Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

We need
4ba4f1afb6a9 ("perf: Generic hotplug support for a PMU with a scope")
in order to land a i915 PMU simplification and a fix. That landed in 6.12
and

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

We need
4ba4f1afb6a9 ("perf: Generic hotplug support for a PMU with a scope")
in order to land a i915 PMU simplification and a fix. That landed in 6.12
and we are stuck at 6.9 so lets bump things forward.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@ursulin.net>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.12 merge window.

Merge branch 'ib/6.11-rc6-matrix-keypad-spitz' into next

Bring in changes removing support for platform data from matrix-keypad
driver.

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Get drm-xe-next on v6.11-rc2 and synchronized with drm-intel-next for
the display side. This resolves the current conflict for the
enable_display module parameter

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Get drm-xe-next on v6.11-rc2 and synchronized with drm-intel-next for
the display side. This resolves the current conflict for the
enable_display module parameter and allows further pending refactors.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>

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Merge tag 'v6.11-rc3' into trace/ring-buffer/core

The "reserve_mem" kernel command line parameter has been pulled into
v6.11. Merge the latest -rc3 to allow the persistent ring buffer memory to
be a

Merge tag 'v6.11-rc3' into trace/ring-buffer/core

The "reserve_mem" kernel command line parameter has been pulled into
v6.11. Merge the latest -rc3 to allow the persistent ring buffer memory to
be able to be mapped at the address specified by the "reserve_mem" command
line parameter.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Get drm-misc-next to the state of v6.11-rc2.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge branch 'linus' into x86/mm

Bring x86 and selftests up to date

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Sync with v6.11-rc1 in general, and specifically get the new
BACKLIGHT_POWER_ constants for power states.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

Merge tag 'v6.11-rc1' into for-6.12

Linux 6.11-rc1

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Let's start the new drm-misc-fixes cycle by bringing in 6.11-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v6.11-rc1' into clk-meson-next

Linux 6.11-rc1

Merge tag 'net-next-6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Not much excitement - a handful of large patchsets (devmem a

Merge tag 'net-next-6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Not much excitement - a handful of large patchsets (devmem among them)
did not make it in time.

Core & protocols:

- Use local_lock in addition to local_bh_disable() to protect per-CPU
resources in networking, a step closer for local_bh_disable() not
to act as a big lock on PREEMPT_RT

- Use flex array for netdevice priv area, ensure its cache alignment

- Add a sysctl knob to allow user to specify a default rto_min at
socket init time. Bit of a big hammer but multiple companies were
independently carrying such patch downstream so clearly it's useful

- Support scheduling transmission of packets based on CLOCK_TAI

- Un-pin TCP TIMEWAIT timer to avoid it firing on CPUs later cordoned
off using cpusets

- Support multiple L2TPv3 UDP tunnels using the same 5-tuple address

- Allow configuration of multipath hash seed, to both allow
synchronizing hashing of two routers, and preventing partial
accidental sync

- Improve TCP compliance with RFC 9293 for simultaneous connect()

- Support sending NAT keepalives in IPsec ESP in UDP states.
Userspace IKE daemon had to do this before, but the kernel can
better keep track of it

- Support sending supervision HSR frames with MAC addresses stored in
ProxyNodeTable when RedBox (i.e. HSR-SAN) is enabled

- Introduce IPPROTO_SMC for selecting SMC when socket is created

- Allow UDP GSO transmit from devices with no checksum offload

- openvswitch: add packet sampling via psample, separating the
sampled traffic from "upcall" packets sent to user space for
forwarding

- nf_tables: shrink memory consumption for transaction objects

Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:

- Power Sequencing subsystem (used by Qualcomm Bluetooth driver for
QCA6390) [ Already merged separately - Linus ]

- Add IRQ information in sysfs for auxiliary bus

- Introduce guard definition for local_lock

- Add aligned flavor of __cacheline_group_{begin, end}() markings for
grouping fields in structures

BPF:

- Notify user space (via epoll) when a struct_ops object is getting
detached/unregistered

