Merge tag 'v5.18'

Linux 5.18

Merge branches 'fixes' and 'misc' into for-linus

Merge tag 'v5.17-rc4' into for-linus

Merge with mainline to get the Intel ASoC generic helpers header and
other changes.

Merge tag 'v5.17-rc4' into next

Sync up with mainline to get the latest changes in HID subsystem.

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

First backmerge into drm-misc-next. Required for more helpers backmerged,
and to pull in 5.17 (rc2).

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst

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

First backmerge into drm-misc-next. Required for more helpers backmerged,
and to pull in 5.17 (rc2).

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

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Merge tag 'kvmarm-fixes-5.17-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

KVM/arm64 fixes for 5.17, take #2

- A couple of fixes when handling an exception while a SEr

Merge tag 'kvmarm-fixes-5.17-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

KVM/arm64 fixes for 5.17, take #2

- A couple of fixes when handling an exception while a SError has been
delivered

- Workaround for Cortex-A510's single-step[ erratum

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

Backmerge to bring in 5.17-rc2 to introduce a common baseline
to merge i915_regs changes from drm-intel-next.

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtin

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

Backmerge to bring in 5.17-rc2 to introduce a common baseline
to merge i915_regs changes from drm-intel-next.

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

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

Catch-up with 5.17-rc2 and trying to align with drm-intel-gt-next
for a possible topic branch for merging the split of i915_regs...

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Viv

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

Catch-up with 5.17-rc2 and trying to align with drm-intel-gt-next
for a possible topic branch for merging the split of i915_regs...

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

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

Backmerging drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes for v5.17-rc1.

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

Merge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf/core

To pick up fixes and get in line with other trees, powerpc kernel
mostly this time, but BPF as well.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de

Merge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf/core

To pick up fixes and get in line with other trees, powerpc kernel
mostly this time, but BPF as well.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Merge tag '5.17-net-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core
----

- Defer freeing TCP skbs to the BH handler,

Merge tag '5.17-net-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core
----

- Defer freeing TCP skbs to the BH handler, whenever possible, or at
least perform the freeing outside of the socket lock section to
decrease cross-CPU allocator work and improve latency.

- Add netdevice refcount tracking to locate sources of netdevice and
net namespace refcount leaks.

- Make Tx watchdog less intrusive - avoid pausing Tx and restarting
all queues from a single CPU removing latency spikes.

- Various small optimizations throughout the stack from Eric Dumazet.

- Make netdev->dev_addr[] constant, force modifications to go via
appropriate helpers to allow us to keep addresses in ordered data
structures.

- Replace unix_table_lock with per-hash locks, improving performance
of bind() calls.

- Extend skb drop tracepoint with a drop reason.

- Allow SO_MARK and SO_PRIORITY setsockopt under CAP_NET_RAW.

BPF
---

- New helpers:
- bpf_find_vma(), find and inspect VMAs for profiling use cases
- bpf_loop(), runtime-bounded loop helper trading some execution
time for much faster (if at all converging) verification
- bpf_strncmp(), improve performance, avoid compiler flakiness
- bpf_get_func_arg(), bpf_get_func_ret(), bpf_get_func_arg_cnt()
for tracing programs, all inlined by the verifier

- Support BPF relocations (CO-RE) in the kernel loader.

- Further the support for BTF_TYPE_TAG annotations.

- Allow access to local storage in sleepable helpers.

- Convert verifier argument types to a composable form with different
attributes which can be shared across types (ro, maybe-null).

- Prepare libbpf for upcoming v1.0 release by cleaning up APIs,
creating new, extensible ones where missing and deprecating those
to be removed.

