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<title>linux.git/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl, branch v6.12.80</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>Documentation: add ublk driver ioctl numbers</title>
<updated>2024-08-26T21:34:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ming Lei</name>
<email>ming.lei@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-23T13:43:39+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
ublk driver takes the following ioctl numbers:

	'u'   00-2F  linux/ublk_cmd.h

So document it in ioctl-number.rst

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240823134339.1496916-1-ming.lei@redhat.com
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<pre>
ublk driver takes the following ioctl numbers:

	'u'   00-2F  linux/ublk_cmd.h

So document it in ioctl-number.rst

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240823134339.1496916-1-ming.lei@redhat.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation: ioctl: document 0x07 ioctl code</title>
<updated>2024-07-29T21:25:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alyssa Ross</name>
<email>hi@alyssa.is</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-25T17:11:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=0a8e4dc1d353f0931c5f42487f842e94e158a039'/>
<id>0a8e4dc1d353f0931c5f42487f842e94e158a039</id>
<content type='text'>
It looks like this was supposed to be documented when VSOCK was
added[1], but it got lost in later submissions.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20130109000024.3719.71468.stgit@promb-2n-dhcp175.eng.vmware.com/#Z31Documentation:ioctl:ioctl-number.txt [1]
Fixes: d021c344051a ("VSOCK: Introduce VM Sockets")
Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross &lt;hi@alyssa.is&gt;
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240725171120.12226-2-hi@alyssa.is
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<pre>
It looks like this was supposed to be documented when VSOCK was
added[1], but it got lost in later submissions.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20130109000024.3719.71468.stgit@promb-2n-dhcp175.eng.vmware.com/#Z31Documentation:ioctl:ioctl-number.txt [1]
Fixes: d021c344051a ("VSOCK: Introduce VM Sockets")
Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross &lt;hi@alyssa.is&gt;
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240725171120.12226-2-hi@alyssa.is
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'char-misc-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc</title>
<updated>2024-07-19T22:55:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-19T22:55:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=acc5965b9ff8a1889f5b51466562896d59c6e1b9'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull char / misc and other driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" set of char/misc and other driver subsystem changes
  for 6.11-rc1. Nothing major in here, just loads of new drivers and
  updates. Included in here are:

   - IIO api updates and new drivers added

   - wait_interruptable_timeout() api cleanups for some drivers

   - MODULE_DESCRIPTION() additions for loads of drivers

   - parport out-of-bounds fix

   - interconnect driver updates and additions

   - mhi driver updates and additions

   - w1 driver fixes

   - binder speedups and fixes

   - eeprom driver updates

   - coresight driver updates

   - counter driver update

   - new misc driver additions

   - other minor api updates

  All of these, EXCEPT for the final Kconfig build fix for 32bit
  systems, have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues.
  The Kconfig fixup went in 29 hours ago, so might have missed the
  latest linux-next, but was acked by everyone involved"

* tag 'char-misc-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (330 commits)
  misc: Kconfig: exclude mrvl-cn10k-dpi compilation for 32-bit systems
  misc: delete Makefile.rej
  binder: fix hang of unregistered readers
  misc: Kconfig: add a new dependency for MARVELL_CN10K_DPI
  virtio: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
  agp: uninorth: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
  spmi: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macros
  dev/parport: fix the array out-of-bounds risk
  samples: configfs: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
  misc: mrvl-cn10k-dpi: add Octeon CN10K DPI administrative driver
  misc: keba: Fix missing AUXILIARY_BUS dependency
  slimbus: Fix struct and documentation alignment in stream.c
  MAINTAINERS: CC dri-devel list on Qualcomm FastRPC patches
  misc: fastrpc: use coherent pool for untranslated Compute Banks
  misc: fastrpc: support complete DMA pool access to the DSP
  misc: fastrpc: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
  misc: fastrpc: Add missing dev_err newlines
  misc: fastrpc: Use memdup_user()
  nvmem: core: Implement force_ro sysfs attribute
  nvmem: Use sysfs_emit() for type attribute
  ...
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<pre>
Pull char / misc and other driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" set of char/misc and other driver subsystem changes
  for 6.11-rc1. Nothing major in here, just loads of new drivers and
  updates. Included in here are:

