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authorChristophe Lombard <clombard@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-04-12 16:34:07 +0200
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2017-04-13 23:34:31 +1000
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cxl: Add psl9 specific code
The new Coherent Accelerator Interface Architecture, level 2, for the IBM POWER9 brings new content and features: - POWER9 Service Layer - Registers - Radix mode - Process element entry - Dedicated-Shared Process Programming Model - Translation Fault Handling - CAPP - Memory Context ID If a valid mm_struct is found the memory context id is used for each transaction associated with the process handle. The PSL uses the context ID to find the corresponding process element. Signed-off-by: Christophe Lombard <clombard@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [mpe: Fixup comment formatting, unsplit long strings] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/cxl.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/cxl.txt
index d5506ba0fef7..c5e8d5098ed3 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/cxl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/cxl.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Introduction
Hardware overview
=================
- POWER8 FPGA
+ POWER8/9 FPGA
+----------+ +---------+
| | | |
| CPU | | AFU |
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Hardware overview
| | CAPP |<------>| |
+---+------+ PCIE +---------+
- The POWER8 chip has a Coherently Attached Processor Proxy (CAPP)
+ The POWER8/9 chip has a Coherently Attached Processor Proxy (CAPP)
unit which is part of the PCIe Host Bridge (PHB). This is managed
by Linux by calls into OPAL. Linux doesn't directly program the
CAPP.
@@ -59,6 +59,17 @@ Hardware overview
the fault. The context to which this fault is serviced is based on
who owns that acceleration function.
+ POWER8 <-----> PSL Version 8 is compliant to the CAIA Version 1.0.
+ POWER9 <-----> PSL Version 9 is compliant to the CAIA Version 2.0.
+ This PSL Version 9 provides new features such as:
+ * Interaction with the nest MMU on the P9 chip.
+ * Native DMA support.
+ * Supports sending ASB_Notify messages for host thread wakeup.
+ * Supports Atomic operations.
+ * ....
+
+ Cards with a PSL9 won't work on a POWER8 system and cards with a
+ PSL8 won't work on a POWER9 system.
AFU Modes
=========