[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net: remove endianness annotations for L2TPv2 bitfields

David Marchand david.marchand at redhat.com
Mon Oct 25 14:31:07 CEST 2021


Endianness is already handled by the checks on RTE_BYTE_ORDER.
Marking bitfields with endianness types is at best unneeded, at worse it
breaks build with OVS (with sparse enabled).

Example:
../../lib/ofp-packet.c: note: in included file (through
  .../ovs/dpdk-dir/build/include/rte_flow.h, ../../lib/netdev-dpdk.h,
  ../../lib/dp-packet.h):
.../ovs/dpdk-dir/build/include/rte_l2tpv2.h:92:37:
  error: invalid bitfield specifier for type restricted ovs_be16.
.../ovs/dpdk-dir/build/include/rte_l2tpv2.h:93:37:
  error: invalid bitfield specifier for type restricted ovs_be16.
.../ovs/dpdk-dir/build/include/rte_l2tpv2.h:94:40:
  error: invalid bitfield specifier for type restricted ovs_be16.
.../ovs/dpdk-dir/build/include/rte_l2tpv2.h:95:37:
  error: invalid bitfield specifier for type restricted ovs_be16.
.../ovs/dpdk-dir/build/include/rte_l2tpv2.h:96:40:
  error: invalid bitfield specifier for type restricted ovs_be16.
.../ovs/dpdk-dir/build/include/rte_l2tpv2.h:97:37:
  error: invalid bitfield specifier for type restricted ovs_be16.
.../ovs/dpdk-dir/build/include/rte_l2tpv2.h:98:37:
  error: invalid bitfield specifier for type restricted ovs_be16.
.../ovs/dpdk-dir/build/include/rte_l2tpv2.h:99:40:
  error: invalid bitfield specifier for type restricted ovs_be16.
.../ovs/dpdk-dir/build/include/rte_l2tpv2.h:100:39:
  error: invalid bitfield specifier for type restricted ovs_be16.
make[3]: *** [lib/ofp-packet.lo] Error 1

Fixes: 3a929df1f286 ("ethdev: support L2TPv2 and PPP procotol")

Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
---
 lib/net/rte_l2tpv2.h | 36 ++++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/net/rte_l2tpv2.h b/lib/net/rte_l2tpv2.h
index 670fe5470e..b90e36cf12 100644
--- a/lib/net/rte_l2tpv2.h
+++ b/lib/net/rte_l2tpv2.h
@@ -89,25 +89,25 @@ struct rte_l2tpv2_common_hdr {
 		__extension__
 		struct {
 #if RTE_BYTE_ORDER == RTE_LITTLE_ENDIAN
-			rte_be16_t t:1;		/**< message Type */
-			rte_be16_t l:1;		/**< length option bit */
-			rte_be16_t res1:2;	/**< reserved */
-			rte_be16_t s:1;		/**< ns/nr option bit */
-			rte_be16_t res2:1;	/**< reserved */
-			rte_be16_t o:1;		/**< offset option bit */
-			rte_be16_t p:1;		/**< priority option bit */
-			rte_be16_t res3:4;	/**< reserved */
-			rte_be16_t ver:4;	/**< protocol version */
+			uint16_t t:1;		/**< message Type */
+			uint16_t l:1;		/**< length option bit */
+			uint16_t res1:2;	/**< reserved */
+			uint16_t s:1;		/**< ns/nr option bit */
+			uint16_t res2:1;	/**< reserved */
+			uint16_t o:1;		/**< offset option bit */
+			uint16_t p:1;		/**< priority option bit */
+			uint16_t res3:4;	/**< reserved */
+			uint16_t ver:4;		/**< protocol version */
 #elif RTE_BYTE_ORDER == RTE_BIG_ENDIAN
-			rte_be16_t ver:4;	/**< protocol version */
-			rte_be16_t res3:4;	/**< reserved */
-			rte_be16_t p:1;		/**< priority option bit */
-			rte_be16_t o:1;		/**< offset option bit */
-			rte_be16_t res2:1;	/**< reserved */
-			rte_be16_t s:1;		/**< ns/nr option bit */
-			rte_be16_t res1:2;	/**< reserved */
-			rte_be16_t l:1;		/**< length option bit */
-			rte_be16_t t:1;		/**< message Type */
+			uint16_t ver:4;		/**< protocol version */
+			uint16_t res3:4;	/**< reserved */
+			uint16_t p:1;		/**< priority option bit */
+			uint16_t o:1;		/**< offset option bit */
+			uint16_t res2:1;	/**< reserved */
+			uint16_t s:1;		/**< ns/nr option bit */
+			uint16_t res1:2;	/**< reserved */
+			uint16_t l:1;		/**< length option bit */
+			uint16_t t:1;		/**< message Type */
 #endif
 		};
 	};
-- 
2.23.0



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