aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/devlink.rst
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorLibravatar Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-21 18:24:12 -0800
committerLibravatar Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-21 18:24:12 -0800
commit5b7c4cabbb65f5c469464da6c5f614cbd7f730f2 (patch)
treecc5c2d0a898769fd59549594fedb3ee6f84e59a0 /Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/devlink.rst
downloadlinux-5b7c4cabbb65f5c469464da6c5f614cbd7f730f2.tar.gz
linux-5b7c4cabbb65f5c469464da6c5f614cbd7f730f2.zip
Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextgrafted
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core: - Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use. - Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs. - Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers. Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers. - Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns. - Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on boot. - Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan. - Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack. - Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers. Protocols: - Support IPv4 big TCP (TSO frames larger than 64kB). - Add IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option, to control local port range on socket by socket basis. - Track and report in procfs number of MPTCP sockets used. - Support mixing IPv4 and IPv6 flows in the in-kernel MPTCP path manager. - IPv6: don't check net.ipv6.route.max_size and rely on garbage collection to free memory (similarly to IPv4). - Support Penultimate Segment Pop (PSP) flavor in SRv6 (RFC8986). - ICMP: add per-rate limit counters. - Add support for user scanning requests in ieee802154. - Remove static WEP support. - Support minimal Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) rate reporting. - WiFi 7 EHT channel puncturing support (client & AP). BPF: - Add a rbtree data structure following the "next-gen data structure" precedent set by recently added linked list, that is, by using kfunc + kptr instead of adding a new BPF map type. - Expose XDP hints via kfuncs with initial support for RX hash and timestamp metadata. - Add BPF_F_NO_TUNNEL_KEY extension to bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key to better support decap on GRE tunnel devices not operating in collect metadata. - Improve x86 JIT's codegen for PROBE_MEM runtime error checks. - Remove the need for trace_printk_lock for bpf_trace_printk and bpf_trace_vprintk helpers. - Extend libbpf's bpf_tracing.h support for tracing arguments of kprobes/uprobes and syscall as a special case. - Significantly reduce the search time for module symbols by livepatch and BPF. - Enable cpumasks to be used as kptrs, which is useful for tracing programs tracking which tasks end up running on which CPUs in different time intervals. - Add support for BPF trampoline on s390x and riscv64. - Add capability to export the XDP features supported by the NIC. - Add __bpf_kfunc tag for marking kernel functions as kfuncs. - Add cgroup.memory=nobpf kernel parameter option to disable BPF memory accounting for container environments. Netfilter: - Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band /proc interface installed by this target. - Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist. Driver API: - Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right IRQ affinity on AMD platforms. - Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly. - Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress. - Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA) Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of shared medium Ethernet. - Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames. - Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET. - Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and factor out common parts of netlink operation handling. - Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers). - Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning messages with notifications for debug. - Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct. - Add support for per action HW stats in TC. - Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from a specific point in the action chain). - Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. Everyone should switch to using nl80211 interface instead. - Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling, including the definition of a new default value that will benefit CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance. New hardware / drivers: - Ethernet: - nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver) - Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs - Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY - onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA) - Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP) - Amlogic gxl MDIO mux - WiFi: - RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu) - Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k) - CAN: - Renesas R-Car V4H Drivers: - Bluetooth: - Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers. - Ethernet NICs: - Intel (1G, igc): - support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model - Intel (100G, ice): - use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY - multi-buffer XDP support - extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices - nVidia/Mellanox: - update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands - implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control - TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload - more efficient crypto key management method - multi-port eswitch support - Netronome/Corigine: - add DCB IEEE support - support IPsec offloading for NFP3800 - Freescale/NXP (enetc): - support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers - improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle - support MAC Merge layer - Other NICs: - sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100 - ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO) - bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA - r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout - cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G - cpts: support pulse-per-second output - ngbe: add an mdio bus driver - usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing - r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support - amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation - virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP - virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff - tsnep: XDP support - Ethernet high-speed switches: - nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw): - add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages) - Microchip (sparx5): - separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make the implicit rules always active - add support for egress DSCP rewrite - IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification) - IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS etc.) - ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control) - support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q, 8.6.5.1) - Ethernet embedded switches: - Marvell (mv88e6xxx): - add MAB (port auth) offload support - enable PTP receive for mv88e6390 - NXP (ocelot): - support MAC Merge layer - support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys - Microchip: - lan9303: convert to PHYLINK - lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics - lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x - lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration - ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet - other: - qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations - rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy - Intel WiFi (iwlwifi): - EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting - STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the BIOS to the firmware. - Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k): - IPQ5018 support - Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support - channel 177 support - MediaTek WiFi (mt76): - per-PHY LED support - mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support - Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support - switch to using page pool allocator - RealTek WiFi (rtw89): - support new version of Bluetooth co-existance - Mobile: - rmnet: support TX aggregation" * tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits) page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp(). ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/devlink.rst')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/devlink.rst224
1 files changed, 224 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/devlink.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/devlink.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9b5c40ba7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/devlink.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,224 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR Linux-OpenIB
+.. include:: <isonum.txt>
+
+=======
+Devlink
+=======
+
+:Copyright: |copy| 2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
+
+Contents
+========
+
+- `Info`_
+- `Parameters`_
+- `Health reporters`_
+
+Info
+====
+
+The devlink info reports the running and stored firmware versions on device.
