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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2014-10-18T16:31:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-18T16:31:37+00:00</published>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Include fixes for netrom and dsa (Fabian Frederick and Florian
    Fainelli)

 2) Fix FIXED_PHY support in stmmac, from Giuseppe CAVALLARO.

 3) Several SKB use after free fixes (vxlan, openvswitch, vxlan,
    ip_tunnel, fou), from Li ROngQing.

 4) fec driver PTP support fixes from Luwei Zhou and Nimrod Andy.

 5) Use after free in virtio_net, from Michael S Tsirkin.

 6) Fix flow mask handling for megaflows in openvswitch, from Pravin B
    Shelar.

 7) ISDN gigaset and capi bug fixes from Tilman Schmidt.

 8) Fix route leak in ip_send_unicast_reply(), from Vasily Averin.

 9) Fix two eBPF JIT bugs on x86, from Alexei Starovoitov.

10) TCP_SKB_CB() reorganization caused a few regressions, fixed by Cong
    Wang and Eric Dumazet.

11) Don't overwrite end of SKB when parsing malformed sctp ASCONF
    chunks, from Daniel Borkmann.

12) Don't call sock_kfree_s() with NULL pointers, this function also has
    the side effect of adjusting the socket memory usage.  From Cong Wang.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (90 commits)
  bna: fix skb-&gt;truesize underestimation
  net: dsa: add includes for ethtool and phy_fixed definitions
  openvswitch: Set flow-key members.
  netrom: use linux/uaccess.h
  dsa: Fix conversion from host device to mii bus
  tipc: fix bug in bundled buffer reception
  ipv6: introduce tcp_v6_iif()
  sfc: add support for skb-&gt;xmit_more
  r8152: return -EBUSY for runtime suspend
  ipv4: fix a potential use after free in fou.c
  ipv4: fix a potential use after free in ip_tunnel_core.c
  hyperv: Add handling of IP header with option field in netvsc_set_hash()
  openvswitch: Create right mask with disabled megaflows
  vxlan: fix a free after use
  openvswitch: fix a use after free
  ipv4: dst_entry leak in ip_send_unicast_reply()
  ipv4: clean up cookie_v4_check()
  ipv4: share tcp_v4_save_options() with cookie_v4_check()
  ipv4: call __ip_options_echo() in cookie_v4_check()
  atm: simplify lanai.c by using module_pci_driver
  ...
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Include fixes for netrom and dsa (Fabian Frederick and Florian
    Fainelli)

 2) Fix FIXED_PHY support in stmmac, from Giuseppe CAVALLARO.

 3) Several SKB use after free fixes (vxlan, openvswitch, vxlan,
    ip_tunnel, fou), from Li ROngQing.

 4) fec driver PTP support fixes from Luwei Zhou and Nimrod Andy.

 5) Use after free in virtio_net, from Michael S Tsirkin.

 6) Fix flow mask handling for megaflows in openvswitch, from Pravin B
    Shelar.

 7) ISDN gigaset and capi bug fixes from Tilman Schmidt.

 8) Fix route leak in ip_send_unicast_reply(), from Vasily Averin.

 9) Fix two eBPF JIT bugs on x86, from Alexei Starovoitov.

10) TCP_SKB_CB() reorganization caused a few regressions, fixed by Cong
    Wang and Eric Dumazet.

11) Don't overwrite end of SKB when parsing malformed sctp ASCONF
    chunks, from Daniel Borkmann.

