Re: [PATCH V1 vfio 0/6] Move to use cgroups for userspace persistent allocations

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On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 17:44:21 +0200
Yishai Hadas <yishaih@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This series changes the vfio and its sub drivers to use
> GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT for userspace persistent allocations.
> 
> The GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT option lets the memory allocator know that this
> is untrusted allocation triggered from userspace and should be a subject
> of kmem accountingis, and as such it is controlled by the cgroup
> mechanism. [1]
> 
> As part of this change, we allow loading in mlx5 driver larger images
> than 512 MB by dropping the arbitrary hard-coded value that we have
> today and move to use the max device loading value which is for now 4GB.
> 
> In addition, the first patch from the series fixes a UBSAN note in mlx5
> that was reported once the kernel was compiled with this option.
> 
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/core-api/memory-allocation.html
> 
> Changes from V0: https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg299508.html
> Patch #2 - Fix MAX_LOAD_SIZE to use BIT_ULL instead of BIT as was
>            reported by the krobot test.
> 
> Yishai
> 
> Jason Gunthorpe (1):
>   vfio: Use GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT for userspace persistent allocations
> 
> Yishai Hadas (5):
>   vfio/mlx5: Fix UBSAN note
>   vfio/mlx5: Allow loading of larger images than 512 MB
>   vfio/hisi: Use GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT for userspace persistent allocations
>   vfio/fsl-mc: Use GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT for userspace persistent
>     allocations
>   vfio/platform: Use GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT for userspace persistent
>     allocations
> 
>  drivers/vfio/container.c                      |  2 +-
>  drivers/vfio/fsl-mc/vfio_fsl_mc.c             |  2 +-
>  drivers/vfio/fsl-mc/vfio_fsl_mc_intr.c        |  4 ++--
>  .../vfio/pci/hisilicon/hisi_acc_vfio_pci.c    |  4 ++--
>  drivers/vfio/pci/mlx5/cmd.c                   | 17 +++++++++--------
>  drivers/vfio/pci/mlx5/main.c                  | 19 ++++++++++---------
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_config.c            |  6 +++---
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c              |  7 ++++---
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_igd.c               |  2 +-
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c             | 10 ++++++----
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_rdwr.c              |  2 +-
>  drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_common.c  |  2 +-
>  drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_irq.c     |  8 ++++----
>  drivers/vfio/virqfd.c                         |  2 +-
>  14 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
> 

Applied to vfio next branch for v6.3.  Thanks,

Alex




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