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Linus Torvalds dbe69e4337 Networking changes for 5.14.
Core:
 
  - BPF:
    - add syscall program type and libbpf support for generating
      instructions and bindings for in-kernel BPF loaders (BPF loaders
      for BPF), this is a stepping stone for signed BPF programs
    - infrastructure to migrate TCP child sockets from one listener
      to another in the same reuseport group/map to improve flexibility
      of service hand-off/restart
    - add broadcast support to XDP redirect
 
  - allow bypass of the lockless qdisc to improving performance
    (for pktgen: +23% with one thread, +44% with 2 threads)
 
  - add a simpler version of "DO_ONCE()" which does not require
    jump labels, intended for slow-path usage
 
  - virtio/vsock: introduce SOCK_SEQPACKET support
 
  - add getsocketopt to retrieve netns cookie
 
  - ip: treat lowest address of a IPv4 subnet as ordinary unicast address
        allowing reclaiming of precious IPv4 addresses
 
  - ipv6: use prandom_u32() for ID generation
 
  - ip: add support for more flexible field selection for hashing
        across multi-path routes (w/ offload to mlxsw)
 
  - icmp: add support for extended RFC 8335 PROBE (ping)
 
  - seg6: add support for SRv6 End.DT46 behavior
 
  - mptcp:
     - DSS checksum support (RFC 8684) to detect middlebox meddling
     - support Connection-time 'C' flag
     - time stamping support
 
  - sctp: packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery (RFC 8899)
 
  - xfrm: speed up state addition with seq set
 
  - WiFi:
     - hidden AP discovery on 6 GHz and other HE 6 GHz improvements
     - aggregation handling improvements for some drivers
     - minstrel improvements for no-ack frames
     - deferred rate control for TXQs to improve reaction times
     - switch from round robin to virtual time-based airtime scheduler
 
  - add trace points:
     - tcp checksum errors
     - openvswitch - action execution, upcalls
     - socket errors via sk_error_report
 
 Device APIs:
 
  - devlink: add rate API for hierarchical control of max egress rate
             of virtual devices (VFs, SFs etc.)
 
  - don't require RCU read lock to be held around BPF hooks
    in NAPI context
 
  - page_pool: generic buffer recycling
 
 New hardware/drivers:
 
  - mobile:
     - iosm: PCIe Driver for Intel M.2 Modem
     - support for Qualcomm MSM8998 (ipa)
 
  - WiFi: Qualcomm QCN9074 and WCN6855 PCI devices
 
  - sparx5: Microchip SparX-5 family of Enterprise Ethernet switches
 
  - Mellanox BlueField Gigabit Ethernet (control NIC of the DPU)
 
  - NXP SJA1110 Automotive Ethernet 10-port switch
 
  - Qualcomm QCA8327 switch support (qca8k)
 
  - Mikrotik 10/25G NIC (atl1c)
 
 Driver changes:
 
  - ACPI support for some MDIO, MAC and PHY devices from Marvell and NXP
    (our first foray into MAC/PHY description via ACPI)
 
  - HW timestamping (PTP) support: bnxt_en, ice, sja1105, hns3, tja11xx
 
  - Mellanox/Nvidia NIC (mlx5)
    - NIC VF offload of L2 bridging
    - support IRQ distribution to Sub-functions
 
  - Marvell (prestera):
     - add flower and match all
     - devlink trap
     - link aggregation
 
  - Netronome (nfp): connection tracking offload
 
  - Intel 1GE (igc): add AF_XDP support
 
  - Marvell DPU (octeontx2): ingress ratelimit offload
 
  - Google vNIC (gve): new ring/descriptor format support
 
  - Qualcomm mobile (rmnet & ipa): inline checksum offload support
 
  - MediaTek WiFi (mt76)
     - mt7915 MSI support
     - mt7915 Tx status reporting
     - mt7915 thermal sensors support
     - mt7921 decapsulation offload
     - mt7921 enable runtime pm and deep sleep
 
  - Realtek WiFi (rtw88)
     - beacon filter support
     - Tx antenna path diversity support
     - firmware crash information via devcoredump
 
  - Qualcomm 60GHz WiFi (wcn36xx)
     - Wake-on-WLAN support with magic packets and GTK rekeying
 
  - Micrel PHY (ksz886x/ksz8081): add cable test support
 
 Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'net-next-5.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core:

   - BPF:
      - add syscall program type and libbpf support for generating
        instructions and bindings for in-kernel BPF loaders (BPF loaders
        for BPF), this is a stepping stone for signed BPF programs
      - infrastructure to migrate TCP child sockets from one listener to
        another in the same reuseport group/map to improve flexibility
        of service hand-off/restart
      - add broadcast support to XDP redirect

   - allow bypass of the lockless qdisc to improving performance (for
     pktgen: +23% with one thread, +44% with 2 threads)

