Re: [PATCH v6 1/7] ndctl: Dynamic Capacity additions for cxl-cli

From: Dave Jiang

Date: Mon Jun 08 2026 - 19:18:17 EST




On 5/23/26 2:50 AM, Anisa Su wrote:
> From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> This series can be found here:
>
> https://github.com/weiny2/ndctl/tree/dcd-region3-2025-04-13
>
> CXL Dynamic Capacity Device (DCD) support is being discussed in the
> upstream kernel. cxl-cli requires modifications to interact with those
> devices.
>
> A new partition type 'dynamic_ram_a' has been added which cxl-cli
> needs to know about. Add support for the new decoder type.
>
> With DCD regions may, or may not, have capacity. The capacity is
> communicated via extents. Add region extent query capabilities.
>
> Add cxl-test support. cxl-testing allows for quick regression testing
> as well as helping to design the cxl-cli interfaces.
>
>
> To: "Alison Schofield" <alison.schofield@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Vishal Verma" <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Jonathan Cameron" <jonathan.cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Fan Ni" <fan.ni@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Sushant1 Kumar" <sushant1.kumar@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Dave Jiang" <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <linux-cxl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <nvdimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>

Drop this? Seems b4 metadata and not a patch.


>
> ---
> Changes in v5:
> - iweiny: Adjust all code to view only the dynamic RAM A partition
> - Alison: s/tag/uuid/ in region query extent output
> - Link to v4: https://patch.msgid.link/20241214-dcd-region2-v4-0-36550a97f8e2@xxxxxxxxx
>
> --- b4-submit-tracking ---
> # This section is used internally by b4 prep for tracking purposes.
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> "revision": 5,
> "change-id": "20241030-dcd-region2-2d0149eb8efd",
> "prefixes": [],
> "history": {
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> "20241030-dcd-region2-v1-0-04600ba2b48e@xxxxxxxxx"
> ],
> "v2": [
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> ],
> "v3": [
> "20241115-dcd-region2-v3-0-585d480ccdab@xxxxxxxxx"
> ],
> "v4": [
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> ]
> }
> }
> }