Re: [PATCH] PCI/AER: Add kernel.aer_print_skip_mask to control aer log

[Bjorn Helgaas]

[+cc Jon, Karolina]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 03:57:03PM +0800, Bijie Xu wrote:
> Sometimes certain PCIE devices installed on some servers occasionally
> produce large number of AER correctable error logs, which is quite
> annoying. Add this sysctl parameter kernel.aer_print_skip_mask to
> skip printing AER errors of certain severity.
> 
> The AER severity can be 0(NONFATAL), 1(FATAL), 2(CORRECTABLE). The 3
> low bits of the mask are used to skip these 3 severities. Set bit 0
> can skip printing NONFATAL AER errors, and set bit 1 can skip printing
> FATAL AER errors, set bit 2 can skip printing CORRECTABLE AER errors.
> And multiple bits can be set to skip multiple severities.

This is definitely annoying, actually MORE than annoying in some
cases.

I'm hoping the correctable error rate-limiting work can reduce the
annoyance to an tolerable level:

  https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250214023543.992372-1-pandoh@xxxxxxxxxx

Can you take a look at this and see if it's going the right direction
for you, or if it needs extensions to do what you need?

> Signed-off-by: Bijie Xu <bijie.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
> index 80c5ba8d8296..b46973526bcf 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
> @@ -698,6 +698,7 @@ static void __aer_print_error(struct pci_dev *dev,
>  	pci_dev_aer_stats_incr(dev, info);
>  }
>  
> +unsigned int aer_print_skip_mask __read_mostly;
>  void aer_print_error(struct pci_dev *dev, struct aer_err_info *info)
>  {
>  	int layer, agent;
> @@ -710,6 +711,9 @@ void aer_print_error(struct pci_dev *dev, struct aer_err_info *info)
>  		goto out;
>  	}
>  
> +	if ((1 << info->severity) & aer_print_skip_mask)
> +		goto out;
> +
>  	layer = AER_GET_LAYER_ERROR(info->severity, info->status);
>  	agent = AER_GET_AGENT(info->severity, info->status);
>  
> @@ -1596,3 +1600,22 @@ int __init pcie_aer_init(void)
>  		return -ENXIO;
>  	return pcie_port_service_register(&aerdriver);
>  }
> +
> +static const struct ctl_table aer_print_skip_mask_sysctls[] = {
> +	{
> +		.procname       = "aer_print_skip_mask",
> +		.data           = &aer_print_skip_mask,
> +		.maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned int),
> +		.mode           = 0644,
> +		.proc_handler   = &proc_douintvec,
> +	},
> +	{}
> +};
> +
> +static int __init aer_print_skip_mask_sysctl_init(void)
> +{
> +	register_sysctl_init("kernel", aer_print_skip_mask_sysctls);
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +late_initcall(aer_print_skip_mask_sysctl_init);
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>