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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>perf/core: Add a new read format to get a number of lost samples</title>
<updated>2022-06-28T07:08:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2022-06-16T18:06:23+00:00</published>
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Sometimes we want to know an accurate number of samples even if it's
lost.  Currenlty PERF_RECORD_LOST is generated for a ring-buffer which
might be shared with other events.  So it's hard to know per-event
lost count.

Add event-&gt;lost_samples field and PERF_FORMAT_LOST to retrieve it from
userspace.

Original-patch-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220616180623.1358843-1-namhyung@kernel.org
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Sometimes we want to know an accurate number of samples even if it's
lost.  Currenlty PERF_RECORD_LOST is generated for a ring-buffer which
might be shared with other events.  So it's hard to know per-event
lost count.

Add event-&gt;lost_samples field and PERF_FORMAT_LOST to retrieve it from
userspace.

Original-patch-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220616180623.1358843-1-namhyung@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>ACPI: Add perf low power callback</title>
<updated>2022-04-05T08:24:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephane Eranian</name>
<email>eranian@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-22T22:15:12+00:00</published>
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Add an optional callback needed by some PMU features, e.g., AMD
BRS, to give a chance to the perf_events code to change its state before
a CPU goes to low power and after it comes back.

The callback is void when the PERF_NEEDS_LOPWR_CB flag is not set.
This flag must be set in arch specific perf_event.h header whenever needed.
When not set, there is no impact on the ACPI code.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
[peterz: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220322221517.2510440-9-eranian@google.com
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Add an optional callback needed by some PMU features, e.g., AMD
BRS, to give a chance to the perf_events code to change its state before
a CPU goes to low power and after it comes back.

The callback is void when the PERF_NEEDS_LOPWR_CB flag is not set.
This flag must be set in arch specific perf_event.h header whenever needed.
When not set, there is no impact on the ACPI code.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
[peterz: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220322221517.2510440-9-eranian@google.com
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<entry>
<title>perf/core: Add perf_clear_branch_entry_bitfields() helper</title>
<updated>2022-04-05T08:24:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephane Eranian</name>
<email>eranian@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-22T22:15:05+00:00</published>
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Make it simpler to reset all the info fields on the
perf_branch_entry by adding a helper inline function.

The goal is to centralize the initialization to avoid missing
a field in case more are added.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220322221517.2510440-2-eranian@google.com
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Make it simpler to reset all the info fields on the
perf_branch_entry by adding a helper inline function.

The goal is to centralize the initialization to avoid missing
a field in case more are added.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220322221517.2510440-2-eranian@google.com
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<entry>
<title>perf: Fix wrong name in comment for struct perf_cpu_context</title>
<updated>2022-02-08T17:51:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexandru Elisei</name>
<email>alexandru.elisei@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-27T16:17:55+00:00</published>
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Commit 0793a61d4df8 ("performance counters: core code") added the perf
subsystem (then called Performance Counters) to Linux, creating the struct
perf_cpu_context. The comment for the struct referred to it as a "struct
perf_counter_cpu_context".

Commit cdd6c482c9ff ("perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -&gt;
Performance Events") changed the comment to refer to a "struct
perf_event_cpu_context", which was still the wrong name for the struct.

Change the comment to say "struct perf_cpu_context".

CC: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
CC: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei &lt;alexandru.elisei@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220127161759.53553-3-alexandru.elisei@arm.com
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Commit 0793a61d4df8 ("performance counters: core code") added the perf
subsystem (then called Performance Counters) to Linux, creating the struct
perf_cpu_context. The comment for the struct referred to it as a "struct
perf_counter_cpu_context".

Commit cdd6c482c9ff ("perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -&gt;
Performance Events") changed the comment to refer to a "struct
perf_event_cpu_context", which was still the wrong name for the struct.

Change the comment to say "struct perf_cpu_context".

