[PATCH 0/2] PCI/AER: Consistently use _OSC to determine who owns AER

[Sinan Kaya]

On 11/19/2018 12:32 PM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
>>
>> But we're not using HEST as a fine grain control. We disable native AER
>> handling if *any* device has FF set in HEST, and that just forces people
>> to use pcie_ports=native to get around that.
>>
> 
> I don't see *any* in the code.  aer_hest_parse() does the HEST table parsing.
> It switches to firmware first mode if global flag in HEST is set. Otherwise
> for each BDF in device, hest_match_pci() is used to do a cross-matching against
> HEST table contents.
> 
> Am I missing something?

I see. I think you are talking about aer_firmware_first, right?

aer_set_firmware_first() and  pcie_aer_get_firmware_first() seem to do the right
thing.

aer_firmware_first is probably getting set because events are all routed to a
single root port and aer_acpi_firmware_first() is used to decide whether AER
should be initialized or not.

I think I understand what is going on now.

Still, breaking existing systems that rely on HEST table is not cool.
I'd rather have users specify "pcie_ports=native" to skip FF rather than
having broken systems by default to be honest.