+It also prints the device PSID which represents the HCA board type ID.
+
+User command example::
+
+ $ devlink dev info pci/0000:00:06.0
+ pci/0000:00:06.0:
+ driver mlx5_core
+ versions:
+ fixed:
+ fw.psid MT_0000000009
+ running:
+ fw.version 16.26.0100
+ stored:
+ fw.version 16.26.0100
+
+Parameters
+==========
+
+flow_steering_mode: Device flow steering mode
+---------------------------------------------
+The flow steering mode parameter controls the flow steering mode of the driver.
+Two modes are supported:
+1. 'dmfs' - Device managed flow steering.
+2. 'smfs' - Software/Driver managed flow steering.
+
+In DMFS mode, the HW steering entities are created and managed through the
+Firmware.
+In SMFS mode, the HW steering entities are created and managed though by
+the driver directly into hardware without firmware intervention.
+
+SMFS mode is faster and provides better rule insertion rate compared to default DMFS mode.
+
+User command examples:
+
+- Set SMFS flow steering mode::
+
+ $ devlink dev param set pci/0000:06:00.0 name flow_steering_mode value "smfs" cmode runtime
+
+- Read device flow steering mode::
+
+ $ devlink dev param show pci/0000:06:00.0 name flow_steering_mode
+ pci/0000:06:00.0:
+ name flow_steering_mode type driver-specific
+ values:
+ cmode runtime value smfs
+
+enable_roce: RoCE enablement state
+----------------------------------
+If the device supports RoCE disablement, RoCE enablement state controls device
+support for RoCE capability. Otherwise, the control occurs in the driver stack.
+When RoCE is disabled at the driver level, only raw ethernet QPs are supported.
+
+To change RoCE enablement state, a user must change the driverinit cmode value
+and run devlink reload.
+
+User command examples:
+
+- Disable RoCE::
+
+ $ devlink dev param set pci/0000:06:00.0 name enable_roce value false cmode driverinit
+ $ devlink dev reload pci/0000:06:00.0
+
+- Read RoCE enablement state::
+
+ $ devlink dev param show pci/0000:06:00.0 name enable_roce
+ pci/0000:06:00.0:
+ name enable_roce type generic
+ values:
+ cmode driverinit value true
+
+esw_port_metadata: Eswitch port metadata state
+----------------------------------------------
+When applicable, disabling eswitch metadata can increase packet rate
+up to 20% depending on the use case and packet sizes.
+
+Eswitch port metadata state controls whether to internally tag packets with
+metadata. Metadata tagging must be enabled for multi-port RoCE, failover
+between representors and stacked devices.
+By default metadata is enabled on the supported devices in E-switch.
+Metadata is applicable only for E-switch in switchdev mode and
+users may disable it when NONE of the below use cases will be in use:
+1. HCA is in Dual/multi-port RoCE mode.
+2. VF/SF representor bonding (Usually used for Live migration)
+3. Stacked devices
+
+When metadata is disabled, the above use cases will fail to initialize if
+users try to enable them.
