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<title>Revert "net: phy: dp83867: perform soft reset and retain established link"</title>
<updated>2023-06-28T09:14:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Francesco Dolcini</name>
<email>francesco.dolcini@toradex.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-19T15:44:35+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a129b41fe0a8b4da828c46b10f5244ca07a3fec3 ]

This reverts commit da9ef50f545f86ffe6ff786174d26500c4db737a.

This fixes a regression in which the link would come up, but no
communication was possible.

The reverted commit was also removing a comment about
DP83867_PHYCR_FORCE_LINK_GOOD, this is not added back in this commits
since it seems that this is unrelated to the original code change.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZGuDJos8D7N0J6Z2@francesco-nb.int.toradex.com/
Fixes: da9ef50f545f ("net: phy: dp83867: perform soft reset and retain established link")
Signed-off-by: Francesco Dolcini &lt;francesco.dolcini@toradex.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Reviewed-by: Praneeth Bajjuri &lt;praneeth@ti.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230619154435.355485-1-francesco@dolcini.it
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a129b41fe0a8b4da828c46b10f5244ca07a3fec3 ]

This reverts commit da9ef50f545f86ffe6ff786174d26500c4db737a.

This fixes a regression in which the link would come up, but no
communication was possible.

The reverted commit was also removing a comment about
DP83867_PHYCR_FORCE_LINK_GOOD, this is not added back in this commits
since it seems that this is unrelated to the original code change.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZGuDJos8D7N0J6Z2@francesco-nb.int.toradex.com/
Fixes: da9ef50f545f ("net: phy: dp83867: perform soft reset and retain established link")
Signed-off-by: Francesco Dolcini &lt;francesco.dolcini@toradex.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Reviewed-by: Praneeth Bajjuri &lt;praneeth@ti.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230619154435.355485-1-francesco@dolcini.it
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>be2net: Extend xmit workaround to BE3 chip</title>
<updated>2023-06-28T09:14:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ross Lagerwall</name>
<email>ross.lagerwall@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-16T16:45:49+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7580e0a78eb29e7bb1a772eba4088250bbb70d41 ]

We have seen a bug where the NIC incorrectly changes the length in the
IP header of a padded packet to include the padding bytes. The driver
already has a workaround for this so do the workaround for this NIC too.
This resolves the issue.

The NIC in question identifies itself as follows:

[    8.828494] be2net 0000:02:00.0: FW version is 10.7.110.31
[    8.834759] be2net 0000:02:00.0: Emulex OneConnect(be3): PF FLEX10 port 1

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Emulex Corporation OneConnect 10Gb NIC (be3) (rev 01)

Fixes: ca34fe38f06d ("be2net: fix wrong usage of adapter-&gt;generation")
Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall &lt;ross.lagerwall@citrix.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230616164549.2863037-1-ross.lagerwall@citrix.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 7580e0a78eb29e7bb1a772eba4088250bbb70d41 ]

We have seen a bug where the NIC incorrectly changes the length in the
IP header of a padded packet to include the padding bytes. The driver
already has a workaround for this so do the workaround for this NIC too.
This resolves the issue.

The NIC in question identifies itself as follows:

[    8.828494] be2net 0000:02:00.0: FW version is 10.7.110.31
[    8.834759] be2net 0000:02:00.0: Emulex OneConnect(be3): PF FLEX10 port 1

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Emulex Corporation OneConnect 10Gb NIC (be3) (rev 01)

Fixes: ca34fe38f06d ("be2net: fix wrong usage of adapter-&gt;generation")
Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall &lt;ross.lagerwall@citrix.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230616164549.2863037-1-ross.lagerwall@citrix.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: introduce preferred_default_local_cpu_port and use on MT7530</title>
<updated>2023-06-28T09:14:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>olteanv@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-17T06:26:48+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b79d7c14f48083abb3fb061370c0c64a569edf4c ]

Since the introduction of the OF bindings, DSA has always had a policy that
in case multiple CPU ports are present in the device tree, the numerically
smallest one is always chosen.

