On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 04:20:03PM +0530, Shradha Todi wrote: > DesignWare controller provides a vendor specific extended capability > called RASDES as an IP feature. This extended capability provides > hardware information like: > - Debug registers to know the state of the link or controller. > - Error injection mechanisms to inject various PCIe errors including > sequence number, CRC > - Statistical counters to know how many times a particular event > occurred > > However, in Linux we do not have any generic or custom support to be > able to use this feature in an efficient manner. This is the reason we > are proposing this framework. Debug and bring up time of high-speed IPs > are highly dependent on costlier hardware analyzers and this solution > will in some ways help to reduce the HW analyzer usage. > > The debugfs entries can be used to get information about underlying > hardware and can be shared with user space. Separate debugfs entries has > been created to cater to all the DES hooks provided by the controller. > The debugfs entries interacts with the RASDES registers in the required > sequence and provides the meaningful data to the user. This eases the > effort to understand and use the register information for debugging. > > This series creates a generic debugfs framework for DesignWare PCIe > controllers where other debug features apart from RASDES can also be > added as and when required. FWIW, for the series: Tested-by: Niklas Cassel <cassel@xxxxxxxxxx>
