Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core & protocols:

   - Improve drop account scalability on NUMA hosts for RAW and UDP
     sockets and the backlog, almost doubling the Pps capacity under DoS

   - Optimize the UDP RX performance under stress, reducing contention,
     revisiting the binary layout of the involved data structs and
     implementing NUMA-aware locking. This improves UDP RX performance
     by an additional 50%, even more under extreme conditions

   - Add support for PSP encryption of TCP connections; this mechanism
     has some similarities with IPsec and TLS, but offers superior HW
     offloads capabilities

   - Ongoing work to support Accurate ECN for TCP. AccECN allows more
     than one congestion notification signal per RTT and is a building
     block for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)

   - Reorganize the TCP socket binary layout for data locality, reducing
     the number of touched cachelines in the fastpath

   - Refactor skb deferral free to better scale on large multi-NUMA
     hosts, this improves TCP and UDP RX performances significantly on
     such HW

   - Increase the default socket memory buffer limits from 256K to 4M to
     better fit modern link speeds

   - Improve handling of setups with a large number of nexthop, making
     dump operating scaling linearly and avoiding unneeded
     synchronize_rcu() on delete

   - Improve bridge handling of VLAN FDB, storing a single entry per
     bridge instead of one entry per port; this makes the dump order of
     magnitude faster on large switches

   - Restore IP ID correctly for encapsulated packets at GSO
     segmentation time, allowing GRO to merge packets in more scenarios

   - Improve netfilter matching performance on large sets

   - Improve MPTCP receive path performance by leveraging recently
     introduced core infrastructure (skb deferral free) and adopting
     recent TCP autotuning changes

   - Allow bridges to redirect to a backup port when the bridge port is
     administratively down

   - Introduce MPTCP 'laminar' endpoint that con be used only once per
     connection and simplify common MPTCP setups

   - Add RCU safety to dst->dev, closing a lot of possible races

   - A significant crypto library API for SCTP, MPTCP and IPv6 SR,
     reducing code duplication

   - Supports pulling data from an skb frag into the linear area of an
     XDP buffer

  Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:

   - Generate netlink documentation from YAML using an integrated YAML
     parser

  Driver API:

   - Support using IPv6 Flow Label in Rx hash computation and RSS queue
     selection

   - Introduce API for fetching the DMA device for a given queue,
     allowing TCP zerocopy RX on more H/W setups

   - Make XDP helpers compatible with unreadable memory, allowing more
     easily building DevMem-enabled drivers with a unified XDP/skbs
     datapath

   - Add a new dedicated ethtool callback enabling drivers to provide
     the number of RX rings directly, improving efficiency and clarity
     in RX ring queries and RSS configuration

   - Introduce a burst period for the health reporter, allowing better
     handling of multiple errors due to the same root cause

   - Support for DPLL phase offset exponential moving average,
     controlling the average smoothing factor

  Device drivers:

   - Add a new Huawei driver for 3rd gen NIC (hinic3)

   - Add a new SpacemiT driver for K1 ethernet MAC

   - Add a generic abstraction for shared memory communication
     devices (dibps)

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - Use multiple per-queue doorbell, to avoid MMIO contention
           issues
         - support adjacent functions, allowing them to delegate their
           SR-IOV VFs to sibling PFs
         - support RSS for IPSec offload
         - support exposing raw cycle counters in PTP and mlx5
         - support for disabling host PFs.
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - ice: support for SRIOV VFs over an Active-Active link
           aggregate
         - ice: support for firmware logging via debugfs
         - ice: support for Earliest TxTime First (ETF) hardware offload
         - idpf: support basic XDP functionalities and XSk
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - support Hyper-V VF ID
         - dynamic SRIOV resource allocations for RoCE
      - Meta (fbnic):
         - support queue API, zero-copy Rx and Tx
         - support basic XDP functionalities
         - devlink health support for FW crashes and OTP mem corruptions
         - expand hardware stats coverage to FEC, PHY, and Pause
      - Wangxun:
         - support ethtool coalesce options
         - support for multiple RSS contexts

   - Ethernet virtual:
      - Macsec:
         - replace custom netlink attribute checks with policy-level
           checks
      - Bonding:
         - support aggregator selection based on port priority
      - Microsoft vNIC:
         - use page pool fragments for RX buffers instead of full pages
           to improve memory efficiency

   - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
      - Qualcomm: support Ethernet function for IPQ9574 SoC
      - Airoha: implement wlan offloading via NPU
      - Freescale
         - enetc: add NETC timer PTP driver and add PTP support
         - fec: enable the Jumbo frame support for i.MX8QM
      - Renesas (R-Car S4):
         - support HW offloading for layer 2 switching
         - support for RZ/{T2H, N2H} SoCs
      - Cadence (macb): support TAPRIO traffic scheduling
      - TI:
         - support for Gigabit ICSS ethernet SoC (icssm-prueth)
      - Synopsys (stmmac): a lot of cleanups

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - Support 10g-qxgmi phy-mode for AQR412C, Felix DSA and Lynx PCS
        driver
      - Support bcm63268 GPHY power control
      - Support for Micrel lan8842 PHY and PTP
      - Support for Aquantia AQR412 and AQR115

   - CAN:
      - a large CAN-XL preparation work
      - reorganize raw_sock and uniqframe struct to minimize memory
        usage
      - rcar_canfd: update the CAN-FD handling

   - WiFi:
      - extended Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support
      - S1G channel representation cleanup
      - improve S1G support

   - WiFi drivers:
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - major refactor and cleanup
      - Broadcom (brcm80211):
         - support for AP isolation
      - RealTek (rtw88/89) rtw88/89:
         - preparation work for RTL8922DE support
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - HW restart improvements
         - MLO support
      - Qualcomm/Atheros (ath10k):
         - GTK rekey fixes

   - Bluetooth drivers:
      - btusb: support for several new IDs for MT7925
      - btintel: support for BlazarIW core
      - btintel_pcie: support for _suspend() / _resume()
      - btintel_pcie: support for Scorpious, Panther Lake-H484 IDs"

* tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1536 commits)
  net: stmmac: Add support for Allwinner A523 GMAC200
  dt-bindings: net: sun8i-emac: Add A523 GMAC200 compatible
  Revert "Documentation: net: add flow control guide and document ethtool API"
  octeontx2-pf: fix bitmap leak
  octeontx2-vf: fix bitmap leak
  net/mlx5e: Use extack in set rxfh callback
  net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_params for RSS configuration
  net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_init_params
  net/mlx5e: Remove unused mdev param from RSS indir init
  net/mlx5: Improve QoS error messages with actual depth values
  net/mlx5e: Prevent entering switchdev mode with inconsistent netns
  net/mlx5: HWS, Generalize complex matchers
  net/mlx5: Improve write-combining test reliability for ARM64 Grace CPUs
  selftests/net: add tcp_port_share to .gitignore
  Revert "net/mlx5e: Update and set Xon/Xoff upon MTU set"
  net: add NUMA awareness to skb_attempt_defer_free()
  net: use llist for sd->defer_list
  net: make softnet_data.defer_count an atomic
  selftests: drv-net: psp: add tests for destroying devices
  selftests: drv-net: psp: add test for auto-adjusting TCP MSS
  ...

Pull SoC driver updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "Lots of platform specific updates for Qualcomm SoCs, including a new
  TEE subsystem driver for the Qualcomm QTEE firmware interface.

  Added support for the Apple A11 SoC in drivers that are shared with
  the M1/M2 series, among more updates for those.

  Smaller platform specific driver updates for Renesas, ASpeed,
  Broadcom, Nvidia, Mediatek, Amlogic, TI, Allwinner, and Freescale
  SoCs.

  Driver updates in the cache controller, memory controller and reset
  controller subsystems.

  SCMI firmware updates to add more features and improve robustness.
  This includes support for having multiple SCMI providers in a single
  system.

  TEE subsystem support for protected DMA-bufs, allowing hardware to
  access memory areas that managed by the kernel but remain inaccessible
  from the CPU in EL1/EL0"

* tag 'soc-drivers-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc: (139 commits)
  soc/fsl/qbman: Use for_each_online_cpu() instead of for_each_cpu()
  soc: fsl: qe: Drop legacy-of-mm-gpiochip.h header from GPIO driver
  soc: fsl: qe: Change GPIO driver to a proper platform driver
  tee: fix register_shm_helper()
  pmdomain: apple: Add "apple,t8103-pmgr-pwrstate"
  dt-bindings: spmi: Add Apple A11 and T2 compatible
  serial: qcom-geni: Load UART qup Firmware from linux side
  spi: geni-qcom: Load spi qup Firmware from linux side
  i2c: qcom-geni: Load i2c qup Firmware from linux side
  soc: qcom: geni-se: Add support to load QUP SE Firmware via Linux subsystem
  soc: qcom: geni-se: Cleanup register defines and update copyright
  dt-bindings: qcom: se-common: Add QUP Peripheral-specific properties for I2C, SPI, and SERIAL bus
  Documentation: tee: Add Qualcomm TEE driver
  tee: qcom: enable TEE_IOC_SHM_ALLOC ioctl
  tee: qcom: add primordial object
  tee: add Qualcomm TEE driver
  tee: increase TEE_MAX_ARG_SIZE to 4096
  tee: add TEE_IOCTL_PARAM_ATTR_TYPE_OBJREF
  tee: add TEE_IOCTL_PARAM_ATTR_TYPE_UBUF
  tee: add close_context to TEE driver operation
  ...

