Prevent cxl_region_probe() from unconditionally calling into devm_cxl_add_dax_region() when the DEV_DAX_CXL driver is not enabled. Wrap the call with IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEV_DAX_CXL) so region probe skips DAX setup cleanly if no consumer is present.
In parallel, update DEV_DAX_HMEM’s Kconfig to depend on !CXL_BUS || (CXL_ACPI && CXL_PCI) || m. This ensures: Built-in (y) HMEM is allowed when CXL is disabled, or when the full CXL discovery stack is built-in. Module (m) HMEM remains always possible. Signed-off-by: Smita Koralahalli <smita.koralahallichannabasa...@amd.com> --- I did not want to override Dan’s original approach, so I am posting this as an RFC. This patch addresses a corner case when applied on top of Patches 1–5. When DEV_DAX_HMEM=y and CXL=m, the DEV_DAX_CXL option ends up disabled. In that configuration, with Patches 1–5 applied, ownership of the Soft Reserved ranges falls back to dax_hmem. As a result, /proc/iomem looks like this: 850000000-284fffffff : CXL Window 0 850000000-284fffffff : region3 850000000-284fffffff : Soft Reserved 850000000-284fffffff : dax0.0 850000000-284fffffff : System RAM (kmem) 2850000000-484fffffff : CXL Window 1 2850000000-484fffffff : region4 2850000000-484fffffff : Soft Reserved 2850000000-484fffffff : dax1.0 2850000000-484fffffff : System RAM (kmem) 4850000000-684fffffff : CXL Window 2 4850000000-684fffffff : region5 4850000000-684fffffff : Soft Reserved 4850000000-684fffffff : dax2.0 4850000000-684fffffff : System RAM (kmem) In this case the dax devices are created by dax_hmem, not by dax_cxl. Consequently, a "cxl disable-region <regionx>" operation does not unregister these devices. In addition, the dmesg output can be misleading to users, since it looks like the CXL region driver created the devdax devices: devm_cxl_add_region: cxl_acpi ACPI0017:00: decoder0.2: created region5 .. .. This patch addresses those situations. I am not entirely sure how clean the approach of using “|| m” is, so I am sending it as RFC for feedback. --- drivers/cxl/core/region.c | 4 +++- drivers/dax/Kconfig | 1 + 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/region.c b/drivers/cxl/core/region.c index 71cc42d05248..6a2c21e55dbc 100644 --- a/drivers/cxl/core/region.c +++ b/drivers/cxl/core/region.c @@ -3617,7 +3617,9 @@ static int cxl_region_probe(struct device *dev) p->res->start, p->res->end, cxlr, is_system_ram) > 0) return 0; - return devm_cxl_add_dax_region(cxlr); + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEV_DAX_CXL)) + return devm_cxl_add_dax_region(cxlr); + return 0; default: dev_dbg(&cxlr->dev, "unsupported region mode: %d\n", cxlr->mode); diff --git a/drivers/dax/Kconfig b/drivers/dax/Kconfig index 3683bb3f2311..fd12cca91c78 100644 --- a/drivers/dax/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/dax/Kconfig @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ config DEV_DAX_PMEM config DEV_DAX_HMEM tristate "HMEM DAX: direct access to 'specific purpose' memory" depends on EFI_SOFT_RESERVE + depends on !CXL_BUS || (CXL_ACPI && CXL_PCI) || m select NUMA_KEEP_MEMINFO if NUMA_MEMBLKS default DEV_DAX help -- 2.17.1