linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v12 16/25] CXL/PCI: Introduce PCI_ERS_RESULT

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Message-ID: <6e6544ad-95c8-4dc2-be44-b5b463bf516c@amd.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2025 15:11:25 -0500
From: "Cheatham, Benjamin" <benjamin.cheatham@....com>
To: Terry Bowman <terry.bowman@....com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 16/25] CXL/PCI: Introduce PCI_ERS_RESULT_PANIC

On 9/25/2025 5:34 PM, Terry Bowman wrote:
> The CXL driver's error handling for uncorrectable errors (UCE) will be
> updated in the future. A required change is for the error handlers to
> to force a system panic when a UCE is detected.
> 
> Introduce PCI_ERS_RESULT_PANIC as a 'enum pci_ers_result' type. This will
> be used by CXL UCE fatal and non-fatal recovery in future patches. Update
> PCIe recovery documentation with details of PCI_ERS_RESULT_PANIC.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Terry Bowman <terry.bowman@....com>
> 
> ---
> 
> Changes v11 -> v12:
> - Documentation requested by (Lukas)
> ---
>  Documentation/PCI/pci-error-recovery.rst | 6 ++++++
>  include/linux/pci.h                      | 3 +++
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/pci-error-recovery.rst b/Documentation/PCI/pci-error-recovery.rst
> index 42e1e78353f3..f823a6c1fb23 100644
> --- a/Documentation/PCI/pci-error-recovery.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/PCI/pci-error-recovery.rst
> @@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ Possible return values are::
>  		PCI_ERS_RESULT_NEED_RESET,  /* Device driver wants slot to be reset. */
>  		PCI_ERS_RESULT_DISCONNECT,  /* Device has completely failed, is unrecoverable */
>  		PCI_ERS_RESULT_RECOVERED,   /* Device driver is fully recovered and operational */
> +		PCI_ERS_RESULT_NO_AER_DRIVER, /* No AER capabilities registered for the driver */
> +		PCI_ERS_RESULT_PANIC,       /* System is unstable, panic. Is CXL specific */
>  	};
>  
>  A driver does not have to implement all of these callbacks; however,
> @@ -116,6 +118,10 @@ The actual steps taken by a platform to recover from a PCI error
>  event will be platform-dependent, but will follow the general
>  sequence described below.
>  
> +PCI_ERS_RESULT_PANIC is currently unique to CXL and handled in CXL
> +cxl_do_recdovery(). The PCI pcie_do_recovery() routine does not report or

s/recdovery/recovery

With that:
Reviewed-by: Ben Cheatham <benjamin.cheatham@....com>