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| author | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2025-09-16 16:14:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> | 2025-09-18 11:37:23 +0200 |
| commit | 005a54722e9d493be58405a77f2a444e06f03be0 (patch) | |
| tree | f827de0b8f5aae573d982a6a1b4d053bac1991db /Documentation/networking/device_drivers | |
| parent | 5df1d0a08483eff13f0da1cc66883e0bc2cf4fcf (diff) | |
eth: fbnic: add FW health reporter
Add a health reporter to catch FW crashes. Dumping the reporter
if FW has not crashed will create a snapshot of FW memory.
Reviewed-by: Lee Trager <lee@trager.us>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916231420.1693955-8-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/device_drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/meta/fbnic.rst | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/meta/fbnic.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/meta/fbnic.rst index fb6559fa4be4..62693566ff1f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/meta/fbnic.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/meta/fbnic.rst @@ -69,6 +69,16 @@ On host boot the latest UEFI driver is always used, no explicit activation is required. Firmware activation is required to run new control firmware. cmrt firmware can only be activated by power cycling the NIC. +Health reporters +---------------- + +fw reporter +~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The ``fw`` health reporter tracks FW crashes. Dumping the reporter will +show the core dump of the most recent FW crash, and if no FW crash has +happened since power cycle - a snapshot of the FW memory. + Statistics ---------- |