Protocols
---------

- WiFi (mac80211/cfg80211):
- notify user space about long "come back in N" AP responses,
allow it to react to such temporary rejections
- allow non-standard VHT MCS 10/11 rates
- use coarse time in airtime fairness code to save CPU cycles

- Bluetooth:
- rework of HCI command execution serialization to use a common
queue and work struct, and improve handling errors reported in
the middle of a batch of commands
- rework HCI event handling to use skb_pull_data, avoiding packet
parsing pitfalls
- support AOSP Bluetooth Quality Report

- SMC:
- support net namespaces, following the RDMA model
- improve connection establishment latency by pre-clearing buffers
- introduce TCP ULP for automatic redirection to SMC

- Multi-Path TCP:
- support ioctls: SIOCINQ, OUTQ, and OUTQNSD
- support socket options: IP_TOS, IP_FREEBIND, IP_TRANSPARENT,
IPV6_FREEBIND, and IPV6_TRANSPARENT, TCP_CORK and TCP_NODELAY
- support cmsgs: TCP_INQ
- improvements in the data scheduler (assigning data to subflows)
- support fastclose option (quick shutdown of the full MPTCP
connection, similar to TCP RST in regular TCP)

- MCTP (Management Component Transport) over serial, as defined by
DMTF spec DSP0253 - "MCTP Serial Transport Binding".

Driver API
----------

- Support timestamping on bond interfaces in active/passive mode.

- Introduce generic phylink link mode validation for drivers which
don't have any quirks and where MAC capability bits fully express
what's supported. Allow PCS layer to participate in the validation.
Convert a number of drivers.

- Add support to set/get size of buffers on the Rx rings and size of
the tx copybreak buffer via ethtool.

- Support offloading TC actions as first-class citizens rather than
only as attributes of filters, improve sharing and device resource
utilization.

- WiFi (mac80211/cfg80211):
- support forwarding offload (ndo_fill_forward_path)
- support for background radar detection hardware
- SA Query Procedures offload on the AP side

New hardware / drivers
----------------------

- tsnep - FPGA based TSN endpoint Ethernet MAC used in PLCs with
real-time requirements for isochronous communication with protocols
like OPC UA Pub/Sub.

- Qualcomm BAM-DMUX WWAN - driver for data channels of modems
integrated into many older Qualcomm SoCs, e.g. MSM8916 or MSM8974
(qcom_bam_dmux).

- Microchip LAN966x multi-port Gigabit AVB/TSN Ethernet Switch driver
with support for bridging, VLANs and multicast forwarding
(lan966x).

- iwlmei driver for co-operating between Intel's WiFi driver and
Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT) devices.

- mse102x - Vertexcom MSE102x Homeplug GreenPHY chips

- Bluetooth:
- MediaTek MT7921 SDIO devices
- Foxconn MT7922A
- Realtek RTL8852AE

Drivers
-------

- Significantly improve performance in the datapaths of: lan78xx,
ax88179_178a, lantiq_xrx200, bnxt.

- Intel Ethernet NICs:
- igb: support PTP/time PEROUT and EXTTS SDP functions on
82580/i354/i350 adapters
- ixgbevf: new PF -> VF mailbox API which avoids the risk of
mailbox corruption with ESXi
- iavf: support configuration of VLAN features of finer
granularity, stacked tags and filtering
- ice: PTP support for new E822 devices with sub-ns precision
- ice: support firmware activation without reboot

- Mellanox Ethernet NICs (mlx5):
- expose control over IRQ coalescing mode (CQE vs EQE) via ethtool
- support TC forwarding when tunnel encap and decap happen between
two ports of the same NIC
- dynamically size and allow disabling various features to save
resources for running in embedded / SmartNIC scenarios

- Broadcom Ethernet NICs (bnxt):
- use page frag allocator to improve Rx performance
- expose control over IRQ coalescing mode (CQE vs EQE) via ethtool

- Other Ethernet NICs:
- amd-xgbe: add Ryzen 6000 (Yellow Carp) Ethernet support

- Microsoft cloud/virtual NIC (mana):
- add XDP support (PASS, DROP, TX)

