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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-07-11 10:55:49 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-07-11 10:55:49 -0700
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller: "Some highlights from this development cycle: 1) Big refactoring of ipv6 route and neigh handling to support nexthop objects configurable as units from userspace. From David Ahern. 2) Convert explored_states in BPF verifier into a hash table, significantly decreased state held for programs with bpf2bpf calls, from Alexei Starovoitov. 3) Implement bpf_send_signal() helper, from Yonghong Song. 4) Various classifier enhancements to mvpp2 driver, from Maxime Chevallier. 5) Add aRFS support to hns3 driver, from Jian Shen. 6) Fix use after free in inet frags by allocating fqdirs dynamically and reworking how rhashtable dismantle occurs, from Eric Dumazet. 7) Add act_ctinfo packet classifier action, from Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant. 8) Add TFO key backup infrastructure, from Jason Baron. 9) Remove several old and unused ISDN drivers, from Arnd Bergmann. 10) Add devlink notifications for flash update status to mlxsw driver, from Jiri Pirko. 11) Lots of kTLS offload infrastructure fixes, from Jakub Kicinski. 12) Add support for mv88e6250 DSA chips, from Rasmus Villemoes. 13) Various enhancements to ipv6 flow label handling, from Eric Dumazet and Willem de Bruijn. 14) Support TLS offload in nfp driver, from Jakub Kicinski, Dirk van der Merwe, and others. 15) Various improvements to axienet driver including converting it to phylink, from Robert Hancock. 16) Add PTP support to sja1105 DSA driver, from Vladimir Oltean. 17) Add mqprio qdisc offload support to dpaa2-eth, from Ioana Radulescu. 18) Add devlink health reporting to mlx5, from Moshe Shemesh. 19) Convert stmmac over to phylink, from Jose Abreu. 20) Add PTP PHC (Physical Hardware Clock) support to mlxsw, from Shalom Toledo. 21) Add nftables SYNPROXY support, from Fernando Fernandez Mancera. 22) Convert tcp_fastopen over to use SipHash, from Ard Biesheuvel. 23) Track spill/fill of constants in BPF verifier, from Alexei Starovoitov. 24) Support bounded loops in BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov. 25) Various page_pool API fixes and improvements, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer. 26) Just like ipv4, support ref-countless ipv6 route handling. From Wei Wang. 27) Support VLAN offloading in aquantia driver, from Igor Russkikh. 28) Add AF_XDP zero-copy support to mlx5, from Maxim Mikityanskiy. 29) Add flower GRE encap/decap support to nfp driver, from Pieter Jansen van Vuuren. 30) Protect against stack overflow when using act_mirred, from John Hurley. 31) Allow devmap map lookups from eBPF, from Toke Høiland-Jørgensen. 32) Use page_pool API in netsec driver, Ilias Apalodimas. 33) Add Google gve network driver, from Catherine Sullivan. 34) More indirect call avoidance, from Paolo Abeni. 35) Add kTLS TX HW offload support to mlx5, from Tariq Toukan. 36) Add XDP_REDIRECT support to bnxt_en, from Andy Gospodarek. 37) Add MPLS manipulation actions to TC, from John Hurley. 38) Add sending a packet to connection tracking from TC actions, and then allow flower classifier matching on conntrack state. From Paul Blakey. 39) Netfilter hw offload support, from Pablo Neira Ayuso" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2080 commits) net/mlx5e: Return in default case statement in tx_post_resync_params mlx5: Return -EINVAL when WARN_ON_ONCE triggers in mlx5e_tls_resync(). net: dsa: add support for BRIDGE_MROUTER attribute pkt_sched: Include const.h net: netsec: remove static declaration for netsec_set_tx_de() net: netsec: remove superfluous if statement netfilter: nf_tables: add hardware offload support net: flow_offload: rename tc_cls_flower_offload to flow_cls_offload net: flow_offload: add flow_block_cb_is_busy() and use it net: sched: remove tcf block API drivers: net: use flow block API net: sched: use flow block API net: flow_offload: add flow_block_cb_{priv, incref, decref}() net: flow_offload: add list handling functions net: flow_offload: add flow_block_cb_alloc() and flow_block_cb_free() net: flow_offload: rename TCF_BLOCK_BINDER_TYPE_* to FLOW_BLOCK_BINDER_TYPE_* net: flow_offload: rename TC_BLOCK_{UN}BIND to FLOW_BLOCK_{UN}BIND net: flow_offload: add flow_block_cb_setup_simple() net: hisilicon: Add an tx_desc to adapt HI13X1_GMAC net: hisilicon: Add an rx_desc to adapt HI13X1_GMAC ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/device_drivers')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/device_drivers/amazon/ena.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/device_drivers/aquantia/atlantic.txt439
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/device_drivers/google/gve.rst123
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/device_drivers/mellanox/mlx5.rst192
5 files changed, 760 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/amazon/ena.txt b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/amazon/ena.txt
index 2b4b6f57e549..1bb55c7b604c 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/amazon/ena.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/amazon/ena.txt
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ operation.
