Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost

Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:

- vhost can now support legacy threading if enabled in Kconfig

- vsock

Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost

Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:

- vhost can now support legacy threading if enabled in Kconfig

- vsock memory allocation strategies for large buffers have been
improved, reducing pressure on kmalloc

- vhost now supports the in-order feature. guest bits missed the merge
window.

- fixes, cleanups all over the place

* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (30 commits)
vsock/virtio: Allocate nonlinear SKBs for handling large transmit buffers
vsock/virtio: Rename virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put()
vhost/vsock: Allocate nonlinear SKBs for handling large receive buffers
vsock/virtio: Move SKB allocation lower-bound check to callers
vsock/virtio: Rename virtio_vsock_alloc_skb()
vsock/virtio: Resize receive buffers so that each SKB fits in a 4K page
vsock/virtio: Move length check to callers of virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put()
vsock/virtio: Validate length in packet header before skb_put()
vhost/vsock: Avoid allocating arbitrarily-sized SKBs
vhost_net: basic in_order support
vhost: basic in order support
vhost: fail early when __vhost_add_used() fails
vhost: Reintroduce kthread API and add mode selection
vdpa: Fix IDR memory leak in VDUSE module exit
vdpa/mlx5: Fix release of uninitialized resources on error path
vhost-scsi: Fix check for inline_sg_cnt exceeding preallocated limit
virtio: virtio_dma_buf: fix missing parameter documentation
vhost: Fix typos
vhost: vringh: Remove unused functions
vhost: vringh: Remove unused iotlb functions
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vhost: basic in order support

This patch adds basic in order support for vhost. Two optimizations
are implemented in this patch:

1) Since driver uses descriptor in order, vhost can deduce the next

vhost: basic in order support

This patch adds basic in order support for vhost. Two optimizations
are implemented in this patch:

1) Since driver uses descriptor in order, vhost can deduce the next
avail ring head by counting the number of descriptors that has been
used in next_avail_head. This eliminate the need to access the
available ring in vhost.

2) vhost_add_used_and_singal_n() is extended to accept the number of
batched buffers per used elem. While this increases the times of
userspace memory access but it helps to reduce the chance of
used ring access of both the driver and vhost.

Vhost-net will be the first user for this.

Acked-by: Jonah Palmer <jonah.palmer@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20250714084755.11921-3-jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Lei Yang <leiyang@redhat.com>

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vhost: Reintroduce kthread API and add mode selection

Since commit 6e890c5d5021 ("vhost: use vhost_tasks for worker threads"),
the vhost uses vhost_task and operates as a child of the
owner thread.

vhost: Reintroduce kthread API and add mode selection

Since commit 6e890c5d5021 ("vhost: use vhost_tasks for worker threads"),
the vhost uses vhost_task and operates as a child of the
owner thread. This is required for correct CPU usage accounting,
especially when using containers.

However, this change has caused confusion for some legacy
userspace applications, and we didn't notice until it's too late.

Unfortunately, it's too late to revert - we now have userspace
depending both on old and new behaviour :(

To address the issue, reintroduce kthread mode for vhost workers and
provide a configuration to select between kthread and task worker.

- Add 'fork_owner' parameter to vhost_dev to let users select kthread
or task mode. Default mode is task mode(VHOST_FORK_OWNER_TASK).

- Reintroduce kthread mode support:
* Bring back the original vhost_worker() implementation,
and renamed to vhost_run_work_kthread_list().
* Add cgroup support for the kthread
* Introduce struct vhost_worker_ops:
- Encapsulates create / stop / wake‑up callbacks.
- vhost_worker_create() selects the proper ops according to
inherit_owner.

- Userspace configuration interface:
* New IOCTLs:
- VHOST_SET_FORK_FROM_OWNER lets userspace select task mode
(VHOST_FORK_OWNER_TASK) or kthread mode (VHOST_FORK_OWNER_KTHREAD)
- VHOST_GET_FORK_FROM_OWNER reads the current worker mode
* Expose module parameter 'fork_from_owner_default' to allow system
administrators to configure the default mode for vhost workers
* Kconfig option CONFIG_VHOST_ENABLE_FORK_OWNER_CONTROL controls whether
these IOCTLs and the parameter are available

- The VHOST_NEW_WORKER functionality requires fork_owner to be set
to true, with validation added to ensure proper configuration

This partially reverts or improves upon:
commit 6e890c5d5021 ("vhost: use vhost_tasks for worker threads")
commit 1cdaafa1b8b4 ("vhost: replace single worker pointer with xarray")

Fixes: 6e890c5d5021 ("vhost: use vhost_tasks for worker threads"),
Signed-off-by: Cindy Lu <lulu@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20250714071333.59794-2-lulu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Lei Yang <leiyang@redhat.com>

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Merge tag 'net-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core & protocols:

- Wrap datapath globals into net_align

Merge tag 'net-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core & protocols:

- Wrap datapath globals into net_aligned_data, to avoid false sharing

- Preserve MSG_ZEROCOPY in forwarding (e.g. out of a container)

- Add SO_INQ and SCM_INQ support to AF_UNIX

- Add SIOCINQ support to AF_VSOCK

- Add TCP_MAXSEG sockopt to MPTCP

- Add IPv6 force_forwarding sysctl to enable forwarding per interface

- Make TCP validation of whether packet fully fits in the receive
window and the rcv_buf more strict. With increased use of HW
aggregation a single "packet" can be multiple 100s of kB

- Add MSG_MORE flag to optimize large TCP transmissions via sockmap,
improves latency up to 33% for sockmap users

- Convert TCP send queue handling from tasklet to BH workque

- Improve BPF iteration over TCP sockets to see each socket exactly
once

- Remove obsolete and unused TCP RFC3517/RFC6675 loss recovery code

- Support enabling kernel threads for NAPI processing on per-NAPI
instance basis rather than a whole device. Fully stop the kernel
NAPI thread when threaded NAPI gets disabled. Previously thread
would stick around until ifdown due to tricky synchronization

- Allow multicast routing to take effect on locally-generated packets

- Add output interface argument for End.X in segment routing

- MCTP: add support for gateway routing, improve bind() handling

- Don't require rtnl_lock when fetching an IPv6 neighbor over Netlink

- Add a new neighbor flag ("extern_valid"), which cedes refresh
responsibilities to userspace. This is needed for EVPN multi-homing
where a neighbor entry for a multi-homed host needs to be synced
across all the VTEPs among which the host is multi-homed

- Support NUD_PERMANENT for proxy neighbor entries

- Add a new queuing discipline for IETF RFC9332 DualQ Coupled AQM

- Add sequence numbers to netconsole messages. Unregister
netconsole's console when all net targets are removed. Code
refactoring. Add a number of selftests

- Align IPSec inbound SA lookup to RFC 4301. Only SPI and protocol
should be used for an inbound SA lookup

- Support inspecting ref_tracker state via DebugFS

- Don't force bonding advertisement frames tx to ~333 ms boundaries.
Add broadcast_neighbor option to send ARP/ND on all bonded links

- Allow providing upcall pid for the 'execute' command in openvswitch

- Remove DCCP support from Netfilter's conntrack

- Disallow multiple packet duplications in the queuing layer

- Prevent use of deprecated iptables code on PREEMPT_RT

Driver API:

- Support RSS and hashing configuration over ethtool Netlink

- Add dedicated ethtool callbacks for getting and setting hashing
fields

- Add support for power budget evaluation strategy in PSE /
Power-over-Ethernet. Generate Netlink events for overcurrent etc

- Support DPLL phase offset monitoring across all device inputs.
Support providing clock reference and SYNC over separate DPLL
inputs

- Support traffic classes in devlink rate API for bandwidth
management

- Remove rtnl_lock dependency from UDP tunnel port configuration

Device drivers:

- Add a new Broadcom driver for 800G Ethernet (bnge)

- Add a standalone driver for Microchip ZL3073x DPLL

- Remove IBM's NETIUCV device driver

- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- support zero-copy Tx of DMABUF memory
- take page size into account for page pool recycling rings
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- idpf: XDP and AF_XDP support preparations
- idpf: add flow steering
- add link_down_events statistic
- clean up the TSPLL code
- preparations for live VM migration
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- support zero-copy Rx/Tx interfaces (DMABUF and io_uring)
- optimize context memory usage for matchers
- expose serial numbers in devlink info
- support PCIe congestion metrics
- Meta (fbnic):
- add 25G, 50G, and 100G link modes to phylink
- support dumping FW logs
- Marvell/Cavium:
- support for CN20K generation of the Octeon chips
- Amazon:
- add HW clock (without timestamping, just hypervisor time access)

- Ethernet virtual:
- VirtIO net:
- support segmentation of UDP-tunnel-encapsulated packets
- Google (gve):
- support packet timestamping and clock synchronization
- Microsoft vNIC:
- add handler for device-originated servicing events
- allow dynamic MSI-X vector allocation
- support Tx bandwidth clamping

- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- AMD:
- amd-xgbe: hardware timestamping and PTP clock support
- Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp):
- use napi_complete_done() return value to support NAPI polling
- add support for re-starting auto-negotiation
- Broadcom switches (b53):
- support BCM5325 switches
- add bcm63xx EPHY power control
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- lots of code refactoring and cleanups
- TI:
- icssg-prueth: read firmware-names from device tree
- icssg: PRP offload support
- Microchip:
- lan78xx: convert to PHYLINK for improved PHY and MAC management
- ksz: add KSZ8463 switch support
- Intel:
- support similar queue priority scheme in multi-queue and
time-sensitive networking (taprio)
- support packet pre-emption in both
- RealTek (r8169):
- enable EEE at 5Gbps on RTL8126
- Airoha:
- add PPPoE offload support
- MDIO bus controller for Airoha AN7583

- Ethernet PHYs:
- support for the IPQ5018 internal GE PHY
- micrel KSZ9477 switch-integrated PHYs:
- add MDI/MDI-X control support
- add RX error counters
- add cable test support
- add Signal Quality Indicator (SQI) reporting
- dp83tg720: improve reset handling and reduce link recovery time
- support bcm54811 (and its MII-Lite interface type)
- air_en8811h: support resume/suspend
- support PHY counters for QCA807x and QCA808x
- support WoL for QCA807x

- CAN drivers:
- rcar_canfd: support for Transceiver Delay Compensation
- kvaser: report FW versions via devlink dev info

- WiFi:
- extended regulatory info support (6 GHz)
- add statistics and beacon monitor for Multi-Link Operation (MLO)
- support S1G aggregation, improve S1G support
- add Radio Measurement action fields
- support per-radio RTS threshold
- some work around how FIPS affects wifi, which was wrong (RC4 is
used by TKIP, not only WEP)
- improvements for unsolicited probe response handling

- WiFi drivers:
- RealTek (rtw88):
- IBSS mode for SDIO devices
- RealTek (rtw89):
- BT coexistence for MLO/WiFi7
- concurrent station + P2P support
- support for USB devices RTL8851BU/RTL8852BU
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- use embedded PNVM in (to be released) FW images to fix
compatibility issues
- many cleanups (unused FW APIs, PCIe code, WoWLAN)
- some FIPS interoperability
- MediaTek (mt76):
- firmware recovery improvements
- more MLO work
- Qualcomm/Atheros (ath12k):
- fix scan on multi-radio devices
- more EHT/Wi-Fi 7 features
- encapsulation/decapsulation offload
- Broadcom (brcm80211):
- support SDIO 43751 device

- Bluetooth:
- hci_event: add support for handling LE BIG Sync Lost event
- ISO: add socket option to report packet seqnum via CMSG
- ISO: support SCM_TIMESTAMPING for ISO TS

- Bluetooth drivers:
- intel_pcie: support Function Level Reset
- nxpuart: add support for 4M baudrate
- nxpuart: implement powerup sequence, reset, FW dump, and FW loading"

* tag 'net-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1742 commits)
dpll: zl3073x: Fix build failure
selftests: bpf: fix legacy netfilter options
ipv6: annotate data-races around rt->fib6_nsiblings
ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev()
ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size()
ipv6: add a retry logic in net6_rt_notify()
vrf: Drop existing dst reference in vrf_ip6_input_dst
net/sched: taprio: align entry index attr validation with mqprio
net: fsl_pq_mdio: use dev_err_probe
selftests: rtnetlink.sh: remove esp4_offload after test
vsock: remove unnecessary null check in vsock_getname()
igb: xsk: solve negative overflow of nb_pkts in zerocopy mode
stmmac: xsk: fix negative overflow of budget in zerocopy mode
dt-bindings: ieee802154: Convert at86rf230.txt yaml format
net: dsa: microchip: Disable PTP function of KSZ8463
net: dsa: microchip: Setup fiber ports for KSZ8463
net: dsa: microchip: Write switch MAC address differently for KSZ8463
net: dsa: microchip: Use different registers for KSZ8463
net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support to KSZ DSA driver
dt-bindings: net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support
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Merge branch 'virtio_udp_tunnel_08_07_2025' of https://github.com/pabeni/linux-devel

Paolo Abeni says:

====================
virtio: introduce GSO over UDP tunnel

Some virtualized deployments use U

Merge branch 'virtio_udp_tunnel_08_07_2025' of https://github.com/pabeni/linux-devel

Paolo Abeni says:

====================
virtio: introduce GSO over UDP tunnel

Some virtualized deployments use UDP tunnel pervasively and are impacted
negatively by the lack of GSO support for such kind of traffic in the
virtual NIC driver.

The virtio_net specification recently introduced support for GSO over
UDP tunnel, this series updates the virtio implementation to support
such a feature.

Currently the kernel virtio support limits the feature space to 64,
while the virtio specification allows for a larger number of features.
Specifically the GSO-over-UDP-tunnel-related virtio features use bits
65-69.

The first four patches in this series rework the virtio and vhost
feature support to cope with up to 128 bits. The limit is set by
a define and could be easily raised in future, as needed.

This implementation choice is aimed at keeping the code churn as
limited as possible. For the same reason, only the virtio_net driver is
reworked to leverage the extended feature space; all other
virtio/vhost drivers are unaffected, but could be upgraded to support
the extended features space in a later time.

