linux.git/Documentation/networking, branch v6.15 Linux kernel source tree docs: networking: timestamping: improve stacked PHC sentence 2025-05-13T22:40:54+00:00 Vladimir Oltean vladimir.oltean@nxp.com 2025-05-12T13:17:51+00:00 d5c17e36549cb417f249ecbd20c9ab008aaf45d3 The first paragraph makes no grammatical sense. I suppose a portion of the intended sentece is missing: "[The challenge with ] stacked PHCs (...) is that they uncover bugs". Rephrase, and at the same time simplify the structure of the sentence a little bit, it is not easy to follow. Fixes: 94d9f78f4d64 ("docs: networking: timestamping: add section for stacked PHC devices") Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250512131751.320283-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> 
The first paragraph makes no grammatical sense. I suppose a portion of
the intended sentece is missing: "[The challenge with ] stacked PHCs
(...) is that they uncover bugs".

Rephrase, and at the same time simplify the structure of the sentence a
little bit, it is not easy to follow.

Fixes: 94d9f78f4d64 ("docs: networking: timestamping: add section for stacked PHC devices")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250512131751.320283-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
net: hold instance lock during NETDEV_CHANGE 2025-04-07T18:13:39+00:00 Stanislav Fomichev sdf@fomichev.me 2025-04-04T16:11:22+00:00 04efcee6ef8d0f01eef495db047e7216d6e6e38f Cosmin reports an issue with ipv6_add_dev being called from NETDEV_CHANGE notifier: [ 3455.008776] ? ipv6_add_dev+0x370/0x620 [ 3455.010097] ipv6_find_idev+0x96/0xe0 [ 3455.010725] addrconf_add_dev+0x1e/0xa0 [ 3455.011382] addrconf_init_auto_addrs+0xb0/0x720 [ 3455.013537] addrconf_notify+0x35f/0x8d0 [ 3455.014214] notifier_call_chain+0x38/0xf0 [ 3455.014903] netdev_state_change+0x65/0x90 [ 3455.015586] linkwatch_do_dev+0x5a/0x70 [ 3455.016238] rtnl_getlink+0x241/0x3e0 [ 3455.019046] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x177/0x5e0 Similarly, linkwatch might get to ipv6_add_dev without ops lock: [ 3456.656261] ? ipv6_add_dev+0x370/0x620 [ 3456.660039] ipv6_find_idev+0x96/0xe0 [ 3456.660445] addrconf_add_dev+0x1e/0xa0 [ 3456.660861] addrconf_init_auto_addrs+0xb0/0x720 [ 3456.661803] addrconf_notify+0x35f/0x8d0 [ 3456.662236] notifier_call_chain+0x38/0xf0 [ 3456.662676] netdev_state_change+0x65/0x90 [ 3456.663112] linkwatch_do_dev+0x5a/0x70 [ 3456.663529] __linkwatch_run_queue+0xeb/0x200 [ 3456.663990] linkwatch_event+0x21/0x30 [ 3456.664399] process_one_work+0x211/0x610 [ 3456.664828] worker_thread+0x1cc/0x380 [ 3456.665691] kthread+0xf4/0x210 Reclassify NETDEV_CHANGE as a notifier that consistently runs under the instance lock. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/aac073de8beec3e531c86c101b274d434741c28e.camel@nvidia.com/ Reported-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com> Tested-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com> Fixes: ad7c7b2172c3 ("net: hold netdev instance lock during sysfs operations") Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250404161122.3907628-1-sdf@fomichev.me Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> 
Cosmin reports an issue with ipv6_add_dev being called from
NETDEV_CHANGE notifier:

[ 3455.008776]  ? ipv6_add_dev+0x370/0x620
[ 3455.010097]  ipv6_find_idev+0x96/0xe0
[ 3455.010725]  addrconf_add_dev+0x1e/0xa0
[ 3455.011382]  addrconf_init_auto_addrs+0xb0/0x720
[ 3455.013537]  addrconf_notify+0x35f/0x8d0
[ 3455.014214]  notifier_call_chain+0x38/0xf0
[ 3455.014903]  netdev_state_change+0x65/0x90
[ 3455.015586]  linkwatch_do_dev+0x5a/0x70
[ 3455.016238]  rtnl_getlink+0x241/0x3e0
[ 3455.019046]  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x177/0x5e0

