From: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
To: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
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Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
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Cc: Frank Wunderlich <frankwu@gmx.de>, Chad Monroe <chad@monroe.io>,
Cezary Wilmanski <cezary.wilmanski@adtran.com>,
Avinash Jayaraman <ajayaraman@maxlinear.com>,
Bing tao Xu <bxu@maxlinear.com>, Liang Xu <lxu@maxlinear.com>,
Juraj Povazanec <jpovazanec@maxlinear.com>,
"Fanni (Fang-Yi) Chan" <fchan@maxlinear.com>,
"Benny (Ying-Tsan) Weng" <yweng@maxlinear.com>,
"Livia M. Rosu" <lrosu@maxlinear.com>,
John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v6 2/4] net: dsa: add tag format for MxL862xx switches
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:23:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <28d28b8a990ec0595bac59174ca3a2e23ea2710a.1768615235.git.daniel@makrotopia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1768615235.git.daniel@makrotopia.org>
Add proprietary special tag format for the MaxLinear MXL862xx family of
switches. While using the same Ethertype as MaxLinear's GSW1xx switches,
the actual tag format differs significantly, hence we need a dedicated
tag driver for that.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
---
v6:
* remove unnecessary check for skb != NULL
* merge consecutively printed warnings into single dev_warn_ratelimited
v5:
* remove unused macro definitions
RFC v4:
* describe fields and variables with comments
* sub-interface is only 5 bits
* harmonize Kconfig symbol name
* maintain alphabetic order in Kconfig
* fix typo s/beginnig/beginning/
* fix typo s/swtiches/switches/
* arrange local variables in reverse xmas tree order
RFC v3: no changes
RFC v2: make sure all tag fields are initialized
---
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
include/net/dsa.h | 2 +
net/dsa/Kconfig | 7 +++
net/dsa/Makefile | 1 +
net/dsa/tag_mxl862xx.c | 112 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 123 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 net/dsa/tag_mxl862xx.c
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index c5e07152ee30b..e7f87b1677146 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -15627,6 +15627,7 @@ M: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
L: netdev@vger.kernel.org
S: Maintained
F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/maxlinear,mxl862xx.yaml
+F: net/dsa/tag_mxl862xx.c
MCAN DEVICE DRIVER
M: Markus Schneider-Pargmann <msp@baylibre.com>
diff --git a/include/net/dsa.h b/include/net/dsa.h
index 6b2b5ed64ea4c..1e33242b6d94d 100644
--- a/include/net/dsa.h
+++ b/include/net/dsa.h
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ struct tc_action;
#define DSA_TAG_PROTO_BRCM_LEGACY_FCS_VALUE 29
#define DSA_TAG_PROTO_YT921X_VALUE 30
#define DSA_TAG_PROTO_MXL_GSW1XX_VALUE 31
+#define DSA_TAG_PROTO_MXL862_VALUE 32
enum dsa_tag_protocol {
DSA_TAG_PROTO_NONE = DSA_TAG_PROTO_NONE_VALUE,
@@ -91,6 +92,7 @@ enum dsa_tag_protocol {
DSA_TAG_PROTO_VSC73XX_8021Q = DSA_TAG_PROTO_VSC73XX_8021Q_VALUE,
DSA_TAG_PROTO_YT921X = DSA_TAG_PROTO_YT921X_VALUE,
DSA_TAG_PROTO_MXL_GSW1XX = DSA_TAG_PROTO_MXL_GSW1XX_VALUE,
+ DSA_TAG_PROTO_MXL862 = DSA_TAG_PROTO_MXL862_VALUE,
};
struct dsa_switch;
diff --git a/net/dsa/Kconfig b/net/dsa/Kconfig
index f86b30742122f..efc95759a10e1 100644
--- a/net/dsa/Kconfig
+++ b/net/dsa/Kconfig
@@ -104,6 +104,13 @@ config NET_DSA_TAG_MTK
Say Y or M if you want to enable support for tagging frames for
Mediatek switches.
+config NET_DSA_TAG_MXL_862XX
+ tristate "Tag driver for MxL862xx switches"
+ help
+ Say Y or M if you want to enable support for tagging frames for the
+ Maxlinear MxL86252 and MxL86282 switches using their native 8-byte
+ tagging protocol.
