On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 10:35:40PM +0530, Vidya Sagar wrote: > Hi, > With the top of the tree codebase, pcie_set_ecrc_checking() is called from > pci_aer_init(). > This flow doesn't really take into account the ownership of the AER > registers, and it makes sense in the case of the Linux kernel owning the > AER. > But, if the owner of AER is firmware and not OS, then, ideally, any > register/fields (including ECRC bits) are not supposed to be touched by the > OS. > Is my understanding correct? > If so, then, isn't the current code violating that rule? > Could you please comment on it? I think you are correct and the current code violates the rule. Bjorn P.S. Your message was a multi-part message that will likely be rejected by the vger mailing lists: http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
