linux-toradex.git/kernel/configs, branch v7.0-rc6 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules Remove WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM kernel config option 2026-02-23T19:18:48+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-02-23T19:18:48+00:00 7dff99b354601dd01829e1511711846e04340a69 This config option goes way back - it used to be an internal debug option to random.c (at that point called DEBUG_RANDOM_BOOT), then was renamed and exposed as a config option as CONFIG_WARN_UNSEEDED_RANDOM, and then further renamed to the current CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM. It was all done with the best of intentions: the more limited rate-limited reports were reporting some cases, but if you wanted to see all the gory details, you'd enable this "ALL" option. However, it turns out - perhaps not surprisingly - that when people don't care about and fix the first rate-limited cases, they most certainly don't care about any others either, and so warning about all of them isn't actually helping anything. And the non-ratelimited reporting causes problems, where well-meaning people enable debug options, but the excessive flood of messages that nobody cares about will hide actual real information when things go wrong. I just got a kernel bug report (which had nothing to do with randomness) where two thirds of the the truncated dmesg was just variations of random: get_random_u32 called from __get_random_u32_below+0x10/0x70 with crng_init=0 and in the process early boot messages had been lost (in addition to making the messages that _hadn't_ been lost harder to read). The proper way to find these things for the hypothetical developer that cares - if such a person exists - is almost certainly with boot time tracing. That gives you the option to get call graphs etc too, which is likely a requirement for fixing any problems anyway. See Documentation/trace/boottime-trace.rst for that option. And if we for some reason do want to re-introduce actual printing of these things, it will need to have some uniqueness filtering rather than this "just print it all" model. Fixes: cc1e127bfa95 ("random: remove ratelimiting for in-kernel unseeded randomness") Acked-by: Jason Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
This config option goes way back - it used to be an internal debug
option to random.c (at that point called DEBUG_RANDOM_BOOT), then was
renamed and exposed as a config option as CONFIG_WARN_UNSEEDED_RANDOM,
and then further renamed to the current CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM.

It was all done with the best of intentions: the more limited
rate-limited reports were reporting some cases, but if you wanted to see
all the gory details, you'd enable this "ALL" option.

However, it turns out - perhaps not surprisingly - that when people
don't care about and fix the first rate-limited cases, they most
certainly don't care about any others either, and so warning about all
of them isn't actually helping anything.

And the non-ratelimited reporting causes problems, where well-meaning
people enable debug options, but the excessive flood of messages that
nobody cares about will hide actual real information when things go
wrong.

I just got a kernel bug report (which had nothing to do with randomness)
where two thirds of the the truncated dmesg was just variations of

   random: get_random_u32 called from __get_random_u32_below+0x10/0x70 with crng_init=0

and in the process early boot messages had been lost (in addition to
making the messages that _hadn't_ been lost harder to read).

The proper way to find these things for the hypothetical developer that
cares - if such a person exists - is almost certainly with boot time
tracing.  That gives you the option to get call graphs etc too, which is
likely a requirement for fixing any problems anyway.

See Documentation/trace/boottime-trace.rst for that option.

And if we for some reason do want to re-introduce actual printing of
these things, it will need to have some uniqueness filtering rather than
this "just print it all" model.

Fixes: cc1e127bfa95 ("random: remove ratelimiting for in-kernel unseeded randomness")
Acked-by: Jason Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
watchdog: softlockup: panic when lockup duration exceeds N thresholds 2026-01-21T03:44:20+00:00 Li RongQing lirongqing@baidu.com 2025-12-16T07:45:21+00:00 e700f5d1560798aacf0e56fdcc70ee2c20bf56ec The softlockup_panic sysctl is currently a binary option: panic immediately or never panic on soft lockups. Panicking on any soft lockup, regardless of duration, can be overly aggressive for brief stalls that may be caused by legitimate operations. Conversely, never panicking may allow severe system hangs to persist undetected. Extend softlockup_panic to accept an integer threshold, allowing the kernel to panic only when the normalized lockup duration exceeds N watchdog threshold periods. This provides finer-grained control to distinguish between transient delays and persistent system failures. The accepted values are: - 0: Don't panic (unchanged) - 1: Panic when duration >= 1 * threshold (20s default, original behavior) - N > 1: Panic when duration >= N * threshold (e.g., 2 = 40s, 3 = 60s.) The original behavior is preserved for values 0 and 1, maintaining full backward compatibility while allowing systems to tolerate brief lockups while still catching severe, persistent hangs. [lirongqing@baidu.com: v2] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251218074300.4080-1-lirongqing@baidu.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251216074521.2796-1-lirongqing@baidu.com Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com> Cc: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Cc: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me> Cc: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 
The softlockup_panic sysctl is currently a binary option: panic
immediately or never panic on soft lockups.

Panicking on any soft lockup, regardless of duration, can be overly
aggressive for brief stalls that may be caused by legitimate operations. 
Conversely, never panicking may allow severe system hangs to persist
undetected.

Extend softlockup_panic to accept an integer threshold, allowing the
kernel to panic only when the normalized lockup duration exceeds N
watchdog threshold periods.  This provides finer-grained control to
distinguish between transient delays and persistent system failures.

The accepted values are:
- 0: Don't panic (unchanged)
- 1: Panic when duration >= 1 * threshold (20s default, original behavior)
- N > 1: Panic when duration >= N * threshold (e.g., 2 = 40s, 3 = 60s.)

The original behavior is preserved for values 0 and 1, maintaining full
backward compatibility while allowing systems to tolerate brief lockups
while still catching severe, persistent hangs.

[lirongqing@baidu.com: v2]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251218074300.4080-1-lirongqing@baidu.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251216074521.2796-1-lirongqing@baidu.com
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Cc: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Cc: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
hung_task: panic when there are more than N hung tasks at the same time 2025-11-12T18:00:14+00:00 Li RongQing lirongqing@baidu.com 2025-10-15T06:36:15+00:00 9544f9e6947f6508d29f0d0cc2dacaa749fc1613 The hung_task_panic sysctl is currently a blunt instrument: it's all or nothing. Panicking on a single hung task can be an overreaction to a transient glitch. A more reliable indicator of a systemic problem is when multiple tasks hang simultaneously. Extend hung_task_panic to accept an integer threshold, allowing the kernel to panic only when N hung tasks are detected in a single scan. This provides finer control to distinguish between isolated incidents and system-wide failures. The accepted values are: - 0: Don't panic (unchanged) - 1: Panic on the first hung task (unchanged) - N > 1: Panic after N hung tasks are detected in a single scan The original behavior is preserved for values 0 and 1, maintaining full backward compatibility. [lance.yang@linux.dev: new changelog] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251015063615.2632-1-lirongqing@baidu.com Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Tested-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Acked-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@codeconstruct.com.au> [aspeed_g5_defconfig] Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Florian Wesphal <fw@strlen.de> Cc: Jakub Kacinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org> Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 
The hung_task_panic sysctl is currently a blunt instrument: it's all or
nothing.

Panicking on a single hung task can be an overreaction to a transient
glitch.  A more reliable indicator of a systemic problem is when
multiple tasks hang simultaneously.

Extend hung_task_panic to accept an integer threshold, allowing the
kernel to panic only when N hung tasks are detected in a single scan. 
This provides finer control to distinguish between isolated incidents
and system-wide failures.

The accepted values are:
- 0: Don't panic (unchanged)
- 1: Panic on the first hung task (unchanged)
- N > 1: Panic after N hung tasks are detected in a single scan

The original behavior is preserved for values 0 and 1, maintaining full
backward compatibility.

[lance.yang@linux.dev: new changelog]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251015063615.2632-1-lirongqing@baidu.com
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Tested-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@codeconstruct.com.au> [aspeed_g5_defconfig]
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Florian Wesphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Jakub Kacinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI 2025-09-24T21:29:14+00:00 Kees Cook kees@kernel.org 2025-09-23T21:34:19+00:00 23ef9d439769d5f35353650e771c63d13824235b The kernel's CFI implementation uses the KCFI ABI specifically, and is not strictly tied to a particular compiler. In preparation for GCC supporting KCFI, rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (along with associated options). Use new "transitional" Kconfig option for old CONFIG_CFI_CLANG that will enable CONFIG_CFI during olddefconfig. Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923213422.1105654-3-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> 
The kernel's CFI implementation uses the KCFI ABI specifically, and is
not strictly tied to a particular compiler. In preparation for GCC
supporting KCFI, rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (along with
associated options).

Use new "transitional" Kconfig option for old CONFIG_CFI_CLANG that will
enable CONFIG_CFI during olddefconfig.

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923213422.1105654-3-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
configs/hardening: Enable CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON 2025-07-22T04:41:57+00:00 Kees Cook kees@kernel.org 2025-07-17T23:25:18+00:00 437641a72d0a675242ae3e649a30b4c51b3ad450 To reduce stale data lifetimes, enable CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON as well. This matches the addition of CONFIG_STACKLEAK=y, which is doing similar for stack memory. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250717232519.2984886-13-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> 
To reduce stale data lifetimes, enable CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON as
well. This matches the addition of CONFIG_STACKLEAK=y, which is doing
similar for stack memory.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250717232519.2984886-13-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
configs/hardening: Enable CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE 2025-07-22T04:41:48+00:00 Kees Cook kees@kernel.org 2025-07-17T23:25:17+00:00 4c56d9f7e75eb2a137584f708fa262d7e8c8a2d8 Since we can wipe the stack with both Clang and GCC plugins, enable this for the "hardening.config" for wider testing. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250717232519.2984886-12-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> 
Since we can wipe the stack with both Clang and GCC plugins, enable this
for the "hardening.config" for wider testing.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250717232519.2984886-12-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild 2025-06-07T17:05:35+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2025-06-07T17:05:35+00:00 8630c59e99363c4b655788fd01134aef9bcd9264 Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Add support for the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES() macro, which exports a symbol only to specified modules - Improve ABI handling in gendwarfksyms - Forcibly link lib-y objects to vmlinux even if CONFIG_MODULES=n - Add checkers for redundant or missing <linux/export.h> inclusion - Deprecate the extra-y syntax - Fix a genksyms bug when including enum constants from *.symref files * tag 'kbuild-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (28 commits) genksyms: Fix enum consts from a reference affecting new values arch: use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN) for vmlinux.lds kbuild: set y instead of 1 to KBUILD_{BUILTIN,MODULES} efi/libstub: use 'targets' instead of extra-y in Makefile module: make __mod_device_table__* symbols static scripts/misc-check: check unnecessary #include <linux/export.h> when W=1 scripts/misc-check: check missing #include <linux/export.h> when W=1 scripts/misc-check: add double-quotes to satisfy shellcheck kbuild: move W=1 check for scripts/misc-check to top-level Makefile scripts/tags.sh: allow to use alternative ctags implementation kconfig: introduce menu type enum docs: symbol-namespaces: fix reST warning with literal block kbuild: link lib-y objects to vmlinux forcibly even when CONFIG_MODULES=n tinyconfig: enable CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION docs/core-api/symbol-namespaces: drop table of contents and section numbering modpost: check forbidden MODULE_IMPORT_NS("module:") at compile time kbuild: move kbuild syntax processing to scripts/Makefile.build Makefile: remove dependency on archscripts for header installation Documentation/kbuild: Add new gendwarfksyms kABI rules Documentation/kbuild: Drop section numbers ... 
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Add support for the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES() macro, which
   exports a symbol only to specified modules

 - Improve ABI handling in gendwarfksyms

 - Forcibly link lib-y objects to vmlinux even if CONFIG_MODULES=n

 - Add checkers for redundant or missing <linux/export.h> inclusion

 - Deprecate the extra-y syntax

 - Fix a genksyms bug when including enum constants from *.symref files

* tag 'kbuild-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (28 commits)
  genksyms: Fix enum consts from a reference affecting new values
  arch: use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN) for vmlinux.lds
  kbuild: set y instead of 1 to KBUILD_{BUILTIN,MODULES}
  efi/libstub: use 'targets' instead of extra-y in Makefile
  module: make __mod_device_table__* symbols static
  scripts/misc-check: check unnecessary #include <linux/export.h> when W=1
  scripts/misc-check: check missing #include <linux/export.h> when W=1
  scripts/misc-check: add double-quotes to satisfy shellcheck
  kbuild: move W=1 check for scripts/misc-check to top-level Makefile
  scripts/tags.sh: allow to use alternative ctags implementation
  kconfig: introduce menu type enum
  docs: symbol-namespaces: fix reST warning with literal block
  kbuild: link lib-y objects to vmlinux forcibly even when CONFIG_MODULES=n
  tinyconfig: enable CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
  docs/core-api/symbol-namespaces: drop table of contents and section numbering
  modpost: check forbidden MODULE_IMPORT_NS("module:") at compile time
  kbuild: move kbuild syntax processing to scripts/Makefile.build
  Makefile: remove dependency on archscripts for header installation
  Documentation/kbuild: Add new gendwarfksyms kABI rules
  Documentation/kbuild: Drop section numbers
  ...
tinyconfig: enable CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION 2025-06-05T20:40:24+00:00 Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org 2025-05-26T09:07:51+00:00 81a93bf93f0e5963d8695a3596ac50b5ceea87c3 This CONFIG option, if supported by the architecture, helps reduce the size of vmlinux. For example, the size of vmlinux with ARCH=arm tinyconfig decreases as follows: text data bss dec hex filename 631684 104500 18176 754360 b82b8 vmlinux.before 455316 93404 15472 564192 89be0 vmlinux.after Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> 
This CONFIG option, if supported by the architecture, helps reduce the
size of vmlinux.

For example, the size of vmlinux with ARCH=arm tinyconfig decreases as
follows:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 631684	 104500	  18176	 754360	  b82b8	vmlinux.before
 455316	  93404	  15472	 564192	  89be0	vmlinux.after