12) Don't call sock_kfree_s() with NULL pointers, this function also has
    the side effect of adjusting the socket memory usage.  From Cong Wang.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (90 commits)
  bna: fix skb-&gt;truesize underestimation
  net: dsa: add includes for ethtool and phy_fixed definitions
  openvswitch: Set flow-key members.
  netrom: use linux/uaccess.h
  dsa: Fix conversion from host device to mii bus
  tipc: fix bug in bundled buffer reception
  ipv6: introduce tcp_v6_iif()
  sfc: add support for skb-&gt;xmit_more
  r8152: return -EBUSY for runtime suspend
  ipv4: fix a potential use after free in fou.c
  ipv4: fix a potential use after free in ip_tunnel_core.c
  hyperv: Add handling of IP header with option field in netvsc_set_hash()
  openvswitch: Create right mask with disabled megaflows
  vxlan: fix a free after use
  openvswitch: fix a use after free
  ipv4: dst_entry leak in ip_send_unicast_reply()
  ipv4: clean up cookie_v4_check()
  ipv4: share tcp_v4_save_options() with cookie_v4_check()
  ipv4: call __ip_options_echo() in cookie_v4_check()
  atm: simplify lanai.c by using module_pci_driver
  ...
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<entry>
<title>net: Add ndo_gso_check</title>
<updated>2014-10-15T16:11:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Herbert</name>
<email>therbert@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-14T22:19:06+00:00</published>
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Add ndo_gso_check which a device can define to indicate whether is
is capable of doing GSO on a packet. This funciton would be called from
the stack to determine whether software GSO is needed to be done. A
driver should populate this function if it advertises GSO types for
which there are combinations that it wouldn't be able to handle. For
instance a device that performs UDP tunneling might only implement
support for transparent Ethernet bridging type of inner packets
or might have limitations on lengths of inner headers.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert &lt;therbert@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add ndo_gso_check which a device can define to indicate whether is
is capable of doing GSO on a packet. This funciton would be called from
the stack to determine whether software GSO is needed to be done. A
driver should populate this function if it advertises GSO types for
which there are combinations that it wouldn't be able to handle. For
instance a device that performs UDP tunneling might only implement
support for transparent Ethernet bridging type of inner packets
or might have limitations on lengths of inner headers.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert &lt;therbert@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu</title>
<updated>2014-10-15T05:48:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-15T05:48:18+00:00</published>
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Pull percpu consistent-ops changes from Tejun Heo:
 "Way back, before the current percpu allocator was implemented, static
  and dynamic percpu memory areas were allocated and handled separately
  and had their own accessors.  The distinction has been gone for many
  years now; however, the now duplicate two sets of accessors remained
  with the pointer based ones - this_cpu_*() - evolving various other
  operations over time.  During the process, we also accumulated other
  inconsistent operations.

  This pull request contains Christoph's patches to clean up the
  duplicate accessor situation.  __get_cpu_var() uses are replaced with
  with this_cpu_ptr() and __this_cpu_ptr() with raw_cpu_ptr().

  Unfortunately, the former sometimes is tricky thanks to C being a bit
  messy with the distinction between lvalues and pointers, which led to
  a rather ugly solution for cpumask_var_t involving the introduction of
  this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr().

  This converts most of the uses but not all.  Christoph will follow up
  with the remaining conversions in this merge window and hopefully
  remove the obsolete accessors"

* 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (38 commits)
  irqchip: Properly fetch the per cpu offset
  percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t -fix
  ia64: sn_nodepda cannot be assigned to after this_cpu conversion. Use __this_cpu_write.
  percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t
  Revert "powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses"
  percpu: Remove __this_cpu_ptr
  clocksource: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr
  sparc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
  avr32: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_write
  blackfin: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
  tile: Use this_cpu_ptr() for hardware counters
  tile: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
  powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
  alpha: Replace __get_cpu_var
  ia64: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
  s390: cio driver &amp;__get_cpu_var replacements
  s390: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
  mips: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
  MIPS: Replace __get_cpu_var uses in FPU emulator.
  arm: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr
  ...
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Pull percpu consistent-ops changes from Tejun Heo:
 "Way back, before the current percpu allocator was implemented, static
  and dynamic percpu memory areas were allocated and handled separately
  and had their own accessors.  The distinction has been gone for many
  years now; however, the now duplicate two sets of accessors remained
  with the pointer based ones - this_cpu_*() - evolving various other
  operations over time.  During the process, we also accumulated other
  inconsistent operations.

  This pull request contains Christoph's patches to clean up the
  duplicate accessor situation.  __get_cpu_var() uses are replaced with
  with this_cpu_ptr() and __this_cpu_ptr() with raw_cpu_ptr().

  Unfortunately, the former sometimes is tricky thanks to C being a bit
  messy with the distinction between lvalues and pointers, which led to
  a rather ugly solution for cpumask_var_t involving the introduction of
  this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr().

