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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
menuconfig CXL_BUS
tristate "CXL (Compute Express Link) Devices Support"
depends on PCI
select FW_LOADER
select FW_UPLOAD
select PCI_DOE
select FIRMWARE_TABLE
select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if (NUMA && X86)
help
CXL is a bus that is electrically compatible with PCI Express, but
layers three protocols on that signalling (CXL.io, CXL.cache, and
CXL.mem). The CXL.cache protocol allows devices to hold cachelines
locally, the CXL.mem protocol allows devices to be fully coherent
memory targets, the CXL.io protocol is equivalent to PCI Express.
Say 'y' to enable support for the configuration and management of
devices supporting these protocols.
if CXL_BUS
config CXL_PCI
tristate "PCI manageability"
default CXL_BUS
help
The CXL specification defines a "CXL memory device" sub-class in the
PCI "memory controller" base class of devices. Device's identified by
this class code provide support for volatile and / or persistent
memory to be mapped into the system address map (Host-managed Device
Memory (HDM)).
Say 'y/m' to enable a driver that will attach to CXL memory expander
devices enumerated by the memory device class code for configuration
and management primarily via the mailbox interface. See Chapter 2.3
Type 3 CXL Device in the CXL 2.0 specification for more details.
If unsure say 'm'.
config CXL_MEM_RAW_COMMANDS
bool "RAW Command Interface for Memory Devices"
depends on CXL_PCI
help
Enable CXL RAW command interface.
The CXL driver ioctl interface may assign a kernel ioctl command
number for each specification defined opcode. At any given point in
time the number of opcodes that the specification defines and a device
may implement may exceed the kernel's set of associated ioctl function
numbers. The mismatch is either by omission, specification is too new,
or by design. When prototyping new hardware, or developing / debugging
the driver it is useful to be able to submit any possible command to
the hardware, even commands that may crash the kernel due to their
potential impact to memory currently in use by the kernel.
If developing CXL hardware or the driver say Y, otherwise say N.
config CXL_ACPI
tristate "CXL ACPI: Platform Support"
depends on ACPI
depends on ACPI_NUMA
default CXL_BUS
select ACPI_TABLE_LIB
select ACPI_HMAT
help
Enable support for host managed device memory (HDM) resources
published by a platform's ACPI CXL memory layout description. See
Chapter 9.14.1 CXL Early Discovery Table (CEDT) in the CXL 2.0
specification, and CXL Fixed Memory Window Structures (CEDT.CFMWS)
(https://www.computeexpresslink.org/spec-landing). The CXL core
consumes these resource to publish the root of a cxl_port decode
hierarchy to map regions that represent System RAM, or Persistent
Memory regions to be managed by LIBNVDIMM.
If unsure say 'm'.
config CXL_PMEM
tristate "CXL PMEM: Persistent Memory Support"
depends on LIBNVDIMM
default CXL_BUS
help
In addition to typical memory resources a platform may also advertise
support for persistent memory attached via CXL. This support is
managed via a bridge driver from CXL to the LIBNVDIMM system
subsystem. Say 'y/m' to enable support for enumerating and
provisioning the persistent memory capacity of CXL memory expanders.
If unsure say 'm'.
