Re: [PATCH v12 7/7] vfio/pci: Remove the pcie check for VFIO_PCI_ERR_IRQ_INDEX

[Alex Williamson <alex@shazbot.org>]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:40:11 -0700
Farhan Ali <alifm@linux.ibm.com> wrote:

> The error signaling is configured for the vast majority of devices and it's
> extremely rare that it fires anyway. Removing the pcie check will allow
> userspace to be notified on errors for legacy PCI devices. The Internal
> Shared Memory (ISM) device on s390 is one such device. For PCI devices on
> IBM s390 error recovery involves platform firmware and notification to
> operating system is done by architecture specific way. So the ISM device
> can still be recovered when notified of an error.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Julian Ruess <julianr@linux.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Farhan Ali <alifm@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c  | 8 ++------
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c | 3 +--
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Alex Williamson <alex@shazbot.org>

> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c
> index f1bd1266b88f..cfd9a51cd194 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c
> @@ -786,8 +786,7 @@ static int vfio_pci_get_irq_count(struct vfio_pci_core_device *vdev, int irq_typ
>  			return (flags & PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_QSIZE) + 1;
>  		}
>  	} else if (irq_type == VFIO_PCI_ERR_IRQ_INDEX) {
> -		if (pci_is_pcie(vdev->pdev))
> -			return 1;
> +		return 1;
>  	} else if (irq_type == VFIO_PCI_REQ_IRQ_INDEX) {
>  		return 1;
>  	}
> @@ -1163,11 +1162,8 @@ static int vfio_pci_ioctl_get_irq_info(struct vfio_pci_core_device *vdev,
>  	switch (info.index) {
>  	case VFIO_PCI_INTX_IRQ_INDEX ... VFIO_PCI_MSIX_IRQ_INDEX:
>  	case VFIO_PCI_REQ_IRQ_INDEX:
> -		break;
>  	case VFIO_PCI_ERR_IRQ_INDEX:
> -		if (pci_is_pcie(vdev->pdev))
> -			break;
> -		fallthrough;
> +		break;
>  	default:
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c
> index 33944d4d9dc4..64f80f64ff57 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c
> @@ -859,8 +859,7 @@ int vfio_pci_set_irqs_ioctl(struct vfio_pci_core_device *vdev, uint32_t flags,
>  	case VFIO_PCI_ERR_IRQ_INDEX:
>  		switch (flags & VFIO_IRQ_SET_ACTION_TYPE_MASK) {
>  		case VFIO_IRQ_SET_ACTION_TRIGGER:
> -			if (pci_is_pcie(vdev->pdev))
> -				func = vfio_pci_set_err_trigger;
> +			func = vfio_pci_set_err_trigger;
>  			break;
>  		}
>  		break;