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vmxnet3: Suppress page allocation warning for massive Rx Data ring

2026-02-28T02:36:45+00:00

The vmxnet3 driver supports an Rx Data ring (rx-mini) to optimise the processing of small packets. The size of this ring's DMA-coherent memory allocation is determined by the product of the primary Rx ring size and the data ring descriptor size: sz = rq->rx_ring[0].size * rq->data_ring.desc_size; When a user configures the maximum supported parameters via ethtool (rx_ring[0].size = 4096, data_ring.desc_size = 2048), the required contiguous memory allocation reaches 8 MB (8,388,608 bytes). In environments lacking Contiguous Memory Allocator (CMA), dma_alloc_coherent() falls back to the standard zone buddy allocator. An 8 MB allocation translates to a page order of 11, which strictly exceeds the default MAX_PAGE_ORDER (10) on most architectures. Consequently, __alloc_pages_noprof() catches the oversize request and triggers a loud kernel warning stack trace: WARN_ON_ONCE_GFP(order > MAX_PAGE_ORDER, gfp) This warning is unnecessary and alarming to system administrators because the vmxnet3 driver already handles this allocation failure gracefully. If dma_alloc_coherent() returns NULL, the driver safely disables the Rx Data ring (adapter->rxdataring_enabled = false) and falls back to standard, streaming DMA packet processing. To resolve this, append the __GFP_NOWARN flag to the dma_alloc_coherent() gfp_mask. This instructs the page allocator to silently fail the allocation if it exceeds order limits or memory is too fragmented, preventing the spurious warning stack trace. Furthermore, enhance the subsequent netdev_err() fallback message to include the requested allocation size. This provides critical debugging context to the administrator (e.g., revealing that an 8 MB allocation was attempted and failed) without making hardcoded assumptions about the state of the system's configurations. Reviewed-by: Jijie Shao Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260226163121.4045808-1-atomlin@atomlin.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

vmxnet3: correctly report gso type for UDP tunnels

2025-06-03T09:54:26+00:00

Commit 3d010c8031e3 ("udp: do not accept non-tunnel GSO skbs landing in a tunnel") added checks in linux stack to not accept non-tunnel GRO packets landing in a tunnel. This exposed an issue in vmxnet3 which was not correctly reporting GRO packets for tunnel packets. This patch fixes this issue by setting correct GSO type for the tunnel packets. Currently, vmxnet3 does not support reporting inner fields for LRO tunnel packets. The issue is not seen for egress drivers that do not use skb inner fields. The workaround is to enable tnl-segmentation offload on the egress interfaces if the driver supports it. This problem pre-exists this patch fix and can be addressed as a separate future patch. Fixes: dacce2be3312 ("vmxnet3: add geneve and vxlan tunnel offload support") Signed-off-by: Ronak Doshi Acked-by: Guolin Yang Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250530152701.70354-1-ronak.doshi@broadcom.com [pabeni@redhat.com: dropped the changelog] Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

Merge tag 'x86-core-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2025-05-26T23:04:17+00:00

Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar: "Boot code changes: - A large series of changes to reorganize the x86 boot code into a better isolated and easier to maintain base of PIC early startup code in arch/x86/boot/startup/, by Ard Biesheuvel. Motivation & background: | Since commit | | c88d71508e36 ("x86/boot/64: Rewrite startup_64() in C") | | dated Jun 6 2017, we have been using C code on the boot path in a way | that is not supported by the toolchain, i.e., to execute non-PIC C | code from a mapping of memory that is different from the one provided | to the linker. It should have been obvious at the time that this was a | bad idea, given the need to sprinkle fixup_pointer() calls left and | right to manipulate global variables (including non-pointer variables) | without crashing. | | This C startup code has been expanding, and in particular, the SEV-SNP | startup code has been expanding over the past couple of years, and | grown many of these warts, where the C code needs to use special | annotations or helpers to access global objects. This tree includes the first phase of this work-in-progress x86 boot code reorganization. Scalability enhancements and micro-optimizations: - Improve code-patching scalability (Eric Dumazet) - Remove MFENCEs for X86_BUG_CLFLUSH_MONITOR (Andrew Cooper) CPU features enumeration updates: - Thorough reorganization and cleanup of CPUID parsing APIs (Ahmed S. Darwish) - Fix, refactor and clean up the cacheinfo code (Ahmed S. Darwish, Thomas Gleixner) - Update CPUID bitfields to x86-cpuid-db v2.3 (Ahmed S. Darwish) Memory management changes: - Allow temporary MMs when IRQs are on (Andy Lutomirski) - Opt-in to IRQs-off activate_mm() (Andy Lutomirski) - Simplify choose_new_asid() and generate better code (Borislav Petkov) - Simplify 32-bit PAE page table handling (Dave Hansen) - Always use dynamic memory layout (Kirill A. Shutemov) - Make SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP the only memory model (Kirill A. Shutemov) - Make 5-level paging support unconditional (Kirill A. Shutemov) - Stop prefetching current->mm->mmap_lock on page faults (Mateusz Guzik) - Predict valid_user_address() returning true (Mateusz Guzik) - Consolidate initmem_init() (Mike Rapoport) FPU support and vector computing: - Enable Intel APX support (Chang S. Bae) - Reorgnize and clean up the xstate code (Chang S. Bae) - Make task_struct::thread constant size (Ingo Molnar) - Restore fpu_thread_struct_whitelist() to fix CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y (Kees Cook) - Simplify the switch_fpu_prepare() + switch_fpu_finish() logic (Oleg Nesterov) - Always preserve non-user xfeatures/flags in __state_perm (Sean Christopherson) Microcode loader changes: - Help users notice when running old Intel microcode (Dave Hansen) - AMD: Do not return error when microcode update is not necessary (Annie Li) - AMD: Clean the cache if update did not load microcode (Boris Ostrovsky) Code patching (alternatives) changes: - Simplify, reorganize and clean up the x86 text-patching code (Ingo Molnar) - Make smp_text_poke_batch_process() subsume smp_text_poke_batch_finish() (Nikolay Borisov) - Refactor the {,un}use_temporary_mm() code (Peter Zijlstra) Debugging support: - Add early IDT and GDT loading to debug relocate_kernel() bugs (David Woodhouse) - Print the reason for the last reset on modern AMD CPUs (Yazen Ghannam) - Add AMD Zen debugging document (Mario Limonciello) - Fix opcode map (!REX2) superscript tags (Masami Hiramatsu) - Stop decoding i64 instructions in x86-64 mode at opcode (Masami Hiramatsu) CPU bugs and bug mitigations: - Remove X86_BUG_MMIO_UNKNOWN (Borislav Petkov) - Fix SRSO reporting on Zen1/2 with SMT disabled (Borislav Petkov) - Restructure and harmonize the various CPU bug mitigation methods (David Kaplan) - Fix spectre_v2 mitigation default on Intel (Pawan Gupta) MSR API: - Large MSR code and API cleanup (Xin Li) - In-kernel MSR API type cleanups and renames (Ingo Molnar) PKEYS: - Simplify PKRU update in signal frame (Chang S. Bae) NMI handling code: - Clean up, refactor and simplify the NMI handling code (Sohil Mehta) - Improve NMI duration console printouts (Sohil Mehta) Paravirt guests interface: - Restrict PARAVIRT_XXL to 64-bit only (Kirill A. Shutemov) SEV support: - Share the sev_secrets_pa value again (Tom Lendacky) x86 platform changes: - Introduce the header namespace (Ingo Molnar) - i2c: piix4, x86/platform: Move the SB800 PIIX4 FCH definitions to (Mario Limonciello) Fixes and cleanups: - x86 assembly code cleanups and fixes (Uros Bizjak) - Misc fixes and cleanups (Andi Kleen, Andy Lutomirski, Andy Shevchenko, Ard Biesheuvel, Bagas Sanjaya, Baoquan He, Borislav Petkov, Chang S. Bae, Chao Gao, Dan Williams, Dave Hansen, David Kaplan, David Woodhouse, Eric Biggers, Ingo Molnar, Josh Poimboeuf, Juergen Gross, Malaya Kumar Rout, Mario Limonciello, Nathan Chancellor, Oleg Nesterov, Pawan Gupta, Peter Zijlstra, Shivank Garg, Sohil Mehta, Thomas Gleixner, Uros Bizjak, Xin Li)" * tag 'x86-core-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (331 commits) x86/bugs: Fix spectre_v2 mitigation default on Intel x86/bugs: Restructure ITS mitigation x86/xen/msr: Fix uninitialized variable 'err' x86/msr: Remove a superfluous inclusion of x86/paravirt: Restrict PARAVIRT_XXL to 64-bit only x86/mm/64: Make 5-level paging support unconditional x86/mm/64: Make SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP the only memory model x86/mm/64: Always use dynamic memory layout x86/bugs: Fix indentation due to ITS merge x86/cpuid: Rename hypervisor_cpuid_base()/for_each_possible_hypervisor_cpuid_base() to cpuid_base_hypervisor()/for_each_possible_cpuid_base_hypervisor() x86/cpu/intel: Rename CPUID(0x2) descriptors iterator parameter x86/cacheinfo: Rename CPUID(0x2) descriptors iterator parameter x86/cpuid: Rename cpuid_get_leaf_0x2_regs() to cpuid_leaf_0x2() x86/cpuid: Rename have_cpuid_p() to cpuid_feature() x86/cpuid: Set as the main CPUID header x86/cpuid: Move CPUID(0x2) APIs into x86/msr: Add rdmsrl_on_cpu() compatibility wrapper x86/mm: Fix kernel-doc descriptions of various pgtable methods x86/asm-offsets: Export certain 'struct cpuinfo_x86' fields for 64-bit asm use too x86/boot: Defer initialization of VM space related global variables ...

