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<subtitle>Linux kernel documentation tree maintained by Jonathan Corbet</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi</title>
<updated>2023-09-02T19:02:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2023-09-02T19:02:41+00:00</published>
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Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "Updates to the usual drivers (ufs, lpfc, qla2xxx, mpi3mr, libsas) and
  the usual minor updates and bug fixes but no significant core changes"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (116 commits)
  scsi: storvsc: Handle additional SRB status values
  scsi: libsas: Delete sas_ata_task.retry_count
  scsi: libsas: Delete sas_ata_task.stp_affil_pol
  scsi: libsas: Delete sas_ata_task.set_affil_pol
  scsi: libsas: Delete sas_ssp_task.task_prio
  scsi: libsas: Delete sas_ssp_task.enable_first_burst
  scsi: libsas: Delete sas_ssp_task.retry_count
  scsi: libsas: Delete struct scsi_core
  scsi: libsas: Delete enum sas_phy_type
  scsi: libsas: Delete enum sas_class
  scsi: libsas: Delete sas_ha_struct.lldd_module
  scsi: target: Fix write perf due to unneeded throttling
  scsi: lpfc: Do not abuse UUID APIs and LPFC_COMPRESS_VMID_SIZE
  scsi: pm8001: Remove unused declarations
  scsi: fcoe: Fix potential deadlock on &amp;fip-&gt;ctlr_lock
  scsi: elx: sli4: Remove code duplication
  scsi: bfa: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member in struct fc_rscn_pl_s
  scsi: qla2xxx: Remove unused declarations
  scsi: pmcraid: Use pci_dev_id() to simplify the code
  scsi: pm80xx: Set RETFIS when requested by libsas
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma</title>
<updated>2023-09-01T23:49:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2023-09-01T23:49:33+00:00</published>
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Pull rdma updates from Jason Gunthorpe:
 "Many small changes across the subystem, some highlights:

   - Usual driver cleanups in qedr, siw, erdma, hfi1, mlx4/5, irdma,
     mthca, hns, and bnxt_re

   - siw now works over tunnel and other netdevs with a MAC address by
     removing assumptions about a MAC/GID from the connection manager

   - "Doorbell Pacing" for bnxt_re - this is a best effort scheme to
     allow userspace to slow down the doorbell rings if the HW gets full

   - irdma egress VLAN priority, better QP/WQ sizing

   - rxe bug fixes in queue draining and srq resizing

   - Support more ethernet speed options in the core layer

   - DMABUF support for bnxt_re

   - Multi-stage MTT support for erdma to allow much bigger MR
     registrations

   - A irdma fix with a CVE that came in too late to go to -rc, missing
     bounds checking for 0 length MRs"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma: (87 commits)
  IB/hfi1: Reduce printing of errors during driver shut down
  RDMA/hfi1: Move user SDMA system memory pinning code to its own file
  RDMA/hfi1: Use list_for_each_entry() helper
  RDMA/mlx5: Fix trailing */ formatting in block comment
  RDMA/rxe: Fix redundant break statement in switch-case.
  RDMA/efa: Fix wrong resources deallocation order
  RDMA/siw: Call llist_reverse_order in siw_run_sq
  RDMA/siw: Correct wrong debug message
  RDMA/siw: Balance the reference of cep-&gt;kref in the error path
  Revert "IB/isert: Fix incorrect release of isert connection"
  RDMA/bnxt_re: Fix kernel doc errors
  RDMA/irdma: Prevent zero-length STAG registration
  RDMA/erdma: Implement hierarchical MTT
  RDMA/erdma: Refactor the storage structure of MTT entries
  RDMA/erdma: Renaming variable names and field names of struct erdma_mem
  RDMA/hns: Support hns HW stats
  RDMA/hns: Dump whole QP/CQ/MR resource in raw
  RDMA/irdma: Add missing kernel-doc in irdma_setup_umode_qp()
  RDMA/mlx4: Copy union directly
  RDMA/irdma: Drop unused kernel push code
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2023-08-29T18:33:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-29T18:33:01+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core:

   - Increase size limits for to-be-sent skb frag allocations. This
     allows tun, tap devices and packet sockets to better cope with
     large writes operations

   - Store netdevs in an xarray, to simplify iterating over netdevs

   - Refactor nexthop selection for multipath routes

   - Improve sched class lifetime handling

   - Add backup nexthop ID support for bridge

   - Implement drop reasons support in openvswitch

   - Several data races annotations and fixes

   - Constify the sk parameter of routing functions

   - Prepend kernel version to netconsole message

  Protocols:

   - Implement support for TCP probing the peer being under memory
     pressure

   - Remove hard coded limitation on IPv6 specific info placement inside
     the socket struct

   - Get rid of sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale and use an auto-estimated per
     socket scaling factor

   - Scaling-up the IPv6 expired route GC via a separated list of
     expiring routes

   - In-kernel support for the TLS alert protocol

   - Better support for UDP reuseport with connected sockets

   - Add NEXT-C-SID support for SRv6 End.X behavior, reducing the SR
     header size

   - Get rid of additional ancillary per MPTCP connection struct socket

   - Implement support for BPF-based MPTCP packet schedulers

   - Format MPTCP subtests selftests results in TAP

   - Several new SMC 2.1 features including unique experimental options,
     max connections per lgr negotiation, max links per lgr negotiation

  BPF:

   - Multi-buffer support in AF_XDP

   - Add multi uprobe BPF links for attaching multiple uprobes and usdt
     probes, which is significantly faster and saves extra fds

   - Implement an fd-based tc BPF attach API (TCX) and BPF link support
     on top of it

   - Add SO_REUSEPORT support for TC bpf_sk_assign

   - Support new instructions from cpu v4 to simplify the generated code
     and feature completeness, for x86, arm64, riscv64

   - Support defragmenting IPv(4|6) packets in BPF

   - Teach verifier actual bounds of bpf_get_smp_processor_id() and fix
     perf+libbpf issue related to custom section handling

   - Introduce bpf map element count and enable it for all program types

   - Add a BPF hook in sys_socket() to change the protocol ID from
     IPPROTO_TCP to IPPROTO_MPTCP to cover migration for legacy

   - Introduce bpf_me_mcache_free_rcu() and fix OOM under stress

   - Add uprobe support for the bpf_get_func_ip helper

   - Check skb ownership against full socket

   - Support for up to 12 arguments in BPF trampoline

   - Extend link_info for kprobe_multi and perf_event links

  Netfilter:

   - Speed-up process exit by aborting ruleset validation if a fatal
     signal is pending

   - Allow NLA_POLICY_MASK to be used with BE16/BE32 types

  Driver API:

   - Page pool optimizations, to improve data locality and cache usage

   - Introduce ndo_hwtstamp_get() and ndo_hwtstamp_set() to avoid the
     need for raw ioctl() handling in drivers

   - Simplify genetlink dump operations (doit/dumpit) providing them the
     common information already populated in struct genl_info

   - Extend and use the yaml devlink specs to [re]generate the split ops

   - Introduce devlink selective dumps, to allow SF filtering SF based
     on handle and other attributes

   - Add yaml netlink spec for netlink-raw families, allow route, link
     and address related queries via the ynl tool

   - Remove phylink legacy mode support

   - Support offload LED blinking to phy

   - Add devlink port function attributes for IPsec

  New hardware / drivers:

   - Ethernet:
      - Broadcom ASP 2.0 (72165) ethernet controller
      - MediaTek MT7988 SoC
      - Texas Instruments AM654 SoC
      - Texas Instruments IEP driver
      - Atheros qca8081 phy
      - Marvell 88Q2110 phy
      - NXP TJA1120 phy

   - WiFi:
      - MediaTek mt7981 support

   - Can:
      - Kvaser SmartFusion2 PCI Express devices
      - Allwinner T113 controllers
      - Texas Instruments tcan4552/4553 chips

   - Bluetooth:
      - Intel Gale Peak
      - Qualcomm WCN3988 and WCN7850
      - NXP AW693 and IW624
      - Mediatek MT2925

  Drivers:

   - Ethernet NICs:
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - mlx5:
            - support UDP encapsulation in packet offload mode
            - IPsec packet offload support in eswitch mode
            - improve aRFS observability by adding new set of counters
            - extends MACsec offload support to cover RoCE traffic
            - dynamic completion EQs
         - mlx4:
            - convert to use auxiliary bus instead of custom interface
              logic
      - Intel
         - ice:
            - implement switchdev bridge offload, even for LAG
              interfaces
            - implement SRIOV support for LAG interfaces
         - igc:
            - add support for multiple in-flight TX timestamps
      - Broadcom:
         - bnxt:
            - use the unified RX page pool buffers for XDP and non-XDP
            - use the NAPI skb allocation cache
      - OcteonTX2:
         - support Round Robin scheduling HTB offload
         - TC flower offload support for SPI field
      - Freescale:
         - add XDP_TX feature support
      - AMD:
         - ionic: add support for PCI FLR event
         - sfc:
            - basic conntrack offload
            - introduce eth, ipv4 and ipv6 pedit offloads
      - ST Microelectronics:
         - stmmac: maximze PTP timestamping resolution

   - Virtual NICs:
      - Microsoft vNIC:
         - batch ringing RX queue doorbell on receiving packets
         - add page pool for RX buffers
      - Virtio vNIC:
         - add per queue interrupt coalescing support
      - Google vNIC:
         - add queue-page-list mode support

   - Ethernet high-speed switches:
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw):
         - add port range matching tc-flower offload
         - permit enslavement to netdevices with uppers

   - Ethernet embedded switches:
      - Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
         - convert to phylink_pcs
      - Renesas:
         - r8A779fx: add speed change support
         - rzn1: enables vlan support

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - convert mv88e6xxx to phylink_pcs

   - WiFi:
      - Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 (ath12k):
         - extremely High Throughput (EHT) PHY support
      - RealTek (rtl8xxxu):
         - enable AP mode for: RTL8192FU, RTL8710BU (RTL8188GU),
           RTL8192EU and RTL8723BU
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - Introduce Time Averaged SAR (TAS) support

   - Connector:
      - support for event filtering"

* tag 'net-next-6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1806 commits)
  net: ethernet: mtk_wed: minor change in wed_{tx,rx}info_show
  net: ethernet: mtk_wed: add some more info in wed_txinfo_show handler
  net: stmmac: clarify difference between "interface" and "phy_interface"
  r8152: add vendor/device ID pair for D-Link DUB-E250
  devlink: move devlink_notify_register/unregister() to dev.c
  devlink: move small_ops definition into netlink.c
  devlink: move tracepoint definitions into core.c
  devlink: push linecard related code into separate file
  devlink: push rate related code into separate file
  devlink: push trap related code into separate file
  devlink: use tracepoint_enabled() helper
  devlink: push region related code into separate file
  devlink: push param related code into separate file
  devlink: push resource related code into separate file
  devlink: push dpipe related code into separate file
  devlink: move and rename devlink_dpipe_send_and_alloc_skb() helper
  devlink: push shared buffer related code into separate file
  devlink: push port related code into separate file
  devlink: push object register/unregister notifications into separate helpers
  inet: fix IP_TRANSPARENT error handling
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v6.6-vfs.ctime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2023-08-28T16:31:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-28T16:31:32+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs timestamp updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds VFS support for multi-grain timestamps and converts tmpfs,
  xfs, ext4, and btrfs to use them. This carries acks from all relevant
  filesystems.

  The VFS always uses coarse-grained timestamps when updating the ctime
  and mtime after a change. This has the benefit of allowing filesystems
  to optimize away a lot of metadata updates, down to around 1 per
  jiffy, even when a file is under heavy writes.

  Unfortunately, this has always been an issue when we're exporting via
  NFSv3, which relies on timestamps to validate caches. A lot of changes
  can happen in a jiffy, so timestamps aren't sufficient to help the
  client decide to invalidate the cache.

  Even with NFSv4, a lot of exported filesystems don't properly support
  a change attribute and are subject to the same problems with timestamp
  granularity. Other applications have similar issues with timestamps
  (e.g., backup applications).

  If we were to always use fine-grained timestamps, that would improve
  the situation, but that becomes rather expensive, as the underlying
  filesystem would have to log a lot more metadata updates.

  This introduces fine-grained timestamps that are used when they are
  actively queried.

  This uses the 31st bit of the ctime tv_nsec field to indicate that
  something has queried the inode for the mtime or ctime. When this flag
  is set, on the next mtime or ctime update, the kernel will fetch a
  fine-grained timestamp instead of the usual coarse-grained one.

  As POSIX generally mandates that when the mtime changes, the ctime
  must also change the kernel always stores normalized ctime values, so
  only the first 30 bits of the tv_nsec field are ever used.

  Filesytems can opt into this behavior by setting the FS_MGTIME flag in
  the fstype. Filesystems that don't set this flag will continue to use
  coarse-grained timestamps.

  Various preparatory changes, fixes and cleanups are included:

   - Fixup all relevant places where POSIX requires updating ctime
     together with mtime. This is a wide-range of places and all
     maintainers provided necessary Acks.

   - Add new accessors for inode-&gt;i_ctime directly and change all
     callers to rely on them. Plain accesses to inode-&gt;i_ctime are now
     gone and it is accordingly rename to inode-&gt;__i_ctime and commented
     as requiring accessors.

   - Extend generic_fillattr() to pass in a request mask mirroring in a
     sense the statx() uapi. This allows callers to pass in a request
     mask to only get a subset of attributes filled in.

   - Rework timestamp updates so it's possible to drop the @now
     parameter the update_time() inode operation and associated helpers.

   - Add inode_update_timestamps() and convert all filesystems to it
     removing a bunch of open-coding"

* tag 'v6.6-vfs.ctime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (107 commits)
  btrfs: convert to multigrain timestamps
  ext4: switch to multigrain timestamps
  xfs: switch to multigrain timestamps
  tmpfs: add support for multigrain timestamps
  fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps
  fs: drop the timespec64 argument from update_time
  xfs: have xfs_vn_update_time gets its own timestamp
  fat: make fat_update_time get its own timestamp
  fat: remove i_version handling from fat_update_time
  ubifs: have ubifs_update_time use inode_update_timestamps
  btrfs: have it use inode_update_timestamps
  fs: drop the timespec64 arg from generic_update_time
  fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  fs: remove silly warning from current_time
  gfs2: fix timestamp handling on quota inodes
  fs: rename i_ctime field to __i_ctime
  selinux: convert to ctime accessor functions
  security: convert to ctime accessor functions
  apparmor: convert to ctime accessor functions
  sunrpc: convert to ctime accessor functions
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'mlx5-next' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mellanox/linux</title>
<updated>2023-08-24T18:32:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-24T18:32:17+00:00</published>
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Leon Romanovsky says:

====================
mlx5 MACsec RoCEv2 support

From Patrisious:

This series extends previously added MACsec offload support
to cover RoCE traffic either.

In order to achieve that, we need configure MACsec with offload between
the two endpoints, like below:

REMOTE_MAC=10:70:fd:43:71:c0

* ip addr add 1.1.1.1/16 dev eth2
* ip link set dev eth2 up
* ip link add link eth2 macsec0 type macsec encrypt on
* ip macsec offload macsec0 mac
* ip macsec add macsec0 tx sa 0 pn 1 on key 00 dffafc8d7b9a43d5b9a3dfbbf6a30c16
* ip macsec add macsec0 rx port 1 address $REMOTE_MAC
* ip macsec add macsec0 rx port 1 address $REMOTE_MAC sa 0 pn 1 on key 01 ead3664f508eb06c40ac7104cdae4ce5
* ip addr add 10.1.0.1/16 dev macsec0
* ip link set dev macsec0 up

And in a similar manner on the other machine, while noting the keys order
would be reversed and the MAC address of the other machine.

RDMA traffic is separated through relevant GID entries and in case
of IP ambiguity issue - meaning we have a physical GIDs and a MACsec
GIDs with the same IP/GID, we disable our physical GID in order
to force the user to only use the MACsec GID.

v0: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230813064703.574082-1-leon@kernel.org/

* 'mlx5-next' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mellanox/linux:
  RDMA/mlx5: Handles RoCE MACsec steering rules addition and deletion
  net/mlx5: Add RoCE MACsec steering infrastructure in core
  net/mlx5: Configure MACsec steering for ingress RoCEv2 traffic
  net/mlx5: Configure MACsec steering for egress RoCEv2 traffic
  IB/core: Reorder GID delete code for RoCE
  net/mlx5: Add MACsec priorities in RDMA namespaces
  RDMA/mlx5: Implement MACsec gid addition and deletion
  net/mlx5: Maintain fs_id xarray per MACsec device inside macsec steering
  net/mlx5: Remove netdevice from MACsec steering
  net/mlx5e: Move MACsec flow steering and statistics database from ethernet to core
  net/mlx5e: Rename MACsec flow steering functions/parameters to suit core naming style
  net/mlx5: Remove dependency of macsec flow steering on ethernet
  net/mlx5e: Move MACsec flow steering operations to be used as core library
  macsec: add functions to get macsec real netdevice and check offload
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230821073833.59042-1-leon@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mlx4: Connect the infiniband part to the auxiliary bus</title>
<updated>2023-08-23T07:25:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Pavlu</name>
<email>petr.pavlu@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-21T13:12:24+00:00</published>
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Use the auxiliary bus to perform device management of the infiniband
part of the mlx4 driver.

Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>mlx4: Replace the mlx4_interface.event callback with a notifier</title>
<updated>2023-08-23T07:25:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Pavlu</name>
<email>petr.pavlu@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-21T13:12:18+00:00</published>
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Use a notifier to implement mlx4_dispatch_event() in preparation to
switch mlx4_en and mlx4_ib to be an auxiliary device.