CC: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
CC: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei &lt;alexandru.elisei@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220127161759.53553-3-alexandru.elisei@arm.com
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<entry>
<title>perf: Fix perf_event_read_local() time</title>
<updated>2022-01-18T11:09:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-20T12:19:52+00:00</published>
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Time readers that cannot take locks (due to NMI etc..) currently make
use of perf_event::shadow_ctx_time, which, for that event gives:

  time' = now + (time - timestamp)

or, alternatively arranged:

  time' = time + (now - timestamp)

IOW, the progression of time since the last time the shadow_ctx_time
was updated.

There's problems with this:

 A) the shadow_ctx_time is per-event, even though the ctx_time it
    reflects is obviously per context. The direct concequence of this
    is that the context needs to iterate all events all the time to
    keep the shadow_ctx_time in sync.

 B) even with the prior point, the context itself might not be active
    meaning its time should not advance to begin with.

 C) shadow_ctx_time isn't consistently updated when ctx_time is

There are 3 users of this stuff, that suffer differently from this:

 - calc_timer_values()
   - perf_output_read()
   - perf_event_update_userpage()	/* A */

 - perf_event_read_local()		/* A,B */

In particular, perf_output_read() doesn't suffer at all, because it's
sample driven and hence only relevant when the event is actually
running.

This same was supposed to be true for perf_event_update_userpage(),
after all self-monitoring implies the context is active *HOWEVER*, as
per commit f79256532682 ("perf/core: fix userpage-&gt;time_enabled of
inactive events") this goes wrong when combined with counter
overcommit, in that case those events that do not get scheduled when
the context becomes active (task events typically) miss out on the
EVENT_TIME update and ENABLED time is inflated (for a little while)
with the time the context was inactive. Once the event gets rotated
in, this gets corrected, leading to a non-monotonic timeflow.

perf_event_read_local() made things even worse, it can request time at
any point, suffering all the problems perf_event_update_userpage()
does and more. Because while perf_event_update_userpage() is limited
by the context being active, perf_event_read_local() users have no
such constraint.

Therefore, completely overhaul things and do away with
perf_event::shadow_ctx_time. Instead have regular context time updates
keep track of this offset directly and provide perf_event_time_now()
to complement perf_event_time().

perf_event_time_now() will, in adition to being context wide, also
take into account if the context is active. For inactive context, it
will not advance time.

This latter property means the cgroup perf_cgroup_info context needs
to grow addition state to track this.

Additionally, since all this is strictly per-cpu, we can use barrier()
to order context activity vs context time.

Fixes: 7d9285e82db5 ("perf/bpf: Extend the perf_event_read_local() interface, a.k.a. "bpf: perf event change needed for subsequent bpf helpers"")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YcB06DasOBtU0b00@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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Time readers that cannot take locks (due to NMI etc..) currently make
use of perf_event::shadow_ctx_time, which, for that event gives:

  time' = now + (time - timestamp)

or, alternatively arranged:

  time' = time + (now - timestamp)

IOW, the progression of time since the last time the shadow_ctx_time
was updated.

There's problems with this:

 A) the shadow_ctx_time is per-event, even though the ctx_time it
    reflects is obviously per context. The direct concequence of this
    is that the context needs to iterate all events all the time to
    keep the shadow_ctx_time in sync.

 B) even with the prior point, the context itself might not be active
    meaning its time should not advance to begin with.

 C) shadow_ctx_time isn't consistently updated when ctx_time is

There are 3 users of this stuff, that suffer differently from this:

 - calc_timer_values()
   - perf_output_read()
   - perf_event_update_userpage()	/* A */

 - perf_event_read_local()		/* A,B */

In particular, perf_output_read() doesn't suffer at all, because it's
sample driven and hence only relevant when the event is actually
running.

