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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 21:02:53 +0530
From: 'Manivannan Sadhasivam' <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>
To: Shradha Todi <shradha.t@...sung.com>
Cc: bp@...en8.de, tony.luck@...el.com, james.morse@....com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Add support for RAS DES feature in PCIe DW
 controller

On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 10:03:15PM +0530, 'Manivannan Sadhasivam' wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 04:30:47PM +0530, Shradha Todi wrote:
> > + Borislav, Tony, James, Mauro, Robert
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Synopsys DesignWare PCIe controllers have a vendor specific capability (which
> > means that this set of registers are only present in DesignWare controllers)
> > to perform debug operations called "RASDES".
> > The functionalities provided by this extended capability are:
> > 
> > 1. Debug: This has some debug related diagnostic features like holding LTSSM
> > in certain states, reading the status of lane detection, checking if any PCIe
> > lanes are broken (RX Valid) and so on. It's a debug only feature used for diagnostic
> > use-cases.
> > 
> > 2. Error Injection: This is a way to inject certain errors in PCIe like LCRC, ECRC,
> > Bad TLPs and so on. Again, this is a debug feature and generally not used in
> > functional use-case.
> > 
> > 3. Statistical counters: This has 3 parts
> >  - Error counters
> >  - Non error counters (covered as part of perf [1])
> >  - Time based analysis counters (covered as part of perf [1])
> > 
> > Selective features of  the above functionality has been implemented
> > by vendor specific PCIe controller drivers (pcie-tegra194.c) that use
> > Synopsys DesignWare PCIe controllers.
> > In order to make it useful to all vendors using DWC controller, we had
> > proposed a common implementation in DWC PCIe controller directory
> > (drivers/pci/controller/dwc/) and our original idea was based on debugfs
> > filesystem. v1 and v2 are mentioned in [2] and [3].
> > 
> > We got a suggestion to implement this as part of EDAC framework [3] and
> > we looked into the same. But as far as I understood, what I am trying to
> > implement is a very specific feature (only valid for Synopsys DWC PCIe controllers).
> > This doesn't seem to fit in very well with the EDAC framework and we can 
> > hardly use any of the EDAC framework APIs. We tried implementing a
> > "pci_driver" but since a function driver will already be running on the EP and
> > portdrv on the root-complex, we will not be able to bind 2 drivers to a single
> > PCI device (root-complex or endpoint). Ultimately, what I will be doing is
> > writing a platform driver with debugfs entries which will be present in EDAC
> > directory instead of DWC directory.
> > 
> > Can  you please help us out by going through this thread [3] and letting us
> > know if our understanding is wrong at any point. If you think it is a better
> > idea to integrate this in the EDAC framework, can you guide me as
> > to how I can utilize the framework better?
> > Please let me know if you need any other information to conclude.
> > 
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20231121013400.18367-1-xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com/
> > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210518174618.42089-1-shradha.t@samsung.com/T/
> > [3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231130115044.53512-1-shradha.t@samsung.com/
> > 
> 
> Gentle ping for the EDAC maintainers.
> 

Since there is no response from the EDAC maintainers for a while, I think we
should go ahead and add the RAS feature in the PCI DWC driver itself.

- Mani

> - Mani
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Shradha
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: 'Manivannan Sadhasivam' <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>
> > > Sent: 16 February 2024 19:19
> > > To: Shradha Todi <shradha.t@...sung.com>
> > > Cc: lpieralisi@...nel.org; kw@...ux.com; robh@...nel.org;
> > > bhelgaas@...gle.com; jingoohan1@...il.com;
> > > gustavo.pimentel@...opsys.com; josh@...htriplett.org;
> > > lukas.bulwahn@...il.com; hongxing.zhu@....com;
> > > pankaj.dubey@...sung.com; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; linux-
> > > pci@...r.kernel.org; vidyas@...dia.com; gost.dev@...sung.com
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Add support for RAS DES feature in PCIe DW
> > > controller
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 02:55:06PM +0530, Shradha Todi wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > > > For the error injection and counters, we already have the EDAC
> > > > > framework. So adding them in the DWC driver doesn't make sense to me.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Sorry for late response, was going through the EDAC framework to understand
> > > better how we can fit RAS DES support in it. Below are some technical challenges
> > > found so far:
> > > > 1: This debugfs framework proposed [1] can run on both side of the link i.e. RC
> > > and EP as it will be a part of the link controller platform driver. Here for the EP
> > > side the assumption is that it has Linux running, which is primarily a use case for
> > > chip-to-chip communication.  After your suggestion to migrate to EDAC
> > > framework we studied and here are the findings:
> > > > - If we move to EDAC framework, we need to have RAS DES as a
> > > > pci_driver which will be binded based on vendor_id and device_id. Our
> > > > observation is that on EP side system we are unable to bind two
> > > > function driver (pci_driver), as pci_endpoint_test function driver or
> > > > some other chip-to-chip function driver will already be bound. On the
> > > > other hand, on RC side we observed that if we have portdrv enabled in
> > > > Linux running on RC system, it gets bound to RC controller and then it
> > > > does not allow EDAC pci_driver to bind. So basically we see a problem
> > > > here, that we can't have two pci_driver binding to same PCI device
> > > > 2: Another point is even though we use EDAC driver framework, we may not be
> > > able to use any of EDAC framework APIs as they are mostly suitable for memory
> > > controller devices sitting on PCI BUS. We will end up using debugfs entries just via
> > > a pci_driver placed inside EDAC framework.
> > > 
> > > Please wrap your replies to 80 characters.
> > > 
> > > There is no need to bind the edac driver to VID:PID of the device. The edac driver
> > > can be a platform driver and you can instantiate the platform device from the
> > > DWC driver. This way, the PCI device can be assocaited with whatever driver, but
> > > still there can be a separate edac driver for handling errors.
> > > 
> > > Regarding API limitation, you should ask the maintainer about the possibility of
> > > extending them.
> > > 
> > > >
> > > > Please let me know if my understanding is wrong.
> > > >
> > > > > But first check with the perf driver author if they have any plans
> > > > > on adding the proposed functionality. If they do not have any plan
> > > > > or not working on it, then look into EDAC.
> > > > >
> > > > > - Mani
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Since we already worked and posted patches [1], [2], we will continue to work
> > > on this and based on consent from community we will adopt to most suitable
> > > framework.
> > > > We see many subsystems like ethernet, usb, gpu, cxl having debugfs files that
> > > give information about the current status of the running system and as of now
> > > based on our findings, we still feel there is no harm in having debugfs entry based
> > > support in DesignWare controller driver itself.
> > > 
> > > There is no issue in exposing the debug information through debugfs, that's the
> > > sole purpose of the interface. But here, you are trying to add support for DWC
> > > RAS feature for which a dedicated framework already exists.
> > > 
> > > And there will be more similar requests coming for vendor specific error protocols
> > > as well. So your investigation could benefit everyone.
> > > 
> > > From your above investigation, looks like there are some shortcomings of the
> > > EDAC framework. So let's get that clarified by writing to the EDAC maintainers
> > > (keep us in CC). If the EDAC maintainer suggests you to add support for this
> > > feature in DWC driver itself citing some reasons, then no issues with me.
> > > 
> > > - Mani
> > > 
> > > --
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> > 
> > 
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