1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2 3============== 4Devlink Reload 5============== 6 7``devlink-reload`` provides mechanism to reinit driver entities, applying 8``devlink-params`` and ``devlink-resources`` new values. It also provides 9mechanism to activate firmware. 10 11Reload Actions 12============== 13 14User may select a reload action. 15By default ``driver_reinit`` action is selected. 16 17.. list-table:: Possible reload actions 18 :widths: 5 90 19 20 * - Name 21 - Description 22 * - ``driver-reinit`` 23 - Devlink driver entities re-initialization, including applying 24 new values to devlink entities which are used during driver 25 load such as ``devlink-params`` in configuration mode 26 ``driverinit`` or ``devlink-resources`` 27 * - ``fw_activate`` 28 - Firmware activate. Activates new firmware if such image is stored and 29 pending activation. If no limitation specified this action may involve 30 firmware reset. If no new image pending this action will reload current 31 firmware image. 32 33Note that even though user asks for a specific action, the driver 34implementation might require to perform another action alongside with 35it. For example, some driver do not support driver reinitialization 36being performed without fw activation. Therefore, the devlink reload 37command returns the list of actions which were actrually performed. 38 39Reload Limits 40============= 41 42By default reload actions are not limited and driver implementation may 43include reset or downtime as needed to perform the actions. 44 45However, some drivers support action limits, which limit the action 46implementation to specific constraints. 47 48.. list-table:: Possible reload limits 49 :widths: 5 90 50 51 * - Name 52 - Description 53 * - ``no_reset`` 54 - No reset allowed, no down time allowed, no link flap and no 55 configuration is lost. 56 57Change Namespace 58================ 59 60The netns option allows user to be able to move devlink instances into 61namespaces during devlink reload operation. 62By default all devlink instances are created in init_net and stay there. 63 64example usage 65------------- 66 67.. code:: shell 68 69 $ devlink dev reload help 70 $ devlink dev reload DEV [ netns { PID | NAME | ID } ] [ action { driver_reinit | fw_activate } ] [ limit no_reset ] 71 72 # Run reload command for devlink driver entities re-initialization: 73 $ devlink dev reload pci/0000:82:00.0 action driver_reinit 74 reload_actions_performed: 75 driver_reinit 76 77 # Run reload command to activate firmware: 78 # Note that mlx5 driver reloads the driver while activating firmware 79 $ devlink dev reload pci/0000:82:00.0 action fw_activate 80 reload_actions_performed: 81 driver_reinit fw_activate 82