AQ is used for submitting management commands, and the
results/responses are reported asynchronously through ACQ.
-ENA introduces a very small set of management commands with room for
+ENA introduces a small set of management commands with room for
vendor-specific extensions. Most of the management operations are
framed in a generic Get/Set feature command.
@@ -202,11 +202,14 @@ delay value to each level.
The user can enable/disable adaptive moderation, modify the interrupt
delay table and restore its default values through sysfs.
+RX copybreak:
+=============
The rx_copybreak is initialized by default to ENA_DEFAULT_RX_COPYBREAK
and can be configured by the ETHTOOL_STUNABLE command of the
SIOCETHTOOL ioctl.
SKB:
+====
The driver-allocated SKB for frames received from Rx handling using
NAPI context. The allocation method depends on the size of the packet.
If the frame length is larger than rx_copybreak, napi_get_frags()
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/aquantia/atlantic.txt b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/aquantia/atlantic.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d235cbaeccc6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/aquantia/atlantic.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,439 @@
+aQuantia AQtion Driver for the aQuantia Multi-Gigabit PCI Express Family of
+Ethernet Adapters
+=============================================================================
+
+Contents
+========
+
+- Identifying Your Adapter
+- Configuration
+- Supported ethtool options
+- Command Line Parameters
+- Config file parameters
+- Support
+- License
+
+Identifying Your Adapter
+========================
+
+The driver in this release is compatible with AQC-100, AQC-107, AQC-108 based ethernet adapters.
+
+
+SFP+ Devices (for AQC-100 based adapters)
+----------------------------------
+
+This release tested with passive Direct Attach Cables (DAC) and SFP+/LC Optical Transceiver.
+
+Configuration
+=========================
+ Viewing Link Messages
+ ---------------------
+ Link messages will not be displayed to the console if the distribution is
+ restricting system messages. In order to see network driver link messages on
+ your console, set dmesg to eight by entering the following:
+
+ dmesg -n 8
+
+ NOTE: This setting is not saved across reboots.
+
+ Jumbo Frames
+ ------------
+ The driver supports Jumbo Frames for all adapters. Jumbo Frames support is
+ enabled by changing the MTU to a value larger than the default of 1500.
+ The maximum value for the MTU is 16000. Use the `ip` command to
+ increase the MTU size. For example:
+
+ ip link set mtu 16000 dev enp1s0
+
+ ethtool
+ -------
+ The driver utilizes the ethtool interface for driver configuration and
+ diagnostics, as well as displaying statistical information. The latest
+ ethtool version is required for this functionality.
+
+ NAPI
+ ----
+ NAPI (Rx polling mode) is supported in the atlantic driver.
+
+Supported ethtool options
+============================
+ Viewing adapter settings
+ ---------------------
+ ethtool <ethX>
+
+ Output example:
+
+ Settings for enp1s0:
+ Supported ports: [ TP ]
+ Supported link modes: 100baseT/Full
+ 1000baseT/Full
+ 10000baseT/Full
+ 2500baseT/Full
+ 5000baseT/Full
+ Supported pause frame use: Symmetric
+ Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
+ Supported FEC modes: Not reported
+ Advertised link modes: 100baseT/Full
+ 1000baseT/Full
+ 10000baseT/Full
+ 2500baseT/Full
+ 5000baseT/Full
+ Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
+ Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
+ Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
+ Speed: 10000Mb/s
+ Duplex: Full
+ Port: Twisted Pair
+ PHYAD: 0
+ Transceiver: internal
+ Auto-negotiation: on
+ MDI-X: Unknown
+ Supports Wake-on: g
+ Wake-on: d
+ Link detected: yes
+
+ ---
+ Note: AQrate speeds (2.5/5 Gb/s) will be displayed only with linux kernels > 4.10.