- Add new kfuncs for a generic, open-coded bits iterator

- Enable BPF programs to declare arrays of kptr, bpf_rb_root, and
bpf_list_head

- Support resilient split BTF which cuts down on duplication and
makes BTF as compact as possible WRT BTF from modules

- Add support for dumping kfunc prototypes from BTF which enables
both detecting as well as dumping compilable prototypes for kfuncs

- riscv64 BPF JIT improvements in particular to add 12-argument
support for BPF trampolines and to utilize bpf_prog_pack for the
latter

- Add the capability to offload the netfilter flowtable in XDP layer
through kfuncs

Driver API:

- Allow users to configure IRQ tresholds between which automatic IRQ
moderation can choose

- Expand Power Sourcing (PoE) status with power, class and failure
reason. Support setting power limits

- Track additional RSS contexts in the core, make sure configuration
changes don't break them

- Support IPsec crypto offload for IPv6 ESP and IPv4 UDP-encapsulated
ESP data paths

- Support updating firmware on SFP modules

Tests and tooling:

- mptcp: use net/lib.sh to manage netns

- TCP-AO and TCP-MD5: replace debug prints used by tests with
tracepoints

- openvswitch: make test self-contained (don't depend on OvS CLI
tools)

Drivers:

- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- increase the max total outstanding PTP TX packets to 4
- add timestamping statistics support
- implement netdev_queue_mgmt_ops
- support new RSS context API
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- implement FEC statistics and dumping signal quality indicators
- support E825C products (with 56Gbps PHYs)
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- support HW-GRO
- mlx4/mlx5: support per-queue statistics via netlink
- obey the max number of EQs setting in sub-functions
- AMD/Solarflare:
- support new RSS context API
- AMD/Pensando:
- ionic: rework fix for doorbell miss to lower overhead and
skip it on new HW
- Wangxun:
- txgbe: support Flow Director perfect filters

- Ethernet NICs consumer, embedded and virtual:
- Add driver for Tehuti Networks TN40xx chips
- Add driver for Meta's internal NIC chips
- Add driver for Ethernet MAC on Airoha EN7581 SoCs
- Add driver for Renesas Ethernet-TSN devices
- Google cloud vNIC:
- flow steering support
- Microsoft vNIC:
- support page sizes other than 4KB on ARM64
- vmware vNIC:
- support latency measurement (update to version 9)
- VirtIO net:
- support for Byte Queue Limits
- support configuring thresholds for automatic IRQ moderation
- support for AF_XDP Rx zero-copy
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- support for STM32MP13 SoC
- let platforms select the right PCS implementation
- TI:
- icssg-prueth: add multicast filtering support
- icssg-prueth: enable PTP timestamping and PPS
- Renesas:
- ravb: improve Rx performance 30-400% by using page pool,
theaded NAPI and timer-based IRQ coalescing
- ravb: add MII support for R-Car V4M
- Cadence (macb):
- macb: add ARP support to Wake-On-LAN
- Cortina:
- use phylib for RX and TX pause configuration

- Ethernet switches:
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- support configuration of multipath hash seed
- report more accurate max MTU
- use page_pool to improve Rx performance
- MediaTek:
- mt7530: add support for bridge port isolation
- Qualcomm:
- qca8k: add support for bridge port isolation
- Microchip:
- lan9371/2: add 100BaseTX PHY support
- NXP:
- vsc73xx: implement VLAN operations

- Ethernet PHYs:
- aquantia: enable support for aqr115c
- aquantia: add support for PHY LEDs
- realtek: add support for rtl8224 2.5Gbps PHY
- xpcs: add memory-mapped device support
- add BroadR-Reach link mode and support in Broadcom's PHY driver

- CAN:
- add document for ISO 15765-2 protocol support
- mcp251xfd: workaround for erratum DS80000789E, use timestamps to
catch when device returns incorrect FIFO status

