Re: Error reports at boot time in Ampere Altra machines since c733ebb7c

[Darren Hart]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 11:25:37PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Mar 2023 20:17:32 +0000,
> Aristeu Rozanski <aris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Marc,
> > 
> > Since c733ebb7cb67d ("irqchip/gic-v3-its: Reset each ITS's BASERn
> > register before probe"), Ampere Altra machines are reporting corrected
> > errors during boot:
> > 
> > 	[    0.294334] HEST: Table parsing has been initialized.
> > 	[    0.294397] sdei: SDEIv1.0 (0x0) detected in firmware.
> > 	[    0.299622] {1}[Hardware Error]: Hardware error from APEI Generic Hardware Error Source: 0
> > 	[    0.299626] {1}[Hardware Error]: event severity: recoverable
> > 	[    0.299629] {1}[Hardware Error]:  Error 0, type: recoverable
> > 	[    0.299633] {1}[Hardware Error]:   section type: unknown, e8ed898d-df16-43cc-8ecc-54f060ef157f
> > 	[    0.299638] {1}[Hardware Error]:   section length: 0x30
> > 	[    0.299645] {1}[Hardware Error]:   00000000: 00000005 ec30000e 00080110 80001001  ......0.........
> > 	[    0.299648] {1}[Hardware Error]:   00000010: 00000300 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
> > 	[    0.299650] {1}[Hardware Error]:   00000020: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
> > 	[    0.299714] {2}[Hardware Error]: Hardware error from APEI Generic Hardware Error Source: 3
> > 	[    0.299716] {2}[Hardware Error]: event severity: recoverable
> > 	[    0.299717] {2}[Hardware Error]:  Error 0, type: recoverable
> > 	[    0.299718] {2}[Hardware Error]:   section type: unknown, e8ed898d-df16-43cc-8ecc-54f060ef157f
> > 	[    0.299720] {2}[Hardware Error]:   section length: 0x30
> > 	[    0.299722] {2}[Hardware Error]:   00000000: 40000005 ec30000e 00080110 80005001  ...@..0......P..
> > 	[    0.299724] {2}[Hardware Error]:   00000010: 00000300 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
> > 	[    0.299726] {2}[Hardware Error]:   00000020: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
> > 	[    0.299912] GHES: APEI firmware first mode is enabled by APEI bit.
> > 
> > Because the errors are being reported later in boot, it's hard to
> > pinpoint exactly what's causing it without decoding the error information,
> > which I currently don't know how to do it.
> 
> + Darren
> 
> Hopefully someone at Ampere can decode this and tell us what is happening.

Hi Marc,

+ D Scott

Thanks for the connection.

This is reporting that something attempted to access GITS2_BASER2, the base
register for the gicv4 vcpu table. Altra doesn't support gicv4. Is c733ebb7c
assuming GITS_BASER2 should be accessible on gicv3?


> 
> > There're no problems other than of course triggering tests because of
> > the warnings.
> 
> It says "Hardware Error". In my book, that's pretty bad. Do you see
> this on more than a single machine?
> 
> > Do you know what's going on here?
> 
> No idea. I haven't seen this on the Altra I have access to so far,
> 
> It could be related to firmware and/or things like power management,
> but again, someone needs to help us with the error report above.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	M.
> 
> -- 
> Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

-- 
Darren Hart
Ampere Computing / OS and Kernel