The last four patches bring in the actual GSO over UDP tunnel support.
As per specification, some additional fields are introduced into the
virtio net header to support the new offload. The presence of such
fields depends on the negotiated features.

New helpers are introduced to convert the UDP-tunneled skb metadata to
an extended virtio net header and vice versa. Such helpers are used by
the tun and virtio_net driver to cope with the newly supported offloads.

Tested with basic stream transfer with all the possible permutations of
host kernel/qemu/guest kernel with/without GSO over UDP tunnel support.
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/cover.1751874094.git.pabeni@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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vhost-net: allow configuring extended features

Use the extended feature type for 'acked_features' and implement
two new ioctls operation allowing the user-space to set/query an
unbounded amount of f

vhost-net: allow configuring extended features

Use the extended feature type for 'acked_features' and implement
two new ioctls operation allowing the user-space to set/query an
unbounded amount of features.

The actual number of processed features is limited by VIRTIO_FEATURES_MAX
and attempts to set features above such limit fail with
EOPNOTSUPP.

Note that: the legacy ioctls implicitly truncate the negotiated
features to the lower 64 bits range and the 'acked_backend_features'
field don't need conversion, as the only negotiated feature there
is in the low 64 bit range.

Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

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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 'for-6.11/trivial' into for-linus

Couple of trivial fixes:
- extra semicolon (Chen Ni)
- typo (Thorsten Blum)

Merge tag 'v6.10' into next

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

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.11 merge window.

Merge branch 'tip/x86/cpu'

The Lunarlake patches rely on the new VFM stuff.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

Merge drm-misc-next-2024-07-04 into drm-misc-next-fixes

Let's start the drm-misc-next-fixes cycle.

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

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

Sync to v6.10-rc3.

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

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

Needed to get tracing cleanup and add mmio tracing series.

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm-misc/drm-misc-next' into HEAD

Merge drm-misc-next tree into the msm-next tree in order to be able to
use HDMI connector framework for the MSM HDMI driver.

Merge topic branches 'clkdev' and 'fixes' into for-linus

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-fixes' into drm-misc-fixes

v6.10-rc1 is released, forward from v6.9

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>

Merge tag 'v6.9' into next

Sync up with the mainline to bring in the new cleanup API.

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

Let's start the new release cycle.

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

Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost

Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:
"Several new features here:

- virtio-net is finally supported in vduse

Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost

Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:
"Several new features here:

- virtio-net is finally supported in vduse

- virtio (balloon and mem) interaction with suspend is improved

- vhost-scsi now handles signals better/faster

And fixes, cleanups all over the place"

* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (48 commits)
virtio-pci: Check if is_avq is NULL
virtio: delete vq in vp_find_vqs_msix() when request_irq() fails
MAINTAINERS: add Eugenio Pérez as reviewer
vhost-vdpa: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API
vp_vdpa: don't allocate unused msix vectors
sound: virtio: drop owner assignment
fuse: virtio: drop owner assignment
scsi: virtio: drop owner assignment
rpmsg: virtio: drop owner assignment
nvdimm: virtio_pmem: drop owner assignment
wifi: mac80211_hwsim: drop owner assignment
vsock/virtio: drop owner assignment
net: 9p: virtio: drop owner assignment
net: virtio: drop owner assignment
net: caif: virtio: drop owner assignment
misc: nsm: drop owner assignment
iommu: virtio: drop owner assignment
drm/virtio: drop owner assignment
gpio: virtio: drop owner assignment
firmware: arm_scmi: virtio: drop owner assignment
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vhost_task: Handle SIGKILL by flushing work and exiting

Instead of lingering until the device is closed, this has us handle
SIGKILL by:

1. marking the worker as killed so we no longer try to use it

vhost_task: Handle SIGKILL by flushing work and exiting

Instead of lingering until the device is closed, this has us handle
SIGKILL by:

1. marking the worker as killed so we no longer try to use it with
new virtqueues and new flush operations.
2. setting the virtqueue to worker mapping so no new works are queued.
3. running all the exiting works.

Suggested-by: Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@qq.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+98edc2df894917b3431f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Message-Id: <tencent_546DA49414E876EEBECF2C78D26D242EE50A@qq.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Message-Id: <20240316004707.45557-9-michael.christie@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

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vhost: Remove vhost_vq_flush

vhost_vq_flush is no longer used so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Message-Id: <20240316004707.45557-5-michael.christie@oracle.co

vhost: Remove vhost_vq_flush

vhost_vq_flush is no longer used so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Message-Id: <20240316004707.45557-5-michael.christie@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

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

Some display refactoring patches are needed in order to allow conflict-
less merging.

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

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

Sync to get the drm_printer changes to drm-intel-next.

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