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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2014-01-31T16:37:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-31T16:37:32+00:00</published>
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Pull more KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Second batch of KVM updates.  Some minor x86 fixes, two s390 guest
  features that need some handling in the host, and all the PPC changes.

  The PPC changes include support for little-endian guests and
  enablement for new POWER8 features"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (45 commits)
  x86, kvm: correctly access the KVM_CPUID_FEATURES leaf at 0x40000101
  x86, kvm: cache the base of the KVM cpuid leaves
  kvm: x86: move KVM_CAP_HYPERV_TIME outside #ifdef
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Cope with doorbell interrupts
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add software abort codes for transactional memory
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add new state for transactional memory
  powerpc/Kconfig: Make TM select VSX and VMX
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Basic little-endian guest support
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add support for DABRX register on POWER7
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Prepare for host using hypervisor doorbells
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Handle new LPCR bits on POWER8
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Handle guest using doorbells for IPIs
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Consolidate code that checks reason for wake from nap
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Implement architecture compatibility modes for POWER8
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add handler for HV facility unavailable
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Flush the correct number of TLB sets on POWER8
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Context-switch new POWER8 SPRs
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Align physical and virtual CPU thread numbers
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't set DABR on POWER8
  kvm/ppc: IRQ disabling cleanup
  ...
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Pull more KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Second batch of KVM updates.  Some minor x86 fixes, two s390 guest
  features that need some handling in the host, and all the PPC changes.

  The PPC changes include support for little-endian guests and
  enablement for new POWER8 features"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (45 commits)
  x86, kvm: correctly access the KVM_CPUID_FEATURES leaf at 0x40000101
  x86, kvm: cache the base of the KVM cpuid leaves
  kvm: x86: move KVM_CAP_HYPERV_TIME outside #ifdef
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Cope with doorbell interrupts
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add software abort codes for transactional memory
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add new state for transactional memory
  powerpc/Kconfig: Make TM select VSX and VMX
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Basic little-endian guest support
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add support for DABRX register on POWER7
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Prepare for host using hypervisor doorbells
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Handle new LPCR bits on POWER8
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Handle guest using doorbells for IPIs
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Consolidate code that checks reason for wake from nap
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Implement architecture compatibility modes for POWER8
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add handler for HV facility unavailable
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Flush the correct number of TLB sets on POWER8
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Context-switch new POWER8 SPRs
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Align physical and virtual CPU thread numbers
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't set DABR on POWER8
  kvm/ppc: IRQ disabling cleanup
  ...
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Wire up sched_setattr and sched_getattr syscalls</title>
<updated>2014-01-29T06:13:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-29T06:13:05+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add software abort codes for transactional memory</title>
<updated>2014-01-27T15:01:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-08T10:25:33+00:00</published>
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This adds the software abort code defines for transactional memory (TM).
These values are from PAPR.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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This adds the software abort code defines for transactional memory (TM).
These values are from PAPR.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add support for DABRX register on POWER7</title>
<updated>2014-01-27T15:01:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-08T10:25:29+00:00</published>
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The DABRX (DABR extension) register on POWER7 processors provides finer
control over which accesses cause a data breakpoint interrupt.  It
contains 3 bits which indicate whether to enable accesses in user,
kernel and hypervisor modes respectively to cause data breakpoint
interrupts, plus one bit that enables both real mode and virtual mode
accesses to cause interrupts.  Currently, KVM sets DABRX to allow
both kernel and user accesses to cause interrupts while in the guest.

This adds support for the guest to specify other values for DABRX.
PAPR defines a H_SET_XDABR hcall to allow the guest to set both DABR
and DABRX with one call.  This adds a real-mode implementation of
H_SET_XDABR, which shares most of its code with the existing H_SET_DABR
implementation.  To support this, we add a per-vcpu field to store the
DABRX value plus code to get and set it via the ONE_REG interface.

For Linux guests to use this new hcall, userspace needs to add
"hcall-xdabr" to the set of strings in the /chosen/hypertas-functions
property in the device tree.  If userspace does this and then migrates
the guest to a host where the kernel doesn't include this patch, then
userspace will need to implement H_SET_XDABR by writing the specified
DABR value to the DABR using the ONE_REG interface.  In that case, the
old kernel will set DABRX to DABRX_USER | DABRX_KERNEL.  That should
still work correctly, at least for Linux guests, since Linux guests
cope with getting data breakpoint interrupts in modes that weren't
requested by just ignoring the interrupt, and Linux guests never set
DABRX_BTI.

The other thing this does is to make H_SET_DABR and H_SET_XDABR work
on POWER8, which has the DAWR and DAWRX instead of DABR/X.  Guests that
know about POWER8 should use H_SET_MODE rather than H_SET_[X]DABR, but
guests running in POWER7 compatibility mode will still use H_SET_[X]DABR.
For them, this adds the logic to convert DABR/X values into DAWR/X values
on POWER8.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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The DABRX (DABR extension) register on POWER7 processors provides finer
control over which accesses cause a data breakpoint interrupt.  It
contains 3 bits which indicate whether to enable accesses in user,
kernel and hypervisor modes respectively to cause data breakpoint
interrupts, plus one bit that enables both real mode and virtual mode
accesses to cause interrupts.  Currently, KVM sets DABRX to allow
both kernel and user accesses to cause interrupts while in the guest.

This adds support for the guest to specify other values for DABRX.
PAPR defines a H_SET_XDABR hcall to allow the guest to set both DABR
and DABRX with one call.  This adds a real-mode implementation of
H_SET_XDABR, which shares most of its code with the existing H_SET_DABR
implementation.  To support this, we add a per-vcpu field to store the
DABRX value plus code to get and set it via the ONE_REG interface.

For Linux guests to use this new hcall, userspace needs to add
"hcall-xdabr" to the set of strings in the /chosen/hypertas-functions
property in the device tree.  If userspace does this and then migrates
the guest to a host where the kernel doesn't include this patch, then
userspace will need to implement H_SET_XDABR by writing the specified
DABR value to the DABR using the ONE_REG interface.  In that case, the
old kernel will set DABRX to DABRX_USER | DABRX_KERNEL.  That should
still work correctly, at least for Linux guests, since Linux guests
cope with getting data breakpoint interrupts in modes that weren't
requested by just ignoring the interrupt, and Linux guests never set
DABRX_BTI.

The other thing this does is to make H_SET_DABR and H_SET_XDABR work
on POWER8, which has the DAWR and DAWRX instead of DABR/X.  Guests that
know about POWER8 should use H_SET_MODE rather than H_SET_[X]DABR, but
guests running in POWER7 compatibility mode will still use H_SET_[X]DABR.
For them, this adds the logic to convert DABR/X values into DAWR/X values
on POWER8.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Context-switch new POWER8 SPRs</title>
<updated>2014-01-27T15:01:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-08T10:25:21+00:00</published>
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This adds fields to the struct kvm_vcpu_arch to store the new
guest-accessible SPRs on POWER8, adds code to the get/set_one_reg
functions to allow userspace to access this state, and adds code to
the guest entry and exit to context-switch these SPRs between host
and guest.

Note that DPDES (Directed Privileged Doorbell Exception State) is
shared between threads on a core; hence we store it in struct
kvmppc_vcore and have the master thread save and restore it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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This adds fields to the struct kvm_vcpu_arch to store the new
guest-accessible SPRs on POWER8, adds code to the get/set_one_reg
functions to allow userspace to access this state, and adds code to
the guest entry and exit to context-switch these SPRs between host
and guest.

Note that DPDES (Directed Privileged Doorbell Exception State) is
shared between threads on a core; hence we store it in struct
kvmppc_vcore and have the master thread save and restore it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: introduce SO_BPF_EXTENSIONS</title>
<updated>2014-01-19T03:08:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Sekletar</name>
<email>msekleta@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-17T16:09:45+00:00</published>
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For user space packet capturing libraries such as libpcap, there's
currently only one way to check which BPF extensions are supported
by the kernel, that is, commit aa1113d9f85d ("net: filter: return
-EINVAL if BPF_S_ANC* operation is not supported"). For querying all
extensions at once this might be rather inconvenient.