cxl/port: Add a driver for 'struct cxl_port' objects The need for a CXL port driver and a dedicated cxl_bus_type is driven by a need to simultaneously support 2 independent physical memory decode domains (cache coherent CXL.mem and uncached PCI.mmio) that also intersect at a single PCIe device node. A CXL Port is a device that advertises a CXL Component Register block with an "HDM Decoder Capability Structure". >From Documentation/driver-api/cxl/memory-devices.rst: Similar to how a RAID driver takes disk objects and assembles them into a new logical device, the CXL subsystem is tasked to take PCIe and ACPI objects and assemble them into a CXL.mem decode topology. The need for runtime configuration of the CXL.mem topology is also similar to RAID in that different environments with the same hardware configuration may decide to assemble the topology in contrasting ways. One may choose performance (RAID0) striping memory across multiple Host Bridges and endpoints while another may opt for fault tolerance and disable any striping in the CXL.mem topology. The port driver identifies whether an endpoint Memory Expander is connected to a CXL topology. If an active (bound to the 'cxl_port' driver) CXL Port is not found at every PCIe Switch Upstream port and an active "root" CXL Port then the device is just a plain PCIe endpoint only capable of participating in PCI.mmio and DMA cycles, not CXL.mem coherent interleave sets. The 'cxl_port' driver lets the CXL subsystem leverage driver-core infrastructure for setup and teardown of register resources and communicating device activation status to userspace. The cxl_bus_type can rendezvous the async arrival of platform level CXL resources (via the 'cxl_acpi' driver) with the asynchronous enumeration of Memory Expander endpoints, while also implementing a hierarchical locking model independent of the associated 'struct pci_dev' locking model. The locking for dport and decoder enumeration is now handled in the core rather than callers. For now the port driver only enumerates and registers CXL resources (downstream port metadata and decoder resources) later it will be used to take action on its decoders in response to CXL.mem region provisioning requests. Note1: cxlpci.h has long depended on pci.h, but port.c was the first to not include pci.h. Carry that dependency in cxlpci.h. Note2: cxl port enumeration and probing complicates CXL subsystem init to the point that it helps to have centralized debug logging of probe events in cxl_bus_probe(). Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Co-developed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164374948116.464348.1772618057599155408.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2022-02-01 21:07:51 +00:00
cxl/mem: Add the cxl_mem driver At this point the subsystem can enumerate all CXL ports (CXL.mem decode resources in upstream switch ports and host bridges) in a system. The last mile is connecting those ports to endpoints. The cxl_mem driver connects an endpoint device to the platform CXL.mem protoctol decode-topology. At ->probe() time it walks its device-topology-ancestry and adds a CXL Port object at every Upstream Port hop until it gets to CXL root. The CXL root object is only present after a platform firmware driver registers platform CXL resources. For ACPI based platform this is managed by the ACPI0017 device and the cxl_acpi driver. The ports are registered such that disabling a given port automatically unregisters all descendant ports, and the chain can only be registered after the root is established. Given ACPI device scanning may run asynchronously compared to PCI device scanning the root driver is tasked with rescanning the bus after the root successfully probes. Conversely if any ports in a chain between the root and an endpoint becomes disconnected it subsequently triggers the endpoint to unregister. Given lock depenedencies the endpoint unregistration happens in a workqueue asynchronously. If userspace cares about synchronizing delayed work after port events the /sys/bus/cxl/flush attribute is available for that purpose. Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> [djbw: clarify changelog, rework hotplug support] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164398782997.903003.9725273241627693186.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2022-02-04 15:18:31 +00:00
config CXL_MEM
tristate "CXL: Memory Expansion"
depends on CXL_PCI
default CXL_BUS
help
The CXL.mem protocol allows a device to act as a provider of "System
RAM" and/or "Persistent Memory" that is fully coherent as if the
memory were attached to the typical CPU memory controller. This is
known as HDM "Host-managed Device Memory".
Say 'y/m' to enable a driver that will attach to CXL.mem devices for
memory expansion and control of HDM. See Chapter 9.13 in the CXL 2.0
specification for a detailed description of HDM.
