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<title>kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format</title>
<updated>2026-03-04T12:21:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Maguire</name>
<email>alan.maguire@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-16T09:17:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9dc052234da736f7749f19ab6936342ec7dbe3ac ]

Enabling KCSAN is causing a large number of duplicate types in BTF for
core kernel structs like task_struct [1].  This is due to the definition
in include/linux/compiler_types.h

`#ifdef __SANITIZE_THREAD__
...
`#define __data_racy volatile
..
`#else
...
`#define __data_racy
...
`#endif

Because some objects in the kernel are compiled without KCSAN flags
(KCSAN_SANITIZE) we sometimes get the empty __data_racy annotation for
objects; as a result we get multiple conflicting representations of the
associated structs in DWARF, and these lead to multiple instances of core
kernel types in BTF since they cannot be deduplicated due to the
additional modifier in some instances.

Moving the __data_racy definition under CONFIG_KCSAN avoids this problem,
since the volatile modifier will be present for both KCSAN and
KCSAN_SANITIZE objects in a CONFIG_KCSAN=y kernel.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260116091730.324322-1-alan.maguire@oracle.com
Fixes: 31f605a308e6 ("kcsan, compiler_types: Introduce __data_racy type qualifier")
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire &lt;alan.maguire@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Nilay Shroff &lt;nilay@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nilay Shroff &lt;nilay@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bart van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkman &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hao Luo &lt;haoluo@google.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naman Jain &lt;namjain@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Cc: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9dc052234da736f7749f19ab6936342ec7dbe3ac ]

Enabling KCSAN is causing a large number of duplicate types in BTF for
core kernel structs like task_struct [1].  This is due to the definition
in include/linux/compiler_types.h

`#ifdef __SANITIZE_THREAD__
...
`#define __data_racy volatile
..
`#else
...
`#define __data_racy
...
`#endif

Because some objects in the kernel are compiled without KCSAN flags
(KCSAN_SANITIZE) we sometimes get the empty __data_racy annotation for
objects; as a result we get multiple conflicting representations of the
associated structs in DWARF, and these lead to multiple instances of core
kernel types in BTF since they cannot be deduplicated due to the
additional modifier in some instances.

Moving the __data_racy definition under CONFIG_KCSAN avoids this problem,
since the volatile modifier will be present for both KCSAN and
KCSAN_SANITIZE objects in a CONFIG_KCSAN=y kernel.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260116091730.324322-1-alan.maguire@oracle.com
Fixes: 31f605a308e6 ("kcsan, compiler_types: Introduce __data_racy type qualifier")
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire &lt;alan.maguire@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Nilay Shroff &lt;nilay@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nilay Shroff &lt;nilay@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bart van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkman &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hao Luo &lt;haoluo@google.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naman Jain &lt;namjain@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Cc: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>compiler_types.h: add "auto" as a macro for "__auto_type"</title>
<updated>2026-01-08T09:14:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-18T18:35:00+00:00</published>
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commit 2fb6915fa22dc5524d704afba58a13305dd9f533 upstream.

"auto" was defined as a keyword back in the K&amp;R days, but as a storage
type specifier.  No one ever used it, since it was and is the default
storage type for local variables.

C++11 recycled the keyword to allow a type to be declared based on the
type of an initializer.  This was finally adopted into standard C in
C23.

gcc and clang provide the "__auto_type" alias keyword as an extension
for pre-C23, however, there is no reason to pollute the bulk of the
source base with this temporary keyword; instead define "auto" as a
macro unless the compiler is running in C23+ mode.

This macro is added in &lt;linux/compiler_types.h&gt; because that header is
included in some of the tools headers, wheres &lt;linux/compiler.h&gt; is
not as it has a bunch of very kernel-specific things in it.

[ Cc: stable to reduce potential backporting burden. ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 2fb6915fa22dc5524d704afba58a13305dd9f533 upstream.

"auto" was defined as a keyword back in the K&amp;R days, but as a storage
type specifier.  No one ever used it, since it was and is the default
storage type for local variables.

C++11 recycled the keyword to allow a type to be declared based on the
type of an initializer.  This was finally adopted into standard C in
C23.

gcc and clang provide the "__auto_type" alias keyword as an extension
for pre-C23, however, there is no reason to pollute the bulk of the
source base with this temporary keyword; instead define "auto" as a
macro unless the compiler is running in C23+ mode.

This macro is added in &lt;linux/compiler_types.h&gt; because that header is
included in some of the tools headers, wheres &lt;linux/compiler.h&gt; is
not as it has a bunch of very kernel-specific things in it.

[ Cc: stable to reduce potential backporting burden. ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>compiler_types: Move unused static inline functions warning to W=2</title>
<updated>2025-11-24T09:35:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-06T10:50:00+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9818af18db4bfefd320d0fef41390a616365e6f7 ]

Per Nathan, clang catches unused "static inline" functions in C files
since commit 6863f5643dd7 ("kbuild: allow Clang to find unused static
inline functions for W=1 build").

