Re: [PATCH v6 00/11] cxl: ACPI PRM Address Translation Support and AMD Zen5 enablement

[Gregory Price]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 05:14:05PM -0800, Alison Schofield wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 03:58:40PM +0100, Robert Richter wrote:
> > On 14.11.25 12:01:29, Alison Schofield wrote:
> > 
> > > Does this work 'as is', no changes required, to support DPA->SPA
> > > (used in CXL Events) or SPA->DPA (used in poison by region offset)?
> > 
> > The PRM handler could be used for to-SPA translations, but it might
> > not fit well to other users such as profiling, tracing and error
> > handling. Those users are executing in a critical path from a
> > performance or stability point of view. Performing a firmware call
> > could cause problems here. Since the to-DPA translation is missing
> > too, a different approach to solve address translation might work
> > better, such as examining the region parameters. The kernel's address
> > translation library could possibly be extended and used too. That
> > needs to be figured out. Also, my main focus for the patches is region
> > enablement.
> 
> If address translations are not supported/supportable, a quick exit
> on any attempt (DPA->SPA or SPA->DPA) with this config seems needed. 
>
> Better to fail and report ULLONG_MAX than leave open the possibility
> of adding the wrong address to trace events or using the wrong address
> in poison by region offset action.
> 
> Maybe you already know that it fails gracefully? If so, then it comes
> down to documenting the limitation.
>


IIRC the to_spa() function wouldn't be populated (will be NULL) if this
is the case, so you wouldn't even be able to call the translation
function.

This was hit in a prior version of the set where I saw it fail on a
system using System Address mode instead of Normalized Address mode.

~Gregory