Re: [PATCH 1/5] PCI/DPC: Ignore devices with no AER Capability

[Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan]

On 11/28/20 12:24 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 06:01:57PM -0800, Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan wrote:
> > On 11/25/20 5:18 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Downstream Ports may support DPC regardless of whether they support AER
> > > (see PCIe r5.0, sec 6.2.10.2).  Previously, if the user booted with
> > > "pcie_ports=dpc-native", it was possible for dpc_probe() to succeed even if
> > > the device had no AER Capability, but dpc_get_aer_uncorrect_severity()
> > > depends on the AER Capability.
> > >
> > > dpc_probe() previously failed if:
> > >
> > >     !pcie_aer_is_native(pdev) && !pcie_ports_dpc_native
> > >     !(pcie_aer_is_native() || pcie_ports_dpc_native)    # by De Morgan's law
> > >
> > > so it succeeded if:
> > >
> > >     pcie_aer_is_native() || pcie_ports_dpc_native
> > >
> > > Fail dpc_probe() if the device has no AER Capability.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >    drivers/pci/pcie/dpc.c | 3 +++
> > >    1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/dpc.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/dpc.c
> > > index e05aba86a317..ed0dbc43d018 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/pci/pcie/dpc.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/dpc.c
> > > @@ -287,6 +287,9 @@ static int dpc_probe(struct pcie_device *dev)
> > >    	int status;
> > >    	u16 ctl, cap;
> > > +	if (!pdev->aer_cap)
> > > +		return -ENOTSUPP;
> > Don't we check aer_cap support in drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv_core.c ?
> >
> > We don't enable DPC service, if AER service is not enabled. And AER
> > service is only enabled if AER capability is supported.
> >
> > So dpc_probe() should not happen if AER capability is not supported?
>
> I don't think that's always true.  If I'm reading this right, we have
> this:
>
>    get_port_device_capability(...)
>    {
>    #ifdef CONFIG_PCIEAER
>      if (dev->aer_cap && ...)
>        services |= PCIE_PORT_SERVICE_AER;
>    #endif
>
>      if (pci_find_ext_capability(dev, PCI_EXT_CAP_ID_DPC) &&
>          pci_aer_available() &&
>          (pcie_ports_dpc_native || (services & PCIE_PORT_SERVICE_AER)))
>        services |= PCIE_PORT_SERVICE_DPC;
>    }
>
> and in the case where:
>
>    - CONFIG_PCIEAER=y
>    - booted with "pcie_ports=dpc-native" (pcie_ports_dpc_native is true)
>    - "dev" has no AER capability
>    - "dev" has DPC capability
>
> I think we do enable PCIE_PORT_SERVICE_DPC.
Got it. But further looking into it, I am wondering whether
we should keep this dependency? Currently we just use it to
dump the error information. Do we need to create dependency
between DPC and AER (which is functionality not dependent) just
to see more details about the error?
> > 206 static int get_port_device_capability(struct pci_dev *dev)
> > ...
> > ...
> > 251         if (pci_find_ext_capability(dev, PCI_EXT_CAP_ID_DPC) &&
> > 252             host->native_dpc &&
> > 253             (host->native_dpc || (services & PCIE_PORT_SERVICE_AER)))
> > 254                 services |= PCIE_PORT_SERVICE_DPC;
> > 255
> >
> > > +
> > >    	if (!pcie_aer_is_native(pdev) && !pcie_ports_dpc_native)
> > >    		return -ENOTSUPP;
> >
> > --
> > Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
> > Linux Kernel Developer

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Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
Linux Kernel Developer