Therefore, this patch introduces a new option which can be used as
an argument for getsockopt(), and allows one to obtain information
about which BPF extensions are supported by the current kernel.

As David Miller suggests, we do not need to define any bits right
now and status quo can just return 0 in order to state that this
versions supports SKF_AD_PROTOCOL up to SKF_AD_PAY_OFFSET. Later
additions to BPF extensions need to add their bits to the
bpf_tell_extensions() function, as documented in the comment.

Signed-off-by: Michal Sekletar &lt;msekleta@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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For user space packet capturing libraries such as libpcap, there's
currently only one way to check which BPF extensions are supported
by the kernel, that is, commit aa1113d9f85d ("net: filter: return
-EINVAL if BPF_S_ANC* operation is not supported"). For querying all
extensions at once this might be rather inconvenient.

Therefore, this patch introduces a new option which can be used as
an argument for getsockopt(), and allows one to obtain information
about which BPF extensions are supported by the current kernel.

As David Miller suggests, we do not need to define any bits right
now and status quo can just return 0 in order to state that this
versions supports SKF_AD_PROTOCOL up to SKF_AD_PAY_OFFSET. Later
additions to BPF extensions need to add their bits to the
bpf_tell_extensions() function, as documented in the comment.

Signed-off-by: Michal Sekletar &lt;msekleta@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2013-11-15T04:51:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-15T04:51:36+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM changes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Here are the 3.13 KVM changes.  There was a lot of work on the PPC
  side: the HV and emulation flavors can now coexist in a single kernel
  is probably the most interesting change from a user point of view.

  On the x86 side there are nested virtualization improvements and a few
  bugfixes.

  ARM got transparent huge page support, improved overcommit, and
  support for big endian guests.

  Finally, there is a new interface to connect KVM with VFIO.  This
  helps with devices that use NoSnoop PCI transactions, letting the
  driver in the guest execute WBINVD instructions.  This includes some
  nVidia cards on Windows, that fail to start without these patches and
  the corresponding userspace changes"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (146 commits)
  kvm, vmx: Fix lazy FPU on nested guest
  arm/arm64: KVM: PSCI: propagate caller endianness to the incoming vcpu
  arm/arm64: KVM: MMIO support for BE guest
  kvm, cpuid: Fix sparse warning
  kvm: Delete prototype for non-existent function kvm_check_iopl
  kvm: Delete prototype for non-existent function complete_pio
  hung_task: add method to reset detector
  pvclock: detect watchdog reset at pvclock read
  kvm: optimize out smp_mb after srcu_read_unlock
  srcu: API for barrier after srcu read unlock
  KVM: remove vm mmap method
  KVM: IOMMU: hva align mapping page size
  KVM: x86: trace cpuid emulation when called from emulator
  KVM: emulator: cleanup decode_register_operand() a bit
  KVM: emulator: check rex prefix inside decode_register()
  KVM: x86: fix emulation of "movzbl %bpl, %eax"
  kvm_host: typo fix
  KVM: x86: emulate SAHF instruction
  MAINTAINERS: add tree for kvm.git
  Documentation/kvm: add a 00-INDEX file
  ...
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Pull KVM changes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Here are the 3.13 KVM changes.  There was a lot of work on the PPC
  side: the HV and emulation flavors can now coexist in a single kernel
  is probably the most interesting change from a user point of view.

  On the x86 side there are nested virtualization improvements and a few
  bugfixes.

  ARM got transparent huge page support, improved overcommit, and
  support for big endian guests.

