Re: [PATCH v2 04/15] cxl/region: Calculate endpoint's region position during init

[Gregory Price]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 02:23:45PM +0100, Robert Richter wrote:
> The calculation of an endpoint's position in a region traverses all
> ports up to the root port and determines the corresponding decoders
> for that particular address range. For address translation the HPA
> range must be recalculated between ports. In order to prepare the
> implementation of address translation, move code to
> cxl_endpoint_decoder_initialize() and reuse the existing iterator
> there.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/cxl/core/region.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/region.c b/drivers/cxl/core/region.c
> index ad4a6ce37216..6f106bfa115f 100644
> --- a/drivers/cxl/core/region.c
> +++ b/drivers/cxl/core/region.c
> @@ -1903,7 +1903,6 @@ static int cxl_region_sort_targets(struct cxl_region *cxlr)
>  	for (i = 0; i < p->nr_targets; i++) {
>  		struct cxl_endpoint_decoder *cxled = p->targets[i];
>  
> -		cxled->pos = cxl_calc_interleave_pos(cxled);
>  		/*

This change breaks the entire sort process, because in
cxl_region_attach_auto the positions are temporarily overwritten

To make this work, I had to drop over-write of the position when doing
the attach process - but this is just incorrect as we now have a
cxled->pos that indexes incorrectly into p->targets[N]

The result of the above change (without the below hack) is that decoder
probe order causes a race condition - whoever shows up first gets
position 0, and the sort does nothing (because the above line is
dropped).

TL;DR: This line should just be left as-is.  It's perfectly fine to
re-calculate the position.

~Gregory

--- DO NOT USE - added for context ---

diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/region.c b/drivers/cxl/core/region.c
index 902b04b875b3..e75eb1c815f1 100644
--- a/drivers/cxl/core/region.c
+++ b/drivers/cxl/core/region.c
@@ -1855,7 +1855,6 @@ static int cxl_region_attach_auto(struct cxl_region *cxlr,
         */
        pos = p->nr_targets;
        p->targets[pos] = cxled;
-       cxled->pos = pos;
        p->nr_targets++;

        return 0;