Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 7 Sep 2011 13:47:54 -0700 | | From | Simon Kirby <> | | Subject | Re: [3.1-rc4] Bus Fatal Error caused by "PCI: Set PCI-E Max Payload Size on fabric" |
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On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 12:18:59PM -0700, Simon Kirby wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 10:44:32AM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 12:52:25 -0400 > > Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org> > > > wrote: > > > > Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca> writes: > > > > > > > >> Hello! > > > >> > > > >> Since trying 3.1-rc4 on a few Dell servers, all of them have > > > >> booted up with the amber error LED lit. "ipmitool sel list" shows: > > > >> > > > >> ?? ??1 | 09/06/2011 | 17:21:56 | Event Logging Disabled #0x72 | Log > > > >> area reset/cleared | Asserted 2 | 09/06/2011 | 17:25:38 | Critical > > > >> Interrupt #0x18 | Bus Fatal Error | Asserted 3 | 09/06/2011 | > > > >> 17:25:38 | Unknown #0x1a | 4 | 09/06/2011 | 17:25:38 | Unknown > > > >> #0x1a | > > > > > > > > I'm seeing exact the same issue on a Dell 1950 Server. If anyone > > > > wants me to try additional debugging/patches, feel free to do > > > > so. Unfortunately i don't have the time/knowledge to debug that by > > > > myself. > > > > > > I thought Jesse or Jon had a revert or partial fix queued up to send > > > to Linus, but I don't see anything in or post -rc5 yet. That was > > > indicated in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42162 > > > > > > Jesse, Jon? > > > > kernel.org is still down and I haven't pushed anything to github. I > > asked Jon to send his patch directly to Linus today instead. > > FWIW, this patch didn't seem to fix it: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=71222 > > dmesg used to say: > > pci 0000:00:02.0: Dev MPS 128 MPSS 256 MRRS 128 > pci 0000:00:02.0: Dev MPS 256 MPSS 256 MRRS 128 > pci 0000:06:00.0: Dev MPS 128 MPSS 256 MRRS 4096 > pci 0000:06:00.0: Dev MPS 256 MPSS 256 MRRS 128 > pci 0000:07:00.0: Dev MPS 128 MPSS 256 MRRS 4096 > pci 0000:07:00.0: Dev MPS 256 MPSS 256 MRRS 128 > pci 0000:08:00.0: Dev MPS 128 MPSS 128 MRRS 128 > pci 0000:08:00.0: MPS configured higher than maximum supported by the device. If a bus issue occurs, try running with pci=pcie_bus_safe. > pci 0000:08:00.0: Dev MPS 256 MPSS 256 MRRS 128 > Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 21 on CPU 0. > Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled? > Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
Ok, I commented out the "pcie_write_mps(dev, mps);" line and the error stopped, but this made me realize that the pci=pcie_bus_safe option must have been missing. It turns out I had hacked a custom grub entry to load the newest kernel into grub instead of the one with the highest version number (grumble), so the default kopt didn't apply there.
So, pci=pcie_bus_safe DOES fix this case, and I've confirmed that the MRRS-dissabling patch makes no difference in this case.
Can we just make pci=pcie_bus_safe (as in previous behavior) the default, or make it not change where it would otherwise warn, or does that basically make the thing useless?
Simon-
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