netdev - RE: qed*: debug infrastructures

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Date:   Wed, 26 Apr 2017 17:57:10 +0000
From:   "Elior, Ariel" <Ariel.Elior@...ium.com>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
CC:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Mintz, Yuval" <Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com>,
        "Tayar, Tomer" <Tomer.Tayar@...ium.com>,
        "Dupuis, Chad" <Chad.Dupuis@...ium.com>
Subject: RE: qed*: debug infrastructures

Jiri, Florian, Jakub,
Thanks all for you suggestions.

Some answers to questions posted: The signal tracing in our device can be used 
for tracing things like load/store/program_counter from our fastpath processors
(which handle every packet) which can then be re-run in a simulative environment
(recreating the recorded scenario). Other interesting uses for this feature can
be partial pci recording or partial network recording (poor man's analyzer)
which can also be very effective where full blown lab equipment is unavailable.

I reviewed the code of the drivers under hw_tracing (thanks Florian) and I think
we might be a good fit.

Jiri indicated dpipe was not intended for this sort of thing and suggested an
additional dev link object, although it seems to me that this will have to be
either a very generic object which would be susceptible to abuse similar to
debugfs, or it would be tailored to our device so much that no one else would
use it, so I am somewhat less inclined to go down this path (the code
abstracting our debug feature is accessed via ~20 api functions accepting ~10
params each, i.e. quite a handful of configuraion to generalize).

The ethtool debug dump presets (thanks Jakub) are far too narrow to encompass
the full flexibility required here.

Dave, I think my next step would be to send an RFC adding to our core module
(qed) the necessary APIs (mostly to provide some details to this rather abstract
discussion). I will plan to connect those to a new hwtracing driver I'll create
for this purpose, unless a different direction is suggested.

Thanks,
Ariel