Linus said:

&gt; So I entirely ignore W=1 issues, because I think so many of the extra
&gt; warnings are bogus.
&gt;
&gt; But if this one in particular is causing more problems than most -
&gt; some teams do seem to use W=1 as part of their test builds - it's fine
&gt; to send me a patch that just moves bad warnings to W=2.
&gt;
&gt; And if anybody uses W=2 for their test builds, that's THEIR problem..

Here is the change to bump the warning from W=1 to W=2.

Fixes: 6863f5643dd7 ("kbuild: allow Clang to find unused static inline functions for W=1 build")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251106105000.2103276-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
[nathan: Adjust comment as well]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9818af18db4bfefd320d0fef41390a616365e6f7 ]

Per Nathan, clang catches unused "static inline" functions in C files
since commit 6863f5643dd7 ("kbuild: allow Clang to find unused static
inline functions for W=1 build").

Linus said:

&gt; So I entirely ignore W=1 issues, because I think so many of the extra
&gt; warnings are bogus.
&gt;
&gt; But if this one in particular is causing more problems than most -
&gt; some teams do seem to use W=1 as part of their test builds - it's fine
&gt; to send me a patch that just moves bad warnings to W=2.
&gt;
&gt; And if anybody uses W=2 for their test builds, that's THEIR problem..

Here is the change to bump the warning from W=1 to W=2.

Fixes: 6863f5643dd7 ("kbuild: allow Clang to find unused static inline functions for W=1 build")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251106105000.2103276-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
[nathan: Adjust comment as well]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Compiler Attributes: disable __counted_by for clang &lt; 19.1.3</title>
<updated>2024-12-05T13:02:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Hendrik Farr</name>
<email>kernel@jfarr.cc</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-29T14:00:36+00:00</published>
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commit f06e108a3dc53c0f5234d18de0bd224753db5019 upstream.

This patch disables __counted_by for clang versions &lt; 19.1.3 because
of the two issues listed below. It does this by introducing
CONFIG_CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY.

1. clang &lt; 19.1.2 has a bug that can lead to __bdos returning 0:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110497

2. clang &lt; 19.1.3 has a bug that can lead to __bdos being off by 4:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/112636

Fixes: c8248faf3ca2 ("Compiler Attributes: counted_by: Adjust name and identifier expansion")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6.x: 16c31dd7fdf6: Compiler Attributes: counted_by: bump min gcc version
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6.x: 2993eb7a8d34: Compiler Attributes: counted_by: fixup clang URL
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6.x: 231dc3f0c936: lkdtm/bugs: Improve warning message for compilers without counted_by support
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6.x
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240913164630.GA4091534@thelio-3990X/
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202409260949.a1254989-oliver.sang@intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Zw8iawAF5W2uzGuh@archlinux/T/#m204c09f63c076586a02d194b87dffc7e81b8de7b
Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Hendrik Farr &lt;kernel@jfarr.cc&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241029140036.577804-2-kernel@jfarr.cc
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit f06e108a3dc53c0f5234d18de0bd224753db5019 upstream.

This patch disables __counted_by for clang versions &lt; 19.1.3 because
of the two issues listed below. It does this by introducing
CONFIG_CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY.

1. clang &lt; 19.1.2 has a bug that can lead to __bdos returning 0:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110497

2. clang &lt; 19.1.3 has a bug that can lead to __bdos being off by 4:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/112636

Fixes: c8248faf3ca2 ("Compiler Attributes: counted_by: Adjust name and identifier expansion")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6.x: 16c31dd7fdf6: Compiler Attributes: counted_by: bump min gcc version
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6.x: 2993eb7a8d34: Compiler Attributes: counted_by: fixup clang URL
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6.x: 231dc3f0c936: lkdtm/bugs: Improve warning message for compilers without counted_by support
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6.x
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240913164630.GA4091534@thelio-3990X/
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202409260949.a1254989-oliver.sang@intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Zw8iawAF5W2uzGuh@archlinux/T/#m204c09f63c076586a02d194b87dffc7e81b8de7b
Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Hendrik Farr &lt;kernel@jfarr.cc&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241029140036.577804-2-kernel@jfarr.cc
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>string: Check for "nonstring" attribute on strscpy() arguments</title>
<updated>2024-08-23T00:04:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-05T21:43:44+00:00</published>
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GCC already checks for arguments that are marked with the "nonstring"[1]
attribute when used on standard C String API functions (e.g. strcpy). Gain
this compile-time checking also for the kernel's primary string copying
function, strscpy().

Note that Clang has neither "nonstring" nor __builtin_has_attribute().

