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<updated>2025-04-25T16:21:23Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Add namespace to BPF internal symbols</title>
<updated>2025-04-25T16:21:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2025-04-25T01:45:42Z</published>
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Add namespace to BPF internal symbols used by light skeleton
to prevent abuse and document with the code their allowed usage.

Fixes: b1d18a7574d0 ("bpf: Extend sys_bpf commands for bpf_syscall programs.")
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250425014542.62385-1-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>bpf: fix possible endless loop in BPF map iteration</title>
<updated>2025-04-25T15:36:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Brandon Kammerdiener</name>
<email>brandon.kammerdiener@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-24T15:32:51Z</published>
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The _safe variant used here gets the next element before running the callback,
avoiding the endless loop condition.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Kammerdiener &lt;brandon.kammerdiener@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250424153246.141677-2-brandon.kammerdiener@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Hou Tao &lt;houtao1@huawei.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Convert ringbuf map to rqspinlock</title>
<updated>2025-04-11T17:28:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-11T10:17:59Z</published>
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Convert the raw spinlock used by BPF ringbuf to rqspinlock. Currently,
we have an open syzbot report of a potential deadlock. In addition, the
ringbuf can fail to reserve spuriously under contention from NMI
context.

It is potentially attractive to enable unconstrained usage (incl. NMIs)
while ensuring no deadlocks manifest at runtime, perform the conversion
to rqspinlock to achieve this.

This change was benchmarked for BPF ringbuf's multi-producer contention
case on an Intel Sapphire Rapids server, with hyperthreading disabled
and performance governor turned on. 5 warm up runs were done for each
case before obtaining the results.

Before (raw_spinlock_t):

Ringbuf, multi-producer contention
==================================
rb-libbpf nr_prod 1  11.440 ± 0.019M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 2  2.706 ± 0.010M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 3  3.130 ± 0.004M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 4  2.472 ± 0.003M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 8  2.352 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 12 2.813 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 16 1.988 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 20 2.245 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 24 2.148 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 28 2.190 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 32 2.490 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 36 2.180 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 40 2.201 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 44 2.226 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 48 2.164 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 52 1.874 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s)

After (rqspinlock_t):

Ringbuf, multi-producer contention
==================================
rb-libbpf nr_prod 1  11.078 ± 0.019M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (-3.16%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 2  2.801 ± 0.014M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (3.51%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 3  3.454 ± 0.005M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (10.35%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 4  2.567 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (3.84%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 8  2.468 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (4.93%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 12 2.510 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (-10.77%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 16 2.075 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (4.38%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 20 2.640 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (17.59%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 24 2.092 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (-2.61%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 28 2.426 ± 0.005M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (10.78%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 32 2.331 ± 0.004M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (-6.39%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 36 2.306 ± 0.003M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (5.78%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 40 2.178 ± 0.002M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (-1.04%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 44 2.293 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (3.01%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 48 2.022 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (-6.56%)
rb-libbpf nr_prod 52 1.809 ± 0.001M/s (drops 0.000 ± 0.000M/s) (-3.47%)

There's a fair amount of noise in the benchmark, with numbers on reruns
going up and down by 10%, so all changes are in the range of this
disturbance, and we see no major regressions.

Reported-by: syzbot+850aaf14624dc0c6d366@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0000000000004aa700061379547e@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250411101759.4061366-1-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Convert queue_stack map to rqspinlock</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T19:51:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-10T15:31:42Z</published>
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Replace all usage of raw_spinlock_t in queue_stack_maps.c with
rqspinlock. This is a map type with a set of open syzbot reports
reproducing possible deadlocks. Prior attempt to fix the issues
was at [0], but was dropped in favor of this approach.

Make sure we return the -EBUSY error in case of possible deadlocks or
timeouts, just to make sure user space or BPF programs relying on the
error code to detect problems do not break.

With these changes, the map should be safe to access in any context,
including NMIs.