A problem is that if the mlx4_interface.event callback was replaced with
something as mlx4_adrv.event then the implementation of
mlx4_dispatch_event() would need to acquire a lock on a given device
before executing this callback. That is necessary because otherwise
there is no guarantee that the associated driver cannot get unbound when
the callback is running. However, taking this lock is not possible
because mlx4_dispatch_event() can be invoked from the hardirq context.
Using an atomic notifier allows the driver to accurately record when it
wants to receive these events and solves this problem.

A handler registration is done by both mlx4_en and mlx4_ib at the end of
their mlx4_interface.add callback. This matches the current situation
when mlx4_add_device() would enable events for a given device
immediately after this callback, by adding the device on the
mlx4_priv.list.

Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>mlx4: Use 'void *' as the event param of mlx4_dispatch_event()</title>
<updated>2023-08-23T07:25:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Pavlu</name>
<email>petr.pavlu@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-21T13:12:17+00:00</published>
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Function mlx4_dispatch_event() takes an 'unsigned long' as its event
parameter. The actual value is none (MLX4_DEV_EVENT_CATASTROPHIC_ERROR),
a pointer to mlx4_eqe (MLX4_DEV_EVENT_PORT_MGMT_CHANGE), or a 32-bit
integer (remaining events).

In preparation to switch mlx4_en and mlx4_ib to be an auxiliary device,
the mlx4_interface.event callback is replaced with a notifier and
function mlx4_dispatch_event() gets updated to invoke
atomic_notifier_call_chain(). This requires forwarding the input 'param'
value from the former function to the latter. A problem is that the
notifier call takes 'void *' as its 'param' value, compared to
'unsigned long' used by mlx4_dispatch_event(). Re-passing the value
would need either punning it to 'void *' or passing down the address of
the input 'param'. Both approaches create a number of unnecessary casts.

Change instead the input 'param' of mlx4_dispatch_event() from
'unsigned long' to 'void *'. A mlx4_eqe pointer can be passed directly,
callers using an int value are adjusted to pass its address.

Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mlx4: Get rid of the mlx4_interface.get_dev callback</title>
<updated>2023-08-23T07:25:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Pavlu</name>
<email>petr.pavlu@suse.com</email>
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<published>2023-08-21T13:12:15+00:00</published>
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Simplify the mlx4 driver interface by removing mlx4_get_protocol_dev()
and the associated mlx4_interface.get_dev callbacks. This is done in
preparation to use an auxiliary bus to model the mlx4 driver structure.

The change is motivated by the following situation:
* The mlx4_en interface is being initialized by mlx4_en_add() and
  mlx4_en_activate().
* The latter activate function calls mlx4_en_init_netdev() -&gt;
  register_netdev() to register a new net_device.
* A netdev event NETDEV_REGISTER is raised for the device.
* The netdev notififier mlx4_ib_netdev_event() is called and it invokes
  mlx4_ib_scan_netdevs() -&gt; mlx4_get_protocol_dev() -&gt;
  mlx4_en_get_netdev() [via mlx4_interface.get_dev].

This chain creates a problem when mlx4_en gets switched to be an
auxiliary driver. It contains two device calls which would both need to
take a respective device lock.

Avoid this situation by updating mlx4_ib_scan_netdevs() to no longer
call mlx4_get_protocol_dev() but instead to utilize the information
passed in net_device.parent and net_device.dev_port. This data is
sufficient to determine that an updated port is one that the mlx4_ib
driver should take care of and to keep mlx4_ib_dev.iboe.netdevs up to
date.

Following that, update mlx4_ib_get_netdev() to also not call
mlx4_get_protocol_dev() and instead scan all current netdevs to find
find a matching one. Note that mlx4_ib_get_netdev() is called early from
ib_register_device() and cannot use data tracked in
mlx4_ib_dev.iboe.netdevs which is not at that point yet set.

Finally, remove function mlx4_get_protocol_dev() and the
mlx4_interface.get_dev callbacks (only mlx4_en_get_netdev()) as they
became unused.

Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>IB/hfi1: Reduce printing of errors during driver shut down</title>
<updated>2023-08-22T14:31:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Douglas Miller</name>
<email>doug.miller@cornelisnetworks.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-22T14:07:58+00:00</published>
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The driver prints unnecessary prints for error conditions on shutdown
remove them to quiet it down.

Signed-off-by: Douglas Miller &lt;doug.miller@cornelisnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dennis Dalessandro &lt;dennis.dalessandro@cornelisnetworks.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/169271327832.1855761.3756156924805531643.stgit@awfm-02.cornelisnetworks.com
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leon@kernel.org&gt;
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