The MT7530 switch family, except the switch on the MT7988 SoC, has 2 CPU
ports, 5 and 6, where port 6 is preferable on the MT7531BE switch because
it has higher bandwidth.

The MT7530 driver developers had 3 options:
- to modify DSA when the MT7531 switch support was introduced, such as to
  prefer the better port
- to declare both CPU ports in device trees as CPU ports, and live with the
  sub-optimal performance resulting from not preferring the better port
- to declare just port 6 in the device tree as a CPU port

Of course they chose the path of least resistance (3rd option), kicking the
can down the road. The hardware description in the device tree is supposed
to be stable - developers are not supposed to adopt the strategy of
piecemeal hardware description, where the device tree is updated in
lockstep with the features that the kernel currently supports.

Now, as a result of the fact that they did that, any attempts to modify the
device tree and describe both CPU ports as CPU ports would make DSA change
its default selection from port 6 to 5, effectively resulting in a
performance degradation visible to users with the MT7531BE switch as can be
seen below.

Without preferring port 6:

[ ID][Role] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5][TX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec   374 MBytes   157 Mbits/sec  734    sender
[  5][TX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec   373 MBytes   156 Mbits/sec    receiver
[  7][RX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.81 GBytes   778 Mbits/sec    0    sender
[  7][RX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.81 GBytes   777 Mbits/sec    receiver

With preferring port 6:

[ ID][Role] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5][TX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.99 GBytes   856 Mbits/sec  273    sender
[  5][TX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.99 GBytes   855 Mbits/sec    receiver
[  7][RX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.72 GBytes   737 Mbits/sec   15    sender
[  7][RX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.71 GBytes   736 Mbits/sec    receiver

Using one port for WAN and the other ports for LAN is a very popular use
case which is what this test emulates.

As such, this change proposes that we retroactively modify stable kernels
(which don't support the modification of the CPU port assignments, so as to
let user space fix the problem and restore the throughput) to keep the
mt7530 driver preferring port 6 even with device trees where the hardware
is more fully described.

Fixes: c288575f7810 ("net: dsa: mt7530: Add the support of MT7531 switch")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arınç ÜNAL &lt;arinc.unal@arinc9.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;florian.fainelli@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b79d7c14f48083abb3fb061370c0c64a569edf4c ]

Since the introduction of the OF bindings, DSA has always had a policy that
in case multiple CPU ports are present in the device tree, the numerically
smallest one is always chosen.

The MT7530 switch family, except the switch on the MT7988 SoC, has 2 CPU
ports, 5 and 6, where port 6 is preferable on the MT7531BE switch because
it has higher bandwidth.

The MT7530 driver developers had 3 options:
- to modify DSA when the MT7531 switch support was introduced, such as to
  prefer the better port
- to declare both CPU ports in device trees as CPU ports, and live with the
  sub-optimal performance resulting from not preferring the better port
- to declare just port 6 in the device tree as a CPU port

Of course they chose the path of least resistance (3rd option), kicking the
can down the road. The hardware description in the device tree is supposed
to be stable - developers are not supposed to adopt the strategy of
piecemeal hardware description, where the device tree is updated in
lockstep with the features that the kernel currently supports.

Now, as a result of the fact that they did that, any attempts to modify the
device tree and describe both CPU ports as CPU ports would make DSA change
its default selection from port 6 to 5, effectively resulting in a
performance degradation visible to users with the MT7531BE switch as can be
seen below.