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Merge tag 'net-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next 2025-05-28T22:24:36+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2025-05-28T22:24:36+00:00 1b98f357dadd6ea613a435fbaef1a5dd7b35fd21 Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni: "Core: - Implement the Device Memory TCP transmit path, allowing zero-copy data transmission on top of TCP from e.g. GPU memory to the wire. - Move all the IPv6 routing tables management outside the RTNL scope, under its own lock and RCU. The route control path is now 3x times faster. - Convert queue related netlink ops to instance lock, reducing again the scope of the RTNL lock. This improves the control plane scalability. - Refactor the software crc32c implementation, removing unneeded abstraction layers and improving significantly the related micro-benchmarks. - Optimize the GRO engine for UDP-tunneled traffic, for a 10% performance improvement in related stream tests. - Cover more per-CPU storage with local nested BH locking; this is a prep work to remove the current per-CPU lock in local_bh_disable() on PREMPT_RT. - Introduce and use nlmsg_payload helper, combining buffer bounds verification with accessing payload carried by netlink messages. Netfilter: - Rewrite the procfs conntrack table implementation, improving considerably the dump performance. A lot of user-space tools still use this interface. - Implement support for wildcard netdevice in netdev basechain and flowtables. - Integrate conntrack information into nft trace infrastructure. - Export set count and backend name to userspace, for better introspection. BPF: - BPF qdisc support: BPF-qdisc can be implemented with BPF struct_ops programs and can be controlled in similar way to traditional qdiscs using the "tc qdisc" command. - Refactor the UDP socket iterator, addressing long standing issues WRT duplicate hits or missed sockets. Protocols: - Improve TCP receive buffer auto-tuning and increase the default upper bound for the receive buffer; overall this improves the single flow maximum thoughput on 200Gbs link by over 60%. - Add AFS GSSAPI security class to AF_RXRPC; it provides transport security for connections to the AFS fileserver and VL server. - Improve TCP multipath routing, so that the sources address always matches the nexthop device. - Introduce SO_PASSRIGHTS for AF_UNIX, to allow disabling SCM_RIGHTS, and thus preventing DoS caused by passing around problematic FDs. - Retire DCCP socket. DCCP only receives updates for bugs, and major distros disable it by default. Its removal allows for better organisation of TCP fields to reduce the number of cache lines hit in the fast path. - Extend TCP drop-reason support to cover PAWS checks. Driver API: - Reorganize PTP ioctl flag support to require an explicit opt-in for the drivers, avoiding the problem of drivers not rejecting new unsupported flags. - Converted several device drivers to timestamping APIs. - Introduce per-PHY ethtool dump helpers, improving the support for dump operations targeting PHYs. Tests and tooling: - Add support for classic netlink in user space C codegen, so that ynl-c can now read, create and modify links, routes addresses and qdisc layer configuration. - Add ynl sub-types for binary attributes, allowing ynl-c to output known struct instead of raw binary data, clarifying the classic netlink output. - Extend MPTCP selftests to improve the code-coverage. - Add tests for XDP tail adjustment in AF_XDP. New hardware / drivers: - OpenVPN virtual driver: offload OpenVPN data channels processing to the kernel-space, increasing the data transfer throughput WRT the user-space implementation. - Renesas glue driver for the gigabit ethernet RZ/V2H(P) SoC. - Broadcom asp-v3.0 ethernet driver. - AMD Renoir ethernet device. - ReakTek MT9888 2.5G ethernet PHY driver. - Aeonsemi 10G C45 PHYs driver. Drivers: - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5): - refactor the steering table handling to significantly reduce the amount of memory used - add support for complex matches in H/W flow steering - improve flow streeing error handling - convert to netdev instance locking - Intel (100G, ice, igb, ixgbe, idpf): - ice: add switchdev support for LLDP traffic over VF - ixgbe: add firmware manipulation and regions devlink support - igb: introduce support for frame transmission premption - igb: adds persistent NAPI configuration - idpf: introduce RDMA support - idpf: add initial PTP support - Meta (fbnic): - extend hardware stats coverage - add devlink dev flash support - Broadcom (bnxt): - add support for RX-side device memory TCP - Wangxun (txgbe): - implement support for udp tunnel offload - complete PTP and SRIOV support for AML 25G/10G devices - Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual: - Google (gve): - add device memory TCP TX support - Amazon (ena): - support persistent per-NAPI config - Airoha: - add H/W support for L2 traffic offload - add per flow stats for flow offloading - RealTek (rtl8211): add support for WoL magic packet - Synopsys (stmmac): - dwmac-socfpga 1000BaseX support - add Loongson-2K3000 support - introduce support for hardware-accelerated VLAN stripping - Broadcom (bcmgenet): - expose more H/W stats - Freescale (enetc, dpaa2-eth): - enetc: add MAC filter, VLAN filter RSS and loopback support - dpaa2-eth: convert to H/W timestamping APIs - vxlan: convert FDB table to rhashtable, for better scalabilty - veth: apply qdisc backpressure on full ring to reduce TX drops - Ethernet switches: - Microchip (kzZ88x3): add ETS scheduler support - Ethernet PHYs: - RealTek (rtl8211): - add support for WoL magic packet - add support for PHY LEDs - CAN: - Adds RZ/G3E CANFD support to the rcar_canfd driver. - Preparatory work for CAN-XL support. - Add self-tests framework with support for CAN physical interfaces. - WiFi: - mac80211: - scan improvements with multi-link operation (MLO) - Qualcomm (ath12k): - enable AHB support for IPQ5332 - add monitor interface support to QCN9274 - add multi-link operation support to WCN7850 - add 802.11d scan offload support to WCN7850 - monitor mode for WCN7850, better 6 GHz regulatory - Qualcomm (ath11k): - restore hibernation support - MediaTek (mt76): - WiFi-7 improvements - implement support for mt7990 - Intel (iwlwifi): - enhanced multi-link single-radio (EMLSR) support on 5 GHz links - rework device configuration - RealTek (rtw88): - improve throughput for RTL8814AU - RealTek (rtw89): - add multi-link operation support - STA/P2P concurrency improvements - support different SAR configs by antenna - Bluetooth: - introduce HCI Driver protocol - btintel_pcie: do not generate coredump for diagnostic events - btusb: add HCI Drv commands for configuring altsetting - btusb: add RTL8851BE device 0x0bda:0xb850 - btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3584 for MT7922 - btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3630 and 13d3/3613 for MT7925 - btnxpuart: implement host-wakeup feature" * tag 'net-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1611 commits) selftests/bpf: Fix bpf selftest build warning selftests: netfilter: Fix skip of wildcard interface test net: phy: mscc: Stop clearing the the UDPv4 checksum for L2 frames net: openvswitch: Fix the dead loop of MPLS parse calipso: Don't call calipso functions for AF_INET sk. selftests/tc-testing: Add a test for HFSC eltree double add with reentrant enqueue behaviour on netem net_sched: hfsc: Address reentrant enqueue adding class to eltree twice octeontx2-pf: QOS: Refactor TC_HTB_LEAF_DEL_LAST callback octeontx2-pf: QOS: Perform cache sync on send queue teardown net: mana: Add support for Multi Vports on Bare metal net: devmem: ncdevmem: remove unused variable net: devmem: ksft: upgrade rx test to send 1K data net: devmem: ksft: add 5 tuple FS support net: devmem: ksft: add exit_wait to make rx test pass net: devmem: ksft: add ipv4 support net: devmem: preserve sockc_err page_pool: fix ugly page_pool formatting net: devmem: move list_add to net_devmem_bind_dmabuf. selftests: netfilter: nft_queue.sh: include file transfer duration in log message net: phy: mscc: Fix memory leak when using one step timestamping ... 
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core:

   - Implement the Device Memory TCP transmit path, allowing zero-copy
     data transmission on top of TCP from e.g. GPU memory to the wire.

   - Move all the IPv6 routing tables management outside the RTNL scope,
     under its own lock and RCU. The route control path is now 3x times
     faster.

   - Convert queue related netlink ops to instance lock, reducing again
     the scope of the RTNL lock. This improves the control plane
     scalability.

   - Refactor the software crc32c implementation, removing unneeded
     abstraction layers and improving significantly the related
     micro-benchmarks.

   - Optimize the GRO engine for UDP-tunneled traffic, for a 10%
     performance improvement in related stream tests.

   - Cover more per-CPU storage with local nested BH locking; this is a
     prep work to remove the current per-CPU lock in local_bh_disable()
     on PREMPT_RT.

   - Introduce and use nlmsg_payload helper, combining buffer bounds
     verification with accessing payload carried by netlink messages.

  Netfilter:

   - Rewrite the procfs conntrack table implementation, improving
     considerably the dump performance. A lot of user-space tools still
     use this interface.

   - Implement support for wildcard netdevice in netdev basechain and
     flowtables.

   - Integrate conntrack information into nft trace infrastructure.

   - Export set count and backend name to userspace, for better
     introspection.

  BPF:

   - BPF qdisc support: BPF-qdisc can be implemented with BPF struct_ops
     programs and can be controlled in similar way to traditional qdiscs
     using the "tc qdisc" command.

   - Refactor the UDP socket iterator, addressing long standing issues
     WRT duplicate hits or missed sockets.

  Protocols:

   - Improve TCP receive buffer auto-tuning and increase the default
     upper bound for the receive buffer; overall this improves the
     single flow maximum thoughput on 200Gbs link by over 60%.

   - Add AFS GSSAPI security class to AF_RXRPC; it provides transport
     security for connections to the AFS fileserver and VL server.

   - Improve TCP multipath routing, so that the sources address always
     matches the nexthop device.

   - Introduce SO_PASSRIGHTS for AF_UNIX, to allow disabling SCM_RIGHTS,
     and thus preventing DoS caused by passing around problematic FDs.

   - Retire DCCP socket. DCCP only receives updates for bugs, and major
     distros disable it by default. Its removal allows for better
     organisation of TCP fields to reduce the number of cache lines hit
     in the fast path.

   - Extend TCP drop-reason support to cover PAWS checks.

  Driver API:

   - Reorganize PTP ioctl flag support to require an explicit opt-in for
     the drivers, avoiding the problem of drivers not rejecting new
     unsupported flags.

   - Converted several device drivers to timestamping APIs.

   - Introduce per-PHY ethtool dump helpers, improving the support for
     dump operations targeting PHYs.

  Tests and tooling:

   - Add support for classic netlink in user space C codegen, so that
     ynl-c can now read, create and modify links, routes addresses and
     qdisc layer configuration.

   - Add ynl sub-types for binary attributes, allowing ynl-c to output
     known struct instead of raw binary data, clarifying the classic
     netlink output.

   - Extend MPTCP selftests to improve the code-coverage.

   - Add tests for XDP tail adjustment in AF_XDP.

  New hardware / drivers:

   - OpenVPN virtual driver: offload OpenVPN data channels processing to
     the kernel-space, increasing the data transfer throughput WRT the
     user-space implementation.

   - Renesas glue driver for the gigabit ethernet RZ/V2H(P) SoC.

   - Broadcom asp-v3.0 ethernet driver.

   - AMD Renoir ethernet device.

   - ReakTek MT9888 2.5G ethernet PHY driver.

   - Aeonsemi 10G C45 PHYs driver.

  Drivers:

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
       - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
           - refactor the steering table handling to significantly
             reduce the amount of memory used
           - add support for complex matches in H/W flow steering
           - improve flow streeing error handling
           - convert to netdev instance locking
       - Intel (100G, ice, igb, ixgbe, idpf):
           - ice: add switchdev support for LLDP traffic over VF
           - ixgbe: add firmware manipulation and regions devlink support
           - igb: introduce support for frame transmission premption
           - igb: adds persistent NAPI configuration
           - idpf: introduce RDMA support
           - idpf: add initial PTP support
       - Meta (fbnic):
           - extend hardware stats coverage
           - add devlink dev flash support
       - Broadcom (bnxt):
           - add support for RX-side device memory TCP
       - Wangxun (txgbe):
           - implement support for udp tunnel offload
           - complete PTP and SRIOV support for AML 25G/10G devices

   - Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual:
       - Google (gve):
           - add device memory TCP TX support
       - Amazon (ena):
           - support persistent per-NAPI config
       - Airoha:
           - add H/W support for L2 traffic offload
           - add per flow stats for flow offloading
       - RealTek (rtl8211): add support for WoL magic packet
       - Synopsys (stmmac):
           - dwmac-socfpga 1000BaseX support
           - add Loongson-2K3000 support
           - introduce support for hardware-accelerated VLAN stripping
       - Broadcom (bcmgenet):
           - expose more H/W stats
       - Freescale (enetc, dpaa2-eth):
           - enetc: add MAC filter, VLAN filter RSS and loopback support
           - dpaa2-eth: convert to H/W timestamping APIs
       - vxlan: convert FDB table to rhashtable, for better scalabilty
       - veth: apply qdisc backpressure on full ring to reduce TX drops

   - Ethernet switches:
       - Microchip (kzZ88x3): add ETS scheduler support

   - Ethernet PHYs:
       - RealTek (rtl8211):
           - add support for WoL magic packet
           - add support for PHY LEDs

   - CAN:
       - Adds RZ/G3E CANFD support to the rcar_canfd driver.
       - Preparatory work for CAN-XL support.
       - Add self-tests framework with support for CAN physical interfaces.

