[PATCH v2 08/17] PCI/AER: Save AER state in the saved capability store

From: David Matlack

Date: Thu Nov 05 2026 - 19:48:08 EST


Save and restore the AER mask, severity, capability and root command
registers through the per-device saved capability store instead of a
private pci_cap_saved_state buffer.

Describe the registers in aer_saved_regs[] and drive the reservation, save,
and restore loops from it. Previously the three had to be kept in the same
order by hand, and pci_aer_init() encoded the register count as a bare 4 or
5.

Reserve the registers in pci_reserve_aer_state(), called from
pci_aer_init(), and report a refused reservation. pci_aer_init() ignored
the return value of pci_add_ext_cap_save_buffer(), so a failed
allocation left AER state unsaved without any message. An allocation
failure is now reported once by pci_saved_caps_finalize().

No other functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
index d8dcd238fda1..25436bcf9fb9 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
@@ -352,54 +352,68 @@ int pci_aer_clear_status(struct pci_dev *dev)
return pci_aer_raw_clear_status(dev);
}

-void pci_save_aer_state(struct pci_dev *dev)
+/*
+ * AER registers saved and restored by the PCI core. PCI_ERR_ROOT_COMMAND is
+ * only implemented by Root Ports and Root Complex Event Collectors (PCIe
+ * r6.0, sec 7.8.4.9) and so must come last.
+ */
+static const u16 aer_saved_regs[] = {
+ PCI_ERR_UNCOR_MASK,
+ PCI_ERR_UNCOR_SEVER,
+ PCI_ERR_COR_MASK,
+ PCI_ERR_CAP,
+ PCI_ERR_ROOT_COMMAND,
+};
+
+static unsigned int aer_nr_saved_regs(struct pci_dev *dev)
{
- int aer = dev->aer_cap;
- struct pci_cap_saved_state *save_state;
- u32 *cap;
+ if (pcie_cap_has_rtctl(dev))
+ return ARRAY_SIZE(aer_saved_regs);

- if (!aer)
- return;
+ return ARRAY_SIZE(aer_saved_regs) - 1;
+}

- save_state = pci_find_saved_ext_cap(dev, PCI_EXT_CAP_ID_ERR);
- if (!save_state)
+void pci_save_aer_state(struct pci_dev *dev)
+{
+ unsigned int i;
+
+ if (!dev->aer_cap)
return;

- cap = &save_state->cap.data[0];
- pci_read_config_dword(dev, aer + PCI_ERR_UNCOR_MASK, cap++);
- pci_read_config_dword(dev, aer + PCI_ERR_UNCOR_SEVER, cap++);
- pci_read_config_dword(dev, aer + PCI_ERR_COR_MASK, cap++);
- pci_read_config_dword(dev, aer + PCI_ERR_CAP, cap++);
- if (pcie_cap_has_rtctl(dev))
- pci_read_config_dword(dev, aer + PCI_ERR_ROOT_COMMAND, cap++);
+ for (i = 0; i < aer_nr_saved_regs(dev); i++)
+ pci_save_cap_dword(dev, dev->aer_cap + aer_saved_regs[i]);
}

void pci_restore_aer_state(struct pci_dev *dev)
{
- int aer = dev->aer_cap;
- struct pci_cap_saved_state *save_state;
- u32 *cap;
+ unsigned int i;

- if (!aer)
+ if (!dev->aer_cap)
return;

- save_state = pci_find_saved_ext_cap(dev, PCI_EXT_CAP_ID_ERR);
- if (!save_state)
- return;
+ for (i = 0; i < aer_nr_saved_regs(dev); i++)
+ pci_restore_cap_dword(dev, dev->aer_cap + aer_saved_regs[i]);
+}

- cap = &save_state->cap.data[0];
- pci_write_config_dword(dev, aer + PCI_ERR_UNCOR_MASK, *cap++);
- pci_write_config_dword(dev, aer + PCI_ERR_UNCOR_SEVER, *cap++);
- pci_write_config_dword(dev, aer + PCI_ERR_COR_MASK, *cap++);
- pci_write_config_dword(dev, aer + PCI_ERR_CAP, *cap++);
- if (pcie_cap_has_rtctl(dev))
- pci_write_config_dword(dev, aer + PCI_ERR_ROOT_COMMAND, *cap++);
+static void pci_reserve_aer_state(struct pci_dev *dev)
+{
+ unsigned int i;
+ int rc;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < aer_nr_saved_regs(dev); i++) {
+ unsigned int off = dev->aer_cap + aer_saved_regs[i];
+
+ rc = pci_reserve_saved_cap(dev, off, sizeof(u32));
+ if (rc) {
+ pci_err(dev, "unable to reserve AER save state (%pe)\n",
+ ERR_PTR(rc));
+ return;
+ }
+ }
}

void pci_aer_init(struct pci_dev *dev)
{
- int n;
-
dev->aer_cap = pci_find_ext_capability(dev, PCI_EXT_CAP_ID_ERR);
if (!dev->aer_cap)
return;
@@ -415,14 +429,7 @@ void pci_aer_init(struct pci_dev *dev)
ratelimit_state_init(&dev->aer_info->nonfatal_ratelimit,
DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_INTERVAL, DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_BURST);

- /*
- * We save/restore PCI_ERR_UNCOR_MASK, PCI_ERR_UNCOR_SEVER,
- * PCI_ERR_COR_MASK, and PCI_ERR_CAP. Root and Root Complex Event
- * Collectors also implement PCI_ERR_ROOT_COMMAND (PCIe r6.0, sec
- * 7.8.4.9).
- */
- n = pcie_cap_has_rtctl(dev) ? 5 : 4;
- pci_add_ext_cap_save_buffer(dev, PCI_EXT_CAP_ID_ERR, sizeof(u32) * n);
+ pci_reserve_aer_state(dev);

/*
* Advisory Non-Fatal Errors are masked by default (PCIe r7.0, sec
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