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attributes.html#index-nonstring-variable-attribute [1]
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240805214340.work.339-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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GCC already checks for arguments that are marked with the "nonstring"[1]
attribute when used on standard C String API functions (e.g. strcpy). Gain
this compile-time checking also for the kernel's primary string copying
function, strscpy().

Note that Clang has neither "nonstring" nor __builtin_has_attribute().

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attributes.html#index-nonstring-variable-attribute [1]
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240805214340.work.339-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>compiler_types.h: Define __retain for __attribute__((__retain__))</title>
<updated>2024-06-14T17:08:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Ambardar</name>
<email>tony.ambardar@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-04T05:23:15+00:00</published>
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Some code includes the __used macro to prevent functions and data from
being optimized out. This macro implements __attribute__((__used__)),
which operates at the compiler and IR-level, and so still allows a linker
to remove objects intended to be kept.

Compilers supporting __attribute__((__retain__)) can address this gap by
setting the flag SHF_GNU_RETAIN on the section of a function/variable,
indicating to the linker the object should be retained. This attribute is
available since gcc 11, clang 13, and binutils 2.36.

Provide a __retain macro implementing __attribute__((__retain__)), whose
first user will be the '__bpf_kfunc' tag.

[ Additional remark from discussion:

  Why is CONFIG_LTO_CLANG added here? The __used macro permits garbage
  collection at section level, so CLANG_LTO_CLANG without
  CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION should not change final section
  dynamics?

  The conditional guard was included to ensure consistent behaviour
  between __retain and other features forcing split sections. In
  particular, the same guard is used in vmlinux.lds.h to merge split
  sections where needed. For example, using __retain in LLVM builds
  without CONFIG_LTO was failing CI tests on kernel-patches/bpf because
  the kernel didn't boot properly. And in further testing, the kernel
  had no issues loading BPF kfunc modules with such split sections, so
  the module (partial) linking scripts were left alone. ]

Signed-off-by: Tony Ambardar &lt;tony.ambardar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/ZlmGoT9KiYLZd91S@krava/T/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/b31bca5a5e6765a0f32cc8c19b1d9cdbfaa822b5.1717477560.git.Tony.Ambardar@gmail.com
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Some code includes the __used macro to prevent functions and data from
being optimized out. This macro implements __attribute__((__used__)),
which operates at the compiler and IR-level, and so still allows a linker
to remove objects intended to be kept.

Compilers supporting __attribute__((__retain__)) can address this gap by
setting the flag SHF_GNU_RETAIN on the section of a function/variable,
indicating to the linker the object should be retained. This attribute is
available since gcc 11, clang 13, and binutils 2.36.

Provide a __retain macro implementing __attribute__((__retain__)), whose
first user will be the '__bpf_kfunc' tag.

[ Additional remark from discussion:

  Why is CONFIG_LTO_CLANG added here? The __used macro permits garbage
  collection at section level, so CLANG_LTO_CLANG without
  CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION should not change final section
  dynamics?

  The conditional guard was included to ensure consistent behaviour
  between __retain and other features forcing split sections. In
  particular, the same guard is used in vmlinux.lds.h to merge split
  sections where needed. For example, using __retain in LLVM builds
  without CONFIG_LTO was failing CI tests on kernel-patches/bpf because
  the kernel didn't boot properly. And in further testing, the kernel
  had no issues loading BPF kfunc modules with such split sections, so
  the module (partial) linking scripts were left alone. ]

Signed-off-by: Tony Ambardar &lt;tony.ambardar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/ZlmGoT9KiYLZd91S@krava/T/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/b31bca5a5e6765a0f32cc8c19b1d9cdbfaa822b5.1717477560.git.Tony.Ambardar@gmail.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge local branch 'x86-codegen'</title>
<updated>2024-05-22T21:13:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-22T21:13:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f8a6e48c6c6dc30dbd423a3f4b082df625664730'/>
<id>f8a6e48c6c6dc30dbd423a3f4b082df625664730</id>
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Merge trivial x86 code generation annoyances

 - Introduce helper macros for clang asm input problems

 - use said macros to improve trivially stupid code generation issues in
   bitops and array_index_mask_nospec

 - also improve codegen with 32-bit array index comparisons

None of these really matter, but I look at code generation and profiles
fairly regularly, and these misfeatures caused the generated code to
look really odd and distract from the real issues.

* branch 'x86-codegen' of local tree:
  x86: improve bitop code generation with clang
  x86: improve array_index_mask_nospec() code generation
  clang: work around asm input constraint problems
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Merge trivial x86 code generation annoyances

 - Introduce helper macros for clang asm input problems

 - use said macros to improve trivially stupid code generation issues in
   bitops and array_index_mask_nospec

 - also improve codegen with 32-bit array index comparisons

None of these really matter, but I look at code generation and profiles
fairly regularly, and these misfeatures caused the generated code to
look really odd and distract from the real issues.

* branch 'x86-codegen' of local tree:
  x86: improve bitop code generation with clang
  x86: improve array_index_mask_nospec() code generation
  clang: work around asm input constraint problems
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>clang: work around asm input constraint problems</title>
<updated>2024-05-22T21:12:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-08T18:38:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=dbaaabd60e1662d2659eaeab0a4fc521667737ed'/>
<id>dbaaabd60e1662d2659eaeab0a4fc521667737ed</id>
<content type='text'>
Work around clang problems with asm constraints that have multiple
possibilities, particularly "g" and "rm".

Clang seems to turn inputs like that into the most generic form, which
is the memory input - but to make matters worse, clang won't even use a
possible original memory location, but will spill the value to stack,
and use the stack for the asm input.

See

  https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/20571#issuecomment-980933442

for some explanation of why clang has this strange behavior, but the end
result is that "g" and "rm" really end up generating horrid code.

Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/20571
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Work around clang problems with asm constraints that have multiple
possibilities, particularly "g" and "rm".

Clang seems to turn inputs like that into the most generic form, which
is the memory input - but to make matters worse, clang won't even use a
possible original memory location, but will spill the value to stack,
and use the stack for the asm input.

See

  https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/20571#issuecomment-980933442

for some explanation of why clang has this strange behavior, but the end
result is that "g" and "rm" really end up generating horrid code.

Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/20571
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2024-05-15T02:42:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-15T02:42:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1b294a1f35616977caddaddf3e9d28e576a1adbc'/>
<id>1b294a1f35616977caddaddf3e9d28e576a1adbc</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - Complete rework of garbage collection of AF_UNIX sockets.

     AF_UNIX is prone to forming reference count cycles due to fd
     passing functionality. New method based on Tarjan's Strongly
     Connected Components algorithm should be both faster and remove a
     lot of workarounds we accumulated over the years.

   - Add TCP fraglist GRO support, allowing chaining multiple TCP
     packets and forwarding them together. Useful for small switches /
     routers which lack basic checksum offload in some scenarios (e.g.
     PPPoE).

   - Support using SMP threads for handling packet backlog i.e. packet
     processing from software interfaces and old drivers which don't use
     NAPI. This helps move the processing out of the softirq jumble.

   - Continue work of converting from rtnl lock to RCU protection.

     Don't require rtnl lock when reading: IPv6 routing FIB, IPv6
     address labels, netdev threaded NAPI sysfs files, bonding driver's
     sysfs files, MPLS devconf, IPv4 FIB rules, netns IDs, tcp metrics,
     TC Qdiscs, neighbor entries, ARP entries via ioctl(SIOCGARP), a lot
     of the link information available via rtnetlink.

   - Small optimizations from Eric to UDP wake up handling, memory
     accounting, RPS/RFS implementation, TCP packet sizing etc.

   - Allow direct page recycling in the bulk API used by XDP, for +2%
     PPS.

   - Support peek with an offset on TCP sockets.

   - Add MPTCP APIs for querying last time packets were received/sent/acked
     and whether MPTCP "upgrade" succeeded on a TCP socket.

   - Add intra-node communication shortcut to improve SMC performance.

   - Add IPv6 (and IPv{4,6}-over-IPv{4,6}) support to the GTP protocol
     driver.

   - Add HSR-SAN (RedBOX) mode of operation to the HSR protocol driver.

   - Add reset reasons for tracing what caused a TCP reset to be sent.

   - Introduce direction attribute for xfrm (IPSec) states. State can be
     used either for input or output packet processing.

  Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:

   - Add bitmap_{read,write}(), bitmap_size(), expose BYTES_TO_BITS().

     This required touch-ups and renaming of a few existing users.

   - Add Endian-dependent __counted_by_{le,be} annotations.

   - Make building selftests "quieter" by printing summaries like
     "CC object.o" rather than full commands with all the arguments.

  Netfilter:

   - Use GFP_KERNEL to clone elements, to deal better with OOM
     situations and avoid failures in the .commit step.

  BPF:

   - Add eBPF JIT for ARCv2 CPUs.

   - Support attaching kprobe BPF programs through kprobe_multi link in
     a session mode, meaning, a BPF program is attached to both function
     entry and return, the entry program can decide if the return
     program gets executed and the entry program can share u64 cookie
     value with return program. "Session mode" is a common use-case for
     tetragon and bpftrace.

   - Add the ability to specify and retrieve BPF cookie for raw
     tracepoint programs in order to ease migration from classic to raw
     tracepoints.

   - Add an internal-only BPF per-CPU instruction for resolving per-CPU
     memory addresses and implement support in x86, ARM64 and RISC-V
     JITs. This allows inlining functions which need to access per-CPU
     state.

