- Add support for building the kernel using PC-relative addressing on Power10.
- Allow HV KVM guests on Power10 to use prefixed instructions.
- Unify support for the P2020 CPU (85xx) into a single machine description.
- Always build the 64-bit kernel with 128-bit long double.
- Drop support for several obsolete 2000's era development boards as
identified by Paul Gortmaker.
- A series fixing VFIO on Power since some generic changes.
- Various other small features and fixes.
Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Benjamin Gray, Bo Liu,
Christophe Leroy, Dan Carpenter, David Binderman, Ira Weiny, Joel Stanley,
Kajol Jain, Kautuk Consul, Liang He, Luis Chamberlain, Masahiro Yamada, Michael
Neuling, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas Miehlbradt, Nicholas Piggin,
Nick Desaulniers, Nysal Jan K.A, Pali Rohár, Paul Gortmaker, Paul Mackerras,
Petr Vaněk, Randy Dunlap, Rob Herring, Sachin Sant, Sean Christopherson, Segher
Boessenkool, Timothy Pearson.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-6.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- Add support for building the kernel using PC-relative addressing on
Power10.
- Allow HV KVM guests on Power10 to use prefixed instructions.
- Unify support for the P2020 CPU (85xx) into a single machine
description.
- Always build the 64-bit kernel with 128-bit long double.
- Drop support for several obsolete 2000's era development boards as
identified by Paul Gortmaker.
- A series fixing VFIO on Power since some generic changes.
- Various other small features and fixes.
Thanks to Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Benjamin Gray, Bo Liu,
Christophe Leroy, Dan Carpenter, David Binderman, Ira Weiny, Joel
Stanley, Kajol Jain, Kautuk Consul, Liang He, Luis Chamberlain, Masahiro
Yamada, Michael Neuling, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas
Miehlbradt, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Nysal Jan K.A, Pali
Rohár, Paul Gortmaker, Paul Mackerras, Petr Vaněk, Randy Dunlap, Rob
Herring, Sachin Sant, Sean Christopherson, Segher Boessenkool, and
Timothy Pearson.
* tag 'powerpc-6.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (156 commits)
powerpc/64s: Disable pcrel code model on Clang
powerpc: Fix merge conflict between pcrel and copy_thread changes
powerpc/configs/powernv: Add IGB=y
powerpc/configs/64s: Drop JFS Filesystem
powerpc/configs/64s: Use EXT4 to mount EXT2 filesystems
powerpc/configs: Make pseries_defconfig an alias for ppc64le_guest
powerpc/configs: Make pseries_le an alias for ppc64le_guest
powerpc/configs: Incorporate generic kvm_guest.config into guest configs
powerpc/configs: Add IBMVETH=y and IBMVNIC=y to guest configs
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable Device Mapper options
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable PSTORE
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable VLAN support
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable BLK_DEV_NVME
powerpc/configs/64s: Drop REISERFS
powerpc/configs/64s: Use SHA512 for module signatures
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable SCHEDSTATS
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable DEBUG_VM & other options
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable EMULATED_STATS
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable KUNIT and most tests
...
switching from a user process to a kernel thread.
- More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj Raghav.
- zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky.
- Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the
alteration of memcg userspace tunables.
- VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig:
- removal of most of the callers of write_one_page().
- make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful
- Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap
backing. Use `mount -o noswap'.
- Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing
some scalability benefits.
- Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its
operations O(1) rather than O(n).
- Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd,
permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes.
- Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive rather
than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were caused by its
unintuitive meaning.
- Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature,
which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte.
- Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge():
cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test
harness.
- Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes.
- Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various
mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c.
- Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for
DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more.
- Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators
and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases.
- Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge().
- Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code.
- Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping
locks in ->map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults.
- Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to
per-VMA locking.
- Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it
no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads.
- Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig
logic.
- Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a
chunk of memory if zswap is not being used.
- Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics flushing.
- David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged,
userfaultfd and shmem.
- Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related
code paths.
- David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's
testing of our pte state changing.
- Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it.
- Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd
selftests.
- Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim accounting.
- Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the
selftests/mm code.
- Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned
pages.
- Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time.
- Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a
per-process and per-cgroup basis.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of
switching from a user process to a kernel thread.
- More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj
Raghav.
- zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky.
- Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the
alteration of memcg userspace tunables.
- VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig:
- removal of most of the callers of write_one_page()
- make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful
- Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap
backing. Use `mount -o noswap'.
- Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing
some scalability benefits.
- Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its
operations O(1) rather than O(n).
- Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd,
permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes.
- Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive
rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were
caused by its unintuitive meaning.
- Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature,
which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte.
- Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge():
cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test
harness.
- Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes.
- Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various
mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c.
- Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for
DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more.
- Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators
and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases.
- Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge().
- Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code.
- Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping
locks in ->map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults.
- Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to
per-VMA locking.
- Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it
no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads.
- Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig
logic.
- Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a
chunk of memory if zswap is not being used.
- Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics
flushing.
- David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged,
userfaultfd and shmem.
- Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related
code paths.
- David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's
testing of our pte state changing.
- Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it.
- Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd
selftests.
- Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim
accounting.
- Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the
selftests/mm code.
- Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned
pages.
- Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time.
- Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a
per-process and per-cgroup basis.
* tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible
shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace
mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file()
sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc
mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area()
hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map()
maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area()
mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries
zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context
selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM
mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs
mm: add new api to enable ksm per process
mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions
mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions
migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry
userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma()
lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code
mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list()
fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers
fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper
...
Here is the "big" set of char/misc and other driver subsystems for
6.4-rc1.
It's pretty big, but due to the removal of pcmcia drivers, almost breaks
even for number of lines added vs. removed, a nice change.
Included in here are:
- removal of unused PCMCIA drivers (finally!)
- Interconnect driver updates and additions
- Lots of IIO driver updates and additions
- MHI driver updates
- Coresight driver updates
- NVMEM driver updates, which required some OF updates
- W1 driver updates and a new maintainer to manage the subsystem
- FPGA driver updates
- New driver subsystem, CDX, for AMD systems
- lots of other small driver updates and additions
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'char-misc-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc drivers updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the "big" set of char/misc and other driver subsystems for
6.4-rc1.
It's pretty big, but due to the removal of pcmcia drivers, almost
breaks even for number of lines added vs. removed, a nice change.
Included in here are:
- removal of unused PCMCIA drivers (finally!)
- Interconnect driver updates and additions
- Lots of IIO driver updates and additions
- MHI driver updates
- Coresight driver updates
- NVMEM driver updates, which required some OF updates
- W1 driver updates and a new maintainer to manage the subsystem
- FPGA driver updates
- New driver subsystem, CDX, for AMD systems
- lots of other small driver updates and additions
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (196 commits)
mcb-lpc: Reallocate memory region to avoid memory overlapping
mcb-pci: Reallocate memory region to avoid memory overlapping
mcb: Return actual parsed size when reading chameleon table
kernel/configs: Drop Android config fragments
virt: acrn: Replace obsolete memalign() with posix_memalign()
spmi: Add a check for remove callback when removing a SPMI driver
spmi: fix W=1 kernel-doc warnings
spmi: mtk-pmif: Drop of_match_ptr for ID table
spmi: pmic-arb: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
spmi: mtk-pmif: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
spmi: hisi-spmi-controller: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
w1: gpio: remove unnecessary ENOMEM messages
w1: omap-hdq: remove unnecessary ENOMEM messages
w1: omap-hdq: add SPDX tag
w1: omap-hdq: allow compile testing
w1: matrox: remove unnecessary ENOMEM messages
w1: matrox: use inline over __inline__
w1: matrox: switch from asm to linux header
w1: ds2482: do not use assignment in if condition
w1: ds2482: drop unnecessary header
...
Here is the large set of USB and Thunderbolt changes for 6.4-rc1.
"biggest" thing in here is the removal of two obsolete drivers, u132-hcd
and ftdi-elan, making this a net-removal of code overall.
Other than the driver removals, included in here are:
- Thunderbolt updates for new hardware and features
- xhci driver updates and fixes
- dwc3 driver updates and fixes
- gadget core and driver updates and features added
- mtu3 driver updates
- dwc2 driver fixes and updates
- usb-serial driver updates
- typec driver updates and fixes
- platform remove callback changes
- dts updates and conversions
- other small changes
All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported problems.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'usb-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb
Pull USB / Thunderbolt updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the large set of USB and Thunderbolt changes for 6.4-rc1.
The "biggest" thing in here is the removal of two obsolete drivers,
u132-hcd and ftdi-elan, making this a net-removal of code overall.
Other than the driver removals, included in here are:
- Thunderbolt updates for new hardware and features
- xhci driver updates and fixes
- dwc3 driver updates and fixes
- gadget core and driver updates and features added
- mtu3 driver updates
- dwc2 driver fixes and updates
- usb-serial driver updates
- typec driver updates and fixes
- platform remove callback changes
- dts updates and conversions
- other small changes
All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported problems"
* tag 'usb-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (177 commits)
usb: dwc3: gadget: Refactor EP0 forced stall/restart into a separate API
usb: dwc3: gadget: Execute gadget stop after halting the controller
media: radio-shark: Add endpoint checks
USB: sisusbvga: Add endpoint checks
USB: core: Add routines for endpoint checks in old drivers
usb: dwc3: gadget: Stall and restart EP0 if host is unresponsive
dt-bindings: usb: snps,dwc3: Add 'snps,parkmode-disable-hs-quirk' quirk
usb: dwc3: core: add support for disabling High-speed park mode
dt-bindings: usb: ci-hdrc-usb2: allow multiple PHYs
usb: mtu3: add optional clock xhci_ck and frmcnt_ck
dt-bindings: usb: mtu3: add two optional clocks
usb: mtu3: expose role-switch control to userspace
usb: mtu3: unlock @mtu->lock just before giving back request
usb: mtu3: fix kernel panic at qmu transfer done irq handler
usb: mtu3: use boolean return value
usb: mtu3: give back request when rx error happens
usb: chipidea: fix missing goto in `ci_hdrc_probe`
usb: gadget: udc: core: Prevent redundant calls to pullup
usb: gadget: udc: core: Invoke usb_gadget_connect only when started
usb: typec: ucsi: don't print PPM init deferred errors
...