   - IIO api updates and new drivers added

   - wait_interruptable_timeout() api cleanups for some drivers

   - MODULE_DESCRIPTION() additions for loads of drivers

   - parport out-of-bounds fix

   - interconnect driver updates and additions

   - mhi driver updates and additions

   - w1 driver fixes

   - binder speedups and fixes

   - eeprom driver updates

   - coresight driver updates

   - counter driver update

   - new misc driver additions

   - other minor api updates

  All of these, EXCEPT for the final Kconfig build fix for 32bit
  systems, have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues.
  The Kconfig fixup went in 29 hours ago, so might have missed the
  latest linux-next, but was acked by everyone involved"

* tag 'char-misc-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (330 commits)
  misc: Kconfig: exclude mrvl-cn10k-dpi compilation for 32-bit systems
  misc: delete Makefile.rej
  binder: fix hang of unregistered readers
  misc: Kconfig: add a new dependency for MARVELL_CN10K_DPI
  virtio: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
  agp: uninorth: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
  spmi: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macros
  dev/parport: fix the array out-of-bounds risk
  samples: configfs: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
  misc: mrvl-cn10k-dpi: add Octeon CN10K DPI administrative driver
  misc: keba: Fix missing AUXILIARY_BUS dependency
  slimbus: Fix struct and documentation alignment in stream.c
  MAINTAINERS: CC dri-devel list on Qualcomm FastRPC patches
  misc: fastrpc: use coherent pool for untranslated Compute Banks
  misc: fastrpc: support complete DMA pool access to the DSP
  misc: fastrpc: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
  misc: fastrpc: Add missing dev_err newlines
  misc: fastrpc: Use memdup_user()
  nvmem: core: Implement force_ro sysfs attribute
  nvmem: Use sysfs_emit() for type attribute
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-6.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2024-07-18T22:54:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-18T22:54:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=cf05e93af423b225fb3e3237e7d46493c7909f2b'/>
<id>cf05e93af423b225fb3e3237e7d46493c7909f2b</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Nothing hugely exciting happening in the documentation tree this time
  around, mostly more of the usual:

   - More Spanish, Italian, and Chinese translations

   - A new script, scripts/checktransupdate.py, can be used to see which
     commits have touched an (English) document since a given
     translation was last updated.

   - A couple of "best practices" suggestions (on Link: tags and
     off-list discussions) that were not entirely at consensus level,
     but I concluded they were close enough to accept.

   - Some nice cleanups removing documentation for kernel parameters
     that have not been recognized for ... a long time.

  ...along with the usual updates, typo fixes, and such"

* tag 'docs-6.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (57 commits)
  Documentation: Document user_events ioctl code
  docs/pinctrl: fix typo in mapping example
  docs: maintainer: discourage taking conversations off-list
  docs: driver-model: platform: update the definition of platform_driver
  docs/sp_SP: Add translation for scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst
  writing_musb_glue_layer.rst: Fix broken URL
  zh_CN/admin-guide: one typo fix
  docs/zh_CN/virt: Update the translation of guest-halt-polling.rst
  Documentation: add reference from dynamic debug to loglevel kernel params
  Documentation: best practices for using Link trailers
  Documentation: fix links to mailing list services
  Documentation: exception-tables.rst: Fix the wrong steps referenced
  docs/zh_CN: add process/researcher-guidelines Chinese translation
  Documentation/tools/rv: fix document header
  docs/sp_SP: Add translation of process/maintainer-kvm-x86.rst
  docs/admin-guide/mm: correct typo 'quired' to 'queried'
  Add libps2 to the input section of driver-api
  Docs/mm/index: move allocation profiling document to unsorted documents chapter
  Docs/mm/index: rename 'Legacy Documentation' to 'Unsorted Documentation'
  Docs/mm/index: Remove 'Memory Management Guide' chapter marker
  ...
</content>
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<pre>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Nothing hugely exciting happening in the documentation tree this time
  around, mostly more of the usual:

   - More Spanish, Italian, and Chinese translations

   - A new script, scripts/checktransupdate.py, can be used to see which
     commits have touched an (English) document since a given
     translation was last updated.

   - A couple of "best practices" suggestions (on Link: tags and
     off-list discussions) that were not entirely at consensus level,
     but I concluded they were close enough to accept.

   - Some nice cleanups removing documentation for kernel parameters
     that have not been recognized for ... a long time.

