On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 10:00:21PM +0530, Naveen Naidu wrote: > On 20/10, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 10:48:08PM +0530, Naveen Naidu wrote: > > > Currently, we do not print the "id" field in the AER error logs. Yet the > > > aer_agent_string[] has the word "id" in it. The AER error log looks > > > like: > > > > > > pcieport 0000:00:03.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Data Link Layer, (Receiver ID) > > > > > > Without the "id" field in the error log, The aer_agent_string[] > > > (eg: "Receiver ID") does not make sense. A user reading the > > > aer_agent_string[] in the log, might inadvertently look for an "id" > > > field and not finding it might lead to confusion. > > > > > > Remove the "ID" from the aer_agent_string[]. > > > > > > The following are sample dummy errors inject via aer-inject. > > > > I like this, and the problem it fixes was my fault because > > these "ID" strings should have been removed by 010caed4ccb6. > > > > If it's straightforward enough, it would be nice to have the > > aer-inject command line here in the commit log to make it easier > > for people to play with this. > > > > Thank you for the review. Do you mean something like: > > The following sample dummy errors are injected via aer-inject via the > following steps: > > 1. The steps to compile the aer-inject tool is mentioned in (Section > 4. Software error inject) of the document [1] > > [1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.txt > > Make sure to place the aer-inject executable at the home directory > of the qemu system or at any other place. > > 2. Emulate a PCIE architecture using qemu, A sample looks like > following: > > qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel ../linux/arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage \ > -initrd buildroot-build/images/rootfs.cpio.gz \ > -append "console=ttyS0" \ > -enable-kvm -nographic \ > -M q35 \ > -device pcie-root-port,bus=pcie.0,id=rp1,slot=1 \ > -device pcie-pci-bridge,id=br1,bus=rp1 \ > -device e1000,bus=br1,addr=8 > > Note that the PCIe features are available only when using the > 'q35' Machine [2] > [2]: https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/docs/pcie.txt > > 3. Once the qemu system starts up, create a sample aer-file or use any > example aer file from [3] > > [3]: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gong.chen/aer-inject.git/tree/examples > > 4. Inject any aer-error using > > ./aer-inject aer-file > > This does look a tad bit longer for a commit log so I am unsure if you > would like to have it there. If you are okay with it, I would be happy > to add it to that :) Yes, that's kind of long. Something like this https://git.kernel.org/linus/d95f20c4f070 would be enough for the commit log, especially since you've now provided all the details in the email thread, where we can find them via the Link: tag. Bjorn
