Merge branch 'netdevsim-support-for-l3-hw-stats'

Petr Machata says:

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netdevsim: Support for L3 HW stats

"L3 stats" is a suite of interface statistics aimed at reflecting traffic
taking place in a HW device, on an object corresponding to some software
netdevice. Support for this stats suite has been added recently, in commit
ca0a53dc ("Merge branch 'net-hw-counters-for-soft-devices'").

In this patch set:

- Patch #1 adds support for L3 stats to netdevsim.

  Real devices can have various conditions for when an L3 counter is
  available. To simulate this, netdevsim maintains a list of devices
  suitable for HW stats collection. Only when l3_stats is enabled on both a
  netdevice itself, and in netdevsim, will netdevsim contribute values to
  L3 stats.

  This enablement and disablement is done via debugfs:

    # echo $ifindex > /sys/kernel/debug/netdevsim/$DEV/hwstats/l3/enable_ifindex
    # echo $ifindex > /sys/kernel/debug/netdevsim/$DEV/hwstats/l3/disable_ifindex

  Besides this, there is a third toggle to mark a device for future failure:

    # echo $ifindex > /sys/kernel/debug/netdevsim/$DEV/hwstats/l3/fail_next_enable

- This allows HW-independent testing of stats reporting and in-kernel APIs,
  as well as a test for enablement rollback, which is difficult to do
  otherwise. This netdevsim-specific selftest is added in patch #2.

- Patch #3 adds another driver-specific selftest, namely a test aimed at
  checking mlxsw-induced stats monitoring events.

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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cover.1647265833.git.petrm@nvidia.com


Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>