Re: [Qemu-devel] seek help for AER

[Alex Williamson]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 18:21:53 +0800
Cao jin <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> First, sorry for such a long time delay on the AER job. I was on 12 days
> holiday, and start to work on the patch 2 weeks ago, because I use a
> newer version kernel(4.10 rc8) to start off the work, several tiny
> problems slow me.
> 
> Now I meet a confusing issue on aer_inject module. When I use aer_inject
> command before, it says:
> 
>     Error: Failed to write, No such device
> 
> then in dmesg, it says:
> 
>     pcieport 0000:00:09.0: aer_inject: AER device not found
> 
> and then I add some debug line in find_aer_device_iter() to check
> device->bus-name, find that it is "pci", so that is why I can't inject,
> it should have been "pci_express". But everything is same as before
> except a newer host kernel.
> 
> I still don't have a clue on this problem for almost 2 days, could you help?

If it only happens with a new host kernel, I would suggest finding a
kernel where it works and bisecting between working and non-working
kernels to find the commit that introduced the change.  You may have
found a regression in the kernel that should be reported upstream.
Thanks,

Alex