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Jacob Keller 399e27dbbd ice: support immediate firmware activation via devlink reload 
The ice hardware contains an embedded chip with firmware which can be
updated using devlink flash. The firmware which runs on this chip is
referred to as the Embedded Management Processor firmware (EMP
firmware).

Activating the new firmware image currently requires that the system be
rebooted. This is not ideal as rebooting the system can cause unwanted
downtime.

In practical terms, activating the firmware does not always require a
full system reboot. In many cases it is possible to activate the EMP
firmware immediately. There are a couple of different scenarios to
cover.

 * The EMP firmware itself can be reloaded by issuing a special update
   to the device called an Embedded Management Processor reset (EMP
   reset). This reset causes the device to reset and reload the EMP
   firmware.

 * PCI configuration changes are only reloaded after a cold PCIe reset.
   Unfortunately there is no generic way to trigger this for a PCIe
   device without a system reboot.

When performing a flash update, firmware is capable of responding with
some information about the specific update requirements.

The driver updates the flash by programming a secondary inactive bank
with the contents of the new image, and then issuing a command to
request to switch the active bank starting from the next load.

The response to the final command for updating the inactive NVM flash
bank includes an indication of the minimum reset required to fully
update the device. This can be one of the following:

 * A full power on is required
 * A cold PCIe reset is required
 * An EMP reset is required

The response to the command to switch flash banks includes an indication
of whether or not the firmware will allow an EMP reset request.

For most updates, an EMP reset is sufficient to load the new EMP
firmware without issues. In some cases, this reset is not sufficient
because the PCI configuration space has changed. When this could cause
incompatibility with the new EMP image, the firmware is capable of
rejecting the EMP reset request.

Add logic to ice_fw_update.c to handle the response data flash update
AdminQ commands.

For the reset level, issue a devlink status notification informing the
user of how to complete the update with a simple suggestion like
"Activate new firmware by rebooting the system".

Cache the status of whether or not firmware will restrict the EMP reset
for use in implementing devlink reload.

Implement support for devlink reload with the "fw_activate" flag. This
allows user space to request the firmware be activated immediately.

For the .reload_down handler, we will issue a request for the EMP reset
using the appropriate firmware AdminQ command. If we know that the
firmware will not allow an EMP reset, simply exit with a suitable
netlink extended ACK message indicating that the EMP reset is not
available.

For the .reload_up handler, simply wait until the driver has finished
resetting. Logic to handle processing of an EMP reset already exists in
the driver as part of its reset and rebuild flows.

Implement support for the devlink reload interface with the
"fw_activate" action. This allows userspace to request activation of
firmware without a reboot.

Note that support for indicating the required reset and EMP reset
restriction is not supported on old versions of firmware. The driver can
determine if the two features are supported by checking the device
capabilities report. I confirmed support has existed since at least
version 5.5.2 as reported by the 'fw.mgmt' version. Support to issue the
EMP reset request has existed in all version of the EMP firmware for the
ice hardware.

Check the device capabilities report to determine whether or not the
indications are reported by the running firmware. If the reset
requirement indication is not supported, always assume a full power on
is necessary. If the reset restriction capability is not supported,
always assume the EMP reset is available.

Users can verify if the EMP reset has activated the firmware by using
the devlink info report to check that the 'running' firmware version has
updated. For example a user might do the following:

 # Check current version
 $ devlink dev info

 # Update the device
 $ devlink dev flash pci/0000:af:00.0 file firmware.bin

 # Confirm stored version updated
 $ devlink dev info

 # Reload to activate new firmware
 $ devlink dev reload pci/0000:af:00.0 action fw_activate

 # Confirm running version updated
 $ devlink dev info

Finally, this change does *not* implement basic driver-only reload
support. I did look into trying to do this. However, it requires
significant refactor of how the ice driver probes and loads everything.
The ice driver probe and allocation flows were not designed with such
a reload in mind. Refactoring the flow to support this is beyond the
scope of this change.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Tested-by: Gurucharan G <gurucharanx.g@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
2021-12-15 08:40:38 -08:00

