Subject: Re: [PATCH v19 11/22] cxl: Define a driver interface for HPA free space enumeration

From: Jonathan Cameron <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 14:43:21 +0100

On Mon, 6 Oct 2025 11:01:19 +0100
[email-masked] wrote:

> From: Alejandro Lucero <[email-masked]>
> 
> CXL region creation involves allocating capacity from Device Physical Address
> (DPA) and assigning it to decode a given Host Physical Address (HPA). Before
> determining how much DPA to allocate the amount of available HPA must be
> determined. Also, not all HPA is created equal, some HPA targets RAM, some
> targets PMEM, some is prepared for device-memory flows like HDM-D and HDM-DB,
> and some is HDM-H (host-only).
> 
> In order to support Type2 CXL devices, wrap all of those concerns into
> an API that retrieves a root decoder (platform CXL window) that fits the
> specified constraints and the capacity available for a new region.
> 
> Add a complementary function for releasing the reference to such root
> decoder.
> 
> Based on https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/[email-masked]/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <[email-masked]>
> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <[email-masked]>
One thing I noticed on a fresh read through...

> ---
>  drivers/cxl/core/region.c | 162 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/cxl/cxl.h         |   3 +
>  include/cxl/cxl.h         |   6 ++
>  3 files changed, 171 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/region.c b/drivers/cxl/core/region.c
> index e9bf42d91689..c5b66204ecde 100644
> --- a/drivers/cxl/core/region.c
> +++ b/drivers/cxl/core/region.c
> @@ -703,6 +703,168 @@ static int free_hpa(struct cxl_region *cxlr)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +struct cxlrd_max_context {
> +	struct device * const *host_bridges;
> +	int interleave_ways;
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +	resource_size_t max_hpa;
> +	struct cxl_root_decoder *cxlrd;
> +};
> +
> +static int find_max_hpa(struct device *dev, void *data)
> +{
> +	struct cxlrd_max_context *ctx = data;
> +	struct cxl_switch_decoder *cxlsd;
> +	struct cxl_root_decoder *cxlrd;
> +	struct resource *res, *prev;
> +	struct cxl_decoder *cxld;
> +	resource_size_t max;
> +	int found = 0;
> +
> +	if (!is_root_decoder(dev))
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	cxlrd = to_cxl_root_decoder(dev);
> +	cxlsd = &cxlrd->cxlsd;
> +	cxld = &cxlsd->cxld;
> +
> +	if ((cxld->flags & ctx->flags) != ctx->flags) {
> +		dev_dbg(dev, "flags not matching: %08lx vs %08lx\n",
> +			cxld->flags, ctx->flags);
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +
> +	for (int i = 0; i < ctx->interleave_ways; i++) {
I think ctx->interleave_ways == 0 as it's never set, so found is never
set, but then the check below succeeds as found == 0 and ctx->interleave_ways == 0

Definitely doesn't feel intentional!

> +		for (int j = 0; j < ctx->interleave_ways; j++) {
> +			if (ctx->host_bridges[i] == cxlsd->target[j]->dport_dev) {
> +				found++;
> +				break;
> +			}
> +		}
> +	}
> +
> +	if (found != ctx->interleave_ways) {
> +		dev_dbg(dev,
> +			"Not enough host bridges. Found %d for %d interleave ways requested\n",
> +			found, ctx->interleave_ways);
> +		return 0;
> +	}

> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * cxl_get_hpa_freespace - find a root decoder with free capacity per constraints
> + * @cxlmd: the mem device requiring the HPA
> + * @interleave_ways: number of entries in @host_bridges
> + * @flags: CXL_DECODER_F flags for selecting RAM vs PMEM, and Type2 device
> + * @max_avail_contig: output parameter of max contiguous bytes available in the
> + *		      returned decoder
> + *
> + * Returns a pointer to a struct cxl_root_decoder
> + *
> + * The return tuple of a 'struct cxl_root_decoder' and 'bytes available given
> + * in (@max_avail_contig))' is a point in time snapshot. If by the time the
> + * caller goes to use this decoder and its capacity is reduced then caller needs
> + * to loop and retry.
> + *
> + * The returned root decoder has an elevated reference count that needs to be
> + * put with cxl_put_root_decoder(cxlrd).
> + */
> +struct cxl_root_decoder *cxl_get_hpa_freespace(struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd,
> +					       int interleave_ways,

Currently unused.  I think you mean to set the field in ctx

> +					       unsigned long flags,
> +					       resource_size_t *max_avail_contig)
> +{
> +	struct cxl_port *endpoint = cxlmd->endpoint;
> +	struct cxlrd_max_context ctx = {
> +		.flags = flags,
> +	};
> +	struct cxl_port *root_port;
> +
> +	if (!endpoint) {
> +		dev_dbg(&cxlmd->dev, "endpoint not linked to memdev\n");
> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENXIO);
> +	}
> +
> +	ctx.host_bridges = &endpoint->host_bridge;
> +
> +	struct cxl_root *root __free(put_cxl_root) = find_cxl_root(endpoint);
> +	if (!root) {
> +		dev_dbg(&endpoint->dev, "endpoint is not related to a root port\n");
> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENXIO);
> +	}
> +
> +	root_port = &root->port;
> +	scoped_guard(rwsem_read, &cxl_rwsem.region)
> +		device_for_each_child(&root_port->dev, &ctx, find_max_hpa);
> +
> +	if (!ctx.cxlrd)
> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> +
> +	*max_avail_contig = ctx.max_hpa;
> +	return ctx.cxlrd;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(cxl_get_hpa_freespace, "CXL");