[PATCH net-next 8/8] netlink: specs: devlink: add pad to the subsets carrying padded u64s
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-09-10 20:03:24
Subsystem:
networking [general], the rest, yaml netlink (ynl) · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds, Donald Hunter
We are missing the pad attribute in a number of subsets. Worse, dl-attr-stats which is a separate attr space doesn't define pad, but reuses the value from the root attr set (DEVLINK_ATTR_PAD). This would break parsing stats on an arch without CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> --- Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml
index 54de1eeb2234..acb22856a6a8 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml@@ -1065,6 +1065,8 @@ doc: Partial family for Devlink. name: dpipe-table-resource-id - name: dpipe-table-resource-units + - + name: pad - name: dl-dpipe-table-matches
@@ -1099,6 +1101,8 @@ doc: Partial family for Devlink. name: dpipe-entry-action-values - name: dpipe-entry-counter + - + name: pad - name: dl-dpipe-entry-match-values
@@ -1237,6 +1241,8 @@ doc: Partial family for Devlink. name: resource-unit - name: resource-occ + - + name: pad - name: dl-resource-list
@@ -1289,6 +1295,8 @@ doc: Partial family for Devlink. name: region-chunk-data - name: region-chunk-addr + - + name: pad - name: dl-fmsg
@@ -1329,6 +1337,8 @@ doc: Partial family for Devlink. name: health-reporter-auto-dump - name: health-reporter-burst-period + - + name: pad - name: dl-attr-stats
@@ -1343,6 +1353,10 @@ doc: Partial family for Devlink. - name: stats-rx-dropped type: u64 + - + name: pad + type: pad + value: 61 - name: dl-trap-metadata
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