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2025-11-18Merge tag 'ipsec-next-2025-11-18' of ↵Jakub Kicinski
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec-next Steffen Klassert says: ==================== pull request (net-next): ipsec-next 2025-11-18 1) Relax a lock contention bottleneck to improve IPsec crypto offload performance. From Jianbo Liu. 2) Deprecate pfkey, the interface will be removed in 2027. 3) Update xfrm documentation and move it to ipsec maintainance. From Bagas Sanjaya. * tag 'ipsec-next-2025-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec-next: MAINTAINERS: Add entry for XFRM documentation net: Move XFRM documentation into its own subdirectory Documentation: xfrm_sync: Number the fifth section Documentation: xfrm_sysctl: Trim trailing colon in section heading Documentation: xfrm_sync: Trim excess section heading characters Documentation: xfrm_sync: Properly reindent list text Documentation: xfrm_device: Separate hardware offload sublists Documentation: xfrm_device: Use numbered list for offloading steps Documentation: xfrm_device: Wrap iproute2 snippets in literal code block pfkey: Deprecate pfkey xfrm: Skip redundant replay recheck for the hardware offload path xfrm: Refactor xfrm_input lock to reduce contention with RSS ==================== Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251118092610.2223552-1-steffen.klassert@secunet.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-17tcp: reduce tcp_comp_sack_slack_ns default value to 10 usecEric Dumazet
net.ipv4.tcp_comp_sack_slack_ns current default value is too high. When a flow has many drops (1 % or more), and small RTT, adding 100 usec before sending SACK stalls the sender relying on getting SACK fast enough to keep the pipe busy. Decrease the default to 10 usec. This is orthogonal to Congestion Control heuristics to determine if drops are caused by congestion or not. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251114135141.3810964-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-12net: Move XFRM documentation into its own subdirectoryBagas Sanjaya
XFRM docs are currently reside in Documentation/networking directory, yet these are distinctive as a group of their own. Move them into xfrm subdirectory. Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2025-11-12Documentation: xfrm_sync: Number the fifth sectionBagas Sanjaya
Number the fifth section ("Exception to threshold settings") to be consistent with the rest of sections. Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2025-11-12Documentation: xfrm_sysctl: Trim trailing colon in section headingBagas Sanjaya
The sole section heading ("/proc/sys/net/core/xfrm_* Variables") has trailing colon. Trim it. Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2025-11-12Documentation: xfrm_sync: Trim excess section heading charactersBagas Sanjaya
The first section "Message Structure" has excess underline, while the second and third one ("TLVS reflect the different parameters" and "Default configurations for the parameters") have trailing colon. Trim them. Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2025-11-12Documentation: xfrm_sync: Properly reindent list textBagas Sanjaya
List texts are currently aligned at the start of column, rather than after the list marker. Reindent them. Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2025-11-12Documentation: xfrm_device: Separate hardware offload sublistsBagas Sanjaya
Sublists of hardware offload type lists are rendered in combined paragraph due to lack of separator from their parent list. Add it. Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2025-11-12Documentation: xfrm_device: Use numbered list for offloading stepsBagas Sanjaya
Format xfrm offloading steps as numbered list. Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2025-11-12Documentation: xfrm_device: Wrap iproute2 snippets in literal code blockBagas Sanjaya
iproute2 snippets (ip x) are shown in long-running definition lists instead. Format them as literal code blocks that do the semantic job better. Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2025-11-11devlink: Introduce switchdev_inactive eswitch modeSaeed Mahameed
Adds DEVLINK_ESWITCH_MODE_SWITCHDEV_INACTIVE attribute to UAPI and documentation. Before having traffic flow through an eswitch, a user may want to have the ability to block traffic towards the FDB until FDB is fully programmed and the user is ready to send traffic to it. For example: when two eswitches are present for vports in a multi-PF setup, one eswitch may take over the traffic from the other when the user chooses. Before this take over, a user may want to first program the inactive eswitch and then once ready redirect traffic to this new eswitch. switchdev modes transition semantics: legacy->switchdev_inactive: Create switchdev mode normally, traffic not allowed to flow yet. switchdev_inactive->switchdev: Enable traffic to flow. switchdev->switchdev_inactive: Block traffic on the FDB, FDB and representros state and content is preserved. When eswitch is configured to this mode, traffic is ignored/dropped on this eswitch FDB, while current configuration is kept, e.g FDB rules and netdev representros are kept available, FDB programming is allowed. Example: # start inactive switchdev devlink dev eswitch set pci/0000:08:00.1 mode switchdev_inactive # setup TC rules, representors etc .. # activate devlink dev eswitch set pci/0000:08:00.1 mode switchdev Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251108070404.1551708-2-saeed@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-11-07Merge branch '40GbE' of ↵Jakub Kicinski
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tnguy/next-queue Tony Nguyen says: ==================== Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2025-11-06 (i40, ice, iavf) Mohammad Heib introduces a new devlink parameter, max_mac_per_vf, for controlling the maximum number of MAC address filters allowed by a VF. This allows administrators to control the VF behavior in a more nuanced manner. Aleksandr and Przemek add support for Receive Side Scaling of GTP to iAVF for VFs running on E800 series ice hardware. This improves performance and scalability for virtualized network functions in 5G and LTE deployments. * '40GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tnguy/next-queue: iavf: add RSS support for GTP protocol via ethtool ice: Extend PTYPE bitmap coverage for GTP encapsulated flows ice: improve TCAM priority handling for RSS profiles ice: implement GTP RSS context tracking and configuration ice: add virtchnl definitions and static data for GTP RSS ice: add flow parsing for GTP and new protocol field support i40e: support generic devlink param "max_mac_per_vf" devlink: Add new "max_mac_per_vf" generic device param ==================== Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251106225321.1609605-1-anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-07tcp: add net.ipv4.tcp_comp_sack_rtt_percentEric Dumazet