+
+- Show eswitch port metadata::
+
+ $ devlink dev param show pci/0000:06:00.0 name esw_port_metadata
+ pci/0000:06:00.0:
+ name esw_port_metadata type driver-specific
+ values:
+ cmode runtime value true
+
+- Disable eswitch port metadata::
+
+ $ devlink dev param set pci/0000:06:00.0 name esw_port_metadata value false cmode runtime
+
+- Change eswitch mode to switchdev mode where after choosing the metadata value::
+
+ $ devlink dev eswitch set pci/0000:06:00.0 mode switchdev
+
+Health reporters
+================
+
+tx reporter
+-----------
+The tx reporter is responsible for reporting and recovering of the following two error scenarios:
+
+- tx timeout
+ Report on kernel tx timeout detection.
+ Recover by searching lost interrupts.
+- tx error completion
+ Report on error tx completion.
+ Recover by flushing the tx queue and reset it.
+
+tx reporter also support on demand diagnose callback, on which it provides
+real time information of its send queues status.
+
+User commands examples:
+
+- Diagnose send queues status::
+
+ $ devlink health diagnose pci/0000:82:00.0 reporter tx
+
+NOTE: This command has valid output only when interface is up, otherwise the command has empty output.
+
+- Show number of tx errors indicated, number of recover flows ended successfully,
+ is autorecover enabled and graceful period from last recover::
+
+ $ devlink health show pci/0000:82:00.0 reporter tx
+
+rx reporter
+-----------
+The rx reporter is responsible for reporting and recovering of the following two error scenarios:
+
+- rx queues' initialization (population) timeout
+ Population of rx queues' descriptors on ring initialization is done
+ in napi context via triggering an irq. In case of a failure to get
+ the minimum amount of descriptors, a timeout would occur, and
+ descriptors could be recovered by polling the EQ (Event Queue).
+- rx completions with errors (reported by HW on interrupt context)
+ Report on rx completion error.
+ Recover (if needed) by flushing the related queue and reset it.
+
+rx reporter also supports on demand diagnose callback, on which it
+provides real time information of its receive queues' status.
+
+- Diagnose rx queues' status and corresponding completion queue::
+
+ $ devlink health diagnose pci/0000:82:00.0 reporter rx
+
+NOTE: This command has valid output only when interface is up. Otherwise, the command has empty output.
+
+- Show number of rx errors indicated, number of recover flows ended successfully,
+ is autorecover enabled, and graceful period from last recover::
+
+ $ devlink health show pci/0000:82:00.0 reporter rx
+
+fw reporter
+-----------
+The fw reporter implements `diagnose` and `dump` callbacks.
+It follows symptoms of fw error such as fw syndrome by triggering
+fw core dump and storing it into the dump buffer.
+The fw reporter diagnose command can be triggered any time by the user to check
+current fw status.
+
+User commands examples:
+
+- Check fw heath status::
+
+ $ devlink health diagnose pci/0000:82:00.0 reporter fw
+
+- Read FW core dump if already stored or trigger new one::
+
+ $ devlink health dump show pci/0000:82:00.0 reporter fw
+
+NOTE: This command can run only on the PF which has fw tracer ownership,
+running it on other PF or any VF will return "Operation not permitted".
+
+fw fatal reporter
+-----------------
+The fw fatal reporter implements `dump` and `recover` callbacks.
+It follows fatal errors indications by CR-space dump and recover flow.
+The CR-space dump uses vsc interface which is valid even if the FW command
+interface is not functional, which is the case in most FW fatal errors.
+The recover function runs recover flow which reloads the driver and triggers fw
+reset if needed.
+On firmware error, the health buffer is dumped into the dmesg. The log
+level is derived from the error's severity (given in health buffer).
+
+User commands examples:
+
+- Run fw recover flow manually::
+
+ $ devlink health recover pci/0000:82:00.0 reporter fw_fatal
+
+- Read FW CR-space dump if already stored or trigger new one::
+
+ $ devlink health dump show pci/0000:82:00.1 reporter fw_fatal
+
+NOTE: This command can run only on PF.