[PATCHv3 pci-next 1/2] PCI/AER: correctable error message as KERN_INFO

[Ethan Zhao]

On 3/25/2024 1:19 AM, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-09-18 at 14:39 -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 07:42:30PM +0800, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
>>> ...
>>> My workstation suffers from too much correctable AER reporting as well
>>> (related to Intel's errata "RPL013: Incorrectly Formed PCIe Packets May
>>> Generate Correctable Errors" and/or the motherboard design, I guess).
>> We should rate-limit correctable error reporting so it's not
>> overwhelming.
>>
>> At the same time, I'm *also* interested in the cause of these errors,
>> in case there's a Linux defect or a hardware erratum that we can work
>> around.  Do you have a bug report with any more details, e.g., a dmesg
>> log and "sudo lspci -vv" output?
> Hi Bjorn,
>
> Sorry for the *very* late reply (somehow I didn't see the reply at all
> before it was removed by my cron job, and now I just savaged it from
> lore.kernel.org...)
>
> The dmesg is like:
>
> [  882.456994] pcieport 0000:00:1c.1: AER: Multiple Correctable error message received from 0000:00:1c.1
> [  882.457002] pcieport 0000:00:1c.1: AER: found no error details for 0000:00:1c.1
> [  882.457003] pcieport 0000:00:1c.1: AER: Multiple Correctable error message received from 0000:06:00.0
> [  883.545763] pcieport 0000:00:1c.1: AER: Multiple Correctable error message received from 0000:00:1c.1
> [  883.545789] pcieport 0000:00:1c.1: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Correctable, type=Physical Layer, (Receiver ID)
> [  883.545790] pcieport 0000:00:1c.1:   device [8086:7a39] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
> [  883.545792] pcieport 0000:00:1c.1:    [ 0] RxErr                  (First)
> [  883.545794] pcieport 0000:00:1c.1: AER:   Error of this Agent is reported first
> [  883.545798] r8169 0000:06:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Correctable, type=Physical Layer, (Transmitter ID)
> [  883.545799] r8169 0000:06:00.0:   device [10ec:8125] error status/mask=00001101/0000e000
> [  883.545800] r8169 0000:06:00.0:    [ 0] RxErr                  (First)
> [  883.545801] r8169 0000:06:00.0:    [ 8] Rollover
> [  883.545802] r8169 0000:06:00.0:    [12] Timeout
> [  883.545815] pcieport 0000:00:1c.1: AER: Correctable error message received from 0000:00:1c.1
> [  883.545823] pcieport 0000:00:1c.1: AER: found no error details for 0000:00:1c.1
> [  883.545824] pcieport 0000:00:1c.1: AER: Multiple Correctable error message received from 0000:06:00.0
>
> lspci output attached.
>
> Intel has issued an errata "RPL013" saying:
>
> "Under complex microarchitectural conditions, the PCIe controller may
> transmit an incorrectly formed Transaction Layer Packet (TLP), which
> will fail CRC checks. When this erratum occurs, the PCIe end point may
> record correctable errors resulting in either a NAK or link recovery.
> Intel® has not observed any functional impact due to this erratum."
>
> But I'm really unsure if it describes my issue.
>
> Do you think I have some broken hardware and I should replace the CPU
> and/or the motherboard (where the r8169 is soldered)?  I've noticed that
> my 13900K is almost impossible to overclock (despite it's a K), but I've
> not encountered any issue other than these AER reporting so far after I
> gave up overclocking.

Seems there are two r8169 nics on your board, only 0000:06:00.0 reports
aer errors, how about another one the 0000:07:00.0 nic ?


Thanks,
Ethan