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@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
