When we have MMU on exceptions (POWER8) and a relocatable kernel, we
need to branch from the initial exception vectors at 0x0 to up high
where the kernel might be located. Currently we do this using the link
register.
Unfortunately this corrupts the link stack and instead we should use the
count register. We did this for the syscall entry path in:
6a40480 powerpc: Avoid link stack corruption in MMU on syscall entry path
but I stupidly forgot to do the same for other exceptions.
This patch changes the initial exception vectors to use the count
register instead of the link register when we need to branch up to the
relocated kernel.
I have a dodgy userspace test which loops calling a function that reads
the PVR (mfpvr in userspace will be emulated by the kernel via the
program check exception). On POWER8 and with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, I
get a ~10% performance improvement with my userspace test with this
patch.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
So far "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/physical_package_id"
was always default (-1) on ppc64 architecture.
Now, some systems have an ibm,chip-id property in the cpu nodes in
the device tree. On these systems, we now use this information to
display physical_package_id.
Signed-off-by: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Shivaprasad G Bhat <sbhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Instead of implementing an empty giveup_fpu() function for each
32bit processor type, replace them with an unique empty inline
function.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In the current kernel, the function flush_fp_to_thread() is not
dependent on CONFIG_PPC_FPU. So most invocations of this function
is not wrapped by CONFIG_PPC_FPU. Even through we don't really
save the FPRs to the thread struct if CONFIG_PPC_FPU is not enabled,
but there does have some runtime overhead such as the check for
tsk->thread.regs and preempt disable and enable. It really make
no sense to do that. So make it a nop when CONFIG_PPC_FPU is
disabled. Also remove the wrapped #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FPU
when invoking this function.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The only using of function disable_kernel_fp() was already dropped
in the commit 5daf9071 (powerpc: merge align.c).
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The Kconfig symbol 8XX_MINIMAL_FPEMU was removed in commit 968219fa33
("powerpc/8xx: Remove 8xx specific "minimal FPU emulation""). But that
commit didn't remove all code depending on that symbol. Do so now.
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The udbg_16550 code, which we use for our early consoles and debug
backends was fairly messy. Especially for the debug consoles, it
would re-implement the "high level" getc/putc/poll functions for
each access method. It also had code to configure the UART but only
for the straight MMIO method.
This changes it to instead abstract at the register accessor level,
and have the various functions and configuration routines use these.
The result is simpler and slightly smaller code, and free support
for non-MMIO mapped PIO UARTs, which such as the ones that can be
present on a POWER 8 LPC bus.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This uses the hooks provided by CONFIG_PPC_INDIRECT_PIO to
implement a set of hooks for IO port access to use the LPC
bus via OPAL calls for the first 64K of IO space
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Remove the generic PPC_INDIRECT_IO and ensure we only add overhead
to the right accessors. IE. If only CONFIG_PPC_INDIRECT_PIO is set,
we don't add overhead to all MMIO accessors.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The SOFT_DISABLE_INTS seems an odd name for something that updates the
software state to be consistent with interrupts being hard disabled, so
rename SOFT_DISABLE_INTS with RECONCILE_IRQ_STATE to avoid this confusion.
Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We have a bunch of CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_* options that are intended
for bringup/debug only. They hard wire a machine specific udbg backend
very early on (before we even probe the platform), and use whatever
tricks are available on each machine/cpu to be able to get some kind
of output out there early on.
So far, on powermac with no serial ports, we have CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_BOOTX
to use the low-level btext engine on the screen, but it doesn't do much, at
least on 64-bit. It only really gets enabled after the platform has been
probed and the MMU enabled.
This adds a way to enable it much earlier. From prom_init.c (while still
running with Open Firmware), we grab the screen details and set things up
using the physical address of the frame buffer.
Then btext itself uses the "rm_ci" feature of the 970 processor (Real
Mode Cache Inhibited) to access it while in real mode.
We need to do a little bit of reorg of the btext code to inline things
better, in order to limit how much we touch memory while in this mode as
the consequences might be ... interesting.
This successfully allowed me to debug problems early on with the G5
(related to gold being broken vs. ppc64 kernels).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cell and PSeries both implemented their own versions of a
cpu_bootable smp_op which do the same thing (well, the PSeries
one has support for more than 2 threads). Copy the PSeries one
to generic code, and rename it smp_generic_cpu_bootable.
Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
And now the function flush_icache_range() is just a wrapper which
only invoke the function __flush_icache_range() directly. So we
don't have reason to keep it anymore.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In function flush_icache_range(), we use cpu_has_feature() to test
the feature bit of CPU_FTR_COHERENT_ICACHE. But this seems not optimal
for two reasons:
a) For ppc32, the function __flush_icache_range() already do this
check with the macro END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET.
b) Compare with the cpu_has_feature(), the method of using macro
END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET will not introduce any runtime overhead.
[And while at it, add the missing required isync] -- BenH
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Although the shared_proc field in the lppaca works today, it is
not architected. A shared processor partition will always have a non
zero yield_count so use that instead. Create a wrapper so users
don't have to know about the details.
In order for older kernels to continue to work on KVM we need
to set the shared_proc bit. While here, remove the ugly bitfield.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Fix a sparse warning about force_32bit_msi being a one bit bitfield.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Simplify things by putting all the 32bit and 64bit defines
together instead of in two spots.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We always use VMX loads and stores to manage the high 32
VSRs. Remove these unused macros.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Not having parentheses around a macro is asking for trouble.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
If a transaction is rolled back, the Target Address Register (TAR), Processor
Priority Register (PPR) and Data Stream Control Register (DSCR) should be
restored to the checkpointed values before the transaction began. Any changes
to these SPRs inside the transaction should not be visible in the abort
handler.
Currently Linux doesn't save or restore the checkpointed TAR, PPR or DSCR. If
we preempt a processes inside a transaction which has modified any of these, on
process restore, that same transaction may be aborted we but we won't see the
checkpointed versions of these SPRs.
This adds checkpointed versions of these SPRs to the thread_struct and adds the
save/restore of these three SPRs to the treclaim/trechkpt code.
Without this if any of these SPRs are modified during a transaction, users may
incorrectly see a speculated SPR value even if the transaction is aborted.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This moves us to save the Target Address Register (TAR) a earlier in
__switch_to. It introduces a new function save_tar() to do this.
We need to save the TAR earlier as we will overwrite it in the transactional
memory reclaim/recheckpoint path. We are going to do this in a subsequent
patch which will fix saving the TAR register when it's modified inside a
transaction.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This reworks the Facility Status and Control Regsiter (FSCR) config bit
definitions so that we can access the bit numbers. This is needed for a
subsequent patch to fix the userspace DSCR handling.
HFSCR and FSCR bit definitions are the same, so reuse them.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
At console init, when the kernel tries to flush the log buffer
the ePAPR byte-channel based console write fails silently,
losing the buffered messages.
This happens because The ePAPR para-virtualization init isn't
done early enough so that the hcall instruction to be set,
causing the byte-channel write hcall to be a nop.
To fix, change the ePAPR para-virt init to use early device
tree functions and move it in early init.
Signed-off-by: Laurentiu Tudor <Laurentiu.Tudor@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
mpic_get_primary_version() is not defined when not using MPIC.
The compile error log like:
arch/powerpc/sysdev/built-in.o: In function `fsl_of_msi_probe':
fsl_msi.c:(.text+0x150c): undefined reference to `fsl_mpic_primary_get_version'
Signed-off-by: Jia Hongtao <hongtao.jia@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
e6500 core performance monitors has the following features:
- 6 performance monitor counters
- 512 events supported
- no threshold events
e6500 PMU has more specific events (Data L1 cache misses, Instruction L1
cache misses, etc ) than e500 PMU (which only had Data L1 cache reloads,
etc). Where available, the more specific events have been used which will
produce slightly different results than e500 PMU equivalents.
Signed-off-by: Priyanka Jain <Priyanka.Jain@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Lijun Pan <Lijun.Pan@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
This change is required after the e6500 perf support has been added.
There are 6 counters in e6500 core instead of 4 in e500 core and
the MAX_HWEVENTS counter should be changed accordingly from 4 to 6.
Added also runtime check for counters overflow.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Udma <catalin.udma@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Lijun Pan <Lijun.Pan@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
When an associativity level change is found for one thread, the
siblings threads need to be updated as well. This is done today
for PRRN in stage_topology_update() but is missing for VPHN in
update_cpu_associativity_changes_mask(). This patch will correctly
update all thread siblings during a topology change.
Without this patch a topology update can result in a CPU in
init_sched_groups_power() getting stuck indefinitely in a loop.
This loop is built in build_sched_groups(). As a result of the thread
moving to a node separate from its siblings the struct sched_group will
have its next pointer set to point to itself rather than the sched_group
struct of the next thread. This happens because we have a domain without
the SD_OVERLAP flag, which is correct, and a topology that doesn't conform
with reality (threads on the same core assigned to different numa nodes).
When this list is traversed by init_sched_groups_power() it will reach
the thread's sched_group structure and loop indefinitely; the cpu will
be stuck at this point.