+ But you can still use these speeds:
+ ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off speed 2500
+
+ Viewing adapter information
+ ---------------------
+ ethtool -i <ethX>
+
+ Output example:
+
+ driver: atlantic
+ version: 5.2.0-050200rc5-generic-kern
+ firmware-version: 3.1.78
+ expansion-rom-version:
+ bus-info: 0000:01:00.0
+ supports-statistics: yes
+ supports-test: no
+ supports-eeprom-access: no
+ supports-register-dump: yes
+ supports-priv-flags: no
+
+
+ Viewing Ethernet adapter statistics:
+ ---------------------
+ ethtool -S <ethX>
+
+ Output example:
+ NIC statistics:
+ InPackets: 13238607
+ InUCast: 13293852
+ InMCast: 52
+ InBCast: 3
+ InErrors: 0
+ OutPackets: 23703019
+ OutUCast: 23704941
+ OutMCast: 67
+ OutBCast: 11
+ InUCastOctects: 213182760
+ OutUCastOctects: 22698443
+ InMCastOctects: 6600
+ OutMCastOctects: 8776
+ InBCastOctects: 192
+ OutBCastOctects: 704
+ InOctects: 2131839552
+ OutOctects: 226938073
+ InPacketsDma: 95532300
+ OutPacketsDma: 59503397
+ InOctetsDma: 1137102462
+ OutOctetsDma: 2394339518
+ InDroppedDma: 0
+ Queue[0] InPackets: 23567131
+ Queue[0] OutPackets: 20070028
+ Queue[0] InJumboPackets: 0
+ Queue[0] InLroPackets: 0
+ Queue[0] InErrors: 0
+ Queue[1] InPackets: 45428967
+ Queue[1] OutPackets: 11306178
+ Queue[1] InJumboPackets: 0
+ Queue[1] InLroPackets: 0
+ Queue[1] InErrors: 0
+ Queue[2] InPackets: 3187011
+ Queue[2] OutPackets: 13080381
+ Queue[2] InJumboPackets: 0
+ Queue[2] InLroPackets: 0
+ Queue[2] InErrors: 0
+ Queue[3] InPackets: 23349136
+ Queue[3] OutPackets: 15046810
+ Queue[3] InJumboPackets: 0
+ Queue[3] InLroPackets: 0
+ Queue[3] InErrors: 0
+
+ Interrupt coalescing support
+ ---------------------------------
+ ITR mode, TX/RX coalescing timings could be viewed with:
+
+ ethtool -c <ethX>
+
+ and changed with:
+
+ ethtool -C <ethX> tx-usecs <usecs> rx-usecs <usecs>
+
+ To disable coalescing:
+
+ ethtool -C <ethX> tx-usecs 0 rx-usecs 0 tx-max-frames 1 tx-max-frames 1
+
+ Wake on LAN support
+ ---------------------------------
+
+ WOL support by magic packet:
+
+ ethtool -s <ethX> wol g
+
+ To disable WOL:
+
+ ethtool -s <ethX> wol d
+
+ Set and check the driver message level
+ ---------------------------------
+
+ Set message level
+
+ ethtool -s <ethX> msglvl <level>
+
+ Level values:
+
+ 0x0001 - general driver status.
+ 0x0002 - hardware probing.
+ 0x0004 - link state.
+ 0x0008 - periodic status check.
+ 0x0010 - interface being brought down.
+ 0x0020 - interface being brought up.
+ 0x0040 - receive error.
+ 0x0080 - transmit error.
+ 0x0200 - interrupt handling.
+ 0x0400 - transmit completion.
+ 0x0800 - receive completion.
+ 0x1000 - packet contents.
+ 0x2000 - hardware status.
+ 0x4000 - Wake-on-LAN status.
+
+ By default, the level of debugging messages is set 0x0001(general driver status).
