1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2.. include:: <isonum.txt> 3 4=========================================================== 5The PCI Express Advanced Error Reporting Driver Guide HOWTO 6=========================================================== 7 8:Authors: - T. Long Nguyen <tom.l.nguyen@intel.com> 9 - Yanmin Zhang <yanmin.zhang@intel.com> 10 11:Copyright: |copy| 2006 Intel Corporation 12 13Overview 14=========== 15 16About this guide 17---------------- 18 19This guide describes the basics of the PCI Express Advanced Error 20Reporting (AER) driver and provides information on how to use it, as 21well as how to enable the drivers of endpoint devices to conform with 22PCI Express AER driver. 23 24 25What is the PCI Express AER Driver? 26----------------------------------- 27 28PCI Express error signaling can occur on the PCI Express link itself 29or on behalf of transactions initiated on the link. PCI Express 30defines two error reporting paradigms: the baseline capability and 31the Advanced Error Reporting capability. The baseline capability is 32required of all PCI Express components providing a minimum defined 33set of error reporting requirements. Advanced Error Reporting 34capability is implemented with a PCI Express advanced error reporting 35extended capability structure providing more robust error reporting. 36 37The PCI Express AER driver provides the infrastructure to support PCI 38Express Advanced Error Reporting capability. The PCI Express AER 39driver provides three basic functions: 40 41 - Gathers the comprehensive error information if errors occurred. 42 - Reports error to the users. 43 - Performs error recovery actions. 44 45AER driver only attaches root ports which support PCI-Express AER 46capability. 47 48 49User Guide 50========== 51 52Include the PCI Express AER Root Driver into the Linux Kernel 53------------------------------------------------------------- 54 55The PCI Express AER Root driver is a Root Port service driver attached 56to the PCI Express Port Bus driver. If a user wants to use it, the driver 57has to be compiled. Option CONFIG_PCIEAER supports this capability. It 58depends on CONFIG_PCIEPORTBUS, so pls. set CONFIG_PCIEPORTBUS=y and 59CONFIG_PCIEAER = y. 60 61Load PCI Express AER Root Driver 62-------------------------------- 63 64Some systems have AER support in firmware. Enabling Linux AER support at 65the same time the firmware handles AER may result in unpredictable 66behavior. Therefore, Linux does not handle AER events unless the firmware 67grants AER control to the OS via the ACPI _OSC method. See the PCI FW 3.0 68Specification for details regarding _OSC usage. 69 70AER error output 71---------------- 72 73When a PCIe AER error is captured, an error message will be output to 74console. If it's a correctable error, it is output as a warning. 75Otherwise, it is printed as an error. So users could choose different 76log level to filter out correctable error messages. 77 78Below shows an example:: 79 80 0000:50:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Uncorrected (Fatal), type=Transaction Layer, id=0500(Requester ID) 81 0000:50:00.0: device [8086:0329] error status/mask=00100000/00000000 82 0000:50:00.0: [20] Unsupported Request (First) 83 0000:50:00.0: TLP Header: 04000001 00200a03 05010000 00050100 84 85In the example, 'Requester ID' means the ID of the device who sends 86the error message to root port. Pls. refer to pci express specs for 87other fields. 88 89AER Statistics / Counters 90------------------------- 91 92When PCIe AER errors are captured, the counters / statistics are also exposed 93in the form of sysfs attributes which are documented at 94Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-devices-aer_stats 95 96Developer Guide 97=============== 98 99To enable AER aware support requires a software driver to configure 100the AER capability structure within its device and to provide callbacks. 101 102To support AER better, developers need understand how AER does work 103firstly. 104 105PCI Express errors are classified into two types: correctable errors 106and uncorrectable errors. This classification is based on the impacts 107of those errors, which may result in degraded performance or function 108failure. 109 110Correctable errors pose no impacts on the functionality of the 111interface. The PCI Express protocol can recover without any software 112intervention or any loss of data. These errors are detected and 113corrected by hardware. Unlike correctable errors, uncorrectable 114errors impact functionality of the interface. Uncorrectable errors 115can cause a particular transaction or a particular PCI Express link 116to be unreliable. Depending on those error conditions, uncorrectable 117errors are further classified into non-fatal errors and fatal errors. 118Non-fatal errors cause the particular transaction to be unreliable, 119but the PCI Express link itself is fully functional. Fatal errors, on 120the other hand, cause the link to be unreliable. 121 122When AER is enabled, a PCI Express device will automatically send an 123error message to the PCIe root port above it when the device captures 124an error. The Root Port, upon receiving an error reporting message, 125internally processes and logs the error message in its PCI Express 126capability structure. Error information being logged includes storing 127the error reporting agent's requestor ID into the Error Source 128Identification Registers and setting the error bits of the Root Error 129Status Register accordingly. If AER error reporting is enabled in Root 130Error Command Register, the Root Port generates an interrupt if an 131error is detected. 132 133Note that the errors as described above are related to the PCI Express 134hierarchy and links. These errors do not include any device specific 135errors because device specific errors will still get sent directly to 136the device driver. 137 138Configure the AER capability structure 139-------------------------------------- 140 141AER aware drivers of PCI Express component need change the device 142control registers to enable AER. They also could change AER registers, 143including mask and severity registers. Helper function 144pci_enable_pcie_error_reporting could be used to enable AER. See 145section 3.3. 