ice: change devlink code to read NVM in blocks
When creating a snapshot of the NVM the driver needs to read the entire contents from the NVM and store it. The NVM reads are protected by a lock that is shared between the driver and the firmware. If the driver takes too long to read the entire NVM (which can happen on some systems) then the firmware could reclaim the lock and cause subsequent reads from the driver to fail. We could fix this by increasing the timeout that we pass to the firmware, but we could end up in the same situation again if the system is slow. Instead have the driver break the reading of the NVM into blocks that are small enough that we have confidence that the read will complete within the timeout time, but large enough not to cause significant AQ overhead. Fixes: dce730f1 ("ice: add a devlink region for dumping NVM contents") Signed-off-by:Paul M Stillwell Jr <paul.m.stillwell.jr@intel.com> Tested-by: Gurucharan <gurucharanx.g@intel.com> (A Contingent worker at Intel) Signed-off-by:
Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
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