  [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240429165658.1305969-1-sidchintamaneni@gmail.com

Reported-by: syzbot+8bdfc2c53fb2b63e1871@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0000000000004c3fc90615f37756@google.com
Reported-by: syzbot+252bc5c744d0bba917e1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000c80abd0616517df9@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250410153142.2064340-1-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Use architecture provided res_smp_cond_load_acquire</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T19:47:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-10T14:55:12Z</published>
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In v2 of rqspinlock [0], we fixed potential problems with WFE usage in
arm64 to fallback to a version copied from Ankur's series [1]. This
logic was moved into arch-specific headers in v3 [2].

However, we missed using the arch-provided res_smp_cond_load_acquire
in commit ebababcd0372 ("rqspinlock: Hardcode cond_acquire loops for arm64")
due to a rebasing mistake between v2 and v3 of the rqspinlock series.
Fix the typo to fallback to the arm64 definition as we did in v2.

  [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250206105435.2159977-18-memxor@gmail.com
  [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250203214911.898276-1-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com
  [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250303152305.3195648-9-memxor@gmail.com

Fixes: ebababcd0372 ("rqspinlock: Hardcode cond_acquire loops for arm64")
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250410145512.1876745-1-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;

</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'bpf_try_alloc_pages' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next</title>
<updated>2025-03-30T20:45:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-30T20:45:28Z</published>
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Pull bpf try_alloc_pages() support from Alexei Starovoitov:
 "The pull includes work from Sebastian, Vlastimil and myself with a lot
  of help from Michal and Shakeel.

  This is a first step towards making kmalloc reentrant to get rid of
  slab wrappers: bpf_mem_alloc, kretprobe's objpool, etc. These patches
  make page allocator safe from any context.

  Vlastimil kicked off this effort at LSFMM 2024:

    https://lwn.net/Articles/974138/

  and we continued at LSFMM 2025:

    https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAADnVQKfkGxudNUkcPJgwe3nTZ=xohnRshx9kLZBTmR_E1DFEg@mail.gmail.com/

  Why:

  SLAB wrappers bind memory to a particular subsystem making it
  unavailable to the rest of the kernel. Some BPF maps in production
  consume Gbytes of preallocated memory. Top 5 in Meta: 1.5G, 1.2G,
  1.1G, 300M, 200M. Once we have kmalloc that works in any context BPF
  map preallocation won't be necessary.

  How:

  Synchronous kmalloc/page alloc stack has multiple stages going from
  fast to slow: cmpxchg16 -&gt; slab_alloc -&gt; new_slab -&gt; alloc_pages -&gt;
  rmqueue_pcplist -&gt; __rmqueue, where rmqueue_pcplist was already
  relying on trylock.

  This set changes rmqueue_bulk/rmqueue_buddy to attempt a trylock and
  return ENOMEM if alloc_flags &amp; ALLOC_TRYLOCK. It then wraps this
  functionality into try_alloc_pages() helper. We make sure that the
  logic is sane in PREEMPT_RT.

  End result: try_alloc_pages()/free_pages_nolock() are safe to call
  from any context.

  try_kmalloc() for any context with similar trylock approach will
  follow. It will use try_alloc_pages() when slab needs a new page.
  Though such try_kmalloc/page_alloc() is an opportunistic allocator,
  this design ensures that the probability of successful allocation of
  small objects (up to one page in size) is high.

  Even before we have try_kmalloc(), we already use try_alloc_pages() in
  BPF arena implementation and it's going to be used more extensively in
  BPF"

* tag 'bpf_try_alloc_pages' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next:
  mm: Fix the flipped condition in gfpflags_allow_spinning()
  bpf: Use try_alloc_pages() to allocate pages for bpf needs.
  mm, bpf: Use memcg in try_alloc_pages().
  memcg: Use trylock to access memcg stock_lock.
  mm, bpf: Introduce free_pages_nolock()
  mm, bpf: Introduce try_alloc_pages() for opportunistic page allocation
  locking/local_lock: Introduce localtry_lock_t
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'bpf_res_spin_lock' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next</title>
<updated>2025-03-30T20:06:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-30T20:06:27Z</published>
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Pull bpf relisient spinlock support from Alexei Starovoitov:
 "This patch set introduces Resilient Queued Spin Lock (or rqspinlock
  with res_spin_lock() and res_spin_unlock() APIs).

