On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 12:58:14PM -0700, Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan wrote: > > On 10/28/19 4:22 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 04:39:01PM -0700, sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > From: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > @@ -430,9 +424,6 @@ int pci_cleanup_aer_error_status_regs(struct pci_dev *dev) > > > if (!pos) > > > return -EIO; > > > - if (pcie_aer_get_firmware_first(dev)) > > > - return -EIO; > > > - > > > port_type = pci_pcie_type(dev); > > > if (port_type == PCI_EXP_TYPE_ROOT_PORT) { > > > pci_read_config_dword(dev, pos + PCI_ERR_ROOT_STATUS, &status); > > > @@ -455,7 +446,8 @@ void pci_aer_init(struct pci_dev *dev) > > > if (dev->aer_cap) > > > dev->aer_stats = kzalloc(sizeof(struct aer_stats), GFP_KERNEL); > > > - pci_cleanup_aer_error_status_regs(dev); > > > + if (!pcie_aer_get_firmware_first(dev)) > > > + pci_cleanup_aer_error_status_regs(dev); > > > > This effectively moves the "if (pcie_aer_get_firmware_first())" check > > from pci_cleanup_aer_error_status_regs() into one of the callers. But > > there are two other callers: pci_aer_init() and pci_restore_state(). > > Do they need the change, or do you want to cleanup the AER error > > registers there, but not here? > > Good catch. I have added this check to pci_aer_init(). But it needs > to be added to pci_restore_state() as well. Instead of moving the > checks to the caller, If you agree, I could change the API to > pci_cleanup_aer_error_status_regs(struct pci_dev *dev, bool > skip_ff_check) and let the caller decide whether they want skip the > check or not. If all callers of pci_cleanup_aer_error_status_regs() would have to check pcie_aer_get_firmware_first(), I don't understand why you're moving the check at all.