Re: cx88 pci_abort messages

[Scott <linux-kernel@bluecamel.eml.cc>]

On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 12:48 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> > On Oct 4, 2007, at 11:52 AM, Scott wrote:
> > 
> >> I'm having what I think is a PCI bus problem.
> >>
> >> I have a ASUS P5B Intel 965 motherboard and a DVICO Fusion HDTV5 RT
> >> adapter on the PCI bus. When this adapter is recording (anything) I see
> >> Oct  2 21:59:12 htpc cx88[0]: irq mpeg  [0x80000] pci_abort*
> >> Oct  2 21:59:12 htpc cx88[0]/2-mpeg: general errors: 0x00080000
> >> Oct  2 21:59:20 htpc cx88[0]: irq mpeg  [0x80000] pci_abort*
> >> Oct  2 21:59:20 htpc cx88[0]/2-mpeg: general errors: 0x00080000
> >> Oct  2 21:59:32 htpc cx88[0]: irq mpeg  [0x80000] pci_abort*
> >> Oct  2 21:59:32 htpc cx88[0]/2-mpeg: general errors: 0x0008000
> >
> PCI aborts won't have anything to do with interrupts. It's a PCI DMA 
> transfer that either the initiator (here, the TV card) or the target 
> (the chipset host bridge) decided to puke on for some reason. Possibly 
> parity errors?

I assumed it was an interrupt issue based on the 'irq mepg' error, not a
DMA issue. Any suggestions on how to log more information about PCI DMA
events on a system wide basis? 

I've seen this since 2.6.18.

-- 
Scott <linux-kernel@bluecamel.eml.cc>

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