linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] PCI/AER: Allow Native AER Host Bridges to use AER

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Message-ID: <9f8c2a62-e67d-2869-db11-4644b69815f4@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:48:20 -0700
From:   "Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan" 
        <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Jon Derrick <jonathan.derrick@...el.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>,
        Russell Currey <ruscur@...sell.cc>,
        Sam Bobroff <sbobroff@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@...il.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Frederick Lawler <fred@...dlawl.com>,
        Rajat Jain <rajatja@...gle.com>,
        "Patel, Mayurkumar" <mayurkumar.patel@...el.com>,
        Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] PCI/AER: Allow Native AER Host Bridges to use AER



On 4/20/20 2:37 PM, Jon Derrick wrote:
> Some platforms have a mix of ports whose capabilities can be negotiated
> by _OSC, and some ports which are not described by ACPI and instead
> managed by Native drivers. The existing Firmware-First HEST model can
> incorrectly tag these Native, Non-ACPI ports as Firmware-First managed
> ports by advertising the HEST Global Flag and matching the type and
> class of the port (aer_hest_parse).
Is there a real use case for mixed mode (one host bridge in FF mode and
another in native)?
> 
> If the port requests Native AER through the Host Bridge's capability
> settings, the AER driver should honor those settings and allow the port
> to bind. This patch changes the definition of Firmware-First to exclude
> ports whose Host Bridges request Native AER.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jon Derrick <jonathan.derrick@...el.com>
> ---
>   drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c | 3 +++
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
> index f4274d3..30fbd1f 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
> @@ -314,6 +314,9 @@ int pcie_aer_get_firmware_first(struct pci_dev *dev)
>   	if (pcie_ports_native)
>   		return 0;
>   
> +	if (pci_find_host_bridge(dev->bus)->native_aer)
> +		return 0;
> +
>   	if (!dev->__aer_firmware_first_valid)
>   		aer_set_firmware_first(dev);
>   	return dev->__aer_firmware_first;
>