- Mellanox Ethernet switches (mlxsw):
- initial support for Spectrum-4 ASICs
- VxLAN with IPv6 underlay

- Marvell Ethernet switches (prestera):
- support flower flow templates
- add basic IP forwarding support

- NXP embedded Ethernet switches (ocelot & felix):
- support Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (PSFP)
- enable cut-through forwarding between ports by default
- support FDMA to improve packet Rx/Tx to CPU

- Other embedded switches:
- hellcreek: improve trapping management (STP and PTP) packets
- qca8k: support link aggregation and port mirroring

- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- qca6390, wcn6855: enable 802.11 power save mode in station mode
- BSS color change support
- WCN6855 hw2.1 support
- 11d scan offload support
- scan MAC address randomization support
- full monitor mode, only supported on QCN9074
- qca6390/wcn6855: report signal and tx bitrate
- qca6390: rfkill support
- qca6390/wcn6855: regdb.bin support

- Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
- support SAR GEO Offset Mapping (SGOM) and Time-Aware-SAR (TAS)
in cooperation with the BIOS
- support for Optimized Connectivity Experience (OCE) scan
- support firmware API version 68
- lots of preparatory work for the upcoming Bz device family

- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) support
- mt7921: 160 MHz channel support

- RealTek WiFi (rtw88):
- Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) support
- scan offload

- Other WiFi NICs
- ath10k: support fetching (pre-)calibration data from nvmem
- brcmfmac: configure keep-alive packet on suspend
- wcn36xx: beacon filter support"

* tag '5.17-net-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2048 commits)
tcp: tcp_send_challenge_ack delete useless param `skb`
net/qla3xxx: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
rocker: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
hinic: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
lan743x: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
net: enetc: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
cxgb4vf: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
cxgb4: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
cxgb3: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
bnx2x: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
et131x: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
be2net: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
vmxnet3: Remove useless DMA-32 fallback configuration
bna: Simplify DMA setting
net: alteon: Simplify DMA setting
myri10ge: Simplify DMA setting
qlcnic: Simplify DMA setting
net: allwinner: Fix print format
page_pool: remove spinlock in page_pool_refill_alloc_cache()
amt: fix wrong return type of amt_send_membership_update()
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Merge branch 'net-add-preliminary-netdev-refcount-tracking'

Eric Dumazet says:

====================
net: add preliminary netdev refcount tracking

Two first patches add a generic infrastructure, th

Merge branch 'net-add-preliminary-netdev-refcount-tracking'

Eric Dumazet says:

====================
net: add preliminary netdev refcount tracking

Two first patches add a generic infrastructure, that will be used
to get tracking of refcount increments/decrements.

The general idea is to be able to precisely pair each decrement with
a corresponding prior increment. Both share a cookie, basically
a pointer to private data storing stack traces.

The third patch adds dev_hold_track() and dev_put_track() helpers
(CONFIG_NET_DEV_REFCNT_TRACKER)

Then a series of 20 patches converts some dev_hold()/dev_put()
pairs to new hepers : dev_hold_track() and dev_put_track().

Hopefully this will be used by developpers and syzbot to
root cause bugs that cause netdevice dismantles freezes.

With CONFIG_PCPU_DEV_REFCNT=n option, we were able to detect
some class of bugs, but too late (when too many dev_put()
were happening).

Another series will be sent after this one is merged.

v3: moved NET_DEV_REFCNT_TRACKER to net/Kconfig.debug
added "depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT"
to hopefully get rid of kbuild reports for ARCH=nios2
Reworded patch 3 changelog.
Added missing htmldocs (Jakub)

v2: added four additional patches,
added netdev_tracker_alloc() and netdev_tracker_free()
addressed build error (kernel bots),
use GFP_ATOMIC in test_ref_tracker_timer_func()
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211205042217.982127-1-eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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net: failover: add net device refcount tracker

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v4.20' into for-linus

Sync with mainline to get linux/overflow.h among other things.

