Re: [PATCH v2 05/15] cxl/region: Calculate and store the SPA range of an endpoint

[Gregory Price]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 02:23:46PM +0100, Robert Richter wrote:
> To find the correct region and root port of an endpoint of a system
> needing address translation, the endpoint's HPA range must be
> translated to each of the parent port address ranges up to the root
> decoder.
> 
> Calculate the SPA range using the newly introduced callback function
> port->to_hpa() that translates the decoder's HPA range to its parent
> port's HPA range of the next outer memory domain. Introduce the helper
> function cxl_port_calc_hpa() for this to calculate address ranges
> using the low-level port->to_hpa() callbacks. Determine the root port
> SPA range by iterating all the ports up to the root. Store the
> endpoint's SPA range for later use.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@xxxxxxx>
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Address translation is only supported for auto-discovery of
> +	 * decoders. There is no need to support address translation
> +	 * here. That is, do not recalculate ctx.hpa_range here.
> +	 */

Can we at least add why translation is not supported / needed?  Just
saying "there is no need" doesn't help devs after us understand the code.

With that change:

Reviewed-by: Gregory Price <gourry@xxxxxxxxxx>