  This is a qspinlock variant which recovers the kernel from a stalled
  state when the lock acquisition path cannot make forward progress.
  This can occur when a lock acquisition attempt enters a deadlock
  situation (e.g. AA, or ABBA), or more generally, when the owner of the
  lock (which we’re trying to acquire) isn’t making forward progress.
  Deadlock detection is the main mechanism used to provide instant
  recovery, with the timeout mechanism acting as a final line of
  defense. Detection is triggered immediately when beginning the waiting
  loop of a lock slow path.

  Additionally, BPF programs attached to different parts of the kernel
  can introduce new control flow into the kernel, which increases the
  likelihood of deadlocks in code not written to handle reentrancy.
  There have been multiple syzbot reports surfacing deadlocks in
  internal kernel code due to the diverse ways in which BPF programs can
  be attached to different parts of the kernel. By switching the BPF
  subsystem’s lock usage to rqspinlock, all of these issues are
  mitigated at runtime.

  This spin lock implementation allows BPF maps to become safer and
  remove mechanisms that have fallen short in assuring safety when
  nesting programs in arbitrary ways in the same context or across
  different contexts.

  We run benchmarks that stress locking scalability and perform
  comparison against the baseline (qspinlock). For the rqspinlock case,
  we replace the default qspinlock with it in the kernel, such that all
  spin locks in the kernel use the rqspinlock slow path. As such,
  benchmarks that stress kernel spin locks end up exercising rqspinlock.

  More details in the cover letter in commit 6ffb9017e932 ("Merge branch
  'resilient-queued-spin-lock'")"

* tag 'bpf_res_spin_lock' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (24 commits)
  selftests/bpf: Add tests for rqspinlock
  bpf: Maintain FIFO property for rqspinlock unlock
  bpf: Implement verifier support for rqspinlock
  bpf: Introduce rqspinlock kfuncs
  bpf: Convert lpm_trie.c to rqspinlock
  bpf: Convert percpu_freelist.c to rqspinlock
  bpf: Convert hashtab.c to rqspinlock
  rqspinlock: Add locktorture support
  rqspinlock: Add entry to Makefile, MAINTAINERS
  rqspinlock: Add macros for rqspinlock usage
  rqspinlock: Add basic support for CONFIG_PARAVIRT
  rqspinlock: Add a test-and-set fallback
  rqspinlock: Add deadlock detection and recovery
  rqspinlock: Protect waiters in trylock fallback from stalls
  rqspinlock: Protect waiters in queue from stalls
  rqspinlock: Protect pending bit owners from stalls
  rqspinlock: Hardcode cond_acquire loops for arm64
  rqspinlock: Add support for timeouts
  rqspinlock: Drop PV and virtualization support
  rqspinlock: Add rqspinlock.h header
  ...
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'bpf-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next</title>
<updated>2025-03-30T19:43:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-30T19:43:03Z</published>
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Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:
 "For this merge window we're splitting BPF pull request into three for
  higher visibility: main changes, res_spin_lock, try_alloc_pages.

  These are the main BPF changes:

   - Add DFA-based live registers analysis to improve verification of
     programs with loops (Eduard Zingerman)

   - Introduce load_acquire and store_release BPF instructions and add
     x86, arm64 JIT support (Peilin Ye)

   - Fix loop detection logic in the verifier (Eduard Zingerman)

   - Drop unnecesary lock in bpf_map_inc_not_zero() (Eric Dumazet)

   - Add kfunc for populating cpumask bits (Emil Tsalapatis)

   - Convert various shell based tests to selftests/bpf/test_progs
     format (Bastien Curutchet)

   - Allow passing referenced kptrs into struct_ops callbacks (Amery
     Hung)

   - Add a flag to LSM bpf hook to facilitate bpf program signing
     (Blaise Boscaccy)

