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Having adjacent accelerated modify header actions (so-called
pattern-argument actions) may result in inconsistent outcome.
These inconsistencies can take the form of writes to the same
field or a read coupled with a write to the same field. The
solution is to detect such dependencies and insert nops between
the offending actions.
The existing implementation had a few issues, which pretty much
required a complete rewrite of the code that handles these
dependencies.
In the new implementation we're doing the following:
* Checking any two adjacent actions for conflicts (not just
odd-even pairs).
* Marking 'set' and 'add' action fields as destination, rather
than source, for the purposes of checking for conflicts.
* Checking all types of actions ('add', 'set', 'copy') for
dependencies.
* Managing offsets of the args in the buffer - copy the action
args to the right place in the buffer.
* Checking that after inserting nops we're still within the number
of supported actions - return an error otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Dogaru <vdogaru@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Kliteynik <kliteyn@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1747766802-958178-5-git-send-email-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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