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authorJonathan Zhang <jonzhang@fb.com>2021-04-21 10:40:31 -0700
committerLean Sheng Tan <sheng.tan@9elements.com>2023-03-03 11:10:38 +0000
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treed48af5c2fef7945e6c8ecb90e3505e7d4edc3a87 /Documentation
parent555ceca38a784fc3b6a6674431e5e0e67ac55344 (diff)
lib: set up specific purpose memory as LB_MEM_SOFT_RESERVED
CXL (Compute Express Link) [1] is a cache-coherent interconnect standard for processors, memory expansion and accelerators. CXL memory is provided through CXL device which is connected through CXL/PCIe link, while regular system memory is provided through DIMMs plugged into DIMM slots which are connected to memory controllers of processor. With CXL memory, the server's memory capacity is increased. CXL memory is in its own NUMA domain, with longer latency and added bandwidth, comparing to regular system memory. Host firmware may present CXL memory as specific purpose memory. Linux kernel dax driver provides direct access to such differentiated memory. In particular, hmem dax driver provides direct access to specific purpose memory. Specific purpose memory needs to be represented in e820 table as soft reserved, as described in [2]. Add IORESOURCE_SOFT_RESERVE resource property to indicate (memory) resource that needs to be soft reserved. Add soft_reserved_ram_resource macro to allow soc/mb code to add memory resource as soft reserved. [1] https://www.computeexpresslink.org/ [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20230130233752/https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.10.32&id=262b45ae3ab4bf8e2caf1fcfd0d8307897519630 Signed-off-by: Jonathan Zhang <jonzhang@fb.com> Change-Id: Ie70795bcb8c97e9dd5fb772adc060e1606f9bab0 Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/52585 Reviewed-by: Marc Jones <marc@marcjonesconsulting.com> Reviewed-by: David Hendricks <david.hendricks@gmail.com> Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Tim Wawrzynczak <inforichland@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lean Sheng Tan <sheng.tan@9elements.com>
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