This patch set aims to avoid dumping registers, data structures and
coredump to dmesg and also to reduce the code size of the qlge driver.
As pointed out by Benjamin [1],
> At 2000 lines, qlge_dbg.c alone is larger than some entire ethernet
> drivers. Most of what it does is dump kernel data structures or pci
> memory mapped registers to dmesg. There are better facilities for that.
> My thinking is not simply to delete qlge_dbg.c but to replace it, making
> sure that most of the same information is still available. For data
> structures, crash or drgn can be used; possibly with a script for the
> latter which formats the data. For pci registers, they should be
> included in the ethtool register dump and a patch added to ethtool to
> pretty print them. That's what other drivers like e1000e do. For the
> "coredump", devlink health can be used.
So the debugging features are re-written following Benjamin's advice,
- dump kernel data structures in drgn
- use devlink to do coredump which also includes device status and
general registers
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/6/30/19
Change since RFC:
- select NET_DEVLINK in Kconfig [Benjamin Poirier]
- Don't do a coredump when the interface is down [Shung-Hsi Yu]
- Remove stray newlines [Benjamin Poirier]
- force_coredump for devlink
- Remove mpi_core_to_log which will output the coredump to the kernel
ring buffer
- Put drgn script under Documentation [Benjamin Poirier]
- Rename qlge_health.* to qlge_devlink.*
Coiby Xu (6):
staging: qlge: Initialize devlink health dump framework for the dlge
driver
staging: qlge: coredump via devlink health reporter
staging: qlge: support force_coredump option for devlink health dump
staging: qlge: remove mpi_core_to_log which sends coredump to the
kernel ring buffer
staging: qlge: clean up debugging code in the QL_ALL_DUMP ifdef land
staging: qlge: add documentation for debugging qlge
.../networking/device_drivers/index.rst | 1 +
.../device_drivers/qlogic/index.rst | 18 +
.../networking/device_drivers/qlogic/qlge.rst | 118 +++
MAINTAINERS | 6 +
drivers/staging/qlge/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/staging/qlge/Makefile | 2 +-
drivers/staging/qlge/qlge.h | 94 +--
drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_dbg.c | 699 ------------------
drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_devlink.c | 164 ++++
drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_devlink.h | 8 +
drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c | 3 -
drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c | 37 +-
drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_mpi.c | 6 -
13 files changed, 355 insertions(+), 802 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/networking/device_drivers/qlogic/index.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/networking/device_drivers/qlogic/qlge.rst
create mode 100644 drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_devlink.c
create mode 100644 drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_devlink.h
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