[PATCH v6 05/15] platform/x86/intel/pmt: Cache the telemetry discovery header

From: David E. Box

Date: Sun May 31 2026 - 15:51:50 EST


pmt_telem_header_decode() only needs the discovery header dwords, but it
currently decodes them by reading directly from entry->disc_table.

Cache the discovery header in intel_pmt_entry when the device is created
and have telemetry decode use the cached values instead of performing MMIO
reads at decode time.

The DVSEC discovery resource for a namespace is sized by its per-entry
entry_size (in dwords), which can be less than the 4-dword cache (e.g.
telemetry uses entry_size = 3, i.e. 12 bytes). Cap the memcpy_fromio()
to resource_size(disc_res) so the new cache does not read past the
mapped region. Any unread dwords stay zero from the zero-initialized
allocation of the containing struct.

This keeps the telemetry header decode path independent of how the
discovery data is backed and avoids baking a direct MMIO assumption into
the feature-specific decode logic.

Assisted-by: GitHub-Copilot:claude-opus-4.7
Signed-off-by: David E. Box <david.e.box@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
V6 changes:
- Added #include <linux/minmax.h> for min_t() macro used in
memcpy_fromio() size calculation (Ilpo).

V5 changes:
- Cap memcpy_fromio() of the cached discovery header to
resource_size(disc_res) so the newly introduced cache does not
over-read namespaces whose DVSEC entry_size is smaller than the
cache (e.g. telemetry has entry_size = 3, 12 bytes).

V4 - No changes

V3 changes:
- New patch split out from PMT header-fetch rework to cache discovery
header data before downstream decode/population.
- Added to carry the post-v3 bug fix while preserving the original series
ordering intent.

drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmt/class.c | 12 ++++++++++++
drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmt/class.h | 1 +
drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmt/telemetry.c | 12 ++++++------
3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmt/class.c b/drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmt/class.c
index 7da8279b54f8..44a0a52014fc 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmt/class.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmt/class.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#include <linux/log2.h>
#include <linux/intel_vsec.h>
#include <linux/io-64-nonatomic-lo-hi.h>
+#include <linux/minmax.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/pci.h>
@@ -383,6 +384,17 @@ int intel_pmt_dev_create(struct intel_pmt_entry *entry, struct intel_pmt_namespa
if (IS_ERR(entry->disc_table))
return PTR_ERR(entry->disc_table);

+ /*
+ * The mapped discovery resource may be smaller than disc_header (its
+ * size is the namespace's DVSEC entry_size in dwords, which can be
+ * less than 4). Cap the copy to the actual resource size to avoid
+ * reading past the mapped region; any unread dwords stay zero from
+ * the zero-initialized allocation of the containing struct.
+ */
+ memcpy_fromio(entry->disc_header, entry->disc_table,
+ min_t(size_t, sizeof(entry->disc_header),
+ resource_size(disc_res)));
+
if (ns->pmt_pre_decode) {
ret = ns->pmt_pre_decode(intel_vsec_dev, entry);
if (ret)
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmt/class.h b/drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmt/class.h
index 8a0db0ef58c1..84202fc7920c 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmt/class.h
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmt/class.h
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ struct intel_pmt_entry {
struct telem_endpoint *ep;
struct pci_dev *pcidev;
struct intel_pmt_header header;
+ u32 disc_header[4];
struct bin_attribute pmt_bin_attr;
const struct attribute_group *attr_grp;
struct kobject *kobj;
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmt/telemetry.c b/drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmt/telemetry.c
index d22f633638be..953f35b6daec 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmt/telemetry.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmt/telemetry.c
@@ -72,16 +72,16 @@ static bool pmt_telem_region_overlaps(struct device *dev, u32 guid, u32 type)
static int pmt_telem_header_decode(struct intel_pmt_entry *entry,
struct device *dev)
{
- void __iomem *disc_table = entry->disc_table;
struct intel_pmt_header *header = &entry->header;
+ u32 *disc_header = entry->disc_header;

- header->access_type = TELEM_ACCESS(readl(disc_table));
- header->guid = readl(disc_table + TELEM_GUID_OFFSET);
- header->base_offset = readl(disc_table + TELEM_BASE_OFFSET);
+ header->access_type = TELEM_ACCESS(disc_header[0]);
+ header->guid = disc_header[1];
+ header->base_offset = disc_header[2];

/* Size is measured in DWORDS, but accessor returns bytes */
- header->size = TELEM_SIZE(readl(disc_table));
- header->telem_type = TELEM_TYPE(readl(entry->disc_table));
+ header->size = TELEM_SIZE(disc_header[0]);
+ header->telem_type = TELEM_TYPE(disc_header[0]);

return 0;
}
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2.43.0