Re: [PATCH v14 07/14] cxl/memfeature: Add CXL memory device patrol scrub control feature

From: Dave Jiang
Date: Wed Oct 30 2024 - 12:46:39 EST




On 10/30/24 9:16 AM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 11:32:47 -0700
> Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 10/29/24 10:00 AM, Shiju Jose wrote:
>>>
>>>
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>>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 07/14] cxl/memfeature: Add CXL memory device patrol
>>>> scrub control feature
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 10/25/24 10:13 AM, shiju.jose@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>>> From: Shiju Jose <shiju.jose@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>>> CXL spec 3.1 section 8.2.9.9.11.1 describes the device patrol scrub
>>>>> control feature. The device patrol scrub proactively locates and makes
>>>>> corrections to errors in regular cycle.
>>>>>
>>>>> Allow specifying the number of hours within which the patrol scrub
>>>>> must be completed, subject to minimum and maximum limits reported by the
>>>> device.
>>>>> Also allow disabling scrub allowing trade-off error rates against
>>>>> performance.
>>>>>
>>>>> Add support for patrol scrub control on CXL memory devices.
>>>>> Register with the EDAC device driver, which retrieves the scrub
>>>>> attribute descriptors from EDAC scrub and exposes the sysfs scrub
>>>>> control attributes to userspace. For example, scrub control for the
>>>>> CXL memory device "cxl_mem0" is exposed in
>>>> /sys/bus/edac/devices/cxl_mem0/scrubX/.
>>>>>
>>>>> Additionally, add support for region-based CXL memory patrol scrub control.
>>>>> CXL memory regions may be interleaved across one or more CXL memory
>>>>> devices. For example, region-based scrub control for "cxl_region1" is
>>>>> exposed in /sys/bus/edac/devices/cxl_region1/scrubX/.
>>>>>
>>>>> Co-developed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Shiju Jose <shiju.jose@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> Documentation/edac/edac-scrub.rst | 74 ++++++
>>>>> drivers/cxl/Kconfig | 18 ++
>>>>> drivers/cxl/core/Makefile | 1 +
>>>>> drivers/cxl/core/memfeature.c | 381 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>> drivers/cxl/core/region.c | 6 +
>>>>> drivers/cxl/cxlmem.h | 7 +
>>>>> drivers/cxl/mem.c | 4 +
>>>>> 7 files changed, 491 insertions(+)
>>>>> create mode 100644 Documentation/edac/edac-scrub.rst create mode
>>>>> 100644 drivers/cxl/core/memfeature.c
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/edac/edac-scrub.rst
>>>>> b/Documentation/edac/edac-scrub.rst
>>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>>> index 000000000000..4aad4974b208
>>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>>> +++ b/Documentation/edac/edac-scrub.rst
>>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
>>>>> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>>>>> +
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>> +static int cxl_mem_ps_get_attrs(struct cxl_memdev_state *mds,
>>>>> + struct cxl_memdev_ps_params *params) {
>>>>> + size_t rd_data_size = sizeof(struct cxl_memdev_ps_rd_attrs);
>>>>> + size_t data_size;
>>>>> + struct cxl_memdev_ps_rd_attrs *rd_attrs __free(kfree) =
>>>>> + kmalloc(rd_data_size,
>>>> GFP_KERNEL);
>>>>> + if (!rd_attrs)
>>>>> + return -ENOMEM;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + data_size = cxl_get_feature(mds, cxl_patrol_scrub_uuid,
>>>>> + CXL_GET_FEAT_SEL_CURRENT_VALUE,
>>>>> + rd_attrs, rd_data_size);
>>>>> + if (!data_size)
>>>>> + return -EIO;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + params->scrub_cycle_changeable =
>>>> FIELD_GET(CXL_MEMDEV_PS_SCRUB_CYCLE_CHANGE_CAP_MASK,
>>>>> + rd_attrs->scrub_cycle_cap);
>>>>> + params->enable =
>>>> FIELD_GET(CXL_MEMDEV_PS_FLAG_ENABLED_MASK,
>>>>> + rd_attrs->scrub_flags);
>>>>> + params->scrub_cycle_hrs =
>>>> FIELD_GET(CXL_MEMDEV_PS_CUR_SCRUB_CYCLE_MASK,
>>>>> + rd_attrs->scrub_cycle_hrs);
>>>>> + params->min_scrub_cycle_hrs =
>>>> FIELD_GET(CXL_MEMDEV_PS_MIN_SCRUB_CYCLE_MASK,
>>>>> + rd_attrs->scrub_cycle_hrs);
>>>>> +
>>>>> + return 0;
>>>>> +}
>>>>> +
>>>>> +static int cxl_ps_get_attrs(struct device *dev, void *drv_data,
>>>>
>>>> Would a union be better than a void *drv_data for all the places this is used as a
>>>> parameter? How many variations of this are there?
>>>>
>>>> DJ
>>> Hi Dave,
>>>
>>> Can you give more info on this given this is a generic callback for the scrub control and each
>>> implementation will have its own context struct (for eg. struct cxl_patrol_scrub_context here
>>> for CXL scrub control), which in turn will be passed in and out as opaque data.
>>
>> Mainly I'm just seeing a lot of calls with (void *). Just asking if we want to make it a union that contains 'struct cxl_patrol_scrub_context' and etc.
>
> You could but then every new driver would need to include
> changes in the edac core to add it's own entry to that union.
>
> Not sure that's a good way to go for opaque driver specific context.
>
> This particular function though can use
> a struct cxl_patrol_scrub_context * anyway as it's not part of the
> core interface, but rather one called only indirectly
> by functions that are passed a void * but know it is a
> struct clx_patrol_scrub_context *.

Thanks Jonathan. That's basically what I wanted to know.

>
> Jonathan
>
>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Shiju
>>>>
>>>>> + struct cxl_memdev_ps_params *params) {
>>>>> + struct cxl_patrol_scrub_context *cxl_ps_ctx = drv_data;
>>>>> + struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd;
>>>>> + struct cxl_dev_state *cxlds;
>>>>> + struct cxl_memdev_state *mds;
>>>>> + u16 min_scrub_cycle = 0;
>>>>> + int i, ret;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + if (cxl_ps_ctx->cxlr) {
>>>>> + struct cxl_region *cxlr = cxl_ps_ctx->cxlr;
>>>>> + struct cxl_region_params *p = &cxlr->params;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + for (i = p->interleave_ways - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
>>>>> + struct cxl_endpoint_decoder *cxled = p->targets[i];
>>>>> +
>>>>> + cxlmd = cxled_to_memdev(cxled);
>>>>> + cxlds = cxlmd->cxlds;
>>>>> + mds = to_cxl_memdev_state(cxlds);
>>>>> + ret = cxl_mem_ps_get_attrs(mds, params);
>>>>> + if (ret)
>>>>> + return ret;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + if (params->min_scrub_cycle_hrs > min_scrub_cycle)
>>>>> + min_scrub_cycle = params-
>>>>> min_scrub_cycle_hrs;
>>>>> + }
>>>>> + params->min_scrub_cycle_hrs = min_scrub_cycle;
>>>>> + return 0;
>>>>> + }
>>>>> + cxlmd = cxl_ps_ctx->cxlmd;
>>>>> + cxlds = cxlmd->cxlds;
>>>>> + mds = to_cxl_memdev_state(cxlds);
>>>>> +
>>>>> + return cxl_mem_ps_get_attrs(mds, params); }
>>>>> +
>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>
>>
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