From: Alex Vesker <va...@mellanox.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 15:13:07 +0300
> This is a proposal which will allow access to driver defined address > regions using devlink. Each device can create its supported address > regions and register them. A device which exposes a region will allow > access to it using devlink. > > The suggested implementation will allow exposing regions to the user, > reading and dumping snapshots taken from different regions. > A snapshot represents a memory image of a region taken by the driver. > > If a device collects a snapshot of an address region it can be later > exposed using devlink region read or dump commands. > This functionality allows for future analyses on the snapshots to be > done. > > The major benefit of this support is not only to provide access to > internal address regions which were inaccessible to the user but also > to provide an additional way to debug complex error states using the > region snapshots. ... Series applied, thanks!