   - Track arena arguments in kfuncs (Ihor Solodrai)

   - Add copy_remote_vm_str() helper for reading strings from remote VM
     and bpf_copy_from_user_task_str() kfunc (Jordan Rome)

   - Add support for timed may_goto instruction (Kumar Kartikeya
     Dwivedi)

   - Allow bpf_get_netns_cookie() int cgroup_skb programs (Mahe Tardy)

   - Reduce bpf_cgrp_storage_busy false positives when accessing cgroup
     local storage (Martin KaFai Lau)

   - Introduce bpf_dynptr_copy() kfunc (Mykyta Yatsenko)

   - Allow retrieving BTF data with BTF token (Mykyta Yatsenko)

   - Add BPF kfuncs to set and get xattrs with 'security.bpf.' prefix
     (Song Liu)

   - Reject attaching programs to noreturn functions (Yafang Shao)

   - Introduce pre-order traversal of cgroup bpf programs (Yonghong
     Song)"

* tag 'bpf-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (186 commits)
  selftests/bpf: Add selftests for load-acquire/store-release when register number is invalid
  bpf: Fix out-of-bounds read in check_atomic_load/store()
  libbpf: Add namespace for errstr making it libbpf_errstr
  bpf: Add struct_ops context information to struct bpf_prog_aux
  selftests/bpf: Sanitize pointer prior fclose()
  selftests/bpf: Migrate test_xdp_vlan.sh into test_progs
  selftests/bpf: test_xdp_vlan: Rename BPF sections
  bpf: clarify a misleading verifier error message
  selftests/bpf: Add selftest for attaching fexit to __noreturn functions
  bpf: Reject attaching fexit/fmod_ret to __noreturn functions
  bpf: Only fails the busy counter check in bpf_cgrp_storage_get if it creates storage
  bpf: Make perf_event_read_output accessible in all program types.
  bpftool: Using the right format specifiers
  bpftool: Add -Wformat-signedness flag to detect format errors
  selftests/bpf: Test freplace from user namespace
  libbpf: Pass BPF token from find_prog_btf_id to BPF_BTF_GET_FD_BY_ID
  bpf: Return prog btf_id without capable check
  bpf: BPF token support for BPF_BTF_GET_FD_BY_ID
  bpf, x86: Fix objtool warning for timed may_goto
  bpf: Check map-&gt;record at the beginning of check_and_free_fields()
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2025-03-27T04:48:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-27T04:48:21Z</published>
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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - Continue Netlink conversions to per-namespace RTNL lock
     (IPv4 routing, routing rules, routing next hops, ARP ioctls)

   - Continue extending the use of netdev instance locks. As a driver
     opt-in protect queue operations and (in due course) ethtool
     operations with the instance lock and not RTNL lock.

   - Support collecting TCP timestamps (data submitted, sent, acked) in
     BPF, allowing for transparent (to the application) and lower
     overhead tracking of TCP RPC performance.

   - Tweak existing networking Rx zero-copy infra to support zero-copy
     Rx via io_uring.

   - Optimize MPTCP performance in single subflow mode by 29%.

   - Enable GRO on packets which went thru XDP CPU redirect (were queued
     for processing on a different CPU). Improving TCP stream
     performance up to 2x.

   - Improve performance of contended connect() by 200% by searching for
     an available 4-tuple under RCU rather than a spin lock. Bring an
     additional 229% improvement by tweaking hash distribution.

   - Avoid unconditionally touching sk_tsflags on RX, improving
     performance under UDP flood by as much as 10%.

   - Avoid skb_clone() dance in ping_rcv() to improve performance under
     ping flood.

   - Avoid FIB lookup in netfilter if socket is available, 20% perf win.

   - Rework network device creation (in-kernel) API to more clearly
     identify network namespaces and their roles. There are up to 4
     namespace roles but we used to have just 2 netns pointer arguments,
     interpreted differently based on context.

   - Use sysfs_break_active_protection() instead of trylock to avoid
     deadlocks between unregistering objects and sysfs access.