Core
----
- Introduce a config option to tweak MAX_SKB_FRAGS. Increasing the
default value allows for better BIG TCP performances.
- Reduce compound page head access for zero-copy data transfers.
- RPS/RFS improvements, avoiding unneeded NET_RX_SOFTIRQ when possible.
- Threaded NAPI improvements, adding defer skb free support and unneeded
softirq avoidance.
- Address dst_entry reference count scalability issues, via false
sharing avoidance and optimize refcount tracking.
- Add lockless accesses annotation to sk_err[_soft].
- Optimize again the skb struct layout.
- Extends the skb drop reasons to make it usable by multiple
subsystems.
- Better const qualifier awareness for socket casts.
BPF
---
- Add skb and XDP typed dynptrs which allow BPF programs for more
ergonomic and less brittle iteration through data and variable-sized
accesses.
- Add a new BPF netfilter program type and minimal support to hook
BPF programs to netfilter hooks such as prerouting or forward.
- Add more precise memory usage reporting for all BPF map types.
- Adds support for using {FOU,GUE} encap with an ipip device operating
in collect_md mode and add a set of BPF kfuncs for controlling encap
params.
- Allow BPF programs to detect at load time whether a particular kfunc
exists or not, and also add support for this in light skeleton.
- Bigger batch of BPF verifier improvements to prepare for upcoming BPF
open-coded iterators allowing for less restrictive looping capabilities.
- Rework RCU enforcement in the verifier, add kptr_rcu and enforce BPF
programs to NULL-check before passing such pointers into kfunc.
- Add support for kptrs in percpu hashmaps, percpu LRU hashmaps and in
local storage maps.
- Enable RCU semantics for task BPF kptrs and allow referenced kptr
tasks to be stored in BPF maps.
- Add support for refcounted local kptrs to the verifier for allowing
shared ownership, useful for adding a node to both the BPF list and
rbtree.
- Add BPF verifier support for ST instructions in convert_ctx_access()
which will help new -mcpu=v4 clang flag to start emitting them.
- Add ARM32 USDT support to libbpf.
- Improve bpftool's visual program dump which produces the control
flow graph in a DOT format by adding C source inline annotations.
Protocols
---------
- IPv4: Allow adding to IPv4 address a 'protocol' tag. Such value
indicates the provenance of the IP address.
- IPv6: optimize route lookup, dropping unneeded R/W lock acquisition.
- Add the handshake upcall mechanism, allowing the user-space
to implement generic TLS handshake on kernel's behalf.
- Bridge: support per-{Port, VLAN} neighbor suppression, increasing
resilience to nodes failures.
- SCTP: add support for Fair Capacity and Weighted Fair Queueing
schedulers.
- MPTCP: delay first subflow allocation up to its first usage. This
will allow for later better LSM interaction.
- xfrm: Remove inner/outer modes from input/output path. These are
not needed anymore.
- WiFi:
- reduced neighbor report (RNR) handling for AP mode
- HW timestamping support
- support for randomized auth/deauth TA for PASN privacy
- per-link debugfs for multi-link
- TC offload support for mac80211 drivers
- mac80211 mesh fast-xmit and fast-rx support
- enable Wi-Fi 7 (EHT) mesh support
Netfilter
---------
- Add nf_tables 'brouting' support, to force a packet to be routed
instead of being bridged.
- Update bridge netfilter and ovs conntrack helpers to handle
IPv6 Jumbo packets properly, i.e. fetch the packet length
from hop-by-hop extension header. This is needed for BIT TCP
support.
- The iptables 32bit compat interface isn't compiled in by default
anymore.
- Move ip(6)tables builtin icmp matches to the udptcp one.
This has the advantage that icmp/icmpv6 match doesn't load the
iptables/ip6tables modules anymore when iptables-nft is used.
- Extended netlink error report for netdevice in flowtables and
netdev/chains. Allow for incrementally add/delete devices to netdev
basechain. Allow to create netdev chain without device.
Driver API
----------
- Remove redundant Device Control Error Reporting Enable, as PCI core
has already error reporting enabled at enumeration time.