TCP SACK compression has been added in 2018 in commit 5d9f4262b7ea ("tcp: add SACK compression"). It is working great for WAN flows (with large RTT). Wifi in particular gets a significant boost _when_ ACK are suppressed. Add a new sysctl so that we can tune the very conservative 5 % value that has been used so far in this formula, so that small RTT flows can benefit from this feature. delay = min ( 5 % of RTT, 1 ms) This patch adds new tcp_comp_sack_rtt_percent sysctl to ease experiments and tuning. Given that we cap the delay to 1ms (tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns sysctl), set the default value to 33 %. Quoting Neal Cardwell ( https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CADVnQymZ1tFnEA1Q=vtECs0=Db7zHQ8=+WCQtnhHFVbEOzjVnQ@mail.gmail.com/ ) The rationale for 33% is basically to try to facilitate pipelining, where there are always at least 3 ACKs and 3 GSO/TSO skbs per SRTT, so that the path can maintain a budget for 3 full-sized GSO/TSO skbs "in flight" at all times: + 1 skb in the qdisc waiting to be sent by the NIC next + 1 skb being sent by the NIC (being serialized by the NIC out onto the wire) + 1 skb being received and aggregated by the receiver machine's aggregation mechanism (some combination of LRO, GRO, and sack compression) Note that this is basically the same magic number (3) and the same rationales as: (a) tcp_tso_should_defer() ensuring that we defer sending data for no longer than cwnd/tcp_tso_win_divisor (where tcp_tso_win_divisor = 3), and (b) bbr_quantization_budget() ensuring that cwnd is at least 3 GSO/TSO skbs to maintain pipelining and full throughput at low RTTs Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251106115236.3450026-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-06i40e: support generic devlink param "max_mac_per_vf"Mohammad Heib
Currently the i40e driver enforces its own internally calculated per-VF MAC filter limit, derived from the number of allocated VFs and available hardware resources. This limit is not configurable by the administrator, which makes it difficult to control how many MAC addresses each VF may use. This patch adds support for the new generic devlink runtime parameter "max_mac_per_vf" which provides administrators with a way to cap the number of MAC addresses a VF can use: - When the parameter is set to 0 (default), the driver continues to use its internally calculated limit. - When set to a non-zero value, the driver applies this value as a strict cap for VFs, overriding the internal calculation. Important notes: - The configured value is a theoretical maximum. Hardware limits may still prevent additional MAC addresses from being added, even if the parameter allows it. - Since MAC filters are a shared hardware resource across all VFs, setting a high value may cause resource contention and starve other VFs. - This change gives administrators predictable and flexible control over VF resource allocation, while still respecting hardware limitations. - Previous discussion about this change: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250805134042.2604897-2-dhill@redhat.com https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250823094952.182181-1-mheib@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Mohammad Heib <mheib@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Tested-by: Rafal Romanowski <rafal.romanowski@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
2025-11-06devlink: Add new "max_mac_per_vf" generic device paramMohammad Heib
Add a new device generic parameter to controls the maximum number of MAC filters allowed per VF. For example, to limit a VF to 3 MAC addresses: $ devlink dev param set pci/0000:3b:00.0 name max_mac_per_vf \ value 3 \ cmode runtime Signed-off-by: Mohammad Heib <mheib@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
2025-11-04net: rnpgbe: Add build support for rnpgbeDong Yibo
Add build options and doc for mucse. Initialize pci device access for MUCSE devices. Signed-off-by: Dong Yibo <dong100@mucse.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: MD Danish Anwar <danishanwar@ti.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251101013849.120565-2-dong100@mucse.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-03ethtool: netlink: add ETHTOOL_MSG_MSE_GET and wire up PHY MSE accessOleksij Rempel
Introduce the userspace entry point for PHY MSE diagnostics via ethtool netlink. This exposes the core API added previously and returns both capability information and one or more snapshots. Userspace sends ETHTOOL_MSG_MSE_GET. The reply carries: - ETHTOOL_A_MSE_CAPABILITIES: scale limits and timing information - ETHTOOL_A_MSE_CHANNEL_* nests: one or more snapshots (per-channel if available, otherwise WORST, otherwise LINK) Link down returns -ENETDOWN. Changes: - YAML: add attribute sets (mse, mse-capabilities, mse-snapshot) and the mse-get operation - UAPI (generated): add ETHTOOL_A_MSE_* enums and message IDs, ETHTOOL_MSG_MSE_GET/REPLY - ethtool core: add net/ethtool/mse.c implementing the request, register genl op, and hook into ethnl dispatch - docs: document MSE_GET in ethtool-netlink.rst The include/uapi/linux/ethtool_netlink_generated.h is generated from Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml. Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027122801.982364-3-o.rempel@pengutronix.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-03net: Extend NAPI threaded polling to allow kthread based busy pollingSamiullah Khawaja
Add a new state NAPI_STATE_THREADED_BUSY_POLL to the NAPI state enum to enable and disable threaded busy polling. When threaded busy polling is enabled for a NAPI, enable NAPI_STATE_THREADED also. When the threaded NAPI is scheduled, set NAPI_STATE_IN_BUSY_POLL to signal napi_complete_done not to rearm interrupts. Whenever NAPI_STATE_THREADED_BUSY_POLL is unset, the NAPI_STATE_IN_BUSY_POLL will be unset, napi_complete_done unsets the NAPI_STATE_SCHED_THREADED bit also, which in turn will make the kthread go to sleep. Signed-off-by: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com> Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Acked-by: Martin Karsten <mkarsten@uwaterloo.ca> Tested-by: Martin Karsten <mkarsten@uwaterloo.ca> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028203007.575686-2-skhawaja@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-03net: stmmac: rename devlink parameter ts_coarse into phc_coarse_adjMaxime Chevallier
The devlink param "ts_coarse" doesn't indicate that we get coarse timestamps, but rather that the PHC clock adjusments are coarse as the frequency won't be continuously adjusted. Adjust the devlink parameter name to reflect that. The Coarse terminlogy comes from the dwmac register naming, update the documentation to better explain what the parameter is about. With this change, the parameter can now be adjusted using: devlink dev param set <dev> name phc_coarse_adj value true cmode runtime Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251030182454.182406-1-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-31Documentation: ARCnet: Update obsolete contact infoBagas Sanjaya
ARCnet docs states that inquiries on the subsystem should be emailed to Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>, for whom has been in CREDITS since the beginning of kernel git history and her email address is unreachable (bounce). The subsystem is now maintained by Michael Grzeschik since c38f6ac74c9980 ("MAINTAINERS: add arcnet and take maintainership"). In addition, there used to be a dedicated ARCnet mailing list but its archive at epistolary.org has been shut down. ARCnet discussion nowadays take place in netdev list. The arcnet.com domain mentioned has become AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) related Typeform page and ARCnet info now resides on arcnet.cc (ARCnet Resource Center) instead. Update contact information. Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028014451.10521-2-bagasdotme@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-31Documentation: netconsole: Separate literal code blocks for full and short ↵Bagas Sanjaya
netcat command name versions Both full and short (abbreviated) command name versions of netcat example are combined in single literal code block due to 'or::' paragraph being indented one more space than the preceding paragraph (before the short version example). Unindent it to separate the versions. Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251030075013.40418-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-31Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netJakub Kicinski
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.18-rc4). No conflicts, adjacent changes: drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c ded9813d17d3 ("net: stmmac: Consider Tx VLAN offload tag length for maxSDU") 26ab9830beab ("net: stmmac: replace has_xxxx with core_type") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-30net/smc: handle -ENOMEM from smc_wr_alloc_link_mem gracefullyHalil Pasic
Currently if a -ENOMEM from smc_wr_alloc_link_mem() is handled by giving up and going the way of a TCP fallback. This was reasonable before the sizes of the allocations there were compile time constants and reasonably small. But now those are actually configurable. So instead of giving up, keep retrying with half of the requested size unless we dip below the old static sizes -- then give up! In terms of numbers that means we give up when it is certain that we at best would end up allocating less than 16 send WR buffers or less than 48 recv WR buffers. This is to avoid regressions due to having fewer buffers compared the static values of the past. Please note that SMC-R is supposed to be an optimisation over TCP, and falling back to TCP is superior to establishing an SMC connection that is going to perform worse. If the memory allocation fails (and we propagate -ENOMEM), we fall back to TCP. Preserve (modulo truncation) the ratio of send/recv WR buffer counts. Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Mahanta Jambigi <mjambigi@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Sidraya Jayagond <sidraya@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Dust Li <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com> Tested-by: Mahanta Jambigi <mjambigi@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027224856.2970019-3-pasic@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-10-30net/smc: make wr buffer count configurableHalil Pasic
Think SMC_WR_BUF_CNT_SEND := SMC_WR_BUF_CNT used in send context and SMC_WR_BUF_CNT_RECV := 3 * SMC_WR_BUF_CNT used in recv context. Those get replaced with lgr->max_send_wr and lgr->max_recv_wr respective. Please note that although with the default sysctl values qp_attr.cap.max_send_wr == qp_attr.cap.max_recv_wr is maintained but can not be assumed to be generally true any more. I see no downside to that, but my confidence level is rather modest. Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Sidraya Jayagond <sidraya@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Dust Li <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com> Tested-by: Mahanta Jambigi <mjambigi@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027224856.2970019-2-pasic@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-10-29ipv6: icmp: Add RFC 5837 supportIdo Schimmel
