On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 02:10:51PM +0100, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> With the introduction of memory I/O (MIO) instructions enbaled in commit
> 71ba41c9b1d9 ("s390/pci: provide support for MIO instructions") s390
> gained support for direct user-space access to mapped PCI resources.
> Even without those however user-space can access mapped PCI resources
> via the s390 specific MMIO syscalls. There is thus nothing fundamentally
> preventing s390 from supporting VFIO_PCI_MMAP, allowing user-space
> drivers to access PCI resources without going through the pread()
> interface. To actually enable VFIO_PCI_MMAP a few issues need fixing
> however.
>
> Firstly the s390 MMIO syscalls do not cause a page fault when
> follow_pte() fails due to the page not being present. This breaks
> vfio-pci's mmap() handling which lazily maps on first access.
>
> Secondly on s390 there is a virtual PCI device called ISM which has
> a few oddities. For one it claims to have a 256 TiB PCI BAR (not a typo)
> which leads to any attempt to mmap() it fail with the following message:
>
> vmap allocation for size 281474976714752 failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase size
>
> Even if one tried to map this BAR only partially the mapping would not
> be usable on systems with MIO support enabled. So just block mapping
> BARs which don't fit between IOREMAP_START and IOREMAP_END. Solve this
> by keeping the vfio-pci mmap() blocking behavior around for this
> specific device via a PCI quirk and new pdev->non_mappable_bars
> flag.
>
> As noted by Alex Williamson With mmap() enabled in vfio-pci it makes
> sense to also enable HAVE_PCI_MMAP with the same restriction for pdev->
> non_mappable_bars. So this is added in patch 3 and I tested this with
> another small test program.
>
> Note:
> For your convenience the code is also available in the tagged
> b4/vfio_pci_mmap branch on my git.kernel.org site below:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/niks/linux.git/
>
> Thanks,
> Niklas
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/c5ba134a1d4f4465b5956027e6a4ea6f6beff969.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v6:
> - Add a patch to also enable PCI resource mmap() via sysfs and proc
> exlcluding pdev->non_mappable_bars devices (Alex Williamson)
> - Added Acks
> - Link to v5: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250212-vfio_pci_mmap-v5-0-633ca5e056da@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
I think the series would be more readable if patch 2/3 included all
the core changes (adding pci_dev.non_mappable_bars, the 3/3
pci-sysfs.c and proc.c changes to test it, and I suppose the similar
vfio_pci_core.c change), and we moved all the s390 content from 2/3 to
3/3.
