Re: [dpdk-stable] please help backporting some patches to stable release 19.11.9

[Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>]

On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 2:33 PM Kalesh Anakkur Purayil
<kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Christian Ehrhardt,
>
> Below is the backporting status of bnxt PMD patches to 19.11.9.

Thanks a lot!
I've got the 8 listed patches plus the cleanup "net/bnxt: fix build
failures after merging patches" that you submitted.
They are applied and pushed on the WIP 19.11 branch that is available on github.

> e2895305a5  Ajit Khaparde    net/bnxt: fix resource cleanup
> [Kalesh] : The patch above is not applicable to 19.11-LTS, should be
> discarded.
>
> 4f28d9a1a6  Kalesh AP        net/bnxt: drop unused attribute
> 39a03b401e  Kalesh AP        net/bnxt: fix double free in port start failure
> 94131e4ab7  Kalesh AP        net/bnxt: fix firmware fatal error handling
> 4f1d8fdc3f  Kalesh AP        net/bnxt: fix memory allocation for command
> response
> 53f98141ee  Kalesh AP        net/bnxt: fix PTP support for Thor
> ab15dd5a1c  Kalesh AP        net/bnxt: fix timesync when PTP is not
> supported
> 01406837bf  Kalesh AP        net/bnxt: fix VF info allocation
> eac4fc71cd  Somnath Kotur    net/bnxt: fix xstats get
> [Kalesh] : The above ones are backported and sent to ML.
>
> 25fefa2b17  Lance Richardson net/bnxt: fix Rx descriptor status
> [Kalesh] : Will check with Lance and push later.
>
> Regards,
> Kalesh
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 1:26 PM Christian Ehrhardt <
> christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi commit authors (and maintainers),
> >
> > First of all I have to apoligize, you might think "haven't I seen this
> > before?".
> > Yes you have, but the first time due to a script accident and myself not
> > being
> > suspicious enough I've sent the mail to a way too big receipient list.
> > Other than the joy of having to excuse a lot this also meant that quite
> > some
> > mail servers seem to have blocked this.
> > Therefore (and since I touched it anyway looking at 21.05-rc4 today) I
> > thought
> > it might be good to send this again.
> > Finally since I'm out next week anyway I extended the usual deadline a bit
> > and
> > hope that will help to backport some of these changes.
> >
> > I didn't apply following commits from DPDK main to 19.11
> > stable branch, as conflicts or build errors occur.
> >
> > Can authors check your patches in the following list and either:
> >     - Backport your patches to the 19.11 branch, or
> >     - Indicate that the patch should not be backported
> >
> > Please do either of the above by 05/30/21.
> >
> > You can find the a temporary work-in-progress branch 19.11 of the coming
> > 19.11.9
> > release in branch 19.11 at:
> >     https://github.com/cpaelzer/dpdk-stable-queue
> > It is recommended to backport on top of that to minimize further conflicts
> > or
> > misunderstandings.
> >
> > Some notes on stable backports:
> >
> > A backport should contain a reference to the DPDK main branch commit
> > in it's commit message in the following fashion:
> >     [ upstream commit <commit's dpdk main branch SHA-1 checksum> ]
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=18.11&id=d90e6ae6f936ecdc2fd3811ff9f26aec7f3c06eb
> >
> > When sending the backported patch, please indicate the target branch in the
> > subject line, as we have multiple branches, for example:
> >     [PATCH 19.11.9] foo/bar: fix baz
> >
> > With git format-patch, this can be achieved by appending the parameter:
> >     --subject-prefix='PATCH 19.11.9'
> >
> > Please send the backported patch to myself and "stable@dpdk.org" but not "
> > dev@dpdk.org".
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> >
> > ---
> > e2895305a5  Ajit Khaparde    net/bnxt: fix resource cleanup
> > 144127ba56  Alexander Kozyrev net/mlx5: adjust modify field action
> > endianness
> > 0588d64ffd  Alexander Kozyrev net/mlx5: check extended metadata for mark
> > modification
> > 8660e202b3  Alexander Kozyrev net/mlx5: check field size in modify field
> > action
> > 5cc6764267  Alexander Kozyrev net/mlx5: reject tunnel ID modification
> > 25fb790f78  Chengchang Tang  net/hns3: fix HW buffer size on MTU update
> > 1e28e842e0  Chengchang Tang  net/hns3: fix imprecise statistics
> > 6911e7c22c  Chengchang Tang  net/hns3: fix long task queue pairs reset time