Add the ability to append the incoming IP interface information to ICMPv6 error messages in accordance with RFC 5837 and RFC 4884. This is required for more meaningful traceroute results in unnumbered networks. The feature is disabled by default and controlled via a new sysctl ("net.ipv6.icmp.errors_extension_mask") which accepts a bitmask of ICMP extensions to append to ICMP error messages. Currently, only a single value is supported, but the interface and the implementation should be able to support more extensions, if needed. Clone the skb and copy the relevant data portions before modifying the skb as the caller of icmp6_send() still owns the skb after the function returns. This should be fine since by default ICMP error messages are rate limited to 1000 per second and no more than 1 per second per specific host. Trim or pad the packet to 128 bytes before appending the ICMP extension structure in order to be compatible with legacy applications that assume that the ICMP extension structure always starts at this offset (the minimum length specified by RFC 4884). Since commit 20e1954fe238 ("ipv6: RFC 4884 partial support for SIT/GRE tunnels") it is possible for icmp6_send() to be called with an skb that already contains ICMP extensions. This can happen when we receive an ICMPv4 message with extensions from a tunnel and translate it to an ICMPv6 message towards an IPv6 host in the overlay network. I could not find an RFC that supports this behavior, but it makes sense to not overwrite the original extensions that were appended to the packet. Therefore, avoid appending extensions if the length field in the provided ICMPv6 header is already filled. Export netdev_copy_name() using EXPORT_IPV6_MOD_GPL() to make it available to IPv6 when it is built as a module. Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027082232.232571-3-idosch@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-29ipv4: icmp: Add RFC 5837 supportIdo Schimmel
Add the ability to append the incoming IP interface information to ICMPv4 error messages in accordance with RFC 5837 and RFC 4884. This is required for more meaningful traceroute results in unnumbered networks. The feature is disabled by default and controlled via a new sysctl ("net.ipv4.icmp_errors_extension_mask") which accepts a bitmask of ICMP extensions to append to ICMP error messages. Currently, only a single value is supported, but the interface and the implementation should be able to support more extensions, if needed. Clone the skb and copy the relevant data portions before modifying the skb as the caller of __icmp_send() still owns the skb after the function returns. This should be fine since by default ICMP error messages are rate limited to 1000 per second and no more than 1 per second per specific host. Trim or pad the packet to 128 bytes before appending the ICMP extension structure in order to be compatible with legacy applications that assume that the ICMP extension structure always starts at this offset (the minimum length specified by RFC 4884). Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027082232.232571-2-idosch@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-29Documentation: netconsole: Remove obsolete contact peopleBagas Sanjaya
Breno Leitao has been listed in MAINTAINERS as netconsole maintainer since 7c938e438c56db ("MAINTAINERS: make Breno the netconsole maintainer"), but the documentation says otherwise that bug reports should be sent to original netconsole authors. Remove obsolate contact info. Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028132027.48102-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-28net: stmmac: Add a devlink attribute to control timestamping modeMaxime Chevallier
The DWMAC1000 supports 2 timestamping configurations to configure how frequency adjustments are made to the ptp_clock, as well as the reported timestamp values. There was a previous attempt at upstreaming support for configuring this mode by Olivier Dautricourt and Julien Beraud a few years back [1] In a nutshell, the timestamping can be either set in fine mode or in coarse mode. In fine mode, which is the default, we use the overflow of an accumulator to trigger frequency adjustments, but by doing so we lose precision on the timetamps that are produced by the timestamping unit. The main drawback is that the sub-second increment value, used to generate timestamps, can't be set to lower than (2 / ptp_clock_freq). The "fine" qualification comes from the frequent frequency adjustments we are able to do, which is perfect for a PTP follower usecase. In Coarse mode, we don't do frequency adjustments based on an accumulator overflow. We can therefore have very fine subsecond increment values, allowing for better timestamping precision. However this mode works best when the ptp clock frequency is adjusted based on an external signal, such as a PPS input produced by a GPS clock. This mode is therefore perfect for a Grand-master usecase. Introduce a driver-specific devlink parameter "ts_coarse" to enable or disable coarse mode, keeping the "fine" mode as a default. This can then be changed with: devlink dev param set <dev> name ts_coarse value true cmode runtime The associated documentation is also added. [1] : https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200514102808.31163-1-olivier.dautricourt@orolia.com/ Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024070720.71174-3-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-10-27net/tls: support setting the maximum payload sizeWilfred Mallawa
During a handshake, an endpoint may specify a maximum record size limit. Currently, the kernel defaults to TLS_MAX_PAYLOAD_SIZE (16KB) for the maximum record size. Meaning that, the outgoing records from the kernel can exceed a lower size negotiated during the handshake. In such a case, the TLS endpoint must send a fatal "record_overflow" alert [1], and thus the record is discarded. Upcoming Western Digital NVMe-TCP hardware controllers implement TLS support. For these devices, supporting TLS record size negotiation is necessary because the maximum TLS record size supported by the controller is less than the default 16KB currently used by the kernel. Currently, there is no way to inform the kernel of such a limit. This patch adds support to a new setsockopt() option `TLS_TX_MAX_PAYLOAD_LEN` that allows for setting the maximum plaintext fragment size. Once set, outgoing records are no larger than the size specified. This option can be used to specify the record size limit. [1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8449 Signed-off-by: Wilfred Mallawa <wilfred.mallawa@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251022001937.20155-1-wilfred.opensource@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-23net: rmnet: Use section heading markup for packet format subsectionsBagas Sanjaya
Format subsections of "Packet format" section as reST subsections. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/aO_MefPIlQQrCU3j@horms.kernel.org/ Suggested-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251022025456.19004-2-bagasdotme@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-23Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netJakub Kicinski