Similarly, linkwatch might get to ipv6_add_dev without ops lock:
[ 3456.656261]  ? ipv6_add_dev+0x370/0x620
[ 3456.660039]  ipv6_find_idev+0x96/0xe0
[ 3456.660445]  addrconf_add_dev+0x1e/0xa0
[ 3456.660861]  addrconf_init_auto_addrs+0xb0/0x720
[ 3456.661803]  addrconf_notify+0x35f/0x8d0
[ 3456.662236]  notifier_call_chain+0x38/0xf0
[ 3456.662676]  netdev_state_change+0x65/0x90
[ 3456.663112]  linkwatch_do_dev+0x5a/0x70
[ 3456.663529]  __linkwatch_run_queue+0xeb/0x200
[ 3456.663990]  linkwatch_event+0x21/0x30
[ 3456.664399]  process_one_work+0x211/0x610
[ 3456.664828]  worker_thread+0x1cc/0x380
[ 3456.665691]  kthread+0xf4/0x210

Reclassify NETDEV_CHANGE as a notifier that consistently runs under the
instance lock.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/aac073de8beec3e531c86c101b274d434741c28e.camel@nvidia.com/
Reported-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com>
Fixes: ad7c7b2172c3 ("net: hold netdev instance lock during sysfs operations")
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250404161122.3907628-1-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
docs: net: document netdev notifier expectations 2025-04-03T22:32:08+00:00 Stanislav Fomichev sdf@fomichev.me 2025-04-01T16:34:48+00:00 ee705fa21fdc0c7da98309e5c3c8ab72b99ef087 We don't have a consistent state yet, but document where we think we are and where we wanna be. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250401163452.622454-8-sdf@fomichev.me Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> 
We don't have a consistent state yet, but document where we think
we are and where we wanna be.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250401163452.622454-8-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Merge tag 'for-6.15/io_uring-rx-zc-20250325' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux 2025-03-28T20:45:52+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2025-03-28T20:45:52+00:00 ca0b04ba0b35d48e1473a280c2e8905e7f80e906 Pull io_uring zero-copy receive support from Jens Axboe: "This adds support for zero-copy receive with io_uring, enabling fast bulk receive of data directly into application memory, rather than needing to copy the data out of kernel memory. While this version only supports host memory as that was the initial target, other memory types are planned as well, with notably GPU memory coming next. This work depends on some networking components which were queued up on the networking side, but have now landed in your tree. This is the work of Pavel Begunkov and David Wei. From the v14 posting: 'We configure a page pool that a driver uses to fill a hw rx queue to hand out user pages instead of kernel pages. Any data that ends up hitting this hw rx queue will thus be dma'd into userspace memory directly, without needing to be bounced through kernel memory. 'Reading' data out of a socket instead becomes a _notification_ mechanism, where the kernel tells userspace where the data is. The overall approach is similar to the devmem TCP proposal This relies on hw header/data split, flow steering and RSS to ensure packet headers remain in kernel memory and only desired flows hit a hw rx queue configured for zero copy. Configuring this is outside of the scope of this patchset. We share netdev core infra with devmem TCP. The main difference is that io_uring is used for the uAPI and the lifetime of all objects are bound to an io_uring instance. Data is 'read' using a new io_uring request type. When done, data is returned via a new shared refill queue. A zero copy page pool refills a hw rx queue from this refill queue directly. Of course, the lifetime of these data buffers are managed by io_uring rather than the networking stack, with different refcounting rules. This patchset is the first step adding basic zero copy support. We will extend this iteratively with new features e.g. dynamically allocated zero copy areas, THP support, dmabuf support, improved copy fallback, general optimisations and more' In a local setup, I was able to saturate a 200G link with a single CPU core, and at netdev conf 0x19 earlier this month, Jamal reported 188Gbit of bandwidth using a single core (no HT, including soft-irq). Safe to say the efficiency is there, as bigger links would be needed to find the per-core limit, and it's considerably more efficient and faster than the existing devmem solution" * tag 'for-6.15/io_uring-rx-zc-20250325' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: io_uring/zcrx: add selftest case for recvzc with read limit io_uring/zcrx: add a read limit to recvzc requests io_uring: add missing IORING_MAP_OFF_ZCRX_REGION in io_uring_mmap io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig io_uring/zcrx: fix leaks on failed registration io_uring/zcrx: recheck ifq on shutdown io_uring/zcrx: add selftest net: add documentation for io_uring zcrx io_uring/zcrx: add copy fallback io_uring/zcrx: throttle receive requests io_uring/zcrx: set pp memory provider for an rx queue io_uring/zcrx: add io_recvzc request io_uring/zcrx: dma-map area for the device io_uring/zcrx: implement zerocopy receive pp memory provider io_uring/zcrx: grab a net device io_uring/zcrx: add io_zcrx_area io_uring/zcrx: add interface queue and refill queue 
Pull io_uring zero-copy receive support from Jens Axboe:
 "This adds support for zero-copy receive with io_uring, enabling fast
  bulk receive of data directly into application memory, rather than
  needing to copy the data out of kernel memory.

