Re: [RFC PATCH 3/9] cxl/mem: Add a driver for the type-3 mailbox

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Fri Nov 13 2020 - 13:17:34 EST


On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 09:43:50PM -0800, Ben Widawsky 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.
>
> 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 "type-3 mailbox" protocol.

"Type 3" to indicate that this is a proper adjective that can be
looked up in the spec and to match the usage there.

The r1.1 spec I have doesn't mention "mailbox". Is that also
something defined in the 2.0 spec?

A URL or similar citation for the spec would be nice somewhere.

> For now just land the driver boiler-plate and fill it in with
> functionality in subsequent commits.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/cxl/Kconfig | 20 +++++++++++
> drivers/cxl/Makefile | 2 ++
> drivers/cxl/mem.c | 82 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/cxl/pci.h | 15 ++++++++
> 4 files changed, 119 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 drivers/cxl/mem.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/cxl/pci.h
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cxl/Kconfig b/drivers/cxl/Kconfig
> index dd724bd364df..15548f5c77ff 100644
> --- a/drivers/cxl/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/cxl/Kconfig
> @@ -27,4 +27,24 @@ config CXL_ACPI
> resources described by the CEDT (CXL Early Discovery Table)
>
> Say 'y' to enable CXL (Compute Express Link) drivers.
> +
> +config CXL_MEM
> + tristate "CXL.mem Device Support"
> + depends on PCI && CXL_BUS_PROVIDER != n
> + default m if CXL_BUS_PROVIDER
> + help
> + 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.
> +
> + Say 'y/m' to enable a driver named "cxl_mem.ko" that will attach
> + to CXL.mem devices for configuration, provisioning, and health
> + monitoring, the so called "type-3 mailbox". Note, this driver

"Type 3"

> + is required for dynamic provisioning of CXL.mem attached
> + memory, a pre-requisite for persistent memory support, but
> + devices that provide volatile memory may be fully described by
> + existing platform firmware memory enumeration.
> +
> + If unsure say 'n'.
> endif
> diff --git a/drivers/cxl/Makefile b/drivers/cxl/Makefile
> index d38cd34a2582..97fdffb00f2d 100644
> --- a/drivers/cxl/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/cxl/Makefile
> @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
> # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> obj-$(CONFIG_CXL_ACPI) += cxl_acpi.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_CXL_MEM) += cxl_mem.o
>
> ccflags-y += -DDEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE=CXL
> cxl_acpi-y := acpi.o
> +cxl_mem-y := mem.o
> diff --git a/drivers/cxl/mem.c b/drivers/cxl/mem.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..aa7d881fa47b
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/cxl/mem.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
> +// 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"
> +
> +struct cxl_mem {
> + void __iomem *regs;
> +};

Unused, maybe move it to the patch that adds the use?

> +static int cxl_mem_dvsec(struct pci_dev *pdev, int dvsec)
> +{
> + 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_OFFSET, &vendor);
> + pci_read_config_word(pdev, pos + PCI_DVSEC_ID_OFFSET, &id);
> + if (vendor == PCI_DVSEC_VENDOR_CXL && dvsec == id)
> + return pos;
> +
> + pos = pci_find_next_ext_capability(pdev, pos, PCI_EXT_CAP_ID_DVSEC);
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}

I assume we'll refactor and move this into the PCI core after we
resolve the several places this is needed. When we do that, the
vendor would be passed in, so maybe we should do that here to make it
simpler to move this to the PCI core.

> +static int cxl_mem_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
> +{
> + struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> + struct cxl_mem *cxlm;
> + int rc, regloc;
> +
> + rc = cxl_bus_prepared(pdev);
> + if (rc != 0) {
> + dev_err(dev, "failed to acquire interface\n");

Interesting naming: apparently when cxl_bus_prepared() returns a
non-zero ("true") value, it is actually *not* prepared?

> + 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;
> + }
> +
> + cxlm = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*cxlm), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!cxlm)
> + return -ENOMEM;

Unused. And [4/9] removes it before it's *ever* used :)

> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static void cxl_mem_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> +{
> +}
> +
> +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,
> + .remove = cxl_mem_remove,
> +};
> +
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Intel Corporation");
> +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..beb03921e6da
> --- /dev/null

> +++ b/drivers/cxl/pci.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> +// Copyright(c) 2020 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.

/* SPDX-... */
/* Copyright ...*/

The SPDX rules are a bit arcane and annoyingly hard to grep for, but
I found them in Documentation/process/license-rules.rst

> +#ifndef __CXL_PCI_H__
> +#define __CXL_PCI_H__
> +
> +#define PCI_CLASS_MEMORY_CXL 0x050210
> +
> +#define PCI_EXT_CAP_ID_DVSEC 0x23
> +#define PCI_DVSEC_VENDOR_CXL 0x1E98
> +#define PCI_DVSEC_VENDOR_OFFSET 0x4
> +#define PCI_DVSEC_ID_OFFSET 0x8
> +#define PCI_DVSEC_ID_CXL 0x0
> +#define PCI_DVSEC_ID_CXL_REGLOC 0x8

I assume these will go in include/linux/pci_ids.h (PCI_CLASS_...) and
include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h (the rest) eventually, after we get the
merge issues sorted out. But if they're only used in cxl/mem.c, I'd
put them there for now.

> +#endif /* __CXL_PCI_H__ */
> --
> 2.29.2
>