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Re: PCIe debugging error messages - kern.log



On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:43:56 -0500, Andrew Peng wrote:

> I've been working with the Intel E1000 development team in trying to
> find the cause of a hardware hang in my kern.log:

(...)

I've read the report you posted at "e1000-devel" mailing list.

> One of the steps to find the cause of this is to enable extended error
> reporting by using ethtool:
> sudo ethtool -s eth1 msglvl 0x2c01
> 
> This will tell the driver to dump extended debugging (a PCIe Ring Dump)
> info to the kernel log with another error is detected. However, after
> enabling this extended logging, the next time an error occurs, I still
> don't get the debug dump in the kern.log. I get basically the same info
> as above.

(...)

It could be something specific to the kernel module in use (e1000e). 
Consider sending this question also at "debian-kernel" where Debian 
kernel hackers use to be.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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