  ...along with the usual updates, typo fixes, and such"

* tag 'docs-6.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (57 commits)
  Documentation: Document user_events ioctl code
  docs/pinctrl: fix typo in mapping example
  docs: maintainer: discourage taking conversations off-list
  docs: driver-model: platform: update the definition of platform_driver
  docs/sp_SP: Add translation for scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst
  writing_musb_glue_layer.rst: Fix broken URL
  zh_CN/admin-guide: one typo fix
  docs/zh_CN/virt: Update the translation of guest-halt-polling.rst
  Documentation: add reference from dynamic debug to loglevel kernel params
  Documentation: best practices for using Link trailers
  Documentation: fix links to mailing list services
  Documentation: exception-tables.rst: Fix the wrong steps referenced
  docs/zh_CN: add process/researcher-guidelines Chinese translation
  Documentation/tools/rv: fix document header
  docs/sp_SP: Add translation of process/maintainer-kvm-x86.rst
  docs/admin-guide/mm: correct typo 'quired' to 'queried'
  Add libps2 to the input section of driver-api
  Docs/mm/index: move allocation profiling document to unsorted documents chapter
  Docs/mm/index: rename 'Legacy Documentation' to 'Unsorted Documentation'
  Docs/mm/index: Remove 'Memory Management Guide' chapter marker
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation: Document user_events ioctl code</title>
<updated>2024-07-16T17:15:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Beau Belgrave</name>
<email>beaub@linux.microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-15T18:14:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=702418f7559fb1828646f0b51d9ca7c8b9ee7bff'/>
<id>702418f7559fb1828646f0b51d9ca7c8b9ee7bff</id>
<content type='text'>
The user events trace subsystem uses the 0x2A/'*' code for ioctls. These
are published via the uapi/linux/user_events.h header file.

Add a line indicating user events as the owner of the 0x2A/'*' code and
reserve the first 32 sequence numbers.

Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240715181413.1157-1-beaub@linux.microsoft.com
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<pre>
The user events trace subsystem uses the 0x2A/'*' code for ioctls. These
are published via the uapi/linux/user_events.h header file.

Add a line indicating user events as the owner of the 0x2A/'*' code and
reserve the first 32 sequence numbers.

Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240715181413.1157-1-beaub@linux.microsoft.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>misc: mrvl-cn10k-dpi: add Octeon CN10K DPI administrative driver</title>
<updated>2024-07-10T12:58:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vamsi Attunuru</name>
<email>vattunuru@marvell.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-06T15:30:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=5f67eef6dff39421215e9134f1eaae51b67a73b7'/>
<id>5f67eef6dff39421215e9134f1eaae51b67a73b7</id>
<content type='text'>
Adds a misc driver for Marvell CN10K DPI(DMA Engine) device's physical
function which initializes DPI DMA hardware's global configuration and
enables hardware mailbox channels between physical function (PF) and
it's virtual functions (VF). VF device drivers (User space drivers) use
this hw mailbox to communicate any required device configuration on it's
respective VF device. Accordingly, this DPI PF driver provisions the
VF device resources.

At the hardware level, the DPI physical function (PF) acts as a management
interface to setup the VF device resources, VF devices are only provisioned
to handle or control the actual DMA Engine's data transfer capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Vamsi Attunuru &lt;vattunuru@marvell.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Srujana Challa &lt;schalla@marvell.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240706153009.3775333-1-vattunuru@marvell.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Adds a misc driver for Marvell CN10K DPI(DMA Engine) device's physical
function which initializes DPI DMA hardware's global configuration and
enables hardware mailbox channels between physical function (PF) and
it's virtual functions (VF). VF device drivers (User space drivers) use
this hw mailbox to communicate any required device configuration on it's
respective VF device. Accordingly, this DPI PF driver provisions the
VF device resources.

At the hardware level, the DPI physical function (PF) acts as a management
interface to setup the VF device resources, VF devices are only provisioned
to handle or control the actual DMA Engine's data transfer capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Vamsi Attunuru &lt;vattunuru@marvell.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Srujana Challa &lt;schalla@marvell.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240706153009.3775333-1-vattunuru@marvell.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Have memmapped ring buffer use ioctl of "R" range 0x20-2F</title>
<updated>2024-07-03T20:40:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-02T19:33:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=4ecaf7e98a3ae0c843d67c76649ecc694232834b'/>
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<content type='text'>
To prevent conflicts with other ioctl numbers to allow strace to have an
idea of what is happening, add the range of ioctls for the trace buffer
mapping from _IO("T", 0x1) to the range of "R" 0x20 - 0x2F.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240630105322.GA17573@altlinux.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240630213626.GA23566@altlinux.org/

Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Fixes: cf9f0f7c4c5bb ("tracing: Allow user-space mapping of the ring-buffer")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240702153354.367861db@rorschach.local.home
Reported-by: "Dmitry V. Levin" &lt;ldv@strace.io&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<pre>
To prevent conflicts with other ioctl numbers to allow strace to have an
idea of what is happening, add the range of ioctls for the trace buffer
mapping from _IO("T", 0x1) to the range of "R" 0x20 - 0x2F.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240630105322.GA17573@altlinux.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240630213626.GA23566@altlinux.org/

Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Fixes: cf9f0f7c4c5bb ("tracing: Allow user-space mapping of the ring-buffer")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240702153354.367861db@rorschach.local.home
Reported-by: "Dmitry V. Levin" &lt;ldv@strace.io&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_SEM.</title>
<updated>2024-04-11T13:34:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Elizabeth Figura</name>
<email>zfigura@codeweavers.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-29T00:05:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=b46271ec40a05580d55f917c9ac52cb93553160a'/>
<id>b46271ec40a05580d55f917c9ac52cb93553160a</id>
<content type='text'>
This corresponds to the NT syscall NtCreateSemaphore().

Semaphores are one of three types of object to be implemented in this driver,
the others being mutexes and events.

An NT semaphore contains a 32-bit counter, and is signaled and can be acquired
when the counter is nonzero. The counter has a maximum value which is specified
at creation time. The initial value of the semaphore is also specified at
creation time. There are no restrictions on the maximum and initial value.

Each object is exposed as an file, to which any number of fds may be opened.
When all fds are closed, the object is deleted.

Objects hold a pointer to the ntsync_device that created them. The device's
reference count is driven by struct file.

Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Figura &lt;zfigura@codeweavers.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240329000621.148791-3-zfigura@codeweavers.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This corresponds to the NT syscall NtCreateSemaphore().

Semaphores are one of three types of object to be implemented in this driver,
the others being mutexes and events.

An NT semaphore contains a 32-bit counter, and is signaled and can be acquired
when the counter is nonzero. The counter has a maximum value which is specified
at creation time. The initial value of the semaphore is also specified at
creation time. There are no restrictions on the maximum and initial value.

Each object is exposed as an file, to which any number of fds may be opened.
When all fds are closed, the object is deleted.

Objects hold a pointer to the ntsync_device that created them. The device's
reference count is driven by struct file.

Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Figura &lt;zfigura@codeweavers.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240329000621.148791-3-zfigura@codeweavers.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2024-03-13T00:44:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-13T00:44:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=9187210eee7d87eea37b45ea93454a88681894a4'/>
<id>9187210eee7d87eea37b45ea93454a88681894a4</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - Large effort by Eric to lower rtnl_lock pressure and remove locks:

      - Make commonly used parts of rtnetlink (address, route dumps
        etc) lockless, protected by RCU instead of rtnl_lock.

      - Add a netns exit callback which already holds rtnl_lock,
        allowing netns exit to take rtnl_lock once in the core instead
        of once for each driver / callback.

      - Remove locks / serialization in the socket diag interface.

      - Remove 6 calls to synchronize_rcu() while holding rtnl_lock.

      - Remove the dev_base_lock, depend on RCU where necessary.

   - Support busy polling on a per-epoll context basis. Poll length and
     budget parameters can be set independently of system defaults.

   - Introduce struct net_hotdata, to make sure read-mostly global
     config variables fit in as few cache lines as possible.

   - Add optional per-nexthop statistics to ease monitoring / debug of
     ECMP imbalance problems.

   - Support TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT in MPTCP.

   - Ensure that IPv6 temporary addresses' preferred lifetimes are long
     enough, compared to other configured lifetimes, and at least 2 sec.

   - Support forwarding of ICMP Error messages in IPSec, per RFC 4301.

   - Add support for the independent control state machine for bonding
     per IEEE 802.1AX-2008 5.4.15 in addition to the existing coupled
     control state machine.

   - Add "network ID" to MCTP socket APIs to support hosts with multiple
     disjoint MCTP networks.

   - Re-use the mono_delivery_time skbuff bit for packets which user
     space wants to be sent at a specified time. Maintain the timing
     information while traversing veth links, bridge etc.

   - Take advantage of MSG_SPLICE_PAGES for RxRPC DATA and ACK packets.

   - Simplify many places iterating over netdevs by using an xarray
     instead of a hash table walk (hash table remains in place, for use
     on fastpaths).

   - Speed up scanning for expired routes by keeping a dedicated list.

