Re: [PATCH 00/18] CXL RAM and the 'Soft Reserved' => 'System RAM' default

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Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Feb 2023, Gregory Price wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Feb 05, 2023 at 05:02:29PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> >> Summary:
> >> --------
> >>
> >> CXL RAM support allows for the dynamic provisioning of new CXL RAM
> >> regions, and more routinely, assembling a region from an existing
> >> configuration established by platform-firmware. The latter is motivated
> >> by CXL memory RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability)
> >> support, that requires associating device events with System Physical
> >> Address ranges and vice versa.
> >>
> >> The 'Soft Reserved' policy rework arranges for performance
> >> differentiated memory like CXL attached DRAM, or high-bandwidth memory,
> >> to be designated for 'System RAM' by default, rather than the device-dax
> >> dedicated access mode. That current device-dax default is confusing and
> >> surprising for the Pareto of users that do not expect memory to be
> >> quarantined for dedicated access by default. Most users expect all
> >> 'System RAM'-capable memory to show up in FREE(1).
> >
> >Leverage the same QEMU branch, machine, and configuration as my prior
> >tests, i'm now experiencing a kernel panic on boot.  Will debug a bit
> >in the morning, but here is the stack trace i'm seeing
> >
> >Saw this in both 1 and 2 root port configurations
> 
> I also see it in "regular" pmem setups, and narrowed it down to this
> change in the last patch:
> 
> -module_init(cxl_acpi_init);
> +/* load before dax_hmem sees 'Soft Reserved' CXL ranges */
> +subsys_initcall(cxl_acpi_init);

Yeah, I need to add some CONFIG_CXL_ACPI=y and CONFIG_CXL_BUS=y configs
to my tests. Typically I only run module builds.



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