   - WiFi:
       - mac80211:
           - scan improvements with multi-link operation (MLO)
       - Qualcomm (ath12k):
           - enable AHB support for IPQ5332
           - add monitor interface support to QCN9274
           - add multi-link operation support to WCN7850
           - add 802.11d scan offload support to WCN7850
           - monitor mode for WCN7850, better 6 GHz regulatory
       - Qualcomm (ath11k):
           - restore hibernation support
       - MediaTek (mt76):
           - WiFi-7 improvements
           - implement support for mt7990
       - Intel (iwlwifi):
           - enhanced multi-link single-radio (EMLSR) support on 5 GHz links
           - rework device configuration
       - RealTek (rtw88):
           - improve throughput for RTL8814AU
       - RealTek (rtw89):
           - add multi-link operation support
           - STA/P2P concurrency improvements
           - support different SAR configs by antenna

   - Bluetooth:
       - introduce HCI Driver protocol
       - btintel_pcie: do not generate coredump for diagnostic events
       - btusb: add HCI Drv commands for configuring altsetting
       - btusb: add RTL8851BE device 0x0bda:0xb850
       - btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3584 for MT7922
       - btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3630 and 13d3/3613 for MT7925
       - btnxpuart: implement host-wakeup feature"

* tag 'net-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1611 commits)
  selftests/bpf: Fix bpf selftest build warning
  selftests: netfilter: Fix skip of wildcard interface test
  net: phy: mscc: Stop clearing the the UDPv4 checksum for L2 frames
  net: openvswitch: Fix the dead loop of MPLS parse
  calipso: Don't call calipso functions for AF_INET sk.
  selftests/tc-testing: Add a test for HFSC eltree double add with reentrant enqueue behaviour on netem
  net_sched: hfsc: Address reentrant enqueue adding class to eltree twice
  octeontx2-pf: QOS: Refactor TC_HTB_LEAF_DEL_LAST callback
  octeontx2-pf: QOS: Perform cache sync on send queue teardown
  net: mana: Add support for Multi Vports on Bare metal
  net: devmem: ncdevmem: remove unused variable
  net: devmem: ksft: upgrade rx test to send 1K data
  net: devmem: ksft: add 5 tuple FS support
  net: devmem: ksft: add exit_wait to make rx test pass
  net: devmem: ksft: add ipv4 support
  net: devmem: preserve sockc_err
  page_pool: fix ugly page_pool formatting
  net: devmem: move list_add to net_devmem_bind_dmabuf.
  selftests: netfilter: nft_queue.sh: include file transfer duration in log message
  net: phy: mscc: Fix memory leak when using one step timestamping
  ...
xen: enable XEN_UNPOPULATED_ALLOC as part of xen.config 2025-05-23T05:07:09+00:00 Roger Pau Monne roger.pau@citrix.com 2025-05-14T09:20:36+00:00 d24c6b78ac550072df359c17e6aadddf079257d0 PVH dom0 is useless without XEN_UNPOPULATED_ALLOC, as otherwise it will very likely balloon out all dom0 memory to map foreign and grant pages. Enable it by default as part of xen.config. This also requires enabling MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and ZONE_DEVICE. Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Message-ID: <20250514092037.28970-1-roger.pau@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> 
PVH dom0 is useless without XEN_UNPOPULATED_ALLOC, as otherwise it will
very likely balloon out all dom0 memory to map foreign and grant pages.

Enable it by default as part of xen.config.  This also requires enabling
MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and ZONE_DEVICE.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Message-ID: <20250514092037.28970-1-roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>