[PATCH] cxl/Documentation: Spell out globbed sysfs attribute names

Alison Schofield <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2026 16:20:08 -0700
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-cxl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Four entries in sysfs-bus-cxl use braced globs to document groups of
attributes. Where the glob factors out a common prefix, as in
cap_{pmem,ram,type2,type3}, no individual attribute name appears in
the file at all and none can be found by grep or get_abi.py search. In
every case the glob also keys get_abi.py validate on the glob string,
so duplicates against separately documented attributes go undetected.

Replace the globs with consecutive What: lines for each attribute.
These lines continue to share the existing metadata and description
and follow the format used in sysfs-driver-ufs and sysfs-bus-iio.

Also restore one missing blank line between entries.

Verify with:
  python3 tools/docs/get_abi.py -D Documentation/ABI/testing validate
  python3 tools/docs/get_abi.py search cap_pmem
  python3 tools/docs/get_abi.py search create_ram_region

validate reports no sysfs-bus-cxl warning, and both searches now return
the stanza where they returned nothing before.

Signed-off-by: Alison Schofield <[email protected]>
---

This caught my eye when reading DavidLohr's Back-Invalidate series
that adds cap_bi to the cap_{pmem,ram,type2,type3} glob and then
references it. I couldn't find it, not w grep and not w 'get_abi.py
search'. None of the existing cap_* names can be found. This patch
is independent of that series and happy to spin this to include
cap_bi if needed.

This intentionally does not address `get_abi.py undefined`, which still
fails to match decoderX.Y attributes due to a bug in the ABI tooling.
That will be fixed separately in linux-doc.

 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-cxl | 15 +++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-cxl b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-cxl
index 16a9b3d2e2c0..7352dbd70bc7 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-cxl
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-cxl
@@ -201,7 +201,8 @@ Description:
 		capability.
 
 
-What:		/sys/bus/cxl/devices/{port,endpoint}X/parent_dport
+What:		/sys/bus/cxl/devices/portX/parent_dport
+What:		/sys/bus/cxl/devices/endpointX/parent_dport
 Date:		January, 2023
 KernelVersion:	v6.3
 Contact:	[email protected]
@@ -258,7 +259,8 @@ Description:
 		instance id of a given decoder resource.
 
 
-What:		/sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/{start,size}
+What:		/sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/start
+What:		/sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/size
 Date:		June, 2021
 KernelVersion:	v5.14
 Contact:	[email protected]
@@ -297,7 +299,10 @@ Description:
 		Each entry in the list is a dport id.
 
 
-What:		/sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/cap_{pmem,ram,type2,type3}
+What:		/sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/cap_pmem
+What:		/sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/cap_ram
+What:		/sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/cap_type2
+What:		/sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/cap_type3
 Date:		June, 2021
 KernelVersion:	v5.14
 Contact:	[email protected]
@@ -410,7 +415,8 @@ Description:
 		interleave_granularity).
 
 
-What:		/sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/create_{pmem,ram}_region
+What:		/sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/create_pmem_region
+What:		/sys/bus/cxl/devices/decoderX.Y/create_ram_region
 Date:		May, 2022, January, 2023
 KernelVersion:	v6.0 (pmem), v6.3 (ram)
 Contact:	[email protected]
@@ -500,6 +506,7 @@ Description:
 		cache is present, the size indicates extended linear cache size
 		plus the CXL region size.
 
+
 What:		/sys/bus/cxl/devices/regionZ/extended_linear_cache_size
 Date:		October, 2025
 KernelVersion:	v6.19

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