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Message-ID: <8ba6095f-00fa-4393-9c28-1b55927bf39d@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:01:55 -0700
From: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>
To: Manish Honap <mhonap@...dia.com>, Aniket Agashe <aniketa@...dia.com>,
 Ankit Agrawal <ankita@...dia.com>, Alex Williamson
 <alwilliamson@...dia.com>, Vikram Sethi <vsethi@...dia.com>,
 Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>, Matt Ochs <mochs@...dia.com>,
 Shameer Kolothum <skolothumtho@...dia.com>,
 "alejandro.lucero-palau@....com" <alejandro.lucero-palau@....com>,
 "dave@...olabs.net" <dave@...olabs.net>,
 "jonathan.cameron@...wei.com" <jonathan.cameron@...wei.com>,
 "alison.schofield@...el.com" <alison.schofield@...el.com>,
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 "kevin.tian@...el.com" <kevin.tian@...el.com>
Cc: Neo Jia <cjia@...dia.com>, Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@...dia.com>,
 "Tarun Gupta (SW-GPU)" <targupta@...dia.com>, Zhi Wang <zhiw@...dia.com>,
 Krishnakant Jaju <kjaju@...dia.com>,
 "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 "linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org" <linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org>,
 "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 07/15] vfio/cxl: expose CXL region to the userspace via a
 new VFIO device region



On 12/11/25 10:31 AM, Manish Honap wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>
>> Sent: 11 December 2025 21:36
>> To: Manish Honap <mhonap@...dia.com>; Aniket Agashe
>> <aniketa@...dia.com>; Ankit Agrawal <ankita@...dia.com>; Alex Williamson
>> <alwilliamson@...dia.com>; Vikram Sethi <vsethi@...dia.com>; Jason
>> Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>; Matt Ochs <mochs@...dia.com>; Shameer
>> Kolothum <skolothumtho@...dia.com>; alejandro.lucero-palau@....com;
>> dave@...olabs.net; jonathan.cameron@...wei.com;
>> alison.schofield@...el.com; vishal.l.verma@...el.com;
>> ira.weiny@...el.com; dan.j.williams@...el.com; jgg@...pe.ca; Yishai
>> Hadas <yishaih@...dia.com>; kevin.tian@...el.com
>> Cc: Neo Jia <cjia@...dia.com>; Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@...dia.com>;
>> Tarun Gupta (SW-GPU) <targupta@...dia.com>; Zhi Wang <zhiw@...dia.com>;
>> Krishnakant Jaju <kjaju@...dia.com>; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org;
>> linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org; kvm@...r.kernel.org
>> Subject: Re: [RFC v2 07/15] vfio/cxl: expose CXL region to the userspace
>> via a new VFIO device region
>>
>> External email: Use caution opening links or attachments
>>
>>
>> On 12/9/25 9:50 AM, mhonap@...dia.com wrote:
>>> From: Manish Honap <mhonap@...dia.com>
>>>
>>> To directly access the device memory, a CXL region is required.
>>> Creating a CXL region requires to configure HDM decoders on the path
>>> to map the access of HPA level by level and evetually hit the DPA in
>>> the CXL topology.
>>>
>>> For the userspace, e.g. QEMU, to access the CXL region, the region is
>>> required to be exposed via VFIO interfaces.
>>>
>>> Introduce a new VFIO device region and region ops to expose the
>>> created CXL region when initialize the device in the vfio-cxl-core.
>>> Introduce a new sub region type for the userspace to identify a CXL
>> region.
>>>
>>> Co-developed-by: Zhi Wang <zhiw@...dia.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Zhi Wang <zhiw@...dia.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Manish Honap <mhonap@...dia.com>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_cxl_core.c | 122
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c |   3 +-
>>>  include/linux/vfio_pci_core.h    |   5 ++
>>>  include/uapi/linux/vfio.h        |   4 +
>>>  4 files changed, 133 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_cxl_core.c
>>> b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_cxl_core.c
>>> index cf53720c0cb7..35d95de47fa8 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_cxl_core.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_cxl_core.c
>>> @@ -231,6 +231,128 @@ void vfio_cxl_core_destroy_cxl_region(struct
>>> vfio_cxl_core_device *cxl)  }
>>> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vfio_cxl_core_destroy_cxl_region);
>>>
>>> +static int vfio_cxl_region_mmap(struct vfio_pci_core_device *pci,
>>> +                             struct vfio_pci_region *region,
>>> +                             struct vm_area_struct *vma) {
>>> +     struct vfio_cxl_region *cxl_region = region->data;
>>> +     u64 req_len, pgoff, req_start, end;
>>> +     int ret;
>>> +
>>> +     if (!(region->flags & VFIO_REGION_INFO_FLAG_MMAP))
>>> +             return -EINVAL;
>>> +
>>> +     if (!(region->flags & VFIO_REGION_INFO_FLAG_READ) &&
>>> +         (vma->vm_flags & VM_READ))
>>> +             return -EPERM;
>>> +
>>> +     if (!(region->flags & VFIO_REGION_INFO_FLAG_WRITE) &&
>>> +         (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
>>> +             return -EPERM;
>>> +
>>> +     pgoff = vma->vm_pgoff &
>>> +             ((1U << (VFIO_PCI_OFFSET_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)) - 1);
>>> +
>>> +     if (check_sub_overflow(vma->vm_end, vma->vm_start, &req_len) ||
>>> +         check_add_overflow(PHYS_PFN(cxl_region->addr), pgoff,
>> &req_start) ||
>>> +         check_add_overflow(PFN_PHYS(pgoff), req_len, &end))
>>> +             return -EOVERFLOW;
>>> +
>>> +     if (end > cxl_region->size)
>>> +             return -EINVAL;
>>> +
>>> +     if (cxl_region->noncached)
>>> +             vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_noncached(vma->vm_page_prot);
>>> +     vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_decrypted(vma->vm_page_prot);
>>> +
>>> +     vm_flags_set(vma, VM_ALLOW_ANY_UNCACHED | VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP |
>>> +                  VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP);
>>> +
>>> +     ret = remap_pfn_range(vma, vma->vm_start, req_start,
>>> +                           req_len, vma->vm_page_prot);
>>> +     if (ret)
>>> +             return ret;
>>> +
>>> +     vma->vm_pgoff = req_start;
>>> +
>>> +     return 0;
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static ssize_t vfio_cxl_region_rw(struct vfio_pci_core_device
>> *core_dev,
>>> +                               char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t
>> *ppos,
>>> +                               bool iswrite) {
>>> +     unsigned int i = VFIO_PCI_OFFSET_TO_INDEX(*ppos) -
>> VFIO_PCI_NUM_REGIONS;
>>> +     struct vfio_cxl_region *cxl_region = core_dev->region[i].data;
>>> +     loff_t pos = *ppos & VFIO_PCI_OFFSET_MASK;
>>> +
>>> +     if (!count)
>>> +             return 0;
>>> +
>>> +     return vfio_pci_core_do_io_rw(core_dev, false,
>>> +                                   cxl_region->vaddr,
>>> +                                   (char __user *)buf, pos, count,
>>> +                                   0, 0, iswrite); }
>>> +
>>> +static void vfio_cxl_region_release(struct vfio_pci_core_device
>> *vdev,
>>> +                                 struct vfio_pci_region *region) { }
>>> +
>>> +static const struct vfio_pci_regops vfio_cxl_regops = {
>>> +     .rw             = vfio_cxl_region_rw,
>>> +     .mmap           = vfio_cxl_region_mmap,
>>> +     .release        = vfio_cxl_region_release,
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +int vfio_cxl_core_register_cxl_region(struct vfio_cxl_core_device
>>> +*cxl) {
>>> +     struct vfio_pci_core_device *pci = &cxl->pci_core;
>>> +     struct vfio_cxl *cxl_core = cxl->cxl_core;
>>> +     u32 flags;
>>> +     int ret;
>>> +
>>> +     if (WARN_ON(!cxl_core->region.region || cxl_core->region.vaddr))
>>> +             return -EEXIST;
>>> +
>>> +     cxl_core->region.vaddr = ioremap(cxl_core->region.addr,
>> cxl_core->region.size);
>>> +     if (!cxl_core->region.addr)
>>
>> I think you are wanting to check cxl_core->region.vaddr here right?
> 
> Yes, you are correct. I will update this check.
> 
>>
>> Also, what is the ioremap'd region for?
> 
> It is to handle read/write operations when QEMU performs I/O on the VFIO CXL device region via the read()/write() syscalls.

For the CXL device region, for the most part the operations are done via the region being mmap()'d by qemu right? I understand read/write to BAR0 MMIO. What specific operations are done via read/write to the region? It may be worth mentioning in the commit log. 

> 
>>
>> DJ

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