  This converts most of the uses but not all.  Christoph will follow up
  with the remaining conversions in this merge window and hopefully
  remove the obsolete accessors"

* 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (38 commits)
  irqchip: Properly fetch the per cpu offset
  percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t -fix
  ia64: sn_nodepda cannot be assigned to after this_cpu conversion. Use __this_cpu_write.
  percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t
  Revert "powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses"
  percpu: Remove __this_cpu_ptr
  clocksource: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr
  sparc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
  avr32: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_write
  blackfin: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
  tile: Use this_cpu_ptr() for hardware counters
  tile: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
  powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
  alpha: Replace __get_cpu_var
  ia64: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
  s390: cio driver &amp;__get_cpu_var replacements
  s390: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
  mips: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
  MIPS: Replace __get_cpu_var uses in FPU emulator.
  arm: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Trap attempts to call sock_kfree_s() with a NULL pointer.</title>
<updated>2014-10-14T21:02:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-14T21:02:37+00:00</published>
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Unlike normal kfree() it is never right to call sock_kfree_s() with
a NULL pointer, because sock_kfree_s() also has the side effect of
discharging the memory from the sockets quota.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Unlike normal kfree() it is never right to call sock_kfree_s() with
a NULL pointer, because sock_kfree_s() also has the side effect of
discharging the memory from the sockets quota.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: fix races in page-&gt;_count manipulation</title>
<updated>2014-10-10T19:37:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-10T11:48:18+00:00</published>
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This is illegal to use atomic_set(&amp;page-&gt;_count, ...) even if we 'own'
the page. Other entities in the kernel need to use get_page_unless_zero()
to get a reference to the page before testing page properties, so we could
loose a refcount increment.

The only case it is valid is when page-&gt;_count is 0

Fixes: 540eb7bf0bbed ("net: Update alloc frag to reduce get/put page usage and recycle pages")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumaze &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This is illegal to use atomic_set(&amp;page-&gt;_count, ...) even if we 'own'
the page. Other entities in the kernel need to use get_page_unless_zero()
to get a reference to the page before testing page properties, so we could
loose a refcount increment.

The only case it is valid is when page-&gt;_count is 0

Fixes: 540eb7bf0bbed ("net: Update alloc frag to reduce get/put page usage and recycle pages")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumaze &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>flow-dissector: Fix alignment issue in __skb_flow_get_ports</title>
<updated>2014-10-10T19:33:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Duyck</name>
<email>alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-10T19:09:12+00:00</published>
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This patch addresses a kernel unaligned access bug seen on a sparc64 system
with an igb adapter.  Specifically the __skb_flow_get_ports was returning a
be32 pointer which was then having the value directly returned.

In order to prevent this it is actually easier to simply not populate the
ports or address values when an skb is not present.  In this case the
assumption is that the data isn't needed and rather than slow down the
faster aligned accesses by making them have to assume the unaligned path on
architectures that don't support efficent unaligned access it makes more
sense to simply switch off the bits that were copying the source and
destination address/port for the case where we only care about the protocol
types and lengths which are normally 16 bit fields anyway.

Reported-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch addresses a kernel unaligned access bug seen on a sparc64 system
with an igb adapter.  Specifically the __skb_flow_get_ports was returning a
be32 pointer which was then having the value directly returned.

In order to prevent this it is actually easier to simply not populate the
ports or address values when an skb is not present.  In this case the
assumption is that the data isn't needed and rather than slow down the
faster aligned accesses by making them have to assume the unaligned path on
architectures that don't support efficent unaligned access it makes more
sense to simply switch off the bits that were copying the source and
destination address/port for the case where we only care about the protocol
types and lengths which are normally 16 bit fields anyway.

Reported-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: filter: fix the comments</title>
<updated>2014-10-10T19:11:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li RongQing</name>
<email>roy.qing.li@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-10T05:56:51+00:00</published>
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1. sk_run_filter has been renamed, sk_filter() is using SK_RUN_FILTER.
2. Remove wrong comments about storing intermediate value.
3. replace sk_run_filter with __bpf_prog_run for check_load_and_stores's
comments

Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing &lt;roy.qing.li@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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1. sk_run_filter has been renamed, sk_filter() is using SK_RUN_FILTER.
2. Remove wrong comments about storing intermediate value.
3. replace sk_run_filter with __bpf_prog_run for check_load_and_stores's
comments

Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing &lt;roy.qing.li@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Missing @ before descriptions cause make xmldocs warning</title>
<updated>2014-10-09T22:57:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masanari Iida</name>
<email>standby24x7@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-09T03:58:08+00:00</published>
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This patch fix following warning.
Warning(.//net/core/skbuff.c:4142): No description found for parameter 'header_len'
Warning(.//net/core/skbuff.c:4142): No description found for parameter 'data_len'
Warning(.//net/core/skbuff.c:4142): No description found for parameter 'max_page_order'
Warning(.//net/core/skbuff.c:4142): No description found for parameter 'errcode'
Warning(.//net/core/skbuff.c:4142): No description found for parameter 'gfp_mask'

Acutually the descriptions exist, but missing "@" in front.

This problem start to happen when following commit was merged
into Linus's tree during 3.18-rc1 merge period.
commit 2e4e44107176d552f8bb1bb76053e850e3809841
net: add alloc_skb_with_frags() helper

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida &lt;standby24x7@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch fix following warning.
Warning(.//net/core/skbuff.c:4142): No description found for parameter 'header_len'
Warning(.//net/core/skbuff.c:4142): No description found for parameter 'data_len'
Warning(.//net/core/skbuff.c:4142): No description found for parameter 'max_page_order'
Warning(.//net/core/skbuff.c:4142): No description found for parameter 'errcode'
Warning(.//net/core/skbuff.c:4142): No description found for parameter 'gfp_mask'

Acutually the descriptions exist, but missing "@" in front.

This problem start to happen when following commit was merged
into Linus's tree during 3.18-rc1 merge period.
commit 2e4e44107176d552f8bb1bb76053e850e3809841
net: add alloc_skb_with_frags() helper

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida &lt;standby24x7@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2014-10-09T01:40:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-09T01:40:54+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Most notable changes in here:

   1) By far the biggest accomplishment, thanks to a large range of
      contributors, is the addition of multi-send for transmit.  This is
      the result of discussions back in Chicago, and the hard work of
      several individuals.

      Now, when the -&gt;ndo_start_xmit() method of a driver sees
      skb-&gt;xmit_more as true, it can choose to defer the doorbell
      telling the driver to start processing the new TX queue entires.

      skb-&gt;xmit_more means that the generic networking is guaranteed to
      call the driver immediately with another SKB to send.

      There is logic added to the qdisc layer to dequeue multiple
      packets at a time, and the handling mis-predicted offloads in
      software is now done with no locks held.

      Finally, pktgen is extended to have a "burst" parameter that can
      be used to test a multi-send implementation.

      Several drivers have xmit_more support: i40e, igb, ixgbe, mlx4,
      virtio_net

      Adding support is almost trivial, so export more drivers to
      support this optimization soon.

      I want to thank, in no particular or implied order, Jesper
      Dangaard Brouer, Eric Dumazet, Alexander Duyck, Tom Herbert, Jamal
      Hadi Salim, John Fastabend, Florian Westphal, Daniel Borkmann,
      David Tat, Hannes Frederic Sowa, and Rusty Russell.

   2) PTP and timestamping support in bnx2x, from Michal Kalderon.

   3) Allow adjusting the rx_copybreak threshold for a driver via
      ethtool, and add rx_copybreak support to enic driver.  From
      Govindarajulu Varadarajan.

   4) Significant enhancements to the generic PHY layer and the bcm7xxx
      driver in particular (EEE support, auto power down, etc.) from
      Florian Fainelli.

   5) Allow raw buffers to be used for flow dissection, allowing drivers
      to determine the optimal "linear pull" size for devices that DMA
      into pools of pages.  The objective is to get exactly the
      necessary amount of headers into the linear SKB area pre-pulled,
      but no more.  The new interface drivers use is eth_get_headlen().
      From WANG Cong, with driver conversions (several had their own
      by-hand duplicated implementations) by Alexander Duyck and Eric
      Dumazet.

   6) Support checksumming more smoothly and efficiently for
      encapsulations, and add "foo over UDP" facility.  From Tom
      Herbert.

   7) Add Broadcom SF2 switch driver to DSA layer, from Florian
      Fainelli.

   8) eBPF now can load programs via a system call and has an extensive
      testsuite.  Alexei Starovoitov and Daniel Borkmann.

   9) Major overhaul of the packet scheduler to use RCU in several major
      areas such as the classifiers and rate estimators.  From John
      Fastabend.

  10) Add driver for Intel FM10000 Ethernet Switch, from Alexander
      Duyck.

  11) Rearrange TCP_SKB_CB() to reduce cache line misses, from Eric
      Dumazet.

  12) Add Datacenter TCP congestion control algorithm support, From
      Florian Westphal.

  13) Reorganize sk_buff so that __copy_skb_header() is significantly
      faster.  From Eric Dumazet"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1558 commits)
  netlabel: directly return netlbl_unlabel_genl_init()
  net: add netdev_txq_bql_{enqueue, complete}_prefetchw() helpers
  net: description of dma_cookie cause make xmldocs warning
  cxgb4: clean up a type issue
  cxgb4: potential shift wrapping bug
  i40e: skb-&gt;xmit_more support
  net: fs_enet: Add NAPI TX
  net: fs_enet: Remove non NAPI RX
  r8169:add support for RTL8168EP
  net_sched: copy exts-&gt;type in tcf_exts_change()
  wimax: convert printk to pr_foo()
  af_unix: remove 0 assignment on static
  ipv6: Do not warn for informational ICMP messages, regardless of type.
  Update Intel Ethernet Driver maintainers list
  bridge: Save frag_max_size between PRE_ROUTING and POST_ROUTING
  tipc: fix bug in multicast congestion handling
  net: better IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE support
  net/mlx4_en: remove NETDEV_TX_BUSY
  3c59x: fix bad split of cpu_to_le32(pci_map_single())
  net: bcmgenet: fix Tx ring priority programming
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Most notable changes in here:

   1) By far the biggest accomplishment, thanks to a large range of
      contributors, is the addition of multi-send for transmit.  This is
      the result of discussions back in Chicago, and the hard work of
      several individuals.

      Now, when the -&gt;ndo_start_xmit() method of a driver sees
      skb-&gt;xmit_more as true, it can choose to defer the doorbell
      telling the driver to start processing the new TX queue entires.

      skb-&gt;xmit_more means that the generic networking is guaranteed to
      call the driver immediately with another SKB to send.

      There is logic added to the qdisc layer to dequeue multiple
      packets at a time, and the handling mis-predicted offloads in
      software is now done with no locks held.

      Finally, pktgen is extended to have a "burst" parameter that can
      be used to test a multi-send implementation.

      Several drivers have xmit_more support: i40e, igb, ixgbe, mlx4,
      virtio_net

      Adding support is almost trivial, so export more drivers to
      support this optimization soon.

      I want to thank, in no particular or implied order, Jesper
      Dangaard Brouer, Eric Dumazet, Alexander Duyck, Tom Herbert, Jamal
      Hadi Salim, John Fastabend, Florian Westphal, Daniel Borkmann,
      David Tat, Hannes Frederic Sowa, and Rusty Russell.

   2) PTP and timestamping support in bnx2x, from Michal Kalderon.

   3) Allow adjusting the rx_copybreak threshold for a driver via
      ethtool, and add rx_copybreak support to enic driver.  From
      Govindarajulu Varadarajan.

   4) Significant enhancements to the generic PHY layer and the bcm7xxx
      driver in particular (EEE support, auto power down, etc.) from
      Florian Fainelli.

   5) Allow raw buffers to be used for flow dissection, allowing drivers
      to determine the optimal "linear pull" size for devices that DMA
      into pools of pages.  The objective is to get exactly the
      necessary amount of headers into the linear SKB area pre-pulled,
      but no more.  The new interface drivers use is eth_get_headlen().
      From WANG Cong, with driver conversions (several had their own
      by-hand duplicated implementations) by Alexander Duyck and Eric
      Dumazet.

   6) Support checksumming more smoothly and efficiently for
      encapsulations, and add "foo over UDP" facility.  From Tom
      Herbert.

   7) Add Broadcom SF2 switch driver to DSA layer, from Florian
      Fainelli.

   8) eBPF now can load programs via a system call and has an extensive
      testsuite.  Alexei Starovoitov and Daniel Borkmann.

   9) Major overhaul of the packet scheduler to use RCU in several major
      areas such as the classifiers and rate estimators.  From John
      Fastabend.

  10) Add driver for Intel FM10000 Ethernet Switch, from Alexander
      Duyck.

  11) Rearrange TCP_SKB_CB() to reduce cache line misses, from Eric
      Dumazet.

  12) Add Datacenter TCP congestion control algorithm support, From
      Florian Westphal.

