linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] vfio/pci: Enable PCI resource mmap() on s390 and remove VFIO_PCI

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Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 11:14:07 -0400
From: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>, Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        Gerd Bayer <gbayer@...ux.ibm.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc: linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] vfio/pci: Enable PCI resource mmap() on s390 and
 remove VFIO_PCI_MMAP

On 5/23/24 7:10 AM, 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. Thus mmap() can and should be
> supported on all s390 systems with native PCI. Since VFIO_PCI_MMAP
> enablement for s390 would make it unconditionally true and thus
> pointless just remove it entirely.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/c5ba134a1d4f4465b5956027e6a4ea6f6beff969.camel@linux.ibm.com/
> Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@...ux.ibm.com>

Also sanity tested on s390 with mlx, nvme, ISM over vfio-pci (the latter of which triggers the patch 2 scenario).