Re: [PATCH] cxl/region: Restore passthrough decoder enable on region re-assembly

Gregory Price <[email protected]> Wed, 5 Aug 2026 02:55:10 -0400
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-cxl,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <anLd5Ln3VvDtE0Yf@gourry-fedora-PF4VCD3F>
On Wed, Aug 05, 2026 at 02:21:05PM +0800, Richard Cheng wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 07:25:09AM +0800, Dave Jiang wrote:
> 
> So I re-tested those operations on v7.0-rc2 kernel without the patch, we find out
> 
> 0a70b7cd397e ("cxl: Test CXL_DECODER_F_LOCK as a bitmask")
> 
> This patch is not needed, and Gregory is right that intermediate decoders should stay locked and
> not have F_ENABLE cleared on teardown.
> 

Makes sense to me, it will look a little funky but auto decoders already
got that funk all over them so it is what it is.  :]

~Gregory