Re: [RFC V2 PATCH 04/11] cxl/mem: Clear events on driver load

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Tue Oct 11 2022 - 08:43:04 EST


On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 15:41:24 -0700
ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> The information contained in the events prior to the driver loading can
> be queried at any time through other mailbox commands.
>
> Ensure a clean slate of events by reading and clearing the events. The
> events are sent to the trace buffer but it is not anticipated to have
> anyone listening to it at driver load time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
Makes sense I think.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/cxl/pci.c | 2 ++
> tools/testing/cxl/test/mem.c | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cxl/pci.c b/drivers/cxl/pci.c
> index faeb5d9d7a7a..5f1b492bd388 100644
> --- a/drivers/cxl/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/cxl/pci.c
> @@ -498,6 +498,8 @@ static int cxl_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
> if (IS_ERR(cxlmd))
> return PTR_ERR(cxlmd);
>
> + cxl_mem_get_event_records(cxlds);
> +
> if (resource_size(&cxlds->pmem_res) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CXL_PMEM))
> rc = devm_cxl_add_nvdimm(&pdev->dev, cxlmd);
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/cxl/test/mem.c b/tools/testing/cxl/test/mem.c
> index aa2df3a15051..e2f5445d24ff 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/cxl/test/mem.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/cxl/test/mem.c
> @@ -285,6 +285,8 @@ static int cxl_mock_mem_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> if (IS_ERR(cxlmd))
> return PTR_ERR(cxlmd);
>
> + cxl_mem_get_event_records(cxlds);
> +
> if (resource_size(&cxlds->pmem_res) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CXL_PMEM))
> rc = devm_cxl_add_nvdimm(dev, cxlmd);
>