Merge tag 'v4.20' into next

Merge with mainline to bring in the new APIs.

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

We need a backmerge to get DP_DPCD_REV_14 before we push other
i915 changes to dinq that could break compilation.

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.

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

We need a backmerge to get DP_DPCD_REV_14 before we push other
i915 changes to dinq that could break compilation.

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

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Merge tag 'v4.18-rc2' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux into fbdev-for-next

Linux 4.18-rc2

Merge tag 'v4.18-rc2' into next-general

Merge to Linux 4.18-rc2 for security subsystem developers.

Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgent

Required to queue a dependent fix.

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

1) Add Maglev hashing scheduler to IPVS, from Inju Song.

2) Lots of new TC subsystem

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

1) Add Maglev hashing scheduler to IPVS, from Inju Song.

2) Lots of new TC subsystem tests from Roman Mashak.

3) Add TCP zero copy receive and fix delayed acks and autotuning with
SO_RCVLOWAT, from Eric Dumazet.

4) Add XDP_REDIRECT support to mlx5 driver, from Jesper Dangaard
Brouer.

5) Add ttl inherit support to vxlan, from Hangbin Liu.

6) Properly separate ipv6 routes into their logically independant
components. fib6_info for the routing table, and fib6_nh for sets of
nexthops, which thus can be shared. From David Ahern.

7) Add bpf_xdp_adjust_tail helper, which can be used to generate ICMP
messages from XDP programs. From Nikita V. Shirokov.

8) Lots of long overdue cleanups to the r8169 driver, from Heiner
Kallweit.

9) Add BTF ("BPF Type Format"), from Martin KaFai Lau.

10) Add traffic condition monitoring to iwlwifi, from Luca Coelho.

11) Plumb extack down into fib_rules, from Roopa Prabhu.

12) Add Flower classifier offload support to igb, from Vinicius Costa
Gomes.

13) Add UDP GSO support, from Willem de Bruijn.

14) Add documentation for eBPF helpers, from Quentin Monnet.

15) Add TLS tx offload to mlx5, from Ilya Lesokhin.

16) Allow applications to be given the number of bytes available to read
on a socket via a control message returned from recvmsg(), from
Soheil Hassas Yeganeh.

17) Add x86_32 eBPF JIT compiler, from Wang YanQing.

18) Add AF_XDP sockets, with zerocopy support infrastructure as well.
From Björn Töpel.

19) Remove indirect load support from all of the BPF JITs and handle
these operations in the verifier by translating them into native BPF
instead. From Daniel Borkmann.

20) Add GRO support to ipv6 gre tunnels, from Eran Ben Elisha.

21) Allow XDP programs to do lookups in the main kernel routing tables
for forwarding. From David Ahern.

22) Allow drivers to store hardware state into an ELF section of kernel
dump vmcore files, and use it in cxgb4. From Rahul Lakkireddy.

23) Various RACK and loss detection improvements in TCP, from Yuchung
Cheng.

24) Add TCP SACK compression, from Eric Dumazet.

25) Add User Mode Helper support and basic bpfilter infrastructure, from
Alexei Starovoitov.

26) Support ports and protocol values in RTM_GETROUTE, from Roopa
Prabhu.

27) Support bulking in ->ndo_xdp_xmit() API, from Jesper Dangaard
Brouer.

28) Add lots of forwarding selftests, from Petr Machata.

29) Add generic network device failover driver, from Sridhar Samudrala.

