PCI AER: support invalid error source IDs

When the bus id part of error source id is equal to 0 or nosourceid=1,
make the kernel probe the AER status registers of all devices under the
root port to find the initial error reporter.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.txt b/Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.txt
index f6b1ba7464dc..5408b9b39d89 100644
--- a/Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.txt
+++ b/Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.txt
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ be initiated although firmwares have no _OSC support. To enable the
 walkaround, pls. add aerdriver.forceload=y to kernel boot parameter line
 when booting kernel. Note that forceload=n by default.
 
+nosourceid, another parameter of type bool, can be used when broken
+hardware (mostly chipsets) has root ports that cannot obtain the reporting
+source ID. nosourceid=n by default.
+
 2.3 AER error output
 When a PCI-E AER error is captured, an error message will be outputed to
 console. If it's a correctable error, it is outputed as a warning.