X-Gene: Unhandled fault: synchronous external abort in pci_generic_config_read32

[Catalin Marinas]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 05:05:19PM -0700, Duc Dang wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com> wrote:
> > I regularly see faults like this on an APM X-Gene:
> >
> >   U-Boot 2013.04-mustang_sw_1.14.14 (Dec 16 2014 - 15:59:33)
> >   CPU0: APM ARM 64-bit Potenza Rev B0 2400MHz PCP 2400MHz
> >        32 KB ICACHE, 32 KB DCACHE
> >        SOC 2000MHz IOBAXI 400MHz AXI 250MHz AHB 200MHz GFC 125MHz
> >   ...
> >   Unhandled fault: synchronous external abort (0x96000010) at 0xffffff8000110034

That's generated by an external device (PCIe root complex, card etc.)
and some mis-configured CPU setting.

> >   Internal error: : 96000010 [#1] SMP
> >   Modules linked in:
> >   CPU: 0 PID: 3723 Comm: ... 4.1.0-smp-DEV #3
> >   Hardware name: APM X-Gene Mustang board (DT)
> >   task: ffffffc7dc1a4140 ti: ffffffc7dc118000 task.ti: ffffffc7dc118000
> >   PC is at pci_generic_config_read32+0x4c/0xb8
> >   LR is at pci_generic_config_read32+0x40/0xb8
> >   pc : [<ffffffc00033b90c>] lr : [<ffffffc00033b900>] pstate: 600001c5
> >   ...
> >   Call trace:
> >   [<ffffffc00033b90c>] pci_generic_config_read32+0x4c/0xb8
> >   [<ffffffc00033bf58>] pci_user_read_config_byte+0x60/0xc4
> >   [<ffffffc0003496a8>] pci_read_config+0x15c/0x238
> >   [<ffffffc0002393b4>] sysfs_kf_bin_read+0x68/0xa0
> >   [<ffffffc00023896c>] kernfs_fop_read+0x9c/0x1ac
> >   [<ffffffc0001c361c>] __vfs_read+0x44/0x128
> >   [<ffffffc0001c3e28>] vfs_read+0x84/0x144
> >   [<ffffffc0001c4764>] SyS_read+0x50/0xb0
> 
> The log shows kernel gets an exception when trying to access Mellanox
> card configuration space. This is usually due to suboptimal PCIe
> SerDes parameters are using in your board, which will cause bad link
> quality.

I would have hoped that "suboptimal" means that it still works, albeit
not fully optimal ;).

> The PCIe SerDes programming is done in U-Boot, so I suggest you do a
> U-Boot upgrade to our latest X-Gene U-Boot release.
> 
> In order to access latest X-Gene U-Boot release, please use APM
> official support channel:
> https://myapm.apm.com
> 
> Please register an account at myapm.apm.com if you don't have one
> using following link:
> https://myapm.apm.com/user/register

Isn't the latest U-Boot source for X-Gene publicly available anywhere?
It's GPL code anyway, so it shouldn't have proprietary code to require
registration, click-through agreements.

-- 
Catalin