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28.Dd March 8, 2018
29.Dt mlx5tool 8
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm mlx5tool
33.Nd Utility for managing Connect-X 4/5 Mellanox network adapters
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Nm
36.Fl d Ar domain:bus:slot:func
37.Fl e
38.Nm
39.Fl d Ar domain:bus:slot:func
40.Fl r
41.Nm
42.Fl d Ar domain:bus:slot:func
43.Fl o Ar file
44.Fl w
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm
48utility is provided for management of the Connect-X 4 and 5 network adapters
49in the aspects not covered by the generic
50.Xr ifconfig 8
51command, mostly related to the PCIe attachment and internal card working.
52The utility executes commands on specific adapter, which is addressed using
53.Em device:bus:slot:function
54conventions of the PCIe buses.
55You can match adapters ethernet name and addresses using the
56.X pciconf 8
57utility.
58The address is passed as an argument of the
59.Fl d
60option, which must be specified for each invocation.
61.Pp
62When the driver detects the malfunctioning of the hardware, or by user
63request, it is possible to create
64.Em firmware dump ,
65which contains debugging information about internal device state, for
66analysis of the failure by the Mellanox support team.
67.Pp
68The following commands are currently implemented:
69.Bl -tag -width indent
70.It Fl e
71Take the snapshot of the firmware registers state and store it in the
72kernel buffer.
73The buffer must be empty, in other words, no dumps should be written so
74far, or existing dump cleared with the
75.Fl r
76command for the specified device.
77.It Fl r
78Clear the stored firmware dump, preparing the kernel buffer for
79the next dump.
80.It Fl w
81Fetche the stored firmware dump and writes it into the file specified
82by the
83.Fl o
84option argument.
85.El
86.Sh FILES
87The
88.Pa /dev/mlx5ctl
89.Xr devfs 5
90node is used to pass commands to the driver.
91.Sh SEE ALSO
92.Xr mlx5en 4 ,
93.Xr mlx5ib 4 ,
94.Xr mlx5io 4 ,
95.Xr ifconfig 8
96and
97.Xr pciconf 8 .
98