Re: [PATCH v4 17/23] cxl/pci: Add RCH downstream port AER register discovery

Jonathan Cameron
2023-06-06T09:57:12Z

On Tue, 23 May 2023 18:22:08 -0500
Terry Bowman <terry.bowman@amd.com> wrote:

> Restricted CXL host (RCH) downstream port AER information is not currently
> logged while in the error state. One problem preventing the error logging
> is the AER and RAS registers are not accessible. The CXL driver requires
> changes to find RCH downstream port AER and RAS registers for purpose of
> error logging.
>
> RCH downstream ports are not enumerated during a PCI bus scan and are
> instead discovered using system firmware, ACPI in this case.[1] The
> downstream port is implemented as a Root Complex Register Block (RCRB).
> The RCRB is a 4k memory block containing PCIe registers based on the PCIe
> root port.[2] The RCRB includes AER extended capability registers used for
> reporting errors. Note, the RCH's AER Capability is located in the RCRB
> memory space instead of PCI configuration space, thus its register access
> is different. Existing kernel PCIe AER functions can not be used to manage
> the downstream port AER capabilities and RAS registers because the port was
> not enumerated during PCI scan and the registers are not PCI config
> accessible.
>
> Discover RCH downstream port AER extended capability registers. Use MMIO
> accesses to search for extended AER capability in RCRB register space.
>
> [1] CXL 3.0 Spec, 9.11.2 - System Firmware View of CXL 1.1 Hierarchy
> [2] CXL 3.0 Spec, 8.2.1.1 - RCH Downstream Port RCRB
>
> Co-developed-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Terry Bowman <terry.bowman@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>