- Move Multicast DB netlink handlers to core, allowing devices other
then bridge to use them.
- Allow the page_pool to directly recycle the pages from safely
localized NAPI.
- Implement lockless TX queue stop/wake combo macros, allowing for
further code de-duplication and sanitization.
- Add YNL support for user headers and struct attrs.
- Add partial YNL specification for devlink.
- Add partial YNL specification for ethtool.
- Add tc-mqprio and tc-taprio support for preemptible traffic classes.
- Add tx push buf len param to ethtool, specifies the maximum number
of bytes of a transmitted packet a driver can push directly to the
underlying device.
- Add basic LED support for switch/phy.
- Add NAPI documentation, stop relaying on external links.
- Convert dsa_master_ioctl() to netdev notifier. This is a preparatory
work to make the hardware timestamping layer selectable by user
space.
- Add transceiver support and improve the error messages for CAN-FD
controllers.
New hardware / drivers
----------------------
- Ethernet:
- AMD/Pensando core device support
- MediaTek MT7981 SoC
- MediaTek MT7988 SoC
- Broadcom BCM53134 embedded switch
- Texas Instruments CPSW9G ethernet switch
- Qualcomm EMAC3 DWMAC ethernet
- StarFive JH7110 SoC
- NXP CBTX ethernet PHY
- WiFi:
- Apple M1 Pro/Max devices
- RealTek rtl8710bu/rtl8188gu
- RealTek rtl8822bs, rtl8822cs and rtl8821cs SDIO chipset
- Bluetooth:
- Realtek RTL8821CS, RTL8851B, RTL8852BS
- Mediatek MT7663, MT7922
- NXP w8997
- Actions Semi ATS2851
- QTI WCN6855
- Marvell 88W8997
- Can:
- STMicroelectronics bxcan stm32f429
Drivers
-------
- Ethernet NICs:
- Intel (1G, icg):
- add tracking and reporting of QBV config errors.
- add support for configuring max SDU for each Tx queue.
- Intel (100G, ice):
- refactor mailbox overflow detection to support Scalable IOV
- GNSS interface optimization
- Intel (i40e):
- support XDP multi-buffer
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- add the support for linux bridge multicast offload
- enable TC offload for egress and engress MACVLAN over bond
- add support for VxLAN GBP encap/decap flows offload
- extend packet offload to fully support libreswan
- support tunnel mode in mlx5 IPsec packet offload
- extend XDP multi-buffer support
- support MACsec VLAN offload
- add support for dynamic msix vectors allocation
- drop RX page_cache and fully use page_pool
- implement thermal zone to report NIC temperature
- Netronome/Corigine:
- add support for multi-zone conntrack offload
- Solarflare/Xilinx:
- support offloading TC VLAN push/pop actions to the MAE
- support TC decap rules
- support unicast PTP
- Other NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt): enforce software based freq adjustments only
on shared PHC NIC
- RealTek (r8169): refactor to addess ASPM issues during NAPI poll.
- Micrel (lan8841): add support for PTP_PF_PEROUT
- Cadence (macb): enable PTP unicast
- Engleder (tsnep): add XDP socket zero-copy support
- virtio-net: implement exact header length guest feature
- veth: add page_pool support for page recycling
- vxlan: add MDB data path support
- gve: add XDP support for GQI-QPL format
- geneve: accept every ethertype
- macvlan: allow some packets to bypass broadcast queue
- mana: add support for jumbo frame
- Ethernet high-speed switches:
- Microchip (sparx5): Add support for TC flower templates.
- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Broadcom (b54):
- configure 6318 and 63268 RGMII ports
- Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
- faster C45 bus scan
- Microchip:
- lan966x:
- add support for IS1 VCAP
- better TX/RX from/to CPU performances
- ksz9477: add ETS Qdisc support
- ksz8: enhance static MAC table operations and error handling
- sama7g5: add PTP capability
- NXP (ocelot):
- add support for external ports
- add support for preemptible traffic classes
- Texas Instruments:
- add CPSWxG SGMII support for J7200 and J721E
- Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
- preparation for Wi-Fi 7 EHT and multi-link support
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) sniffer support
- hardware timestamping support for some devices/firwmares
- TX beacon protection on newer hardware
- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- MU-MIMO parameters support
- ack signal support for management packets
- RealTek WiFi (rtw88):
- SDIO bus support
- better support for some SDIO devices
(e.g. MAC address from efuse)
- RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
- HW scan support for 8852b
- better support for 6 GHz scanning
- support for various newer firmware APIs
- framework firmware backwards compatibility
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- P2P support
- mesh A-MSDU support
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
- coredump support
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'net-next-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"Core:
- Introduce a config option to tweak MAX_SKB_FRAGS. Increasing the
default value allows for better BIG TCP performances
- Reduce compound page head access for zero-copy data transfers
- RPS/RFS improvements, avoiding unneeded NET_RX_SOFTIRQ when
possible
- Threaded NAPI improvements, adding defer skb free support and
unneeded softirq avoidance
- Address dst_entry reference count scalability issues, via false
sharing avoidance and optimize refcount tracking
- Add lockless accesses annotation to sk_err[_soft]
- Optimize again the skb struct layout
- Extends the skb drop reasons to make it usable by multiple
subsystems
- Better const qualifier awareness for socket casts
BPF:
- Add skb and XDP typed dynptrs which allow BPF programs for more
ergonomic and less brittle iteration through data and
variable-sized accesses
- Add a new BPF netfilter program type and minimal support to hook
BPF programs to netfilter hooks such as prerouting or forward
- Add more precise memory usage reporting for all BPF map types
- Adds support for using {FOU,GUE} encap with an ipip device
operating in collect_md mode and add a set of BPF kfuncs for
controlling encap params
- Allow BPF programs to detect at load time whether a particular
kfunc exists or not, and also add support for this in light
skeleton
- Bigger batch of BPF verifier improvements to prepare for upcoming
BPF open-coded iterators allowing for less restrictive looping
capabilities
- Rework RCU enforcement in the verifier, add kptr_rcu and enforce
BPF programs to NULL-check before passing such pointers into kfunc
- Add support for kptrs in percpu hashmaps, percpu LRU hashmaps and
in local storage maps
- Enable RCU semantics for task BPF kptrs and allow referenced kptr
tasks to be stored in BPF maps
- Add support for refcounted local kptrs to the verifier for allowing
shared ownership, useful for adding a node to both the BPF list and
rbtree
- Add BPF verifier support for ST instructions in
convert_ctx_access() which will help new -mcpu=v4 clang flag to
start emitting them
- Add ARM32 USDT support to libbpf
- Improve bpftool's visual program dump which produces the control
flow graph in a DOT format by adding C source inline annotations
Protocols:
- IPv4: Allow adding to IPv4 address a 'protocol' tag. Such value
indicates the provenance of the IP address
- IPv6: optimize route lookup, dropping unneeded R/W lock acquisition
- Add the handshake upcall mechanism, allowing the user-space to
implement generic TLS handshake on kernel's behalf
- Bridge: support per-{Port, VLAN} neighbor suppression, increasing
resilience to nodes failures
- SCTP: add support for Fair Capacity and Weighted Fair Queueing
schedulers
- MPTCP: delay first subflow allocation up to its first usage. This
will allow for later better LSM interaction
- xfrm: Remove inner/outer modes from input/output path. These are
not needed anymore
- WiFi:
- reduced neighbor report (RNR) handling for AP mode
- HW timestamping support
- support for randomized auth/deauth TA for PASN privacy
- per-link debugfs for multi-link
- TC offload support for mac80211 drivers
- mac80211 mesh fast-xmit and fast-rx support
- enable Wi-Fi 7 (EHT) mesh support
Netfilter:
- Add nf_tables 'brouting' support, to force a packet to be routed
instead of being bridged
- Update bridge netfilter and ovs conntrack helpers to handle IPv6
Jumbo packets properly, i.e. fetch the packet length from
hop-by-hop extension header. This is needed for BIT TCP support
- The iptables 32bit compat interface isn't compiled in by default
anymore
- Move ip(6)tables builtin icmp matches to the udptcp one. This has
the advantage that icmp/icmpv6 match doesn't load the
iptables/ip6tables modules anymore when iptables-nft is used
- Extended netlink error report for netdevice in flowtables and
netdev/chains. Allow for incrementally add/delete devices to netdev
basechain. Allow to create netdev chain without device
Driver API:
- Remove redundant Device Control Error Reporting Enable, as PCI core
has already error reporting enabled at enumeration time
- Move Multicast DB netlink handlers to core, allowing devices other
then bridge to use them
- Allow the page_pool to directly recycle the pages from safely
localized NAPI
- Implement lockless TX queue stop/wake combo macros, allowing for
further code de-duplication and sanitization
- Add YNL support for user headers and struct attrs
- Add partial YNL specification for devlink
- Add partial YNL specification for ethtool
- Add tc-mqprio and tc-taprio support for preemptible traffic classes
- Add tx push buf len param to ethtool, specifies the maximum number
of bytes of a transmitted packet a driver can push directly to the
underlying device
- Add basic LED support for switch/phy
- Add NAPI documentation, stop relaying on external links
- Convert dsa_master_ioctl() to netdev notifier. This is a
preparatory work to make the hardware timestamping layer selectable
by user space
- Add transceiver support and improve the error messages for CAN-FD
controllers
New hardware / drivers:
- Ethernet:
- AMD/Pensando core device support
- MediaTek MT7981 SoC
- MediaTek MT7988 SoC
- Broadcom BCM53134 embedded switch
- Texas Instruments CPSW9G ethernet switch
- Qualcomm EMAC3 DWMAC ethernet
- StarFive JH7110 SoC
- NXP CBTX ethernet PHY
- WiFi:
- Apple M1 Pro/Max devices
- RealTek rtl8710bu/rtl8188gu
- RealTek rtl8822bs, rtl8822cs and rtl8821cs SDIO chipset
- Bluetooth:
- Realtek RTL8821CS, RTL8851B, RTL8852BS
- Mediatek MT7663, MT7922
- NXP w8997
- Actions Semi ATS2851
- QTI WCN6855
- Marvell 88W8997
- Can:
- STMicroelectronics bxcan stm32f429
Drivers:
- Ethernet NICs:
- Intel (1G, icg):
- add tracking and reporting of QBV config errors
- add support for configuring max SDU for each Tx queue
- Intel (100G, ice):
- refactor mailbox overflow detection to support Scalable IOV
- GNSS interface optimization
- Intel (i40e):
- support XDP multi-buffer
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- add the support for linux bridge multicast offload
- enable TC offload for egress and engress MACVLAN over bond
- add support for VxLAN GBP encap/decap flows offload
- extend packet offload to fully support libreswan
- support tunnel mode in mlx5 IPsec packet offload
- extend XDP multi-buffer support
- support MACsec VLAN offload
- add support for dynamic msix vectors allocation
- drop RX page_cache and fully use page_pool
- implement thermal zone to report NIC temperature
- Netronome/Corigine:
- add support for multi-zone conntrack offload
- Solarflare/Xilinx:
- support offloading TC VLAN push/pop actions to the MAE
- support TC decap rules
- support unicast PTP
- Other NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt): enforce software based freq adjustments only on
shared PHC NIC
- RealTek (r8169): refactor to addess ASPM issues during NAPI poll
- Micrel (lan8841): add support for PTP_PF_PEROUT
- Cadence (macb): enable PTP unicast
- Engleder (tsnep): add XDP socket zero-copy support
- virtio-net: implement exact header length guest feature
- veth: add page_pool support for page recycling
- vxlan: add MDB data path support
- gve: add XDP support for GQI-QPL format
- geneve: accept every ethertype
- macvlan: allow some packets to bypass broadcast queue
- mana: add support for jumbo frame
- Ethernet high-speed switches:
- Microchip (sparx5): Add support for TC flower templates
- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Broadcom (b54):
- configure 6318 and 63268 RGMII ports
- Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
- faster C45 bus scan
- Microchip:
- lan966x:
- add support for IS1 VCAP
- better TX/RX from/to CPU performances
- ksz9477: add ETS Qdisc support
- ksz8: enhance static MAC table operations and error handling
- sama7g5: add PTP capability
- NXP (ocelot):
- add support for external ports
- add support for preemptible traffic classes
- Texas Instruments:
- add CPSWxG SGMII support for J7200 and J721E
- Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
- preparation for Wi-Fi 7 EHT and multi-link support
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) sniffer support
- hardware timestamping support for some devices/firwmares
- TX beacon protection on newer hardware
- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- MU-MIMO parameters support
- ack signal support for management packets
- RealTek WiFi (rtw88):
- SDIO bus support
- better support for some SDIO devices (e.g. MAC address from
efuse)
- RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
- HW scan support for 8852b
- better support for 6 GHz scanning
- support for various newer firmware APIs
- framework firmware backwards compatibility
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- P2P support
- mesh A-MSDU support
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
- coredump support"
* tag 'net-next-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2078 commits)
net: phy: hide the PHYLIB_LEDS knob
net: phy: marvell-88x2222: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions
tcp/udp: Fix memleaks of sk and zerocopy skbs with TX timestamp.
net: amd: Fix link leak when verifying config failed
net: phy: marvell: Fix inconsistent indenting in led_blink_set
lan966x: Don't use xdp_frame when action is XDP_TX
tsnep: Add XDP socket zero-copy TX support
tsnep: Add XDP socket zero-copy RX support
tsnep: Move skb receive action to separate function
tsnep: Add functions for queue enable/disable
tsnep: Rework TX/RX queue initialization
tsnep: Replace modulo operation with mask
net: phy: dp83867: Add led_brightness_set support
net: phy: Fix reading LED reg property
drivers: nfc: nfcsim: remove return value check of `dev_dir`
net: phy: dp83867: Remove unnecessary (void*) conversions
net: ethtool: coalesce: try to make user settings stick twice
net: mana: Check if netdev/napi_alloc_frag returns single page
net: mana: Rename mana_refill_rxoob and remove some empty lines
net: veth: add page_pool stats
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Merge tag 'printk-for-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux
Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:
- Code cleanup and dead code removal
* tag 'printk-for-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux:
printk: Remove obsoleted check for non-existent "user" object
lib/vsprintf: Use isodigit() for the octal number check
Remove orphaned CONFIG_PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
Some powernv machines use IGB for networking, so build the driver in to
enable net booting such machines.