- WiFi:
- mac80211/cfg80211:
- parse Transmit Power Envelope (TPE) data in mac80211 instead
of in drivers
- improvements for 6 GHz regulatory flexibility
- multi-link improvements
- support multiple radios per wiphy
- remove DEAUTH_NEED_MGD_TX_PREP flag
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- bump FW API to 91 for BZ/SC devices
- report 64-bit radiotap timestamp
- enable P2P low latency by default
- handle Transmit Power Envelope (TPE) advertised by AP
- remove support for older FW for new devices
- fast resume (keeping the device configured)
- mvm: re-enable Multi-Link Operation (MLO)
- aggregation (A-MSDU) optimizations
- MediaTek (mt76):
- mt7925 Multi-Link Operation (MLO) support
- Qualcomm (ath10k):
- LED support for various chipsets
- Qualcomm (ath12k):
- remove unsupported Tx monitor handling
- support channel 2 in 6 GHz band
- support Spatial Multiplexing Power Save (SMPS) in 6 GHz band
- supprt multiple BSSID (MBSSID) and Enhanced Multi-BSSID
Advertisements (EMA)
- support dynamic VLAN
- add panic handler for resetting the firmware state
- DebugFS support for datapath statistics
- WCN7850: support for Wake on WLAN
- Microchip (wilc1000):
- read MAC address during probe to make it visible to user space
- suspend/resume improvements
- TI (wl18xx):
- support newer firmware versions
- RealTek (rtw89):
- preparation for RTL8852BE-VT support
- Wake on WLAN support for WiFi 6 chips
- 36-bit PCI DMA support
- RealTek (rtlwifi):
- RTL8192DU support
- Broadcom (brcmfmac):
- Management Frame Protection support (to enable WPA3)

- Bluetooth:
- qualcomm: use the power sequencer for QCA6390
- btusb: mediatek: add ISO data transmission functions
- hci_bcm4377: add BCM4388 support
- btintel: add support for BlazarU core
- btintel: add support for Whale Peak2
- btnxpuart: add support for AW693 A1 chipset
- btnxpuart: add support for IW615 chipset
- btusb: add Realtek RTL8852BE support ID 0x13d3:0x3591"

* tag 'net-next-6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1589 commits)
eth: fbnic: Fix spelling mistake "tiggerring" -> "triggering"
tcp: Replace strncpy() with strscpy()
wifi: ath12k: fix build vs old compiler
tcp: Don't access uninit tcp_rsk(req)->ao_keyid in tcp_create_openreq_child().
eth: fbnic: Write the TCAM tables used for RSS control and Rx to host
eth: fbnic: Add L2 address programming
eth: fbnic: Add basic Rx handling
eth: fbnic: Add basic Tx handling
eth: fbnic: Add link detection
eth: fbnic: Add initial messaging to notify FW of our presence
eth: fbnic: Implement Rx queue alloc/start/stop/free
eth: fbnic: Implement Tx queue alloc/start/stop/free
eth: fbnic: Allocate a netdevice and napi vectors with queues
eth: fbnic: Add FW communication mechanism
eth: fbnic: Add message parsing for FW messages
eth: fbnic: Add register init to set PCIe/Ethernet device config
eth: fbnic: Allocate core device specific structures and devlink interface
eth: fbnic: Add scaffolding for Meta's NIC driver
PCI: Add Meta Platforms vendor ID
net/sched: cls_flower: propagate tca[TCA_OPTIONS] to NL_REQ_ATTR_CHECK
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Merge tag 'v6.10' into next

Sync up with mainline to bring in device_for_each_child_node_scoped()
and other newer APIs.

