kernel/linux.git/include/uapi/linux/devlink.h, branch v6.19.11

devlink: support default values for param-get and param-set

2025-11-21T03:01:22+00:00

Support querying and resetting to default param values. Introduce two new devlink netlink attrs: DEVLINK_ATTR_PARAM_VALUE_DEFAULT and DEVLINK_ATTR_PARAM_RESET_DEFAULT. The former is used to contain an optional parameter value inside of the param_value nested attribute. The latter is used in param-set requests from userspace to indicate that the driver should reset the param to its default value. To implement this, two new functions are added to the devlink driver api: devlink_param::get_default() and devlink_param::reset_default(). These callbacks allow drivers to implement default param actions for runtime and permanent cmodes. For driverinit params, the core latches the last value set by a driver via devl_param_driverinit_value_set(), and uses that as the default value for a param. Because default parameter values are optional, it would be impossible to discern whether or not a param of type bool has default value of false or not provided if the default value is encoded using a netlink flag type. For this reason, when a DEVLINK_PARAM_TYPE_BOOL has an associated default value, the default value is encoded using a u8 type. Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119025038.651131-4-daniel.zahka@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

devlink: Introduce switchdev_inactive eswitch mode

2025-11-11T12:17:53+00:00

Adds DEVLINK_ESWITCH_MODE_SWITCHDEV_INACTIVE attribute to UAPI and documentation. Before having traffic flow through an eswitch, a user may want to have the ability to block traffic towards the FDB until FDB is fully programmed and the user is ready to send traffic to it. For example: when two eswitches are present for vports in a multi-PF setup, one eswitch may take over the traffic from the other when the user chooses. Before this take over, a user may want to first program the inactive eswitch and then once ready redirect traffic to this new eswitch. switchdev modes transition semantics: legacy->switchdev_inactive: Create switchdev mode normally, traffic not allowed to flow yet. switchdev_inactive->switchdev: Enable traffic to flow. switchdev->switchdev_inactive: Block traffic on the FDB, FDB and representros state and content is preserved. When eswitch is configured to this mode, traffic is ignored/dropped on this eswitch FDB, while current configuration is kept, e.g FDB rules and netdev representros are kept available, FDB programming is allowed. Example: # start inactive switchdev devlink dev eswitch set pci/0000:08:00.1 mode switchdev_inactive # setup TC rules, representors etc .. # activate devlink dev eswitch set pci/0000:08:00.1 mode switchdev Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251108070404.1551708-2-saeed@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

devlink: Make health reporter burst period configurable

2025-08-27T00:24:16+00:00

Enable configuration of the burst period — a time window starting from the first error recovery, during which the reporter allows recovery attempts for each reported error. This feature is helpful when a single underlying issue causes multiple errors, as it delays the start of the grace period to allow sufficient time for recovering all related errors. For example, if multiple TX queues time out simultaneously, a sufficient burst period could allow all affected TX queues to be recovered within that window. Without this period, only the first TX queue that reports a timeout will undergo recovery, while the remaining TX queues will be blocked once the grace period begins. Configuration example: $ devlink health set pci/0000:00:09.0 reporter tx burst_period 500 Configuration example with ynl: ./tools/net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py \ --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml \ --do health-reporter-set --json '{ "bus-name": "auxiliary", "dev-name": "mlx5_core.eth.0", "port-index": 65535, "health-reporter-name": "tx", "health-reporter-burst-period": 500 }' Signed-off-by: Shahar Shitrit Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea Reviewed-by: Carolina Jubran Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250824084354.533182-5-mbloch@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

devlink: Fix excessive stack usage in rate TC bandwidth parsing

2025-07-24T00:07:35+00:00

The devlink_nl_rate_tc_bw_parse function uses a large stack array for devlink attributes, which triggers a warning about excessive stack usage: net/devlink/rate.c: In function 'devlink_nl_rate_tc_bw_parse': net/devlink/rate.c:382:1: error: the frame size of 1648 bytes is larger than 1536 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=] Introduce a separate attribute set specifically for rate TC bandwidth parsing that only contains the two attributes actually used: index and bandwidth. This reduces the stack array from DEVLINK_ATTR_MAX entries to just 2 entries, solving the stack usage issue. Update devlink selftest to use the new 'index' and 'bw' attribute names consistent with the YAML spec. Example usage with ynl with the new spec: ./tools/net/ynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml \ --do rate-set --json '{ "bus-name": "pci", "dev-name": "0000:08:00.0", "port-index": 1, "rate-tc-bws": [ {"index": 0, "bw": 50}, {"index": 1, "bw": 50}, {"index": 2, "bw": 0}, {"index": 3, "bw": 0}, {"index": 4, "bw": 0}, {"index": 5, "bw": 0}, {"index": 6, "bw": 0}, {"index": 7, "bw": 0} ] }' ./tools/net/ynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml \ --do rate-get --json '{ "bus-name": "pci", "dev-name": "0000:08:00.0", "port-index": 1 }' output for rate-get: {'bus-name': 'pci', 'dev-name': '0000:08:00.0', 'port-index': 1, 'rate-tc-bws': [{'bw': 50, 'index': 0}, {'bw': 50, 'index': 1}, {'bw': 0, 'index': 2}, {'bw': 0, 'index': 3}, {'bw': 0, 'index': 4}, {'bw': 0, 'index': 5}, {'bw': 0, 'index': 6}, {'bw': 0, 'index': 7}], 'rate-tx-max': 0, 'rate-tx-priority': 0, 'rate-tx-share': 0, 'rate-tx-weight': 0, 'rate-type': 'leaf'} Fixes: 566e8f108fc7 ("devlink: Extend devlink rate API with traffic classes bandwidth management") Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250708160652.1810573-1-arnd@kernel.org/ Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202507171943.W7DJcs6Y-lkp@intel.com/ Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Carolina Jubran Tested-by: Carolina Jubran Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1753175609-330621-1-git-send-email-tariqt@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

devlink: Extend devlink rate API with traffic classes bandwidth management

2025-07-02T22:39:05+00:00

Introduce support for specifying relative bandwidth shares between traffic classes (TC) in the devlink-rate API. This new option allows users to allocate bandwidth across multiple traffic classes in a single command. This feature provides a more granular control over traffic management, especially for scenarios requiring Enhanced Transmission Selection. Users can now define a relative bandwidth share for each traffic class. For example, assigning share values of 20 to TC0 (TCP/UDP) and 80 to TC5 (RoCE) will result in TC0 receiving 20% and TC5 receiving 80% of the total bandwidth. The actual percentage each class receives depends on the ratio of its share value to the sum of all shares. Example: DEV=pci/0000:08:00.0 $ devlink port function rate add $DEV/vfs_group tx_share 10Gbit \ tx_max 50Gbit tc-bw 0:20 1:0 2:0 3:0 4:0 5:80 6:0 7:0 $ devlink port function rate set $DEV/vfs_group \ tc-bw 0:20 1:0 2:0 3:0 4:0 5:20 6:60 7:0 Example usage with ynl: ./tools/net/ynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml \ --do rate-set --json '{ "bus-name": "pci", "dev-name": "0000:08:00.0", "port-index": 1, "rate-tc-bws": [ {"rate-tc-index": 0, "rate-tc-bw": 50}, {"rate-tc-index": 1, "rate-tc-bw": 50}, {"rate-tc-index": 2, "rate-tc-bw": 0}, {"rate-tc-index": 3, "rate-tc-bw": 0}, {"rate-tc-index": 4, "rate-tc-bw": 0}, {"rate-tc-index": 5, "rate-tc-bw": 0}, {"rate-tc-index": 6, "rate-tc-bw": 0}, {"rate-tc-index": 7, "rate-tc-bw": 0} ] }' ./tools/net/ynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml \ --do rate-get --json '{ "bus-name": "pci", "dev-name": "0000:08:00.0", "port-index": 1 }' output for rate-get: {'bus-name': 'pci', 'dev-name': '0000:08:00.0', 'port-index': 1, 'rate-tc-bws': [{'rate-tc-bw': 50, 'rate-tc-index': 0}, {'rate-tc-bw': 50, 'rate-tc-index': 1}, {'rate-tc-bw': 0, 'rate-tc-index': 2}, {'rate-tc-bw': 0, 'rate-tc-index': 3}, {'rate-tc-bw': 0, 'rate-tc-index': 4}, {'rate-tc-bw': 0, 'rate-tc-index': 5}, {'rate-tc-bw': 0, 'rate-tc-index': 6}, {'rate-tc-bw': 0, 'rate-tc-index': 7}], 'rate-tx-max': 0, 'rate-tx-priority': 0, 'rate-tx-share': 0, 'rate-tx-weight': 0, 'rate-type': 'leaf'} Signed-off-by: Carolina Jubran Reviewed-by: Cosmin Ratiu Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250629142138.361537-3-mbloch@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

devlink: define enum for attr types of dynamic attributes

2025-05-07T01:21:11+00:00

Devlink param and health reporter fmsg use attributes with dynamic type which is determined according to a different type. Currently used values are NLA_*. The problem is, they are not part of UAPI. They may change which would cause a break. To make this future safe, introduce a enum that shadows NLA_* values in it and is part of UAPI. Also, this allows to possibly carry types that are unrelated to NLA_* values. Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250505114513.53370-3-jiri@resnulli.us Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

devlink: Support setting max_io_eqs

2024-04-08T13:10:45+00:00

Many devices send event notifications for the IO queues, such as tx and rx queues, through event queues. Enable a privileged owner, such as a hypervisor PF, to set the number of IO event queues for the VF and SF during the provisioning stage. example: Get maximum IO event queues of the VF device:: $ devlink port show pci/0000:06:00.0/2 pci/0000:06:00.0/2: type eth netdev enp6s0pf0vf1 flavour pcivf pfnum 0 vfnum 1 function: hw_addr 00:00:00:00:00:00 ipsec_packet disabled max_io_eqs 10 Set maximum IO event queues of the VF device:: $ devlink port function set pci/0000:06:00.0/2 max_io_eqs 32 $ devlink port show pci/0000:06:00.0/2 pci/0000:06:00.0/2: type eth netdev enp6s0pf0vf1 flavour pcivf pfnum 0 vfnum 1 function: hw_addr 00:00:00:00:00:00 ipsec_packet disabled max_io_eqs 32 Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko Reviewed-by: Shay Drory Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

devlink: Add comments to use netlink gen tool

2024-03-11T23:00:16+00:00

Add the comment to remind people not to manually modify the net/devlink/netlink_gen.c, but to use tools/net/ynl/ynl-regen.sh to generate it. Signed-off-by: William Tu Suggested-by: Jiri Pirko Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240310145503.32721-1-witu@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

devlink: add a command to set notification filter and use it for multicasts

2023-12-19T14:31:40+00:00

Currently the user listening on a socket for devlink notifications gets always all messages for all existing instances, even if he is interested only in one of those. That may cause unnecessary overhead on setups with thousands of instances present. User is currently able to narrow down the devlink objects replies to dump commands by specifying select attributes. Allow similar approach for notifications. Introduce a new devlink NOTIFY_FILTER_SET which the user passes the select attributes. Store these per-socket and use them for filtering messages during multicast send. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

devlink: make devlink_flash_overwrite enum named one

2023-10-23T23:12:46+00:00

Since this enum is going to be used in generated userspace file, name it properly. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231021112711.660606-7-jiri@resnulli.us Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski