linux-kernel - Re: FLR on AER

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Date:   Thu, 22 Feb 2018 08:57:21 -0500
From:   Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org>
To:     Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>, helgaas@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FLR on AER

On 2/22/2018 8:21 AM, Jon Masters wrote:
> Hi Bjorn,
> 
> It looks like the AER driver won’t do a device FLR but instead will default to progressively bigger hammers. Am I missing something?
> 

AFAIK, AER driver does a secondary bus reset only if it observes a FATAL error. In order to
issue an FLR, driver needs to access the endpoint config space. Since there is a FATAL error,
this is not possible as PCI link is unreliable or probably gone.

> Jon.
> 


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