This same was supposed to be true for perf_event_update_userpage(),
after all self-monitoring implies the context is active *HOWEVER*, as
per commit f79256532682 ("perf/core: fix userpage-&gt;time_enabled of
inactive events") this goes wrong when combined with counter
overcommit, in that case those events that do not get scheduled when
the context becomes active (task events typically) miss out on the
EVENT_TIME update and ENABLED time is inflated (for a little while)
with the time the context was inactive. Once the event gets rotated
in, this gets corrected, leading to a non-monotonic timeflow.

perf_event_read_local() made things even worse, it can request time at
any point, suffering all the problems perf_event_update_userpage()
does and more. Because while perf_event_update_userpage() is limited
by the context being active, perf_event_read_local() users have no
such constraint.

Therefore, completely overhaul things and do away with
perf_event::shadow_ctx_time. Instead have regular context time updates
keep track of this offset directly and provide perf_event_time_now()
to complement perf_event_time().

perf_event_time_now() will, in adition to being context wide, also
take into account if the context is active. For inactive context, it
will not advance time.

This latter property means the cgroup perf_cgroup_info context needs
to grow addition state to track this.

Additionally, since all this is strictly per-cpu, we can use barrier()
to order context activity vs context time.

Fixes: 7d9285e82db5 ("perf/bpf: Extend the perf_event_read_local() interface, a.k.a. "bpf: perf event change needed for subsequent bpf helpers"")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YcB06DasOBtU0b00@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'perf_core_for_v5.17_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-01-13T00:26:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-13T00:26:58+00:00</published>
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Pull perf updates from Borislav Petkov:
 "Cleanup of the perf/kvm interaction."

* tag 'perf_core_for_v5.17_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf: Drop guest callback (un)register stubs
  KVM: arm64: Drop perf.c and fold its tiny bits of code into arm.c
  KVM: arm64: Hide kvm_arm_pmu_available behind CONFIG_HW_PERF_EVENTS=y
  KVM: arm64: Convert to the generic perf callbacks
  KVM: x86: Move Intel Processor Trace interrupt handler to vmx.c
  KVM: Move x86's perf guest info callbacks to generic KVM
  KVM: x86: More precisely identify NMI from guest when handling PMI
  KVM: x86: Drop current_vcpu for kvm_running_vcpu + kvm_arch_vcpu variable
  perf/core: Use static_call to optimize perf_guest_info_callbacks
  perf: Force architectures to opt-in to guest callbacks
  perf: Add wrappers for invoking guest callbacks
  perf/core: Rework guest callbacks to prepare for static_call support
  perf: Drop dead and useless guest "support" from arm, csky, nds32 and riscv
  perf: Stop pretending that perf can handle multiple guest callbacks
  KVM: x86: Register Processor Trace interrupt hook iff PT enabled in guest
  KVM: x86: Register perf callbacks after calling vendor's hardware_setup()
  perf: Protect perf_guest_cbs with RCU
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Pull perf updates from Borislav Petkov:
 "Cleanup of the perf/kvm interaction."

* tag 'perf_core_for_v5.17_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf: Drop guest callback (un)register stubs
  KVM: arm64: Drop perf.c and fold its tiny bits of code into arm.c
  KVM: arm64: Hide kvm_arm_pmu_available behind CONFIG_HW_PERF_EVENTS=y
  KVM: arm64: Convert to the generic perf callbacks
  KVM: x86: Move Intel Processor Trace interrupt handler to vmx.c
  KVM: Move x86's perf guest info callbacks to generic KVM
  KVM: x86: More precisely identify NMI from guest when handling PMI
  KVM: x86: Drop current_vcpu for kvm_running_vcpu + kvm_arch_vcpu variable
  perf/core: Use static_call to optimize perf_guest_info_callbacks
  perf: Force architectures to opt-in to guest callbacks
  perf: Add wrappers for invoking guest callbacks
  perf/core: Rework guest callbacks to prepare for static_call support
  perf: Drop dead and useless guest "support" from arm, csky, nds32 and riscv
  perf: Stop pretending that perf can handle multiple guest callbacks
  KVM: x86: Register Processor Trace interrupt hook iff PT enabled in guest
  KVM: x86: Register perf callbacks after calling vendor's hardware_setup()
  perf: Protect perf_guest_cbs with RCU
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag '5.17-net-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2022-01-11T03:06:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-11T03:06:09+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core
  ----

   - Defer freeing TCP skbs to the BH handler, whenever possible, or at
     least perform the freeing outside of the socket lock section to
     decrease cross-CPU allocator work and improve latency.