> > a1d0caa92c  Chengchang Tang  net/hns3: fix processing Tx offload flags
> > d566bfcff0  Chengchang Tang  net/hns3: fix timing in mailbox
> > fde636caf4  Chengchang Tang  net/hns3: fix timing in resetting queues
> > 8f01e2f847  Chengchang Tang  net/hns3: fix Tx checksum for UDP packets
> > with special port
> > a32eaf435a  Chengchang Tang  net/hns3: fix use of command status
> > enumeration
> > d7ec2c0765  Chengchang Tang  net/hns3: select Tx prepare based on Tx
> > offload
> > ec2ed976ac  Chengwen Feng    net/hns3: delete mailbox arq ring
> > fae9b062b0  Chengwen Feng    net/hns3: fix handling link update
> > 7d6df32cf7  Chengwen Feng    net/hns3: fix missing outer L4 UDP flag for
> > VXLAN
> > c8dec72de0  Chengwen Feng    net/hns3: fix possible mismatched response of
> > mailbox
> > 76a3836b98  Chengwen Feng    net/hns3: fix setting default MAC address in
> > bonding of VF
> > 1f303606e8  Chengwen Feng    net/hns3: fix some packet types
> > 78dbb6f999  Chengwen Feng    net/hns3: fix time delta calculation
> > b80c527a9c  Chengwen Feng    net/hns3: increase readability in logs
> > e316530d79  Chengwen Feng    net/hns3: remove VLAN/QinQ ptypes from
> > support list
> > 3cd7290c16  David Marchand   ci: catch coredumps
> > 3e08081637  David Marchand   eal: fix evaluation of log level option
> > ca7036b4af  David Marchand   vhost: fix offload flags in Rx path
> > d345d6c957  Ferruh Yigit     drivers/net: fix FW version query
> > f9f24ecd79  Hongbo Zheng     net/hns3: fix concurrent interrupt handling
> > 230d4940ed  Huisong Li       net/hns3: fix link speed when port is down
> > 64308555d5  Huisong Li       net/hns3: fix link status when port is stopped
> > 398ee80192  Huisong Li       net/hns3: fix link update when failed to get
> > link info
> > 17ff95283f  Huisong Li       net/hns3: remove redundant mailbox response
> > 23abee9dea  Ilya Maximets    net/virtio: fix interrupt unregistering for
> > listening socket
> > 5aa67931ec  John Daley       net/enic: fix flow initialization error
> > handling
> > 4f28d9a1a6  Kalesh AP        net/bnxt: drop unused attribute
> > 39a03b401e  Kalesh AP        net/bnxt: fix double free in port start
> > failure
> > 94131e4ab7  Kalesh AP        net/bnxt: fix firmware fatal error handling
> > 4f1d8fdc3f  Kalesh AP        net/bnxt: fix memory allocation for command
> > response
> > 53f98141ee  Kalesh AP        net/bnxt: fix PTP support for Thor
> > ab15dd5a1c  Kalesh AP        net/bnxt: fix timesync when PTP is not
> > supported
> > 01406837bf  Kalesh AP        net/bnxt: fix VF info allocation
> > 25fefa2b17  Lance Richardson net/bnxt: fix Rx descriptor status
> > af68c1d699  Luc Pelletier    eal: fix hang in control thread creation
> > 34cc55cce6  Luc Pelletier    eal: fix race in control thread creation
> > e6988afdc7  Matan Azrad      net/mlx5: fix imissed statistics
> > 53ef1b3477  Min Hu (Connor)  ethdev: add sanity checks in control APIs
> > 4a072ad434  Murphy Yang      net/i40e: fix flow director config after flow
> > validate
> > ff04964ea6  Murphy Yang      net/i40e: fix flow director for common pctypes
> > 052a5d3867  Pavan Nikhilesh  event/octeontx2: fix XAQ pool reconfigure
> > 1edf7a796d  Pu Xu            ip_frag: fix fragmenting IPv4 packet with
> > header option
> > 83306d6c46  Shun Hao         net/mlx5: fix meter statistics
> > eac4fc71cd  Somnath Kotur    net/bnxt: fix xstats get
> > 16afcbfa30  Tal Shnaiderman  eal/windows: fix default thread priority
> > e412a138db  Tengfei Zhang    net/pcap: fix file descriptor leak on close
> > c6d527a1c8  Thomas Monjalon  app/testpmd: fix usage text
> > e0ae50c687  Thomas Monjalon  build: remove redundant _GNU_SOURCE
> > definitions
> > 204a7f44bc  Thomas Monjalon  bus/pci: support I/O port operations with musl
> > e0473c6d5b  Thomas Monjalon  eal: fix build with musl
> > 569ffbc981  Viacheslav Ovsiienko common/mlx5: add timestamp format support
> > to DevX
> > da845ae9d7  Viacheslav Ovsiienko net/mlx5: fix drop action for Direct
> > Rules/Verbs
> > d61381ad46  Viacheslav Ovsiienko net/mlx5: support timestamp format
> > 687833fffa  Wei Huang        raw/ifpga/base: check size before assigning
> > 978bb0b33f  Wei Huang        raw/ifpga: fix device name format
> >
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Kalesh A P



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Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd