[PATCH 0/8] CXL Port Enumeration

From: Dan Williams
Date: Wed Mar 24 2021 - 17:31:05 EST


This series is a preview of the proposed infrastructure for enabling
dynamic mapping of Host-managed Device Memory (HDM) Decoders. It
includes a not-for-upstream hack at the tail of the series to stand-in
for the in-flight ACPICA enabling. The goal is to get review of the
proposal in parallel with other in-flight dependencies. The next step
after this is to add dynamic enumeration and assignment of HDM Decoders
in coordination with per-cxl_port driver instances.

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The enumeration starts with the ACPI0017 driver registering a 'struct
cxl_root' object to establish the top of a cxl_port topology. It then
scans the ACPI bus looking for ACPI0016 instances. The cxl_root object
is a singleton* anchor to hang "address-space" objects and be a parent
device for the downstream 'struct cxl_port' instances. An address-space
has a 1:1 relationship with a platform defined memory resource range,
like _CRS for PCIE Host Bridges. Use module parameters to model a
root-level HDM decoder that all downstream ports further decode, to be
replaced with a Code First ECN to do the same.

Each address space is modeled as a sysfs object that also shows up in
/proc/iomem as "CXL Address Space". That iomem resource is functionally
equivalent to the root-level 'PCI Bus' resources for PCIE.mmio while
'CXL Address Space' indicates space for CXL.mem to be mapped. "System
RAM" and "Persistent Memory", when mapped by HDM decoders, will appear
as child CXL.mem resources.

Once a 'struct cxl_root' is established the host bridge is modeled as 1
upstream 'struct cxl_port' and N downstream 'struct cxl_port' instances
(one per Root Port), just like a PCIE switch. The host-bridge upstream
port optionally has the HDM decoder registers from the CHBCR if the
host-bridge has multiple PCIE/CXL root ports. Single-ported host bridges
will not have HDM decoders in the CHBCR space (see CHBCR note in
8.2.5.12 CXL HDM Decoder Capability Structure), but the 'struct
cxl_port' object is still needed to represent other CXL capabilities and
access port-specific component registers outside of HDM decoders.

Each 'struct cxl_port' has a 'target_id' attribute that answers the
question "what port am I in my upstream port's HDM decoder target
list?". For the host-bridge struct cxl_port, the first tier of ports
below cxl_root.port, the id is derived from the ordinal mapping of the
ACPI0016 id (instance id, _UID, or other handle TBD), for all other
ports the id is the PCIE Root Port ID from the Link Capabilities
register [1]. The mapping of ordinal port identifiers relative to their
parent may change once libcxl and cxl-cli prove out region creation, or
a better option is found to establish a static device path / persistent
naming scheme. System software must not assume that 'struct cxl_port'
device names will be static from one boot to the next.

See patch7 for a tree(1) topology picture of what QEMU is producing
today with this enabling.

* cxl_root is singleton only by convention. A given cxl_root could
represent 1 to N address spaces, this patch set chooses to implement 1
cxl_root for all address spaces.

[1]: CXL 2.0 8.2.5.12.8 CXL HDM Decoder 0 Target List Low Register
(Offset 24h) ...The Target Port Identifier for a given Downstream Port
is reported via Port Number field in Link Capabilities Register. (See
PCI Express Base Specification).

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Dan Williams (8):
cxl/mem: Move some definitions to mem.h
cxl/mem: Introduce 'struct cxl_regs'
cxl/core: Rename bus.c to core.c
cxl/core: Refactor CXL register lookup for bridge reuse
cxl/acpi: Introduce ACPI0017 driver and cxl_root
cxl/Kconfig: Default drivers to CONFIG_CXL_BUS
cxl/port: Introduce cxl_port objects
cxl/acpi: Add module parameters to stand in for ACPI tables


Documentation/driver-api/cxl/memory-devices.rst | 6
drivers/cxl/Kconfig | 16 +
drivers/cxl/Makefile | 6
drivers/cxl/acpi.c | 215 +++++++++++
drivers/cxl/bus.c | 29 -
drivers/cxl/core.c | 468 +++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/cxl/cxl.h | 146 +++++--
drivers/cxl/mem.c | 97 +----
drivers/cxl/mem.h | 82 ++++
9 files changed, 905 insertions(+), 160 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/cxl/acpi.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/cxl/bus.c
create mode 100644 drivers/cxl/core.c
create mode 100644 drivers/cxl/mem.h

Pre-release review notes:
- s/HDM/HDM decoder/ in cover letter (Ben)
- clarify whether cxl_root is a singleton (Ben)
- call out _UID as an ACPI0016 id for the target list (Ben)
- add a spec reference for the claim about pcie root port number (Ben)
- s/regs.dev/regs.device_regs/ (Ben)
- add spec reference for @base arg to cxl_setup_device_regs()
- convert CXL_ADDRSPACE_* to BIT() and GENMASK() (Ben)
- document struct cxl_port (Ben)
- fixup the original copyright date for acpi.c (Ben)
- change the link name for the hosting port_dev from its device-name to
"host"
- fix a regression introduced by the CXL_DEVICE_REGS() trickery (Vishal)
- add a patch to default enable the critical sub-drivers based on the
CXL_BUS option.
- rename cxl registers to cxl device registers (Ben)
- introduce cxl_device_regs as a subset of cxl_regs, but let them be
referenced anonymously from cxlm->regs.
- rename cxl_setup_regs() to cxl_setup_device_regs() (Ben)
- add documentation to 'struct cxl_root' to make it clear what it is
relative to PCIE/CXL Root Ports. (Ben)
- fixup the cover letter to remove cxl_root vs root-port confusion (Ben)

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