Re: [PATCH V13 8/9] cxl/port: Retry reading CDAT on failure

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 09:27:04 -0700
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ira.weiny@ wrote:
> > From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > The CDAT read may fail for a number of reasons but mainly it is possible
> > to get different parts of a valid state.  The checksum in the CDAT table
> > protects against this.  
> 
> I don't know what "different parts of a valid state" means. The CDAT
> should not be changing as it is being read unless someone is issuing a
> set-partition while the DOE operation is happening.

Unfortunately not true. The device is allowed to change it with no input
from OS software at all.

>From CDAT spec

"For Revision=1, the following changes are permitted during the
runtime
• Changes to the latency and bandwidth fields in DSLBIS
• Changes to the latency and bandwidth fields in SSLBIS
• Changes to the number of DSEMTS instances and their
contents
The changes to latency and bandwidth may represent events such
as failover or degradation that are internal to a component."

> Rather than
> arbitrary retries, block out set-partition while CDAT is being read.

Blocking that out is still useful even though we probably still need retries.

> 
> You can use {set,clear}_exclusive_cxl_commands() to temporarily lock out
> set-partition while the CDAT read is happening.
> 
> ...and since this series is only for enabling