+
config NET_DSA_TAG_MXL_GSW1XX
tristate "Tag driver for MaxLinear GSW1xx switches"
help
diff --git a/net/dsa/Makefile b/net/dsa/Makefile
index 42d173f5a7013..bf7247759a64a 100644
--- a/net/dsa/Makefile
+++ b/net/dsa/Makefile
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_HELLCREEK) += tag_hellcreek.o
obj-$(CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_KSZ) += tag_ksz.o
obj-$(CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_LAN9303) += tag_lan9303.o
obj-$(CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_MTK) += tag_mtk.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_MXL_862XX) += tag_mxl862xx.o
obj-$(CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_MXL_GSW1XX) += tag_mxl-gsw1xx.o
obj-$(CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_NONE) += tag_none.o
obj-$(CONFIG_NET_DSA_TAG_OCELOT) += tag_ocelot.o
diff --git a/net/dsa/tag_mxl862xx.c b/net/dsa/tag_mxl862xx.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..def7be0d5d15f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/dsa/tag_mxl862xx.c
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+/*
+ * DSA Special Tag for MaxLinear 862xx switch chips
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2025 Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
+ * Copyright (C) 2024 MaxLinear Inc.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/bitops.h>
+#include <linux/etherdevice.h>
+#include <linux/skbuff.h>
+#include <net/dsa.h>
+#include "tag.h"
+
+#define MXL862_NAME "mxl862xx"
+
+#define MXL862_HEADER_LEN 8
+
+/* Word 0 -> EtherType */
+
+/* Word 2 */
+#define MXL862_SUBIF_ID GENMASK(4, 0)
+
+/* Word 3 */
+#define MXL862_IGP_EGP GENMASK(3, 0)
+
+static struct sk_buff *mxl862_tag_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
+ struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ unsigned int cpu_port, usr_port, sub_interface;
+ struct dsa_port *dp = dsa_user_to_port(dev);
+ struct dsa_port *cpu_dp = dp->cpu_dp;
+ __be16 *mxl862_tag;
+
+ /* switch firmware expects ports to be counted starting from 1 */
+ cpu_port = cpu_dp->index + 1;
+ usr_port = dp->index + 1;
+
+ /* target port sub-interface ID relative to the CPU port */
+ sub_interface = usr_port + 16 - cpu_port;
+
+ /* provide additional space 'MXL862_HEADER_LEN' bytes */
+ skb_push(skb, MXL862_HEADER_LEN);
+
+ /* shift MAC address to the beginning of the enlarged buffer,
+ * releasing the space required for DSA tag (between MAC address and
+ * Ethertype)
+ */
+ dsa_alloc_etype_header(skb, MXL862_HEADER_LEN);
+
+ /* special tag ingress */
+ mxl862_tag = dsa_etype_header_pos_tx(skb);
+ mxl862_tag[0] = htons(ETH_P_MXLGSW);
+ mxl862_tag[1] = 0;
+ mxl862_tag[2] = htons(FIELD_PREP(MXL862_SUBIF_ID, sub_interface));
+ mxl862_tag[3] = htons(FIELD_PREP(MXL862_IGP_EGP, cpu_port));
+
+ return skb;
+}
+
+static struct sk_buff *mxl862_tag_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb,
+ struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ __be16 *mxl862_tag;
+ int port;
+
+ if (unlikely(!pskb_may_pull(skb, MXL862_HEADER_LEN))) {
+ dev_warn_ratelimited(&dev->dev, "Cannot pull SKB, packet dropped\n");
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ mxl862_tag = dsa_etype_header_pos_rx(skb);
+
+ if (unlikely(mxl862_tag[0] != htons(ETH_P_MXLGSW))) {
+ dev_warn_ratelimited(&dev->dev,
+ "Invalid special tag marker, packet dropped, tag: %8ph\n",
+ mxl862_tag);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ /* Get source port information */
+ port = FIELD_GET(MXL862_IGP_EGP, ntohs(mxl862_tag[3])) - 1;
+ skb->dev = dsa_conduit_find_user(dev, 0, port);
+ if (unlikely(!skb->dev)) {
+ dev_warn_ratelimited(&dev->dev,
+ "Invalid source port, packet dropped, tag: %8ph\n",
+ mxl862_tag);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ /* remove the MxL862xx special tag between the MAC addresses and the
+ * current ethertype field.
+ */
+ skb_pull_rcsum(skb, MXL862_HEADER_LEN);
+ dsa_strip_etype_header(skb, MXL862_HEADER_LEN);
+
+ return skb;
+}
+
+static const struct dsa_device_ops mxl862_netdev_ops = {
+ .name = "mxl862",
+ .proto = DSA_TAG_PROTO_MXL862,
+ .xmit = mxl862_tag_xmit,
+ .rcv = mxl862_tag_rcv,
+ .needed_headroom = MXL862_HEADER_LEN,
+};
+
+MODULE_ALIAS_DSA_TAG_DRIVER(DSA_TAG_PROTO_MXL862, MXL862_NAME);
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("DSA tag driver for MaxLinear MxL862xx switches");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+
+module_dsa_tag_driver(mxl862_netdev_ops);
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-17 2:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-17 2:22 [PATCH net-next v6 0/4] net: dsa: initial support for MaxLinear " Daniel Golle
2026-01-17 2:23 ` [PATCH net-next v6 1/4] dt-bindings: net: dsa: add MaxLinear MxL862xx Daniel Golle
2026-01-17 2:23 ` Daniel Golle [this message]
2026-01-17 2:23 ` [PATCH net-next v6 3/4] net: mdio: add unlocked mdiodev C45 bus accessors Daniel Golle
2026-01-17 2:24 ` [PATCH net-next v6 4/4] net: dsa: add basic initial driver for MxL862xx switches Daniel Golle
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