Re: [PATCH v2] cxl/test: Enforce PMD alignment for volatile mock regions
From: Dave Jiang
Date: Thu May 21 2026 - 13:57:54 EST
On 5/21/26 1:32 AM, Richard Cheng wrote:
> cxl_test allocates synthetic CFMWS HPA windows from a gen_pool with
> SZ_256M alignment. On arm64 with CONFIG_ARM64_64K_PAGES=y and
> CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS=3, PMD_SIZE is 512M, so every CXL region carved
> from a volatile window inherits a non-PMD-aligned start, and
> cxl_dax_region_probe() -> alloca_dax_region() fails:
>
> """
> cxl_dax_region dax_region1: probe with driver cxl_dax_region failed
> with error -12
> """
>
> Enfore that every volatile mock CFMWS is PMD-aligned in both start and
> size.
>
> Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kaihengf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Cheng <icheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Richard,
I can't seem to apply this patch against v7.1-rc4. What base did you use?
DJ
> ---
> Changelog:
>
> v1 -> v2:
> - Reframe from "fix start alignment" to "enforce PMD invariant for
> volatile CFMWS"
> - Bump cfmws5.window_size to max(SZ_256M, PMD_SIZE)
> - Gate populate_cedt() alignment on
> ACPI_CEDT_CFMWS_RESTRICT_VOLATILE so PMEM windows stay at SZ_256M
> - Add BUILD_BUG_ON for MOCK_AUTO_REGION_SIZE_DEFAULT v.s. PMD_SIZE
> in cxl_test_init()
>
> v1 link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260519233523.5991-1-icheng@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Best regards,
> Richard Cheng.
> ---
> tools/testing/cxl/test/cxl.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/cxl/test/cxl.c b/tools/testing/cxl/test/cxl.c
> index 418669927fb0..09c309af5fd1 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/cxl/test/cxl.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/cxl/test/cxl.c
> @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ static struct {
> .restrictions = ACPI_CEDT_CFMWS_RESTRICT_HOSTONLYMEM |
> ACPI_CEDT_CFMWS_RESTRICT_VOLATILE,
> .qtg_id = FAKE_QTG_ID,
> - .window_size = SZ_256M,
> + .window_size = SZ_256M > PMD_SIZE ? SZ_256M : PMD_SIZE,
> },
> .target = { 3 },
> },
> @@ -495,9 +495,17 @@ static int populate_cedt(void)
>
> for (i = cfmws_start; i <= cfmws_end; i++) {
> struct acpi_cedt_cfmws *window = mock_cfmws[i];
> + int align = SZ_256M;
>
> cfmws_elc_update(window, i);
> - res = alloc_mock_res(window->window_size, SZ_256M);
> + if (window->restrictions & ACPI_CEDT_CFMWS_RESTRICT_VOLATILE)
> + align = max_t(int, SZ_256M, PMD_SIZE);
> + res = alloc_mock_res(window->window_size, align);
> if (!res)
> return -ENOMEM;
> window->base_hpa = res->range.start;
> @@ -1826,6 +1834,8 @@ static __init int cxl_test_init(void)
> int rc, i;
> struct range mappable;
>
> + BUILD_BUG_ON(!IS_ALIGNED(MOCK_AUTO_REGION_SIZE_DEFAULT, PMD_SIZE));
> +
> cxl_acpi_test();
> cxl_core_test();
> cxl_mem_test();