   - Optimize x86 BPF JIT's emit_mov_imm64, and add support for various
     atomics in bpf_arena which can be JITed as a single x86
     instruction. Support BPF arena on ARM64.

   - Add a new bpf_wq API for deferring events and refactor
     process-context bpf_timer code to keep common code where possible.

   - Harden the BPF verifier's and/or/xor value tracking.

   - Introduce crypto kfuncs to let BPF programs call kernel crypto
     APIs.

   - Support bpf_tail_call_static() helper for BPF programs with GCC 13.

   - Add bpf_preempt_{disable,enable}() kfuncs in order to allow a BPF
     program to have code sections where preemption is disabled.

  Driver API:

   - Skip software TC processing completely if all installed rules are
     marked as HW-only, instead of checking the HW-only flag rule by
     rule.

   - Add support for configuring PoE (Power over Ethernet), similar to
     the already existing support for PoDL (Power over Data Line)
     config.

   - Initial bits of a queue control API, for now allowing a single
     queue to be reset without disturbing packet flow to other queues.

   - Common (ethtool) statistics for hardware timestamping.

  Tests and tooling:

   - Remove the need to create a config file to run the net forwarding
     tests so that a naive "make run_tests" can exercise them.

   - Define a method of writing tests which require an external endpoint
     to communicate with (to send/receive data towards the test
     machine). Add a few such tests.

   - Create a shared code library for writing Python tests. Expose the
     YAML Netlink library from tools/ to the tests for easy Netlink
     access.

   - Move netfilter tests under net/, extend them, separate performance
     tests from correctness tests, and iron out issues found by running
     them "on every commit".

   - Refactor BPF selftests to use common network helpers.

   - Further work filling in YAML definitions of Netlink messages for:
     nftables, team driver, bonding interfaces, vlan interfaces, VF
     info, TC u32 mark, TC police action.

   - Teach Python YAML Netlink to decode attribute policies.

   - Extend the definition of the "indexed array" construct in the specs
     to cover arrays of scalars rather than just nests.

   - Add hyperlinks between definitions in generated Netlink docs.

  Drivers:

   - Make sure unsupported flower control flags are rejected by drivers,
     and make more drivers report errors directly to the application
     rather than dmesg (large number of driver changes from Asbjørn
     Sloth Tønnesen).

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - support multiple RSS contexts and steering traffic to them
         - support XDP metadata
         - make page pool allocations more NUMA aware
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - extract datapath code common among Intel drivers into a library
         - use fewer resources in switchdev by sharing queues with the PF
         - add PFCP filter support
         - add Ethernet filter support
         - use a spinlock instead of HW lock in PTP clock ops
         - support 5 layer Tx scheduler topology
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - 800G link modes and 100G SerDes speeds
         - per-queue IRQ coalescing configuration
      - Marvell Octeon:
         - support offloading TC packet mark action

   - Ethernet NICs consumer, embedded and virtual:
      - stop lying about skb-&gt;truesize in USB Ethernet drivers, it
        messes up TCP memory calculations
      - Google cloud vNIC:
         - support changing ring size via ethtool
         - support ring reset using the queue control API
      - VirtIO net:
         - expose flow hash from RSS to XDP
         - per-queue statistics
         - add selftests
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - support controllers which require an RX clock signal from the
           MII bus to perform their hardware initialization
      - TI:
         - icssg_prueth: support ICSSG-based Ethernet on AM65x SR1.0 devices
         - icssg_prueth: add SW TX / RX Coalescing based on hrtimers
         - cpsw: minimal XDP support
      - Renesas (ravb):
         - support describing the MDIO bus
      - Realtek (r8169):
         - add support for RTL8168M
      - Microchip Sparx5:
         - matchall and flower actions mirred and redirect

   - Ethernet switches:
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - improve events processing performance
      - Marvell:
         - add support for MV88E6250 family internal PHYs
      - Microchip:
         - add DCB and DSCP mapping support for KSZ switches
         - vsc73xx: convert to PHYLINK
      - Realtek:
         - rtl8226b/rtl8221b: add C45 instances and SerDes switching

   - Many driver changes related to PHYLIB and PHYLINK deprecated API
     cleanup

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - Add a new driver for Airoha EN8811H 2.5 Gigabit PHY.
      - micrel: lan8814: add support for PPS out and external timestamp trigger