* ra.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1959 commits)
strparser: Add __strp_unpause and use it in ktls.
rxrpc: Fix terminal retransmission connection ID to include the channel
net: hns3: Optimize PF CMDQ interrupt switching process
net: hns3: Fix for VF mailbox receiving unknown message
net: hns3: Fix for VF mailbox cannot receiving PF response
bnx2x: use the right constant
Revert "net: sched: cls: Fix offloading when ingress dev is vxlan"
net: dsa: b53: Fix for brcm tag issue in Cygnus SoC
enic: fix UDP rss bits
netdev-FAQ: clarify DaveM's position for stable backports
rtnetlink: validate attributes in do_setlink()
mlxsw: Add extack messages for port_{un, }split failures
netdevsim: Add extack error message for devlink reload
devlink: Add extack to reload and port_{un, }split operations
net: metrics: add proper netlink validation
ipmr: fix error path when ipmr_new_table fails
ip6mr: only set ip6mr_table from setsockopt when ip6mr_new_table succeeds
net: hns3: remove unused hclgevf_cfg_func_mta_filter
netfilter: provide udp*_lib_lookup for nf_tproxy
qed*: Utilize FW 8.37.2.0
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Merge branch 'Enable-virtio_net-to-act-as-a-standby-for-a-passthru-device'

Sridhar Samudrala says:

====================
Enable virtio_net to act as a standby for a passthru device

The main motivat

Merge branch 'Enable-virtio_net-to-act-as-a-standby-for-a-passthru-device'

Sridhar Samudrala says:

====================
Enable virtio_net to act as a standby for a passthru device

The main motivation for this patch is to enable cloud service providers
to provide an accelerated datapath to virtio-net enabled VMs in a
transparent manner with no/minimal guest userspace changes. This also
enables hypervisor controlled live migration to be supported with VMs that
have direct attached SR-IOV VF devices.

Patch 1 introduces a failover module that provides a generic interface for
paravirtual drivers to listen for netdev register/unregister/link change
events from pci ethernet devices with the same MAC and takeover their
datapath. The notifier and event handling code is based on the existing
netvsc implementation.

Patch 2 refactors netvsc to use the registration/notification framework
introduced by failover module.

Patch 3 introduces a net_failover driver that provides an automated
failover mechanism to paravirtual drivers via APIs to create and destroy
a failover master netdev and mananges a primary and standby slave netdevs
that get registered via the generic failover infrastructure.

Patch 4 introduces a new feature bit VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY to virtio-net
that can be used by hypervisor to indicate that virtio_net interface
should act as a standby for another device with the same MAC address.

Patch 5 extends virtio_net to use alternate datapath when available and
registered. When STANDBY feature is enabled, virtio_net driver uese the
net_failover API to create an additional 'failover' netdev that acts as
a master device and controls 2 slave devices. The original virtio_net
netdev is registered as 'standby' netdev and a passthru/vf device with
the same MAC gets registered as 'primary' netdev. Both 'standby' and
'failover' netdevs are associated with the same 'pci' device. The user
accesses the network interface via 'failover' netdev. The 'failover'
netdev chooses 'primary' netdev as default for transmits when it is
available with link up and running.

As this patch series is initially focusing on usecases where hypervisor
fully controls the VM networking and the guest is not expected to directly
configure any hardware settings, it doesn't expose all the ndo/ethtool ops
that are supported by virtio_net at this time. To support additional usecases,
it should be possible to enable additional ops later by caching the state
in failover netdev and replaying when the 'primary' netdev gets registered.

At the time of live migration, the hypervisor needs to unplug the VF device
from the guest on the source host and reset the MAC filter of the VF to
initiate failover of datapath to virtio before starting the migration. After
the migration is completed, the destination hypervisor sets the MAC filter
on the VF and plugs it back to the guest to switch over to VF datapath.

