As the driver has undergone development, it's become clear that the
majority [entirety?] of the current functionality in mem.c is actually a
layer encapsulating functionality exposed through PCI based
interactions. This layer can be used either in isolation or to provide
functionality for higher level functionality.
CXL capabilities exist in a parallel domain to PCIe. CXL devices are
enumerable and controllable via "legacy" PCIe mechanisms; however, their
CXL capabilities are a superset of PCIe. For example, a CXL device may
be connected to a non-CXL capable PCIe root port, and therefore will not
be able to participate in CXL.mem or CXL.cache operations, but can still
be accessed through PCIe mechanisms for CXL.io operations.
To properly represent the PCI nature of this driver, and in preparation for
introducing a new driver for the CXL.mem / HDM decoder (Host-managed Device
Memory) capabilities of a CXL memory expander, rename mem.c to pci.c so that
mem.c is available for this new driver.
The result of the change is that there is a clear layering distinction
in the driver, and a systems administrator may load only the cxl_pci
module and gain access to such operations as, firmware update, offline
provisioning of devices, and error collection. In addition to freeing up
the file name for another purpose, there are two primary reasons this is
useful,
1. Acting upon devices which don't have full CXL capabilities. This
may happen for instance if the CXL device is connected in a CXL
unaware part of the platform topology.
2. Userspace-first provisioning for devices without kernel driver
interference. This may be useful when provisioning a new device
in a specific manner that might otherwise be blocked or prevented
by the real CXL mem driver.
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210526174413.802913-1-ben.widawsky@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
In preparation for more generic shared functionality across endpoint
consumers of core cxl resources, and platform-firmware producers of
those resources, rename bus.c to core.c. In addition to the central
rendezvous for interleave coordination, the core will also define common
routines like CXL register block mapping.
Acked-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/162096972018.1865304.11079951161445408423.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Create the /sys/bus/cxl hierarchy to enumerate:
* Memory Devices (per-endpoint control devices)
* Memory Address Space Devices (platform address ranges with
interleaving, performance, and persistence attributes)
* Memory Regions (active provisioned memory from an address space device
that is in use as System RAM or delegated to libnvdimm as Persistent
Memory regions).
For now, only the per-endpoint control devices are registered on the
'cxl' bus. However, going forward it will provide a mechanism to
coordinate cross-device interleave.
Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> (v2)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210217040958.1354670-4-ben.widawsky@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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
was attached to the typical CPU memory controller.
With the CXL-2.0 specification a PCI endpoint can implement a "Type-3"
device interface and give the operating system control over "Host
Managed Device Memory". See section 2.3 Type 3 CXL Device.
The memory range exported by the device may optionally be described by
the platform firmware memory map, or by infrastructure like LIBNVDIMM to
provision persistent memory capacity from one, or more, CXL.mem devices.
A pre-requisite for Linux-managed memory-capacity provisioning is this
cxl_mem driver that can speak the mailbox protocol defined in section
8.2.8.4 Mailbox Registers.
For now just land the initial driver boiler-plate and Documentation/
infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> (v1)
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://www.computeexpresslink.org/download-the-specification
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210217040958.1354670-2-ben.widawsky@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
