[ndctl,0/7] cxl: add support for listing and creating volatile regions

Message

Verma, Vishal L Feb. 7, 2023, 7:16 p.m. UTC

While enumeration of ram type regions already works in libcxl and
cxl-cli, it lacked an attribute to indicate pmem vs. ram. Add a new
'type' attribute to region listings to address this. Additionally, add
support for creating ram regions to the cxl-create-region command. The
region listings are also updated with dax-region information for
volatile regions.

This also includes fixed for a few bugs / usability issues identified
along the way - patches 1, 4, and 6. Patch 5 is a usability improvement
where based on decoder capabilities, the type of a region can be
inferred for the create-region command.

These have been tested against the ram-region additions to cxl_test
which are part of the kernel support patch set[1].
Additionally, tested against qemu using a WIP branch for volatile
support found here[2]. The 'run_qemu' script has a branch that creates
volatile memdevs in addition to pmem ones. This is also in a branch[3]
since it depends on [2].

These cxl-cli / libcxl patches themselves are also available in a
branch at [4].

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/[e-mail]/
[2]: https://gitlab.com/jic23/qemu/-/commits/cxl-2023-01-26
[3]: https://github.com/pmem/run_qemu/commits/vv/ram-memdevs
[4]: https://github.com/pmem/ndctl/tree/vv/volatile-regions

Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <[e-mail]>
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Dan Williams (2):
      cxl/list: Include regions in the verbose listing
      cxl/list: Enumerate device-dax properties for regions

Vishal Verma (5):
      cxl/region: skip region_actions for region creation
      cxl: add a type attribute to region listings
      cxl: add core plumbing for creation of ram regions
      cxl/region: accept user-supplied UUIDs for pmem regions
      cxl/region: determine region type based on root decoder capability

 Documentation/cxl/cxl-create-region.txt |  6 ++-
 Documentation/cxl/cxl-list.txt          | 31 +++++++++++++
 Documentation/cxl/lib/libcxl.txt        |  8 ++++
 cxl/lib/private.h                       |  2 +
 cxl/lib/libcxl.c                        | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 cxl/filter.h                            |  3 ++
 cxl/libcxl.h                            |  3 ++
 cxl/filter.c                            |  1 +
 cxl/json.c                              | 21 +++++++++
 cxl/list.c                              |  3 ++
 cxl/region.c                            | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 cxl/lib/libcxl.sym                      |  7 +++
 cxl/lib/meson.build                     |  1 +
 cxl/meson.build                         |  3 ++
 14 files changed, 229 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 08720628d2ba469e203a18c0b1ffbd90f4bfab1d
change-id: 20230120-vv-volatile-regions-063950cef590

Best regards,