This patch is based on the discussion initiated by Jesse on this thread.
https://marc.info/?l=linux-virtualization&m=151189725224231&w=2

v12:
- Tested live migration with virtio-net/AVF(i40evf) configured in failover
mode while running iperf in background. Tried static ip and dhcp
configurations using 'network' scripts and Network Manager.
- Build tested netvsc module.
Updates:
- Extended generic failover module to do common functions like setting
FAILOVER_SLAVE flag, registering rx-handler and linking to upper dev in
the generic register/unregister handlers.
This required adding 3 additional failover ops pre_register, pre_unregister
and handle_frame. netvsc and net_failover drivers are updated to support
these ops.

v11:
- Split net_failover module into 2 components.
1. 'failover' module that provides generic failover infrastructure
to register a failover instance and listen for slave events.
2. 'net_failover' driver that provides APIs to create/destroy upper
netdev and supports 3-netdev model used by virtio-net.
- Added documentation

v10:
- fix net_failover_open() to update failover CARRIER correctly based on
standby and primary states.
- fix net_failover_handle_frame() to handle frames received on standby
when primary is present.
- replace netdev_upper_dev_link with netdev_master_upper_dev_link and
handle lower dev state changes.
- fix net_failver_create() and net_failover_register() interfaces to
use ERR_PTR and avoid arg **
- disable setting mac address when virtio-net in STANDBY mode
- document exported symbols
- added entry to MAINTAINERS file

v9:
Select NET_FAILOVER automatically when VIRTIO_NET/HYPERV_NET
are enabled. (stephen)

v8:
- Made the failover managment routines more robust by updating the feature
bits/other fields in the failover netdev when slave netdevs are
registered/unregistered. (mst)
- added support for handling vlans.
- Limited the changes in netvsc to only use the notifier/event/lookups
from the failover module. The slave register/unregister/link-change
handlers are only updated to use the getbymac routine to get the
upper netdev. There is no change in their functionality. (stephen)
- renamed structs/function/file names to use net_failover prefix. (mst)

v7
- Rename 'bypass/active/backup' terminology with 'failover/primary/standy'
(jiri, mst)
- re-arranged dev_open() and dev_set_mtu() calls in the register routines
so that they don't get called for 2-netdev model. (stephen)
- fixed select_queue() routine to do queue selection based on VF if it is
registered as primary. (stephen)
- minor bugfixes

v6 RFC:
Simplified virtio_net changes by moving all the ndo_ops of the
bypass_netdev and create/destroy of bypass_netdev to 'bypass' module.
avoided 2 phase registration(driver + instances).
introduced IFF_BYPASS/IFF_BYPASS_SLAVE dev->priv_flags
replaced mutex with a spinlock

v5 RFC:
Based on Jiri's comments, moved the common functionality to a 'bypass'
module so that the same notifier and event handlers to handle child
register/unregister/link change events can be shared between virtio_net
and netvsc.
Improved error handling based on Siwei's comments.
v4:
- Based on the review comments on the v3 version of the RFC patch and
Jakub's suggestion for the naming issue with 3 netdev solution,
proposed 3 netdev in-driver bonding solution for virtio-net.
v3 RFC:
- Introduced 3 netdev model and pointed out a couple of issues with
that model and proposed 2 netdev model to avoid these issues.
- Removed broadcast/multicast optimization and only use virtio as
backup path when VF is unplugged.
v2 RFC:
- Changed VIRTIO_NET_F_MASTER to VIRTIO_NET_F_BACKUP (mst)
- made a small change to the virtio-net xmit path to only use VF datapath
for unicasts. Broadcasts/multicasts use virtio datapath. This avoids
east-west broadcasts to go over the PCI link.
- added suppport for the feature bit in qemu
====================

Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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net: Introduce generic failover module

The failover module provides a generic interface for paravirtual drivers
to register a netdev and a set of ops with a failover instance. The ops
are used as ev

net: Introduce generic failover module

The failover module provides a generic interface for paravirtual drivers
to register a netdev and a set of ops with a failover instance. The ops
are used as event handlers that get called to handle netdev register/
unregister/link change/name change events on slave pci ethernet devices
with the same mac address as the failover netdev.

This enables paravirtual drivers to use a VF as an accelerated low latency
datapath. It also allows migration of VMs with direct attached VFs by
failing over to the paravirtual datapath when the VF is unplugged.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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