The bug was exposed when VPHN was enabled in commit b7abef0 (v3.9).
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.9+]
Reported-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We use bit 63 of the event code for userspace to request that the event
be counted using EBB (Event Based Branches). Export this value, making
it part of the API - though only on processors that support EBB.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Opcode and xopcode are useful definitions not just for KVM. Move these
definitions to asm/ppc-opcode.h for public use.
Also add the opcodes for LHAUX and LWZUX.
Signed-off-by: Jia Hongtao <hongtao.jia@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
[scottwood@freesacle.com: update commit message and rebase]
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
The patch introduces flag EEH_DEV_SYSFS to keep track that the sysfs
entries for the corresponding EEH device (then PCI device) has been
added or removed, in order to avoid race condition.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
While restoring BARs for one specific PCI device, the pci_dev
instance should have been released. So it's not reliable to use
the pci_dev instance on restoring BARs. However, we still need
some information (e.g. PCIe capability position, header type) from
the pci_dev instance. So we have to store those information to
EEH device in advance.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
When EEH error happens to one specific PE, some devices with drivers
supporting EEH won't except hotplug on the device. However, there
might have other deivces without driver, or with driver without EEH
support. For the case, we need do partial hotplug in order to make
sure that the PE becomes absolutely quite during reset. Otherise,
the PE reset might fail and leads to failure of error recovery.
The current code doesn't handle that 'mixed' case properly, it either
uses the error callbacks to the drivers, or tries hotplug, but doesn't
handle a PE (EEH domain) composed of a combination of the two.
The patch intends to support so-called "partial" hotplug for EEH:
Before we do reset, we stop and remove those PCI devices without
EEH sensitive driver. The corresponding EEH devices are not detached
from its PE, but with special flag. After the reset is done, those
EEH devices with the special flag will be scanned one by one.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Currently, we're trasversing the EEH devices list using list_for_each_entry().
That's not safe enough because the EEH devices might be removed from
its parent PE while doing iteration. The patch replaces that with
list_for_each_entry_safe().
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
When we do normal hotplug, the PE (shadow EEH structure) shouldn't be
kept around.
However, we need to keep it if the hotplug an artifial one caused by
EEH errors recovery.
Since we remove EEH device through the PCI hook pcibios_release_device(),
the flag "purge_pe" passed to various functions is meaningless. So the patch
removes the meaningless flag and introduce new flag "EEH_PE_KEEP"
to save the PE while doing hotplug during EEH error recovery.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Make some functions public in order to support hotplug on either specific
PCI bus or PCI device in future.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In hard_irq_disable(), we accessed the PACA before we hard disabled
the interrupts, potentially causing a warning as get_paca() will
us debug_smp_processor_id().
Move that to after the disabling, and also use local_paca directly
rather than get_paca() to avoid several redundant and useless checks.
Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Module CRCs are implemented as absolute symbols that get resolved by
a linker script. We build an intermediate .o that contains an
unresolved symbol for each CRC. genksysms parses this .o, calculates
the CRCs and writes a linker script that "resolves" the symbols to
the calculated CRC.
Unfortunately the ppc64 relocatable kernel sees these CRCs as symbols
that need relocating and relocates them at boot. Commit d4703aef
(module: handle ppc64 relocating kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y)
added a hook to reverse the bogus relocations. Part of this patch
created a symbol at 0x0:
# head -2 /proc/kallsyms
0000000000000000 T reloc_start
c000000000000000 T .__start
This reloc_start symbol is causing lots of confusion to perf. It
thinks reloc_start is a massive function that stretches from 0x0 to
0xc000000000000000 and we get various cryptic errors out of perf,
including:
problem incrementing symbol count, skipping event
This patch removes the reloc_start linker script label and instead
defines it as PHYSICAL_START. We also need to wrap it with
CONFIG_PPC64 because the ppc32 kernel can set a non zero
PHYSICAL_START at compile time and we wouldn't want to subtract
it from the CRCs in that case.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
POWER8 comes with two different PVRs. This patch enables the additional
PVR in the cputable.
The existing entry (PVR=0x4b) is renamed to POWER8E and the new entry
(PVR=0x4d) is given POWER8.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
* Add missing 'finished_round' event forwarding in 'perf inject', from Adrian Hunter.
* Assorted tidy ups, from Adrian Hunter.
* Fall back to sysfs event names when parsing fails, from Andi Kleen.
* List pmu events in perf list, from Andi Kleen.
* Cleanup some memory allocation/freeing uses, from David Ahern.
