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Recall that CXL capable address ranges, on ACPI platforms, are published in the CEDT.CFMWS (CXL Early Discovery Table: CXL Fixed Memory Window Structures). These windows represent both the actively mapped capacity and the potential address space that can be dynamically assigned to a new CXL decode configuration (region / interleave-set). CXL endpoints like DDR DIMMs can be mapped at any physical address including 0 and legacy ranges. There is an expectation and requirement that the /proc/iomem interface and the iomem_resource tree in the kernel reflect the full set of platform address ranges. I.e. that every address range that platform firmware and bus drivers enumerate be reflected as an iomem_resource entry. The hard requirement to do this for CXL arises from the fact that facilities like CONFIG_DEVICE_PRIVATE expect to be able to treat empty iomem_resource ranges as free for software to use as proxy address space. Without CXL publishing its potential address ranges in iomem_resource, the CONFIG_DEVICE_PRIVATE mechanism may inadvertently steal capacity reserved for runtime provisioning of new CXL regions. So, iomem_resource needs to know about both active and potential CXL resource ranges. The active CXL resources might already be reflected in iomem_resource as "System RAM". insert_resource_expand_to_fit() handles re-parenting "System RAM" underneath a CXL window. The "_expand_to_fit()" behavior handles cases where a CXL window is not a strict superset of an existing entry in the iomem_resource tree. The "_expand_to_fit()" behavior is acceptable from the perspective of resource allocation. The expansion happens because a conflicting resource range is already populated, which means the resource boundary expansion does not result in any additional free CXL address space being made available. CXL address space allocation is always bounded by the orginal unexpanded address range. However, the potential for expansion does mean that something like walk_iomem_res_desc(IORES_DESC_CXL...) can only return fuzzy answers on corner case platforms that cause the resource tree to expand a CXL window resource over a range that is not decoded by CXL. This would be an odd platform configuration, but if it becomes a problem in practice the CXL subsytem could just publish an API that returns definitive answers. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/165784325943.1758207.5310344844375305118.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.