Re: [PATCH v8] PCI: hotplug: Add a generic RAS tracepoint for hotplug event
From: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
Date: 2025-07-17 06:00:39
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在 2025/7/17 06:25, Bjorn Helgaas 写道:
[+cc Ilpo, Jonathan (should have been included since the patch has his Reviewed-by)]
Thanks.
Thanks for the ping; I noticed quite a bit of discussion but didn't follow it myself, so didn't know it was basically all resolved. On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 09:38:39AM +0800, Shuai Xue wrote:quoted
Hotplug events are critical indicators for analyzing hardware health, particularly in AI supercomputers where surprise link downs can significantly impact system performance and reliability.I dropped the "particularly in AI supercomputers" part because I think this is relevant in general.quoted
To this end, define a new TRACING_SYSTEM named pci, add a generic RAS tracepoint for hotplug event to help healthy check, and generate tracepoints for pcie hotplug event.I'm not quite clear on the difference between "add generic RAS tracepoint for hotplug event" and "generate tracepoints for pcie hotplug event." Are these two different things?
The purpose of this patch is to address the lack of tracepoints for PCIe hotplug events in our production environment. In the initial RFC version, I defined tracepoints such as "Link Up" and "Link Down" specifically for PCIe hotplug. Later, Lukas suggested that these tracepoints could be made more generic so that other PCI hotplug drivers could also use them. That’s why, when defining the event, I used a "generic" pci_hotplug_event instead of a pcie_hotplug_event. If you're interested in more details about this discussion, please refer to this link[1]. [1]https://erol.kernel.org/linux-pci/git/0/commit/?id=0ffd56f572f25bcd6c2265a1863848a18dce0e29 However, currently only PCIe hotplug is using these tracepoints, which is why the CREATE_TRACE_POINTS macro is placed in drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_ctrl.c.
I see the new TRACE_EVENT(pci_hp_event, ...) definition. Is that what you mean by the "generic RAS tracepoint"?
Yes.
And the five new trace_pci_hp_event() calls that use the TRACE_EVENT are the "tracepoints for PCIe hotplug event"?
Actually, the tracepoints are generic, although right now they are only used for PCIe hotplug.
quoted
Add enum pci_hotplug_event in include/uapi/linux/pci.h so applications like rasdaemon can register tracepoint event handlers for it. The output like below: $ echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/pci/pci_hp_event/enable $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe <...>-206 [001] ..... 40.373870: pci_hp_event: 0000:00:02.0 slot:10, event:Link Down <...>-206 [001] ..... 40.374871: pci_hp_event: 0000:00:02.0 slot:10, event:Card not presentquoted
+#define PCI_HOTPLUG_EVENT \ + EM(PCI_HOTPLUG_LINK_UP, "Link Up") \ + EM(PCI_HOTPLUG_LINK_DOWN, "Link Down") \ + EM(PCI_HOTPLUG_CARD_PRESENT, "Card present") \ + EMe(PCI_HOTPLUG_CARD_NOT_PRESENT, "Card not present")Running this: $ git grep -E "\<(EM|EMe)\(" I notice that these new events don't look like the others, which mostly look like "word" or "event-type" or "VERB object". I'm OK with this, but just giving you a chance to consider what will be the least surprise to users and easiest for grep and shell scripting.
I think this is also common. For example, MF_PAGE_TYPE for
memory_failure_event uses a similar format:
#define MF_PAGE_TYPE \
EM ( MF_MSG_KERNEL, "reserved kernel page" ) \
EM ( MF_MSG_KERNEL_HIGH_ORDER, "high-order kernel page" )
and aer_uncorrectable_errors for aer_event:
#define aer_uncorrectable_errors \
{PCI_ERR_UNC_UND, "Undefined"}, \
{PCI_ERR_UNC_DLP, "Data Link Protocol Error"}, \
{PCI_ERR_UNC_SURPDN, "Surprise Down Error"}, \
{PCI_ERR_UNC_POISON_TLP,"Poisoned TLP"},
I also noticed capitalization of "Up" and "Down", but not "present" and "not present".
Aha, this is a bit tricky:) The original kernel log messages are not consistent either: ctrl_info(ctrl, "Slot(%s): Link Down\n", ctrl_info(ctrl, "Slot(%s): Card not present\n", I tried to keep the output as close as possible to the existing log messages. If you prefer a more consistent capitalization style, I can send another patch to fix that.
"Card" is only used occasionally and informally in the PCIe spec, and not at all in the context of hotplug of Slot Status (Presence Detect State refers to "adapter in the slot"), but it does match the pciehp dmesg text, so it probably makes sense to use that. Anyway, I applied this on pci/trace for v6.17. If there's anything you want to tweak in the commit log or event text, we can still do that. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pci/pci.git/commit/?h=trace Bjorn
Thank you again for applying this to pci/trace for v6.17. If there’s anything more to tweak in the commit log or event text, please let me know. Best regards, Shuai