RE: EDAC PCIe errors when scannning the bus

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Hello,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-pci-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-pci-
> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Valentin Longchamp
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 5:47 AM
> To: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: EDAC PCIe errors when scannning the bus
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We have a board that is based on Freescale's P2041 SoC. The boards has 2
> PCIe buses with this topology:
> 
> PCIe 0 <---> PEX8505 switch <---> 4 network devices PCIE 2 <---> FPGA
> 
> On 3.10.33 + a subset of the Freescale SDK 1.4 patches, both PCIe buses
> work well and we are able to use the devices on them.
> 
> For each bus, I however keep getting EDAC PCIe errors at the very first
> stage of bus enumeration (please see the attached kernel log, with some
> debug output from arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c and
> drivers/pci/probe.c) for both buses.
> 
> My current "understanding" of the situation is such: since
> PCI_PROBE_NORMAL is used, pcibios_scan_phb() calls pci_scan_child_bus()
> that does a pci_scan_slot() on the bus for 32 slots. The first
> pci_scan_slot() is successful and it discovers the P2041's PCIe
> Controller. All the 31 other pci_scan_slot() calls generate an EDAC PCIe
> error, that is triggered by the configuration read transaction to read
> an hypothetical vendor ID of a device on the bus. This is relevant with
> that is reported by the EDAC error handler (all the 31 are the same):
> 
> > PCIE error(s) detected
> > PCIE ERR_DR register: 0x00020000
> 
> ICCA bit is set: Access to an illegal configuration space from
> PEX_CONFIG_ADDR/PEX_CONFIG_DATA was detected.
> 
> > PCIE ERR_CAP_STAT register: 0x80000001
> 
> To is set: Transaction originated from PEX_CONFIG_ADDR/PEX_CONFIG_DATA.
> 
> > PCIE ERR_CAP_R0 register: 0x00000800
> 
> FMT: 0b00, TYPE: 0b00100 (Config read I guess)
> 
> > PCIE ERR_CAP_R1 register: 0x00000000
> > PCIE ERR_CAP_R2 register: 0x00000000
> > PCIE ERR_CAP_R3 register: 0x00000000
> 
> Afterwards, pci_scan_child_bus() calls pcibios_fixup_bus (that maybe
> helps ?).
> From here, since the P2041's PCIe Controller is a bridge,
> pci_scan_bridge is called for this bus and all the devices are detected
> without having any configuration transaction causing EDAC errors.
> 
> Has someone already observed such a behavior ? Why do these initial
> transaction generate an error ? What would be a possible fix to avoid
> these transaction errors for these 31 (unneded ?) pci_scan_slot() calls
> on the initial bus ?

I see this too on my P5020 based platform. No fix yet, for now disabling the EDAC.

Thanks,

Rajat

> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Valentin
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