Re: read the memory mapped address - pcie - kernel hangs

[Muni Sekhar <munisekharrms@gmail.com>]

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Thanks, I'll check it out.

On Sat, 11 Jan, 2020, 4:33 AM Onur Atilla, <onurati@posteo.de> wrote:

> On 10.01.20 15:58, Muni Sekhar wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 4:46 PM Primoz Beltram <primoz.beltram@kate.si>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >> Have read also other replays to this topic.
> >> I have seen-debug such deadlock problems with FPGA based PCIe endpoint
> >> devices (Xilinx chips) and usually (if not signal integrity problems),
> >> the problem was in wrong AXI master/slave bus handling in FPGA design.
> >> I guess you have FPGA Xilinx PCIe endpoint IP core attached as AXI
> >> master to FPGA internal AXI bus (access to AXI slaves inside FPGA
> design).
> >> If FPGA code in your design does not handle correctly AXI master
> >> read/write requests, e.g. FPGA AXI slave does not generate bus ACK in
> >> correct way, the PCIe bus will stay locked (no PCIe completion sent
> >> back), resulting in complete system lock. Some PCIe root chips have
> >> diagnostic LEDs to help decode PCIe problems.
> >>  From your notice about doing two 32bit reads on 64bit CPU, I would
> >> guess the problem is in handling AXI transfer size signals in FPGA slave
> >> code.
> >> I would suggest you to check the code in FPGA design. You can use FPGA
> >> test bench simulation to check the behaviour of PCIe endpoint originated
> >> AXI read/write requests.
> >> Xilinx provides test bench simulation code for their PCIe IP's.
> >> They provide also PCIe root port model, so you can simulate AXI
> >> read/writes accesses as they would come from CPU I/O memory requests via
> >> PCIe TLPs.
> > Thank you so much for sharing valuable information, will work on this.
> >
> >> WBR Primoz
>
> Hi,
>
> you may also want to have a look at the AXI Timeout Block (ATB) to
> prevent system/core locks due to a missing ACK of a slave. If given by
> the HW, ATB generates an alternative response in case the slave fails to
> respond within a given time. It may also trigger an interrupt to help
> handle/debug the error.
>
> Regards,
> Onur
>
>

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