cxl: Prevent adapter reset if an active context exists

This patch prevents resetting the cxl adapter via sysfs in presence of
one or more active cxl_context on it. This protects against an
unrecoverable error caused by PSL owning a dirty cache line even after
reset and host tries to touch the same cache line. In case a force reset
of the card is required irrespective of any active contexts, the int
value -1 can be stored in the 'reset' sysfs attribute of the card.

The patch introduces a new atomic_t member named contexts_num inside
struct cxl that holds the number of active context attached to the card
, which is checked against '0' before proceeding with the reset. To
prevent against a race condition where a context is activated just after
reset check is performed, the contexts_num is atomically set to '-1'
after reset-check to indicate that no more contexts can be activated on
the card anymore.

Before activating a context we atomically test if contexts_num is
non-negative and if so, increment its value by one. In case the value of
contexts_num is negative then it indicates that the card is about to be
reset and context activation is error-ed out at that point.

Fixes: 62fa19d4b4fd ("cxl: Add ability to reset the card")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.0+
Acked-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl
index 4ba0a2a61926..640f65e79ef1 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl
@@ -220,8 +220,11 @@ What:           /sys/class/cxl/<card>/reset
 Date:           October 2014
 Contact:        linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
 Description:    write only
-                Writing 1 will issue a PERST to card which may cause the card
-                to reload the FPGA depending on load_image_on_perst.
+                Writing 1 will issue a PERST to card provided there are no
+                contexts active on any one of the card AFUs. This may cause
+                the card to reload the FPGA depending on load_image_on_perst.
+                Writing -1 will do a force PERST irrespective of any active
+                contexts on the card AFUs.
 Users:		https://github.com/ibm-capi/libcxl
 
 What:		/sys/class/cxl/<card>/perst_reloads_same_image (not in a guest)