Re: [PATCH net-next 5/6] net: dsa: realtek-smi: add rtl8365mb subdriver for RTL8365MB-VC
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-10-13 15:13:44
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On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 08:33:36 +0000 Alvin Šipraga wrote:
On 10/12/21 5:27 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:quoted
On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 14:35:54 +0200 Alvin Šipraga wrote:quoted
+ { 0, 4, 2, "dot3StatsFCSErrors" }, + { 0, 6, 2, "dot3StatsSymbolErrors" }, + { 0, 8, 2, "dot3InPauseFrames" }, + { 0, 10, 2, "dot3ControlInUnknownOpcodes" },... You must expose counters via existing standard APIs. You should implement these ethtool ops:I implement the dsa_switch_ops callback .get_ethtool_stats, using an existing function rtl8366_get_ethtool_stats in the switch helper library rtl8366.c. It was my understanding that this is the correct way to expose counters within the DSA framework - please correct me if that is wrong.
It's the legacy way, today we have a unified API for reporting those stats so user space SW doesn't have to maintain a myriad string matches to get to basic IEEE stats across vendors. Driver authors have a truly incredible ability to invent their own names for standard stats. It appears that your pick of names is also unique :) It should be trivial to plumb the relevant ethtool_ops thru to dsa_switch_ops if relevant dsa ops don't exist. You should also populate correct stats in dsa_switch_ops::get_stats64 (see the large comment above the definition of struct rtnl_link_stats64 for mapping). A word of warning there, tho, that callback runs in an atomic context so if your driver needs to block it has to read the stats periodically from a async work.
The structure you highlight is just some internal glue to sort out the internal register mapping. I borrowed the approach from the existing rtl8366rb.c Realtek SMI subdriver.
The callbacks listed below are relatively new, they may have not existed when that driver was written. Also I may have missed it in review.
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void (*get_eth_phy_stats)(struct net_device *dev, struct ethtool_eth_phy_stats *phy_stats); void (*get_eth_mac_stats)(struct net_device *dev, struct ethtool_eth_mac_stats *mac_stats); void (*get_eth_ctrl_stats)(struct net_device *dev, struct ethtool_eth_ctrl_stats *ctrl_stats); void (*get_rmon_stats)(struct net_device *dev, struct ethtool_rmon_stats *rmon_stats, const struct ethtool_rmon_hist_range **ranges);