   - add a simpler version of "DO_ONCE()" which does not require jump
     labels, intended for slow-path usage

   - virtio/vsock: introduce SOCK_SEQPACKET support

   - add getsocketopt to retrieve netns cookie

   - ip: treat lowest address of a IPv4 subnet as ordinary unicast
     address allowing reclaiming of precious IPv4 addresses

   - ipv6: use prandom_u32() for ID generation

   - ip: add support for more flexible field selection for hashing
     across multi-path routes (w/ offload to mlxsw)

   - icmp: add support for extended RFC 8335 PROBE (ping)

   - seg6: add support for SRv6 End.DT46 behavior

   - mptcp:
      - DSS checksum support (RFC 8684) to detect middlebox meddling
      - support Connection-time 'C' flag
      - time stamping support

   - sctp: packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery (RFC 8899)

   - xfrm: speed up state addition with seq set

   - WiFi:
      - hidden AP discovery on 6 GHz and other HE 6 GHz improvements
      - aggregation handling improvements for some drivers
      - minstrel improvements for no-ack frames
      - deferred rate control for TXQs to improve reaction times
      - switch from round robin to virtual time-based airtime scheduler

   - add trace points:
      - tcp checksum errors
      - openvswitch - action execution, upcalls
      - socket errors via sk_error_report

  Device APIs:

   - devlink: add rate API for hierarchical control of max egress rate
     of virtual devices (VFs, SFs etc.)

   - don't require RCU read lock to be held around BPF hooks in NAPI
     context

   - page_pool: generic buffer recycling

  New hardware/drivers:

   - mobile:
      - iosm: PCIe Driver for Intel M.2 Modem
      - support for Qualcomm MSM8998 (ipa)

   - WiFi: Qualcomm QCN9074 and WCN6855 PCI devices

   - sparx5: Microchip SparX-5 family of Enterprise Ethernet switches

   - Mellanox BlueField Gigabit Ethernet (control NIC of the DPU)

   - NXP SJA1110 Automotive Ethernet 10-port switch

   - Qualcomm QCA8327 switch support (qca8k)

   - Mikrotik 10/25G NIC (atl1c)

  Driver changes:

   - ACPI support for some MDIO, MAC and PHY devices from Marvell and
     NXP (our first foray into MAC/PHY description via ACPI)

   - HW timestamping (PTP) support: bnxt_en, ice, sja1105, hns3, tja11xx

   - Mellanox/Nvidia NIC (mlx5)
      - NIC VF offload of L2 bridging
      - support IRQ distribution to Sub-functions

   - Marvell (prestera):
      - add flower and match all
      - devlink trap
      - link aggregation

   - Netronome (nfp): connection tracking offload

   - Intel 1GE (igc): add AF_XDP support

   - Marvell DPU (octeontx2): ingress ratelimit offload

   - Google vNIC (gve): new ring/descriptor format support

   - Qualcomm mobile (rmnet & ipa): inline checksum offload support

   - MediaTek WiFi (mt76)
      - mt7915 MSI support
      - mt7915 Tx status reporting
      - mt7915 thermal sensors support
      - mt7921 decapsulation offload
      - mt7921 enable runtime pm and deep sleep

   - Realtek WiFi (rtw88)
      - beacon filter support
      - Tx antenna path diversity support
      - firmware crash information via devcoredump

   - Qualcomm WiFi (wcn36xx)
      - Wake-on-WLAN support with magic packets and GTK rekeying

   - Micrel PHY (ksz886x/ksz8081): add cable test support"

* tag 'net-next-5.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2168 commits)
  tcp: change ICSK_CA_PRIV_SIZE definition
  tcp_yeah: check struct yeah size at compile time
  gve: DQO: Fix off by one in gve_rx_dqo()
  stmmac: intel: set PCI_D3hot in suspend
  stmmac: intel: Enable PHY WOL option in EHL
  net: stmmac: option to enable PHY WOL with PMT enabled
  net: say "local" instead of "static" addresses in ndo_dflt_fdb_{add,del}
  net: use netdev_info in ndo_dflt_fdb_{add,del}
  ptp: Set lookup cookie when creating a PTP PPS source.
  net: sock: add trace for socket errors
  net: sock: introduce sk_error_report
  net: dsa: replay the local bridge FDB entries pointing to the bridge dev too
  net: dsa: ensure during dsa_fdb_offload_notify that dev_hold and dev_put are on the same dev
  net: dsa: include fdb entries pointing to bridge in the host fdb list
  net: dsa: include bridge addresses which are local in the host fdb list
  net: dsa: sync static FDB entries on foreign interfaces to hardware
  net: dsa: install the host MDB and FDB entries in the master's RX filter
  net: dsa: reference count the FDB addresses at the cross-chip notifier level
  net: dsa: introduce a separate cross-chip notifier type for host FDBs
  net: dsa: reference count the MDB entries at the cross-chip notifier level
  ...
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Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.