Without preferring port 6:

[ ID][Role] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5][TX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec   374 MBytes   157 Mbits/sec  734    sender
[  5][TX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec   373 MBytes   156 Mbits/sec    receiver
[  7][RX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.81 GBytes   778 Mbits/sec    0    sender
[  7][RX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.81 GBytes   777 Mbits/sec    receiver

With preferring port 6:

[ ID][Role] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5][TX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.99 GBytes   856 Mbits/sec  273    sender
[  5][TX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.99 GBytes   855 Mbits/sec    receiver
[  7][RX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.72 GBytes   737 Mbits/sec   15    sender
[  7][RX-C]   0.00-20.00  sec  1.71 GBytes   736 Mbits/sec    receiver

Using one port for WAN and the other ports for LAN is a very popular use
case which is what this test emulates.

As such, this change proposes that we retroactively modify stable kernels
(which don't support the modification of the CPU port assignments, so as to
let user space fix the problem and restore the throughput) to keep the
mt7530 driver preferring port 6 even with device trees where the hardware
is more fully described.

Fixes: c288575f7810 ("net: dsa: mt7530: Add the support of MT7531 switch")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arınç ÜNAL &lt;arinc.unal@arinc9.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;florian.fainelli@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: dsa: mt7530: fix handling of LLDP frames</title>
<updated>2023-06-28T09:14:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arınç ÜNAL</name>
<email>arinc.unal@arinc9.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-17T06:26:47+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8332cf6fd7c7087dbc2067115b33979c9851bbc4 ]

LLDP frames are link-local frames, therefore they must be trapped to the
CPU port. Currently, the MT753X switches treat LLDP frames as regular
multicast frames, therefore flooding them to user ports. To fix this, set
LLDP frames to be trapped to the CPU port(s).

Fixes: b8f126a8d543 ("net-next: dsa: add dsa support for Mediatek MT7530 switch")
Signed-off-by: Arınç ÜNAL &lt;arinc.unal@arinc9.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;florian.fainelli@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8332cf6fd7c7087dbc2067115b33979c9851bbc4 ]

LLDP frames are link-local frames, therefore they must be trapped to the
CPU port. Currently, the MT753X switches treat LLDP frames as regular
multicast frames, therefore flooding them to user ports. To fix this, set
LLDP frames to be trapped to the CPU port(s).

Fixes: b8f126a8d543 ("net-next: dsa: add dsa support for Mediatek MT7530 switch")
Signed-off-by: Arınç ÜNAL &lt;arinc.unal@arinc9.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;florian.fainelli@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: mt7530: fix handling of BPDUs on MT7530 switch</title>
<updated>2023-06-28T09:14:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arınç ÜNAL</name>
<email>arinc.unal@arinc9.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-17T06:26:46+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d7c66073559386b836bded7cdc8b66ee5c049129 ]

BPDUs are link-local frames, therefore they must be trapped to the CPU
port. Currently, the MT7530 switch treats BPDUs as regular multicast
frames, therefore flooding them to user ports. To fix this, set BPDUs to be
trapped to the CPU port. Group this on mt7530_setup() and
mt7531_setup_common() into mt753x_trap_frames() and call that.

Fixes: b8f126a8d543 ("net-next: dsa: add dsa support for Mediatek MT7530 switch")
Signed-off-by: Arınç ÜNAL &lt;arinc.unal@arinc9.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;florian.fainelli@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d7c66073559386b836bded7cdc8b66ee5c049129 ]

BPDUs are link-local frames, therefore they must be trapped to the CPU
port. Currently, the MT7530 switch treats BPDUs as regular multicast
frames, therefore flooding them to user ports. To fix this, set BPDUs to be
trapped to the CPU port. Group this on mt7530_setup() and
mt7531_setup_common() into mt753x_trap_frames() and call that.

Fixes: b8f126a8d543 ("net-next: dsa: add dsa support for Mediatek MT7530 switch")
Signed-off-by: Arınç ÜNAL &lt;arinc.unal@arinc9.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;florian.fainelli@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: dsa: mt7530: fix trapping frames on non-MT7621 SoC MT7530 switch</title>
<updated>2023-06-28T09:14:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arınç ÜNAL</name>
<email>arinc.unal@arinc9.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-17T06:26:45+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4ae90f90e4909e3014e2dc6a0627964617a7b824 ]

All MT7530 switch IP variants share the MT7530_MFC register, but the
current driver only writes it for the switch variant that is integrated in
the MT7621 SoC. Modify the code to include all MT7530 derivatives.

