Re: [PATCH v3 02/11] cxl/region: Store HPA range in struct cxl_region

From: Robert Richter
Date: Wed Sep 17 2025 - 04:15:24 EST


On 15.09.25 11:23:41, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:45:04 +0200
> Robert Richter <rrichter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Each region has a known host physical address (HPA) range it is
> > assigned to. Endpoint decoders assigned to a region share the same HPA
> > range. The region's address range is the system's physical address
> > (SPA) range.
> >
> > Endpoint decoders in systems that need address translation use HPAs
> > which are not SPAs. To make the SPA range accessible to the endpoint
> > decoders, store and track the region's SPA range in struct cxl_region.
> > Introduce the @hpa_range member to the struct. Now, the SPA range of
> > an endpoint decoder can be determined based on its assigned region.
> >
> > Patch is a prerequisite to implement address translation which uses
> > struct cxl_region to store all relevant region and interleaving
> > parameters.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@xxxxxxx>
> Trivial comment inline.
>
> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > ---
> > drivers/cxl/core/region.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> > drivers/cxl/cxl.h | 2 ++
> > 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/region.c b/drivers/cxl/core/region.c
> > index 2c37c060d983..777d04870180 100644
> > --- a/drivers/cxl/core/region.c
> > +++ b/drivers/cxl/core/region.c
> > @@ -664,6 +664,11 @@ static int alloc_hpa(struct cxl_region *cxlr, resource_size_t size)
> > return PTR_ERR(res);
> > }
> >
> > + cxlr->hpa_range = (struct range) {
> > + .start = res->start,
> > + .end = res->end,
> > + };
> > +
> > p->res = res;
> > p->state = CXL_CONFIG_INTERLEAVE_ACTIVE;
> >
> > @@ -700,8 +705,14 @@ static int free_hpa(struct cxl_region *cxlr)
> > if (p->state >= CXL_CONFIG_ACTIVE)
> > return -EBUSY;
> >
> > + cxlr->hpa_range = (struct range) {
> > + .start = 0,
> > + .end = -1,
> > + };
>
> There is DEFINE_RANGE() which you could use here
> cxlr->hpa_range = DEFINE_RANGE(0, -1);
>
> Not sure if it is worth bothering though.

It is pretty new. Given the wide range of users of DEFINE_RES_*, let's
start using this one too.

-Robert