Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1] ice: add CGU info to devlink info callback

From: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 20:17:10 +0300

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 02:04:33PM +0000, Kubalewski, Arkadiusz wrote:
> >From: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
> >Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2023 3:17 PM
> >
> >On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 03:38:11PM +0200, Arkadiusz Kubalewski wrote:
> >> If Clock Generation Unit and dplls are present on NIC board user shall
> >> know its details.
> >> Provide the devlink info callback with a new:
> >> - fixed type object `cgu.id` - hardware variant of onboard CGU
> >> - running type object `fw.cgu` - CGU firmware version
> >> - running type object `fw.cgu.build` - CGU configuration build version
> >>
> >> These information shall be known for debugging purposes.
> >>
> >> Test (on NIC board with CGU)
> >> $ devlink dev info <bus_name>/<dev_name> | grep cgu
> >>         cgu.id 8032
> >>         fw.cgu 6021
> >>         fw.cgu.build 0x1030001
> >>
> >> Test (on NIC board without CGU)
> >> $ devlink dev info <bus_name>/<dev_name> | grep cgu -c
> >> 0
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Arkadiusz Kubalewski <[email-masked]>
> >> ---
> >>  Documentation/networking/devlink/ice.rst     | 14 +++++++++
> >>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_devlink.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c    |  5 +++-
> >>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp_hw.c  | 12 ++++----
> >>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_type.h    |  9 +++++-
> >>  5 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> ><...>
> >
> >>  Flash Update
> >>  ============
> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_devlink.c
> >b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_devlink.c
> >> index bc44cc220818..06fe895739af 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_devlink.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_devlink.c
> >> @@ -193,6 +193,33 @@ ice_info_pending_netlist_build(struct ice_pf
> >>__always_unused *pf,
> >>  		snprintf(ctx->buf, sizeof(ctx->buf), "0x%08x", netlist->hash);
> >>  }
> >>
> >> +static void ice_info_cgu_id(struct ice_pf *pf, struct ice_info_ctx *ctx)
> >> +{
> >> +	if (ice_is_feature_supported(pf, ICE_F_CGU)) {
> >> +		struct ice_hw *hw = &pf->hw;
> >> +
> >> +		snprintf(ctx->buf, sizeof(ctx->buf), "%u", hw->cgu.id);
> >> +	}
> >
> >Please use kernel coding style - success oriented flow
> >
> >struct ice_hw *hw = &pf->hw;
> >
> >if (!ice_is_feature_supported(pf, ICE_F_CGU))
> >  return;
> >
> >snprintf(ctx->buf, sizeof(ctx->buf), "%u", hw->cgu.id);
> >
> >
> >However, it will be nice to have these callbacks only if CGU is
> >supported, in such way you won't need any of ice_is_feature_supported()
> >checks.
> >
> >Thanks
> 
> Sure, I will fix as suggested in the next version.
> Although most important is to achieve common understanding and agreement if
> This way is the right one. Maybe those devlink id's shall be defined as a
> part of "include/net/devlink.h", so other vendors could use it?

Once second vendor materialize, it will be his responsibility to move
common code to devlink.h.

> Also in such case probably naming might need to be unified.
> 
> Thank you!
> Arkadiusz