linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v14 06/34] PCI: Replace cxl_error_is_native() with pcie_aer_is

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Message-ID: <ab1899d7-24cb-4861-ab38-443431bfb2c4@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:15:49 -0700
From: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>
To: Terry Bowman <terry.bowman@....com>, dave@...olabs.net,
 jonathan.cameron@...wei.com, alison.schofield@...el.com,
 dan.j.williams@...el.com, bhelgaas@...gle.com, shiju.jose@...wei.com,
 ming.li@...omail.com, Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@....com,
 rrichter@....com, dan.carpenter@...aro.org,
 PradeepVineshReddy.Kodamati@....com, lukas@...ner.de,
 Benjamin.Cheatham@....com, sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com,
 linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org, vishal.l.verma@...el.com, alucerop@....com,
 ira.weiny@...el.com
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 06/34] PCI: Replace cxl_error_is_native() with
 pcie_aer_is_native()



On 1/14/26 11:20 AM, Terry Bowman wrote:
> The AER driver includes a CXL support function cxl_error_is_native(). This
> function adds no additional value from pcie_aer_is_native().
> 
> Simplify the codebase by removing cxl_error_is_native() and replace
> occurrences of cxl_error_is_native() with pcie_aer_is_native().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Terry Bowman <terry.bowman@....com>
> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>

Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>


> 
> ---
> 
> Changes in v13->v14:
> - New commit (Dan)
> ---
>  drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c | 11 ++---------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
> index e0bcaa896803..c99ba2a1159c 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
> @@ -1166,13 +1166,6 @@ static bool is_cxl_mem_dev(struct pci_dev *dev)
>  	return true;
>  }
>  
> -static bool cxl_error_is_native(struct pci_dev *dev)
> -{
> -	struct pci_host_bridge *host = pci_find_host_bridge(dev->bus);
> -
> -	return (pcie_ports_native || host->native_aer);
> -}
> -
>  static bool is_internal_error(struct aer_err_info *info)
>  {
>  	if (info->severity == AER_CORRECTABLE)
> @@ -1186,7 +1179,7 @@ static int cxl_rch_handle_error_iter(struct pci_dev *dev, void *data)
>  	struct aer_err_info *info = (struct aer_err_info *)data;
>  	const struct pci_error_handlers *err_handler;
>  
> -	if (!is_cxl_mem_dev(dev) || !cxl_error_is_native(dev))
> +	if (!is_cxl_mem_dev(dev) || !pcie_aer_is_native(dev))
>  		return 0;
>  
>  	/* Protect dev->driver */
> @@ -1227,7 +1220,7 @@ static int handles_cxl_error_iter(struct pci_dev *dev, void *data)
>  	bool *handles_cxl = data;
>  
>  	if (!*handles_cxl)
> -		*handles_cxl = is_cxl_mem_dev(dev) && cxl_error_is_native(dev);
> +		*handles_cxl = is_cxl_mem_dev(dev) && pcie_aer_is_native(dev);
>  
>  	/* Non-zero terminates iteration */
>  	return *handles_cxl;