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.18-rc3). No conflicts or adjacent changes. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-21Documentation: networking: ax25: update the mailing list info.Randy Dunlap
Update the mailing list subscription information for the linux-hams mailing list. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251020052716.3136773-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-21net: 6pack: Demote "How to turn on 6pack support" section headingBagas Sanjaya
"How to turn on 6pack support" is a subsection of "Building and installing the 6pack driver". Yet, the former is in the same heading level as the latter as sections, making it listed in networking docs toctree. Demote it to subsection. Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251017064525.28836-4-bagasdotme@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-10-21net: nfc: Format userspace interface subsection headingsBagas Sanjaya
Subsection headings of "Userspace interface" is written in normal paragraph, all-capped. Properly format them as reST section headings. Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251017064525.28836-3-bagasdotme@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-10-20net: docs: add missing features that can have statsJesse Brandeburg
While trying to figure out ethtool -I | --include-statistics, I noticed some docs got missed when implementing commit 0e9c127729be ("ethtool: add interface to read Tx hardware timestamping statistics"). Fix up the docs to match the kernel code, and while there, sort them in alphabetical order. Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Rahul Rameshbabu <rrameshbabu@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251016-jk-iwl-next-2025-10-15-v2-8-ff3a390d9fc6@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-17Documentation: net: net_failover: Separate cloud-ifupdown-helper and ↵Bagas Sanjaya
reattach-vf.sh code blocks marker cloud-ifupdown-helper patch and reattach-vf.sh script are rendered in htmldocs output as normal paragraphs instead of literal code blocks due to missing separator from respective code block marker. Add it. Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251016093936.29442-2-bagasdotme@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-17ipv6: Move ipv6_fl_list from ipv6_pinfo to inet_sock.Kuniyuki Iwashima
In {tcp6,udp6,raw6}_sock, struct ipv6_pinfo is always placed at the beginning of a new cache line because 1. __alignof__(struct tcp_sock) is 64 due to ____cacheline_aligned of __cacheline_group_begin(tcp_sock_write_tx) 2. __alignof__(struct udp_sock) is 64 due to ____cacheline_aligned of struct numa_drop_counters 3. in raw6_sock, struct numa_drop_counters is placed before struct ipv6_pinfo . struct ipv6_pinfo is 136 bytes, but the last cache line is only used by ipv6_fl_list: $ pahole -C ipv6_pinfo vmlinux struct ipv6_pinfo { ... /* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) --- */ struct ipv6_fl_socklist * ipv6_fl_list; /* 128 8 */ /* size: 136, cachelines: 3, members: 23 */ Let's move ipv6_fl_list from struct ipv6_pinfo to struct inet_sock to save a full cache line for {tcp6,udp6,raw6}_sock. Now, struct ipv6_pinfo is 128 bytes, and {tcp6,udp6,raw6}_sock have 64 bytes less, while {tcp,udp,raw}_sock retain the same size. Before: # grep -E "^(RAW|UDP[^L\-]|TCP)" /proc/slabinfo | awk '{print $1, "\t", $4}' RAWv6 1408 UDPv6 1472 TCPv6 2560 RAW 1152 UDP 1280 TCP 2368 After: # grep -E "^(RAW|UDP[^L\-]|TCP)" /proc/slabinfo | awk '{print $1, "\t", $4}' RAWv6 1344 UDPv6 1408 TCPv6 2496 RAW 1152 UDP 1280 TCP 2368 Also, ipv6_fl_list and inet_flags (SNDFLOW bit) are placed in the same cache line. $ pahole -C inet_sock vmlinux ... /* --- cacheline 11 boundary (704 bytes) was 56 bytes ago --- */ struct ipv6_pinfo * pinet6; /* 760 8 */ /* --- cacheline 12 boundary (768 bytes) --- */ struct ipv6_fl_socklist * ipv6_fl_list; /* 768 8 */ unsigned long inet_flags; /* 776 8 */ Doc churn is due to the insufficient Type column (only 1 space short). Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251014224210.2964778-1-kuniyu@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-16net: rmnet: Fix checksum offload header v5 and aggregation packet formattingBagas Sanjaya
Packet format for checksum offload header v5 and aggregation, and header type table for the former, are shown in normal paragraphs instead. Use appropriate markup. Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251015092540.32282-2-bagasdotme@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-15Merge tag 'linux-can-fixes-for-6.18-20251014' of ↵Jakub Kicinski
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mkl/linux-can Marc Kleine-Budde says: ==================== pull-request: can 2025-10-14 The first 2 paches are by Celeste Liu and target the gS_usb driver. The first patch remove the limitation to 3 CAN interface per USB device. The second patch adds the missing population of net_device->dev_port. The next 4 patches are by me and fix the m_can driver. They add a missing pm_runtime_disable(), fix the CAN state transition back to Error Active and fix the state after ifup and suspend/resume. Another patch by me targets the m_can driver, too and replaces Dong Aisheng's old email address. The next 2 patches are by Vincent Mailhol and update the CAN networking Documentation. Tetsuo Handa contributes the last patch that add missing cleanup calls in the NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification handler. * tag 'linux-can-fixes-for-6.18-20251014' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mkl/linux-can: can: j1939: add missing calls in NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification handler can: add Transmitter Delay Compensation (TDC) documentation can: remove false statement about 1:1 mapping between DLC and length can: m_can: replace Dong Aisheng's old email address can: m_can: fix CAN state in system PM can: m_can: m_can_chip_config(): bring up interface in correct state can: m_can: m_can_handle_state_errors(): fix CAN state transition to Error Active can: m_can: m_can_plat_remove(): add missing pm_runtime_disable() can: gs_usb: gs_make_candev(): populate net_device->dev_port can: gs_usb: increase max interface to U8_MAX ==================== Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251014122140.990472-1-mkl@pengutronix.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-13can: add Transmitter Delay Compensation (TDC) documentationVincent Mailhol