* Add option to collapse undesired parts of call graph, from Greg Price.
* Prep work for multi perf data file storage, from Jiri Olsa.
* Add support for more than two files comparision in 'perf diff', from Jiri Olsa
* A few more 'perf test' improvements, from Jiri Olsa
* libtraceevent cleanups, from Namhyung Kim.
* Remove odd build stall in 'perf sched' by moving a large struct initialization
from a local variable to a global one, from Namhyung Kim.
* Add support for callchains in the gtk UI, from Namhyung Kim.
* Do not apply symfs for an absolute vmlinux path, fix from Namhyung Kim.
* Use default include path notation for libtraceevent, from Robert Richter.
* Fix 'make tools/perf', from Robert Richter.
* Make Power7 events available, from Runzhen Wang.
* Add --objdump option to 'perf top', from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Power7 supports over 530 different perf events but only a small subset
of these can be specified by name, for the remaining events, we must
specify them by their raw code:
perf stat -e r2003c <application>
This patch makes all the POWER7 events available in sysfs. So we can
instead specify these as:
perf stat -e 'cpu/PM_CMPLU_STALL_DFU/' <application>
where PM_CMPLU_STALL_DFU is the r2003c in previous example.
Before this patch is applied, the size of power7-pmu.o is:
$ size arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.o
text data bss dec hex filename
3073 2720 0 5793 16a1 arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.o
and after the patch is applied, it is:
$ size arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.o
text data bss dec hex filename
15950 31112 0 47062 b7d6 arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.o
For the run time overhead, I use two scripts, one is "event_name.sh",
which contains 50 event names, it looks like:
# ./perf record -e 'cpu/PM_CMPLU_STALL_DFU/' -e ..... /bin/sleep 1
the other one is named "event_code.sh" which use corresponding events
raw
code instead of events names, it looks like:
# ./perf record -e r2003c -e ...... /bin/sleep 1
below is the result.
Using events name:
[root@localhost perf]# time ./event_name.sh
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.002 MB perf.data (~102 samples) ]
real 0m1.192s
user 0m0.028s
sys 0m0.106s
Using events raw code:
[root@localhost perf]# time ./event_code.sh
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.003 MB perf.data (~112 samples) ]
real 0m1.198s
user 0m0.028s
sys 0m0.105s
Signed-off-by: Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: icycoder@gmail.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Runzhen Wang <runzhew@clemson.edu>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372407297-6996-3-git-send-email-runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Rename LL_SO to BUSY_POLL_SO
Rename sysctl_net_ll_{read,poll} to sysctl_busy_{read,poll}
Fix up users of these variables.
Fix documentation for sysctl.
a patch for the socket.7 man page will follow separately,
because of limitations of my mail setup.
Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently this is only being done on 64-bit. Rather than just move it
out of the 64-bit ifdef, move it to kvm_lazy_ee_enable() so that it is
consistent with lazy ee state, and so that we don't track more host
code as interrupts-enabled than necessary.
Rename kvm_lazy_ee_enable() to kvm_fix_ee_before_entry() to reflect
that this function now has a role on 32-bit as well.
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
This corrects the usage of the tlbie (TLB invalidate entry) instruction
in HV KVM. The tlbie instruction changed between PPC970 and POWER7.
On the PPC970, the bit to select large vs. small page is in the instruction,
not in the RB register value. This changes the code to use the correct
form on PPC970.
On POWER7 we were calculating the AVAL (Abbreviated Virtual Address, Lower)
field of the RB value incorrectly for 64k pages. This fixes it.
Since we now have several cases to handle for the tlbie instruction, this
factors out the code to do a sequence of tlbies into a new function,
do_tlbies(), and calls that from the various places where the code was
doing tlbie instructions inline. It also makes kvmppc_h_bulk_remove()
use the same global_invalidates() function for determining whether to do
local or global TLB invalidations as is used in other places, for
consistency, and also to make sure that kvm->arch.need_tlb_flush gets
updated properly.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
"This is a re-do of the net-next pull request for the current merge
window. The only difference from the one I made the other day is that
this has Eliezer's interface renames and the timeout handling changes
made based upon your feedback, as well as a few bug fixes that have
trickeled in.
Highlights:
1) Low latency device polling, eliminating the cost of interrupt
handling and context switches. Allows direct polling of a network
device from socket operations, such as recvmsg() and poll().
Currently ixgbe, mlx4, and bnx2x support this feature.
Full high level description, performance numbers, and design in
commit 0a4db187a9 ("Merge branch 'll_poll'")
From Eliezer Tamir.
