kernel/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-controller.yaml, branch linux-rolling-stable

Merge tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2025-10-02T22:17:01Z

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni: "Core & protocols: - Improve drop account scalability on NUMA hosts for RAW and UDP sockets and the backlog, almost doubling the Pps capacity under DoS - Optimize the UDP RX performance under stress, reducing contention, revisiting the binary layout of the involved data structs and implementing NUMA-aware locking. This improves UDP RX performance by an additional 50%, even more under extreme conditions - Add support for PSP encryption of TCP connections; this mechanism has some similarities with IPsec and TLS, but offers superior HW offloads capabilities - Ongoing work to support Accurate ECN for TCP. AccECN allows more than one congestion notification signal per RTT and is a building block for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) - Reorganize the TCP socket binary layout for data locality, reducing the number of touched cachelines in the fastpath - Refactor skb deferral free to better scale on large multi-NUMA hosts, this improves TCP and UDP RX performances significantly on such HW - Increase the default socket memory buffer limits from 256K to 4M to better fit modern link speeds - Improve handling of setups with a large number of nexthop, making dump operating scaling linearly and avoiding unneeded synchronize_rcu() on delete - Improve bridge handling of VLAN FDB, storing a single entry per bridge instead of one entry per port; this makes the dump order of magnitude faster on large switches - Restore IP ID correctly for encapsulated packets at GSO segmentation time, allowing GRO to merge packets in more scenarios - Improve netfilter matching performance on large sets - Improve MPTCP receive path performance by leveraging recently introduced core infrastructure (skb deferral free) and adopting recent TCP autotuning changes - Allow bridges to redirect to a backup port when the bridge port is administratively down - Introduce MPTCP 'laminar' endpoint that con be used only once per connection and simplify common MPTCP setups - Add RCU safety to dst->dev, closing a lot of possible races - A significant crypto library API for SCTP, MPTCP and IPv6 SR, reducing code duplication - Supports pulling data from an skb frag into the linear area of an XDP buffer Things we sprinkled into general kernel code: - Generate netlink documentation from YAML using an integrated YAML parser Driver API: - Support using IPv6 Flow Label in Rx hash computation and RSS queue selection - Introduce API for fetching the DMA device for a given queue, allowing TCP zerocopy RX on more H/W setups - Make XDP helpers compatible with unreadable memory, allowing more easily building DevMem-enabled drivers with a unified XDP/skbs datapath - Add a new dedicated ethtool callback enabling drivers to provide the number of RX rings directly, improving efficiency and clarity in RX ring queries and RSS configuration - Introduce a burst period for the health reporter, allowing better handling of multiple errors due to the same root cause - Support for DPLL phase offset exponential moving average, controlling the average smoothing factor Device drivers: - Add a new Huawei driver for 3rd gen NIC (hinic3) - Add a new SpacemiT driver for K1 ethernet MAC - Add a generic abstraction for shared memory communication devices (dibps) - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - nVidia/Mellanox: - Use multiple per-queue doorbell, to avoid MMIO contention issues - support adjacent functions, allowing them to delegate their SR-IOV VFs to sibling PFs - support RSS for IPSec offload - support exposing raw cycle counters in PTP and mlx5 - support for disabling host PFs. - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - ice: support for SRIOV VFs over an Active-Active link aggregate - ice: support for firmware logging via debugfs - ice: support for Earliest TxTime First (ETF) hardware offload - idpf: support basic XDP functionalities and XSk - Broadcom (bnxt): - support Hyper-V VF ID - dynamic SRIOV resource allocations for RoCE - Meta (fbnic): - support queue API, zero-copy Rx and Tx - support basic XDP functionalities - devlink health support for FW crashes and OTP mem corruptions - expand hardware stats coverage to FEC, PHY, and Pause - Wangxun: - support ethtool coalesce options - support for multiple RSS contexts - Ethernet virtual: - Macsec: - replace custom netlink attribute checks with policy-level checks - Bonding: - support aggregator selection based on port priority - Microsoft vNIC: - use page pool fragments for RX buffers instead of full pages to improve memory efficiency - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded: - Qualcomm: support Ethernet function for IPQ9574 SoC - Airoha: implement wlan offloading via NPU - Freescale - enetc: add NETC timer PTP driver and add PTP support - fec: enable the Jumbo frame support for i.MX8QM - Renesas (R-Car S4): - support HW offloading for layer 2 switching - support for RZ/{T2H, N2H} SoCs - Cadence (macb): support TAPRIO traffic scheduling - TI: - support for Gigabit ICSS ethernet SoC (icssm-prueth) - Synopsys (stmmac): a lot of cleanups - Ethernet PHYs: - Support 10g-qxgmi phy-mode for AQR412C, Felix DSA and Lynx PCS driver - Support bcm63268 GPHY power control - Support for Micrel lan8842 PHY and PTP - Support for Aquantia AQR412 and AQR115 - CAN: - a large CAN-XL preparation work - reorganize raw_sock and uniqframe struct to minimize memory usage - rcar_canfd: update the CAN-FD handling - WiFi: - extended Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support - S1G channel representation cleanup - improve S1G support - WiFi drivers: - Intel (iwlwifi): - major refactor and cleanup - Broadcom (brcm80211): - support for AP isolation - RealTek (rtw88/89) rtw88/89: - preparation work for RTL8922DE support - MediaTek (mt76): - HW restart improvements - MLO support - Qualcomm/Atheros (ath10k): - GTK rekey fixes - Bluetooth drivers: - btusb: support for several new IDs for MT7925 - btintel: support for BlazarIW core - btintel_pcie: support for _suspend() / _resume() - btintel_pcie: support for Scorpious, Panther Lake-H484 IDs" * tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1536 commits) net: stmmac: Add support for Allwinner A523 GMAC200 dt-bindings: net: sun8i-emac: Add A523 GMAC200 compatible Revert "Documentation: net: add flow control guide and document ethtool API" octeontx2-pf: fix bitmap leak octeontx2-vf: fix bitmap leak net/mlx5e: Use extack in set rxfh callback net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_params for RSS configuration net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_init_params net/mlx5e: Remove unused mdev param from RSS indir init net/mlx5: Improve QoS error messages with actual depth values net/mlx5e: Prevent entering switchdev mode with inconsistent netns net/mlx5: HWS, Generalize complex matchers net/mlx5: Improve write-combining test reliability for ARM64 Grace CPUs selftests/net: add tcp_port_share to .gitignore Revert "net/mlx5e: Update and set Xon/Xoff upon MTU set" net: add NUMA awareness to skb_attempt_defer_free() net: use llist for sd->defer_list net: make softnet_data.defer_count an atomic selftests: drv-net: psp: add tests for destroying devices selftests: drv-net: psp: add test for auto-adjusting TCP MSS ...

