[dpdk-dev] [EXT] Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] drivers: add octeontx crypto adapter framework

Akhil Goyal gakhil at marvell.com
Tue Jul 20 13:58:53 CEST 2021


 Hi David,
> 
> > >  deps += ['common_octeontx', 'mempool_octeontx', 'bus_vdev',
> > 'net_octeontx']
> > > +deps += ['crypto_octeontx']
> >
> > This extra dependency resulted in disabling the event/octeontx driver
> > in FreeBSD, since crypto/octeontx only builds on Linux.
> > Removing hw support triggers a ABI failure for FreeBSD.
> >
> >
> > - This had been reported by UNH CI:
> > http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/test-report/2021-June/200637.html
> > It seems the result has been ignored but it should have at least
> > raised some discussion.
> >
> This was highlighted to CI ML
> http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/0686a7c3fb3a22e37378a8545b
> c37bce04f4c391.1624481225.git.sthotton at marvell.com/
> 
> but I think I missed to take the follow up with Brandon and applied the patch
> as it did not look an issue to me as octeon drivers are not currently built on
> FreeBSD.
> Not sure why event driver is getting built there.
> 
> >
> > - I asked UNH to stop testing FreeBSD abi for now, waiting to get the
> > main branch fixed.
> >
> > I don't have the time to look at this, please can you work on it?
> >
> > Several options:
> > * crypto/octeontx is made so that it compiles on FreeBSD,
> > * the abi check is extended to have exceptions per OS,
> > * the FreeBSD abi reference is regenerated at UNH not to have those
> > drivers in it (not sure it is doable),
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions, we are working on it to resolve this as soon as
> possible.
> We may need to add exception in ABI checking so that it does not shout if a
> PMD
> is not compiled.
Can we have below change? Will it work to disable compilation of
event/octeontx2 for FreeBSD? I believe this was done by mistake earlier
as all other octeontx2 drivers are compiled off on platforms other than Linux.

diff --git a/drivers/event/octeontx2/meson.build b/drivers/event/octeontx2/meson.build
index 96ebb1f2e7..1ebc51f73f 100644
--- a/drivers/event/octeontx2/meson.build
+++ b/drivers/event/octeontx2/meson.build
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Copyright(C) 2019 Marvell International Ltd.
 #

-if not dpdk_conf.get('RTE_ARCH_64')
+if not is_linux or not dpdk_conf.get('RTE_ARCH_64')
     build = false
     reason = 'only supported on 64-bit'
     subdir_done()

Or of this does not work, then we would need to add exception in ABI checking.
Any suggestions how to do this?


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