From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>,
linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux PCI <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Ira Weiny" <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>,
"Kelley, Sean V" <sean.v.kelley@intel.com>,
Rafael Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>,
Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>,
Chris Browy <cbrowy@avery-design.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
daniel.lll@alibaba-inc.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 04/16] cxl/mem: Introduce a driver for CXL-2.0-Type-3 endpoints
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 12:06:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4iGVPgu_c0GOYTuAQyFJgfMuU5S45Ukd968+DV--Y6miw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210112190103.00004644@Huawei.com>
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 11:03 AM Jonathan Cameron
<Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:51:08 -0800
> Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> >
> > The CXL.mem protocol allows a device to act as a provider of "System
> > RAM" and/or "Persistent Memory" that is fully coherent as if the memory
> > was attached to the typical CPU memory controller.
> >
> > With the CXL-2.0 specification a PCI endpoint can implement a "Type-3"
> > device interface and give the operating system control over "Host
> > Managed Device Memory". See section 2.3 Type 3 CXL Device.
> >
> > The memory range exported by the device may optionally be described by
> > the platform firmware memory map, or by infrastructure like LIBNVDIMM to
> > provision persistent memory capacity from one, or more, CXL.mem devices.
> >
> > A pre-requisite for Linux-managed memory-capacity provisioning is this
> > cxl_mem driver that can speak the mailbox protocol defined in section
> > 8.2.8.4 Mailbox Registers.
> >
> > For now just land the driver boiler-plate and fill it in with
> > functionality in subsequent commits.
> >
> > Link: https://www.computeexpresslink.org/download-the-specification
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>
>
> Just one passing comment inline.
>
> > diff --git a/drivers/cxl/mem.c b/drivers/cxl/mem.c
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..005404888942
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/cxl/mem.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> > +/* Copyright(c) 2020 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. */
> > +#include <linux/module.h>
> > +#include <linux/pci.h>
> > +#include <linux/io.h>
> > +#include "acpi.h"
> > +#include "pci.h"
> > +
> > +static int cxl_mem_dvsec(struct pci_dev *pdev, int dvsec)
>
> Is it worth pulling this out to a utility library now as we are going
> to keep needing this for CXL devices?
> Arguably, with a vendor_id parameter it might make sense to have
> it as a utility function for pci rather than CXL alone.
Sure, cxl_mem_dvsec() can move to a central location, but I'd wait for
the first incremental user to split it out.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-12 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-11 22:51 [RFC PATCH v3 00/16] CXL 2.0 Support Ben Widawsky
2021-01-11 22:51 ` [RFC PATCH v3 01/16] docs: cxl: Add basic documentation Ben Widawsky
2021-01-11 22:51 ` [RFC PATCH v3 02/16] cxl/acpi: Add an acpi_cxl module for the CXL interconnect Ben Widawsky
2021-01-12 7:08 ` Randy Dunlap
2021-01-12 18:43 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-01-12 19:43 ` Dan Williams
2021-01-12 22:06 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-01-13 17:55 ` Kaneda, Erik
2021-01-20 19:27 ` Dan Williams
2021-01-20 19:18 ` Verma, Vishal L
2021-01-13 12:40 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-01-20 19:21 ` Verma, Vishal L
2021-01-11 22:51 ` [RFC PATCH v3 03/16] cxl/acpi: add OSC support Ben Widawsky
2021-01-12 15:09 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-01-12 18:48 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-01-11 22:51 ` [RFC PATCH v3 04/16] cxl/mem: Introduce a driver for CXL-2.0-Type-3 endpoints Ben Widawsky
2021-01-12 7:08 ` Randy Dunlap
2021-01-12 19:01 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-01-12 20:06 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2021-01-11 22:51 ` [RFC PATCH v3 05/16] cxl/mem: Map memory device registers Ben Widawsky
2021-01-12 19:13 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-01-12 19:21 ` Ben Widawsky
2021-01-12 20:40 ` Dan Williams
2021-01-11 22:51 ` [RFC PATCH v3 06/16] cxl/mem: Find device capabilities Ben Widawsky
2021-01-12 19:17 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-01-12 19:22 ` Ben Widawsky
2021-01-11 22:51 ` [RFC PATCH v3 07/16] cxl/mem: Implement polled mode mailbox Ben Widawsky
2021-01-13 18:26 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-01-14 17:40 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-01-14 17:50 ` Ben Widawsky
2021-01-14 18:13 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-01-11 22:51 ` [RFC PATCH v3 08/16] cxl/mem: Register CXL memX devices Ben Widawsky
2021-01-14 16:28 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-01-11 22:51 ` [RFC PATCH v3 09/16] cxl/mem: Add basic IOCTL interface Ben Widawsky
2021-01-14 16:19 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-01-11 22:51 ` [RFC PATCH v3 10/16] cxl/mem: Add send command Ben Widawsky
2021-01-14 17:10 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-01-21 18:15 ` Ben Widawsky
2021-01-22 11:43 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-01-22 17:08 ` Ben Widawsky
2021-01-11 22:51 ` [RFC PATCH v3 11/16] taint: add taint for direct hardware access Ben Widawsky
2021-01-11 22:51 ` [RFC PATCH v3 11/16] taint: add taint for unfettered " Ben Widawsky
2021-01-12 3:31 ` Ben Widawsky
2021-01-11 22:51 ` [RFC PATCH v3 12/16] cxl/mem: Add a "RAW" send command Ben Widawsky
2021-01-11 22:51 ` [RFC PATCH v3 13/16] cxl/mem: Create concept of enabled commands Ben Widawsky
2021-01-14 17:25 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-01-21 18:40 ` Ben Widawsky
2021-01-22 11:28 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-01-11 22:51 ` [RFC PATCH v3 14/16] cxl/mem: Use CEL for enabling commands Ben Widawsky
2021-01-14 18:02 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-01-14 18:13 ` Ben Widawsky
2021-01-14 18:32 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-01-14 19:04 ` Ben Widawsky
2021-01-14 19:24 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-01-11 22:51 ` [RFC PATCH v3 15/16] cxl/mem: Add limited Get Log command (0401h) Ben Widawsky
2021-01-14 18:08 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-01-23 0:14 ` Ben Widawsky
2021-01-11 22:51 ` [RFC PATCH v3 16/16] MAINTAINERS: Add maintainers of the CXL driver Ben Widawsky
2021-01-12 1:12 ` Joe Perches
[not found] ` <0f2a6d62-09d8-416f-e972-3e9869c3e1a6@alibaba-inc.com>
2021-01-12 15:17 ` [RFC PATCH v3 00/16] CXL 2.0 Support Ben Widawsky
2021-01-12 16:19 ` Bjorn Helgaas
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