Re: pcieport AER error spam on Intel Skylake

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Daniel Drake <drake@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Working with a sample for a new laptop based on Intel Skylake, the
> kernel logs are full of these messages:
>
>  pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: Corrected error received: id=00e5
>  pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected,
> type=Physical Layer, id=00e5(Receiver ID)
>  pcieport 0000:00:1c.5:   device [8086:9d15] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
>  pcieport 0000:00:1c.5:    [ 0] Receiver Error         (First)
>  pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: Corrected error received: id=00e5
>  pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected,
> type=Physical Layer, id=00e5(Receiver ID)
>  pcieport 0000:00:1c.5:   device [8086:9d15] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
>  pcieport 0000:00:1c.5:    [ 0] Receiver Error         (First)
>  pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: Corrected error received: id=00e5
>  pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: can't find device of ID00e5
>
> Reproduced on 4.2 and on linus master as of today, using x86_64_defconfig.
>
> Apart from the log spam, there is no user-visible effect that I'm
> aware of. Booting with pci=nomsi makes the messages go away.
>
> Any thoughts, is this something worth looking into in more detail?
>
> full dmesg: https://gist.github.com/dsd/1d7f738e917465edf2ae
> lspci dump: https://gist.github.com/dsd/dc2481d64aadd520b0b3

Thanks, Daniel, this is indeed really annoying and worth looking into.
Do you happen to know whether it's a regression?  We haven't changed
much in AER recently, but it's possible we broke something.

Even if it's not a regression, the output seems a bit wordy and redundant.

Bjorn
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