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Message-ID: <2ef6624f-f1d3-4541-81a7-b6b5060f2e49@amd.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:04:24 +0000
From: Alejandro Lucero Palau <alucerop@....com>
To: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>, alejandro.lucero-palau@....com,
 linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, dan.j.williams@...el.com,
 edward.cree@....com, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
 pabeni@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v19 13/22] cxl: Define a driver interface for DPA
 allocation


On 10/15/25 21:08, Dave Jiang wrote:
>
> On 10/6/25 3:01 AM, alejandro.lucero-palau@....com wrote:
>> From: Alejandro Lucero <alucerop@....com>
>>
>> Region creation involves finding available DPA (device-physical-address)
>> capacity to map into HPA (host-physical-address) space.
>>
>> In order to support CXL Type2 devices, define an API, cxl_request_dpa(),
>> that tries to allocate the DPA memory the driver requires to operate.The
>> memory requested should not be bigger than the max available HPA obtained
>> previously with cxl_get_hpa_freespace().
>>
>> Based on https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/168592158743.1948938.7622563891193802610.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com/
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alucerop@....com>
> just a nit below
>
> Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>> ---
>>   drivers/cxl/core/hdm.c | 85 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   drivers/cxl/cxl.h      |  1 +
>>   include/cxl/cxl.h      |  5 +++
>>   3 files changed, 91 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/hdm.c b/drivers/cxl/core/hdm.c
>> index e9e1d555cec6..70a15694c35d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/cxl/core/hdm.c
>> +++ b/drivers/cxl/core/hdm.c
>> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
>>   #include <linux/seq_file.h>
>>   #include <linux/device.h>
>>   #include <linux/delay.h>
>> +#include <cxl/cxl.h>
>>   
>>   #include "cxlmem.h"
>>   #include "core.h"
>> @@ -556,6 +557,13 @@ bool cxl_resource_contains_addr(const struct resource *res, const resource_size_
>>   	return resource_contains(res, &_addr);
>>   }
>>   
>> +/**
>> + * cxl_dpa_free - release DPA (Device Physical Address)
>> + *
> no blank line needed here
>
> DJ> + * @cxled: endpoint decoder linked to the DPA


I'll fix it.

Thanks!


>> + *
>> + * Returns 0 or error.
>> + */
>>   int cxl_dpa_free(struct cxl_endpoint_decoder *cxled)
>>   {
>>   	struct cxl_port *port = cxled_to_port(cxled);
>> @@ -582,6 +590,7 @@ int cxl_dpa_free(struct cxl_endpoint_decoder *cxled)
>>   	devm_cxl_dpa_release(cxled);
>>   	return 0;
>>   }
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(cxl_dpa_free, "CXL");
>>   
>>   int cxl_dpa_set_part(struct cxl_endpoint_decoder *cxled,
>>   		     enum cxl_partition_mode mode)
>> @@ -613,6 +622,82 @@ int cxl_dpa_set_part(struct cxl_endpoint_decoder *cxled,
>>   	return 0;
>>   }
>>   
>> +static int find_free_decoder(struct device *dev, const void *data)
>> +{
>> +	struct cxl_endpoint_decoder *cxled;
>> +	struct cxl_port *port;
>> +
>> +	if (!is_endpoint_decoder(dev))
>> +		return 0;
>> +
>> +	cxled = to_cxl_endpoint_decoder(dev);
>> +	port = cxled_to_port(cxled);
>> +
>> +	return cxled->cxld.id == (port->hdm_end + 1);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static struct cxl_endpoint_decoder *
>> +cxl_find_free_decoder(struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd)
>> +{
>> +	struct cxl_port *endpoint = cxlmd->endpoint;
>> +	struct device *dev;
>> +
>> +	guard(rwsem_read)(&cxl_rwsem.dpa);
>> +	dev = device_find_child(&endpoint->dev, NULL,
>> +				find_free_decoder);
>> +	if (dev)
>> +		return to_cxl_endpoint_decoder(dev);
>> +
>> +	return NULL;
>> +}
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * cxl_request_dpa - search and reserve DPA given input constraints
>> + * @cxlmd: memdev with an endpoint port with available decoders
>> + * @mode: CXL partition mode (ram vs pmem)
>> + * @alloc: dpa size required
>> + *
>> + * Returns a pointer to a 'struct cxl_endpoint_decoder' on success or
>> + * an errno encoded pointer on failure.
>> + *
>> + * Given that a region needs to allocate from limited HPA capacity it
>> + * may be the case that a device has more mappable DPA capacity than
>> + * available HPA. The expectation is that @alloc is a driver known
>> + * value based on the device capacity but which could not be fully
>> + * available due to HPA constraints.
>> + *
>> + * Returns a pinned cxl_decoder with at least @alloc bytes of capacity
>> + * reserved, or an error pointer. The caller is also expected to own the
>> + * lifetime of the memdev registration associated with the endpoint to
>> + * pin the decoder registered as well.
>> + */
>> +struct cxl_endpoint_decoder *cxl_request_dpa(struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd,
>> +					     enum cxl_partition_mode mode,
>> +					     resource_size_t alloc)
>> +{
>> +	int rc;
>> +
>> +	if (!IS_ALIGNED(alloc, SZ_256M))
>> +		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
>> +
>> +	struct cxl_endpoint_decoder *cxled __free(put_cxled) =
>> +		cxl_find_free_decoder(cxlmd);
>> +
>> +	if (!cxled)
>> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
>> +
>> +	rc = cxl_dpa_set_part(cxled, mode);
>> +	if (rc)
>> +		return ERR_PTR(rc);
>> +
>> +	rc = cxl_dpa_alloc(cxled, alloc);
>> +	if (rc)
>> +		return ERR_PTR(rc);
>> +
>> +	return no_free_ptr(cxled);
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(cxl_request_dpa, "CXL");
>> +
>>   static int __cxl_dpa_alloc(struct cxl_endpoint_decoder *cxled, u64 size)
>>   {
>>   	struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd = cxled_to_memdev(cxled);
>> diff --git a/drivers/cxl/cxl.h b/drivers/cxl/cxl.h
>> index ab490b5a9457..6ca0827cfaa5 100644
>> --- a/drivers/cxl/cxl.h
>> +++ b/drivers/cxl/cxl.h
>> @@ -625,6 +625,7 @@ struct cxl_root *find_cxl_root(struct cxl_port *port);
>>   
>>   DEFINE_FREE(put_cxl_root, struct cxl_root *, if (_T) put_device(&_T->port.dev))
>>   DEFINE_FREE(put_cxl_port, struct cxl_port *, if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(_T)) put_device(&_T->dev))
>> +DEFINE_FREE(put_cxled, struct cxl_endpoint_decoder *, if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(_T)) put_device(&_T->cxld.dev))
>>   DEFINE_FREE(put_cxl_root_decoder, struct cxl_root_decoder *, if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(_T)) put_device(&_T->cxlsd.cxld.dev))
>>   DEFINE_FREE(put_cxl_region, struct cxl_region *, if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(_T)) put_device(&_T->dev))
>>   
>> diff --git a/include/cxl/cxl.h b/include/cxl/cxl.h
>> index 2966b95e80a6..1cbe53ad0416 100644
>> --- a/include/cxl/cxl.h
>> +++ b/include/cxl/cxl.h
>> @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
>>   
>>   #include <linux/node.h>
>>   #include <linux/ioport.h>
>> +#include <linux/range.h>
>>   #include <cxl/mailbox.h>
>>   
>>   /**
>> @@ -270,4 +271,8 @@ struct cxl_root_decoder *cxl_get_hpa_freespace(struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd,
>>   					       unsigned long flags,
>>   					       resource_size_t *max);
>>   void cxl_put_root_decoder(struct cxl_root_decoder *cxlrd);
>> +struct cxl_endpoint_decoder *cxl_request_dpa(struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd,
>> +					     enum cxl_partition_mode mode,
>> +					     resource_size_t alloc);
>> +int cxl_dpa_free(struct cxl_endpoint_decoder *cxled);
>>   #endif /* __CXL_CXL_H__ */
>

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