Re: [PATCH] PCI/portdev: Disable AER for Titan Ridge 4C 2018

[Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>]

On 1/6/2026 10:20 AM, Atharva Tiwari wrote:
> Disable AER for Intel Titan Ridge 4C 2018
> (used in T2 iMacs, where the warnings appear)
> that generates continuous pcieport warnings. such as:
> 
> pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: AER: Correctable error message received from 0000:07:00.0
> pcieport 0000:07:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Correctable, type=Data Link Layer, (Receiver ID)
> pcieport 0000:07:00.0:   device [8086:15ea] error status/mask=00000080/00002000
> pcieport 0000:07:00.0:    [ 7] BadDLLP
> 
> (see: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220651)
> 
> macOS also disables AER for Thunderbolt devices and controllers in their drivers.
> 

Why not disable it in BIOS or use noaer command line option?

> Signed-off-by: Atharva Tiwari <atharvatiwarilinuxdev@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv.c
> index 38a41ccf79b9..5330a679fcff 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv.c
> @@ -240,7 +240,9 @@ static int get_port_device_capability(struct pci_dev *dev)
>  	if ((pci_pcie_type(dev) == PCI_EXP_TYPE_ROOT_PORT ||
>               pci_pcie_type(dev) == PCI_EXP_TYPE_RC_EC) &&
>  	    dev->aer_cap && pci_aer_available() &&
> -	    (pcie_ports_native || host->native_aer))
> +	    (pcie_ports_native || host->native_aer) &&
> +	    !(dev->vendor == PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL &&
> +		    (dev->device >= 0x15EA && dev->device <= 0x15EC)))
>  		services |= PCIE_PORT_SERVICE_AER;
>  #endif
>  

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Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
Linux Kernel Developer