If unsure say 'm'.
cxl/port: Add a driver for 'struct cxl_port' objects The need for a CXL port driver and a dedicated cxl_bus_type is driven by a need to simultaneously support 2 independent physical memory decode domains (cache coherent CXL.mem and uncached PCI.mmio) that also intersect at a single PCIe device node. A CXL Port is a device that advertises a CXL Component Register block with an "HDM Decoder Capability Structure". >From Documentation/driver-api/cxl/memory-devices.rst: Similar to how a RAID driver takes disk objects and assembles them into a new logical device, the CXL subsystem is tasked to take PCIe and ACPI objects and assemble them into a CXL.mem decode topology. The need for runtime configuration of the CXL.mem topology is also similar to RAID in that different environments with the same hardware configuration may decide to assemble the topology in contrasting ways. One may choose performance (RAID0) striping memory across multiple Host Bridges and endpoints while another may opt for fault tolerance and disable any striping in the CXL.mem topology. The port driver identifies whether an endpoint Memory Expander is connected to a CXL topology. If an active (bound to the 'cxl_port' driver) CXL Port is not found at every PCIe Switch Upstream port and an active "root" CXL Port then the device is just a plain PCIe endpoint only capable of participating in PCI.mmio and DMA cycles, not CXL.mem coherent interleave sets. The 'cxl_port' driver lets the CXL subsystem leverage driver-core infrastructure for setup and teardown of register resources and communicating device activation status to userspace. The cxl_bus_type can rendezvous the async arrival of platform level CXL resources (via the 'cxl_acpi' driver) with the asynchronous enumeration of Memory Expander endpoints, while also implementing a hierarchical locking model independent of the associated 'struct pci_dev' locking model. The locking for dport and decoder enumeration is now handled in the core rather than callers. For now the port driver only enumerates and registers CXL resources (downstream port metadata and decoder resources) later it will be used to take action on its decoders in response to CXL.mem region provisioning requests. Note1: cxlpci.h has long depended on pci.h, but port.c was the first to not include pci.h. Carry that dependency in cxlpci.h. Note2: cxl port enumeration and probing complicates CXL subsystem init to the point that it helps to have centralized debug logging of probe events in cxl_bus_probe(). Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Co-developed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164374948116.464348.1772618057599155408.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2022-02-01 21:07:51 +00:00
config CXL_PORT
default CXL_BUS
tristate
PM: CXL: Disable suspend The CXL specification claims S3 support at a hardware level, but at a system software level there are some missing pieces. Section 9.4 (CXL 2.0) rightly claims that "CXL mem adapters may need aux power to retain memory context across S3", but there is no enumeration mechanism for the OS to determine if a given adapter has that support. Moreover the save state and resume image for the system may inadvertantly end up in a CXL device that needs to be restored before the save state is recoverable. I.e. a circular dependency that is not resolvable without a third party save-area. Arrange for the cxl_mem driver to fail S3 attempts. This still nominaly allows for suspend, but requires unbinding all CXL memory devices before the suspend to ensure the typical DRAM flow is taken. The cxl_mem unbind flow is intended to also tear down all CXL memory regions associated with a given cxl_memdev. It is reasonable to assume that any device participating in a System RAM range published in the EFI memory map is covered by aux power and save-area outside the device itself. So this restriction can be minimized in the future once pre-existing region enumeration support arrives, and perhaps a spec update to clarify if the EFI memory map is sufficent for determining the range of devices managed by platform-firmware for S3 support. Per Rafael, if the CXL configuration prevents suspend then it should fail early before tasks are frozen, and mem_sleep should stop showing 'mem' as an option [1]. Effectively CXL augments the platform suspend ->valid() op since, for example, the ACPI ops are not aware of the CXL / PCI dependencies. Given the split role of platform firmware vs OS provisioned CXL memory it is up to the cxl_mem driver to determine if the CXL configuration has elements that platform firmware may not be prepared to restore. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAJZ5v0hGVN_=3iU8OLpHY3Ak35T5+JcBM-qs8SbojKrpd0VXsA@mail.gmail.com [1] Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/165066828317.3907920.5690432272182042556.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2022-04-22 22:58:11 +00:00
config CXL_SUSPEND
def_bool y
depends on SUSPEND && CXL_MEM
cxl/region: Add region creation support CXL 2.0 allows for dynamic provisioning of new memory regions (system physical address resources like "System RAM" and "Persistent Memory"). Whereas DDR and PMEM resources are conveyed statically at boot, CXL allows for assembling and instantiating new regions from the available capacity of CXL memory expanders in the system. Sysfs with an "echo $region_name > $create_region_attribute" interface is chosen as the mechanism to initiate the provisioning process. This was chosen over ioctl() and netlink() to keep the configuration interface entirely in a pseudo-fs interface, and it was chosen over configfs since, aside from this one creation event, the interface is read-mostly. I.e. configfs supports cases where an object is designed to be provisioned each boot, like an iSCSI storage target, and CXL region creation is mostly for PMEM regions which are created usually once per-lifetime of a server instance. This is an improvement over nvdimm that pre-created "seed" devices that tended to confuse users looking to determine which devices are active and which are idle. Recall that the major change that CXL brings over previous persistent memory architectures is the ability to dynamically define new regions. Compare that to drivers like 'nfit' where the region configuration is statically defined by platform firmware. Regions are created as a child of a root decoder that encompasses an address space with constraints. When created through sysfs, the root decoder is explicit. When created from an LSA's region structure a root decoder will possibly need to be inferred by the driver. Upon region creation through sysfs, a vacant region is created with a unique name. Regions have a number of attributes that must be configured before the region can be bound to the driver where HDM decoder program is completed. An example of creating a new region: - Allocate a new region name: region=$(cat /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoder0.0/create_pmem_region) - Create a new region by name: while region=$(cat /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoder0.0/create_pmem_region) ! echo $region > /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoder0.0/create_pmem_region do true; done - Region now exists in sysfs: stat -t /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoder0.0/$region - Delete the region, and name: echo $region > /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoder0.0/delete_region Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <bwidawsk@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/165784333909.1758207.794374602146306032.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com [djbw: simplify locking, reword changelog] Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2021-06-08 17:28:34 +00:00
config CXL_REGION
bool "CXL: Region Support"
cxl/region: Add region creation support CXL 2.0 allows for dynamic provisioning of new memory regions (system physical address resources like "System RAM" and "Persistent Memory"). Whereas DDR and PMEM resources are conveyed statically at boot, CXL allows for assembling and instantiating new regions from the available capacity of CXL memory expanders in the system. Sysfs with an "echo $region_name > $create_region_attribute" interface is chosen as the mechanism to initiate the provisioning process. This was chosen over ioctl() and netlink() to keep the configuration interface entirely in a pseudo-fs interface, and it was chosen over configfs since, aside from this one creation event, the interface is read-mostly. I.e. configfs supports cases where an object is designed to be provisioned each boot, like an iSCSI storage target, and CXL region creation is mostly for PMEM regions which are created usually once per-lifetime of a server instance. This is an improvement over nvdimm that pre-created "seed" devices that tended to confuse users looking to determine which devices are active and which are idle. Recall that the major change that CXL brings over previous persistent memory architectures is the ability to dynamically define new regions. Compare that to drivers like 'nfit' where the region configuration is statically defined by platform firmware. Regions are created as a child of a root decoder that encompasses an address space with constraints. When created through sysfs, the root decoder is explicit. When created from an LSA's region structure a root decoder will possibly need to be inferred by the driver. Upon region creation through sysfs, a vacant region is created with a unique name. Regions have a number of attributes that must be configured before the region can be bound to the driver where HDM decoder program is completed. An example of creating a new region: - Allocate a new region name: region=$(cat /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoder0.0/create_pmem_region) - Create a new region by name: while region=$(cat /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoder0.0/create_pmem_region) ! echo $region > /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoder0.0/create_pmem_region do true; done - Region now exists in sysfs: stat -t /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoder0.0/$region - Delete the region, and name: echo $region > /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoder0.0/delete_region Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <bwidawsk@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/165784333909.1758207.794374602146306032.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com [djbw: simplify locking, reword changelog] Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2021-06-08 17:28:34 +00:00