  Finally, there is a new interface to connect KVM with VFIO.  This
  helps with devices that use NoSnoop PCI transactions, letting the
  driver in the guest execute WBINVD instructions.  This includes some
  nVidia cards on Windows, that fail to start without these patches and
  the corresponding userspace changes"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (146 commits)
  kvm, vmx: Fix lazy FPU on nested guest
  arm/arm64: KVM: PSCI: propagate caller endianness to the incoming vcpu
  arm/arm64: KVM: MMIO support for BE guest
  kvm, cpuid: Fix sparse warning
  kvm: Delete prototype for non-existent function kvm_check_iopl
  kvm: Delete prototype for non-existent function complete_pio
  hung_task: add method to reset detector
  pvclock: detect watchdog reset at pvclock read
  kvm: optimize out smp_mb after srcu_read_unlock
  srcu: API for barrier after srcu read unlock
  KVM: remove vm mmap method
  KVM: IOMMU: hva align mapping page size
  KVM: x86: trace cpuid emulation when called from emulator
  KVM: emulator: cleanup decode_register_operand() a bit
  KVM: emulator: check rex prefix inside decode_register()
  KVM: x86: fix emulation of "movzbl %bpl, %eax"
  kvm_host: typo fix
  KVM: x86: emulate SAHF instruction
  MAINTAINERS: add tree for kvm.git
  Documentation/kvm: add a 00-INDEX file
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T08:40:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-13T08:40:34+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) The addition of nftables.  No longer will we need protocol aware
    firewall filtering modules, it can all live in userspace.

    At the core of nftables is a, for lack of a better term, virtual
    machine that executes byte codes to inspect packet or metadata
    (arriving interface index, etc.) and make verdict decisions.

    Besides support for loading packet contents and comparing them, the
    interpreter supports lookups in various datastructures as
    fundamental operations.  For example sets are supports, and
    therefore one could create a set of whitelist IP address entries
    which have ACCEPT verdicts attached to them, and use the appropriate
    byte codes to do such lookups.

    Since the interpreted code is composed in userspace, userspace can
    do things like optimize things before giving it to the kernel.

    Another major improvement is the capability of atomically updating
    portions of the ruleset.  In the existing netfilter implementation,
    one has to update the entire rule set in order to make a change and
    this is very expensive.

    Userspace tools exist to create nftables rules using existing
    netfilter rule sets, but both kernel implementations will need to
    co-exist for quite some time as we transition from the old to the
    new stuff.

    Kudos to Patrick McHardy, Pablo Neira Ayuso, and others who have
    worked so hard on this.

 2) Daniel Borkmann and Hannes Frederic Sowa made several improvements
    to our pseudo-random number generator, mostly used for things like
    UDP port randomization and netfitler, amongst other things.

    In particular the taus88 generater is updated to taus113, and test
    cases are added.

 3) Support 64-bit rates in HTB and TBF schedulers, from Eric Dumazet
    and Yang Yingliang.

 4) Add support for new 577xx tigon3 chips to tg3 driver, from Nithin
    Sujir.

 5) Fix two fatal flaws in TCP dynamic right sizing, from Eric Dumazet,
    Neal Cardwell, and Yuchung Cheng.

 6) Allow IP_TOS and IP_TTL to be specified in sendmsg() ancillary
    control message data, much like other socket option attributes.
    From Francesco Fusco.

 7) Allow applications to specify a cap on the rate computed
    automatically by the kernel for pacing flows, via a new
    SO_MAX_PACING_RATE socket option.  From Eric Dumazet.

 8) Make the initial autotuned send buffer sizing in TCP more closely
    reflect actual needs, from Eric Dumazet.

 9) Currently early socket demux only happens for TCP sockets, but we
    can do it for connected UDP sockets too.  Implementation from Shawn
    Bohrer.

10) Refactor inet socket demux with the goal of improving hash demux
    performance for listening sockets.  With the main goals being able
    to use RCU lookups on even request sockets, and eliminating the
    listening lock contention.  From Eric Dumazet.

11) The bonding layer has many demuxes in it's fast path, and an RCU
    conversion was started back in 3.11, several changes here extend the
    RCU usage to even more locations.  From Ding Tianhong and Wang
    Yufen, based upon suggestions by Nikolay Aleksandrov and Veaceslav
    Falico.

12) Allow stackability of segmentation offloads to, in particular, allow
    segmentation offloading over tunnels.  From Eric Dumazet.