   - WiFi:
      - Disable Wireless Extensions (WEXT) in all Wi-Fi 7 devices
        drivers. Modern devices can only be configured using nl80211.
      - mac80211/cfg80211
         - handle color change per link for WiFi 7 Multi-Link Operation
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - don't support puncturing in 5 GHz
         - support monitor mode on passive channels
         - BZ-W device support
         - P2P with HE/EHT support
         - re-add support for firmware API 90
         - provide channel survey information for Automatic Channel Selection
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - mt7921 LED control
         - mt7925 EHT radiotap support
         - mt7920e PCI support
      - Qualcomm (ath11k):
         - P2P support for QCA6390, WCN6855 and QCA2066
         - support hibernation
         - ieee80211-freq-limit Device Tree property support
      - Qualcomm (ath12k):
         - refactoring in preparation of multi-link support
         - suspend and hibernation support
         - ACPI support
         - debugfs support, including dfs_simulate_radar support
      - RealTek:
         - rtw88: RTL8723CS SDIO device support
         - rtw89: RTL8922AE Wi-Fi 7 PCI device support
         - rtw89: complete features of new WiFi 7 chip 8922AE including
           BT-coexistence and Wake-on-WLAN
         - rtw89: use BIOS ACPI settings to set TX power and channels
         - rtl8xxxu: enable Management Frame Protection (MFP) support

   - Bluetooth:
      - support for Intel BlazarI and Filmore Peak2 (BE201)
      - support for MediaTek MT7921S SDIO
      - initial support for Intel PCIe BT driver
      - remove HCI_AMP support"

* tag 'net-next-6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1827 commits)
  selftests: netfilter: fix packetdrill conntrack testcase
  net: gro: fix napi_gro_cb zeroed alignment
  Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: Refactor and code cleanup
  Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: Fix warning reported by sparse
  Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix not handling hdev-&gt;le_num_of_adv_sets=1
  Bluetooth: btintel: Fix compiler warning for multi_v7_defconfig config
  Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: Fix compiler warnings
  Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: Add *setup* function to download firmware
  Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: Add support for PCIe transport
  Bluetooth: btintel: Export few static functions
  Bluetooth: HCI: Remove HCI_AMP support
  Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix div-by-zero in l2cap_le_flowctl_init()
  Bluetooth: qca: Fix error code in qca_read_fw_build_info()
  Bluetooth: hci_conn: Use __counted_by() and avoid -Wfamnae warning
  Bluetooth: btintel: Add support for Filmore Peak2 (BE201)
  Bluetooth: btintel: Add support for BlazarI
  LE Create Connection command timeout increased to 20 secs
  dt-bindings: net: bluetooth: Add MediaTek MT7921S SDIO Bluetooth
  Bluetooth: compute LE flow credits based on recvbuf space
  Bluetooth: hci_sync: Use cmd-&gt;num_cis instead of magic number
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - Complete rework of garbage collection of AF_UNIX sockets.

     AF_UNIX is prone to forming reference count cycles due to fd
     passing functionality. New method based on Tarjan's Strongly
     Connected Components algorithm should be both faster and remove a
     lot of workarounds we accumulated over the years.

   - Add TCP fraglist GRO support, allowing chaining multiple TCP
     packets and forwarding them together. Useful for small switches /
     routers which lack basic checksum offload in some scenarios (e.g.
     PPPoE).

   - Support using SMP threads for handling packet backlog i.e. packet
     processing from software interfaces and old drivers which don't use
     NAPI. This helps move the processing out of the softirq jumble.

   - Continue work of converting from rtnl lock to RCU protection.

     Don't require rtnl lock when reading: IPv6 routing FIB, IPv6
     address labels, netdev threaded NAPI sysfs files, bonding driver's
     sysfs files, MPLS devconf, IPv4 FIB rules, netns IDs, tcp metrics,
     TC Qdiscs, neighbor entries, ARP entries via ioctl(SIOCGARP), a lot
     of the link information available via rtnetlink.

   - Small optimizations from Eric to UDP wake up handling, memory
     accounting, RPS/RFS implementation, TCP packet sizing etc.

   - Allow direct page recycling in the bulk API used by XDP, for +2%
     PPS.

   - Support peek with an offset on TCP sockets.

   - Add MPTCP APIs for querying last time packets were received/sent/acked
     and whether MPTCP "upgrade" succeeded on a TCP socket.

   - Add intra-node communication shortcut to improve SMC performance.

   - Add IPv6 (and IPv{4,6}-over-IPv{4,6}) support to the GTP protocol
     driver.

   - Add HSR-SAN (RedBOX) mode of operation to the HSR protocol driver.

   - Add reset reasons for tracing what caused a TCP reset to be sent.

   - Introduce direction attribute for xfrm (IPSec) states. State can be
     used either for input or output packet processing.

  Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:

   - Add bitmap_{read,write}(), bitmap_size(), expose BYTES_TO_BITS().

     This required touch-ups and renaming of a few existing users.

   - Add Endian-dependent __counted_by_{le,be} annotations.

   - Make building selftests "quieter" by printing summaries like
     "CC object.o" rather than full commands with all the arguments.

  Netfilter:

   - Use GFP_KERNEL to clone elements, to deal better with OOM
     situations and avoid failures in the .commit step.

