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authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2021-03-12 16:30:25 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2021-03-13 18:12:43 -0800
commit3cc9b29ac0e1739091ccfe9ada2ffdd230312f2e (patch)
tree88a9abc3ba64d1bcbfd993190fd252fd39373f38 /Documentation/networking/devlink
parente127906b68b49ddb3ecba39ffa36a329c48197d3 (diff)
docs: net: tweak devlink health documentation
Minor tweaks and improvement of wording about the diagnose callback. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/devlink')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-health.rst13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-health.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-health.rst
index 0c99b11f05f9..d52c9a605188 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-health.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-health.rst
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ attributes of the health reporting and recovery procedures.
The ``devlink`` health reporter:
Device driver creates a "health reporter" per each error/health type.
-Error/Health type can be a known/generic (eg pci error, fw error, rx/tx error)
+Error/Health type can be a known/generic (e.g. PCI error, fw error, rx/tx error)
or unknown (driver specific).
For each registered health reporter a driver can issue error/health reports
asynchronously. All health reports handling is done by ``devlink``.
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ Once an error is reported, devlink health will perform the following actions:
* Object dump is being taken and saved at the reporter instance (as long as
there is no other dump which is already stored)
* Auto recovery attempt is being done. Depends on:
+
- Auto-recovery configuration
- Grace period vs. time passed since last recover
@@ -72,14 +73,14 @@ via ``devlink``, e.g per error type (per health reporter):
* - ``DEVLINK_CMD_HEALTH_REPORTER_SET``
- Allows reporter-related configuration setting.
* - ``DEVLINK_CMD_HEALTH_REPORTER_RECOVER``
- - Triggers a reporter's recovery procedure.
+ - Triggers reporter's recovery procedure.
* - ``DEVLINK_CMD_HEALTH_REPORTER_DIAGNOSE``
- - Retrieves diagnostics data from a reporter on a device.
+ - Retrieves current device state related to the reporter.
* - ``DEVLINK_CMD_HEALTH_REPORTER_DUMP_GET``
- Retrieves the last stored dump. Devlink health
- saves a single dump. If an dump is not already stored by the devlink
+ saves a single dump. If an dump is not already stored by devlink
for this reporter, devlink generates a new dump.
- dump output is defined by the reporter.
+ Dump output is defined by the reporter.
* - ``DEVLINK_CMD_HEALTH_REPORTER_DUMP_CLEAR``
- Clears the last saved dump file for the specified reporter.
@@ -93,7 +94,7 @@ The following diagram provides a general overview of ``devlink-health``::
+--------------------------+
|request for ops
|(diagnose,
- mlx5_core devlink |recover,
+ driver devlink |recover,
|dump)
+--------+ +--------------------------+
| | | reporter| |