Suggested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230420052149.1328094-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Unlikely that anyone is still regularly using JFS, drop it from the
defconfig.
Suggested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230420051609.1324201-2-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Rather than trying to keep multiple configs up to date, make
pseries_defconfig an alias for ppc64le_guest_defconfig.
NOTE, pseries_defconfig was a big endian config, but this commit
switches it to little endian.
Almost all distros are ppc64le these days, so little endian is much more
likely to be what a user wants when they build for "pseries".
For an actual big endian guest, use ppc64_guest_defconfig.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230414132415.821564-32-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Incorporate the generic kvm_guest.config into the powerpc guest configs,
ppc64[le]_guest_defconfig.
This brings in some useful options, in particular 9P support, and also
means future additions to the generic file will be automatically picked
up by the powerpc configs.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230414132415.821564-30-mpe@ellerman.id.au
These drivers are sometimes required to have functional networking in a
guest, so build them in when building ppc64[le]_guest_defconfig.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230414132415.821564-29-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Fedora enables DEBUG_VM, which has led to occasions where a VM_BUG_ON()
is not caught by upstream testing, but rather is first found in Fedora,
which is not how it's meant to be.
PAGE_OWNER & PAGE_POISONING both need to be enabled on the kernel
command line, so should not add much overhead in normal operation.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230414132415.821564-20-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Traditionally on powerpc servers PREEMPT_NONE was used, but these days
multiple distros are building with PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY - Ubuntu, Fedora &
CentOS all enable it.
So update the upstream config to reflect that, and get test coverage
before code hits the distros.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230414132415.821564-8-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Add PPC_QEMU_E500 to corenet_base.config, which is then used to generate
corenet64_smp_defconfig and corenet32_smp_defconfig.
That then allows both those configs to build kernels that boot in qemu
using the ppce500 machine type and respectively -cpu e5500 or -cpu
e500mc.
The code that is added by PPC_QEMU_E500 just defines another machine
with a probe function that recognises qemu, so there should be no change
when booting on actual hardware supported by CORENET_GENERIC.
The increase in vmlinux size is less than 1KB.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230411102838.512859-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Based on documentation revision dates, this MPC82xx pq2fads system
predates the MPC8272-ADS variant by about a year and only has 1/2
the amount of RAM (32MB) -- largely making it useless with a modern
v6.x kernel from today.
Similar to the MPC8272-ADS the pq2fads also supported other 82xx CPU
variants, had 8MB flash, and like the 8272 ADS platform, was on a fairly
large PCB in order to have space for breakout connectors for all features.
These 82xx platforms are two decades old, and originally made for a
small group of industry related people in order to assist in new OEM
board designs. Given that, it makes sense to remove support today.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230224204959.17425-3-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
The MPC8272-ADS also supported other 82xx CPU variants, had 64MB RAM,
8MB flash, and like the 85xx ADS platforms, was on a fairly large PCB
in order to have space for breakout connectors for all the features.
These 82xx platforms are two decades old, and originally made for a
small group of industry related people in order to assist in new OEM
board designs. Given that, it makes sense to remove support today.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230224204959.17425-2-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
This evaluation platform was essentially a single core 8641 with
integrated graphics/display support - in an effort to reduce chip count
on kiosk and similar applications.
Compared to other evaluation platforms considered for removal in other
recent commits, this platform was relatively rare. Unlike all the other
10+ platforms, I couldn't find any documentation on it - just a link to
downloading the 2007 era BSP in "LTIB" format as was done back then.
With all that in mind, it seems prudent to remove it here in 2023.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
[mpe: Drop stale reference to MPC8610_HPCD in 86xx/Kconfig]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230225201318.3682-4-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
There is no denying that this was an interesting platform in its day.
Access to a SMP powerpc platform became a bit more obtainable for folks
in the BSP industry in the 2007 era, thanks to this platform.
Add to that the move to the black Antec case vs. the generic white 2005
era case of the MPC8548CDS or the retro 1950s 1/2 height horizontal case
of the HPC II, and it was pretty interesting to people like myself then.
However, like all the other evaluation platforms, the overall system
was complex out of necessity, as it tried to showcase all possible
features and use-cases. That included an AMP option, where you could run
two bootloaders and two kernels over two serial consoles. Peripheral
sharing got a bit more tricky when you got to the hard disk and similar.
In any case we still have the same circumstance. A relatively rare and
expensive evaluation platform that is now 15+ years old and not out there
in large numbers in the general public. Removal in 2023 just makes sense.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230225201318.3682-3-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
This was an interesting platform - it was the 1st instance of a
respin of earlier 130nm 74xx CPUs on 90nm and systems using MPC7448
were positioned as a rack server platform solution.