Back in 2021, support for CAN TDC was added to the kernel in series [1] and in iproute2 in series [2]. However, the documentation was never updated. Add a new sub-section under CAN-FD driver support to document how to configure the TDC using the "ip tool". [1] add the netlink interface for CAN-FD Transmitter Delay Compensation (TDC) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210918095637.20108-1-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr/ [2] iplink_can: cleaning, fixes and adding TDC support Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211103164428.692722-1-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr/ Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251013-can-fd-doc-v2-2-5d53bdc8f2ad@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
2025-10-13can: remove false statement about 1:1 mapping between DLC and lengthVincent Mailhol
The CAN-FD section of can.rst still states that there is a 1:1 mapping between the Classical CAN DLC and its length. This is only true for the DLC values up to 8. Beyond that point, the length remains at 8. For reference, the mapping between the CAN DLC and the length is given in below table [1]: DLC value CBFF and CEFF FBFF and FEFF [decimal] [byte] [byte] ---------------------------------------------- 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 8 9 8 12 10 8 16 11 8 20 12 8 24 13 8 32 14 8 48 15 8 64 Remove the erroneous statement. Instead just state that the length of a Classical CAN frame ranges from 0 to 8. [1] ISO 11898-1:2024, Table 5 -- DLC: coding of the four LSB Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251013-can-fd-doc-v2-1-5d53bdc8f2ad@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
2025-10-12doc: fix seg6_flowlabel pathNicolas Dichtel
This sysctl is not per interface; it's global per netns. Fixes: 292ecd9f5a94 ("doc: move seg6_flowlabel to seg6-sysctl.rst") Reported-by: Philippe Guibert <philippe.guibert@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2025-10-03Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdmaLinus Torvalds
Pull rdma updates from Jason Gunthorpe: "A new Pensando ionic driver, a new Gen 3 HW support for Intel irdma, and lots of small bnxt_re improvements. - Small bug fixes and improves to hfi1, efa, mlx5, erdma, rdmarvt, siw - Allow userspace access to IB service records through the rdmacm - Optimize dma mapping for erdma - Fix shutdown of the GSI QP in mana - Support relaxed ordering MR and fix a corruption bug with mlx5 DMA Data Direct - Many improvement to bnxt_re: - Debugging features and counters - Improve performance of some commands - Change flow_label reporting in completions - Mirror vnic - RDMA flow support - New RDMA driver for Pensando Ethernet devices: ionic - Gen 3 hardware support for the Intel irdma driver - Fix rdma routing resolution with VRFs" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma: (85 commits) RDMA/ionic: Fix memory leak of admin q_wr RDMA/siw: Always report immediate post SQ errors RDMA/bnxt_re: improve clarity in ALLOC_PAGE handler RDMA/irdma: Remove unused struct irdma_cq fields RDMA/irdma: Fix positive vs negative error codes in irdma_post_send() RDMA/bnxt_re: Remove non-statistics counters from hw_counters RDMA/bnxt_re: Add debugfs info entry for device and resource information RDMA/bnxt_re: Fix incorrect errno used in function comments RDMA: Use %pe format specifier for error pointers RDMA/ionic: Use ether_addr_copy instead of memcpy RDMA/ionic: Fix build failure on SPARC due to xchg() operand size RDMA/rxe: Fix race in do_task() when draining IB/sa: Fix sa_local_svc_timeout_ms read race IB/ipoib: Ignore L3 master device RDMA/core: Use route entry flag to decide on loopback traffic RDMA/core: Resolve MAC of next-hop device without ARP support RDMA/core: Squash a single user static function RDMA/irdma: Update Kconfig RDMA/irdma: Extend CQE Error and Flush Handling for GEN3 Devices RDMA/irdma: Add Atomic Operations support ...
2025-10-03Merge tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all over: - Bring the kernel memory-model docs into the Sphinx build in the "literal include" mode. - Lots of build-infrastructure work, further cleaning up long-term kernel-doc technical debt. The sphinx-pre-install tool has been converted to Python and updated for current systems. - A new tool to detect when documents have been moved and generate HTML redirects; this can be used on kernel.org (or any other site hosting the rendered docs) to avoid breaking links. - Automated processing of the YAML files describing the netlink protocol. - A significant update of the maintainer's PGP guide. ... and a seemingly endless series of typo fixes, build-problem fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits) Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.17-rc7 docs: remove cdomain.py Documentation/process: submitting-patches: fix typo in "were do" docs: dev-tools/lkmm: Fix typo of missing file extension Documentation: trace: histogram: Convert ftrace docs cross-reference Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Wrap introductory note in note:: directive Documentation: trace: historgram-design: Separate sched_waking histogram section heading and the following diagram Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Trim trailing vertices in diagram explanation text Documentation: trace: histogram: Fix histogram trigger subsection number order docs: driver-api: fix spelling of "buses". Documentation: fbcon: Use admonition directives Documentation: fbcon: Reindent 8th step of attach/detach/unload Documentation: fbcon: Add boot options and attach/detach/unload section headings docs: filesystems: sysfs: add remaining top level sysfs directory descriptions docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descriptions docs: filesystems: sysfs: remove top level sysfs net directory docs: maintainer: Fix ambiguous subheading formatting docs: kdoc: a few more dump_typedef() tweaks docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping in dump_typedef() docs: kdoc: remove some dead code in dump_typedef() ...
