linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] Documentation/PCI: Add details of PCI AER statistics

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Date:   Tue, 22 May 2018 17:52:03 -0500
From:   "Alex G." <mr.nuke.me@...il.com>
To:     Rajat Jain <rajatja@...gle.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Frederick Lawler <fred@...dlawl.com>,
        Oza Pawandeep <poza@...eaurora.org>,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>,
        Gabriele Paoloni <gabriele.paoloni@...wei.com>,
        Thomas Tai <thomas.tai@...cle.com>,
        "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jes Sorensen <jsorensen@...com>,
        Kyle McMartin <jkkm@...com>
Cc:     rajatxjain@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] Documentation/PCI: Add details of PCI AER statistics

On 05/22/2018 05:28 PM, Rajat Jain wrote:
> Add the PCI AER statistics details to
> Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.txt
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rajat Jain <rajatja@...gle.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.txt | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.txt b/Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.txt
> index acd0dddd6bb8..86ee9f9ff5e1 100644
> --- a/Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.txt
> @@ -73,6 +73,41 @@ In the example, 'Requester ID' means the ID of the device who sends
>  the error message to root port. Pls. refer to pci express specs for
>  other fields.
>  
> +2.4 AER statistics
> +
> +When AER messages are captured, the statistics are exposed via the following
> +sysfs attributes under the "aer_stats" folder for the device:
> +
> +2.4.1 Device sysfs Attributes
> +
> +These attributes show up under all the devices that are AER capable. These
> +indicate the errors "as seen by the device". Note that this may mean that if
> +an end point is causing problems, the AER counters may increment at its link
> +partner (e.g. root port) because the errors will be "seen" by the link partner
> +and not the the problematic end point itself (which may report all counters
> +as 0 as it never saw any problems).

I was afraid of that. Is there a way to look at the requester ID to log
AER errors to the correct device?

Alex