Fixes: b8f126a8d543 ("net-next: dsa: add dsa support for Mediatek MT7530 switch")
Suggested-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arınç ÜNAL &lt;arinc.unal@arinc9.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;florian.fainelli@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 4ae90f90e4909e3014e2dc6a0627964617a7b824 ]

All MT7530 switch IP variants share the MT7530_MFC register, but the
current driver only writes it for the switch variant that is integrated in
the MT7621 SoC. Modify the code to include all MT7530 derivatives.

Fixes: b8f126a8d543 ("net-next: dsa: add dsa support for Mediatek MT7530 switch")
Suggested-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arınç ÜNAL &lt;arinc.unal@arinc9.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;olteanv@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;florian.fainelli@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: qca_spi: Avoid high load if QCA7000 is not available</title>
<updated>2023-06-28T09:14:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Wahren</name>
<email>stefan.wahren@i2se.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-14T21:06:56+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 92717c2356cb62c89e8a3dc37cbbab2502562524 ]

In case the QCA7000 is not available via SPI (e.g. in reset),
the driver will cause a high load. The reason for this is
that the synchronization is never finished and schedule()
is never called. Since the synchronization is not timing
critical, it's safe to drop this from the scheduling condition.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren &lt;stefan.wahren@i2se.com&gt;
Fixes: 291ab06ecf67 ("net: qualcomm: new Ethernet over SPI driver for QCA7000")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 92717c2356cb62c89e8a3dc37cbbab2502562524 ]

In case the QCA7000 is not available via SPI (e.g. in reset),
the driver will cause a high load. The reason for this is
that the synchronization is never finished and schedule()
is never called. Since the synchronization is not timing
critical, it's safe to drop this from the scheduling condition.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren &lt;stefan.wahren@i2se.com&gt;
Fixes: 291ab06ecf67 ("net: qualcomm: new Ethernet over SPI driver for QCA7000")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sfc: use budget for TX completions</title>
<updated>2023-06-28T09:14:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Íñigo Huguet</name>
<email>ihuguet@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-15T08:49:29+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4aaf2c52834b7f95acdf9fb0211a1b60adbf421b ]

When running workloads heavy unbalanced towards TX (high TX, low RX
traffic), sfc driver can retain the CPU during too long times. Although
in many cases this is not enough to be visible, it can affect
performance and system responsiveness.

A way to reproduce it is to use a debug kernel and run some parallel
netperf TX tests. In some systems, this will lead to this message being
logged:
  kernel:watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#12 stuck for 22s!

The reason is that sfc driver doesn't account any NAPI budget for the TX
completion events work. With high-TX/low-RX traffic, this makes that the
CPU is held for long time for NAPI poll.

Documentations says "drivers can process completions for any number of Tx
packets but should only process up to budget number of Rx packets".
However, many drivers do limit the amount of TX completions that they
process in a single NAPI poll.

In the same way, this patch adds a limit for the TX work in sfc. With
the patch applied, the watchdog warning never appears.

Tested with netperf in different combinations: single process / parallel
processes, TCP / UDP and different sizes of UDP messages. Repeated the
tests before and after the patch, without any noticeable difference in
network or CPU performance.

