Merge tag 'net-next-5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Linus Torvalds authored
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:

 - Add redirect_neigh() BPF packet redirect helper, allowing to limit
   stack traversal in common container configs and improving TCP
   back-pressure.

   Daniel reports ~10Gbps => ~15Gbps single stream TCP performance gain.

 - Expand netlink policy support and improve policy export to user
   space. (Ge)netlink core performs request validation according to
   declared policies. Expand the expressiveness of those policies
   (min/max length and bitmasks). Allow dumping policies for particular
   commands. This is used for feature discovery by user space (instead
   of kernel version parsing or trial and error).

 - Support IGMPv3/MLDv2 multicast listener discovery protocols in
   bridge.

 - Allow more than 255 IPv4 multicast interfaces.

 - Add support for Type of Service (ToS) reflection in SYN/SYN-ACK
   packets of TCPv6.

 - In Multi-patch TCP (MPTCP) support concurrent transmission of data on
   multiple subflows in a load balancing scenario. Enhance advertising
   addresses via the RM_ADDR/ADD_ADDR options.

 - Support SMC-Dv2 version of SMC, which enables multi-subnet
   deployments.

 - Allow more calls to same peer in RxRPC.

 - Support two new Controller Area Network (CAN) protocols - CAN-FD and
   ISO 15765-2:2016.

 - Add xfrm/IPsec compat layer, solving the 32bit user space on 64bit
   kernel problem.

 - Add TC actions for implementing MPLS L2 VPNs.

 - Improve nexthop code - e.g. handle various corner cases when nexthop
   objects are removed from groups better, skip unnecessary
   notifications and make it easier to offload nexthops into HW by
   converting to a blocking notifier.

 - Support adding and consuming TCP header options by BPF programs,
   opening the doors for easy experimental and deployment-specific TCP
   option use.

 - Reorganize TCP congestion control (CC) initialization to simplify
   life of TCP CC implemented in BPF.

 - Add support for shipping BPF programs with the kernel and loading
   them early on boot via the User Mode Driver mechanism, hence reusing
   all the user space infra we have.

 - Support sleepable BPF programs, initially targeting LSM and tracing.

 - Add bpf_d_path() helper for returning full path for given 'struct
   path'.

 - Make bpf_tail_call compatible with bpf-to-bpf calls.

 - Allow BPF programs to call map_update_elem on sockmaps.

 - Add BPF Type Format (BTF) support for type and enum discovery, as
   well as support for using BTF within the kernel itself (current use
   is for pretty printing structures).

 - Support listing and getting information about bpf_links via the bpf
   syscall.

 - Enhance kernel interfaces around NIC firmware update. Allow
   specifying overwrite mask to control if settings etc. are reset
   during update; report expected max time operation may take to users;
   support firmware activation without machine reboot incl. limits of
   how much impact reset may have (e.g. dropping link or not).

 - Extend ethtool configuration interface to report IEEE-standard
   counters, to limit the need for per-vendor logic in user space.

 - Adopt or extend devlink use for debug, monitoring, fw update in many
   drivers (dsa loop, ice, ionic, sja1105, qed, mlxsw, mv88e6xxx,
   dpaa2-eth).

 - In mlxsw expose critical and emergency SFP module temperature alarms.
   Refactor port buffer handling to make the defaults more suitable and
   support setting these values explicitly via the DCBNL interface.

 - Add XDP support for Intel's igb driver.

 - Support offloading TC flower classification and filtering rules to
   mscc_ocelot switches.

 - Add PTP support for Marvell Octeontx2 and PP2.2 hardware, as well as
   fixed interval period pulse generator and one-step timestamping in
   dpaa-eth.

 - Add support for various auth offloads in WiFi APs, e.g. SAE (WPA3)
   offload.

 - Add Lynx PHY/PCS MDIO module, and convert various drivers which have
   this HW to use it. Convert mvpp2 to split PCS.

 - Support Marvell Prestera 98DX3255 24-port switch ASICs, as well as
   7-port Mediatek MT7531 IP.

 - Add initial support for QCA6390 and IPQ6018 in ath11k WiFi driver,
   and wcn3680 support in wcn36xx.

 - Improve performance for packets which don't require much offloads on
   recent Mellanox NICs by 20% by making multiple packets share a
   descriptor entry.

 - Move chelsio inline crypto drivers (for TLS and IPsec) from the
   crypto subtree to drivers/net. Move MDIO drivers out of the phy
   directory.

