[PATCH net-next v2 0/7] mlxsw: Add extended ACK for EMADs

[Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>]

From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>

Shalom says:

Ethernet Management Datagrams (EMADs) are Ethernet packets sent between
the driver and device's firmware. They are used to pass various
configurations to the device, but also to get events (e.g., port up)
from it. After the Ethernet header, these packets are built in a TLV
format.

Up until now, whenever the driver issued an erroneous register access it
only got an error code indicating a bad parameter was used. This patch
set adds a new TLV (string TLV) that can be used by the firmware to
encode a 128 character string describing the error. The new TLV is
allocated by the driver and set to zeros. In case of error, the driver
will check the length of the string in the response and report it using
devlink hwerr tracepoint.

Example:

$ perf record -a -q -e devlink:devlink_hwerr &

$ pkill -2 perf

$ perf script -F trace:event,trace | grep hwerr
devlink:devlink_hwerr: bus_name=pci dev_name=0000:03:00.0 driver_name=mlxsw_spectrum err=7 (tid=9913892d00001593,reg_id=8018(rauhtd)) bad parameter (inside er_rauhtd_write_query(), num_rec=32 is over the maximum  number of records supported)

Patch #1 parses the offsets of the different TLVs in incoming EMADs and
stores them in the skb's control block. This makes it easier to later
add new TLVs.

Patches #2-#3 remove deprecated TLVs and add string TLV definition.

Patches #4-#7 gradually add support for the new string TLV.

v2:
* Use existing devlink hwerr tracepoint to report the error string,
  instead of printing it to kernel log

Shalom Toledo (7):
  mlxsw: core: Parse TLVs' offsets of incoming EMADs
  mlxsw: emad: Remove deprecated EMAD TLVs
  mlxsw: core: Add EMAD string TLV
  mlxsw: core: Add support for EMAD string TLV parsing
  mlxsw: core: Extend EMAD information reported to devlink hwerr
  mlxsw: core: Add support for using EMAD string TLV
  mlxsw: spectrum: Enable EMAD string TLV

 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c    | 171 ++++++++++++++++--
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.h    |   2 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/emad.h    |   7 +-
 .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c    |   2 +
 4 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

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