2) With the routing cache removed, ip_check_mc_rcu() gets exercised
more than ever before in the case where we have lots of multicast
addresses. Use a hash table instead of a simple linked list, from
Eric Dumazet.
3) Add driver for Atheros CQA98xx 802.11ac wireless devices, from
Bartosz Markowski, Janusz Dziedzic, Kalle Valo, Marek Kwaczynski,
Marek Puzyniak, Michal Kazior, and Sujith Manoharan.
4) Support reporting the TUN device persist flag to userspace, from
Pavel Emelyanov.
5) Allow controlling network device VF link state using netlink, from
Rony Efraim.
6) Support GRE tunneling in openvswitch, from Pravin B Shelar.
7) Adjust SOCK_MIN_RCVBUF and SOCK_MIN_SNDBUF for modern times, from
Daniel Borkmann and Eric Dumazet.
8) Allow controlling of TCP quickack behavior on a per-route basis,
from Cong Wang.
9) Several bug fixes and improvements to vxlan from Stephen
Hemminger, Pravin B Shelar, and Mike Rapoport. In particular,
support receiving on multiple UDP ports.
10) Major cleanups, particular in the area of debugging and cookie
lifetime handline, to the SCTP protocol code. From Daniel
Borkmann.
11) Allow packets to cross network namespaces when traversing tunnel
devices. From Nicolas Dichtel.
12) Allow monitoring netlink traffic via AF_PACKET sockets, in a
manner akin to how we monitor real network traffic via ptype_all.
From Daniel Borkmann.
13) Several bug fixes and improvements for the new alx device driver,
from Johannes Berg.
14) Fix scalability issues in the netem packet scheduler's time queue,
by using an rbtree. From Eric Dumazet.
15) Several bug fixes in TCP loss recovery handling, from Yuchung
Cheng.
16) Add support for GSO segmentation of MPLS packets, from Simon
Horman.
17) Make network notifiers have a real data type for the opaque
pointer that's passed into them. Use this to properly handle
network device flag changes in arp_netdev_event(). From Jiri
Pirko and Timo Teräs.
18) Convert several drivers over to module_pci_driver(), from Peter
Huewe.
19) tcp_fixup_rcvbuf() can loop 500 times over loopback, just use a
O(1) calculation instead. From Eric Dumazet.
20) Support setting of explicit tunnel peer addresses in ipv6, just
like ipv4. From Nicolas Dichtel.
21) Protect x86 BPF JIT against spraying attacks, from Eric Dumazet.
22) Prevent a single high rate flow from overruning an individual cpu
during RX packet processing via selective flow shedding. From
Willem de Bruijn.
23) Don't use spinlocks in TCP md5 signing fast paths, from Eric
Dumazet.
24) Don't just drop GSO packets which are above the TBF scheduler's
burst limit, chop them up so they are in-bounds instead. Also
from Eric Dumazet.
25) VLAN offloads are missed when configured on top of a bridge, fix
from Vlad Yasevich.
26) Support IPV6 in ping sockets. From Lorenzo Colitti.
27) Receive flow steering targets should be updated at poll() time
too, from David Majnemer.
28) Fix several corner case regressions in PMTU/redirect handling due
to the routing cache removal, from Timo Teräs.
29) We have to be mindful of ipv4 mapped ipv6 sockets in
upd_v6_push_pending_frames(). From Hannes Frederic Sowa.
30) Fix L2TP sequence number handling bugs, from James Chapman."
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1214 commits)
drivers/net: caif: fix wrong rtnl_is_locked() usage
drivers/net: enic: release rtnl_lock on error-path
vhost-net: fix use-after-free in vhost_net_flush
net: mv643xx_eth: do not use port number as platform device id
net: sctp: confirm route during forward progress
virtio_net: fix race in RX VQ processing
virtio: support unlocked queue poll
net/cadence/macb: fix bug/typo in extracting gem_irq_read_clear bit
Documentation: Fix references to defunct linux-net@vger.kernel.org
net/fs: change busy poll time accounting
net: rename low latency sockets functions to busy poll
bridge: fix some kernel warning in multicast timer
sfc: Fix memory leak when discarding scattered packets
sit: fix tunnel update via netlink
dt:net:stmmac: Add dt specific phy reset callback support.
dt:net:stmmac: Add support to dwmac version 3.610 and 3.710
dt:net:stmmac: Allocate platform data only if its NULL.
net:stmmac: fix memleak in the open method
ipv6: rt6_check_neigh should successfully verify neigh if no NUD information are available
net: ipv6: fix wrong ping_v6_sendmsg return value
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