Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] devlink: Add support for region access
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Date: 2018-03-29 19:51:59
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Show all of the exposed regions with region sizes: $ devlink region show pci/0000:00:05.0/cr-space: size 1048576 snapshot [1 2]So you have 2Mbytes of snapshot data. Is this held in the device, or kernel memory?This is allocated in devlink, the maximum number of snapshots is set by the driver.
And it seems to want contiguous pages. How well does that work after the system has been running for a while and memory is fragmented?
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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 db30Why a separate command? It seems to be just a subset of dump.This is useful when debugging values on specific addresses, this also brings the API one step closer for a read and write API.
The functionality is useful, yes. But why two commands? Why not one
command, dump, which takes optional parameters?
Also, i doubt write support will be accepted. That sounds like the
start of an API to allow a user space driver.
Andrew