Re: [PATCH] cxl/mbox: Check enabled_cmds before sending SET_SHUTDOWN_STATE

[Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 12:06:07PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> alison.schofield@ wrote:
> > From: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
> > 
> > The CXL specification defines CXL_MBOX_OP_SET_SHUTDOWN_STATE as
> > optional. Check the enabled_cmds bitmap before sending to device.
> 
> Table 8-126 defines it as mandatory for devices that support PMEM, see
> the "PM" in the "Mailbox" column.
> 
> > This appeared with cxl-test where mock support for this command
> > is not present and -EIO is returned, leading to a WARN_ONCE()
> > stack trace and dev_warn()'s on every cxl_nvdimm_probe.
> 
> Davidlohr and I talked about this here:
> 
> http://lore.kernel.org/679430b145dc0_20fa2947b@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com.notmuch
> 
> The plan was to follow up with mock device support... oh, that came in
> on Tuesday, I need to go take a look at that:
> 
> http://lore.kernel.org/20250205040842.1253616-1-dave@stgolabs.net

Ah, I see it now. I saw the GPF patch in cxl/next and didn't want
to dilly-dally! Should've dillied a bit.

I'll try out your cxl-test patch David.

--Alison


> 
> > Signed-off-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > Not sure what we actually want to do when not supported.
> > Most cmds just return 0, like I did here, but maybe for
> > this functionality something more is warranted.
> > 
> > wrt cxl-test support, also not sure if this feature wants some
> > round-trip testing support via cxl-test mocking. I do like the
> > -EIO from cxl-test as a loud reminder when running cxl-test 
> > that something new has come in that cxl-test doesn't know about.
> 
> Have a look at that follow-up series and see if it addresses the
> concerns.
>