  While this version only supports host memory as that was the initial
  target, other memory types are planned as well, with notably GPU
  memory coming next.

  This work depends on some networking components which were queued up
  on the networking side, but have now landed in your tree.

  This is the work of Pavel Begunkov and David Wei. From the v14 posting:

    'We configure a page pool that a driver uses to fill a hw rx queue
     to hand out user pages instead of kernel pages. Any data that ends
     up hitting this hw rx queue will thus be dma'd into userspace
     memory directly, without needing to be bounced through kernel
     memory. 'Reading' data out of a socket instead becomes a
     _notification_ mechanism, where the kernel tells userspace where
     the data is. The overall approach is similar to the devmem TCP
     proposal

     This relies on hw header/data split, flow steering and RSS to
     ensure packet headers remain in kernel memory and only desired
     flows hit a hw rx queue configured for zero copy. Configuring this
     is outside of the scope of this patchset.

     We share netdev core infra with devmem TCP. The main difference is
     that io_uring is used for the uAPI and the lifetime of all objects
     are bound to an io_uring instance. Data is 'read' using a new
     io_uring request type. When done, data is returned via a new shared
     refill queue. A zero copy page pool refills a hw rx queue from this
     refill queue directly. Of course, the lifetime of these data
     buffers are managed by io_uring rather than the networking stack,
     with different refcounting rules.

     This patchset is the first step adding basic zero copy support. We
     will extend this iteratively with new features e.g. dynamically
     allocated zero copy areas, THP support, dmabuf support, improved
     copy fallback, general optimisations and more'

  In a local setup, I was able to saturate a 200G link with a single CPU
  core, and at netdev conf 0x19 earlier this month, Jamal reported
  188Gbit of bandwidth using a single core (no HT, including soft-irq).

  Safe to say the efficiency is there, as bigger links would be needed
  to find the per-core limit, and it's considerably more efficient and
  faster than the existing devmem solution"