Currently if a user enqueues a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() uses
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
This lack of consistency cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.

alloc_workqueue() treats all queues as per-CPU by default, while unbound
workqueues must opt-in via WQ_UNBOUND.

This default is suboptimal: most workloads benefit from unbound queues,
allowing the scheduler to place worker threads where they’re needed and
reducing noise when CPUs are isolated.

Explicitly add the WQ_UNBOUND flag to alloc_workqueue() users, marking
the workqueue unbound.

Once migration is complete, WQ_UNBOUND can be removed and unbound will
become the implicit default.

With the introduction of the WQ_PERCPU flag (equivalent to !WQ_UNBOUND),
any alloc_workqueue() caller that doesn’t explicitly specify WQ_UNBOUND
must now use WQ_PERCPU.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923145905.327269-2-marco.crivellari@suse.com
[use imperative voice in subject, fix typos]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

This reverts commit 1e06a137513d ("wifi: libertas: WQ_PERCPU added
to alloc_workqueue users") since there's really no reason to use
per-CPU here.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.

alloc_workqueue() treats all queues as per-CPU by default, while unbound
workqueues must opt-in via WQ_UNBOUND.

This default is suboptimal: most workloads benefit from unbound queues,
allowing the scheduler to place worker threads where they’re needed and
reducing noise when CPUs are isolated.

This change add a new WQ_PERCPU flag, to explicitly request the use of
the per-CPU behavior. Both flags coexist for one release cycle to allow
callers to transition their calls.

Once migration is complete, WQ_UNBOUND can be removed and unbound will
become the implicit default.

With the introduction of the WQ_PERCPU flag (equivalent to !WQ_UNBOUND),
any alloc_workqueue() caller that doesn’t explicitly specify WQ_UNBOUND
must now use WQ_PERCPU.

All existing users have been updated accordingly.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250922102407.186660-2-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

Jeff Johnson says:
==================
ath.git patches for v6.18

Highlights for some specific drivers include:

ath10k:
Fix connection after GTK rekeying

ath12k:
Fix Issues in REO RX Queue Updates
Handle inactivity STA kickout event

And of course there is the usual set of cleanups and bug fixes across
the entire family of "ath" drivers.
==================

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

Don't deinitialize and reinitialize the HAL helpers. The dma memory is
deallocated and there is high possibility that we'll not be able to get
the same memory allocated from dma when there is high memory pressure.

Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-03926.13-QCAHSPSWPL_V2_SILICONZ_CE-2.52297.6

Fixes: d5c65159f289 ("ath11k: driver for Qualcomm IEEE 802.11ax devices")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang@oss.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang@oss.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250722053121.1145001-1-usama.anjum@collabora.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@oss.qualcomm.com>

Currently, the QMI interface only works on little endian systems due to how
it encodes and decodes data. Most QMI related data structures do not use
endian specific types and are already defined in CPU native order. The
ath12k specific QMI structs are an exception: they use partially endian
specific types, which prevents the QMI interface from being extended to
support big endian systems.

Update the two affected ath12k QMI structs to use CPU order types instead.
This is required because the QMI interface is being extended to support big
endian system, and that support depends on QMI data structures being
defined in CPU native order.

This change:
* preserves compatibility with existing kernels, which only support little
  endian system
* enables future support for big endian systems
* aligns ath12k QMI handling with the general QMI design

Signed-off-by: Alexander Wilhelm <alexander.wilhelm@westermo.com>
Reviewed-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanthakumar.thiagarajan@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250922061607.11543-1-alexander.wilhelm@westermo.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@oss.qualcomm.com>

Currently, if the descriptor size exceeds 128 bytes, the total
descriptor is split into multiple 128-byte segments, each
requiring a separate flush cache queue command. This results in
multiple commands being issued to flush a single TID, which
negatively impacts performance. To optimize this, use the
_FLUSH_QUEUE_1K_DESC REO command to flush a 1KB descriptor in a single
operation to optimize performance.

Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.3.1-00173-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.0.c5-00481-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-3

Signed-off-by: Manish Dharanenthiran <manish.dharanenthiran@oss.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nithyanantham Paramasivam <nithyanantham.paramasivam@oss.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang@oss.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanthakumar.thiagarajan@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250806111750.3214584-8-nithyanantham.paramasivam@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@oss.qualcomm.com>

Flush cache failures were observed after RX queue update for TID
delete. This occurred because the queue was invalid during flush.
Set the VLD bit in the RX queue update command for TID delete.
This ensures the queue remains valid during the flush cache process.

Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.3.1-00173-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.0.c5-00481-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-3

Fixes: d889913205cf ("wifi: ath12k: driver for Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices")
Signed-off-by: Nithyanantham Paramasivam <nithyanantham.paramasivam@oss.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang@oss.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanthakumar.thiagarajan@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250806111750.3214584-7-nithyanantham.paramasivam@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@oss.qualcomm.com>