Test hardware:
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v4 @ 3.50GHz (4 cores, 2 threads/core)
Solarflare Communications XtremeScale X2522-25G Network Adapter

Fixes: 5227ecccea2d ("sfc: remove tx and MCDI handling from NAPI budget consideration")
Fixes: d19a53721863 ("sfc_ef100: TX path for EF100 NICs")
Reported-by: Fei Liu &lt;feliu@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Íñigo Huguet &lt;ihuguet@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin Habets &lt;habetsm.xilinx@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230615084929.10506-1-ihuguet@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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When running workloads heavy unbalanced towards TX (high TX, low RX
traffic), sfc driver can retain the CPU during too long times. Although
in many cases this is not enough to be visible, it can affect
performance and system responsiveness.

A way to reproduce it is to use a debug kernel and run some parallel
netperf TX tests. In some systems, this will lead to this message being
logged:
  kernel:watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#12 stuck for 22s!

The reason is that sfc driver doesn't account any NAPI budget for the TX
completion events work. With high-TX/low-RX traffic, this makes that the
CPU is held for long time for NAPI poll.

Documentations says "drivers can process completions for any number of Tx
packets but should only process up to budget number of Rx packets".
However, many drivers do limit the amount of TX completions that they
process in a single NAPI poll.

In the same way, this patch adds a limit for the TX work in sfc. With
the patch applied, the watchdog warning never appears.

Tested with netperf in different combinations: single process / parallel
processes, TCP / UDP and different sizes of UDP messages. Repeated the
tests before and after the patch, without any noticeable difference in
network or CPU performance.

Test hardware:
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v4 @ 3.50GHz (4 cores, 2 threads/core)
Solarflare Communications XtremeScale X2522-25G Network Adapter

Fixes: 5227ecccea2d ("sfc: remove tx and MCDI handling from NAPI budget consideration")
Fixes: d19a53721863 ("sfc_ef100: TX path for EF100 NICs")
Reported-by: Fei Liu &lt;feliu@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Íñigo Huguet &lt;ihuguet@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin Habets &lt;habetsm.xilinx@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230615084929.10506-1-ihuguet@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>net/mlx5: DR, Fix wrong action data allocation in decap action</title>
<updated>2023-06-28T09:14:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yevgeny Kliteynik</name>
<email>kliteyn@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-04T18:07:04+00:00</published>
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When TUNNEL_L3_TO_L2 decap action was created, a pointer to a local
variable was passed as its HW action data, resulting in attempt to
free invalid address:

  BUG: KASAN: invalid-free in mlx5dr_action_destroy+0x318/0x410 [mlx5_core]

Fixes: 4781df92f4da ("net/mlx5: DR, Move STEv0 modify header logic")
Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Kliteynik &lt;kliteyn@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Vesker &lt;valex@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed &lt;saeedm@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ef4c5afc783dc3d47640270a9b94713229c697e8 ]

When TUNNEL_L3_TO_L2 decap action was created, a pointer to a local
variable was passed as its HW action data, resulting in attempt to
free invalid address:

  BUG: KASAN: invalid-free in mlx5dr_action_destroy+0x318/0x410 [mlx5_core]

Fixes: 4781df92f4da ("net/mlx5: DR, Move STEv0 modify header logic")
Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Kliteynik &lt;kliteyn@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Vesker &lt;valex@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed &lt;saeedm@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ieee802154: hwsim: Fix possible memory leaks</title>
<updated>2023-06-28T09:14:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chen Aotian</name>
<email>chenaotian2@163.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-09T02:20:48+00:00</published>
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After replacing e-&gt;info, it is necessary to free the old einfo.

Fixes: f25da51fdc38 ("ieee802154: hwsim: add replacement for fakelb")
Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chen Aotian &lt;chenaotian2@163.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230409022048.61223-1-chenaotian2@163.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt &lt;stefan@datenfreihafen.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a61675294735570daca3779bd1dbb3715f7232bd ]

After replacing e-&gt;info, it is necessary to free the old einfo.

Fixes: f25da51fdc38 ("ieee802154: hwsim: add replacement for fakelb")
Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chen Aotian &lt;chenaotian2@163.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230409022048.61223-1-chenaotian2@163.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt &lt;stefan@datenfreihafen.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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