   - Speed up "generic" XDP by trying harder to avoid large allocations.

   - Support attaching arbitrary metadata to netconsole messages.

  Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:

   - Enforce VM_IOREMAP flag and range in ioremap_page_range and
     introduce VM_SPARSE kind and vm_area_[un]map_pages (used by
     bpf_arena).

   - Rework selftest harness to enable the use of the full range of ksft
     exit code (pass, fail, skip, xfail, xpass).

  Netfilter:

   - Allow userspace to define a table that is exclusively owned by a
     daemon (via netlink socket aliveness) without auto-removing this
     table when the userspace program exits. Such table gets marked as
     orphaned and a restarting management daemon can re-attach/regain
     ownership.

   - Speed up element insertions to nftables' concatenated-ranges set
     type. Compact a few related data structures.

  BPF:

   - Add BPF token support for delegating a subset of BPF subsystem
     functionality from privileged system-wide daemons such as systemd
     through special mount options for userns-bound BPF fs to a trusted
     &amp; unprivileged application.

   - Introduce bpf_arena which is sparse shared memory region between
     BPF program and user space where structures inside the arena can
     have pointers to other areas of the arena, and pointers work
     seamlessly for both user-space programs and BPF programs.

   - Introduce may_goto instruction that is a contract between the
     verifier and the program. The verifier allows the program to loop
     assuming it's behaving well, but reserves the right to terminate
     it.

   - Extend the BPF verifier to enable static subprog calls in spin lock
     critical sections.

   - Support registration of struct_ops types from modules which helps
     projects like fuse-bpf that seeks to implement a new struct_ops
     type.

   - Add support for retrieval of cookies for perf/kprobe multi links.

   - Support arbitrary TCP SYN cookie generation / validation in the TC
     layer with BPF to allow creating SYN flood handling in BPF
     firewalls.

   - Add code generation to inline the bpf_kptr_xchg() helper which
     improves performance when stashing/popping the allocated BPF
     objects.

  Wireless:

   - Add SPP (signaling and payload protected) AMSDU support.

   - Support wider bandwidth OFDMA, as required for EHT operation.

  Driver API:

   - Major overhaul of the Energy Efficient Ethernet internals to
     support new link modes (2.5GE, 5GE), share more code between
     drivers (especially those using phylib), and encourage more
     uniform behavior. Convert and clean up drivers.

   - Define an API for querying per netdev queue statistics from
     drivers.

   - IPSec: account in global stats for fully offloaded sessions.

   - Create a concept of Ethernet PHY Packages at the Device Tree level,
     to allow parameterizing the existing PHY package code.

   - Enable Rx hashing (RSS) on GTP protocol fields.

  Misc:

   - Improvements and refactoring all over networking selftests.

   - Create uniform module aliases for TC classifiers, actions, and
     packet schedulers to simplify creating modprobe policies.

   - Address all missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() warnings in networking.

   - Extend the Netlink descriptions in YAML to cover message
     encapsulation or "Netlink polymorphism", where interpretation of
     nested attributes depends on link type, classifier type or some
     other "class type".

  Drivers:

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Add a new driver for Marvell's Octeon PCI Endpoint NIC VF.
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - support E825-C devices
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support devices with one port and multiple PCIe links
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - support n-tuple filters
         - support configuring the RSS key
      - Wangxun (ngbe/txgbe):
         - implement irq_domain for TXGBE's sub-interrupts
      - Pensando/AMD:
         - support XDP
         - optimize queue submission and wakeup handling (+17% bps)
         - optimize struct layout, saving 28% of memory on queues

   - Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual:
      - Google cloud vNIC:
         - refactor driver to perform memory allocations for new queue
           config before stopping and freeing the old queue memory
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - obey queueMaxSDU and implement counters required by 802.1Qbv
      - Renesas (ravb):
         - support packet checksum offload
         - suspend to RAM and runtime PM support

   - Ethernet switches:
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support for nexthop group statistics
      - Microchip:
         - ksz8: implement PHY loopback
         - add support for KSZ8567, a 7-port 10/100Mbps switch

   - PTP:
      - New driver for RENESAS FemtoClock3 Wireless clock generator.
      - Support OCP PTP cards designed and built by Adva.