Merge tag 'timers-v6.11-rc1' of https://git.linaro.org/people/daniel.lezcano/linux into timers/core

Pull clocksource/event driver updates from Daniel Lezcano:

- Remove unnecessary local variables

Merge tag 'timers-v6.11-rc1' of https://git.linaro.org/people/daniel.lezcano/linux into timers/core

Pull clocksource/event driver updates from Daniel Lezcano:

- Remove unnecessary local variables initialization as they will be
initialized in the code path anyway right after on the ARM arch
timer and the ARM global timer (Li kunyu)

- Fix a race condition in the interrupt leading to a deadlock on the
SH CMT driver. Note that this fix was not tested on the platform
using this timer but the fix seems reasonable enough to be picked
confidently (Niklas Söderlund)

- Increase the rating of the gic-timer and use the configured width
clocksource register on the MIPS architecture (Jiaxun Yang)

- Add the DT bindings for the TMU on the Renesas platforms (Geert
Uytterhoeven)

- Add the DT bindings for the SOPHGO SG2002 clint on RiscV (Thomas
Bonnefille)

- Add the rtl-otto timer driver along with the DT bindings for the
Realtek platform (Chris Packham)

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/91cd05de-4c5d-4242-a381-3b8a4fe6a2a2@linaro.org

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Merge tag 'i2c-host-6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/andi.shyti/linux into i2c/for-mergewindow

This release includes significant updates, with the primary
change being the rena

Merge tag 'i2c-host-6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/andi.shyti/linux into i2c/for-mergewindow

This release includes significant updates, with the primary
change being the renaming from "master/slave" to
"controller/target" to adhere to I2C v7 and SMBus 3.2 standards.

New Support:

- Added support for Intel Arrow Lake-H.
- Added I2C support in the Arioha SoC by linking the Mediatek
I2C controller.

Cleanups:

- Added the MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro, resolving a modpost
warning in the ALi 1563 Southbridge driver.
- Constified the regmap_config declaration in the i2c-designware
driver.
- Improved the coding style in the Renesas R-Car driver by
removing unnecessary semicolons after brackets.

General improvements:

- In the OMAP device, replaced NOIRQ_SYSTEM_SLEEP_PM_OPS with
RUNTIME_PM_OPS to enable waking up the controller during
suspend() before suspend_noirq() kicks in.
- Improved logging in the Xilinx driver.
- Added a warning (WARN()) in the Renesas R-Car driver for
spurious interrupts.

DTS Changes:

- Removed address-cell and size-cell from the Atmel at91sam,
nVidia Tegra 20, and Samsung S3c2410 devices.
- Fixed Texas Instruments OMAP4 I2C controller to comply with
the i2c-controller.yaml schema.
- Improved indentation in DTS examples for several I2C devices.
- Converted the NXP LPC1788 binding to the dt-schema.
- Added documentation for the compatible string
thead,th1520-i2c.
- Added the "power-domains" property for the Meson I2C driver.

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Merge tag 'loongarch-kvm-6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson into HEAD

LoongArch KVM changes for v6.11

1. Add ParaVirt steal time support.
2. Add some V

Merge tag 'loongarch-kvm-6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson into HEAD

LoongArch KVM changes for v6.11

1. Add ParaVirt steal time support.
2. Add some VM migration enhancement.
3. Add perf kvm-stat support for loongarch.

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Merge tag 'net-6.10-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski:
"Including fixes from bluetooth, wireless and netfilter.

There's o

Merge tag 'net-6.10-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski:
"Including fixes from bluetooth, wireless and netfilter.

There's one fix for power management with Intel's e1000e here,
Thorsten tells us there's another problem that started in v6.9. We're
trying to wrap that up but I don't think it's blocking.

Current release - new code bugs:

- wifi: mac80211: disable softirqs for queued frame handling

- af_unix: fix uninit-value in __unix_walk_scc(), with the new
garbage collection algo

Previous releases - regressions:

- Bluetooth:
- qca: fix BT enable failure for QCA6390 after warm reboot
- add quirk to ignore reserved PHY bits in LE Extended Adv Report,
abused by some Broadcom controllers found on Apple machines

- wifi: wilc1000: fix ies_len type in connect path

Previous releases - always broken:

- tcp: fix DSACK undo in fast recovery to call tcp_try_to_open(),
avoid premature timeouts

- net: make sure skb_datagram_iter maps fragments page by page, in
case we somehow get compound highmem mixed in

- eth: bnx2x: fix multiple UBSAN array-index-out-of-bounds when more
queues are used

Misc:

- MAINTAINERS: Remembering Larry Finger"