+
+ Check message level
+
+ ethtool <ethX> | grep "Current message level"
+
+ If you want to disable the output of messages
+
+ ethtool -s <ethX> msglvl 0
+
+ RX flow rules (ntuple filters)
+ ---------------------------------
+ There are separate rules supported, that applies in that order:
+ 1. 16 VLAN ID rules
+ 2. 16 L2 EtherType rules
+ 3. 8 L3/L4 5-Tuple rules
+
+
+ The driver utilizes the ethtool interface for configuring ntuple filters,
+ via "ethtool -N <device> <filter>".
+
+ To enable or disable the RX flow rules:
+
+ ethtool -K ethX ntuple <on|off>
+
+ When disabling ntuple filters, all the user programed filters are
+ flushed from the driver cache and hardware. All needed filters must
+ be re-added when ntuple is re-enabled.
+
+ Because of the fixed order of the rules, the location of filters is also fixed:
+ - Locations 0 - 15 for VLAN ID filters
+ - Locations 16 - 31 for L2 EtherType filters
+ - Locations 32 - 39 for L3/L4 5-tuple filters (locations 32, 36 for IPv6)
+
+ The L3/L4 5-tuple (protocol, source and destination IP address, source and
+ destination TCP/UDP/SCTP port) is compared against 8 filters. For IPv4, up to
+ 8 source and destination addresses can be matched. For IPv6, up to 2 pairs of
+ addresses can be supported. Source and destination ports are only compared for
+ TCP/UDP/SCTP packets.
+
+ To add a filter that directs packet to queue 5, use <-N|-U|--config-nfc|--config-ntuple> switch:
+
+ ethtool -N <ethX> flow-type udp4 src-ip 10.0.0.1 dst-ip 10.0.0.2 src-port 2000 dst-port 2001 action 5 <loc 32>
+
+ - action is the queue number.
+ - loc is the rule number.
+
+ For "flow-type ip4|udp4|tcp4|sctp4|ip6|udp6|tcp6|sctp6" you must set the loc
+ number within 32 - 39.
+ For "flow-type ip4|udp4|tcp4|sctp4|ip6|udp6|tcp6|sctp6" you can set 8 rules
+ for traffic IPv4 or you can set 2 rules for traffic IPv6. Loc number traffic
+ IPv6 is 32 and 36.
+ At the moment you can not use IPv4 and IPv6 filters at the same time.
+
+ Example filter for IPv6 filter traffic:
+
+ sudo ethtool -N <ethX> flow-type tcp6 src-ip 2001:db8:0:f101::1 dst-ip 2001:db8:0:f101::2 action 1 loc 32
+ sudo ethtool -N <ethX> flow-type ip6 src-ip 2001:db8:0:f101::2 dst-ip 2001:db8:0:f101::5 action -1 loc 36
+
+ Example filter for IPv4 filter traffic:
+
+ sudo ethtool -N <ethX> flow-type udp4 src-ip 10.0.0.4 dst-ip 10.0.0.7 src-port 2000 dst-port 2001 loc 32
+ sudo ethtool -N <ethX> flow-type tcp4 src-ip 10.0.0.3 dst-ip 10.0.0.9 src-port 2000 dst-port 2001 loc 33
+ sudo ethtool -N <ethX> flow-type ip4 src-ip 10.0.0.6 dst-ip 10.0.0.4 loc 34
+
+ If you set action -1, then all traffic corresponding to the filter will be discarded.
+ The maximum value action is 31.
+
+
+ The VLAN filter (VLAN id) is compared against 16 filters.
+ VLAN id must be accompanied by mask 0xF000. That is to distinguish VLAN filter
+ from L2 Ethertype filter with UserPriority since both User Priority and VLAN ID
+ are passed in the same 'vlan' parameter.
+
+ To add a filter that directs packets from VLAN 2001 to queue 5:
+ ethtool -N <ethX> flow-type ip4 vlan 2001 m 0xF000 action 1 loc 0
+
+
+ L2 EtherType filters allows filter packet by EtherType field or both EtherType
+ and User Priority (PCP) field of 802.1Q.
+ UserPriority (vlan) parameter must be accompanied by mask 0x1FFF. That is to
+ distinguish VLAN filter from L2 Ethertype filter with UserPriority since both
+ User Priority and VLAN ID are passed in the same 'vlan' parameter.
+
+ To add a filter that directs IP4 packess of priority 3 to queue 3:
+ ethtool -N <ethX> flow-type ether proto 0x800 vlan 0x600 m 0x1FFF action 3 loc 16
+
+
+ To see the list of filters currently present:
+
+ ethtool <-u|-n|--show-nfc|--show-ntuple> <ethX>
+
+ Rules may be deleted from the table itself. This is done using:
+
+ sudo ethtool <-N|-U|--config-nfc|--config-ntuple> <ethX> delete <loc>
+
+ - loc is the rule number to be deleted.
+
+ Rx filters is an interface to load the filter table that funnels all flow
+ into queue 0 unless an alternative queue is specified using "action". In that
+ case, any flow that matches the filter criteria will be directed to the
+ appropriate queue. RX filters is supported on all kernels 2.6.30 and later.
+
+ RSS for UDP
+ ---------------------------------
+ Currently, NIC does not support RSS for fragmented IP packets, which leads to
+ incorrect working of RSS for fragmented UDP traffic. To disable RSS for UDP the
+ RX Flow L3/L4 rule may be used.
+
+ Example:
+ ethtool -N eth0 flow-type udp4 action 0 loc 32
+
+Command Line Parameters
+=======================
+The following command line parameters are available on atlantic driver:
+
+aq_itr -Interrupt throttling mode
+----------------------------------------
+Accepted values: 0, 1, 0xFFFF
+Default value: 0xFFFF
+0 - Disable interrupt throttling.
+1 - Enable interrupt throttling and use specified tx and rx rates.
+0xFFFF - Auto throttling mode. Driver will choose the best RX and TX
+ interrupt throtting settings based on link speed.
+
+aq_itr_tx - TX interrupt throttle rate
+----------------------------------------
+Accepted values: 0 - 0x1FF
+Default value: 0
+TX side throttling in microseconds. Adapter will setup maximum interrupt delay
+to this value. Minimum interrupt delay will be a half of this value
+
+aq_itr_rx - RX interrupt throttle rate
+----------------------------------------
+Accepted values: 0 - 0x1FF
+Default value: 0
+RX side throttling in microseconds. Adapter will setup maximum interrupt delay
+to this value. Minimum interrupt delay will be a half of this value
+
+Note: ITR settings could be changed in runtime by ethtool -c means (see below)
+
+Config file parameters
+=======================
+For some fine tuning and performance optimizations,
+some parameters can be changed in the {source_dir}/aq_cfg.h file.
+
+AQ_CFG_RX_PAGEORDER
+----------------------------------------
+Default value: 0
+RX page order override. Thats a power of 2 number of RX pages allocated for
+each descriptor. Received descriptor size is still limited by AQ_CFG_RX_FRAME_MAX.
+Increasing pageorder makes page reuse better (actual on iommu enabled systems).
+
+AQ_CFG_RX_REFILL_THRES
+----------------------------------------
+Default value: 32
+RX refill threshold. RX path will not refill freed descriptors until the
+specified number of free descriptors is observed. Larger values may help
+better page reuse but may lead to packet drops as well.
+
+AQ_CFG_VECS_DEF
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Number of queues
+Valid Range: 0 - 8 (up to AQ_CFG_VECS_MAX)
+Default value: 8
+Notice this value will be capped by the number of cores available on the system.
+
+AQ_CFG_IS_RSS_DEF
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Enable/disable Receive Side Scaling
+
+This feature allows the adapter to distribute receive processing
+across multiple CPU-cores and to prevent from overloading a single CPU core.
+
+Valid values
+0 - disabled
+1 - enabled
+
+Default value: 1
+
+AQ_CFG_NUM_RSS_QUEUES_DEF
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Number of queues for Receive Side Scaling
+Valid Range: 0 - 8 (up to AQ_CFG_VECS_DEF)
+
+Default value: AQ_CFG_VECS_DEF
+
+AQ_CFG_IS_LRO_DEF
+------------------------------------------------------------
+Enable/disable Large Receive Offload
+
+This offload enables the adapter to coalesce multiple TCP segments and indicate
+them as a single coalesced unit to the OS networking subsystem.
+The system consumes less energy but it also introduces more latency in packets processing.
+
+Valid values
+0 - disabled
+1 - enabled
+
+Default value: 1
+
+AQ_CFG_TX_CLEAN_BUDGET
+----------------------------------------
+Maximum descriptors to cleanup on TX at once.
+Default value: 256
+
+After the aq_cfg.h file changed the driver must be rebuilt to take effect.
+
+Support
+=======
+
+If an issue is identified with the released source code on the supported
+kernel with a supported adapter, email the specific information related
+to the issue to support@aquantia.com
+
+License
+=======
+
+aQuantia Corporation Network Driver
+Copyright(c) 2014 - 2019 aQuantia Corporation.
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License,
+version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/google/gve.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/google/gve.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..793693cef6e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/google/gve.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+
+==============================================================
+Linux kernel driver for Compute Engine Virtual Ethernet (gve):
+==============================================================
+
+Supported Hardware
+===================
+The GVE driver binds to a single PCI device id used by the virtual
+Ethernet device found in some Compute Engine VMs.
+
++--------------+----------+---------+
+|Field | Value | Comments|
++==============+==========+=========+
+|Vendor ID | `0x1AE0` | Google |
++--------------+----------+---------+
+|Device ID | `0x0042` | |
++--------------+----------+---------+
+|Sub-vendor ID | `0x1AE0` | Google |
++--------------+----------+---------+
+|Sub-device ID | `0x0058` | |
++--------------+----------+---------+
+|Revision ID | `0x0` | |
++--------------+----------+---------+
+|Device Class | `0x200` | Ethernet|
++--------------+----------+---------+
+
+PCI Bars
+========
+The gVNIC PCI device exposes three 32-bit memory BARS:
+- Bar0 - Device configuration and status registers.
+- Bar1 - MSI-X vector table
+- Bar2 - IRQ, RX and TX doorbells
+
+Device Interactions
+===================
+The driver interacts with the device in the following ways:
+ - Registers
+ - A block of MMIO registers
+ - See gve_register.h for more detail
+ - Admin Queue
+ - See description below
+ - Reset
+ - At any time the device can be reset
+ - Interrupts
+ - See supported interrupts below
+ - Transmit and Receive Queues
+ - See description below
+
+Registers
+---------
+All registers are MMIO and big endian.
+
+The registers are used for initializing and configuring the device as well as
+querying device status in response to management interrupts.
+
+Admin Queue (AQ)
+----------------
+The Admin Queue is a PAGE_SIZE memory block, treated as an array of AQ
+commands, used by the driver to issue commands to the device and set up
+resources.The driver and the device maintain a count of how many commands
+have been submitted and executed. To issue AQ commands, the driver must do
+the following (with proper locking):
+
+1) Copy new commands into next available slots in the AQ array
+2) Increment its counter by he number of new commands
+3) Write the counter into the GVE_ADMIN_QUEUE_DOORBELL register
+4) Poll the ADMIN_QUEUE_EVENT_COUNTER register until it equals
+ the value written to the doorbell, or until a timeout.
+
+The device will update the status field in each AQ command reported as
+executed through the ADMIN_QUEUE_EVENT_COUNTER register.
+
+Device Resets
+-------------
+A device reset is triggered by writing 0x0 to the AQ PFN register.
+This causes the device to release all resources allocated by the
+driver, including the AQ itself.
+
+Interrupts
+----------
+The following interrupts are supported by the driver:
+
+Management Interrupt
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+The management interrupt is used by the device to tell the driver to
+look at the GVE_DEVICE_STATUS register.
+
+The handler for the management irq simply queues the service task in
+the workqueue to check the register and acks the irq.
+
+Notification Block Interrupts
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+The notification block interrupts are used to tell the driver to poll
+the queues associated with that interrupt.
+
+The handler for these irqs schedule the napi for that block to run
+and poll the queues.
+
+Traffic Queues
+--------------
+gVNIC's queues are composed of a descriptor ring and a buffer and are
+assigned to a notification block.
+
+The descriptor rings are power-of-two-sized ring buffers consisting of
+fixed-size descriptors. They advance their head pointer using a __be32
+doorbell located in Bar2. The tail pointers are advanced by consuming
+descriptors in-order and updating a __be32 counter. Both the doorbell
+and the counter overflow to zero.
+
+Each queue's buffers must be registered in advance with the device as a
+queue page list, and packet data can only be put in those pages.
+
+Transmit
+~~~~~~~~
+gve maps the buffers for transmit rings into a FIFO and copies the packets
+into the FIFO before sending them to the NIC.
+
+Receive
+~~~~~~~
+The buffers for receive rings are put into a data ring that is the same
+length as the descriptor ring and the head and tail pointers advance over
+the rings together.
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst
index 75fa537763a4..2b7fefe72351 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ Contents:
intel/i40e
intel/iavf
intel/ice
+ google/gve
+ mellanox/mlx5
.. only:: subproject
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/mellanox/mlx5.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/mellanox/mlx5.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..214325897732
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/mellanox/mlx5.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,192 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR Linux-OpenIB
+
+=================================================
+Mellanox ConnectX(R) mlx5 core VPI Network Driver
+=================================================
+
+Copyright (c) 2019, Mellanox Technologies LTD.
+
+Contents
+========
+
+- `Enabling the driver and kconfig options`_
+- `Devlink info`_
+- `Devlink health reporters`_
+
+Enabling the driver and kconfig options
+================================================
+
+| mlx5 core is modular and most of the major mlx5 core driver features can be selected (compiled in/out)
+| at build time via kernel Kconfig flags.
+| Basic features, ethernet net device rx/tx offloads and XDP, are available with the most basic flags
+| CONFIG_MLX5_CORE=y/m and CONFIG_MLX5_CORE_EN=y.
+| For the list of advanced features please see below.
+
+**CONFIG_MLX5_CORE=(y/m/n)** (module mlx5_core.ko)
+
+| The driver can be enabled by choosing CONFIG_MLX5_CORE=y/m in kernel config.
+| This will provide mlx5 core driver for mlx5 ulps to interface with (mlx5e, mlx5_ib).
+
+
+**CONFIG_MLX5_CORE_EN=(y/n)**
+
+| Choosing this option will allow basic ethernet netdevice support with all of the standard rx/tx offloads.
+| mlx5e is the mlx5 ulp driver which provides netdevice kernel interface, when chosen, mlx5e will be
+| built-in into mlx5_core.ko.
+
+
+**CONFIG_MLX5_EN_ARFS=(y/n)**
+
+| Enables Hardware-accelerated receive flow steering (arfs) support, and ntuple filtering.
+| https://community.mellanox.com/s/article/howto-configure-arfs-on-connectx-4
+
+
+**CONFIG_MLX5_EN_RXNFC=(y/n)**
+
+| Enables ethtool receive network flow classification, which allows user defined
+| flow rules to direct traffic into arbitrary rx queue via ethtool set/get_rxnfc API.
+
+
+**CONFIG_MLX5_CORE_EN_DCB=(y/n)**:
+
+| Enables `Data Center Bridging (DCB) Support <https://community.mellanox.com/s/article/howto-auto-config-pfc-and-ets-on-connectx-4-via-lldp-dcbx>`_.
+
+
+**CONFIG_MLX5_MPFS=(y/n)**
+
+| Ethernet Multi-Physical Function Switch (MPFS) support in ConnectX NIC.
+| MPFs is required for when `Multi-Host <http://www.mellanox.com/page/multihost>`_ configuration is enabled to allow passing
+| user configured unicast MAC addresses to the requesting PF.
+
+
+**CONFIG_MLX5_ESWITCH=(y/n)**
+
+| Ethernet SRIOV E-Switch support in ConnectX NIC. E-Switch provides internal SRIOV packet steering
+| and switching for the enabled VFs and PF in two available modes:
+| 1) `Legacy SRIOV mode (L2 mac vlan steering based) <https://community.mellanox.com/s/article/howto-configure-sr-iov-for-connectx-4-connectx-5-with-kvm--ethernet-x>`_.
+| 2) `Switchdev mode (eswitch offloads) <https://www.mellanox.com/related-docs/prod_software/ASAP2_Hardware_Offloading_for_vSwitches_User_Manual_v4.4.pdf>`_.
+
+
+**CONFIG_MLX5_CORE_IPOIB=(y/n)**
+
+| IPoIB offloads & acceleration support.
+| Requires CONFIG_MLX5_CORE_EN to provide an accelerated interface for the rdma
+| IPoIB ulp netdevice.
+
+
+**CONFIG_MLX5_FPGA=(y/n)**
+
+| Build support for the Innova family of network cards by Mellanox Technologies.
+| Innova network cards are comprised of a ConnectX chip and an FPGA chip on one board.
+| If you select this option, the mlx5_core driver will include the Innova FPGA core and allow
+| building sandbox-specific client drivers.
+
+
+**CONFIG_MLX5_EN_IPSEC=(y/n)**
+
+| Enables `IPSec XFRM cryptography-offload accelaration <http://www.mellanox.com/related-docs/prod_software/Mellanox_Innova_IPsec_Ethernet_Adapter_Card_User_Manual.pdf>`_.
+
+**CONFIG_MLX5_EN_TLS=(y/n)**
+
+| TLS cryptography-offload accelaration.
+
+
+**CONFIG_MLX5_INFINIBAND=(y/n/m)** (module mlx5_ib.ko)
+
+| Provides low-level InfiniBand/RDMA and `RoCE <https://community.mellanox.com/s/article/recommended-network-configuration-examples-for-roce-deployment>`_ support.
+
+
+**External options** ( Choose if the corresponding mlx5 feature is required )
+
+- CONFIG_PTP_1588_CLOCK: When chosen, mlx5 ptp support will be enabled
+- CONFIG_VXLAN: When chosen, mlx5 vxaln support will be enabled.
+- CONFIG_MLXFW: When chosen, mlx5 firmware flashing support will be enabled (via devlink and ethtool).
+
+Devlink info
+============
+
+The devlink info reports the running and stored firmware versions on device.
+It also prints the device PSID which represents the HCA board type ID.
+
+User command example::
+
+ $ devlink dev info pci/0000:00:06.0
+ pci/0000:00:06.0:
+ driver mlx5_core
+ versions:
+ fixed:
+ fw.psid MT_0000000009
+ running:
+ fw.version 16.26.0100
+ stored:
+ fw.version 16.26.0100
+
+Devlink health reporters
+========================
+
+tx reporter
+-----------
+The tx reporter is responsible of two error scenarios:
+
+- TX timeout
+ Report on kernel tx timeout detection.
+ Recover by searching lost interrupts.
+- TX error completion
+ Report on error tx completion.
+ Recover by flushing the TX queue and reset it.
+
+TX reporter also support Diagnose callback, on which it provides
+real time information of its send queues status.
+
+User commands examples:
+
+- Diagnose send queues status::
+
+ $ devlink health diagnose pci/0000:82:00.0 reporter tx
+
+- Show number of tx errors indicated, number of recover flows ended successfully,
+ is autorecover enabled and graceful period from last recover::
+
+ $ devlink health show pci/0000:82:00.0 reporter tx
+
+fw reporter
+-----------
+The fw reporter implements diagnose and dump callbacks.
+It follows symptoms of fw error such as fw syndrome by triggering
+fw core dump and storing it into the dump buffer.
+The fw reporter diagnose command can be triggered any time by the user to check
+current fw status.
+
+User commands examples:
+
+- Check fw heath status::
+
+ $ devlink health diagnose pci/0000:82:00.0 reporter fw
+
+- Read FW core dump if already stored or trigger new one::
+
+ $ devlink health dump show pci/0000:82:00.0 reporter fw
+
+NOTE: This command can run only on the PF which has fw tracer ownership,
+running it on other PF or any VF will return "Operation not permitted".
+
+fw fatal reporter
+-----------------
+The fw fatal reporter implements dump and recover callbacks.
+It follows fatal errors indications by CR-space dump and recover flow.
+The CR-space dump uses vsc interface which is valid even if the FW command
+interface is not functional, which is the case in most FW fatal errors.
+The recover function runs recover flow which reloads the driver and triggers fw
+reset if needed.
+
+User commands examples:
+
+- Run fw recover flow manually::
+
+ $ devlink health recover pci/0000:82:00.0 reporter fw_fatal
+
+- Read FW CR-space dump if already strored or trigger new one::
+
+ $ devlink health dump show pci/0000:82:00.1 reporter fw_fatal
+
+NOTE: This command can run only on PF.