   - Add netdevice refcount tracking to locate sources of netdevice and
     net namespace refcount leaks.

   - Make Tx watchdog less intrusive - avoid pausing Tx and restarting
     all queues from a single CPU removing latency spikes.

   - Various small optimizations throughout the stack from Eric Dumazet.

   - Make netdev-&gt;dev_addr[] constant, force modifications to go via
     appropriate helpers to allow us to keep addresses in ordered data
     structures.

   - Replace unix_table_lock with per-hash locks, improving performance
     of bind() calls.

   - Extend skb drop tracepoint with a drop reason.

   - Allow SO_MARK and SO_PRIORITY setsockopt under CAP_NET_RAW.

  BPF
  ---

   - New helpers:
      - bpf_find_vma(), find and inspect VMAs for profiling use cases
      - bpf_loop(), runtime-bounded loop helper trading some execution
        time for much faster (if at all converging) verification
      - bpf_strncmp(), improve performance, avoid compiler flakiness
      - bpf_get_func_arg(), bpf_get_func_ret(), bpf_get_func_arg_cnt()
        for tracing programs, all inlined by the verifier

   - Support BPF relocations (CO-RE) in the kernel loader.

   - Further the support for BTF_TYPE_TAG annotations.

   - Allow access to local storage in sleepable helpers.

   - Convert verifier argument types to a composable form with different
     attributes which can be shared across types (ro, maybe-null).

   - Prepare libbpf for upcoming v1.0 release by cleaning up APIs,
     creating new, extensible ones where missing and deprecating those
     to be removed.

  Protocols
  ---------

   - WiFi (mac80211/cfg80211):
      - notify user space about long "come back in N" AP responses,
        allow it to react to such temporary rejections
      - allow non-standard VHT MCS 10/11 rates
      - use coarse time in airtime fairness code to save CPU cycles

   - Bluetooth:
      - rework of HCI command execution serialization to use a common
        queue and work struct, and improve handling errors reported in
        the middle of a batch of commands
      - rework HCI event handling to use skb_pull_data, avoiding packet
        parsing pitfalls
      - support AOSP Bluetooth Quality Report

   - SMC:
      - support net namespaces, following the RDMA model
      - improve connection establishment latency by pre-clearing buffers
      - introduce TCP ULP for automatic redirection to SMC

   - Multi-Path TCP:
      - support ioctls: SIOCINQ, OUTQ, and OUTQNSD
      - support socket options: IP_TOS, IP_FREEBIND, IP_TRANSPARENT,
        IPV6_FREEBIND, and IPV6_TRANSPARENT, TCP_CORK and TCP_NODELAY
      - support cmsgs: TCP_INQ
      - improvements in the data scheduler (assigning data to subflows)
      - support fastclose option (quick shutdown of the full MPTCP
        connection, similar to TCP RST in regular TCP)

   - MCTP (Management Component Transport) over serial, as defined by
     DMTF spec DSP0253 - "MCTP Serial Transport Binding".

  Driver API
  ----------

   - Support timestamping on bond interfaces in active/passive mode.

   - Introduce generic phylink link mode validation for drivers which
     don't have any quirks and where MAC capability bits fully express
     what's supported. Allow PCS layer to participate in the validation.
     Convert a number of drivers.

   - Add support to set/get size of buffers on the Rx rings and size of
     the tx copybreak buffer via ethtool.

