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authorLibravatar Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-21 18:24:12 -0800
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+==============
+Devlink Params
+==============
+
+``devlink`` provides capability for a driver to expose device parameters for low
+level device functionality. Since devlink can operate at the device-wide
+level, it can be used to provide configuration that may affect multiple
+ports on a single device.
+
+This document describes a number of generic parameters that are supported
+across multiple drivers. Each driver is also free to add their own
+parameters. Each driver must document the specific parameters they support,
+whether generic or not.
+
+Configuration modes
+===================
+
+Parameters may be set in different configuration modes.
+
+.. list-table:: Possible configuration modes
+ :widths: 5 90
+
+ * - Name
+ - Description
+ * - ``runtime``
+ - set while the driver is running, and takes effect immediately. No
+ reset is required.
+ * - ``driverinit``
+ - applied while the driver initializes. Requires the user to restart
+ the driver using the ``devlink`` reload command.
+ * - ``permanent``
+ - written to the device's non-volatile memory. A hard reset is required
+ for it to take effect.
+
+Reloading
+---------
+
+In order for ``driverinit`` parameters to take effect, the driver must
+support reloading via the ``devlink-reload`` command. This command will
+request a reload of the device driver.
+
+.. _devlink_params_generic:
+
+Generic configuration parameters
+================================
+The following is a list of generic configuration parameters that drivers may
+add. Use of generic parameters is preferred over each driver creating their
+own name.
+
+.. list-table:: List of generic parameters
+ :widths: 5 5 90
+
+ * - Name
+ - Type
+ - Description
+ * - ``enable_sriov``
+ - Boolean
+ - Enable Single Root I/O Virtualization (SRIOV) in the device.
+ * - ``ignore_ari``
+ - Boolean
+ - Ignore Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation (ARI) capability. If
+ enabled, the adapter will ignore ARI capability even when the
+ platform has support enabled. The device will create the same number
+ of partitions as when the platform does not support ARI.
+ * - ``msix_vec_per_pf_max``
+ - u32
+ - Provides the maximum number of MSI-X interrupts that a device can
+ create. Value is the same across all physical functions (PFs) in the
+ device.
+ * - ``msix_vec_per_pf_min``
+ - u32
+ - Provides the minimum number of MSI-X interrupts required for the
+ device to initialize. Value is the same across all physical functions
+ (PFs) in the device.
+ * - ``fw_load_policy``
+ - u8
+ - Control the device's firmware loading policy.
+ - ``DEVLINK_PARAM_FW_LOAD_POLICY_VALUE_DRIVER`` (0)
+ Load firmware version preferred by the driver.
+ - ``DEVLINK_PARAM_FW_LOAD_POLICY_VALUE_FLASH`` (1)
+ Load firmware currently stored in flash.
+ - ``DEVLINK_PARAM_FW_LOAD_POLICY_VALUE_DISK`` (2)
+ Load firmware currently available on host's disk.
+ * - ``reset_dev_on_drv_probe``
+ - u8
+ - Controls the device's reset policy on driver probe.
+ - ``DEVLINK_PARAM_RESET_DEV_ON_DRV_PROBE_VALUE_UNKNOWN`` (0)
+ Unknown or invalid value.
+ - ``DEVLINK_PARAM_RESET_DEV_ON_DRV_PROBE_VALUE_ALWAYS`` (1)
+ Always reset device on driver probe.
+ - ``DEVLINK_PARAM_RESET_DEV_ON_DRV_PROBE_VALUE_NEVER`` (2)
+ Never reset device on driver probe.
+ - ``DEVLINK_PARAM_RESET_DEV_ON_DRV_PROBE_VALUE_DISK`` (3)
+ Reset the device only if firmware can be found in the filesystem.
+ * - ``enable_roce``
+ - Boolean
+ - Enable handling of RoCE traffic in the device.
+ * - ``enable_eth``
+ - Boolean
+ - When enabled, the device driver will instantiate Ethernet specific
+ auxiliary device of the devlink device.
+ * - ``enable_rdma``
+ - Boolean
+ - When enabled, the device driver will instantiate RDMA specific
+ auxiliary device of the devlink device.
+ * - ``enable_vnet``
+ - Boolean
+ - When enabled, the device driver will instantiate VDPA networking
+ specific auxiliary device of the devlink device.
+ * - ``enable_iwarp``
+ - Boolean
+ - Enable handling of iWARP traffic in the device.
+ * - ``internal_err_reset``
+ - Boolean
+ - When enabled, the device driver will reset the device on internal
+ errors.
+ * - ``max_macs``
+ - u32
+ - Typically macvlan, vlan net devices mac are also programmed in their
+ parent netdevice's Function rx filter. This parameter limit the
+ maximum number of unicast mac address filters to receive traffic from
+ per ethernet port of this device.
+ * - ``region_snapshot_enable``
+ - Boolean
+ - Enable capture of ``devlink-region`` snapshots.
+ * - ``enable_remote_dev_reset``
+ - Boolean
+ - Enable device reset by remote host. When cleared, the device driver
+ will NACK any attempt of other host to reset the device. This parameter
+ is useful for setups where a device is shared by different hosts, such
+ as multi-host setup.
+ * - ``io_eq_size``
+ - u32
+ - Control the size of I/O completion EQs.
+ * - ``event_eq_size``
+ - u32
+ - Control the size of asynchronous control events EQ.