Re: [net-next,v5,08/13] octeontx2-af: npc: cn20k: Add new mailboxes for CN20K silicon

From: Ratheesh Kannoth

Date: Tue Jan 27 2026 - 22:33:18 EST


On 2026-01-28 at 07:59:26, Jakub Kicinski (kuba@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/npc.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/npc.h
> > index cb05ec69e0b3..cefc5d70f3e4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/npc.h
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/npc.h
> > @@ -644,6 +644,7 @@ struct rvu_npc_mcam_rule {
> > u16 chan;
> > u16 chan_mask;
> > u8 lxmb;
> > + u8 hw_prio;
> > };
>
> [ ... ]
>
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_debugfs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_debugfs.c
> > index 425d3a43c0b8..620724dad093 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_debugfs.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_debugfs.c
>
> [ ... ]
>
> > @@ -3554,6 +3555,15 @@ static int rvu_dbg_npc_mcam_show_rules(struct seq_file *s, void *unused)
> >
> > enabled = is_mcam_entry_enabled(rvu, mcam, blkaddr, iter->entry);
> > seq_printf(s, "\tenabled: %s\n", enabled ? "yes" : "no");
> > + if (is_cn20k(rvu->pdev)) {
> > + seq_printf(s, "\tpriority: %u\n", iter->hw_prio);
>
> The hw_prio field is added to struct rvu_npc_mcam_rule and read here in
> debugfs, but I could not find where rule->hw_prio gets assigned in
> npc_install_flow(). Looking at the diff, cn20k_wreq.hw_prio is set from
> req->hw_prio, but rule->hw_prio appears to be left uninitialized.
>
> Since rules are allocated with kzalloc(), hw_prio will be zero, causing
> debugfs to always show "priority: 0" for CN20K rules regardless of the
> actual hardware priority configured.
>
> I see commit 62770f15276b "octeontx2-af: npc: cn20k: add debugfs support"
> later in the series adds "rule->hw_prio = req->hw_prio;" which appears to
> fix this. Should that assignment be part of this patch instead?
ACK.

>
> [ ... ]