Re: [RFC PATCH v3 04/16] cxl/mem: Introduce a driver for CXL-2.0-Type-3 endpoints

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Tue Jan 12 2021 - 14:02:37 EST


On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:51:08 -0800
Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@xxxxxxxxx>

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.

> +{
> + int pos;
> +
> + pos = pci_find_ext_capability(pdev, PCI_EXT_CAP_ID_DVSEC);
> + if (!pos)
> + return 0;
> +
> + while (pos) {
> + u16 vendor, id;
> +
> + pci_read_config_word(pdev, pos + PCI_DVSEC_VENDOR_ID_OFFSET,
> + &vendor);
> + pci_read_config_word(pdev, pos + PCI_DVSEC_ID_OFFSET, &id);
> + if (vendor == PCI_DVSEC_VENDOR_ID_CXL && dvsec == id)
> + return pos;
> +
> + pos = pci_find_next_ext_capability(pdev, pos,
> + PCI_EXT_CAP_ID_DVSEC);
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int cxl_mem_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
> +{
> + struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> + int rc, regloc;
> +
> + rc = cxl_bus_acquire(pdev);
> + if (rc != 0) {
> + dev_err(dev, "failed to acquire interface\n");
> + return rc;
> + }
> +
> + regloc = cxl_mem_dvsec(pdev, PCI_DVSEC_ID_CXL_REGLOC);
> + if (!regloc) {
> + dev_err(dev, "register location dvsec not found\n");
> + return -ENXIO;
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static const struct pci_device_id cxl_mem_pci_tbl[] = {
> + /* PCI class code for CXL.mem Type-3 Devices */
> + { PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID,
> + PCI_CLASS_MEMORY_CXL, 0xffffff, 0 },
> + { /* terminate list */ },
> +};
> +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, cxl_mem_pci_tbl);
> +
> +static struct pci_driver cxl_mem_driver = {
> + .name = KBUILD_MODNAME,
> + .id_table = cxl_mem_pci_tbl,
> + .probe = cxl_mem_probe,
> +};
> +
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> +module_pci_driver(cxl_mem_driver);
> +MODULE_IMPORT_NS(CXL);
> diff --git a/drivers/cxl/pci.h b/drivers/cxl/pci.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..a8a9935fa90b
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/cxl/pci.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
> +/* Copyright(c) 2020 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. */
> +#ifndef __CXL_PCI_H__
> +#define __CXL_PCI_H__
> +
> +#define PCI_CLASS_MEMORY_CXL 0x050210
> +
> +/*
> + * See section 8.1 Configuration Space Registers in the CXL 2.0
> + * Specification
> + */
> +#define PCI_EXT_CAP_ID_DVSEC 0x23
> +#define PCI_DVSEC_VENDOR_ID_CXL 0x1E98
> +#define PCI_DVSEC_VENDOR_ID_OFFSET 0x4
> +#define PCI_DVSEC_ID_CXL 0x0
> +#define PCI_DVSEC_ID_OFFSET 0x8
> +
> +#define PCI_DVSEC_ID_CXL_REGLOC 0x8
> +
> +#endif /* __CXL_PCI_H__ */