* tag 'net-6.10-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (62 commits)
bnxt_en: Fix the resource check condition for RSS contexts
mlxsw: core_linecards: Fix double memory deallocation in case of invalid INI file
inet_diag: Initialize pad field in struct inet_diag_req_v2
tcp: Don't flag tcp_sk(sk)->rx_opt.saw_unknown for TCP AO.
selftests: make order checking verbose in msg_zerocopy selftest
selftests: fix OOM in msg_zerocopy selftest
ice: use proper macro for testing bit
ice: Reject pin requests with unsupported flags
ice: Don't process extts if PTP is disabled
ice: Fix improper extts handling
selftest: af_unix: Add test case for backtrack after finalising SCC.
af_unix: Fix uninit-value in __unix_walk_scc()
bonding: Fix out-of-bounds read in bond_option_arp_ip_targets_set()
net: rswitch: Avoid use-after-free in rswitch_poll()
netfilter: nf_tables: unconditionally flush pending work before notifier
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: check vif for NULL/ERR_PTR before dereference
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: avoid link lookup in statistics
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't wake up rx_sync_waitq upon RFKILL
wifi: iwlwifi: properly set WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_EXT_KEK_KCK
wifi: wilc1000: fix ies_len type in connect path
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Merge tag 'wireless-next-2024-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next

Johannes Berg says:

====================
Highlights this time are:

- cfg80211/nl80211:

Merge tag 'wireless-next-2024-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next

Johannes Berg says:

====================
Highlights this time are:

- cfg80211/nl80211:
* improvements for 6 GHz regulatory flexibility

- mac80211:
* use generic netdev stats
* multi-link improvements/fixes

- brcmfmac:
* MFP support (to enable WPA3)

- wilc1000:
* suspend/resume improvements

- iwlwifi:
* remove support for older FW for new devices
* fast resume (keeping the device configured)

- wl18xx:
* support newer firmware versions

* tag 'wireless-next-2024-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next: (100 commits)
wifi: brcmfmac: of: Support interrupts-extended
wifi: brcmsmac: advertise MFP_CAPABLE to enable WPA3
net: rfkill: Correct return value in invalid parameter case
wifi: mac80211: fix NULL dereference at band check in starting tx ba session
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix rs.h kernel-doc
wifi: iwlwifi: fw: api: datapath: fix kernel-doc
wifi: iwlwifi: fix remaining mistagged kernel-doc comments
wifi: iwlwifi: fix prototype mismatch kernel-doc warnings
wifi: iwlwifi: fix kernel-doc in iwl-fh.h
wifi: iwlwifi: fix kernel-doc in iwl-trans.h
wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: fix kernel-doc
wifi: iwlwifi: dvm: fix kernel-doc warnings
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't log error for failed UATS table read
wifi: iwlwifi: trans: make bad state warnings
wifi: iwlwifi: fw: api: fix some kernel-doc
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: remove init_dbg module parameter
wifi: iwlwifi: update the BA notification API
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: always unblock EMLSR on ROC end
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: use IWL_FW_CHECK for link ID check
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't flush BSSes on restart with MLD API
...
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240627114135.28507-3-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR.

No conflicts.

Adjacent changes:
e3f02f32a050 ("ionic: fix kernel panic due to mul

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR.

No conflicts.

Adjacent changes:
e3f02f32a050 ("ionic: fix kernel panic due to multi-buffer handling")
d9c04209990b ("ionic: Mark error paths in the data path as unlikely")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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Merge tag 'wireless-2024-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless

Johannes Berg says:

====================
Just a few changes:
- maintainers: Larry Finger sadly pa

Merge tag 'wireless-2024-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless

Johannes Berg says:

====================
Just a few changes:
- maintainers: Larry Finger sadly passed away
- maintainers: ath trees are in their group now
- TXQ FQ quantum configuration fix
- TI wl driver: work around stuck FW in AP mode
- mac80211: disable softirqs in some new code
needing that

* tag 'wireless-2024-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless:
MAINTAINERS: wifi: update ath.git location
MAINTAINERS: Remembering Larry Finger
wifi: mac80211: disable softirqs for queued frame handling
wifi: cfg80211: restrict NL80211_ATTR_TXQ_QUANTUM values
wifi: wlcore: fix wlcore AP mode
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240627083627.15312-3-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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wifi: wlcore: add pn16 support

TI Wl18xx firmware adds a "pn16" field for AES and TKIP keys as per
their patch:

https://git.ti.com/cgit/wilink8-wlan/build-utilites/tree/patches/kernel_patches/4.19.

wifi: wlcore: add pn16 support

TI Wl18xx firmware adds a "pn16" field for AES and TKIP keys as per
their patch:

https://git.ti.com/cgit/wilink8-wlan/build-utilites/tree/patches/kernel_patches/4.19.38/0023-wlcore-Fixing-PN-drift-on-encrypted-link-after-recov.patch?h=r8.9&id=a2ee50aa5190ed3b334373d6cd09b1bff56ffcf7

Add support for this, but rather than requiring the field to be
present (which would break existing firmwares), make it optional.

Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://msgid.link/E1sBsy7-00E8vu-Nc@rmk-PC.armlinux.org.uk

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wifi: wlcore: fix wlcore AP mode

Using wl183x devices in AP mode with various firmwares is not stable.

The driver currently adds a station to firmware with basic rates when it
is first known to the

wifi: wlcore: fix wlcore AP mode

Using wl183x devices in AP mode with various firmwares is not stable.

The driver currently adds a station to firmware with basic rates when it
is first known to the stack using the CMD_ADD_PEER command. Once the
station has finished authorising, another CMD_ADD_PEER command is issued
to update the firmware with the rates the station can use.

However, after a random amount of time, the firmware ignores the power
management nullfunc frames from the station, and tries to send packets
while the station is asleep, resulting in lots of retries dropping down
in rate due to no response. This restricts the available bandwidth.

With this happening with several stations, the user visible effect is
the latency of interactive connections increases significantly, packets
get dropped, and in general the WiFi connections become unreliable and
unstable.

Eventually, the firmware transmit queue appears to get stuck - with
packets and blocks allocated that never clear.

TI have a couple of patches that address this, but they touch the
mac80211 core to disable NL80211_FEATURE_FULL_AP_CLIENT_STATE for *all*
wireless drivers, which has the effect of not adding the station to the
stack until later when the rates are known. This is a sledge hammer
approach to solving the problem.

The solution implemented here has the same effect, but without
impacting all drivers.

We delay adding the station to firmware until it has been authorised
in the driver, and correspondingly remove the station when unwinding
from authorised state. Adding the station to firmware allocates a hlid,
which will now happen later than the driver expects. Therefore, we need
to track when this happens so that we transmit using the correct hlid.

This patch is an equivalent fix to these two patches in TI's
wilink8-wlan repository:

https://git.ti.com/cgit/wilink8-wlan/build-utilites/tree/patches/kernel_patches/4.19.38/0004-mac80211-patch.patch?h=r8.9&id=a2ee50aa5190ed3b334373d6cd09b1bff56ffcf7
https://git.ti.com/cgit/wilink8-wlan/build-utilites/tree/patches/kernel_patches/4.19.38/0005-wlcore-patch.patch?h=r8.9&id=a2ee50aa5190ed3b334373d6cd09b1bff56ffcf7

Reported-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Co-developed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://msgid.link/E1sClp4-00Evu7-8v@rmk-PC.armlinux.org.uk

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.12 merge window.

Merge branch 'ib/6.11-rc6-matrix-keypad-spitz' into next

Bring in changes removing support for platform data from matrix-keypad
driver.

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Get drm-xe-next on v6.11-rc2 and synchronized with drm-intel-next for
the display side. This resolves the current conflict for the
enable_display module parameter

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Get drm-xe-next on v6.11-rc2 and synchronized with drm-intel-next for
the display side. This resolves the current conflict for the
enable_display module parameter and allows further pending refactors.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>

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