  BPF:

   - Add eBPF JIT for ARCv2 CPUs.

   - Support attaching kprobe BPF programs through kprobe_multi link in
     a session mode, meaning, a BPF program is attached to both function
     entry and return, the entry program can decide if the return
     program gets executed and the entry program can share u64 cookie
     value with return program. "Session mode" is a common use-case for
     tetragon and bpftrace.

   - Add the ability to specify and retrieve BPF cookie for raw
     tracepoint programs in order to ease migration from classic to raw
     tracepoints.

   - Add an internal-only BPF per-CPU instruction for resolving per-CPU
     memory addresses and implement support in x86, ARM64 and RISC-V
     JITs. This allows inlining functions which need to access per-CPU
     state.

   - Optimize x86 BPF JIT's emit_mov_imm64, and add support for various
     atomics in bpf_arena which can be JITed as a single x86
     instruction. Support BPF arena on ARM64.

   - Add a new bpf_wq API for deferring events and refactor
     process-context bpf_timer code to keep common code where possible.

   - Harden the BPF verifier's and/or/xor value tracking.

   - Introduce crypto kfuncs to let BPF programs call kernel crypto
     APIs.

   - Support bpf_tail_call_static() helper for BPF programs with GCC 13.

   - Add bpf_preempt_{disable,enable}() kfuncs in order to allow a BPF
     program to have code sections where preemption is disabled.

  Driver API:

   - Skip software TC processing completely if all installed rules are
     marked as HW-only, instead of checking the HW-only flag rule by
     rule.

   - Add support for configuring PoE (Power over Ethernet), similar to
     the already existing support for PoDL (Power over Data Line)
     config.

   - Initial bits of a queue control API, for now allowing a single
     queue to be reset without disturbing packet flow to other queues.

   - Common (ethtool) statistics for hardware timestamping.

  Tests and tooling:

   - Remove the need to create a config file to run the net forwarding
     tests so that a naive "make run_tests" can exercise them.

   - Define a method of writing tests which require an external endpoint
     to communicate with (to send/receive data towards the test
     machine). Add a few such tests.

   - Create a shared code library for writing Python tests. Expose the
     YAML Netlink library from tools/ to the tests for easy Netlink
     access.

   - Move netfilter tests under net/, extend them, separate performance
     tests from correctness tests, and iron out issues found by running
     them "on every commit".

   - Refactor BPF selftests to use common network helpers.

   - Further work filling in YAML definitions of Netlink messages for:
     nftables, team driver, bonding interfaces, vlan interfaces, VF
     info, TC u32 mark, TC police action.

   - Teach Python YAML Netlink to decode attribute policies.

   - Extend the definition of the "indexed array" construct in the specs
     to cover arrays of scalars rather than just nests.

   - Add hyperlinks between definitions in generated Netlink docs.

  Drivers:

   - Make sure unsupported flower control flags are rejected by drivers,
     and make more drivers report errors directly to the application
     rather than dmesg (large number of driver changes from Asbjørn
     Sloth Tønnesen).

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - support multiple RSS contexts and steering traffic to them
         - support XDP metadata
         - make page pool allocations more NUMA aware
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - extract datapath code common among Intel drivers into a library
         - use fewer resources in switchdev by sharing queues with the PF
         - add PFCP filter support
         - add Ethernet filter support
         - use a spinlock instead of HW lock in PTP clock ops
         - support 5 layer Tx scheduler topology
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - 800G link modes and 100G SerDes speeds
         - per-queue IRQ coalescing configuration
      - Marvell Octeon:
         - support offloading TC packet mark action

   - Ethernet NICs consumer, embedded and virtual:
      - stop lying about skb-&gt;truesize in USB Ethernet drivers, it
        messes up TCP memory calculations
      - Google cloud vNIC:
         - support changing ring size via ethtool
         - support ring reset using the queue control API
      - VirtIO net:
         - expose flow hash from RSS to XDP
         - per-queue statistics
         - add selftests
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - support controllers which require an RX clock signal from the
           MII bus to perform their hardware initialization
      - TI:
         - icssg_prueth: support ICSSG-based Ethernet on AM65x SR1.0 devices
         - icssg_prueth: add SW TX / RX Coalescing based on hrtimers
         - cpsw: minimal XDP support
      - Renesas (ravb):
         - support describing the MDIO bus
      - Realtek (r8169):
         - add support for RTL8168M
      - Microchip Sparx5:
         - matchall and flower actions mirred and redirect

   - Ethernet switches:
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - improve events processing performance
      - Marvell:
         - add support for MV88E6250 family internal PHYs
      - Microchip:
         - add DCB and DSCP mapping support for KSZ switches
         - vsc73xx: convert to PHYLINK
      - Realtek:
         - rtl8226b/rtl8221b: add C45 instances and SerDes switching

