Update Intel ethernet drivers to Fortville SW5

[Tim Gardner]

We are still waiting for the Fortville SW5 release to happen. It's been slipping but should happen in the next few days. Once that's done and net-dev is open again we will push the remaining patch to get the driver (combined from net-next patches and what is in 4.5) up to the SW5 version. Once the net-next patches are accepted I'll update you with the last commit that should be pulled into the 16.04 release.

Thanks.

Cheers,
John

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Cherry-picked these commits so far:

net: bulk free infrastructure for NAPI context, use napi_consume_skb
net: Add eth_platform_get_mac_address() helper.
i40e: Add mac_filter_element at the end of the list instead of HEAD
i40e/i40evf: Fix RSS rx-flow-hash configuration through ethtool
i40e: Replace X722 mac check in ethtool get_settings
i40evf: allow channel bonding of VFs
i40e: define function capabilities in only one place
i40evf: null out ring pointers on free
i40e: Cleanup the code with respect to restarting autoneg
i40e: update features with right offload
i40e: bump version to 1.4.10
i40e: add new device IDs for X722
i40e: Extend ethtool RSS hooks for X722
i40e/i40evf: Fix for UDP/TCP RSS for X722
i40evf: add new write-back mode
i40e/i40evf: Use private workqueue
i40e: add new proxy-wol bit for X722
i40e: Limit DCB FW version checks to X710/XL710 devices
i40e: AQ Add Run PHY Activity struct
i40e: AQ Geneve cloud tunnel type
i40e: AQ Add external power class to get link status
i40e: add 100Mb ethtool reporting
ixgbe: bulk free SKBs during TX completion cleanup cycle
igb: Remove unnecessary flag setting in igb_set_flag_queue_pairs()
igb: Unpair the queues when changing the number of queues
igb/igbvf: don't give up
igb: clean up code for setting MAC address
igb: Refactor VFTA configuration
igb: Allow asymmetric configuration of MTU versus Rx frame size
igb: Do not factor VLANs into RLPML calculation
igb: Always enable VLAN 0 even if 8021q is not loaded
igb: Merge VLVF configuration into igb_vfta_set
igb: Clean-up configuration of VF port VLANs
igb: Add support for VLAN promiscuous with SR-IOV and NTUPLE
igb: Drop unnecessary checks in transmit path
igb: Enable use of "bridge fdb add" to set unicast table entries
igb: Add workaround for VLAN tag stripping on 82576
i40e: AQ Shared resource flags
i40e: AQ Add set_switch_config
i40e: AQ Add VXLAN-GPE tunnel type
i40e: AQ thermal sensor control struct
i40e: Bump AQ minor version to 1.5 for new FW features
i40e: Store lan_vsi_idx and lan_vsi_id in the right size
i40e: fix write-back-on-itr to work with legacy itr
i40e: add counter for arq overflows
i40e: add 20G speed for Tx bandwidth calculations
i40e: refactor DCB function
i40e: add a little more to an NVM update debug message
i40evf: enable bus master after reset
i40e: add netdev info to VSI dump
i40e: remove VF device IDs from PF
i40e: trivial: remove unnecessary local var
i40e/i40evf: Bump i40e to 1.4.11 and i40evf to 1.4.7
net: ixgbe: add minimal parser details for ixgbe
i40e: trivial: drop duplicate definition
i40e: trivial: fix missing space
i40e: fix bug in dma sync
i40e: do TSO only if CHECKSUM_PARTIAL is set
i40e: allocate memory safer
i40e: fix: do not sleep in netdev_ops
i40e: APIs to Add/remove port mirroring rules
i40e: negate PHY int mask bits
i40e: drop unused function
i40e: count allocation errors
i40e: avoid large memcpy by assigning struct
i40e/i40evf: bump version to 1.4.12/1.4.8
i40e: Enable Geneve offload for FW API ver > 1.4 for XL710/X710 devices
i40e: add priv flag for automatic rule eviction
i40e: use eth_platform_get_mac_address()
i40e: move sync_vsi_filters up in service_task
i40e: Make the DCB firmware checks for X71...

