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index 0c99b11f05f9..e37f77734b5b 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-health.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-health.rst
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ attributes of the health reporting and recovery procedures.
The ``devlink`` health reporter:
Device driver creates a "health reporter" per each error/health type.
-Error/Health type can be a known/generic (eg pci error, fw error, rx/tx error)
+Error/Health type can be a known/generic (e.g. PCI error, fw error, rx/tx error)
or unknown (driver specific).
For each registered health reporter a driver can issue error/health reports
asynchronously. All health reports handling is done by ``devlink``.
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ Once an error is reported, devlink health will perform the following actions:
* Object dump is being taken and saved at the reporter instance (as long as
there is no other dump which is already stored)
* Auto recovery attempt is being done. Depends on:
+
- Auto-recovery configuration
- Grace period vs. time passed since last recover
@@ -72,14 +73,18 @@ via ``devlink``, e.g per error type (per health reporter):
* - ``DEVLINK_CMD_HEALTH_REPORTER_SET``
- Allows reporter-related configuration setting.
* - ``DEVLINK_CMD_HEALTH_REPORTER_RECOVER``
- - Triggers a reporter's recovery procedure.
+ - Triggers reporter's recovery procedure.
+ * - ``DEVLINK_CMD_HEALTH_REPORTER_TEST``
+ - Triggers a fake health event on the reporter. The effects of the test
+ event in terms of recovery flow should follow closely that of a real
+ event.
* - ``DEVLINK_CMD_HEALTH_REPORTER_DIAGNOSE``
- - Retrieves diagnostics data from a reporter on a device.
+ - Retrieves current device state related to the reporter.
* - ``DEVLINK_CMD_HEALTH_REPORTER_DUMP_GET``
- Retrieves the last stored dump. Devlink health
- saves a single dump. If an dump is not already stored by the devlink
+ saves a single dump. If an dump is not already stored by devlink
for this reporter, devlink generates a new dump.
- dump output is defined by the reporter.
+ Dump output is defined by the reporter.
* - ``DEVLINK_CMD_HEALTH_REPORTER_DUMP_CLEAR``
- Clears the last saved dump file for the specified reporter.
@@ -93,7 +98,7 @@ The following diagram provides a general overview of ``devlink-health``::
+--------------------------+
|request for ops
|(diagnose,
- mlx5_core devlink |recover,
+ driver devlink |recover,
|dump)
+--------+ +--------------------------+
| | | reporter| |