[PATCH net-next 1/5] net/mlx5: HWS, Print more details for bad completion

From: Tariq Toukan

Date: Thu Jul 23 2026 - 06:09:02 EST


From: Yevgeny Kliteynik <kliteyn@xxxxxxxxxx>

When polling for completion returned completion with error,
parse some more details: QP number and WQE count.
Also, extract all the long value-to-string if conditions
to a short value-to-string functions: do it for rule
resize state, rule status, and syndrome.

Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Kliteynik <kliteyn@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Erez Shitrit <erezsh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
.../mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/send.c | 68 +++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/send.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/send.c
index aed009aec4fe..1c9206f74aaa 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/send.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/hws/send.c
@@ -344,6 +344,36 @@ hws_send_engine_update_rule_resize(struct mlx5hws_send_engine *queue,
}
}

+static const char *hws_rule_status_to_string(enum mlx5hws_rule_status status)
+{
+ switch (status) {
+ case MLX5HWS_RULE_STATUS_CREATING: return "CREATING";
+ case MLX5HWS_RULE_STATUS_UPDATING: return "UPDATING";
+ case MLX5HWS_RULE_STATUS_DELETING: return "DELETING";
+ case MLX5HWS_RULE_STATUS_FAILING: return "FAILING";
+ default: return "NA";
+ }
+}
+
+static const char *hws_rule_resize_state_to_string(u8 state)
+{
+ switch (state) {
+ case MLX5HWS_RULE_RESIZE_STATE_IDLE: return "IDLE";
+ case MLX5HWS_RULE_RESIZE_STATE_WRITING: return "WRITING";
+ case MLX5HWS_RULE_RESIZE_STATE_DELETING: return "DELETING";
+ default: return "UNKNOWN";
+ }
+}
+
+static const char *hws_gta_syndrome_to_string(u8 syndrome)
+{
+ switch (syndrome) {
+ case 1: return "SET_FLOW_FAIL";
+ case 2: return "DISABLE_FLOW_FAIL";
+ default: return "UNKNOWN";
+ }
+}
+
static void hws_send_engine_dump_error_cqe(struct mlx5hws_send_engine *queue,
struct mlx5hws_send_ring_priv *priv,
struct mlx5_cqe64 *cqe)
@@ -352,6 +382,7 @@ static void hws_send_engine_dump_error_cqe(struct mlx5hws_send_engine *queue,
struct mlx5hws_context *ctx = priv->rule->matcher->tbl->ctx;
u32 opcode = cqe ? get_cqe_opcode(cqe) : 0;
struct mlx5hws_rule *rule = priv->rule;
+ u8 syndrome;

/* If something bad happens and lots of rules are failing, we don't
* want to pollute dmesg. Print only the first bad cqe per engine,
@@ -364,26 +395,17 @@ static void hws_send_engine_dump_error_cqe(struct mlx5hws_send_engine *queue,

if (mlx5hws_rule_move_in_progress(rule))
mlx5hws_err(ctx,
- "--- rule 0x%08llx: error completion moving rule: phase %s, wqes left %d\n",
+ "--- rule 0x%08llx: error completion moving rule: phase %s (%d), wqes left %d\n",
HWS_PTR_TO_ID(rule),
- rule->resize_info->state ==
- MLX5HWS_RULE_RESIZE_STATE_WRITING ? "WRITING" :
- rule->resize_info->state ==
- MLX5HWS_RULE_RESIZE_STATE_DELETING ? "DELETING" :
- "UNKNOWN",
+ hws_rule_resize_state_to_string
+ (rule->resize_info->state),
+ rule->resize_info->state,
rule->pending_wqes);
else
mlx5hws_err(ctx,
"--- rule 0x%08llx: error completion %s (%d), wqes left %d\n",
HWS_PTR_TO_ID(rule),
- rule->status ==
- MLX5HWS_RULE_STATUS_CREATING ? "CREATING" :
- rule->status ==
- MLX5HWS_RULE_STATUS_DELETING ? "DELETING" :
- rule->status ==
- MLX5HWS_RULE_STATUS_FAILING ? "FAILING" :
- rule->status ==
- MLX5HWS_RULE_STATUS_UPDATING ? "UPDATING" : "NA",
+ hws_rule_status_to_string(rule->status),
rule->status,
rule->pending_wqes);

@@ -423,6 +445,15 @@ static void hws_send_engine_dump_error_cqe(struct mlx5hws_send_engine *queue,
" rule 0x%08llx: |--- syndrome = 0x%x\n",
HWS_PTR_TO_ID(rule),
err_cqe->syndrome);
+ mlx5hws_err(ctx,
+ " rule 0x%08llx: |--- QPN = 0x%x\n",
+ HWS_PTR_TO_ID(rule),
+ be32_to_cpu(err_cqe->s_wqe_opcode_qpn) &
+ 0xffffff);
+ mlx5hws_err(ctx,
+ " rule 0x%08llx: |--- WQE_CNT = 0x%04x\n",
+ HWS_PTR_TO_ID(rule),
+ (u32)be16_to_cpu(err_cqe->wqe_counter));
}

mlx5hws_err(ctx,
@@ -433,13 +464,12 @@ static void hws_send_engine_dump_error_cqe(struct mlx5hws_send_engine *queue,
HWS_PTR_TO_ID(rule),
(be32_to_cpu(cqe->byte_cnt) & 0x80000000) ?
"FAILURE" : "SUCCESS");
+ /* syndrome is in the lower 2 bits of byte_cnt */
+ syndrome = be32_to_cpu(cqe->byte_cnt) & 3;
mlx5hws_err(ctx,
- " rule 0x%08llx: |------- SYNDROME = %s\n",
+ " rule 0x%08llx: |------- SYNDROME = %s (%u)\n",
HWS_PTR_TO_ID(rule),
- ((be32_to_cpu(cqe->byte_cnt) & 0x00000003) == 1) ?
- "SET_FLOW_FAIL" :
- ((be32_to_cpu(cqe->byte_cnt) & 0x00000003) == 2) ?
- "DISABLE_FLOW_FAIL" : "UNKNOWN");
+ hws_gta_syndrome_to_string(syndrome), syndrome);
mlx5hws_err(ctx,
" rule 0x%08llx: cqe->sop_drop_qpn = 0x%08x\n",
HWS_PTR_TO_ID(rule), be32_to_cpu(cqe->sop_drop_qpn));
--
2.44.0