   - Support offloading TC actions as first-class citizens rather than
     only as attributes of filters, improve sharing and device resource
     utilization.

   - WiFi (mac80211/cfg80211):
      - support forwarding offload (ndo_fill_forward_path)
      - support for background radar detection hardware
      - SA Query Procedures offload on the AP side

  New hardware / drivers
  ----------------------

   - tsnep - FPGA based TSN endpoint Ethernet MAC used in PLCs with
     real-time requirements for isochronous communication with protocols
     like OPC UA Pub/Sub.

   - Qualcomm BAM-DMUX WWAN - driver for data channels of modems
     integrated into many older Qualcomm SoCs, e.g. MSM8916 or MSM8974
     (qcom_bam_dmux).

   - Microchip LAN966x multi-port Gigabit AVB/TSN Ethernet Switch driver
     with support for bridging, VLANs and multicast forwarding
     (lan966x).

   - iwlmei driver for co-operating between Intel's WiFi driver and
     Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT) devices.

   - mse102x - Vertexcom MSE102x Homeplug GreenPHY chips

   - Bluetooth:
      - MediaTek MT7921 SDIO devices
      - Foxconn MT7922A
      - Realtek RTL8852AE

  Drivers
  -------

   - Significantly improve performance in the datapaths of: lan78xx,
     ax88179_178a, lantiq_xrx200, bnxt.

   - Intel Ethernet NICs:
      - igb: support PTP/time PEROUT and EXTTS SDP functions on
        82580/i354/i350 adapters
      - ixgbevf: new PF -&gt; VF mailbox API which avoids the risk of
        mailbox corruption with ESXi
      - iavf: support configuration of VLAN features of finer
        granularity, stacked tags and filtering
      - ice: PTP support for new E822 devices with sub-ns precision
      - ice: support firmware activation without reboot

   - Mellanox Ethernet NICs (mlx5):
      - expose control over IRQ coalescing mode (CQE vs EQE) via ethtool
      - support TC forwarding when tunnel encap and decap happen between
        two ports of the same NIC
      - dynamically size and allow disabling various features to save
        resources for running in embedded / SmartNIC scenarios

   - Broadcom Ethernet NICs (bnxt):
      - use page frag allocator to improve Rx performance
      - expose control over IRQ coalescing mode (CQE vs EQE) via ethtool

   - Other Ethernet NICs:
      - amd-xgbe: add Ryzen 6000 (Yellow Carp) Ethernet support

   - Microsoft cloud/virtual NIC (mana):
      - add XDP support (PASS, DROP, TX)

   - Mellanox Ethernet switches (mlxsw):
      - initial support for Spectrum-4 ASICs
      - VxLAN with IPv6 underlay

   - Marvell Ethernet switches (prestera):
      - support flower flow templates
      - add basic IP forwarding support

   - NXP embedded Ethernet switches (ocelot &amp; felix):
      - support Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (PSFP)
      - enable cut-through forwarding between ports by default
      - support FDMA to improve packet Rx/Tx to CPU

   - Other embedded switches:
      - hellcreek: improve trapping management (STP and PTP) packets
      - qca8k: support link aggregation and port mirroring

   - Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
      - qca6390, wcn6855: enable 802.11 power save mode in station mode
      - BSS color change support
      - WCN6855 hw2.1 support
      - 11d scan offload support
      - scan MAC address randomization support
      - full monitor mode, only supported on QCN9074
      - qca6390/wcn6855: report signal and tx bitrate
      - qca6390: rfkill support
      - qca6390/wcn6855: regdb.bin support

   - Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
      - support SAR GEO Offset Mapping (SGOM) and Time-Aware-SAR (TAS)
        in cooperation with the BIOS
      - support for Optimized Connectivity Experience (OCE) scan
      - support firmware API version 68
      - lots of preparatory work for the upcoming Bz device family

   - MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
      - Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) support
      - mt7921: 160 MHz channel support

   - RealTek WiFi (rtw88):
      - Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) support
      - scan offload

   - Other WiFi NICs
      - ath10k: support fetching (pre-)calibration data from nvmem
      - brcmfmac: configure keep-alive packet on suspend
      - wcn36xx: beacon filter support"

* tag '5.17-net-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2048 commits)
  tcp: tcp_send_challenge_ack delete useless param `skb`
  net/qla3xxx: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  rocker: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  hinic: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  lan743x: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  net: enetc: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  cxgb4vf: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  cxgb4: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  cxgb3: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  bnx2x: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  et131x: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  be2net: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  vmxnet3: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  bna: Simplify DMA setting
  net: alteon: Simplify DMA setting
  myri10ge: Simplify DMA setting
  qlcnic: Simplify DMA setting
  net: allwinner: Fix print format
  page_pool: remove spinlock in page_pool_refill_alloc_cache()
  amt: fix wrong return type of amt_send_membership_update()
  ...
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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core
  ----

   - Defer freeing TCP skbs to the BH handler, whenever possible, or at
     least perform the freeing outside of the socket lock section to
     decrease cross-CPU allocator work and improve latency.

   - Add netdevice refcount tracking to locate sources of netdevice and
     net namespace refcount leaks.

   - Make Tx watchdog less intrusive - avoid pausing Tx and restarting
     all queues from a single CPU removing latency spikes.

   - Various small optimizations throughout the stack from Eric Dumazet.

   - Make netdev-&gt;dev_addr[] constant, force modifications to go via
     appropriate helpers to allow us to keep addresses in ordered data
     structures.

   - Replace unix_table_lock with per-hash locks, improving performance
     of bind() calls.

   - Extend skb drop tracepoint with a drop reason.

   - Allow SO_MARK and SO_PRIORITY setsockopt under CAP_NET_RAW.

  BPF
  ---

   - New helpers:
      - bpf_find_vma(), find and inspect VMAs for profiling use cases
      - bpf_loop(), runtime-bounded loop helper trading some execution
        time for much faster (if at all converging) verification
      - bpf_strncmp(), improve performance, avoid compiler flakiness
      - bpf_get_func_arg(), bpf_get_func_ret(), bpf_get_func_arg_cnt()
        for tracing programs, all inlined by the verifier

   - Support BPF relocations (CO-RE) in the kernel loader.

   - Further the support for BTF_TYPE_TAG annotations.

   - Allow access to local storage in sleepable helpers.

   - Convert verifier argument types to a composable form with different
     attributes which can be shared across types (ro, maybe-null).

   - Prepare libbpf for upcoming v1.0 release by cleaning up APIs,
     creating new, extensible ones where missing and deprecating those
     to be removed.

  Protocols
  ---------

   - WiFi (mac80211/cfg80211):
      - notify user space about long "come back in N" AP responses,
        allow it to react to such temporary rejections
      - allow non-standard VHT MCS 10/11 rates
      - use coarse time in airtime fairness code to save CPU cycles

   - Bluetooth:
      - rework of HCI command execution serialization to use a common
        queue and work struct, and improve handling errors reported in
        the middle of a batch of commands
      - rework HCI event handling to use skb_pull_data, avoiding packet
        parsing pitfalls
      - support AOSP Bluetooth Quality Report

   - SMC:
      - support net namespaces, following the RDMA model
      - improve connection establishment latency by pre-clearing buffers
      - introduce TCP ULP for automatic redirection to SMC

   - Multi-Path TCP:
      - support ioctls: SIOCINQ, OUTQ, and OUTQNSD
      - support socket options: IP_TOS, IP_FREEBIND, IP_TRANSPARENT,
        IPV6_FREEBIND, and IPV6_TRANSPARENT, TCP_CORK and TCP_NODELAY
      - support cmsgs: TCP_INQ
      - improvements in the data scheduler (assigning data to subflows)
      - support fastclose option (quick shutdown of the full MPTCP
        connection, similar to TCP RST in regular TCP)

   - MCTP (Management Component Transport) over serial, as defined by
     DMTF spec DSP0253 - "MCTP Serial Transport Binding".

  Driver API
  ----------

   - Support timestamping on bond interfaces in active/passive mode.

   - Introduce generic phylink link mode validation for drivers which
     don't have any quirks and where MAC capability bits fully express
     what's supported. Allow PCS layer to participate in the validation.
     Convert a number of drivers.

   - Add support to set/get size of buffers on the Rx rings and size of
     the tx copybreak buffer via ethtool.

   - Support offloading TC actions as first-class citizens rather than
     only as attributes of filters, improve sharing and device resource
     utilization.

   - WiFi (mac80211/cfg80211):
      - support forwarding offload (ndo_fill_forward_path)
      - support for background radar detection hardware
      - SA Query Procedures offload on the AP side

  New hardware / drivers
  ----------------------

   - tsnep - FPGA based TSN endpoint Ethernet MAC used in PLCs with
     real-time requirements for isochronous communication with protocols
     like OPC UA Pub/Sub.

   - Qualcomm BAM-DMUX WWAN - driver for data channels of modems
     integrated into many older Qualcomm SoCs, e.g. MSM8916 or MSM8974
     (qcom_bam_dmux).

   - Microchip LAN966x multi-port Gigabit AVB/TSN Ethernet Switch driver
     with support for bridging, VLANs and multicast forwarding
     (lan966x).

   - iwlmei driver for co-operating between Intel's WiFi driver and
     Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT) devices.

   - mse102x - Vertexcom MSE102x Homeplug GreenPHY chips

   - Bluetooth:
      - MediaTek MT7921 SDIO devices
      - Foxconn MT7922A
      - Realtek RTL8852AE

  Drivers
  -------

   - Significantly improve performance in the datapaths of: lan78xx,
     ax88179_178a, lantiq_xrx200, bnxt.

   - Intel Ethernet NICs:
      - igb: support PTP/time PEROUT and EXTTS SDP functions on
        82580/i354/i350 adapters
      - ixgbevf: new PF -&gt; VF mailbox API which avoids the risk of
        mailbox corruption with ESXi
      - iavf: support configuration of VLAN features of finer
        granularity, stacked tags and filtering
      - ice: PTP support for new E822 devices with sub-ns precision
      - ice: support firmware activation without reboot

   - Mellanox Ethernet NICs (mlx5):
      - expose control over IRQ coalescing mode (CQE vs EQE) via ethtool
      - support TC forwarding when tunnel encap and decap happen between
        two ports of the same NIC
      - dynamically size and allow disabling various features to save
        resources for running in embedded / SmartNIC scenarios

   - Broadcom Ethernet NICs (bnxt):
      - use page frag allocator to improve Rx performance
      - expose control over IRQ coalescing mode (CQE vs EQE) via ethtool

   - Other Ethernet NICs:
      - amd-xgbe: add Ryzen 6000 (Yellow Carp) Ethernet support

   - Microsoft cloud/virtual NIC (mana):
      - add XDP support (PASS, DROP, TX)

   - Mellanox Ethernet switches (mlxsw):
      - initial support for Spectrum-4 ASICs
      - VxLAN with IPv6 underlay

   - Marvell Ethernet switches (prestera):
      - support flower flow templates
      - add basic IP forwarding support

   - NXP embedded Ethernet switches (ocelot &amp; felix):
      - support Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (PSFP)
      - enable cut-through forwarding between ports by default
      - support FDMA to improve packet Rx/Tx to CPU

   - Other embedded switches:
      - hellcreek: improve trapping management (STP and PTP) packets
      - qca8k: support link aggregation and port mirroring

   - Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
      - qca6390, wcn6855: enable 802.11 power save mode in station mode
      - BSS color change support
      - WCN6855 hw2.1 support
      - 11d scan offload support
      - scan MAC address randomization support
      - full monitor mode, only supported on QCN9074
      - qca6390/wcn6855: report signal and tx bitrate
      - qca6390: rfkill support
      - qca6390/wcn6855: regdb.bin support

   - Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
      - support SAR GEO Offset Mapping (SGOM) and Time-Aware-SAR (TAS)
        in cooperation with the BIOS
      - support for Optimized Connectivity Experience (OCE) scan
      - support firmware API version 68
      - lots of preparatory work for the upcoming Bz device family

   - MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
      - Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) support
      - mt7921: 160 MHz channel support

   - RealTek WiFi (rtw88):
      - Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) support
      - scan offload

   - Other WiFi NICs
      - ath10k: support fetching (pre-)calibration data from nvmem
      - brcmfmac: configure keep-alive packet on suspend
      - wcn36xx: beacon filter support"

* tag '5.17-net-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2048 commits)
  tcp: tcp_send_challenge_ack delete useless param `skb`
  net/qla3xxx: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  rocker: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  hinic: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  lan743x: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  net: enetc: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  cxgb4vf: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  cxgb4: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  cxgb3: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  bnx2x: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  et131x: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  be2net: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  vmxnet3: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
  bna: Simplify DMA setting
  net: alteon: Simplify DMA setting
  myri10ge: Simplify DMA setting
  qlcnic: Simplify DMA setting
  net: allwinner: Fix print format
  page_pool: remove spinlock in page_pool_refill_alloc_cache()
  amt: fix wrong return type of amt_send_membership_update()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>add includes masked by cgroup -&gt; bpf dependency</title>
<updated>2021-12-16T22:57:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-16T02:55:36+00:00</published>
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cgroup pulls in BPF which pulls in a lot of includes.
We're about to break that chain so fix those who were
depending on it.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211216025538.1649516-2-kuba@kernel.org
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cgroup pulls in BPF which pulls in a lot of includes.
We're about to break that chain so fix those who were
depending on it.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211216025538.1649516-2-kuba@kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Add a counter for number of user access events in context</title>
<updated>2021-12-14T11:30:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rob Herring</name>
<email>robh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-08T20:11:21+00:00</published>
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On arm64, user space counter access will be controlled differently
compared to x86. On x86, access in the strictest mode is enabled for all
tasks in an MM when any event is mmap'ed. For arm64, access is
explicitly requested for an event and only enabled when the event's
context is active. This avoids hooks into the arch context switch code
and gives better control of when access is enabled.

In order to configure user space access when the PMU is enabled, it is
necessary to know if any event (currently active or not) in the current
context has user space accessed enabled. Add a counter similar to other
counters in the context to avoid walking the event list every time.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211208201124.310740-3-robh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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On arm64, user space counter access will be controlled differently
compared to x86. On x86, access in the strictest mode is enabled for all
tasks in an MM when any event is mmap'ed. For arm64, access is
explicitly requested for an event and only enabled when the event's
context is active. This avoids hooks into the arch context switch code
and gives better control of when access is enabled.

In order to configure user space access when the PMU is enabled, it is
necessary to know if any event (currently active or not) in the current
context has user space accessed enabled. Add a counter similar to other
counters in the context to avoid walking the event list every time.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211208201124.310740-3-robh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: perf: Move RDPMC event flag to a common definition</title>
<updated>2021-12-14T11:30:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rob Herring</name>
<email>robh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-08T20:11:20+00:00</published>
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In preparation to enable user counter access on arm64 and to move some
of the user access handling to perf core, create a common event flag for
user counter access and convert x86 to use it.

Since the architecture specific flags start at the LSB, starting at the
MSB for common flags.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211208201124.310740-2-robh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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In preparation to enable user counter access on arm64 and to move some
of the user access handling to perf core, create a common event flag for
user counter access and convert x86 to use it.

Since the architecture specific flags start at the LSB, starting at the
MSB for common flags.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211208201124.310740-2-robh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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