Thread (88 messages) 88 messages, 6 authors, 2025-10-07

Re: [PATCH v18 17/20] cxl: Avoid dax creation for accelerators

From: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Date: 2025-09-19 21:16:46
Also in: linux-cxl


On 9/18/25 2:17 AM, alejandro.lucero-palau@amd.com wrote:
From: Alejandro Lucero <redacted>

By definition a type2 cxl device will use the host managed memory for
specific functionality, therefore it should not be available to other
uses.

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 drivers/cxl/core/region.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/region.c b/drivers/cxl/core/region.c
index 20bd0c82806c..e39f272dd445 100644
--- a/drivers/cxl/core/region.c
+++ b/drivers/cxl/core/region.c
@@ -3922,6 +3922,13 @@ static int cxl_region_probe(struct device *dev)
 	if (rc)
 		return rc;
 
+	/*
+	 * HDM-D[B] (device-memory) regions have accelerator specific usage.
+	 * Skip device-dax registration.
+	 */
+	if (cxlr->type == CXL_DECODER_DEVMEM)
+		return 0;
+
 	switch (cxlr->mode) {
 	case CXL_PARTMODE_PMEM:
 		rc = devm_cxl_region_edac_register(cxlr);
  
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