cxl-disable-bus - Man Page

Shutdown an entire tree of CXL devices

Synopsis

cxl disable-bus <root0> [<root1>..<rootN>] [<options>]

For test and debug scenarios, disable a CXL bus and any associated memory devices from CXL.mem operations.

Given any enable or disable command, if the operation is a no-op due to the current state of a target (i.e. already enabled or disabled), it is still considered successful when executed even if no actual operation is performed. The target can be a bus, decoder, memdev, or region. The operation will still succeed, and report the number of bus/decoder/memdev/region operated on, even if the operation is a no-op.

Options

-f,  --force

DANGEROUS: Override the safety measure that blocks attempts to disable a bus if the tool determines a descendent memdev is in active usage. Recall that CXL memory ranges might have been established by platform firmware and disabling an active device is akin to force removing memory from a running system.

--debug

If the cxl tool was built with debug disabled, turn on debug messages.

See Also

cxl-disable-port(1)

Info

2024-10-11 cxl Manual