   - CAN:
      - Support recvmsg() flags for own, local and remote traffic on CAN
        BCM sockets.
      - Support for esd GmbH PCIe/402 CAN device family.
      - m_can:
         - Rx/Tx submission coalescing
         - wake on frame Rx

   - WiFi:
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - enable signaling and payload protected A-MSDUs
         - support wider-bandwidth OFDMA
         - support for new devices
         - bump FW API to 89 for AX devices; 90 for BZ/SC devices
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - mt7915: newer ADIE version support
         - mt7925: radio temperature sensor support
      - Qualcomm (ath11k):
         - support 6 GHz station power modes: Low Power Indoor (LPI),
           Standard Power) SP and Very Low Power (VLP)
         - QCA6390 &amp; WCN6855: support 2 concurrent station interfaces
         - QCA2066 support
      - Qualcomm (ath12k):
         - refactoring in preparation for Multi-Link Operation (MLO)
           support
         - 1024 Block Ack window size support
         - firmware-2.bin support
         - support having multiple identical PCI devices (firmware needs
           to have ATH12K_FW_FEATURE_MULTI_QRTR_ID)
         - QCN9274: support split-PHY devices
         - WCN7850: enable Power Save Mode in station mode
         - WCN7850: P2P support
      - RealTek:
         - rtw88: support for more rtw8811cu and rtw8821cu devices
         - rtw89: support SCAN_RANDOM_SN and SET_SCAN_DWELL
         - rtlwifi: speed up USB firmware initialization
         - rtwl8xxxu:
             - RTL8188F: concurrent interface support
             - Channel Switch Announcement (CSA) support in AP mode
      - Broadcom (brcmfmac):
         - per-vendor feature support
         - per-vendor SAE password setup
         - DMI nvram filename quirk for ACEPC W5 Pro"

* tag 'net-next-6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2255 commits)
  nexthop: Fix splat with CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y
  nexthop: Fix out-of-bounds access during attribute validation
  nexthop: Only parse NHA_OP_FLAGS for dump messages that require it
  nexthop: Only parse NHA_OP_FLAGS for get messages that require it
  bpf: move sleepable flag from bpf_prog_aux to bpf_prog
  bpf: hardcode BPF_PROG_PACK_SIZE to 2MB * num_possible_nodes()
  selftests/bpf: Add kprobe multi triggering benchmarks
  ptp: Move from simple ida to xarray
  vxlan: Remove generic .ndo_get_stats64
  vxlan: Do not alloc tstats manually
  devlink: Add comments to use netlink gen tool
  nfp: flower: handle acti_netdevs allocation failure
  net/packet: Add getsockopt support for PACKET_COPY_THRESH
  net/netlink: Add getsockopt support for NETLINK_LISTEN_ALL_NSID
  selftests/bpf: Add bpf_arena_htab test.
  selftests/bpf: Add bpf_arena_list test.
  selftests/bpf: Add unit tests for bpf_arena_alloc/free_pages
  bpf: Add helper macro bpf_addr_space_cast()
  libbpf: Recognize __arena global variables.
  bpftool: Recognize arena map type
  ...
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<pre>
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - Large effort by Eric to lower rtnl_lock pressure and remove locks:

      - Make commonly used parts of rtnetlink (address, route dumps
        etc) lockless, protected by RCU instead of rtnl_lock.

      - Add a netns exit callback which already holds rtnl_lock,
        allowing netns exit to take rtnl_lock once in the core instead
        of once for each driver / callback.

      - Remove locks / serialization in the socket diag interface.

      - Remove 6 calls to synchronize_rcu() while holding rtnl_lock.

      - Remove the dev_base_lock, depend on RCU where necessary.

   - Support busy polling on a per-epoll context basis. Poll length and
     budget parameters can be set independently of system defaults.

   - Introduce struct net_hotdata, to make sure read-mostly global
     config variables fit in as few cache lines as possible.

   - Add optional per-nexthop statistics to ease monitoring / debug of
     ECMP imbalance problems.

   - Support TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT in MPTCP.

   - Ensure that IPv6 temporary addresses' preferred lifetimes are long
     enough, compared to other configured lifetimes, and at least 2 sec.

   - Support forwarding of ICMP Error messages in IPSec, per RFC 4301.

   - Add support for the independent control state machine for bonding
     per IEEE 802.1AX-2008 5.4.15 in addition to the existing coupled
     control state machine.

   - Add "network ID" to MCTP socket APIs to support hosts with multiple
     disjoint MCTP networks.

   - Re-use the mono_delivery_time skbuff bit for packets which user
     space wants to be sent at a specified time. Maintain the timing
     information while traversing veth links, bridge etc.

   - Take advantage of MSG_SPLICE_PAGES for RxRPC DATA and ACK packets.

