Re: [PATCH net-next v3] net: ncsi: Fix GCPS 64-bit member variables

[Paul Fertser]

Hello Paolo,

On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 01:09:42PM +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> On 4/11/25 1:22 PM, Paul Fertser wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 10:22:47AM -0700, kalavakunta.hari.prasad@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> From: Hari Kalavakunta <kalavakunta.hari.prasad@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Correct Get Controller Packet Statistics (GCPS) 64-bit wide member
> >> variables, as per DSP0222 v1.0.0 and forward specs. The Driver currently
> >> collects these stats, but they are yet to be exposed to the user.
> >> Therefore, no user impact.
> >>
> >> Statistics fixes:
> >> Total Bytes Received (byte range 28..35)
> >> Total Bytes Transmitted (byte range 36..43)
> >> Total Unicast Packets Received (byte range 44..51)
> >> Total Multicast Packets Received (byte range 52..59)
> >> Total Broadcast Packets Received (byte range 60..67)
> >> Total Unicast Packets Transmitted (byte range 68..75)
> >> Total Multicast Packets Transmitted (byte range 76..83)
> >> Total Broadcast Packets Transmitted (byte range 84..91)
> >> Valid Bytes Received (byte range 204..11)
> >>
> >> v2:
> >> - __be64 for all 64 bit GCPS counters
> >>
> >> v3:
> >> - be64_to_cpup() instead of be64_to_cpu()
> > 
> > Usually the changelog should go after --- so it's not included in the
> > final commit message when merged. I hope in this case the maintainers
> > will take care of this manually so no need to resend unless they ask
> > to.
> > 
> > Other than that,
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Paul Fertser <fercerpav@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> @Paul: it's not clear to me if as a consequence of the discussion
> running on v2 of this patch you prefer reverting back to be64_to_cpu().
> 
> The packet alignement should yield to the correct code in both cases.

But it might produce warnings for the v3 variant so my understanding
is that v2 is perfect and can be picked up (other than the changelog
included in the commit message).

Thank you!