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| author | Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org> | 2026-09-16 15:00:32 +0200 |
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ata: libata-scsi: fix ata_dsm_trim_pages() kernel-docgrafted
make htmldocs fails with:
Documentation/driver-api/libata:604: ./drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c:2301:
ERROR: Unexpected indentation. [docutils]
The Return: section of ata_dsm_trim_pages() ends its first sentence with
a colon and continues with an indented bullet list. reStructuredText
requires a blank line before an indented block, so docutils chokes on
the list.
Simply adding the missing blank line does not work either: Return: is a
kernel-doc "special section", which is terminated by the first blank
line, so the bullet list would end up in the Description section,
detached from the sentence introducing it.
Spell the two bounds out as prose instead, so that the Return: section
stays self-contained. Documentation-only change.
Fixes: e64e6b5dc867 ("ata: libata-scsi: scale DSM TRIM payload by MAX PAGES PER DSM COMMAND")
Reported-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ide/b0a0b8e8-cc4f-4c7b-8bc5-fee0712d405a@redhat.com/
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260916130031.29990-2-cassel@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/cxl/conventions/cxl-atl.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/cxl/conventions/cxl-atl.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3a36a8474 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/cxl/conventions/cxl-atl.rst @@ -0,0 +1,304 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +ACPI PRM CXL Address Translation +================================ + +Document +-------- + +CXL Revision 3.2, Version 1.0 + +License +------- + +SPDX-License Identifier: CC-BY-4.0 + +Creator/Contributors +-------------------- + +- Robert Richter, AMD et al. + +Summary of the Change +--------------------- + +The CXL Fixed Memory Window Structures (CFMWS) describe zero or more Host +Physical Address (HPA) windows associated with one or more CXL Host Bridges. +Each HPA range of a CXL Host Bridge is represented by a CFMWS entry. An HPA +range may include addresses currently assigned to CXL.mem devices, or an OS may +assign ranges from an address window to a device. + +Host-managed Device Memory is Device-attached memory that is mapped to system +coherent address space and accessible to the Host using standard write-back +semantics. The managed address range is configured in the CXL HDM Decoder +registers of the device. An HDM Decoder in a device is responsible for +converting HPA into DPA by stripping off specific address bits. + +CXL devices and CXL bridges use the same HPA space. It is common across all +components that belong to the same host domain. The view of the address region +must be consistent on the CXL.mem path between the Host and the Device. + +This is described in the *CXL 3.2 specification* (Table 1-1, 3.3.1, +8.2.4.20, 9.13.1, 9.18.1.3). [#cxl-spec-3.2]_ + +Depending on the interconnect architecture of the platform, components attached +to a host may not share the same host physical address space. Those platforms +need address translation to convert an HPA between the host and the attached +component, such as a CXL device. The translation mechanism is host-specific and +implementation dependent. + +For example, x86 AMD platforms use a Data Fabric that manages access to physical +memory. Devices have their own memory space and can be configured to use +'Normalized addresses' different from System Physical Addresses (SPA). Address +translation is then needed. For details, see +:doc:`x86 AMD Address Translation </admin-guide/RAS/address-translation>`. + +Those AMD platforms provide PRM [#prm-spec]_ handlers in firmware to perform +various types of address translation, including for CXL endpoints. AMD Zen5 +systems implement the ACPI PRM CXL Address Translation firmware call. The ACPI +PRM handler has a specific GUID to uniquely identify platforms with support for +Normalized addressing. This is documented in the *ACPI v6.5 Porting Guide* +(Address Translation - CXL DPA to System Physical Address). [#amd-ppr-58088]_ + +When in Normalized address mode, HDM decoder address ranges must be configured +and handled differently. Hardware addresses used in the HDM decoder +configurations of an endpoint are not SPA and need to be translated from the +address range of the endpoint to that of the CXL host bridge. This is especially +important for finding an endpoint's associated CXL Host Bridge and HPA window +described in the CFMWS. Additionally, the interleave decoding is done by the +Data Fabric and the endpoint does not perform decoding when converting HPA to +DPA. Instead, interleaving is switched off for the endpoint (1-way). Finally, +address translation might also be needed to inspect the endpoint's hardware +addresses, such as during profiling, tracing, or error handling. + +For example, with Normalized addressing the HDM decoders could look as follows:: + + ------------------------------- + | Root Decoder (CFMWS) | + | SPA Range: 0x850000000 | + | Size: 0x8000000000 (512 GB) | + | Interleave Ways: 1 | + ------------------------------- + | + v + ------------------------------- + | Host Bridge Decoder (HDM) | + | SPA Range: 0x850000000 | + | Size: 0x8000000000 (512 GB) | + | Interleave Ways: 4 | + | Targets: endpoint5,8,11,13 | + | Granularity: 256 | + ------------------------------- + | + -----------------------------+------------------------------ + | | | | + v v v v + ------------------- ------------------- ------------------- ------------------- + | endpoint5 | | endpoint8 | | endpoint11 | | endpoint13 | + | decoder5.0 | | decoder8.0 | | decoder11.0 | | decoder13.0 | + | PCIe: | | PCIe: | | PCIe: | | PCIe: | + | 0000:e2:00.0 | | 0000:e3:00.0 | | 0000:e4:00.0 | | 0000:e1:00.0 | + | DPA: | | DPA: | | DPA: | | DPA: | + | Start: 0x0 | | Start: 0x0 | | Start: 0x0 | | Start: 0x0 | + | Size: | | Size: | | Size: | | Size: | + | 0x2000000000 | | 0x2000000000 | | 0x2000000000 | | 0x2000000000 | + | (128 GB) | | (128 GB) | | (128 GB) | | (128 GB) | + | Interleaving: | | Interleaving: | | Interleaving: | | Interleaving: | + | Ways: 1 | | Ways: 1 | | Ways: 1 | | Ways: 1 | + | Gran: 256 | | Gran: 256 | | Gran: 256 | | Gran: 256 | + ------------------- ------------------- ------------------- ------------------- + | | | | + v v v v + DPA DPA DPA DPA + +This shows the representation in sysfs: + +.. code-block:: none + + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/endpoint5/decoder5.0/interleave_granularity:256 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/endpoint5/decoder5.0/interleave_ways:1 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/endpoint5/decoder5.0/size:0x2000000000 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/endpoint5/decoder5.0/start:0x0 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/endpoint8/decoder8.0/interleave_granularity:256 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/endpoint8/decoder8.0/interleave_ways:1 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/endpoint8/decoder8.0/size:0x2000000000 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/endpoint8/decoder8.0/start:0x0 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/endpoint11/decoder11.0/interleave_granularity:256 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/endpoint11/decoder11.0/interleave_ways:1 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/endpoint11/decoder11.0/size:0x2000000000 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/endpoint11/decoder11.0/start:0x0 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/endpoint13/decoder13.0/interleave_granularity:256 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/endpoint13/decoder13.0/interleave_ways:1 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/endpoint13/decoder13.0/size:0x2000000000 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/endpoint13/decoder13.0/start:0x0 + +Note that the endpoint interleaving configurations use direct mapping (1-way). + +With PRM calls, the kernel can determine the following mappings: + +.. code-block:: none + + cxl decoder5.0: address mapping found for 0000:e2:00.0 (hpa -> spa): + 0x0+0x2000000000 -> 0x850000000+0x8000000000 ways:4 granularity:256 + cxl decoder8.0: address mapping found for 0000:e3:00.0 (hpa -> spa): + 0x0+0x2000000000 -> 0x850000000+0x8000000000 ways:4 granularity:256 + cxl decoder11.0: address mapping found for 0000:e4:00.0 (hpa -> spa): + 0x0+0x2000000000 -> 0x850000000+0x8000000000 ways:4 granularity:256 + cxl decoder13.0: address mapping found for 0000:e1:00.0 (hpa -> spa): + 0x0+0x2000000000 -> 0x850000000+0x8000000000 ways:4 granularity:256 + +The corresponding CXL host bridge (HDM) decoders and root decoder (CFMWS) match +the calculated endpoint mappings shown: + +.. code-block:: none + + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/port1/decoder1.0/interleave_granularity:256 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/port1/decoder1.0/interleave_ways:4 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/port1/decoder1.0/size:0x8000000000 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/port1/decoder1.0/start:0x850000000 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/port1/decoder1.0/target_list:0,1,2,3 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/port1/decoder1.0/target_type:expander + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/root0/decoder0.0/interleave_granularity:256 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/root0/decoder0.0/interleave_ways:1 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/root0/decoder0.0/size:0x8000000000 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/root0/decoder0.0/start:0x850000000 + /sys/bus/cxl/devices/root0/decoder0.0/target_list:7 + +The following changes to the specification are needed: + +* Allow a CXL device to be in an HPA space other than the host's address space. + +* Allow the platform to use implementation-specific address translation when + crossing memory domains on the CXL.mem path between the host and the device. + +* Define a PRM handler method for converting device addresses to SPAs. + +* Specify that the platform shall provide the PRM handler method to the + Operating System to detect Normalized addressing and for determining Endpoint + SPA ranges and interleaving configurations. + +* Add reference to: + + | Platform Runtime Mechanism Specification, Version 1.1 – November 2020 + | https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/PRM_Platform_Runtime_Mechanism_1_1_release_candidate.pdf + +Benefits of the Change +---------------------- + +Without the change, the Operating System may be unable to determine the memory +region and Root Decoder for an Endpoint and its corresponding HDM decoder. +Region creation would fail. Platforms with a different interconnect architecture +would fail to set up and use CXL. + +References +---------- + +.. [#cxl-spec-3.2] Compute Express Link Specification, Revision 3.2, Version 1.0, + https://www.computeexpresslink.org/ + +.. [#amd-ppr-58088] AMD Family 1Ah Models 00h–0Fh and Models 10h–1Fh, + ACPI v6.5 Porting Guide, Publication # 58088, + https://www.amd.com/en/search/documentation/hub.html + +.. [#prm-spec] Platform Runtime Mechanism, Version: 1.1, + https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/PRM_Platform_Runtime_Mechanism_1_1_release_candidate.pdf + +Detailed Description of the Change +---------------------------------- + +The following describes the necessary changes to the *CXL 3.2 specification* +[#cxl-spec-3.2]_: + +Add the following reference to the table: + +Table 1-2. Reference Documents + ++----------------------------+-------------------+---------------------------+ +| Document | Chapter Reference | Document No./Location | ++============================+===================+===========================+ +| Platform Runtime Mechanism | Chapter 8, 9 | https://www.uefi.org/acpi | +| Version: 1.1 | | | ++----------------------------+-------------------+---------------------------+ + +Add the following paragraphs to the end of the section: + +**8.2.4.20 CXL HDM Decoder Capability Structure** + +"A device may use an HPA space that is not common to other components of the +host domain. The platform is responsible for address translation when crossing +HPA spaces. The Operating System must determine the interleaving configuration +and perform address translation to the HPA ranges of the HDM decoders as needed. +The translation mechanism is host-specific and implementation dependent. + +The platform indicates support of independent HPA spaces and the need for +address translation by providing a Platform Runtime Mechanism (PRM) handler. The +OS shall use that handler to perform the necessary translations from the DPA +space to the HPA space. The handler is defined in Section 9.18.4 *PRM Handler +for CXL DPA to System Physical Address Translation*." + +Add the following section and sub-section including tables: + +**9.18.4 PRM Handler for CXL DPA to System Physical Address Translation** + +"A platform may be configured to use 'Normalized addresses'. Host physical +address (HPA) spaces are component-specific and differ from system physical +addresses (SPAs). The endpoint has its own physical address space. All requests +presented to the device already use Device Physical Addresses (DPAs). The CXL +endpoint decoders have interleaving disabled (1-way interleaving) and the device +does not perform HPA decoding to determine a DPA. + +The platform provides a PRM handler for CXL DPA to System Physical Address +Translation. The PRM handler translates a Device Physical Address (DPA) to a +System Physical Address (SPA) for a specified CXL endpoint. In the address space +of the host, SPA and HPA are equivalent, and the OS shall use this handler to +determine the HPA that corresponds to a device address, for example when +configuring HDM decoders on platforms with Normalized addressing. The GUID and +the parameter buffer format of the handler are specified in section 9.18.4.1. If +the OS identifies the PRM handler, the platform supports Normalized addressing +and the OS must perform DPA address translation as needed." + +**9.18.4.1 PRM Handler Invocation** + +"The OS calls the PRM handler for CXL DPA to System Physical Address Translation +using the direct invocation mechanism. Details of calling a PRM handler are +described in the Platform Runtime Mechanism (PRM) specification. + +The PRM handler is identified by the following GUID: + + EE41B397-25D4-452C-AD54-48C6E3480B94 + +The caller allocates and prepares a Parameter Buffer, then passes the PRM +handler GUID and a pointer to the Parameter Buffer to invoke the handler. The +Parameter Buffer is described in Table 9-32." + +**Table 9-32. PRM Parameter Buffer used for CXL DPA to System Physical Address Translation** + ++-------------+-----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| Byte Offset | Length in | Description | +| | Bytes | | ++=============+===========+========================================================================+ +| 00h | 8 | **CXL Device Physical Address (DPA)**: CXL DPA (e.g., from | +| | | CXL Component Event Log) | ++-------------+-----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 08h | 4 | **CXL Endpoint SBDF**: | +| | | | +| | | - Byte 3 - PCIe Segment | +| | | - Byte 2 - Bus Number | +| | | - Byte 1: | +| | | - Device Number Bits[7:3] | +| | | - Function Number Bits[2:0] | +| | | - Byte 0 - RESERVED (MBZ) | +| | | | ++-------------+-----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 0Ch | 8 | **Output Buffer**: Virtual Address Pointer to the buffer, | +| | | as defined in Table 9-33. | ++-------------+-----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + +**Table 9-33. PRM Output Buffer used for CXL DPA to System Physical Address Translation** + ++-------------+-----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| Byte Offset | Length in | Description | +| | Bytes | | ++=============+===========+========================================================================+ +| 00h | 8 | **System Physical Address (SPA)**: The SPA converted | +| | | from the CXL DPA. | ++-------------+-----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/cxl/conventions/cxl-lmh.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/cxl/conventions/cxl-lmh.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..baece5c35 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/cxl/conventions/cxl-lmh.rst @@ -0,0 +1,135 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +Resolve conflict between CFMWS, Platform Memory Holes, and Endpoint Decoders +============================================================================ + +Document +-------- + +CXL Revision 3.2, Version 1.0 + +License +------- + +SPDX-License Identifier: CC-BY-4.0 + +Creator/Contributors +-------------------- + +- Fabio M. De Francesco, Intel +- Dan J. Williams, Intel +- Mahesh Natu, Intel + +Summary of the Change +--------------------- + +According to the current Compute Express Link (CXL) Specifications (Revision +3.2, Version 1.0), the CXL Fixed Memory Window Structure (CFMWS) describes zero +or more Host Physical Address (HPA) windows associated with each CXL Host +Bridge. Each window represents a contiguous HPA range that may be interleaved +across one or more targets, including CXL Host Bridges. Each window has a set +of restrictions that govern its usage. It is the Operating System-directed +configuration and Power Management (OSPM) responsibility to utilize each window +for the specified use. + +Table 9-22 of the current CXL Specifications states that the Window Size field +contains the total number of consecutive bytes of HPA this window describes. +This value must be a multiple of the Number of Interleave Ways (NIW) * 256 MB. + +Platform Firmware (BIOS) might reserve physical addresses below 4 GB where a +memory gap such as the Low Memory Hole for PCIe MMIO may exist. In such cases, +the CFMWS Range Size may not adhere to the NIW * 256 MB rule. + +The HPA represents the actual physical memory address space that the CXL devices +can decode and respond to, while the System Physical Address (SPA), a related +but distinct concept, represents the system-visible address space that users can +direct transaction to and so it excludes reserved regions. + +BIOS publishes CFMWS to communicate the active SPA ranges that, on platforms +with LMH's, map to a strict subset of the HPA. The SPA range trims out the hole, +resulting in lost capacity in the Endpoints with no SPA to map to that part of +the HPA range that intersects the hole. + +E.g, an x86 platform with two CFMWS and an LMH starting at 2 GB: + + +--------+------------+-------------------+------------------+-------------------+------+ + | Window | CFMWS Base | CFMWS Size | HDM Decoder Base | HDM Decoder Size | Ways | + +========+============+===================+==================+===================+======+ + | 0 | 0 GB | 2 GB | 0 GB | 3 GB | 12 | + +--------+------------+-------------------+------------------+-------------------+------+ + | 1 | 4 GB | NIW*256MB Aligned | 4 GB | NIW*256MB Aligned | 12 | + +--------+------------+-------------------+------------------+-------------------+------+ + +HDM decoder base and HDM decoder size represent all the 12 Endpoint Decoders of +a 12 ways region and all the intermediate Switch Decoders. They are configured +by the BIOS according to the NIW * 256MB rule, resulting in a HPA range size of +3GB. Instead, the CFMWS Base and CFMWS Size are used to configure the Root +Decoder HPA range that results smaller (2GB) than that of the Switch and +Endpoint Decoders in the hierarchy (3GB). + +This creates 2 issues which lead to a failure to construct a region: + +1) A mismatch in region size between root and any HDM decoder. The root decoders + will always be smaller due to the trim. + +2) The trim causes the root decoder to violate the (NIW * 256MB) rule. + +This change allows a region with a base address of 0GB to bypass these checks to +allow for region creation with the trimmed root decoder address range. + +This change does not allow for any other arbitrary region to violate these +checks - it is intended exclusively to enable x86 platforms which map CXL memory +under 4GB. + +Despite the HDM decoders covering the PCIE hole HPA region, it is expected that +the platform will never route address accesses to the CXL complex because the +root decoder only covers the trimmed region (which excludes this). This is +outside the ability of Linux to enforce. + +On the example platform, only the first 2GB will be potentially usable, but +Linux, aiming to adhere to the current specifications, fails to construct +Regions and attach Endpoint and intermediate Switch Decoders to them. + +There are several points of failure that due to the expectation that the Root +Decoder HPA size, that is equal to the CFMWS from which it is configured, has +to be greater or equal to the matching Switch and Endpoint HDM Decoders. + +In order to succeed with construction and attachment, Linux must construct a +Region with Root Decoder HPA range size, and then attach to that all the +intermediate Switch Decoders and Endpoint Decoders that belong to the hierarchy +regardless of their range sizes. + +Benefits of the Change +---------------------- + +Without the change, the OSPM wouldn't match intermediate Switch and Endpoint +Decoders with Root Decoders configured with CFMWS HPA sizes that don't align +with the NIW * 256MB constraint, and so it leads to lost memdev capacity. + +This change allows the OSPM to construct Regions and attach intermediate Switch +and Endpoint Decoders to them, so that the addressable part of the memory +devices total capacity is made available to the users. + +References +---------- + +Compute Express Link Specification Revision 3.2, Version 1.0 +<https://www.computeexpresslink.org/> + +Detailed Description of the Change +---------------------------------- + +The description of the Window Size field in table 9-22 needs to account for +platforms with Low Memory Holes, where SPA ranges might be subsets of the +endpoints HPA. Therefore, it has to be changed to the following: + +"The total number of consecutive bytes of HPA this window represents. This value +shall be a multiple of NIW * 256 MB. + +On platforms that reserve physical addresses below 4 GB, such as the Low Memory +Hole for PCIe MMIO on x86, an instance of CFMWS whose Base HPA range is 0 might +have a size that doesn't align with the NIW * 256 MB constraint. + +Note that the matching intermediate Switch Decoders and the Endpoint Decoders +HPA range sizes must still align to the above-mentioned rule, but the memory +capacity that exceeds the CFMWS window size won't be accessible.". diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/cxl/conventions/template.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/cxl/conventions/template.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ff2fcf1b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/cxl/conventions/template.rst @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +.. :: Template Title here: + +Template File +============= + +Document +-------- +CXL Revision <rev>, Version <ver> + +License +------- +SPDX-License Identifier: CC-BY-4.0 + +Creator/Contributors +-------------------- + +Summary of the Change +--------------------- + +<Detail the conflict with the specification and where available the +assumptions and tradeoffs taken by the hardware platform.> + +Benefits of the Change +---------------------- + +<Detail what happens if platforms and Linux do not adopt this +convention.> + +References +---------- + +Detailed Description of the Change +---------------------------------- + +<Propose spec language that corrects the conflict.> |
