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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-01-28 16:02:33 -0800
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Pull networking updates from David Miller: 1) Add WireGuard 2) Add HE and TWT support to ath11k driver, from John Crispin. 3) Add ESP in TCP encapsulation support, from Sabrina Dubroca. 4) Add variable window congestion control to TIPC, from Jon Maloy. 5) Add BCM84881 PHY driver, from Russell King. 6) Start adding netlink support for ethtool operations, from Michal Kubecek. 7) Add XDP drop and TX action support to ena driver, from Sameeh Jubran. 8) Add new ipv4 route notifications so that mlxsw driver does not have to handle identical routes itself. From Ido Schimmel. 9) Add BPF dynamic program extensions, from Alexei Starovoitov. 10) Support RX and TX timestamping in igc, from Vinicius Costa Gomes. 11) Add support for macsec HW offloading, from Antoine Tenart. 12) Add initial support for MPTCP protocol, from Christoph Paasch, Matthieu Baerts, Florian Westphal, Peter Krystad, and many others. 13) Add Octeontx2 PF support, from Sunil Goutham, Geetha sowjanya, Linu Cherian, and others. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1469 commits) net: phy: add default ARCH_BCM_IPROC for MDIO_BCM_IPROC udp: segment looped gso packets correctly netem: change mailing list qed: FW 8.42.2.0 debug features qed: rt init valid initialization changed qed: Debug feature: ilt and mdump qed: FW 8.42.2.0 Add fw overlay feature qed: FW 8.42.2.0 HSI changes qed: FW 8.42.2.0 iscsi/fcoe changes qed: Add abstraction for different hsi values per chip qed: FW 8.42.2.0 Additional ll2 type qed: Use dmae to write to widebus registers in fw_funcs qed: FW 8.42.2.0 Parser offsets modified qed: FW 8.42.2.0 Queue Manager changes qed: FW 8.42.2.0 Expose new registers and change windows qed: FW 8.42.2.0 Internal ram offsets modifications MAINTAINERS: Add entry for Marvell OcteonTX2 Physical Function driver Documentation: net: octeontx2: Add RVU HW and drivers overview octeontx2-pf: ethtool RSS config support octeontx2-pf: Add basic ethtool support ...
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+==============
+Devlink Region
+==============
+
+``devlink`` regions enable access to driver defined address regions using
+devlink.
+
+Each device can create and register its own supported address regions. The
+region can then be accessed via the devlink region interface.
+
+Region snapshots are collected by the driver, and can be accessed via read
+or dump commands. This allows future analysis on the created snapshots.
+Regions may optionally support triggering snapshots on demand.
+
+The major benefit to creating a region is to provide access to internal
+address regions that are otherwise inaccessible to the user.
+
+Regions may also be used to provide an additional way to debug complex error
+states, but see also :doc:`devlink-health`
+
+example usage
+-------------
+
+.. code:: shell
+
+ $ devlink region help
+ $ devlink region show [ DEV/REGION ]
+ $ devlink region del DEV/REGION snapshot SNAPSHOT_ID
+ $ devlink region dump DEV/REGION [ snapshot SNAPSHOT_ID ]
+ $ devlink region read DEV/REGION [ snapshot SNAPSHOT_ID ]
+ address ADDRESS length length
+
+ # Show all of the exposed regions with region sizes:
+ $ devlink region show
+ pci/0000:00:05.0/cr-space: size 1048576 snapshot [1 2]
+ pci/0000:00:05.0/fw-health: size 64 snapshot [1 2]
+
+ # Delete a snapshot using:
+ $ devlink region del pci/0000:00:05.0/cr-space snapshot 1
+
+ # Trigger (request) a snapshot be taken:
+ $ devlink region trigger pci/0000:00:05.0/cr-space
+
+ # Dump a snapshot:
+ $ devlink region dump pci/0000:00:05.0/fw-health snapshot 1
+ 0000000000000000 0014 95dc 0014 9514 0035 1670 0034 db30
+ 0000000000000010 0000 0000 ffff ff04 0029 8c00 0028 8cc8
+ 0000000000000020 0016 0bb8 0016 1720 0000 0000 c00f 3ffc
+ 0000000000000030 bada cce5 bada cce5 bada cce5 bada cce5
+
+ # Read a specific part of a snapshot:
+ $ devlink region read pci/0000:00:05.0/fw-health snapshot 1 address 0
+ length 16
+ 0000000000000000 0014 95dc 0014 9514 0035 1670 0034 db30
+
+As regions are likely very device or driver specific, no generic regions are
+defined. See the driver-specific documentation files for information on the
+specific regions a driver supports.