   - Simplify many places iterating over netdevs by using an xarray
     instead of a hash table walk (hash table remains in place, for use
     on fastpaths).

   - Speed up scanning for expired routes by keeping a dedicated list.

   - Speed up "generic" XDP by trying harder to avoid large allocations.

   - Support attaching arbitrary metadata to netconsole messages.

  Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:

   - Enforce VM_IOREMAP flag and range in ioremap_page_range and
     introduce VM_SPARSE kind and vm_area_[un]map_pages (used by
     bpf_arena).

   - Rework selftest harness to enable the use of the full range of ksft
     exit code (pass, fail, skip, xfail, xpass).

  Netfilter:

   - Allow userspace to define a table that is exclusively owned by a
     daemon (via netlink socket aliveness) without auto-removing this
     table when the userspace program exits. Such table gets marked as
     orphaned and a restarting management daemon can re-attach/regain
     ownership.

   - Speed up element insertions to nftables' concatenated-ranges set
     type. Compact a few related data structures.

  BPF:

   - Add BPF token support for delegating a subset of BPF subsystem
     functionality from privileged system-wide daemons such as systemd
     through special mount options for userns-bound BPF fs to a trusted
     &amp; unprivileged application.

   - Introduce bpf_arena which is sparse shared memory region between
     BPF program and user space where structures inside the arena can
     have pointers to other areas of the arena, and pointers work
     seamlessly for both user-space programs and BPF programs.

   - Introduce may_goto instruction that is a contract between the
     verifier and the program. The verifier allows the program to loop
     assuming it's behaving well, but reserves the right to terminate
     it.

   - Extend the BPF verifier to enable static subprog calls in spin lock
     critical sections.

   - Support registration of struct_ops types from modules which helps
     projects like fuse-bpf that seeks to implement a new struct_ops
     type.

   - Add support for retrieval of cookies for perf/kprobe multi links.

   - Support arbitrary TCP SYN cookie generation / validation in the TC
     layer with BPF to allow creating SYN flood handling in BPF
     firewalls.

   - Add code generation to inline the bpf_kptr_xchg() helper which
     improves performance when stashing/popping the allocated BPF
     objects.

  Wireless:

   - Add SPP (signaling and payload protected) AMSDU support.

   - Support wider bandwidth OFDMA, as required for EHT operation.

  Driver API:

   - Major overhaul of the Energy Efficient Ethernet internals to
     support new link modes (2.5GE, 5GE), share more code between
     drivers (especially those using phylib), and encourage more
     uniform behavior. Convert and clean up drivers.

   - Define an API for querying per netdev queue statistics from
     drivers.

   - IPSec: account in global stats for fully offloaded sessions.

   - Create a concept of Ethernet PHY Packages at the Device Tree level,
     to allow parameterizing the existing PHY package code.

   - Enable Rx hashing (RSS) on GTP protocol fields.

  Misc:

   - Improvements and refactoring all over networking selftests.

   - Create uniform module aliases for TC classifiers, actions, and
     packet schedulers to simplify creating modprobe policies.

   - Address all missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() warnings in networking.

   - Extend the Netlink descriptions in YAML to cover message
     encapsulation or "Netlink polymorphism", where interpretation of
     nested attributes depends on link type, classifier type or some
     other "class type".

  Drivers:

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Add a new driver for Marvell's Octeon PCI Endpoint NIC VF.
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - support E825-C devices
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support devices with one port and multiple PCIe links
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - support n-tuple filters
         - support configuring the RSS key
      - Wangxun (ngbe/txgbe):
         - implement irq_domain for TXGBE's sub-interrupts
      - Pensando/AMD:
         - support XDP
         - optimize queue submission and wakeup handling (+17% bps)
         - optimize struct layout, saving 28% of memory on queues

   - Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual:
      - Google cloud vNIC:
         - refactor driver to perform memory allocations for new queue
           config before stopping and freeing the old queue memory
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - obey queueMaxSDU and implement counters required by 802.1Qbv
      - Renesas (ravb):
         - support packet checksum offload
         - suspend to RAM and runtime PM support

   - Ethernet switches:
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support for nexthop group statistics
      - Microchip:
         - ksz8: implement PHY loopback
         - add support for KSZ8567, a 7-port 10/100Mbps switch

   - PTP:
      - New driver for RENESAS FemtoClock3 Wireless clock generator.
      - Support OCP PTP cards designed and built by Adva.