* tag 'for-6.15/io_uring-rx-zc-20250325' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux:
  io_uring/zcrx: add selftest case for recvzc with read limit
  io_uring/zcrx: add a read limit to recvzc requests
  io_uring: add missing IORING_MAP_OFF_ZCRX_REGION in io_uring_mmap
  io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig
  io_uring/zcrx: fix leaks on failed registration
  io_uring/zcrx: recheck ifq on shutdown
  io_uring/zcrx: add selftest
  net: add documentation for io_uring zcrx
  io_uring/zcrx: add copy fallback
  io_uring/zcrx: throttle receive requests
  io_uring/zcrx: set pp memory provider for an rx queue
  io_uring/zcrx: add io_recvzc request
  io_uring/zcrx: dma-map area for the device
  io_uring/zcrx: implement zerocopy receive pp memory provider
  io_uring/zcrx: grab a net device
  io_uring/zcrx: add io_zcrx_area
  io_uring/zcrx: add interface queue and refill queue
Merge tag 'powerpc-6.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux 2025-03-28T02:39:08+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2025-03-28T02:39:08+00:00 7b667acd69e316c2ed1b47e5dcd9d093be4a843f Pull powerpc updates from Madhavan Srinivasan: - Remove support for IBM Cell Blades - SMP support for microwatt platform - Support for inline static calls on PPC32 - Enable pmu selftests for power11 platform - Enable hardware trace macro (HTM) hcall support - Support for limited address mode capability - Changes to RMA size from 512 MB to 768 MB to handle fadump - Misc fixes and cleanups Thanks to Abhishek Dubey, Amit Machhiwal, Andreas Schwab, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Avnish Chouhan, Christophe Leroy, Disha Goel, Donet Tom, Gaurav Batra, Gautam Menghani, Hari Bathini, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Michael Ellerman, Paul Mackerras, Ritesh Harjani (IBM), Sathvika Vasireddy, Segher Boessenkool, Sourabh Jain, Vaibhav Jain, and Venkat Rao Bagalkote. * tag 'powerpc-6.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (61 commits) powerpc/kexec: fix physical address calculation in clear_utlb_entry() crypto: powerpc: Mark ghashp8-ppc.o as an OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD powerpc: Fix 'intra_function_call not a direct call' warning powerpc/perf: Fix ref-counting on the PMU 'vpa_pmu' KVM: PPC: Enable CAP_SPAPR_TCE_VFIO on pSeries KVM guests powerpc/prom_init: Fixup missing #size-cells on PowerBook6,7 powerpc/microwatt: Add SMP support powerpc: Define config option for processors with broadcast TLBIE powerpc/microwatt: Define an idle power-save function powerpc/microwatt: Device-tree updates powerpc/microwatt: Select COMMON_CLK in order to get the clock framework net: toshiba: Remove reference to PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE net: spider_net: Remove powerpc Cell driver cpufreq: ppc_cbe: Remove powerpc Cell driver genirq: Remove IRQ_EDGE_EOI_HANDLER docs: Remove reference to removed CBE_CPUFREQ_SPU_GOVERNOR powerpc: Remove UDBG_RTAS_CONSOLE powerpc/io: Use standard barrier macros in io.c powerpc/io: Rename _insw_ns() etc. powerpc/io: Use generic raw accessors ... 
Pull powerpc updates from Madhavan Srinivasan:

 - Remove support for IBM Cell Blades

 - SMP support for microwatt platform

 - Support for inline static calls on PPC32

 - Enable pmu selftests for power11 platform

 - Enable hardware trace macro (HTM) hcall support

 - Support for limited address mode capability

 - Changes to RMA size from 512 MB to 768 MB to handle fadump

 - Misc fixes and cleanups

Thanks to Abhishek Dubey, Amit Machhiwal, Andreas Schwab, Arnd Bergmann,
Athira Rajeev, Avnish Chouhan, Christophe Leroy, Disha Goel, Donet Tom,
Gaurav Batra, Gautam Menghani, Hari Bathini, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook,
Mahesh Salgaonkar, Michael Ellerman, Paul Mackerras, Ritesh Harjani
(IBM), Sathvika Vasireddy, Segher Boessenkool, Sourabh Jain, Vaibhav
Jain, and Venkat Rao Bagalkote.