   - Add a new sysctl and sockopt for capping max retransmit timeout in
     TCP.

   - Support masking port and DSCP in routing rule matches.

   - Support dumping IPv4 multicast addresses with RTM_GETMULTICAST.

   - Support specifying at what time packet should be sent on AF_XDP
     sockets.

   - Expose TCP ULP diagnostic info (for TLS and MPTCP) to non-admin
     users.

   - Add Netlink YAML spec for WiFi (nl80211) and conntrack.

   - Introduce EXPORT_IPV6_MOD() and EXPORT_IPV6_MOD_GPL() for symbols
     which only need to be exported when IPv6 support is built as a
     module.

   - Age FDB entries based on Rx not Tx traffic in VxLAN, similar to
     normal bridging.

   - Allow users to specify source port range for GENEVE tunnels.

   - netconsole: allow attaching kernel release, CPU ID and task name to
     messages as metadata

  Driver API:

   - Continue rework / fixing of Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) across
     the SW layers. Delegate the responsibilities to phylink where
     possible. Improve its handling in phylib.

   - Support symmetric OR-XOR RSS hashing algorithm.

   - Support tracking and preserving IRQ affinity by NAPI itself.

   - Support loopback mode speed selection for interface selftests.

  Device drivers:

   - Remove the IBM LCS driver for s390

   - Remove the sb1000 cable modem driver

   - Add support for SFP module access over SMBus

   - Add MCTP transport driver for MCTP-over-USB

   - Enable XDP metadata support in multiple drivers

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - add PCIe TLP Processing Hints (TPH) support for new AMD
           platforms
         - support dumping RoCE queue state for debug
         - opt into instance locking
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - ice: rework MSI-X IRQ management and distribution
         - ice: support for E830 devices
         - iavf: add support for Rx timestamping
         - iavf: opt into instance locking
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - mlx4: use page pool memory allocator for Rx
         - mlx5: support for one PTP device per hardware clock
         - mlx5: support for 200Gbps per-lane link modes
         - mlx5: move IPSec policy check after decryption
      - AMD/Solarflare:
         - support FW flashing via devlink
      - Cisco (enic):
         - use page pool memory allocator for Rx
         - enable 32, 64 byte CQEs
         - get max rx/tx ring size from the device
      - Meta (fbnic):
         - support flow steering and RSS configuration
         - report queue stats
         - support TCP segmentation
         - support IRQ coalescing
         - support ring size configuration
      - Marvell/Cavium:
         - support AF_XDP
      - Wangxun:
         - support for PTP clock and timestamping
      - Huawei (hibmcge):
         - checksum offload
         - add more statistics

   - Ethernet virtual:
      - VirtIO net:
         - aggressively suppress Tx completions, improve perf by 96%
           with 1 CPU and 55% with 2 CPUs
         - expose NAPI to IRQ mapping and persist NAPI settings
      - Google (gve):
         - support XDP in DQO RDA Queue Format
         - opt into instance locking
      - Microsoft vNIC:
         - support BIG TCP

   - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - cleanup Tx and Tx clock setting and other link-focused
           cleanups
         - enable SGMII and 2500BASEX mode switching for Intel platforms
         - support Sophgo SG2044
      - Broadcom switches (b53):
         - support for BCM53101
      - TI:
         - iep: add perout configuration support
         - icssg: support XDP
      - Cadence (macb):
         - implement BQL
      - Xilinx (axinet):
         - support dynamic IRQ moderation and changing coalescing at
           runtime
         - implement BQL
         - report standard stats
      - MediaTek:
         - support phylink managed EEE
      - Intel:
         - igc: don't restart the interface on every XDP program change
      - RealTek (r8169):
         - support reading registers of internal PHYs directly
         - increase max jumbo packet size on RTL8125/RTL8126
      - Airoha:
         - support for RISC-V NPU packet processing unit
         - enable scatter-gather and support MTU up to 9kB
      - Tehuti (tn40xx):
         - support cards with TN4010 MAC and an Aquantia AQR105 PHY

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - support for TJA1102S, TJA1121
      - dp83tg720: add randomized polling intervals for link detection
      - dp83822: support changing the transmit amplitude voltage
      - support for LEDs on 88q2xxx

   - CAN:
      - canxl: support Remote Request Substitution bit access
      - flexcan: add S32G2/S32G3 SoC

   - WiFi:
      - remove cooked monitor support
      - strict mode for better AP testing
      - basic EPCS support
      - OMI RX bandwidth reduction support
      - batman-adv: add support for jumbo frames

   - WiFi drivers:
      - RealTek (rtw88):
         - support RTL8814AE and RTL8814AU
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - switch using wiphy_lock and wiphy_work
         - add BB context to manipulate two PHY as preparation of MLO
         - improve BT-coexistence mechanism to play A2DP smoothly
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - add new iwlmld sub-driver for latest HW/FW combinations
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - preparation for mt7996 Multi-Link Operation (MLO) support
      - Qualcomm/Atheros (ath12k):
         - continued work on MLO
      - Silabs (wfx):
         - Wake-on-WLAN support

   - Bluetooth:
      - add support for skb TX SND/COMPLETION timestamping
      - hci_core: enable buffer flow control for SCO/eSCO
      - coredump: log devcd dumps into the monitor

   - Bluetooth drivers:
      - intel: add support to configure TX power
      - nxp: handle bootloader error during cmd5 and cmd7"

* tag 'net-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1681 commits)
  unix: fix up for "apparmor: add fine grained af_unix mediation"
  mctp: Fix incorrect tx flow invalidation condition in mctp-i2c
  net: usb: asix: ax88772: Increase phy_name size
  net: phy: Introduce PHY_ID_SIZE — minimum size for PHY ID string
  net: libwx: fix Tx L4 checksum
  net: libwx: fix Tx descriptor content for some tunnel packets
  atm: Fix NULL pointer dereference
  net: tn40xx: add pci-id of the aqr105-based Tehuti TN4010 cards
  net: tn40xx: prepare tn40xx driver to find phy of the TN9510 card
  net: tn40xx: create swnode for mdio and aqr105 phy and add to mdiobus
  net: phy: aquantia: add essential functions to aqr105 driver
  net: phy: aquantia: search for firmware-name in fwnode
  net: phy: aquantia: add probe function to aqr105 for firmware loading
  net: phy: Add swnode support to mdiobus_scan
  gve: add XDP DROP and PASS support for DQ
  gve: update XDP allocation path support RX buffer posting
  gve: merge packet buffer size fields
  gve: update GQ RX to use buf_size
  gve: introduce config-based allocation for XDP
  gve: remove xdp_xsk_done and xdp_xsk_wakeup statistics
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-03-25T17:54:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-25T17:54:15Z</published>
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Pull timer cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A treewide hrtimer timer cleanup

  hrtimers are initialized with hrtimer_init() and a subsequent store to
  the callback pointer. This turned out to be suboptimal for the
  upcoming Rust integration and is obviously a silly implementation to
  begin with.

  This cleanup replaces the hrtimer_init(T); T-&gt;function = cb; sequence
  with hrtimer_setup(T, cb);

  The conversion was done with Coccinelle and a few manual fixups.

  Once the conversion has completely landed in mainline, hrtimer_init()
  will be removed and the hrtimer::function becomes a private member"

* tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (100 commits)
  wifi: rt2x00: Switch to use hrtimer_update_function()
  io_uring: Use helper function hrtimer_update_function()
  serial: xilinx_uartps: Use helper function hrtimer_update_function()
  ASoC: fsl: imx-pcm-fiq: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  RDMA: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  virtio: mem: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/vmwgfx: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/xe/oa: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/vkms: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/msm: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/i915/request: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/i915/uncore: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/i915/pmu: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/i915/perf: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/i915/gvt: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/i915/huc: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/amdgpu: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  stm class: heartbeat: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  i2c: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  iio: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  ...
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