  13) Reorganize sk_buff so that __copy_skb_header() is significantly
      faster.  From Eric Dumazet"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1558 commits)
  netlabel: directly return netlbl_unlabel_genl_init()
  net: add netdev_txq_bql_{enqueue, complete}_prefetchw() helpers
  net: description of dma_cookie cause make xmldocs warning
  cxgb4: clean up a type issue
  cxgb4: potential shift wrapping bug
  i40e: skb-&gt;xmit_more support
  net: fs_enet: Add NAPI TX
  net: fs_enet: Remove non NAPI RX
  r8169:add support for RTL8168EP
  net_sched: copy exts-&gt;type in tcf_exts_change()
  wimax: convert printk to pr_foo()
  af_unix: remove 0 assignment on static
  ipv6: Do not warn for informational ICMP messages, regardless of type.
  Update Intel Ethernet Driver maintainers list
  bridge: Save frag_max_size between PRE_ROUTING and POST_ROUTING
  tipc: fix bug in multicast congestion handling
  net: better IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE support
  net/mlx4_en: remove NETDEV_TX_BUSY
  3c59x: fix bad split of cpu_to_le32(pci_map_single())
  net: bcmgenet: fix Tx ring priority programming
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'dmaengine-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/dmaengine</title>
<updated>2014-10-08T00:39:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-08T00:39:25+00:00</published>
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Pull dmaengine updates from Dan Williams:
 "Even though this has fixes marked for -stable, given the size and the
  needed conflict resolutions this is 3.18-rc1/merge-window material.

  These patches have been languishing in my tree for a long while.  The
  fact that I do not have the time to do proper/prompt maintenance of
  this tree is a primary factor in the decision to step down as
  dmaengine maintainer.  That and the fact that the bulk of drivers/dma/
  activity is going through Vinod these days.

  The net_dma removal has not been in -next.  It has developed simple
  conflicts against mainline and net-next (for-3.18).

  Continuing thanks to Vinod for staying on top of drivers/dma/.

  Summary:

   1/ Step down as dmaengine maintainer see commit 08223d80df38
      "dmaengine maintainer update"

   2/ Removal of net_dma, as it has been marked 'broken' since 3.13
      (commit 77873803363c "net_dma: mark broken"), without reports of
      performance regression.

   3/ Miscellaneous fixes"

* tag 'dmaengine-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/dmaengine:
  net: make tcp_cleanup_rbuf private
  net_dma: revert 'copied_early'
  net_dma: simple removal
  dmaengine maintainer update
  dmatest: prevent memory leakage on error path in thread
  ioat: Use time_before_jiffies()
  dmaengine: fix xor sources continuation
  dma: mv_xor: Rename __mv_xor_slot_cleanup() to mv_xor_slot_cleanup()
  dma: mv_xor: Remove all callers of mv_xor_slot_cleanup()
  dma: mv_xor: Remove unneeded mv_xor_clean_completed_slots() call
  ioat: Use pci_enable_msix_exact() instead of pci_enable_msix()
  drivers: dma: Include appropriate header file in dca.c
  drivers: dma: Mark functions as static in dma_v3.c
  dma: mv_xor: Add DMA API error checks
  ioat/dca: Use dev_is_pci() to check whether it is pci device
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Pull dmaengine updates from Dan Williams:
 "Even though this has fixes marked for -stable, given the size and the
  needed conflict resolutions this is 3.18-rc1/merge-window material.

  These patches have been languishing in my tree for a long while.  The
  fact that I do not have the time to do proper/prompt maintenance of
  this tree is a primary factor in the decision to step down as
  dmaengine maintainer.  That and the fact that the bulk of drivers/dma/
  activity is going through Vinod these days.

  The net_dma removal has not been in -next.  It has developed simple
  conflicts against mainline and net-next (for-3.18).

  Continuing thanks to Vinod for staying on top of drivers/dma/.

  Summary:

   1/ Step down as dmaengine maintainer see commit 08223d80df38
      "dmaengine maintainer update"

   2/ Removal of net_dma, as it has been marked 'broken' since 3.13
      (commit 77873803363c "net_dma: mark broken"), without reports of
      performance regression.

   3/ Miscellaneous fixes"

* tag 'dmaengine-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/dmaengine:
  net: make tcp_cleanup_rbuf private
  net_dma: revert 'copied_early'
  net_dma: simple removal
  dmaengine maintainer update
  dmatest: prevent memory leakage on error path in thread
  ioat: Use time_before_jiffies()
  dmaengine: fix xor sources continuation
  dma: mv_xor: Rename __mv_xor_slot_cleanup() to mv_xor_slot_cleanup()
  dma: mv_xor: Remove all callers of mv_xor_slot_cleanup()
  dma: mv_xor: Remove unneeded mv_xor_clean_completed_slots() call
  ioat: Use pci_enable_msix_exact() instead of pci_enable_msix()
  drivers: dma: Include appropriate header file in dca.c
  drivers: dma: Mark functions as static in dma_v3.c
  dma: mv_xor: Add DMA API error checks
  ioat/dca: Use dev_is_pci() to check whether it is pci device
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