Re: [PATCH v15 7/9] cxl: Update Endpoint AER uncorrectable handler

Jonathan Cameron
2026-02-03T16:18:46Z

On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 20:52:42 -0600
Terry Bowman <terry.bowman@amd.com> wrote:

> CXL drivers now implement protocol RAS support. PCI protocol errors,
> however, continue to be reported via the AER capability and must still be
> handled by a PCI error recovery callback.
>
> Replace the existing cxl_error_detected() callback in cxl/pci.c with a
> new cxl_pci_error_detected() implementation that handles only uncorrectable
> PCI protocol errors reported through AER.
>
> Introduce helper named cxl_handler_aer() amd implement to handle and
> log the CXL device's AER error.
>
> This cleanly separates CXL protocol error handling from PCI AER handling
> and ensures that each subsystem processes only the errors it is
> responsible.
>
> Signed-off-by: Terry Bowman <terry.bowman@amd.com>
>
> ---
>
> Changes in v14->v15:
> - Title update (Terry)
> - Change cxl_pci_error-detected() to handle & log AER (Terry)`
> - Update commit message (Terry)
> - Moved cxl_handle_ras()/cxl_handle_cor_ras() to earlier patch (Terry)
>
> Changes in v13->v14:
> - Update commit headline (Bjorn)
> - Rename pci_error_detected()/pci_cor_error_detected() ->
> cxl_pci_error_detected/cxl_pci_cor_error_detected() (Jonathan)
> - Remove now-invalid comment in cxl_error_detected() (Jonathan)
> - Split into separate patches for UCE and CE (Terry)
>
> Changes in v12->v13:
> - Update commit messaqge (Terry)
> - Updated all the implementation and commit message. (Terry)
> - Refactored cxl_cor_error_detected()/cxl_error_detected() to remove
> pdev (Dave Jiang)
>
> Changes in v11->v12:
> - None
>
> Changes in v10->v11:
> - cxl_error_detected() - Change handlers' scoped_guard() to guard() (Jonathan)
> - cxl_error_detected() - Remove extra line (Shiju)
> - Changes moved to core/ras.c (Terry)
> - cxl_error_detected(), remove 'ue' and return with function call. (Jonathan)
> - Remove extra space in documentation for PCI_ERS_RESULT_PANIC definition
> - Move #include "pci.h from cxl.h to core.h (Terry)
> - Remove unnecessary includes of cxl.h and core.h in mem.c (Terry)
> ---
> drivers/cxl/core/ras.c | 68 +++++++++++++++---------------------------
> drivers/cxl/cxlpci.h | 9 +++---
> drivers/cxl/pci.c | 6 ++--
> 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/ras.c b/drivers/cxl/core/ras.c
> index 970ff3df442c..061e6aaec176 100644
> --- a/drivers/cxl/core/ras.c
> +++ b/drivers/cxl/core/ras.c
> @@ -441,55 +441,35 @@ void cxl_cor_error_detected(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(cxl_cor_error_detected, "CXL");
>
> -pci_ers_result_t cxl_error_detected(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> - pci_channel_state_t state)
> +static bool cxl_handle_aer(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> {
> - struct cxl_dev_state *cxlds = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
> - struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd = cxlds->cxlmd;
> - struct device *dev = &cxlmd->dev;
> - bool ue;
> -
> - scoped_guard(device, dev) {
> - if (!dev->driver) {
> - dev_warn(&pdev->dev,
> - "%s: memdev disabled, abort error handling\n",
> - dev_name(dev));
> - return PCI_ERS_RESULT_DISCONNECT;
> - }
> + struct aer_capability_regs aer;

I don't see a strong reason to use this structure given you just want two
of the registers and read into them one by one.

> + u32 aer_cap = pdev->aer_cap;
>
> - if (cxlds->rcd)
> - cxl_handle_rdport_errors(cxlds);
> - /*
> - * A frozen channel indicates an impending reset which is fatal to
> - * CXL.mem operation, and will likely crash the system. On the off
> - * chance the situation is recoverable dump the status of the RAS
> - * capability registers and bounce the active state of the memdev.
> - */
> - ue = cxl_handle_ras(&cxlds->cxlmd->dev, cxlds->serial,
> - cxlmd->endpoint->regs.ras);
> + if (!aer_cap) {
> + pr_warn_ratelimited("%s: AER capability isn't present\n",
> + pci_name(pdev));

These could use dev_warn_rate_limited()
or even add a wrapper similar to pci_info_rate_limited()

> + return false;
> }
>
> - switch (state) {
> - case pci_channel_io_normal:
> - if (ue) {
> - device_release_driver(dev);
> - return PCI_ERS_RESULT_NEED_RESET;
> - }
> - return PCI_ERS_RESULT_CAN_RECOVER;
> - case pci_channel_io_frozen:
> - dev_warn(&pdev->dev,
> - "%s: frozen state error detected, disable CXL.mem\n",
> - dev_name(dev));
> - device_release_driver(dev);
> - return PCI_ERS_RESULT_NEED_RESET;
> - case pci_channel_io_perm_failure:
> - dev_warn(&pdev->dev,
> - "failure state error detected, request disconnect\n");
> - return PCI_ERS_RESULT_DISCONNECT;
> - }
> - return PCI_ERS_RESULT_NEED_RESET;
> + pci_read_config_dword(pdev, aer_cap + PCI_ERR_UNCOR_STATUS, &aer.uncor_status);
> + pci_read_config_dword(pdev, aer_cap + PCI_ERR_UNCOR_MASK, &aer.uncor_mask);
> +
> + /* The AER driver logged the error */
> + pci_aer_clear_nonfatal_status(pdev);
> + pci_aer_clear_fatal_status(pdev);
> +
> + return (aer.uncor_status & aer.uncor_mask);
> +}