* tag 'powerpc-6.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (61 commits)
  powerpc/kexec: fix physical address calculation in clear_utlb_entry()
  crypto: powerpc: Mark ghashp8-ppc.o as an OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD
  powerpc: Fix 'intra_function_call not a direct call' warning
  powerpc/perf: Fix ref-counting on the PMU 'vpa_pmu'
  KVM: PPC: Enable CAP_SPAPR_TCE_VFIO on pSeries KVM guests
  powerpc/prom_init: Fixup missing #size-cells on PowerBook6,7
  powerpc/microwatt: Add SMP support
  powerpc: Define config option for processors with broadcast TLBIE
  powerpc/microwatt: Define an idle power-save function
  powerpc/microwatt: Device-tree updates
  powerpc/microwatt: Select COMMON_CLK in order to get the clock framework
  net: toshiba: Remove reference to PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE
  net: spider_net: Remove powerpc Cell driver
  cpufreq: ppc_cbe: Remove powerpc Cell driver
  genirq: Remove IRQ_EDGE_EOI_HANDLER
  docs: Remove reference to removed CBE_CPUFREQ_SPU_GOVERNOR
  powerpc: Remove UDBG_RTAS_CONSOLE
  powerpc/io: Use standard barrier macros in io.c
  powerpc/io: Rename _insw_ns() etc.
  powerpc/io: Use generic raw accessors
  ...
Merge tag 'net-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next 2025-03-27T04:48:21+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2025-03-27T04:48:21+00:00 1a9239bb4253f9076b5b4b2a1a4e8d7defd77a95 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 ... 
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
  ...
Merge tag 'for-net-next-2025-03-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth-next 2025-03-25T21:00:48+00:00 Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org 2025-03-25T21:00:47+00:00 4f74a45c6b1906574669999b9748feb1a92bee84 Luiz Augusto von Dentz says: ==================== bluetooth-next pull request for net-next: core: - Add support for skb TX SND/COMPLETION timestamping - hci_core: Enable buffer flow control for SCO/eSCO - coredump: Log devcd dumps into the monitor drivers: - btusb: Add 2 HWIDs for MT7922 - btusb: Fix regression in the initialization of fake Bluetooth controllers - btusb: Add 14 USB device IDs for Qualcomm WCN785x - btintel: Add support for Intel Scorpius Peak - btintel: Add support to configure TX power - btintel: Add DSBR support for ScP - btintel_pcie: Add device id of Whale Peak - btintel_pcie: Setup buffers for firmware traces - btintel_pcie: Read hardware exception data - btintel_pcie: Add support for device coredump - btintel_pcie: Trigger device coredump on hardware exception - btnxpuart: Support for controller wakeup gpio config - btnxpuart: Add support to set BD address - btnxpuart: Add correct bootloader error codes - btnxpuart: Handle bootloader error during cmd5 and cmd7 - btnxpuart: Fix kernel panic during FW release - qca: add WCN3950 support - hci_qca: use the power sequencer for wcn6750 - btmtksdio: Prevent enabling interrupts after IRQ handler removal * tag 'for-net-next-2025-03-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth-next: (53 commits) Bluetooth: MGMT: Add LL Privacy Setting Bluetooth: hci_event: Fix handling of HCI_EV_LE_DIRECT_ADV_REPORT Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Fix kernel panic during FW release Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Handle bootloader error during cmd5 and cmd7 Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Add correct bootloader error codes t blameBluetooth: btintel: Fix leading white space Bluetooth: btintel: Add support to configure TX power Bluetooth: btmtksdio: Prevent enabling interrupts after IRQ handler removal Bluetooth: btmtk: Remove the resetting step before downloading the fw Bluetooth: SCO: add TX timestamping Bluetooth: L2CAP: add TX timestamping Bluetooth: ISO: add TX timestamping Bluetooth: add support for skb TX SND/COMPLETION timestamping net-timestamp: COMPLETION timestamp on packet tx completion HCI: coredump: Log devcd dumps into the monitor Bluetooth: HCI: Add definition of hci_rp_remote_name_req_cancel Bluetooth: hci_vhci: Mark Sync Flow Control as supported Bluetooth: hci_core: Enable buffer flow control for SCO/eSCO Bluetooth: btintel_pci: Fix build warning Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: Trigger device coredump on hardware exception ... ==================== Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250325192925.2497890-1-luiz.dentz@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> 
Luiz Augusto von Dentz says:

====================
bluetooth-next pull request for net-next:

core:

 - Add support for skb TX SND/COMPLETION timestamping
 - hci_core: Enable buffer flow control for SCO/eSCO
 - coredump: Log devcd dumps into the monitor

 drivers:

 - btusb: Add 2 HWIDs for MT7922
 - btusb: Fix regression in the initialization of fake Bluetooth controllers
 - btusb: Add 14 USB device IDs for Qualcomm WCN785x
 - btintel: Add support for Intel Scorpius Peak
 - btintel: Add support to configure TX power
 - btintel: Add DSBR support for ScP
 - btintel_pcie: Add device id of Whale Peak
 - btintel_pcie: Setup buffers for firmware traces
 - btintel_pcie: Read hardware exception data
 - btintel_pcie: Add support for device coredump
 - btintel_pcie: Trigger device coredump on hardware exception
 - btnxpuart: Support for controller wakeup gpio config
 - btnxpuart: Add support to set BD address
 - btnxpuart: Add correct bootloader error codes
 - btnxpuart: Handle bootloader error during cmd5 and cmd7
 - btnxpuart: Fix kernel panic during FW release
 - qca: add WCN3950 support
 - hci_qca: use the power sequencer for wcn6750
 - btmtksdio: Prevent enabling interrupts after IRQ handler removal

