[PATCH v3 0/9] ENETC driver related changes series

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:29:55 +0530
Gagandeep Singh <g.singh at nxp.com> wrote:

> V3 changes:
>   - Added documentation for all devargs in enetc4.rst.
>   - Fixed kvlist memory leak issue.
> 
> V2 changes:
>   - Fixed an un-used variable compilation issue reported on fedora:43-gcc-minsize
>   - Fixed various AI reported issues:
> 	- Release notes updated for all new devargs
> 	- enect4.ini features doc updated for scattered RX.
> 	- removed Not required RTE_PTYPE_UNKNOWN.
> 	- Fixed mid-frame mbuf leak in SG case.
> 	- Enabled SG for enetc4 PF also.
> 	- move to calloc from rte_zmalloc in parse_txq_prior().
> 	- added vaidation checks on strdup, strtoul.
> 	- added NC devargs to use cacheable ops conditionally.
> 	- removed dead code like bd_base_p etc.
> 	- Fixed rte_cpu_to_le_16() conversion on flags and combined
> 	  all flags related patches in one patch.
> 	- Fixed memory leak issue due to TXQ priority patch.
>    - There were some false positives, I have ignored them:
> 	Race condition on flags field:
> 		clean_tx_ring only touches HW-completed BDs (next_to_clean→hwci),
> 		never newly-submitted BDs; doorbell hasn't fired yet.
> 	Missing dcbf in clean_tx_ring:
> 		DPDK is single-threaded per queue; TX path always overwrites
> 		flags completely before dcbf.
> 	TX dcbf granularity with wrap:
> 		Safe (AI admits it).
> 	RX refill flush at wrap:
> 		In-loop dcbf at i & mask == 0 already flushes aligned groups;
> 		trailing flush only needed for partial groups.
> 	RX reading before invalidate:
> 		dccivac precedes the read for every group in the loop
> 
> Gagandeep Singh (7):
>   net/enetc: fix TX BD structure
>   net/enetc: fix queue initialization
>   net/enetc: support ESP packet type in packet parsing
>   net/enetc: update random MAC generation code
>   net/enetc: add option to disable VSI messaging
>   net/enetc: add devargs to control VSI-PSI timeout and delay
>   net/enetc4: add cacheable BD ring support with SW cache maintenance
> 
> Vanshika Shukla (2):
>   net/enetc: support scatter-gather
>   net/enetc: set user configurable priority to TX rings
> 
>  doc/guides/nics/enetc4.rst             |  62 +++-
>  doc/guides/nics/features/enetc4.ini    |   1 +
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_07.rst |  10 +
>  drivers/net/enetc/base/enetc_hw.h      |  13 +-
>  drivers/net/enetc/enetc.h              |  31 +-
>  drivers/net/enetc/enetc4_ethdev.c      | 172 ++++++++--
>  drivers/net/enetc/enetc4_vf.c          | 206 ++++++++++--
>  drivers/net/enetc/enetc_ethdev.c       |  25 +-
>  drivers/net/enetc/enetc_rxtx.c         | 430 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  9 files changed, 831 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-)
> 

I had merged this to net-next, but now removed it after running ./devtools/test-meson-builds.sh
This script runs a number of builds with different configs, and these driver changes fail in one case.

DPDK 26.07.0-rc1

  User defined options
    buildtype             : minsize
    default_library       : static
    enable_deprecated_libs: *
    enable_stdatomic      : false
    examples              : l3fwd
    werror                : true

Found ninja-1.13.2 at /usr/bin/ninja
ninja: Entering directory `./build-gcc-static'
[2191/3862] Compiling C object drivers/libtmp_rte_net_enetc.a.p/net_enetc_enetc_rxtx.c.o
FAILED: [code=1] drivers/libtmp_rte_net_enetc.a.p/net_enetc_enetc_rxtx.c.o 
/usr/bin/ccache gcc -Idrivers/libtmp_rte_net_enetc.a.p -Idrivers -I../drivers -Idrivers/net/enetc -I../drivers/net/enetc -I../drivers/net/enetc/base -Ilib/ethdev -I../lib/ethdev -Ilib/eal/common -I../lib/eal/common -I. -I.. -Iconfig -I../config -Ilib/eal/include -I../lib/eal/include -Ilib/eal/linux/include -I../lib/eal/linux/include -Ilib/eal/x86/include -I../lib/eal/x86/include -I../kernel/linux -Ilib/eal -I../lib/eal -Ilib/kvargs -I../lib/kvargs -Ilib/log -I../lib/log -Ilib/metrics -I../lib/metrics -Ilib/telemetry -I../lib/telemetry -Ilib/argparse -I../lib/argparse -Ilib/net -I../lib/net -Ilib/mbuf -I../lib/mbuf -Ilib/mempool -I../lib/mempool -Ilib/ring -I../lib/ring -Ilib/meter -I../lib/meter -Idrivers/bus/pci -I../drivers/bus/pci -I../drivers/bus/pci/linux -Ilib/pci -I../lib/pci -Idrivers/bus/vdev -I../drivers/bus/vdev -Idrivers/common/dpaax -I../drivers/common/dpaax -I../drivers/common/dpaax/caamflib -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -fdiagnostics-color=always -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -Wall -Winvalid-pch -Wextra -Werror -std=c11 -Os -g -include rte_config.h -Wvla -Wcast-qual -Wdeprecated -Wformat -Wformat-nonliteral -Wformat-security -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wold-style-definition -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wsign-compare -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -Wwrite-strings -Wno-packed-not-aligned -Wno-missing-field-initializers -fzero-init-padding-bits=all -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -march=native -mrtm -DALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_API -DALLOW_INTERNAL_API -Wno-format-truncation -Wno-address-of-packed-member -DRTE_COMPONENT_CLASS=pmd_net -DRTE_COMPONENT_NAME=enetc -DRTE_LOG_DEFAULT_LOGTYPE=pmd.net.enetc -MD -MQ drivers/libtmp_rte_net_enetc.a.p/net_enetc_enetc_rxtx.c.o -MF drivers/libtmp_rte_net_enetc.a.p/net_enetc_enetc_rxtx.c.o.d -o drivers/libtmp_rte_net_enetc.a.p/net_enetc_enetc_rxtx.c.o -c ../drivers/net/enetc/enetc_rxtx.c
../drivers/net/enetc/enetc_rxtx.c: In function ‘enetc_xmit_pkts_nc’:
../drivers/net/enetc/enetc_rxtx.c:213:20: error: ‘txbd’ may be used uninitialized [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
  213 |                 if (likely(txbd))
      |                    ^
../drivers/net/enetc/enetc_rxtx.c:162:29: note: ‘txbd’ was declared here
  162 |         struct enetc_tx_bd *txbd;
      |                             ^~~~
../drivers/net/enetc/enetc_rxtx.c: In function ‘enetc_xmit_pkts_cacheable’:
../drivers/net/enetc/enetc_rxtx.c:715:20: error: ‘txbd’ may be used uninitialized [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
  715 |                 if (likely(txbd))
      |                    ^
../drivers/net/enetc/enetc_rxtx.c:644:29: note: ‘txbd’ was declared here
  644 |         struct enetc_tx_bd *txbd;
      |                             ^~~~
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
[2224/3862] Generating drivers/rte_common_cnxk.sym_chk with a custom command (wrapped by meson to capture output)
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.