Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] PCI: host-common: Add link down handling for host bridges

[Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>]

On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 12:40:33PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> The PCI link, when down, needs to be recovered to bring it back. But that
> cannot be done in a generic way as link recovery procedure is specific to
> host bridges. So add a new API pci_host_handle_link_down() that could be
> called by the host bridge drivers when the link goes down.
> 
> The API will iterate through all the slots and calls the pcie_do_recovery()
> function with 'pci_channel_io_frozen' as the state. This will result in the
> execution of the AER Fatal error handling code. Since the link down
> recovery is pretty much the same as AER Fatal error handling,
> pcie_do_recovery() helper is reused here. First the AER error_detected
> callback will be triggered for the bridge and the downstream devices. Then,
> pci_host_reset_slot() will be called for the slot, which will reset the
> slot using 'reset_slot' callback to recover the link. Once that's done,
> resume message will be broadcasted to the bridge and the downstream devices
> indicating successful link recovery.

Link down is an event for a single Root Port.  Why would we iterate
through all the Root Ports if the link went down for one of them?