Re: [PATCH net-next RFC 09/13] devlink: Add enable_remote_dev_reset generic parameter

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:42:12 +0300 Moshe Shemesh wrote:
> On 7/28/2020 3:59 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 14:02:29 +0300 Moshe Shemesh wrote:  
> >> The enable_remote_dev_reset devlink param flags that the host admin
> >> allows device resets that can be initiated by other hosts. This
> >> parameter is useful for setups where a device is shared by different
> >> hosts, such as multi-host setup. Once the user set this parameter to
> >> false, the driver should NACK any attempt to reset the device while the
> >> driver is loaded.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  
> > There needs to be a devlink event generated when reset is triggered
> > (remotely or not).
> >
> > You're also missing failure reasons. Users need to know if the reset
> > request was clearly nacked by some host, not supported, etc. vs
> > unexpected failure.  
> 
> I will fix and send extack message to the user accordingly.

I'd suggest the reason codes to be somewhat standard.

The groups I can think of:
 - timeout - device did not respond to the reset request
 - device reject - FW or else has nacked the activation req
 - host incapable - one of the participating hosts (in MH) is not
   capable of handling live activation
 - host denied - one of the participating hosts has NACKed
 - host timeout - one of the p. hosts did not ack or done the procedure
   in time (e.g. has not toggled the link)
 - failed reset - the activation itself had failed
 - failed reinit - one of p. hosts was not able to cleanly come back up