2025-10-02Merge tag 'net-next-6.18' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni: "Core & protocols: - Improve drop account scalability on NUMA hosts for RAW and UDP sockets and the backlog, almost doubling the Pps capacity under DoS - Optimize the UDP RX performance under stress, reducing contention, revisiting the binary layout of the involved data structs and implementing NUMA-aware locking. This improves UDP RX performance by an additional 50%, even more under extreme conditions - Add support for PSP encryption of TCP connections; this mechanism has some similarities with IPsec and TLS, but offers superior HW offloads capabilities - Ongoing work to support Accurate ECN for TCP. AccECN allows more than one congestion notification signal per RTT and is a building block for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) - Reorganize the TCP socket binary layout for data locality, reducing the number of touched cachelines in the fastpath - Refactor skb deferral free to better scale on large multi-NUMA hosts, this improves TCP and UDP RX performances significantly on such HW - Increase the default socket memory buffer limits from 256K to 4M to better fit modern link speeds - Improve handling of setups with a large number of nexthop, making dump operating scaling linearly and avoiding unneeded synchronize_rcu() on delete - Improve bridge handling of VLAN FDB, storing a single entry per bridge instead of one entry per port; this makes the dump order of magnitude faster on large switches - Restore IP ID correctly for encapsulated packets at GSO segmentation time, allowing GRO to merge packets in more scenarios - Improve netfilter matching performance on large sets - Improve MPTCP receive path performance by leveraging recently introduced core infrastructure (skb deferral free) and adopting recent TCP autotuning changes - Allow bridges to redirect to a backup port when the bridge port is administratively down - Introduce MPTCP 'laminar' endpoint that con be used only once per connection and simplify common MPTCP setups - Add RCU safety to dst->dev, closing a lot of possible races - A significant crypto library API for SCTP, MPTCP and IPv6 SR, reducing code duplication - Supports pulling data from an skb frag into the linear area of an XDP buffer Things we sprinkled into general kernel code: - Generate netlink documentation from YAML using an integrated YAML parser Driver API: - Support using IPv6 Flow Label in Rx hash computation and RSS queue selection - Introduce API for fetching the DMA device for a given queue, allowing TCP zerocopy RX on more H/W setups - Make XDP helpers compatible with unreadable memory, allowing more easily building DevMem-enabled drivers with a unified XDP/skbs datapath - Add a new dedicated ethtool callback enabling drivers to provide the number of RX rings directly, improving efficiency and clarity in RX ring queries and RSS configuration - Introduce a burst period for the health reporter, allowing better handling of multiple errors due to the same root cause - Support for DPLL phase offset exponential moving average, controlling the average smoothing factor Device drivers: - Add a new Huawei driver for 3rd gen NIC (hinic3) - Add a new SpacemiT driver for K1 ethernet MAC - Add a generic abstraction for shared memory communication devices (dibps) - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - nVidia/Mellanox: - Use multiple per-queue doorbell, to avoid MMIO contention issues - support adjacent functions, allowing them to delegate their SR-IOV VFs to sibling PFs - support RSS for IPSec offload - support exposing raw cycle counters in PTP and mlx5 - support for disabling host PFs. - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - ice: support for SRIOV VFs over an Active-Active link aggregate - ice: support for firmware logging via debugfs - ice: support for Earliest TxTime First (ETF) hardware offload - idpf: support basic XDP functionalities and XSk - Broadcom (bnxt): - support Hyper-V VF ID - dynamic SRIOV resource allocations for RoCE - Meta (fbnic): - support queue API, zero-copy Rx and Tx - support basic XDP functionalities - devlink health support for FW crashes and OTP mem corruptions - expand hardware stats coverage to FEC, PHY, and Pause - Wangxun: - support ethtool coalesce options - support for multiple RSS contexts - Ethernet virtual: - Macsec: - replace custom netlink attribute checks with policy-level checks - Bonding: - support aggregator selection based on port priority - Microsoft vNIC: - use page pool fragments for RX buffers instead of full pages to improve memory efficiency - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded: - Qualcomm: support Ethernet function for IPQ9574 SoC - Airoha: implement wlan offloading via NPU - Freescale - enetc: add NETC timer PTP driver and add PTP support - fec: enable the Jumbo frame support for i.MX8QM - Renesas (R-Car S4): - support HW offloading for layer 2 switching - support for RZ/{T2H, N2H} SoCs - Cadence (macb): support TAPRIO traffic scheduling - TI: - support for Gigabit ICSS ethernet SoC (icssm-prueth) - Synopsys (stmmac): a lot of cleanups - Ethernet PHYs: - Support 10g-qxgmi phy-mode for AQR412C, Felix DSA and Lynx PCS driver - Support bcm63268 GPHY power control - Support for Micrel lan8842 PHY and PTP - Support for Aquantia AQR412 and AQR115 - CAN: - a large CAN-XL preparation work - reorganize raw_sock and uniqframe struct to minimize memory usage - rcar_canfd: update the CAN-FD handling - WiFi: - extended Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support - S1G channel representation cleanup - improve S1G support - WiFi drivers: - Intel (iwlwifi): - major refactor and cleanup - Broadcom (brcm80211): - support for AP isolation - RealTek (rtw88/89) rtw88/89: - preparation work for RTL8922DE support - MediaTek (mt76): - HW restart improvements - MLO support - Qualcomm/Atheros (ath10k): - GTK rekey fixes - Bluetooth drivers: - btusb: support for several new IDs for MT7925 - btintel: support for BlazarIW core - btintel_pcie: support for _suspend() / _resume() - btintel_pcie: support for Scorpious, Panther Lake-H484 IDs" * tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1536 commits) net: stmmac: Add support for Allwinner A523 GMAC200 dt-bindings: net: sun8i-emac: Add A523 GMAC200 compatible Revert "Documentation: net: add flow control guide and document ethtool API" octeontx2-pf: fix bitmap leak octeontx2-vf: fix bitmap leak net/mlx5e: Use extack in set rxfh callback net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_params for RSS configuration net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_init_params net/mlx5e: Remove unused mdev param from RSS indir init net/mlx5: Improve QoS error messages with actual depth values net/mlx5e: Prevent entering switchdev mode with inconsistent netns net/mlx5: HWS, Generalize complex matchers net/mlx5: Improve write-combining test reliability for ARM64 Grace CPUs selftests/net: add tcp_port_share to .gitignore Revert "net/mlx5e: Update and set Xon/Xoff upon MTU set" net: add NUMA awareness to skb_attempt_defer_free() net: use llist for sd->defer_list net: make softnet_data.defer_count an atomic selftests: drv-net: psp: add tests for destroying devices selftests: drv-net: psp: add test for auto-adjusting TCP MSS ...
2025-10-02Merge tag 'for-6.18/io_uring-20250929' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux Pull io_uring updates from Jens Axboe: - Store ring provided buffers locally for the users, rather than stuff them into struct io_kiocb. These types of buffers must always be fully consumed or recycled in the current context, and leaving them in struct io_kiocb is hence not a good ideas as that struct has a vastly different life time. Basically just an architecture cleanup that can help prevent issues with ring provided buffers in the future. - Support for mixed CQE sizes in the same ring. Before this change, a CQ ring either used the default 16b CQEs, or it was setup with 32b CQE using IORING_SETUP_CQE32. For use cases where a few 32b CQEs were needed, this caused everything else to use big CQEs. This is wasteful both in terms of memory usage, but also memory bandwidth for the posted CQEs. With IORING_SETUP_CQE_MIXED, applications may use request types that post both normal 16b and big 32b CQEs on the same ring. - Add helpers for async data management, to make it harder for opcode handlers to mess it up. - Add support for multishot for uring_cmd, which ublk can use. This helps improve efficiency, by providing a persistent request type that can trigger multiple CQEs. - Add initial support for ring feature querying. We had basic support for probe operations, but the API isn't great. Rather than expand that, add support for QUERY which is easily expandable and can cover a lot more cases than the existing probe support. This will help applications get a better idea of what operations are supported on a given host. - zcrx improvements from Pavel: - Improve refill entry alignment for better caching - Various cleanups, especially around deduplicating normal memory vs dmabuf setup. - Generalisation of the niov size (Patch 12). It's still hard coded to PAGE_SIZE on init, but will let the user to specify the rx buffer length on setup. - Syscall / synchronous bufer return. It'll be used as a slow fallback path for returning buffers when the refill queue is full. Useful for tolerating slight queue size misconfiguration or with inconsistent load. - Accounting more memory to cgroups. - Additional independent cleanups that will also be useful for mutli-area support. - Various fixes and cleanups * tag 'for-6.18/io_uring-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (68 commits) io_uring/cmd: drop unused res2 param from io_uring_cmd_done() io_uring: fix nvme's 32b cqes on mixed cq io_uring/query: cap number of queries io_uring/query: prevent infinite loops io_uring/zcrx: account niov arrays to cgroup io_uring/zcrx: allow synchronous buffer return io_uring/zcrx: introduce io_parse_rqe() io_uring/zcrx: don't adjust free cache space io_uring/zcrx: use guards for the refill lock io_uring/zcrx: reduce netmem scope in refill io_uring/zcrx: protect netdev with pp_lock io_uring/zcrx: rename dma lock io_uring/zcrx: make niov size variable io_uring/zcrx: set sgt for umem area io_uring/zcrx: remove dmabuf_offset io_uring/zcrx: deduplicate area mapping io_uring/zcrx: pass ifq to io_zcrx_alloc_fallback() io_uring/zcrx: check all niovs filled with dma addresses io_uring/zcrx: move area reg checks into io_import_area io_uring/zcrx: don't pass slot to io_zcrx_create_area ...
2025-10-01Revert "Documentation: net: add flow control guide and document ethtool API"Paolo Abeni
This reverts commit 7bd80ed89d72285515db673803b021469ba71ee8. I should not have merged it to begin with due to pending review and changes to be addressed. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/c6f3af12df9b7998920a02027fc8893ce82afc4c.1759239721.git.pabeni@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-09-30Documentation: net: add flow control guide and document ethtool APIOleksij Rempel
Introduce a new document, flow_control.rst, to provide a comprehensive guide on Ethernet Flow Control in Linux. The guide explains how flow control works, how autonegotiation resolves pause capabilities, and how to configure it using ethtool and Netlink. In parallel, document the pause and pause-stat attributes in the ethtool.yaml netlink spec. This enables the ynl tool to generate kernel-doc comments for the corresponding enums in the UAPI header, making the C interface self-documenting. Finally, replace the legacy flow control section in phy.rst with a reference to the new document and add pointers in the relevant C source files. Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250924120241.724850-1-o.rempel@pengutronix.de Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-09-29docs: networking: phy: clarify abbreviation "PAL"Markus Heidelberg
It is suddenly used in the text without introduction, so the meaning might have been unclear to readers. Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <m.heidelberg@cab.de> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250926131520.222346-1-m.heidelberg@cab.de Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-09-27net/mlx5: Expose uar access and odp page fault countersAkiva Goldberger
Add three counters to vnic health reporter: bar_uar_access, odp_local_triggered_page_fault, and odp_remote_triggered_page_fault. - bar_uar_access number of WRITE or READ access operations to the UAR on the PCIe BAR. - odp_local_triggered_page_fault number of locally-triggered page-faults due to ODP. - odp_remote_triggered_page_fault number of remotly-triggered page-faults due to ODP. Example access: $ devlink health diagnose pci/0000:08:00.0 reporter vnic vNIC env counters: total_error_queues: 0 send_queue_priority_update_flow: 0 comp_eq_overrun: 0 async_eq_overrun: 0 cq_overrun: 0 invalid_command: 0 quota_exceeded_command: 0 nic_receive_steering_discard: 0 icm_consumption: 1032 bar_uar_access: 1279 odp_local_triggered_page_fault: 20 odp_remote_triggered_page_fault: 34 Signed-off-by: Akiva Goldberger <agoldberger@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1758797130-829564-1-git-send-email-tariqt@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>