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Still have to think about these:

fm10k: don't reinitialize RSS flow table when RXFH configured
net: ixgbe: add support for tc_u32 offload
net: ixgbe: abort with cls u32 divisor groups greater than 1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.4.0-8.23

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linux (4.4.0-8.23) xenial; urgency=low

  * cgroup namespace mounts broken in containers (LP: #1549398)
    - SAUCE: kernfs: Always set super block owner to init_user_ns

  * 4.4.0-7.22 no longer boots on arm64 (LP: #1547718)
    - arm64: mm: avoid calling apply_to_page_range on empty range
    - UBUNTU SAUCE: arm: mm: avoid calling apply_to_page_range on empty range

  * kernel install failed /bin/cp: cannot stat ‘/boot/initrd.img-4.3.0-7-generic’: No such file or directory (LP: #1536810)
    - [Config] postinst -- handle recreating symlinks when a real file is present

  * insecure overlayfs xattrs handling in copy_up (LP: #1534961)
    - SAUCE: cred: Add clone_cred() interface
    - SAUCE: overlayfs: Use mounter's credentials instead of selectively raising caps
    - SAUCE: overlayfs: Skip permission checking for trusted.overlayfs.* xattrs
    - SAUCE: overlayfs: Be more careful about copying up sxid files
    - SAUCE: overlayfs: Propogate nosuid from lower and upper mounts

  * overlayfs over fuse should refuse copy_up of files if uid/gid not mapped (LP: #1535150)
    - SAUCE: cred: Add clone_cred() interface
    - SAUCE: overlayfs: Use mounter's credentials instead of selectively raising caps
    - SAUCE: overlayfs: Skip permission checking for trusted.overlayfs.* xattrs
    - SAUCE: overlayfs: Be more careful about copying up sxid files
    - SAUCE: overlayfs: Propogate nosuid from lower and upper mounts

  * overlay: mkdir fails if directory exists in lowerdir in a user namespace (LP: #1531747)
    - SAUCE: cred: Add clone_cred() interface
    - SAUCE: overlayfs: Use mounter's credentials instead of selectively raising caps
    - SAUCE: overlayfs: Skip permission checking for trusted.overlayfs.* xattrs

  * Update Intel ethernet drivers to Fortville SW5 (LP: #1547674)
    - net: bulk free infrastructure for NAPI context, use napi_consume_skb
    - net: Add eth_platform_get_mac_address() helper.
    - i40e: Add mac_filter_element at the end of the list instead of HEAD
    - i40e/i40evf: Fix RSS rx-flow-hash configuration through ethtool
    - i40e: Replace X722 mac check in ethtool get_settings
    - i40evf: allow channel bonding of VFs
    - i40e: define function capabilities in only one place
    - i40evf: null out ring pointers on free
    - i40e: Cleanup the code with respect to restarting autoneg
    - i40e: update features with right offload
    - i40e: bump version to 1.4.10
    - i40e: add new device IDs for X722
    - i40e: Extend ethtool RSS hooks for X722
    - i40e/i40evf: Fix for UDP/TCP RSS for X722
    - i40evf: add new write-back mode
    - i40e/i40evf: Use private workqueue
    - i40e: add new proxy-wol bit for X722
    - i40e: Limit DCB FW version checks to X710/XL710 devices
    - i40e: AQ Add Run PHY Activity struct
    - i40e: AQ Geneve cloud tunnel type
    - i40e: AQ Add external power class to get link status
    - i40e: add 100Mb ethtool reporting
    - ixgbe: bulk free SKBs during TX completion cleanup cycle
    - igb: Remove unnecessary flag setting in igb_set_flag_queue_pairs()
    - igb: Unpair the queues when changing the number of queues...