Re: [PATCH v2] PCI/ACPI: Disable AER when _OSC control bit is clear.

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On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 5:20 PM, Yazen Ghannam <Yazen.Ghannam@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@xxxxxxx>
>
> Currently, aer_service_init() checks if AER is available and that
> Firmware First handling is not enabled. The _OSC request for AER is not
> taken into account when deciding to enable AER in Linux.
>
> From ACPI 6.2 Section 6.2.11.3, "If any bits in the Control Field are
> returned cleared (masked to zero) by the _OSC control method, the
> respective feature is designated unsupported by the platform and must
> not be enabled by the OS."
>
> The OS and the Platform should agree that the OS can have control of AER
> otherwise we should disable AER in the OS.
>
> Mark AER as disabled if the _OSC request was not made or accepted.
>
> This covers two cases where the OS and Platform disagree:
> 1) The OS requests AER control and Platform denies the request.
> 2) The OS does not request AER control but the Platform returns the AER
>    control bit set, possibly due to a Firmware bug.
>
> The _OSC control for AER is not requested when APEI Firmware First is
> used, so the same condition applies from case 2 above.
>
> Remove redundant check for aer_acpi_firmware_first() when calling
> aer_service_init(), since this check is already included when checking
> the _OSC control.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@xxxxxxx>

Bjorn, what do you think?

> ---
> Link:
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180111150316.19951-1-Yazen.Ghannam@xxxxxxx
>
> v1->v2:
> * Expand commit message.
> * Add Spec reference to commit message.
> * Fix spelling error in commit message.
> * Add comment for 3-way bitwise AND.
>
>  drivers/acpi/pci_root.c       | 7 +++++++
>  drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv.c | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/pci_root.c b/drivers/acpi/pci_root.c
> index 6fc204a52493..ab0192fd24c7 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/pci_root.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/pci_root.c
> @@ -512,6 +512,13 @@ static void negotiate_os_control(struct acpi_pci_root *root, int *no_aspm)
>                  */
>                 *no_aspm = 1;
>         }
> +
> +       /*
> +        * We can use a 3-way bitwise AND to check that the AER control bit is
> +        * both requested by the OS and granted by the Platform.
> +        */
> +       if (!(requested & control & OSC_PCI_EXPRESS_AER_CONTROL))
> +               pci_no_aer();
>  }
>
>  static int acpi_pci_root_add(struct acpi_device *device,
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv.c
> index 6ff5f5b4f5e6..39bb059777d0 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv.c
> @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ static void aer_error_resume(struct pci_dev *dev)
>   */
>  static int __init aer_service_init(void)
>  {
> -       if (!pci_aer_available() || aer_acpi_firmware_first())
> +       if (!pci_aer_available())
>                 return -ENXIO;
>         return pcie_port_service_register(&aerdriver);
>  }
> --



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