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
===================
ice devlink support
===================
This document describes the devlink features implemented by the ``ice``
device driver.
Info versions
=============
The ``ice`` driver reports the following versions
.. list-table:: devlink info versions implemented
:widths: 5 5 5 90
* - Name
- Type
- Example
- Description
* - ``board.id``
- fixed
- K65390-000
- The Product Board Assembly (PBA) identifier of the board.
* - ``fw.mgmt``
- running
- 2.1.7
- 3-digit version number of the management firmware running on the
Embedded Management Processor of the device. It controls the PHY,
link, access to device resources, etc. Intel documentation refers to
this as the EMP firmware.
* - ``fw.mgmt.api``
- running
- 1.5.1
- 3-digit version number (major.minor.patch) of the API exported over
the AdminQ by the management firmware. Used by the driver to
identify what commands are supported. Historical versions of the
kernel only displayed a 2-digit version number (major.minor).
* - ``fw.mgmt.build``
- running
- 0x305d955f
- Unique identifier of the source for the management firmware.
* - ``fw.undi``
- running
- 1.2581.0
- Version of the Option ROM containing the UEFI driver. The version is
reported in ``major.minor.patch`` format. The major version is
incremented whenever a major breaking change occurs, or when the
minor version would overflow. The minor version is incremented for
non-breaking changes and reset to 1 when the major version is
incremented. The patch version is normally 0 but is incremented when
a fix is delivered as a patch against an older base Option ROM.
* - ``fw.psid.api``
- running
- 0.80
- Version defining the format of the flash contents.
* - ``fw.bundle_id``
- running
- 0x80002ec0
- Unique identifier of the firmware image file that was loaded onto
the device. Also referred to as the EETRACK identifier of the NVM.
* - ``fw.app.name``
- running
- ICE OS Default Package
- The name of the DDP package that is active in the device. The DDP
package is loaded by the driver during initialization. Each
variation of the DDP package has a unique name.
* - ``fw.app``
- running
- 1.3.1.0
- The version of the DDP package that is active in the device. Note
that both the name (as reported by ``fw.app.name``) and version are
required to uniquely identify the package.
* - ``fw.app.bundle_id``
- running
- 0xc0000001
- Unique identifier for the DDP package loaded in the device. Also
referred to as the DDP Track ID. Can be used to uniquely identify
the specific DDP package.
* - ``fw.netlist``
- running
- 1.1.2000-6.7.0
- The version of the netlist module. This module defines the device's
Ethernet capabilities and default settings, and is used by the
management firmware as part of managing link and device
connectivity.
* - ``fw.netlist.build``
- running
- 0xee16ced7
- The first 4 bytes of the hash of the netlist module contents.
Flash Update
============
The ``ice`` driver implements support for flash update using the
``devlink-flash`` interface. It supports updating the device flash using a
combined flash image that contains the ``fw.mgmt``, ``fw.undi``, and
``fw.netlist`` components.
.. list-table:: List of supported overwrite modes
:widths: 5 95
* - Bits
- Behavior
* - ``DEVLINK_FLASH_OVERWRITE_SETTINGS``
- Do not preserve settings stored in the flash components being
updated. This includes overwriting the port configuration that
determines the number of physical functions the device will
initialize with.
* - ``DEVLINK_FLASH_OVERWRITE_SETTINGS`` and ``DEVLINK_FLASH_OVERWRITE_IDENTIFIERS``
- Do not preserve either settings or identifiers. Overwrite everything
in the flash with the contents from the provided image, without
performing any preservation. This includes overwriting device
identifying fields such as the MAC address, VPD area, and device
serial number. It is expected that this combination be used with an
image customized for the specific device.
The ice hardware does not support overwriting only identifiers while
preserving settings, and thus ``DEVLINK_FLASH_OVERWRITE_IDENTIFIERS`` on its
own will be rejected. If no overwrite mask is provided, the firmware will be
instructed to preserve all settings and identifying fields when updating.
Reload
======
The ``ice`` driver supports activating new firmware after a flash update
using ``DEVLINK_CMD_RELOAD`` with the ``DEVLINK_RELOAD_ACTION_FW_ACTIVATE``
action.
.. code:: shell
$ devlink dev reload pci/0000:01:00.0 reload action fw_activate
The new firmware is activated by issuing a device specific Embedded
Management Processor reset which requests the device to reset and reload the
EMP firmware image.
The driver does not currently support reloading the driver via
``DEVLINK_RELOAD_ACTION_DRIVER_REINIT``.
Regions
=======
The ``ice`` driver implements the following regions for accessing internal
device data.
.. list-table:: regions implemented
:widths: 15 85
* - Name
- Description
* - ``nvm-flash``
- The contents of the entire flash chip, sometimes referred to as
the device's Non Volatile Memory.
* - ``device-caps``
- The contents of the device firmware's capabilities buffer. Useful to
determine the current state and configuration of the device.
Users can request an immediate capture of a snapshot via the
``DEVLINK_CMD_REGION_NEW``
.. code:: shell
$ devlink region show
pci/0000:01:00.0/nvm-flash: size 10485760 snapshot [] max 1
pci/0000:01:00.0/device-caps: size 4096 snapshot [] max 10
$ devlink region new pci/0000:01:00.0/nvm-flash snapshot 1
$ devlink region dump pci/0000:01:00.0/nvm-flash snapshot 1
$ devlink region dump pci/0000:01:00.0/nvm-flash snapshot 1
0000000000000000 0014 95dc 0014 9514 0035 1670 0034 db30
0000000000000010 0000 0000 ffff ff04 0029 8c00 0028 8cc8
0000000000000020 0016 0bb8 0016 1720 0000 0000 c00f 3ffc
0000000000000030 bada cce5 bada cce5 bada cce5 bada cce5
$ devlink region read pci/0000:01:00.0/nvm-flash snapshot 1 address 0 length 16
0000000000000000 0014 95dc 0014 9514 0035 1670 0034 db30
$ devlink region delete pci/0000:01:00.0/nvm-flash snapshot 1
$ devlink region new pci/0000:01:00.0/device-caps snapshot 1
$ devlink region dump pci/0000:01:00.0/device-caps snapshot 1
0000000000000000 01 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0000000000000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0000000000000020 02 00 02 01 32 03 00 00 0a 00 00 00 25 00 00 00
0000000000000030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0000000000000040 04 00 01 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0000000000000050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0000000000000060 05 00 01 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0000000000000070 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0000000000000080 06 00 01 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0000000000000090 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000000000000a0 08 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000000000000b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000000000000c0 12 00 01 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 01 00 00 00 00 00
00000000000000d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000000000000e0 13 00 01 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000000000000f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0000000000000100 14 00 01 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0000000000000110 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0000000000000120 15 00 01 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0000000000000130 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0000000000000140 16 00 01 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0000000000000150 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0000000000000160 17 00 01 00 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0000000000000170 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0000000000000180 18 00 01 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 08 00 00 00
0000000000000190 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000000000001a0 22 00 01 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000000000001b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000000000001c0 40 00 01 00 00 08 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000000000001d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000000000001e0 41 00 01 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000000000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0000000000000200 42 00 01 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0000000000000210 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
$ devlink region delete pci/0000:01:00.0/device-caps snapshot 1
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