Go to file
David S. Miller bcde6b725f mlx5-updates-2018-02-28-1 (IPSec-1)
This series consists of some fixes and refactors for the mlx5 drivers,
 especially around the FPGA and flow steering. Most of them are trivial
 fixes and are the foundation of allowing IPSec acceleration from user-space.
 
 We use flow steering abstraction in order to accelerate IPSec packets.
 When a user creates a steering rule, [s]he states that we'll carry an
 encrypt/decrypt flow action (using a specific configuration) for every
 packet which conforms to a certain match. Since currently offloading these
 packets is done via FPGA, we'll add another set of flow steering ops.
 These ops will execute the required FPGA commands and then call the
 standard steering ops.
 
 In order to achieve this, we need that the commands will get all the
 required information. Therefore, we pass the fte object and embed the
 flow_action struct inside the fte. In addition, we add the shim layer
 that will later be used for alternating between the standard and the
 FPGA steering commands.
 
 Some fixes, like " net/mlx5e: Wait for FPGA command responses with a timeout"
 are very relevant for user-space applications, as these applications could
 be killed, but we still want to wait for the FPGA and update the kernel's
 database.
 
 Regards,
 Aviad and Matan
 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
 
 iQEcBAABAgAGBQJan4UmAAoJEEg/ir3gV/o+cZwH/1xBpdLsmeqEimwQ41bAc9Rj
 UmPZXXMyQVUYfGOiE1aLTH7YNi38XWSnTFMN7HklMeX/9YKxUZNG8YuiO9iQhE1B
 rUqRKfYFz9oFrUh95SzeclaunTpKrhYKHjQ9/u9nBMfI3H2Fy+y2NUBjIqJ6nysz
 op3EwRcX5kD4+MjRum24XLUnMSYbg05mHCZKTDj5/2T4x+/j0XQqvvmWWinIt8BO
 R4d7XGGywGjbhtcG1j+XBcFeLsEZnS/w70hoN38TdcmNWvokl1pGk8DVDii9i7GX
 c5jQj2h5WG/bdsS26y8MFfWpoAn3Qzzm4W4OYwp/vmL7n/Llvq0GRCEKCi8AlA0=
 =LeYV
 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Merge tag 'mlx5-updates-2018-02-28-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mellanox/linux

Saeed Mahameed says:

====================
mlx5-updates-2018-02-28-1 (IPSec-1)

This series consists of some fixes and refactors for the mlx5 drivers,
especially around the FPGA and flow steering. Most of them are trivial
fixes and are the foundation of allowing IPSec acceleration from user-space.

We use flow steering abstraction in order to accelerate IPSec packets.
When a user creates a steering rule, [s]he states that we'll carry an
encrypt/decrypt flow action (using a specific configuration) for every
packet which conforms to a certain match. Since currently offloading these
packets is done via FPGA, we'll add another set of flow steering ops.
These ops will execute the required FPGA commands and then call the
standard steering ops.

In order to achieve this, we need that the commands will get all the
required information. Therefore, we pass the fte object and embed the
flow_action struct inside the fte. In addition, we add the shim layer
that will later be used for alternating between the standard and the
FPGA steering commands.

Some fixes, like " net/mlx5e: Wait for FPGA command responses with a timeout"
are very relevant for user-space applications, as these applications could
be killed, but we still want to wait for the FPGA and update the kernel's
database.

Regards,
Aviad and Matan
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-03-07 15:28:13 -05:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-03-06 01:20:46 -05:00
block for-linus-20180302 2018-03-02 09:35:36 -08:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto X.509: fix NULL dereference when restricting key with unsupported_sig 2018-02-22 14:38:34 +00:00
Documentation dt-bindings: net: dsa: marvell: describe compatibility string 2018-03-07 12:18:50 -05:00
drivers mlx5-updates-2018-02-28-1 (IPSec-1) 2018-03-07 15:28:13 -05:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-03-06 01:20:46 -05:00
include mlx5-updates-2018-02-28-1 (IPSec-1) 2018-03-07 15:28:13 -05:00
init jump_label: Explicitly disable jump labels in __init code 2018-02-21 16:54:05 +01:00
ipc vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-03-06 01:20:46 -05:00
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-03-06 01:20:46 -05:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
mm mm: don't defer struct page initialization for Xen pv guests 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
net ipv6: ndisc: use true and false for boolean values 2018-03-07 12:19:47 -05:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-03-06 01:20:46 -05:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v4.16 2018-03-03 10:37:01 -08:00
security net: Convert smack_net_ops 2018-02-27 11:01:39 -05:00
sound ALSA: x86: Fix potential crash at error path 2018-02-28 08:46:00 +01:00
tools selftests: net: Introduce first PMTU test 2018-03-07 13:39:29 -05:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: mmu: Fix overlap between public and private memslots 2018-02-24 01:43:36 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore ASN.1 auto generated files 2018-02-14 21:05:38 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: update Mark Yao's email address 2018-01-04 16:45:09 -08:00
COPYING
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS lan743x: Update MAINTAINERS to include lan743x driver 2018-03-07 11:44:42 -05:00
Makefile Linux 4.16-rc4 2018-03-04 14:54:11 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.