Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] PCI: brcmstb: Add panic/die handler to RC driver

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Wed Jan 06 2021 - 14:20:33 EST


On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 04:11:42PM -0500, Jim Quinlan wrote:
> Whereas most PCIe HW returns 0xffffffff on illegal accesses and the like,
> by default Broadcom's STB PCIe controller effects an abort. This simple
> handler determines if the PCIe controller was the cause of the abort and if
> so, prints out diagnostic info.
>
> Example output:
> brcm-pcie 8b20000.pcie: Error: Mem Acc: 32bit, Read, @0x38000000
> brcm-pcie 8b20000.pcie: Type: TO=0 Abt=0 UnspReq=1 AccDsble=0 BadAddr=0

What does this mean for all the other PCI core code that expects
0xffffffff data returns? Does it work? Does it break differently on
STB than on other platforms?

> +/*
> + * Dump out pcie errors on die or panic.

s/pcie/PCIe/
This could be a single-line comment.

> + */