13) Significantly improve the handling of secret keys we input into the
    various hash functions in the inet hashtables, TCP fast open, as
    well as syncookies.  From Hannes Frederic Sowa.  The key fundamental
    operation is "net_get_random_once()" which uses static keys.

    Hannes even extended this to ipv4/ipv6 fragmentation handling and
    our generic flow dissector.

14) The generic driver layer takes care now to set the driver data to
    NULL on device removal, so it's no longer necessary for drivers to
    explicitly set it to NULL any more.  Many drivers have been cleaned
    up in this way, from Jingoo Han.

15) Add a BPF based packet scheduler classifier, from Daniel Borkmann.

16) Improve CRC32 interfaces and generic SKB checksum iterators so that
    SCTP's checksumming can more cleanly be handled.  Also from Daniel
    Borkmann.

17) Add a new PMTU discovery mode, IP_PMTUDISC_INTERFACE, which forces
    using the interface MTU value.  This helps avoid PMTU attacks,
    particularly on DNS servers.  From Hannes Frederic Sowa.

18) Use generic XPS for transmit queue steering rather than internal
    (re-)implementation in virtio-net.  From Jason Wang.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1622 commits)
  random32: add test cases for taus113 implementation
  random32: upgrade taus88 generator to taus113 from errata paper
  random32: move rnd_state to linux/random.h
  random32: add prandom_reseed_late() and call when nonblocking pool becomes initialized
  random32: add periodic reseeding
  random32: fix off-by-one in seeding requirement
  PHY: Add RTL8201CP phy_driver to realtek
  xtsonic: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in xtsonic_probe()
  macmace: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in mace_probe()
  ethernet/arc/arc_emac: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in arc_emac_probe()
  ipv6: protect for_each_sk_fl_rcu in mem_check with rcu_read_lock_bh
  vlan: Implement vlan_dev_get_egress_qos_mask as an inline.
  ixgbe: add warning when max_vfs is out of range.
  igb: Update link modes display in ethtool
  netfilter: push reasm skb through instead of original frag skbs
  ip6_output: fragment outgoing reassembled skb properly
  MAINTAINERS: mv643xx_eth: take over maintainership from Lennart
  net_sched: tbf: support of 64bit rates
  ixgbe: deleting dfwd stations out of order can cause null ptr deref
  ixgbe: fix build err, num_rx_queues is only available with CONFIG_RPS
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) The addition of nftables.  No longer will we need protocol aware
    firewall filtering modules, it can all live in userspace.

    At the core of nftables is a, for lack of a better term, virtual
    machine that executes byte codes to inspect packet or metadata
    (arriving interface index, etc.) and make verdict decisions.

    Besides support for loading packet contents and comparing them, the
    interpreter supports lookups in various datastructures as
    fundamental operations.  For example sets are supports, and
    therefore one could create a set of whitelist IP address entries
    which have ACCEPT verdicts attached to them, and use the appropriate
    byte codes to do such lookups.

    Since the interpreted code is composed in userspace, userspace can
    do things like optimize things before giving it to the kernel.

    Another major improvement is the capability of atomically updating
    portions of the ruleset.  In the existing netfilter implementation,
    one has to update the entire rule set in order to make a change and
    this is very expensive.

    Userspace tools exist to create nftables rules using existing
    netfilter rule sets, but both kernel implementations will need to
    co-exist for quite some time as we transition from the old to the
    new stuff.

    Kudos to Patrick McHardy, Pablo Neira Ayuso, and others who have
    worked so hard on this.

 2) Daniel Borkmann and Hannes Frederic Sowa made several improvements
    to our pseudo-random number generator, mostly used for things like
    UDP port randomization and netfitler, amongst other things.

    In particular the taus88 generater is updated to taus113, and test
    cases are added.

 3) Support 64-bit rates in HTB and TBF schedulers, from Eric Dumazet
    and Yang Yingliang.

 4) Add support for new 577xx tigon3 chips to tg3 driver, from Nithin
    Sujir.

