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authorMoshe Shemesh <moshe@mellanox.com>2020-10-07 09:00:53 +0300
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2020-10-09 22:06:53 +0300
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devlink: Add enable_remote_dev_reset generic parameter
The enable_remote_dev_reset devlink param flags that the host admin allows device resets that can be initiated by other hosts. This parameter is useful for setups where a device is shared by different hosts, such as multi-host setup. Once the user set this parameter to false, the driver should NACK any attempt to reset the device while the driver is loaded. Signed-off-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst
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+++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst
@@ -108,3 +108,9 @@ own name.
* - ``region_snapshot_enable``
- Boolean
- Enable capture of ``devlink-region`` snapshots.
+ * - ``enable_remote_dev_reset``
+ - Boolean
+ - Enable device reset by remote host. When cleared, the device driver
+ will NACK any attempt of other host to reset the device. This parameter
+ is useful for setups where a device is shared by different hosts, such
+ as multi-host setup.