Re: [PATCH v8 8/9] dax/hmem, cxl: Defer and resolve Soft Reserved ownership

[Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>]

On Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:53:41 +0000
Smita Koralahalli <Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@amd.com> wrote:

> The current probe time ownership check for Soft Reserved memory based
> solely on CXL window intersection is insufficient. dax_hmem probing is not
> always guaranteed to run after CXL enumeration and region assembly, which
> can lead to incorrect ownership decisions before the CXL stack has
> finished publishing windows and assembling committed regions.
> 
> Introduce deferred ownership handling for Soft Reserved ranges that
> intersect CXL windows. When such a range is encountered during the
> initial dax_hmem probe, schedule deferred work to wait for the CXL stack
> to complete enumeration and region assembly before deciding ownership.
> 
> Once the deferred work runs, evaluate each Soft Reserved range
> individually: if a CXL region fully contains the range, skip it and let
> dax_cxl bind. Otherwise, register it with dax_hmem. This per-range
> ownership model avoids the need for CXL region teardown and
> alloc_dax_region() resource exclusion prevents double claiming.
> 
> Introduce a boolean flag dax_hmem_initial_probe to live inside device.c
> so it survives module reload. Ensure dax_cxl defers driver registration
> until dax_hmem has completed ownership resolution. dax_cxl calls
> dax_hmem_flush_work() before cxl_driver_register(), which both waits for
> the deferred work to complete and creates a module symbol dependency that
> forces dax_hmem.ko to load before dax_cxl.
> 
> Co-developed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Smita Koralahalli <Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>