 - Clean up a lot of W=1 warnings, reportedly the actively developed
   subsections of networking drivers should now build W=1 warning free.

 - Make sure drivers don't use in_interrupt() to dynamically adapt their
   code. Convert tasklets to use new tasklet_setup API (sadly this
   conversion is not yet complete).

* tag 'net-next-5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2583 commits)
  Revert "bpfilter: Fix build error with CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH"
  net, sockmap: Don't call bpf_prog_put() on NULL pointer
  bpf, selftest: Fix flaky tcp_hdr_options test when adding addr to lo
  bpf, sockmap: Add locking annotations to iterator
  netfilter: nftables: allow re-computing sctp CRC-32C in 'payload' statements
  net: fix pos incrementment in ipv6_route_seq_next
  net/smc: fix invalid return code in smcd_new_buf_create()
  net/smc: fix valid DMBE buffer sizes
  net/smc: fix use-after-free of delayed events
  bpfilter: Fix build error with CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH
  cxgb4/ch_ipsec: Replace the module name to ch_ipsec from chcr
  net: sched: Fix suspicious RCU usage while accessing tcf_tunnel_info
  bpf: Fix register equivalence tracking.
  rxrpc: Fix loss of final ack on shutdown
  rxrpc: Fix bundle counting for exclusive connections
  netfilter: restore NF_INET_NUMHOOKS
  ibmveth: Identify ingress large send packets.
  ibmveth: Switch order of ibmveth_helper calls.
  cxgb4: handle 4-tuple PEDIT to NAT mode translation
  selftests: Add VRF route leaking tests
  ...
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soundwire
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usb
xilinx
basics.rst
clk.rst
component.rst
connector.rst
console.rst
dcdbas.rst
devfreq.rst
device-io.rst
device_link.rst
dma-buf.rst
edac.rst
eisa.rst
firewire.rst
frame-buffer.rst
generic-counter.rst
hsi.rst
i2c.rst
index.rst
infiniband.rst
infrastructure.rst
input.rst
interconnect.rst
io-mapping.rst
io_ordering.rst
ioctl.rst
ipmb.rst
ipmi.rst
isa.rst
isapnp.rst
libata.rst
lightnvm-pblk.rst
mailbox.rst
men-chameleon-bus.rst
message-based.rst
misc_devices.rst
miscellaneous.rst
mtdnand.rst
ntb.rst
nvmem.rst
parport-lowlevel.rst
pinctl.rst
pps.rst
pti_intel_mid.rst
ptp.rst
pwm.rst
regulator.rst
rfkill.rst
s390-drivers.rst
scsi.rst
slimbus.rst
sm501.rst
sound.rst
spi.rst
switchtec.rst
sync_file.rst
target.rst
uio-howto.rst
vfio-mediated-device.rst
vfio.rst
vme.rst
w1.rst
xillybus.rst
zorro.rst

========================================
The Linux driver implementer's API guide
========================================

The kernel offers a wide variety of interfaces to support the development
of device drivers. This document is an only somewhat organized collection
of some of those interfaces — it will hopefully get better over time! The
available subsections can be seen below.

.. class:: toc-title

Table of contents

.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2

driver-model/index
basics
infrastructure
ioctl
early-userspace/index
pm/index
clk
device-io
dma-buf
device_link
component
message-based
infiniband
sound
frame-buffer
regulator
iio/index
input
usb/index
firewire
pci/index
spi
i2c
ipmb
ipmi
i3c/index
interconnect
devfreq
hsi
edac
scsi
libata
target
mailbox
mtdnand
miscellaneous
mei/index
mtd/index
mmc/index
nvdimm/index
w1
rapidio/index
s390-drivers
vme
80211/index
uio-howto
firmware/index
pinctl
gpio/index
md/index
media/index
misc_devices
nfc/index
dmaengine/index
slimbus
soundwire/index
thermal/index
fpga/index
acpi/index
backlight/lp855x-driver.rst
connector
console
dcdbas
eisa
ipmb
isa
isapnp
io-mapping
io_ordering
generic-counter
lightnvm-pblk
memory-devices/index
men-chameleon-bus
ntb
nvmem
parport-lowlevel
pps
ptp
phy/index
pti_intel_mid
pwm
pldmfw/index
rfkill
serial/index
sm501
switchtec
sync_file
vfio-mediated-device
vfio
xilinx/index
xillybus
zorro

.. only:: subproject and html

Indices
=======

* :ref:`genindex`