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From: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
To: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: <linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org>, <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	<ira.weiny@intel.com>, <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>,
	<alison.schofield@intel.com>, <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	<jgg@nvidia.com>, <shiju.jose@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 16/16] fwctl/cxl: Add documentation to FWCTL CXL
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 13:08:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250203130853.00004a07@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250201004459.466499-17-dave.jiang@intel.com>


One minor comment.  With a sentence added on that (assuming I didn't miss
it somewhere)
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>

> diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/fwctl-cxl.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/fwctl-cxl.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..8d9aeb77bc6d
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/fwctl-cxl.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +================
> +fwctl cxl driver
> +================
> +
> +:Author: Dave Jiang
> +
> +Overview
> +========
> +
> +The CXL spec defines a set of commands that can be issued to the mailbox of a
> +CXL device or switch. It also left room for vendor specific commands to be
> +issued to the mailbox as well. fwctl provides a path to issue a set of allowed
> +mailbox commands from user space to the device moderated by the kernel driver.
> +
> +The following 3 commands will be used to support CXL Features:
> +CXL spec r3.1 8.2.9.6.1 Get Supported Features (Opcode 0500h)
> +CXL spec r3.1 8.2.9.6.2 Get Feature (Opcode 0501h)
> +CXL spec r3.1 8.2.9.6.3 Set Feature (Opcode 0502h)
> +
> +The "Get Supported Features" return data may be filtered by the kernel driver to
> +drop any features that are forbidden by the kernel or being exclusively used by
> +the kernel. The "Get Supported Features" command and the "Get Features" falls
> +under the fwctl policy of FWCTL_RPC_CONFIGURATION.

Document what 'filtered' means given change to zero sized set?

> +
> +For "Set Feature" command, the access policy currently is broken down into two
> +categories depending on the Set Feature effects reported by the device. If the
> +Set Feature will cause immediate change to the device, the fwctl access policy
> +must be FWCTL_RPC_DEBUG_WRITE_FULL. The effects for this level are
> +"immediate config change", "immediate data change", "immediate policy change",
> +or "immediate log change" for the set effects mask. If the effects are "config
> +change with cold reset" or "config change with conventional reset", then the
> +fwctl access policy must be FWCTL_RPC_DEBUG_WRITE or higher.


      reply	other threads:[~2025-02-03 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-01  0:41 [PATCH v2 0/16] cxl: Add CXL feature commands support via fwctl Dave Jiang
2025-02-01  0:41 ` [PATCH v2 01/16] cxl: Refactor user ioctl command path from mds to mailbox Dave Jiang
2025-02-01  0:41 ` [PATCH v2 02/16] cxl: Enumerate feature commands Dave Jiang
2025-02-03 12:06   ` Jonathan Cameron
2025-02-03 23:23     ` Dave Jiang
2025-02-01  0:41 ` [PATCH v2 03/16] cxl: Add Get Supported Features command for kernel usage Dave Jiang
2025-02-03 12:19   ` Jonathan Cameron
2025-02-01  0:41 ` [PATCH v2 04/16] cxl/test: Add Get Supported Features mailbox command support Dave Jiang
2025-02-03 12:22   ` Jonathan Cameron
2025-02-01  0:41 ` [PATCH v2 05/16] cxl/mbox: Add GET_FEATURE mailbox command Dave Jiang
2025-02-01  0:41 ` [PATCH v2 06/16] cxl/mbox: Add SET_FEATURE " Dave Jiang
2025-02-03 12:27   ` Jonathan Cameron
2025-02-01  0:42 ` [PATCH v2 07/16] cxl: Setup exclusive CXL features that are reserved for the kernel Dave Jiang
2025-02-01  0:42 ` [PATCH v2 08/16] cxl: Add FWCTL support to the CXL memdev driver Dave Jiang
2025-02-01  1:04   ` Dave Jiang
2025-02-03 12:42   ` Jonathan Cameron
2025-02-03 14:25     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-02-03 16:22       ` Dave Jiang
2025-02-03 16:30         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-02-01  0:42 ` [PATCH v2 09/16] cxl: Add support for FWCTL get driver information callback Dave Jiang
2025-02-03 12:43   ` Jonathan Cameron
2025-02-01  0:42 ` [PATCH v2 10/16] cxl: Move cxl feature command structs to user header Dave Jiang
2025-02-01  0:42 ` [PATCH v2 11/16] cxl: Add support for fwctl RPC command to enable CXL feature commands Dave Jiang
2025-02-03 13:03   ` Jonathan Cameron
2025-02-01  0:42 ` [PATCH v2 12/16] cxl: Add support to handle user feature commands for get feature Dave Jiang
2025-02-01  0:42 ` [PATCH v2 13/16] cxl: Add support to handle user feature commands for set feature Dave Jiang
2025-02-01  0:42 ` [PATCH v2 14/16] cxl/test: Add Get Feature support to cxl_test Dave Jiang
2025-02-01  0:42 ` [PATCH v2 15/16] cxl/test: Add Set " Dave Jiang
2025-02-01  0:42 ` [PATCH v2 16/16] fwctl/cxl: Add documentation to FWCTL CXL Dave Jiang
2025-02-03 13:08   ` Jonathan Cameron [this message]

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