dt-bindings: fix spelling, typos, grammar, duplicated words

2025-09-26T20:53:29Z

Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm)

dt-bindings: net: ethernet-controller: Fix grammar in comment

2025-09-24T23:25:32Z

"difference" is a noun, so "sufficient" is an adjective without "ly". Signed-off-by: J. Neuschäfer Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn Acked-by: Rob Herring (Arm) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923-dt-net-typo-v1-1-08e1bdd14c74@posteo.net Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

dt-bindings: net: move ptp-timer property to ethernet-controller.yaml

2025-09-02T11:13:33Z

For some Ethernet controllers, the PTP timer function is not integrated. Instead, the PTP timer is a separate device and provides PTP Hardware Clock (PHC) to the Ethernet controller to use, such as NXP FMan MAC, ENETC, etc. Therefore, a property is needed to indicate this hardware relationship between the Ethernet controller and the PTP timer. Since this use case is also very common, it is better to add a generic property to ethernet-controller.yaml. According to the existing binding docs, there are two good candidates, one is the "ptp-timer" defined in fsl,fman-dtsec.yaml, and the other is the "ptimer-handle" defined in fsl,fman.yaml. From the perspective of the name, the former is more straightforward, so move the "ptp-timer" from fsl,fman-dtsec.yaml to ethernet-controller.yaml. Signed-off-by: Wei Fang Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean Reviewed-by: Frank Li Reviewed-by: Rob Herring (Arm) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250829050615.1247468-3-wei.fang@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

dt-bindings: ethernet-phy: add MII-Lite phy interface type

2025-07-10T02:32:31Z

Some Broadcom PHYs are capable to operate in simplified MII mode, without TXER, RXER, CRS and COL signals as defined for the MII. The MII-Lite mode can be used on most Ethernet controllers with full MII interface by just leaving the input signals (RXER, CRS, COL) inactive. The absence of COL signal makes half-duplex link modes impossible but does not interfere with BroadR-Reach link modes on Broadcom PHYs, because they are all full-duplex only. Add new interface type "mii-lite" to phy-connection-type enum. Signed-off-by: Kamil Horák - 2N Reviewed-by: Maxime Chevallier Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli Acked-by: Rob Herring (Arm) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250708090140.61355-3-kamilh@axis.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

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

2025-05-08T15:59:02Z

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.15-rc6). No conflicts. Adjacent changes: net/core/dev.c: 08e9f2d584c4 ("net: Lock netdevices during dev_shutdown") a82dc19db136 ("net: avoid potential race between netdev_get_by_index_lock() and netns switch") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'wireless-next-2025-05-06' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next

2025-05-07T02:04:42Z

Johannes Berg says: ==================== wireless features, notably * stack - free SKBTX_WIFI_STATUS flag - fixes for VLAN multicast in multi-link - improve codel parameters (revert some old twiddling) * ath12k - Enable AHB support for IPQ5332. - Add monitor interface support to QCN9274. - Add MLO support to WCN7850. - Add 802.11d scan offload support to WCN7850. * ath11k - Restore hibernation support * iwlwifi - EMLSR on two 5 GHz links * mwifiex - cleanups/refactoring along with many other small features/cleanups * tag 'wireless-next-2025-05-06' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next: (177 commits) Revert "wifi: iwlwifi: clean up config macro" wifi: iwlwifi: move phy_filters to fw_runtime wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: make sure to lock rxq->read wifi: iwlwifi: add definitions for iwl_mac_power_cmd version 2 wifi: iwlwifi: clean up config macro wifi: iwlwifi: mld: simplify iwl_mld_rx_fill_status() wifi: iwlwifi: mld: rx: simplify channel handling wifi: iwlwifi: clean up band in RX metadata wifi: iwlwifi: mld: skip unknown FW channel load values wifi: iwlwifi: define API for external FSEQ images wifi: iwlwifi: mld: allow EMLSR on separated 5 GHz subbands wifi: iwlwifi: mld: use cfg80211_chandef_get_width() wifi: iwlwifi: mld: fix iwl_mld_emlsr_disallowed_with_link() return wifi: iwlwifi: mld: clarify variable type wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: add support for the reset handshake in MSI wifi: mac80211_hwsim: Prevent tsf from setting if beacon is disabled wifi: mac80211: restructure tx profile retrieval for MLO MBSSID wifi: nl80211: add link id of transmitted profile for MLO MBSSID wifi: ieee80211: Add helpers to fetch EMLSR delay and timeout values wifi: mac80211: update ML STA with EML capabilities ... ==================== Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250506174656.119970-3-johannes@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

dt-bindings: net: ethernet-controller: Add informative text about RGMII delays

2025-05-05T23:49:18Z

Device Tree and Ethernet MAC driver writers often misunderstand RGMII delays. Rewrite the Normative section in terms of the PCB, is the PCB adding the 2ns delay. This meaning was previous implied by the definition, but often wrongly interpreted due to the ambiguous wording and looking at the definition from the wrong perspective. The new definition concentrates clearly on the hardware, and should be less ambiguous. Add an Informative section to the end of the binding describing in detail what the four RGMII delays mean. This expands on just the PCB meaning, adding in the implications for the MAC and PHY. Additionally, when the MAC or PHY needs to add a delay, which is software configuration, describe how Linux does this, in the hope of reducing errors. Make it clear other users of device tree binding may implement the software configuration in other ways while still conforming to the binding. Fixes: 9d3de3c58347 ("dt-bindings: net: Add YAML schemas for the generic Ethernet options") Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn Acked-by: Conor Dooley Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250430-v6-15-rc3-net-rgmii-delays-v2-1-099ae651d5e5@lunn.ch Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

dt-bindings: net: Add network-class schema for mac-address properties

2025-04-23T13:20:00Z

The ethernet-controller schema specifies "mac-address" and "local-mac-address" but other network devices such as wireless network adapters use mac addresses as well. The Devicetree Specification, Release v0.3 specifies in section 4.3.1 a generic "Network Class Binding" with "address-bits", "mac-address", "local-mac-address" and "max-frame-size". This schema specifies the "address-bits" property and moves the remaining properties over from the ethernet-controller.yaml schema. The "max-frame-size" property is used to describe the maximal payload size despite its name. Keep the description from ethernet-controller specifying this property as MTU. The contradictory description in the Devicetree Specification is ignored. Signed-off-by: Janne Grunau Signed-off-by: David Heidelberg Reviewed-by: Rob Herring (Arm) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250324-dt-bindings-network-class-v5-1-f5c3fe00e8f0@ixit.cz Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

dt-bindings: net: ethernet-controller: add 5000M speed to fixed-link

2025-04-14T22:57:06Z

A link speed of 5000 Mbps is a valid speed for a fixed-link mode of operation. Hence, update the bindings to include the same. Signed-off-by: Siddharth Vadapalli Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250411060917.633769-2-s-vadapalli@ti.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski