Commit 9e087457 authored by Ido Schimmel's avatar Ido Schimmel Committed by David S. Miller

Documentation: Add description of netdevsim traps

Signed-off-by: default avatarIdo Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent da58f90f
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
======================
Devlink Trap netdevsim
======================
Driver-specific Traps
=====================
.. list-table:: List of Driver-specific Traps Registered by ``netdevsim``
:widths: 5 5 90
* - Name
- Type
- Description
* - ``fid_miss``
- ``exception``
- When a packet enters the device it is classified to a filtering
indentifier (FID) based on the ingress port and VLAN. This trap is used
to trap packets for which a FID could not be found
...@@ -162,6 +162,17 @@ be added to the following table: ...@@ -162,6 +162,17 @@ be added to the following table:
- Traps packets that the device decided to drop because they could not be - Traps packets that the device decided to drop because they could not be
enqueued to a transmission queue which is full enqueued to a transmission queue which is full
Driver-specific Packet Traps
============================
Device drivers can register driver-specific packet traps, but these must be
clearly documented. Such traps can correspond to device-specific exceptions and
help debug packet drops caused by these exceptions. The following list includes
links to the description of driver-specific traps registered by various device
drivers:
* :doc:`/devlink-trap-netdevsim`
Generic Packet Trap Groups Generic Packet Trap Groups
========================== ==========================
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...@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Contents: ...@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Contents:
dsa/index dsa/index
devlink-info-versions devlink-info-versions
devlink-trap devlink-trap
devlink-trap-netdevsim
ieee802154 ieee802154
kapi kapi
z8530book z8530book
......
...@@ -323,6 +323,9 @@ struct nsim_trap_data { ...@@ -323,6 +323,9 @@ struct nsim_trap_data {
spinlock_t trap_lock; /* Protects trap_items_arr */ spinlock_t trap_lock; /* Protects trap_items_arr */
}; };
/* All driver-specific traps must be documented in
* Documentation/networking/devlink-trap-netdevsim.rst
*/
enum { enum {
NSIM_TRAP_ID_BASE = DEVLINK_TRAP_GENERIC_ID_MAX, NSIM_TRAP_ID_BASE = DEVLINK_TRAP_GENERIC_ID_MAX,
NSIM_TRAP_ID_FID_MISS, NSIM_TRAP_ID_FID_MISS,
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