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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink-health.txt b/Documentation/networking/devlink-health.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..1db3fbea0831 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink-health.txt @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +The health mechanism is targeted for Real Time Alerting, in order to know when +something bad had happened to a PCI device +- Provide alert debug information +- Self healing +- If problem needs vendor support, provide a way to gather all needed debugging + information. + +The main idea is to unify and centralize driver health reports in the +generic devlink instance and allow the user to set different +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) +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. +Device driver can provide specific callbacks for each "health reporter", e.g. + - Recovery procedures + - Diagnostics and object dump procedures + - OOB initial parameters +Different parts of the driver can register different types of health reporters +with different handlers. + +Once an error is reported, devlink health will do the following actions: + * A log is being send to the kernel trace events buffer + * Health status and statistics are being updated for the reporter instance + * 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 + +The user interface: +User can access/change each reporter's parameters and driver specific callbacks +via devlink, e.g per error type (per health reporter) + - Configure reporter's generic parameters (like: disable/enable auto recovery) + - Invoke recovery procedure + - Run diagnostics + - Object dump + +The devlink health interface (via netlink): +DEVLINK_CMD_HEALTH_REPORTER_GET + Retrieves status and configuration info per DEV and reporter. +DEVLINK_CMD_HEALTH_REPORTER_SET + Allows reporter-related configuration setting. +DEVLINK_CMD_HEALTH_REPORTER_RECOVER + Triggers a reporter's recovery procedure. +DEVLINK_CMD_HEALTH_REPORTER_DIAGNOSE + Retrieves diagnostics data from a reporter on a device. +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 + for this reporter, devlink generates a new dump. + dump output is defined by the reporter. +DEVLINK_CMD_HEALTH_REPORTER_DUMP_CLEAR + Clears the last saved dump file for the specified reporter. + + + netlink + +--------------------------+ + | | + | + | + | | | + +--------------------------+ + |request for ops + |(diagnose, + mlx5_core devlink |recover, + |dump) ++--------+ +--------------------------+ +| | | reporter| | +| | | +---------v----------+ | +| | ops execution | | | | +| <----------------------------------+ | | +| | | | | | +| | | + ^------------------+ | +| | | | request for ops | +| | | | (recover, dump) | +| | | | | +| | | +-+------------------+ | +| | health report | | health handler | | +| +-------------------------------> | | +| | | +--------------------+ | +| | health reporter create | | +| +----------------------------> | ++--------+ +--------------------------+ |