Re: bnx2x: ppc64le: Unable to set message level greater than 0x7fff

[Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>]

Dear Jakub,


Am 16.03.22 um 02:35 schrieb Jakub Kicinski:
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 22:58:57 +0100 Paul Menzel wrote:
>> On the POWER8 server IBM S822LC (ppc64le), I am unable to set the
>> message level for the network device to 0x0100000 but it fails.
>>
>>       $ sudo ethtool -s enP1p1s0f2 msglvl 0x0100000
>>       netlink error: cannot modify bits past kernel bitset size (offset 56)
>>       netlink error: Invalid argument
>>
>> Below is more information. 0x7fff is the largest value I am able to set.
>>
>> ```
>> $ sudo ethtool -i enP1p1s0f2
>> driver: bnx2x
>> version: 5.17.0-rc7+
>> firmware-version: bc 7.10.4
>> expansion-rom-version:
>> bus-info: 0001:01:00.2
>> supports-statistics: yes
>> supports-test: yes
>> supports-eeprom-access: yes
>> supports-register-dump: yes
>> supports-priv-flags: yes
>> $ sudo ethtool -s enP1p1s0f2 msglvl 0x7fff
>> $ sudo ethtool enP1p1s0f2
>> Settings for enP1p1s0f2:
>>           Supported ports: [ TP ]
>>           Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
>>                                   100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
>>                                   1000baseT/Full
>>           Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
>>           Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
>>           Supported FEC modes: Not reported
>>           Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
>>                                   100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
>>                                   1000baseT/Full
>>           Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
>>           Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
>>           Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
>>           Speed: Unknown!
>>           Duplex: Unknown! (255)
>>           Auto-negotiation: on
>>           Port: Twisted Pair
>>           PHYAD: 17
>>           Transceiver: internal
>>           MDI-X: Unknown
>>           Supports Wake-on: g
>>           Wake-on: d
>>           Current message level: 0x00007fff (32767)
>>                                  drv probe link timer ifdown ifup rx_err tx_err tx_queued intr tx_done rx_status pktdata hw wol
>>           Link detected: no
>> $ sudo ethtool -s enP1p1s0f2 msglvl 0x8000
>> netlink error: cannot modify bits past kernel bitset size (offset 56)
>> netlink error: Invalid argument
>> ```
> 
> The new ethtool-over-netlink API limits the msg levels to the ones
> officially defined by the kernel (NETIF_MSG_CLASS_COUNT).
> 
> CC: Michal

Thank you for the prompt reply. So, it’s unrelated to the architecture, 
and to the Linux kernel version, as it works on x86_64 with Linux 5.10.x.

Michal, how do I turn on certain bnx2x messages?

     $ git grep BNX2X_MSG_SP drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x.h
     drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x.h:#define BNX2X_MSG_SP 
                      0x0100000 /* was: NETIF_MSG_INTR */


Kind regards,

Paul