default CXL_BUS
# For MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS
depends on SPARSEMEM
cxl/region: Add region creation support CXL 2.0 allows for dynamic provisioning of new memory regions (system physical address resources like "System RAM" and "Persistent Memory"). Whereas DDR and PMEM resources are conveyed statically at boot, CXL allows for assembling and instantiating new regions from the available capacity of CXL memory expanders in the system. Sysfs with an "echo $region_name > $create_region_attribute" interface is chosen as the mechanism to initiate the provisioning process. This was chosen over ioctl() and netlink() to keep the configuration interface entirely in a pseudo-fs interface, and it was chosen over configfs since, aside from this one creation event, the interface is read-mostly. I.e. configfs supports cases where an object is designed to be provisioned each boot, like an iSCSI storage target, and CXL region creation is mostly for PMEM regions which are created usually once per-lifetime of a server instance. This is an improvement over nvdimm that pre-created "seed" devices that tended to confuse users looking to determine which devices are active and which are idle. Recall that the major change that CXL brings over previous persistent memory architectures is the ability to dynamically define new regions. Compare that to drivers like 'nfit' where the region configuration is statically defined by platform firmware. Regions are created as a child of a root decoder that encompasses an address space with constraints. When created through sysfs, the root decoder is explicit. When created from an LSA's region structure a root decoder will possibly need to be inferred by the driver. Upon region creation through sysfs, a vacant region is created with a unique name. Regions have a number of attributes that must be configured before the region can be bound to the driver where HDM decoder program is completed. An example of creating a new region: - Allocate a new region name: region=$(cat /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoder0.0/create_pmem_region) - Create a new region by name: while region=$(cat /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoder0.0/create_pmem_region) ! echo $region > /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoder0.0/create_pmem_region do true; done - Region now exists in sysfs: stat -t /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoder0.0/$region - Delete the region, and name: echo $region > /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoder0.0/delete_region Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <bwidawsk@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/165784333909.1758207.794374602146306032.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com [djbw: simplify locking, reword changelog] Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2021-06-08 17:28:34 +00:00
select MEMREGION
select GET_FREE_REGION
help
Enable the CXL core to enumerate and provision CXL regions. A CXL
region is defined by one or more CXL expanders that decode a given
system-physical address range. For CXL regions established by
platform-firmware this option enables memory error handling to
identify the devices participating in a given interleaved memory
range. Otherwise, platform-firmware managed CXL is enabled by being
placed in the system address map and does not need a driver.
If unsure say 'y'
cxl/region: Add region creation support CXL 2.0 allows for dynamic provisioning of new memory regions (system physical address resources like "System RAM" and "Persistent Memory"). Whereas DDR and PMEM resources are conveyed statically at boot, CXL allows for assembling and instantiating new regions from the available capacity of CXL memory expanders in the system. Sysfs with an "echo $region_name > $create_region_attribute" interface is chosen as the mechanism to initiate the provisioning process. This was chosen over ioctl() and netlink() to keep the configuration interface entirely in a pseudo-fs interface, and it was chosen over configfs since, aside from this one creation event, the interface is read-mostly. I.e. configfs supports cases where an object is designed to be provisioned each boot, like an iSCSI storage target, and CXL region creation is mostly for PMEM regions which are created usually once per-lifetime of a server instance. This is an improvement over nvdimm that pre-created "seed" devices that tended to confuse users looking to determine which devices are active and which are idle. Recall that the major change that CXL brings over previous persistent memory architectures is the ability to dynamically define new regions. Compare that to drivers like 'nfit' where the region configuration is statically defined by platform firmware. Regions are created as a child of a root decoder that encompasses an address space with constraints. When created through sysfs, the root decoder is explicit. When created from an LSA's region structure a root decoder will possibly need to be inferred by the driver. Upon region creation through sysfs, a vacant region is created with a unique name. Regions have a number of attributes that must be configured before the region can be bound to the driver where HDM decoder program is completed. An example of creating a new region: - Allocate a new region name: region=$(cat /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoder0.0/create_pmem_region) - Create a new region by name: while region=$(cat /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoder0.0/create_pmem_region) ! echo $region > /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoder0.0/create_pmem_region do true; done - Region now exists in sysfs: stat -t /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoder0.0/$region - Delete the region, and name: echo $region > /sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoder0.0/delete_region Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <bwidawsk@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/165784333909.1758207.794374602146306032.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com [djbw: simplify locking, reword changelog] Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2021-06-08 17:28:34 +00:00
cxl/region: Manage CPU caches relative to DPA invalidation events A "DPA invalidation event" is any scenario where the contents of a DPA (Device Physical Address) is modified in a way that is incoherent with CPU caches, or if the HPA (Host Physical Address) to DPA association changes due to a remapping event. PMEM security events like Unlock and Passphrase Secure Erase already manage caches through LIBNVDIMM, so that leaves HPA to DPA remap events that need cache management by the CXL core. Those only happen when the boot time CXL configuration has changed. That event occurs when userspace attaches an endpoint decoder to a region configuration, and that region is subsequently activated. The implications of not invalidating caches between remap events is that reads from the region at different points in time may return different results due to stale cached data from the previous HPA to DPA mapping. Without a guarantee that the region contents after cxl_region_probe() are written before being read (a layering-violation assumption that cxl_region_probe() can not make) the CXL subsystem needs to ensure that reads that precede writes see consistent results. A CONFIG_CXL_REGION_INVALIDATION_TEST option is added to support debug and unit testing of the CXL implementation in QEMU or other environments where cpu_cache_has_invalidate_memregion() returns false. This may prove too restrictive for QEMU where the HDM decoders are emulated, but in that case the CXL subsystem needs some new mechanism / indication that the HDM decoder is emulated and not a passthrough of real hardware. Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/166993222098.1995348.16604163596374520890.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2022-12-01 22:03:41 +00:00
config CXL_REGION_INVALIDATION_TEST
bool "CXL: Region Cache Management Bypass (TEST)"
depends on CXL_REGION
help
CXL Region management and security operations potentially invalidate
the content of CPU caches without notifying those caches to
cxl/region: Manage CPU caches relative to DPA invalidation events A "DPA invalidation event" is any scenario where the contents of a DPA (Device Physical Address) is modified in a way that is incoherent with CPU caches, or if the HPA (Host Physical Address) to DPA association changes due to a remapping event. PMEM security events like Unlock and Passphrase Secure Erase already manage caches through LIBNVDIMM, so that leaves HPA to DPA remap events that need cache management by the CXL core. Those only happen when the boot time CXL configuration has changed. That event occurs when userspace attaches an endpoint decoder to a region configuration, and that region is subsequently activated. The implications of not invalidating caches between remap events is that reads from the region at different points in time may return different results due to stale cached data from the previous HPA to DPA mapping. Without a guarantee that the region contents after cxl_region_probe() are written before being read (a layering-violation assumption that cxl_region_probe() can not make) the CXL subsystem needs to ensure that reads that precede writes see consistent results. A CONFIG_CXL_REGION_INVALIDATION_TEST option is added to support debug and unit testing of the CXL implementation in QEMU or other environments where cpu_cache_has_invalidate_memregion() returns false. This may prove too restrictive for QEMU where the HDM decoders are emulated, but in that case the CXL subsystem needs some new mechanism / indication that the HDM decoder is emulated and not a passthrough of real hardware. Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/166993222098.1995348.16604163596374520890.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2022-12-01 22:03:41 +00:00
invalidate the affected cachelines. The CXL Region driver attempts
to invalidate caches when those events occur. If that invalidation
fails the region will fail to enable. Reasons for cache
invalidation failure are due to the CPU not providing a cache
invalidation mechanism. For example usage of wbinvd is restricted to
bare metal x86. However, for testing purposes toggling this option
can disable that data integrity safety and proceed with enabling
regions when there might be conflicting contents in the CPU cache.
If unsure, or if this kernel is meant for production environments,
say N.
endif