Re: [RFC Patch v1 0/3] Fix using wrong GPF DVSEC location issue

From: Dan Williams
Date: Fri Mar 21 2025 - 13:02:38 EST


Li Ming wrote:
> During review all new patches in branch cxl/next. I noticed there may be
> a problem in below commit.
>
> commit a52b6a2c1c99 ("cxl/pci: Support Global Persistent Flush (GPF)")
>
> There is a new field gpf_dvsec in struct cxl_port to cache GPF DVSEC for
> Port(DVSEC ID 04h) location. When the first EP attaching to a cxl port,
> it will trigger locating GPF DVSEC on the cxl dport which the first EP
> is under, then the location is cached in port->gpf_dvsec. So if another
> EP under another dport is attaching, it will reuse the value of
> port->gpf_dvsec as GPF DVSEC location for this another dport. The
> problem is the cached location may be a wrong location for other dports
> of the port.
>
> Per Table 8-2 in CXL r3.2 section 8.1.1 and CXL r3.2 section 8.1.6, Each
> CXL Downstream switch ports and CXL root ports have their own GPF DVSEC
> for Port(DVSEC ID 04h). So my understanding is that CXL subsystem should
> locate GPF DVSEC for Port for each dport rather than using the cached
> location in CXL port.
>
> But I am not sure if all dports under a same port will have same
> configuration space layout, if yes, that will not be a problem. If I am
> wrong, please let me know, thanks.
>
> base-commit: 3b5d43245f0a56390baaa670e1b6d898772266b3 cxl/next
>
> Li Ming (3):
> cxl/core: Fix caching dport GPF DVSEC issue
> cxl/pci: Update Port GPF timeout only when the first EP attaching
> cxl/pci: Drop the parameter is_port of cxl_gpf_get_dvsec()

These look good. I doubt a device would build different offsets
per-dport, but the real risk is more in confusing future code readers
that dports are uniform.

For the series,

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>

A Fixes tag seems reasonable.