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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2021-02-16 20:09:50 -0800
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2021-02-16 20:36:38 -0800
commit4cdadfd5e0a70017fec735b7b6d7f2f731842dc6 (patch)
tree2799c35a3a590847b517271742eccde395655e6f /drivers/Makefile
parent1048ba83fb1c00cd24172e23e8263972f6b5d9ac (diff)
downloadlinux-4cdadfd5e0a70017fec735b7b6d7f2f731842dc6.tar.gz
cxl/mem: Introduce a driver for CXL-2.0-Type-3 endpoints
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>
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diff --git a/drivers/Makefile b/drivers/Makefile
index fd11b9ac4cc3..678ea810410f 100644
--- a/drivers/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/Makefile
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_NVM)		+= lightnvm/
 obj-y				+= base/ block/ misc/ mfd/ nfc/
 obj-$(CONFIG_LIBNVDIMM)		+= nvdimm/
 obj-$(CONFIG_DAX)		+= dax/
+obj-$(CONFIG_CXL_BUS)		+= cxl/
 obj-$(CONFIG_DMA_SHARED_BUFFER) += dma-buf/
 obj-$(CONFIG_NUBUS)		+= nubus/
 obj-y				+= macintosh/