[PATCH 1/2] PCI: Add per-device flag to disable native PCIe port services

Han Gao
2026-03-31T17:57:16Z

Add PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_PORT_SERVICES to allow quirks to prevent the PCIe
port service driver from probing specific devices. This provides a
per-device equivalent of the global pcie_ports=compat kernel parameter.

Some platforms have PCIe root ports that break MSI delivery to downstream
devices when native port services (AER, PME, bwctrl, etc.) are active.
The existing pci_host_bridge native_* flags do not cover all services
(notably bwctrl), so a mechanism to skip port driver probing entirely
on a per-device basis is needed.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Han Gao <gaohan@iscas.ac.cn>
---
drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv.c | 3 +++
include/linux/pci.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv.c
index 2d6aa488fe7b..3386818d200d 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv.c
@@ -685,6 +685,9 @@ static const struct dev_pm_ops pcie_portdrv_pm_ops = {
static int pcie_portdrv_probe(struct pci_dev *dev,
const struct pci_device_id *id)
{
+ if (dev->dev_flags & PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_PORT_SERVICES)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
int type = pci_pcie_type(dev);
int status;

diff --git a/include/linux/pci.h b/include/linux/pci.h
index 1c270f1d5123..e038fe14ef78 100644
--- a/include/linux/pci.h
+++ b/include/linux/pci.h
@@ -253,6 +253,8 @@ enum pci_dev_flags {
* integrated with the downstream devices and doesn't use real PCI.
*/
PCI_DEV_FLAGS_PCI_BRIDGE_NO_ALIAS = (__force pci_dev_flags_t) (1 << 14),
+ /* Do not use native PCIe port services (equivalent to pcie_ports=compat) */
+ PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_PORT_SERVICES = (__force pci_dev_flags_t) (1 << 15),
};

enum pci_irq_reroute_variant {
--
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