Given that, the evaluation platform (at least the one I had) was shipped
in a horizontal 1/2 height Antec desktop case with retro styling and
colours, despite the fact the docs explicitly stated that the HPC II is
not a desktop machine (noting it had no gfx or legacy PC I/O support).
Historic trivia aside, this was the 1st introduction of the e600
procfam as an evolution from the earlier G4.
However even with the claim to being "1st e600" it seems the 2005+
era was turning its attention to multicore support and from my memory
this poor guy was quickly overshadowed by the dual core MPC8641D.
All that aside, we are once again looking at 15+ year old evaluation
platforms that were not widely distributed, so 2023 removal makes sense.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230225201318.3682-2-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
This final variant in the e300 family of Modular Development System
(MDS) in this series was actually aimed at feature reduction - things
like floating point and ethernet were removed in order to make for a
lower power and lower cost system.
Like all the MDS systems, it was meant as a vehicle to get the CPU out
early to hardware OEMs so software and board development could take place
in parallel.
These were made in limited numbers and availability preference was given
to partners who were planning to make their own boards.
Given that the whole reason for existence was to assist in enabling new
board designs [not happening for 10+ years], and that they weren't
generally available, and that the hardware wasn't really hobbyist friendly
even for retro computing, it makes sense to retire the support for this
particular platform.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Li Yang <leoyang.li@nxp.com>
[mpe: Drop stale reference to MPC832x_MDS in arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230220115913.25811-5-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
This next evolutionary step in the e300 family of Modular Development
System (MDS) still has, at its core component, a full length card with a
PCI edge. No case. Serial and network connectors were on card, so it
could optionally be fitted with plastic stand-offs and run stand-alone
off a power brick.
This is very similar to the MPC834x_MDS and MPC836x_MDS removed in the
prior commits, but with this board variant as yet another evolutionary
step. SATA and PCI-e were now available. But overall the form factor
and design goals were unchanged.
Like all the MDS systems, it was meant as a vehicle to get the CPU out
early to hardware OEMs so software and board development could take place
in parallel.
These were made in limited numbers and availability preference was given
to partners who were planning to make their own boards.
Given that the whole reason for existence was to assist in enabling new
board designs [not happening for 10+ years], and that they weren't
generally available, and that the hardware wasn't really hobbyist friendly
even for retro computing, it makes sense to retire the support for this
particular platform.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Li Yang <leoyang.li@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230220115913.25811-4-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
This 2006 era Modular Development System (MDS) has, at its core component,
a full length card with a PCI edge. No case. Serial and network
connectors were on card, so it could optionally be fitted with plastic
stand-offs and run stand-alone off a power brick.
This is very similar to the MPC834x_MDS removed in the prior commit, but
with this board variant as an evolutionary step. DDR2 was now an option,
and the card edge was revised down to PCI-32 as PCI-64 never got traction.
But overall the form factor and design goals were unchanged.
Like all the MDS systems, it was meant as a vehicle to get the CPU out
early to hardware OEMs so software and board development could take place
in parallel.
To that end, the BGA CPU was held in place with a mechanical spring loaded
pressure assembly (vs. solder) so that early rev silicon could be replaced
in the field. Not for COTS deployment!
These were made in limited numbers and availability preference was given
to partners who were planning to make their own boards.
Given that the whole reason for existence was to assist in enabling new
board designs [not happening for 10+ years], and that they weren't
generally available, and that the hardware wasn't really hobbyist friendly
even for retro computing, it makes sense to retire the support for this
particular platform.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Li Yang <leoyang.li@nxp.com>
[mpe: Drop stale reference to MPC836x_MDS in arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230220115913.25811-3-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
This 2006 era Modular Development System (MDS) has, at its core
component, a full length card with a PCI-64 edge. No case. Serial
and network connectors were on card, so it could optionally be fitted
with plastic stand-offs and run stand-alone off a power brick.
Like all the MDS systems, it was meant as a vehicle to get the CPU
out early to hardware OEMs so software and board development could
take place in parallel.
To that end, the BGA CPU was held in place with a mechanical spring
loaded pressure assembly (vs. solder) so that early rev silicon could
be replaced in the field. Not for COTS deployment!
These were made in limited numbers and availability preference was
given to partners who were planning to make their own boards, like
our WR SBC8349 [since retired in v4.18 (2017, commit 3bc6cf5a86)]
Given that the whole reason for existence was to assist in enabling
new board designs [not happening for 10+ years], and that they weren't
generally available, and that the hardware wasn't really hobbyist
friendly even for retro computing, it makes sense to retire the
support for this platform.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Li Yang <leoyang.li@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230220115913.25811-2-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Linus Torvalds