 5) Fix two fatal flaws in TCP dynamic right sizing, from Eric Dumazet,
    Neal Cardwell, and Yuchung Cheng.

 6) Allow IP_TOS and IP_TTL to be specified in sendmsg() ancillary
    control message data, much like other socket option attributes.
    From Francesco Fusco.

 7) Allow applications to specify a cap on the rate computed
    automatically by the kernel for pacing flows, via a new
    SO_MAX_PACING_RATE socket option.  From Eric Dumazet.

 8) Make the initial autotuned send buffer sizing in TCP more closely
    reflect actual needs, from Eric Dumazet.

 9) Currently early socket demux only happens for TCP sockets, but we
    can do it for connected UDP sockets too.  Implementation from Shawn
    Bohrer.

10) Refactor inet socket demux with the goal of improving hash demux
    performance for listening sockets.  With the main goals being able
    to use RCU lookups on even request sockets, and eliminating the
    listening lock contention.  From Eric Dumazet.

11) The bonding layer has many demuxes in it's fast path, and an RCU
    conversion was started back in 3.11, several changes here extend the
    RCU usage to even more locations.  From Ding Tianhong and Wang
    Yufen, based upon suggestions by Nikolay Aleksandrov and Veaceslav
    Falico.

12) Allow stackability of segmentation offloads to, in particular, allow
    segmentation offloading over tunnels.  From Eric Dumazet.

13) Significantly improve the handling of secret keys we input into the
    various hash functions in the inet hashtables, TCP fast open, as
    well as syncookies.  From Hannes Frederic Sowa.  The key fundamental
    operation is "net_get_random_once()" which uses static keys.

    Hannes even extended this to ipv4/ipv6 fragmentation handling and
    our generic flow dissector.

14) The generic driver layer takes care now to set the driver data to
    NULL on device removal, so it's no longer necessary for drivers to
    explicitly set it to NULL any more.  Many drivers have been cleaned
    up in this way, from Jingoo Han.

15) Add a BPF based packet scheduler classifier, from Daniel Borkmann.

16) Improve CRC32 interfaces and generic SKB checksum iterators so that
    SCTP's checksumming can more cleanly be handled.  Also from Daniel
    Borkmann.

17) Add a new PMTU discovery mode, IP_PMTUDISC_INTERFACE, which forces
    using the interface MTU value.  This helps avoid PMTU attacks,
    particularly on DNS servers.  From Hannes Frederic Sowa.

18) Use generic XPS for transmit queue steering rather than internal
    (re-)implementation in virtio-net.  From Jason Wang.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1622 commits)
  random32: add test cases for taus113 implementation
  random32: upgrade taus88 generator to taus113 from errata paper
  random32: move rnd_state to linux/random.h
  random32: add prandom_reseed_late() and call when nonblocking pool becomes initialized
  random32: add periodic reseeding
  random32: fix off-by-one in seeding requirement
  PHY: Add RTL8201CP phy_driver to realtek
  xtsonic: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in xtsonic_probe()
  macmace: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in mace_probe()
  ethernet/arc/arc_emac: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in arc_emac_probe()
  ipv6: protect for_each_sk_fl_rcu in mem_check with rcu_read_lock_bh
  vlan: Implement vlan_dev_get_egress_qos_mask as an inline.
  ixgbe: add warning when max_vfs is out of range.
  igb: Update link modes display in ethtool
  netfilter: push reasm skb through instead of original frag skbs
  ip6_output: fragment outgoing reassembled skb properly
  MAINTAINERS: mv643xx_eth: take over maintainership from Lennart
  net_sched: tbf: support of 64bit rates
  ixgbe: deleting dfwd stations out of order can cause null ptr deref
  ixgbe: fix build err, num_rx_queues is only available with CONFIG_RPS
  ...
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<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: E500: Add userspace debug stub support</title>
<updated>2013-10-17T12:49:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bharat Bhushan</name>
<email>r65777@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-04T06:57:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ce11e48b7fdd256ec68b932a89b397a790566031'/>
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This patch adds the debug stub support on booke/bookehv.
Now QEMU debug stub can use hw breakpoint, watchpoint and
software breakpoint to debug guest.

