RE: [PATCH v3 0/3] Add support for RAS DES feature in PCIe DW

["Shradha Todi" <shradha.t@samsung.com>]

Hey Nitish,

Due to some discussions about including this in the EDAC framework etc, the patches got
delayed. Sorry about that. I am already working on the next version and will post it by this
Friday! Feel free to add review comments to the previous version if there are any so that
I can include them in my next version.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nitesh Gupta <quic_nitegupt@quicinc.com>
> Sent: 26 November 2024 12:46
> To: Krishna Chaitanya Chundru <quic_krichai@quicinc.com>; Shradha Todi
> <shradha.t@samsung.com>; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-
> pci@vger.kernel.org
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Add support for RAS DES feature in PCIe DW
> 
> Hi Shradha,
> 
> Can you please update on status of this Patch?
> 
> Are you going to take it up or is it fine for us to take it up?
> 
> -Nitesh Gupta
> 
> On 11/26/2024 10:47 AM, Krishna Chaitanya Chundru wrote:
> >
> > forgot to add the email in the previous mail.
> >
> > - Krishna chaitanya.
> > On 6/25/2024 3:08 PM, Shradha Todi wrote:
> >> DesignWare controller provides a vendor specific extended capability
> >> called RASDES as an IP feature. This extended capability provides
> >> hardware information like:
> >>   - Debug registers to know the state of the link or controller.
> >>   - Error injection mechanisms to inject various PCIe errors
> >> including
> >>     sequence number, CRC
> >>   - Statistical counters to know how many times a particular event
> >>     occurred
> >>
> >> However, in Linux we do not have any generic or custom support to be
> >> able to use this feature in an efficient manner. This is the reason
> >> we are proposing this framework. Debug and bring up time of
> >> high-speed IPs are highly dependent on costlier hardware analyzers
> >> and this solution will in some ways help to reduce the HW analyzer usage.
> >>
> >> The debugfs entries can be used to get information about underlying
> >> hardware and can be shared with user space. Separate debugfs entries
> >> has been created to cater to all the DES hooks provided by the controller.
> >> The debugfs entries interacts with the RASDES registers in the
> >> required sequence and provides the meaningful data to the user. This
> >> eases the effort to understand and use the register information for
> debugging.
> >>
> >> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240319163315.GD3297@thinkpad/T/
> >>
> >> v1:
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210518174618.42089-1-shradha.t@samsung.
> >> com/T/
> >>
> >> Shradha Todi (3):
> >>    PCI: dwc: Add support for vendor specific capability search
> >>    PCI: debugfs: Add support for RASDES framework in DWC
> >>    PCI: dwc: Create debugfs files in DWC driver
> >>
> >>   drivers/pci/controller/dwc/Kconfig            |   8 +
> >>   drivers/pci/controller/dwc/Makefile           |   1 +
> >>   .../controller/dwc/pcie-designware-debugfs.c  | 474
> >> ++++++++++++++++++
> >>   .../controller/dwc/pcie-designware-debugfs.h  |   0
> >>   .../pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c |   2 +
> >>   drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware.c  |  20 +
> >>   drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware.h  |  18 +
> >>   7 files changed, 523 insertions(+)
> >>   create mode 100644
> >> drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-debugfs.c
> >>   create mode 100644
> >> drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-debugfs.h
> >>