[PATCH v2 11/20] cxl/region: Enable CONFIG_CXL_REGION to be toggled

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Add help text and a label so the CXL_REGION config option can be
toggled. This is mainly to enable compile testing without region
support.

Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Gregory Price <gregory.price@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Fan Ni <fan.ni@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/167564539875.847146.16213498614174558767.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/cxl/Kconfig |   12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cxl/Kconfig b/drivers/cxl/Kconfig
index 0ac53c422c31..163c094e67ae 100644
--- a/drivers/cxl/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/cxl/Kconfig
@@ -104,12 +104,22 @@ config CXL_SUSPEND
 	depends on SUSPEND && CXL_MEM
 
 config CXL_REGION
-	bool
+	bool "CXL: Region Support"
 	default CXL_BUS
 	# For MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS
 	depends on SPARSEMEM
 	select MEMREGION
 	select GET_FREE_REGION
+	help
+	  Enable the CXL core to enumerate and provision CXL regions. A CXL
+	  region is defined by one or more CXL expanders that decode a given
+	  system-physical address range. For CXL regions established by
+	  platform-firmware this option enables memory error handling to
+	  identify the devices participating in a given interleaved memory
+	  range. Otherwise, platform-firmware managed CXL is enabled by being
+	  placed in the system address map and does not need a driver.
+
+	  If unsure say 'y'
 
 config CXL_REGION_INVALIDATION_TEST
 	bool "CXL: Region Cache Management Bypass (TEST)"




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