   - CAN:
      - Support recvmsg() flags for own, local and remote traffic on CAN
        BCM sockets.
      - Support for esd GmbH PCIe/402 CAN device family.
      - m_can:
         - Rx/Tx submission coalescing
         - wake on frame Rx

   - WiFi:
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - enable signaling and payload protected A-MSDUs
         - support wider-bandwidth OFDMA
         - support for new devices
         - bump FW API to 89 for AX devices; 90 for BZ/SC devices
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - mt7915: newer ADIE version support
         - mt7925: radio temperature sensor support
      - Qualcomm (ath11k):
         - support 6 GHz station power modes: Low Power Indoor (LPI),
           Standard Power) SP and Very Low Power (VLP)
         - QCA6390 &amp; WCN6855: support 2 concurrent station interfaces
         - QCA2066 support
      - Qualcomm (ath12k):
         - refactoring in preparation for Multi-Link Operation (MLO)
           support
         - 1024 Block Ack window size support
         - firmware-2.bin support
         - support having multiple identical PCI devices (firmware needs
           to have ATH12K_FW_FEATURE_MULTI_QRTR_ID)
         - QCN9274: support split-PHY devices
         - WCN7850: enable Power Save Mode in station mode
         - WCN7850: P2P support
      - RealTek:
         - rtw88: support for more rtw8811cu and rtw8821cu devices
         - rtw89: support SCAN_RANDOM_SN and SET_SCAN_DWELL
         - rtlwifi: speed up USB firmware initialization
         - rtwl8xxxu:
             - RTL8188F: concurrent interface support
             - Channel Switch Announcement (CSA) support in AP mode
      - Broadcom (brcmfmac):
         - per-vendor feature support
         - per-vendor SAE password setup
         - DMI nvram filename quirk for ACEPC W5 Pro"

* tag 'net-next-6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2255 commits)
  nexthop: Fix splat with CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y
  nexthop: Fix out-of-bounds access during attribute validation
  nexthop: Only parse NHA_OP_FLAGS for dump messages that require it
  nexthop: Only parse NHA_OP_FLAGS for get messages that require it
  bpf: move sleepable flag from bpf_prog_aux to bpf_prog
  bpf: hardcode BPF_PROG_PACK_SIZE to 2MB * num_possible_nodes()
  selftests/bpf: Add kprobe multi triggering benchmarks
  ptp: Move from simple ida to xarray
  vxlan: Remove generic .ndo_get_stats64
  vxlan: Do not alloc tstats manually
  devlink: Add comments to use netlink gen tool
  nfp: flower: handle acti_netdevs allocation failure
  net/packet: Add getsockopt support for PACKET_COPY_THRESH
  net/netlink: Add getsockopt support for NETLINK_LISTEN_ALL_NSID
  selftests/bpf: Add bpf_arena_htab test.
  selftests/bpf: Add bpf_arena_list test.
  selftests/bpf: Add unit tests for bpf_arena_alloc/free_pages
  bpf: Add helper macro bpf_addr_space_cast()
  libbpf: Recognize __arena global variables.
  bpftool: Recognize arena map type
  ...
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<entry>
<title>eventpoll: Add epoll ioctl for epoll_params</title>
<updated>2024-02-14T11:01:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Damato</name>
<email>jdamato@fastly.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-13T06:16:45+00:00</published>
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<id>18e2bf0edf4dd88d9656ec92395aa47392e85b61</id>
<content type='text'>
Add an ioctl for getting and setting epoll_params. User programs can use
this ioctl to get and set the busy poll usec time, packet budget, and
prefer busy poll params for a specific epoll context.

Parameters are limited:
  - busy_poll_usecs is limited to &lt;= s32_max
  - busy_poll_budget is limited to &lt;= NAPI_POLL_WEIGHT by unprivileged
    users (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
  - prefer_busy_poll must be 0 or 1
  - __pad must be 0

Signed-off-by: Joe Damato &lt;jdamato@fastly.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
Add an ioctl for getting and setting epoll_params. User programs can use
this ioctl to get and set the busy poll usec time, packet budget, and
prefer busy poll params for a specific epoll context.

Parameters are limited:
  - busy_poll_usecs is limited to &lt;= s32_max
  - busy_poll_budget is limited to &lt;= NAPI_POLL_WEIGHT by unprivileged
    users (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
  - prefer_busy_poll must be 0 or 1
  - __pad must be 0

Signed-off-by: Joe Damato &lt;jdamato@fastly.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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