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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink-health.txt b/Documentation/networking/devlink-health.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 1db3fbea0831..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/networking/devlink-health.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,86 +0,0 @@ -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 | | -| +----------------------------> | -+--------+ +--------------------------+ |