RE: [PATCH v3 1/9] cxl/acpi: Register CXL host ports by bridge device

From: Dan Williams
Date: Mon Nov 14 2022 - 15:23:05 EST


Robert Richter wrote:
> A port of a CXL host bridge links to the bridge's acpi device
> (&adev->dev) with its corresponding uport/dport device (uport_dev and
> dport_dev respectively). The device is not a direct parent device in
> the PCI topology as pdev->dev.parent points to a PCI bridge's (struct
> pci_host_bridge) device. The following CXL memory device hierarchy
> would be valid for an endpoint once an RCD EP would be enabled (note
> this will be done in a later patch):
>
> VH mode:
>
> cxlmd->dev.parent->parent
> ^^^\^^^^^^\ ^^^^^^\
> \ \ pci_dev (Type 1, Downstream Port)
> \ pci_dev (Type 0, PCI Express Endpoint)
> cxl mem device
>
> RCD mode:
>
> cxlmd->dev.parent->parent
> ^^^\^^^^^^\ ^^^^^^\
> \ \ pci_host_bridge
> \ pci_dev (Type 0, RCiEP)
> cxl mem device
>
> In VH mode a downstream port is created by port enumeration and thus
> always exists.
>
> Now, in RCD mode the host bridge also already exists but it references
> to an ACPI device. A port lookup by the PCI device's parent device
> will fail as a direct link to the registered port is missing. The ACPI
> device of the bridge must be determined first.
>
> To prevent this, change port registration of a CXL host to use the
> bridge device instead. Do this also for the VH case as port topology
> will better reflect the PCI topology then.
>
> If a mock device is registered by a test driver, the bridge pointer
> can be NULL. Keep using the matching ACPI device (&adev->dev) as a
> fallback in this case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/cxl/acpi.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cxl/acpi.c b/drivers/cxl/acpi.c
> index fb9f72813067..06150c953f58 100644
> --- a/drivers/cxl/acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/cxl/acpi.c
> @@ -185,6 +185,17 @@ __mock struct acpi_device *to_cxl_host_bridge(struct device *host,
> return NULL;
> }
>
> +static inline struct acpi_pci_root *to_cxl_pci_root(struct device *host,
> + struct device *match)
> +{
> + struct acpi_device *adev = to_cxl_host_bridge(host, match);
> +
> + if (!adev)
> + return NULL;
> +
> + return acpi_pci_find_root(adev->handle);
> +}
> +
> /*
> * A host bridge is a dport to a CFMWS decode and it is a uport to the
> * dport (PCIe Root Ports) in the host bridge.
> @@ -193,35 +204,35 @@ static int add_host_bridge_uport(struct device *match, void *arg)
> {
> struct cxl_port *root_port = arg;
> struct device *host = root_port->dev.parent;
> - struct acpi_device *bridge = to_cxl_host_bridge(host, match);
> - struct acpi_pci_root *pci_root;
> + struct acpi_pci_root *pci_root = to_cxl_pci_root(host, match);
> struct cxl_dport *dport;
> struct cxl_port *port;
> + struct device *bridge;
> int rc;
>
> - if (!bridge)
> + if (!pci_root)
> return 0;
>
> - dport = cxl_find_dport_by_dev(root_port, match);
> + /*
> + * If it is a mock dev, the bridge can be NULL, use matching
> + * device (&adev->dev) as a fallback then then.
> + */
> + bridge = pci_root->bus->bridge ?: match;

While I appreciate that you ran this against the unit tests, production
code should not know or care about the presence of mock devices. So,
this was showing a gap in the mock implementation, now addressed here:

http://lore.kernel.org/r/166845667383.1449826.14492184009399164787.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

With that, this approach can be simplified to the following:

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