This is how we save/restore debug register context when switching
between guest, userspace and kernel user-process:

When QEMU is running
 -&gt; thread-&gt;debug_reg == QEMU debug register context.
 -&gt; Kernel will handle switching the debug register on context switch.
 -&gt; no vcpu_load() called

QEMU makes ioctls (except RUN)
 -&gt; This will call vcpu_load()
 -&gt; should not change context.
 -&gt; Some ioctls can change vcpu debug register, context saved in vcpu-&gt;debug_regs

QEMU Makes RUN ioctl
 -&gt; Save thread-&gt;debug_reg on STACK
 -&gt; Store thread-&gt;debug_reg == vcpu-&gt;debug_reg
 -&gt; load thread-&gt;debug_reg
 -&gt; RUN VCPU ( So thread points to vcpu context )

Context switch happens When VCPU running
 -&gt; makes vcpu_load() should not load any context
 -&gt; kernel loads the vcpu context as thread-&gt;debug_regs points to vcpu context.

On heavyweight_exit
 -&gt; Load the context saved on stack in thread-&gt;debug_reg

Currently we do not support debug resource emulation to guest,
On debug exception, always exit to user space irrespective of
user space is expecting the debug exception or not. If this is
unexpected exception (breakpoint/watchpoint event not set by
userspace) then let us leave the action on user space. This
is similar to what it was before, only thing is that now we
have proper exit state available to user space.

Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan &lt;bharat.bhushan@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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<pre>
This patch adds the debug stub support on booke/bookehv.
Now QEMU debug stub can use hw breakpoint, watchpoint and
software breakpoint to debug guest.

This is how we save/restore debug register context when switching
between guest, userspace and kernel user-process:

When QEMU is running
 -&gt; thread-&gt;debug_reg == QEMU debug register context.
 -&gt; Kernel will handle switching the debug register on context switch.
 -&gt; no vcpu_load() called

QEMU makes ioctls (except RUN)
 -&gt; This will call vcpu_load()
 -&gt; should not change context.
 -&gt; Some ioctls can change vcpu debug register, context saved in vcpu-&gt;debug_regs

QEMU Makes RUN ioctl
 -&gt; Save thread-&gt;debug_reg on STACK
 -&gt; Store thread-&gt;debug_reg == vcpu-&gt;debug_reg
 -&gt; load thread-&gt;debug_reg
 -&gt; RUN VCPU ( So thread points to vcpu context )

Context switch happens When VCPU running
 -&gt; makes vcpu_load() should not load any context
 -&gt; kernel loads the vcpu context as thread-&gt;debug_regs points to vcpu context.

On heavyweight_exit
 -&gt; Load the context saved on stack in thread-&gt;debug_reg

Currently we do not support debug resource emulation to guest,
On debug exception, always exit to user space irrespective of
user space is expecting the debug exception or not. If this is
unexpected exception (breakpoint/watchpoint event not set by
userspace) then let us leave the action on user space. This
is similar to what it was before, only thing is that now we
have proper exit state available to user space.

Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan &lt;bharat.bhushan@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: E500: exit to user space on "ehpriv 1" instruction</title>
<updated>2013-10-17T12:49:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bharat Bhushan</name>
<email>r65777@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-04T06:57:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b12c784123ff805c066449ca580f15a903c24994'/>
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"ehpriv 1" instruction is used for setting software breakpoints
by user space. This patch adds support to exit to user space
with "run-&gt;debug" have relevant information.

As this is the first point we are using run-&gt;debug, also defined
the run-&gt;debug structure.

Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan &lt;bharat.bhushan@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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<pre>
"ehpriv 1" instruction is used for setting software breakpoints
by user space. This patch adds support to exit to user space
with "run-&gt;debug" have relevant information.

As this is the first point we are using run-&gt;debug, also defined
the run-&gt;debug structure.

Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan &lt;bharat.bhushan@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
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