vmxnet3: update MTU after device quiesce

2025-05-16T23:04:27+00:00

Currently, when device mtu is updated, vmxnet3 updates netdev mtu, quiesces the device and then reactivates it for the ESXi to know about the new mtu. So, technically the OS stack can start using the new mtu before ESXi knows about the new mtu. This can lead to issues for TSO packets which use mss as per the new mtu configured. This patch fixes this issue by moving the mtu write after device quiesce. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: d1a890fa37f2 ("net: VMware virtual Ethernet NIC driver: vmxnet3") Signed-off-by: Ronak Doshi Acked-by: Guolin Yang Changes v1-> v2: Moved MTU write after destroy of rx rings Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250515190457.8597-1-ronak.doshi@broadcom.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

x86/msr: Add explicit includes of

2025-05-02T08:23:47+00:00

For historic reasons there are some TSC-related functions in the header, even though there's an header. To facilitate the relocation of rdtsc{,_ordered}() from to and to eventually eliminate the inclusion of in , add an explicit dependency to the source files that reference definitions from . [ mingo: Clarified the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Uros Bizjak Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250501054241.1245648-1-xin@zytor.com

vmxnet3: unregister xdp rxq info in the reset path

2025-03-25T14:39:08+00:00

vmxnet3 does not unregister xdp rxq info in the vmxnet3_reset_work() code path as vmxnet3_rq_destroy() is not invoked in this code path. So, we get below message with a backtrace. Missing unregister, handled but fix driver WARNING: CPU:48 PID: 500 at net/core/xdp.c:182 __xdp_rxq_info_reg+0x93/0xf0 This patch fixes the problem by moving the unregister code of XDP from vmxnet3_rq_destroy() to vmxnet3_rq_cleanup(). Fixes: 54f00cce1178 ("vmxnet3: Add XDP support.") Signed-off-by: Sankararaman Jayaraman Signed-off-by: Ronak Doshi Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250320045522.57892-1-sankararaman.jayaraman@broadcom.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

vmxnet3: support higher link speeds from vmxnet3 v9

2024-10-08T00:04:41+00:00

Until now, vmxnet3 was default reporting 10Gbps as link speed. Vmxnet3 v9 adds support for user to configure higher link speeds. User can configure the link speed via VMs advanced parameters options in VCenter. This speed is reported in gbps by hypervisor. This patch adds support for vmxnet3 to report higher link speeds and converts it to mbps as expected by Linux stack. Signed-off-by: Ronak Doshi Acked-by: Guolin Yang Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241004174303.5370-1-ronak.doshi@broadcom.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

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

2024-06-06T19:06:56+00:00

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR. No conflicts. Adjacent changes: drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_txrx.c d9c04209990b ("ionic: Mark error paths in the data path as unlikely") 491aee894a08 ("ionic: fix kernel panic in XDP_TX action") net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c b4cb4a1391dc ("net: use unrcu_pointer() helper") b01e1c030770 ("ipv6: fix possible race in __fib6_drop_pcpu_from()") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

vmxnet3: update to version 9

2024-06-05T22:56:48+00:00

With all vmxnet3 version 9 changes incorporated in the vmxnet3 driver, the driver can configure emulation to run at vmxnet3 version 9, provided the emulation advertises support for version 9. Signed-off-by: Ronak Doshi Acked-by: Guolin Yang Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240531193050.4132-5-ronak.doshi@broadcom.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

vmxnet3: add command to allow disabling of offloads

2024-06-05T22:56:48+00:00

This patch adds a new command to disable certain offloads. This allows user to specify, using VM configuration, if certain offloads need to be disabled. Signed-off-by: Ronak Doshi Acked-by: Guolin Yang Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240531193050.4132-4-ronak.doshi@broadcom.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski