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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-01-08 12:12:30 -0800
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Merge tag 'net-5.11-rc3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Pull more networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski: "Slightly lighter pull request to get back into the Thursday cadence. Current release - always broken: - can: mcp251xfd: fix Tx/Rx ring buffer driver race conditions - dsa: hellcreek: fix led_classdev build errors Previous releases - regressions: - ipv6: fib: flush exceptions when purging route to avoid netdev reference leak - ip_tunnels: fix pmtu check in nopmtudisc mode - ip: always refragment ip defragmented packets to avoid MTU issues when forwarding through tunnels, correct "packet too big" message is prohibitively tricky to generate - s390/qeth: fix locking for discipline setup / removal and during recovery to prevent both deadlocks and races - mlx5: Use port_num 1 instead of 0 when delete a RoCE address Previous releases - always broken: - cdc_ncm: correct overhead calculation in delayed_ndp_size to prevent out of bound accesses with Huawei 909s-120 LTE module - fix stmmac dwmac-sun8i suspend/resume: - PHY being left powered off - MAC syscon configuration being reset - reference to the reset controller being improperly dropped - qrtr: fix null-ptr-deref in qrtr_ns_remove - can: tcan4x5x: fix bittiming const, use common bittiming from m_can driver - mlx5e: CT: Use per flow counter when CT flow accounting is enabled - mlx5e: Fix SWP offsets when vlan inserted by driver Misc: - bpf: Fix a task_iter bug caused by a bpf -> net merge conflict resolution And the usual many fixes to various error paths" * tag 'net-5.11-rc3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (69 commits) net: dsa: lantiq_gswip: Exclude RMII from modes that report 1 GbE s390/qeth: fix L2 header access in qeth_l3_osa_features_check() s390/qeth: fix locking for discipline setup / removal s390/qeth: fix deadlock during recovery selftests: fib_nexthops: Fix wrong mausezahn invocation nexthop: Bounce NHA_GATEWAY in FDB nexthop groups nexthop: Unlink nexthop group entry in error path nexthop: Fix off-by-one error in error path octeontx2-af: fix memory leak of lmac and lmac->name chtls: Fix chtls resources release sequence chtls: Added a check to avoid NULL pointer dereference chtls: Replace skb_dequeue with skb_peek chtls: Avoid unnecessary freeing of oreq pointer chtls: Fix panic when route to peer not configured chtls: Remove invalid set_tcb call chtls: Fix hardware tid leak net: ip: always refragment ip defragmented packets net: fix pmtu check in nopmtudisc mode selftests: netfilter: add selftest for ipip pmtu discovery with enabled connection tracking docs: octeontx2: tune rst markup ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2.rst62
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst4
2 files changed, 38 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2.rst
index d3fcf536d14e..61e850460e18 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2.rst
@@ -164,46 +164,56 @@ Devlink health reporters
NPA Reporters
-------------
-The NPA reporters are responsible for reporting and recovering the following group of errors
+The NPA reporters are responsible for reporting and recovering the following group of errors:
+
1. GENERAL events
+
- Error due to operation of unmapped PF.
- Error due to disabled alloc/free for other HW blocks (NIX, SSO, TIM, DPI and AURA).
+
2. ERROR events
+
- Fault due to NPA_AQ_INST_S read or NPA_AQ_RES_S write.
- AQ Doorbell Error.
+
3. RAS events
+
- RAS Error Reporting for NPA_AQ_INST_S/NPA_AQ_RES_S.
+
4. RVU events
+
- Error due to unmapped slot.
-Sample Output
--------------
-~# devlink health
-pci/0002:01:00.0:
- reporter hw_npa_intr
- state healthy error 2872 recover 2872 last_dump_date 2020-12-10 last_dump_time 09:39:09 grace_period 0 auto_recover true auto_dump true
- reporter hw_npa_gen
- state healthy error 2872 recover 2872 last_dump_date 2020-12-11 last_dump_time 04:43:04 grace_period 0 auto_recover true auto_dump true
- reporter hw_npa_err
- state healthy error 2871 recover 2871 last_dump_date 2020-12-10 last_dump_time 09:39:17 grace_period 0 auto_recover true auto_dump true
- reporter hw_npa_ras
- state healthy error 0 recover 0 last_dump_date 2020-12-10 last_dump_time 09:32:40 grace_period 0 auto_recover true auto_dump true
+Sample Output::
+
+ ~# devlink health
+ pci/0002:01:00.0:
+ reporter hw_npa_intr
+ state healthy error 2872 recover 2872 last_dump_date 2020-12-10 last_dump_time 09:39:09 grace_period 0 auto_recover true auto_dump true
+ reporter hw_npa_gen
+ state healthy error 2872 recover 2872 last_dump_date 2020-12-11 last_dump_time 04:43:04 grace_period 0 auto_recover true auto_dump true
+ reporter hw_npa_err
+ state healthy error 2871 recover 2871 last_dump_date 2020-12-10 last_dump_time 09:39:17 grace_period 0 auto_recover true auto_dump true
+ reporter hw_npa_ras
+ state healthy error 0 recover 0 last_dump_date 2020-12-10 last_dump_time 09:32:40 grace_period 0 auto_recover true auto_dump true
Each reporter dumps the
+
- Error Type
- Error Register value
- Reason in words
-For eg:
-~# devlink health dump show pci/0002:01:00.0 reporter hw_npa_gen
- NPA_AF_GENERAL:
- NPA General Interrupt Reg : 1
- NIX0: free disabled RX
-~# devlink health dump show pci/0002:01:00.0 reporter hw_npa_intr
- NPA_AF_RVU:
- NPA RVU Interrupt Reg : 1
- Unmap Slot Error
-~# devlink health dump show pci/0002:01:00.0 reporter hw_npa_err
- NPA_AF_ERR:
- NPA Error Interrupt Reg : 4096
- AQ Doorbell Error
+For example::
+
+ ~# devlink health dump show pci/0002:01:00.0 reporter hw_npa_gen
+ NPA_AF_GENERAL:
+ NPA General Interrupt Reg : 1
+ NIX0: free disabled RX
+ ~# devlink health dump show pci/0002:01:00.0 reporter hw_npa_intr
+ NPA_AF_RVU:
+ NPA RVU Interrupt Reg : 1
+ Unmap Slot Error
+ ~# devlink health dump show pci/0002:01:00.0 reporter hw_npa_err
+ NPA_AF_ERR:
+ NPA Error Interrupt Reg : 4096
+ AQ Doorbell Error
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst
index 5a85fcc80c76..e65665c5ab50 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ ndo_do_ioctl:
Context: process
ndo_get_stats:
- Synchronization: dev_base_lock rwlock.
- Context: nominally process, but don't sleep inside an rwlock
+ Synchronization: rtnl_lock() semaphore, dev_base_lock rwlock, or RCU.
+ Context: atomic (can't sleep under rwlock or RCU)
ndo_start_xmit:
Synchronization: __netif_tx_lock spinlock.