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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/5] Documentation/PCI: Add details of PCI AER statistics
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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@google.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

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