   - Many driver changes related to PHYLIB and PHYLINK deprecated API
     cleanup

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - Add a new driver for Airoha EN8811H 2.5 Gigabit PHY.
      - micrel: lan8814: add support for PPS out and external timestamp trigger

   - WiFi:
      - Disable Wireless Extensions (WEXT) in all Wi-Fi 7 devices
        drivers. Modern devices can only be configured using nl80211.
      - mac80211/cfg80211
         - handle color change per link for WiFi 7 Multi-Link Operation
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - don't support puncturing in 5 GHz
         - support monitor mode on passive channels
         - BZ-W device support
         - P2P with HE/EHT support
         - re-add support for firmware API 90
         - provide channel survey information for Automatic Channel Selection
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - mt7921 LED control
         - mt7925 EHT radiotap support
         - mt7920e PCI support
      - Qualcomm (ath11k):
         - P2P support for QCA6390, WCN6855 and QCA2066
         - support hibernation
         - ieee80211-freq-limit Device Tree property support
      - Qualcomm (ath12k):
         - refactoring in preparation of multi-link support
         - suspend and hibernation support
         - ACPI support
         - debugfs support, including dfs_simulate_radar support
      - RealTek:
         - rtw88: RTL8723CS SDIO device support
         - rtw89: RTL8922AE Wi-Fi 7 PCI device support
         - rtw89: complete features of new WiFi 7 chip 8922AE including
           BT-coexistence and Wake-on-WLAN
         - rtw89: use BIOS ACPI settings to set TX power and channels
         - rtl8xxxu: enable Management Frame Protection (MFP) support

   - Bluetooth:
      - support for Intel BlazarI and Filmore Peak2 (BE201)
      - support for MediaTek MT7921S SDIO
      - initial support for Intel PCIe BT driver
      - remove HCI_AMP support"

* tag 'net-next-6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1827 commits)
  selftests: netfilter: fix packetdrill conntrack testcase
  net: gro: fix napi_gro_cb zeroed alignment
  Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: Refactor and code cleanup
  Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: Fix warning reported by sparse
  Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix not handling hdev-&gt;le_num_of_adv_sets=1
  Bluetooth: btintel: Fix compiler warning for multi_v7_defconfig config
  Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: Fix compiler warnings
  Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: Add *setup* function to download firmware
  Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: Add support for PCIe transport
  Bluetooth: btintel: Export few static functions
  Bluetooth: HCI: Remove HCI_AMP support
  Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix div-by-zero in l2cap_le_flowctl_init()
  Bluetooth: qca: Fix error code in qca_read_fw_build_info()
  Bluetooth: hci_conn: Use __counted_by() and avoid -Wfamnae warning
  Bluetooth: btintel: Add support for Filmore Peak2 (BE201)
  Bluetooth: btintel: Add support for BlazarI
  LE Create Connection command timeout increased to 20 secs
  dt-bindings: net: bluetooth: Add MediaTek MT7921S SDIO Bluetooth
  Bluetooth: compute LE flow credits based on recvbuf space
  Bluetooth: hci_sync: Use cmd-&gt;num_cis instead of magic number
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'kcsan.2024.05.10a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu</title>
<updated>2024-05-13T17:13:39+00:00</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2024-05-13T17:13:39+00:00</published>
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Pull kcsan update from Paul McKenney:
 "Introduce __data_racy type qualifier

  This adds a __data_racy type qualifier that enables kernel developers
  to inform KCSAN that a given variable is a shared variable without
  needing to mark each and every access.

  This allows pre-KCSAN code to be correctly (if approximately)
  instrumented withh very little effort, and also provides people
  reading the code a clear indication that the variable is in fact
  shared.

  In addition, it permits incremental transition to per-access KCSAN
  marking, so that (for example) a given subsystem can be transitioned
  one variable at a time, while avoiding large numbers of KCSAN warnings
  during this transition"

* tag 'kcsan.2024.05.10a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu:
  kcsan, compiler_types: Introduce __data_racy type qualifier
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Pull kcsan update from Paul McKenney:
 "Introduce __data_racy type qualifier

  This adds a __data_racy type qualifier that enables kernel developers
  to inform KCSAN that a given variable is a shared variable without
  needing to mark each and every access.

  This allows pre-KCSAN code to be correctly (if approximately)
  instrumented withh very little effort, and also provides people
  reading the code a clear indication that the variable is in fact
  shared.

  In addition, it permits incremental transition to per-access KCSAN
  marking, so that (for example) a given subsystem can be transitioned
  one variable at a time, while avoiding large numbers of KCSAN warnings
  during this transition"

* tag 'kcsan.2024.05.10a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu:
  kcsan, compiler_types: Introduce __data_racy type qualifier
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