      - NXP AW693 and IW624
      - Mediatek MT2925

  Drivers:

   - Ethernet NICs:
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - mlx5:
            - support UDP encapsulation in packet offload mode
            - IPsec packet offload support in eswitch mode
            - improve aRFS observability by adding new set of counters
            - extends MACsec offload support to cover RoCE traffic
            - dynamic completion EQs
         - mlx4:
            - convert to use auxiliary bus instead of custom interface
              logic
      - Intel
         - ice:
            - implement switchdev bridge offload, even for LAG
              interfaces
            - implement SRIOV support for LAG interfaces
         - igc:
            - add support for multiple in-flight TX timestamps
      - Broadcom:
         - bnxt:
            - use the unified RX page pool buffers for XDP and non-XDP
            - use the NAPI skb allocation cache
      - OcteonTX2:
         - support Round Robin scheduling HTB offload
         - TC flower offload support for SPI field
      - Freescale:
         - add XDP_TX feature support
      - AMD:
         - ionic: add support for PCI FLR event
         - sfc:
            - basic conntrack offload
            - introduce eth, ipv4 and ipv6 pedit offloads
      - ST Microelectronics:
         - stmmac: maximze PTP timestamping resolution

   - Virtual NICs:
      - Microsoft vNIC:
         - batch ringing RX queue doorbell on receiving packets
         - add page pool for RX buffers
      - Virtio vNIC:
         - add per queue interrupt coalescing support
      - Google vNIC:
         - add queue-page-list mode support

   - Ethernet high-speed switches:
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw):
         - add port range matching tc-flower offload
         - permit enslavement to netdevices with uppers

   - Ethernet embedded switches:
      - Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
         - convert to phylink_pcs
      - Renesas:
         - r8A779fx: add speed change support
         - rzn1: enables vlan support

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - convert mv88e6xxx to phylink_pcs

   - WiFi:
      - Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 (ath12k):
         - extremely High Throughput (EHT) PHY support
      - RealTek (rtl8xxxu):
         - enable AP mode for: RTL8192FU, RTL8710BU (RTL8188GU),
           RTL8192EU and RTL8723BU
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - Introduce Time Averaged SAR (TAS) support

   - Connector:
      - support for event filtering"

* tag 'net-next-6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1806 commits)
  net: ethernet: mtk_wed: minor change in wed_{tx,rx}info_show
  net: ethernet: mtk_wed: add some more info in wed_txinfo_show handler
  net: stmmac: clarify difference between "interface" and "phy_interface"
  r8152: add vendor/device ID pair for D-Link DUB-E250
  devlink: move devlink_notify_register/unregister() to dev.c
  devlink: move small_ops definition into netlink.c
  devlink: move tracepoint definitions into core.c
  devlink: push linecard related code into separate file
  devlink: push rate related code into separate file
  devlink: push trap related code into separate file
  devlink: use tracepoint_enabled() helper
  devlink: push region related code into separate file
  devlink: push param related code into separate file
  devlink: push resource related code into separate file
  devlink: push dpipe related code into separate file
  devlink: move and rename devlink_dpipe_send_and_alloc_skb() helper
  devlink: push shared buffer related code into separate file
  devlink: push port related code into separate file
  devlink: push object register/unregister notifications into separate helpers
  inet: fix IP_TRANSPARENT error handling
  ...
2023-08-29 11:33:01 -07:00
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