146 147Provide callbacks 148----------------- 149 150callback reset_link to reset pci express link 151~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 152 153This callback is used to reset the pci express physical link when a 154fatal error happens. The root port aer service driver provides a 155default reset_link function, but different upstream ports might 156have different specifications to reset pci express link, so all 157upstream ports should provide their own reset_link functions. 158 159Section 3.2.2.2 provides more detailed info on when to call 160reset_link. 161 162PCI error-recovery callbacks 163~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 164 165The PCI Express AER Root driver uses error callbacks to coordinate 166with downstream device drivers associated with a hierarchy in question 167when performing error recovery actions. 168 169Data struct pci_driver has a pointer, err_handler, to point to 170pci_error_handlers who consists of a couple of callback function 171pointers. AER driver follows the rules defined in 172pci-error-recovery.txt except pci express specific parts (e.g. 173reset_link). Pls. refer to pci-error-recovery.txt for detailed 174definitions of the callbacks. 175 176Below sections specify when to call the error callback functions. 177 178Correctable errors 179~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 180 181Correctable errors pose no impacts on the functionality of 182the interface. The PCI Express protocol can recover without any 183software intervention or any loss of data. These errors do not 184require any recovery actions. The AER driver clears the device's 185correctable error status register accordingly and logs these errors. 186 187Non-correctable (non-fatal and fatal) errors 188~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 189 190If an error message indicates a non-fatal error, performing link reset 191at upstream is not required. The AER driver calls error_detected(dev, 192pci_channel_io_normal) to all drivers associated within a hierarchy in 193question. for example:: 194 195 EndPoint<==>DownstreamPort B<==>UpstreamPort A<==>RootPort 196 197If Upstream port A captures an AER error, the hierarchy consists of 198Downstream port B and EndPoint. 199 200A driver may return PCI_ERS_RESULT_CAN_RECOVER, 201PCI_ERS_RESULT_DISCONNECT, or PCI_ERS_RESULT_NEED_RESET, depending on 202whether it can recover or the AER driver calls mmio_enabled as next. 203 204If an error message indicates a fatal error, kernel will broadcast 205error_detected(dev, pci_channel_io_frozen) to all drivers within 206a hierarchy in question. Then, performing link reset at upstream is 207necessary. As different kinds of devices might use different approaches 208to reset link, AER port service driver is required to provide the 209function to reset link via callback parameter of pcie_do_recovery() 210function. If reset_link is not NULL, recovery function will use it 211to reset the link. If error_detected returns PCI_ERS_RESULT_CAN_RECOVER 212and reset_link returns PCI_ERS_RESULT_RECOVERED, the error handling goes 213to mmio_enabled. 214 215helper functions 216---------------- 217:: 218 219 int pci_enable_pcie_error_reporting(struct pci_dev *dev); 220 221pci_enable_pcie_error_reporting enables the device to send error 222messages to root port when an error is detected. Note that devices 223don't enable the error reporting by default, so device drivers need 224call this function to enable it. 225 226:: 227 228 int pci_disable_pcie_error_reporting(struct pci_dev *dev); 229 230pci_disable_pcie_error_reporting disables the device to send error 231messages to root port when an error is detected. 232 233:: 234 235 int pci_aer_clear_nonfatal_status(struct pci_dev *dev);` 236 237pci_aer_clear_nonfatal_status clears non-fatal errors in the uncorrectable 238error status register. 239 240Frequent Asked Questions 241------------------------ 242 243Q: 244 What happens if a PCI Express device driver does not provide an 245 error recovery handler (pci_driver->err_handler is equal to NULL)? 246 247A: 248 The devices attached with the driver won't be recovered. If the 249 error is fatal, kernel will print out warning messages. Please refer 250 to section 3 for more information. 251 252Q: 253 What happens if an upstream port service driver does not provide 254 callback reset_link? 255 256A: 257 Fatal error recovery will fail if the errors are reported by the 258 upstream ports who are attached by the service driver. 259 260Q: 261 How does this infrastructure deal with driver that is not PCI 262 Express aware? 263 264A: 265 This infrastructure calls the error callback functions of the 266 driver when an error happens. But if the driver is not aware of 267 PCI Express, the device might not report its own errors to root 268 port. 269 270Q: 271 What modifications will that driver need to make it compatible 272 with the PCI Express AER Root driver? 273 274A: 275 It could call the helper functions to enable AER in devices and 276 cleanup uncorrectable status register. Pls. refer to section 3.3. 277 278 279Software error injection 280======================== 281 282Debugging PCIe AER error recovery code is quite difficult because it 283is hard to trigger real hardware errors. Software based error 284injection can be used to fake various kinds of PCIe errors. 285 286First you should enable PCIe AER software error injection in kernel 287configuration, that is, following item should be in your .config. 288 289CONFIG_PCIEAER_INJECT=y or CONFIG_PCIEAER_INJECT=m 290 291After reboot with new kernel or insert the module, a device file named 292/dev/aer_inject should be created. 293 294Then, you need a user space tool named aer-inject, which can be gotten 295from: 296 297 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gong.chen/aer-inject.git/ 298 299More information about aer-inject can be found in the document comes 300with its source code. 301