* tag 'for-net-next-2025-03-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth-next: (53 commits)
  Bluetooth: MGMT: Add LL Privacy Setting
  Bluetooth: hci_event: Fix handling of HCI_EV_LE_DIRECT_ADV_REPORT
  Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Fix kernel panic during FW release
  Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Handle bootloader error during cmd5 and cmd7
  Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Add correct bootloader error codes
  t blameBluetooth: btintel: Fix leading white space
  Bluetooth: btintel: Add support to configure TX power
  Bluetooth: btmtksdio: Prevent enabling interrupts after IRQ handler removal
  Bluetooth: btmtk: Remove the resetting step before downloading the fw
  Bluetooth: SCO: add TX timestamping
  Bluetooth: L2CAP: add TX timestamping
  Bluetooth: ISO: add TX timestamping
  Bluetooth: add support for skb TX SND/COMPLETION timestamping
  net-timestamp: COMPLETION timestamp on packet tx completion
  HCI: coredump: Log devcd dumps into the monitor
  Bluetooth: HCI: Add definition of hci_rp_remote_name_req_cancel
  Bluetooth: hci_vhci: Mark Sync Flow Control as supported
  Bluetooth: hci_core: Enable buffer flow control for SCO/eSCO
  Bluetooth: btintel_pci: Fix build warning
  Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: Trigger device coredump on hardware exception
  ...
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250325192925.2497890-1-luiz.dentz@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
tcp/dccp: remove icsk->icsk_ack.timeout 2025-03-25T17:34:33+00:00 Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com 2025-03-24T20:36:07+00:00 f1e30061e8a5af48c91ef2f25762f792114a6a90 icsk->icsk_ack.timeout can be replaced by icsk->csk_delack_timer.expires This saves 8 bytes in TCP/DCCP sockets and helps for better cache locality. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250324203607.703850-3-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> 
icsk->icsk_ack.timeout can be replaced by icsk->csk_delack_timer.expires

This saves 8 bytes in TCP/DCCP sockets and helps for better cache locality.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250324203607.703850-3-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
tcp/dccp: remove icsk->icsk_timeout 2025-03-25T17:34:33+00:00 Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com 2025-03-24T20:36:06+00:00 a7c428ee8f59f171a3b57474f2bd5cee0ef1e036 icsk->icsk_timeout can be replaced by icsk->icsk_retransmit_timer.expires This saves 8 bytes in TCP/DCCP sockets and helps for better cache locality. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250324203607.703850-2-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> 
icsk->icsk_timeout can be replaced by icsk->icsk_retransmit_timer.expires

This saves 8 bytes in TCP/DCCP sockets and helps for better cache locality.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250324203607.703850-2-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
net-timestamp: COMPLETION timestamp on packet tx completion 2025-03-25T16:48:05+00:00 Pauli Virtanen pav@iki.fi 2025-03-18T19:06:42+00:00 983e0e4e87bdf465e8424b1902e41bfe51ba128a Add SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_COMPLETION, for requesting a software timestamp when hardware reports a packet completed. Completion tstamp is useful for Bluetooth, as hardware timestamps do not exist in the HCI specification except for ISO packets, and the hardware has a queue where packets may wait. In this case the software SND timestamp only reflects the kernel-side part of the total latency (usually small) and queue length (usually 0 unless HW buffers congested), whereas the completion report time is more informative of the true latency. It may also be useful in other cases where HW TX timestamps cannot be obtained and user wants to estimate an upper bound to when the TX probably happened. Signed-off-by: Pauli Virtanen <pav@iki.fi> Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz@intel.com> 
Add SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_COMPLETION, for requesting a software timestamp
when hardware reports a packet completed.

Completion tstamp is useful for Bluetooth, as hardware timestamps do not
exist in the HCI specification except for ISO packets, and the hardware
has a queue where packets may wait.  In this case the software SND
timestamp only reflects the kernel-side part of the total latency
(usually small) and queue length (usually 0 unless HW buffers
congested), whereas the completion report time is more informative of
the true latency.

It may also be useful in other cases where HW TX timestamps cannot be
obtained and user wants to estimate an upper bound to when the TX
probably happened.

Signed-off-by: Pauli Virtanen <pav@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz@intel.com>