From: Jacob Pan <jacob.pan@linux.microsoft.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"iommu@lists.linux.dev" <iommu@lists.linux.dev>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
Alex Williamson <alex@shazbot.org>,
Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@google.com>,
David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>,
Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>,
"Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>, Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
Cc: skhawaja@google.com, pasha.tatashin@soleen.com,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Jacob Pan <jacob.pan@linux.microsoft.com>,
Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH V3 05/10] vfio: Allow null group for noiommu without containers
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 22:11:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260403051146.10210-6-jacob.pan@linux.microsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260403051146.10210-1-jacob.pan@linux.microsoft.com>
In case of noiommu mode is enabled for VFIO cdev without VFIO container
nor IOMMUFD provided compatibility container, there is no need to
create a dummy group. Update the group operations to tolerate null group
pointer.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.pan@linux.microsoft.com>
---
drivers/vfio/group.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
drivers/vfio/vfio.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 31 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/group.c b/drivers/vfio/group.c
index 0fa9761b13d3..9e88610934c8 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/group.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/group.c
@@ -390,6 +390,9 @@ int vfio_device_block_group(struct vfio_device *device)
struct vfio_group *group = device->group;
int ret = 0;
+ if (vfio_null_group_allowed() && !group)
+ return 0;
+
mutex_lock(&group->group_lock);
if (group->opened_file) {
ret = -EBUSY;
@@ -407,6 +410,9 @@ void vfio_device_unblock_group(struct vfio_device *device)
{
struct vfio_group *group = device->group;
+ if (vfio_null_group_allowed() && !group)
+ return;
+
mutex_lock(&group->group_lock);
group->cdev_device_open_cnt--;
mutex_unlock(&group->group_lock);
@@ -598,6 +604,14 @@ static struct vfio_group *vfio_noiommu_group_alloc(struct device *dev,
struct vfio_group *group;
int ret;
+ /*
+ * With noiommu enabled under cdev interface only, there is no need to
+ * create a vfio_group if the group based containers are not enabled.
+ * The cdev interface is exclusively used for iommufd.
+ */
+ if (vfio_null_group_allowed())
+ return NULL;
+
iommu_group = iommu_group_alloc();
if (IS_ERR(iommu_group))
return ERR_CAST(iommu_group);
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio.h b/drivers/vfio/vfio.h
index 8fcc98cf9577..db1530bb1716 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio.h
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio.h
@@ -114,6 +114,18 @@ bool vfio_device_has_container(struct vfio_device *device);
int __init vfio_group_init(void);
void vfio_group_cleanup(void);
+/*
+ * With noiommu enabled and no containers are supported, allow devices that
+ * don't have a dummy group.
+ */
+static inline bool vfio_null_group_allowed(void)
+{
+ if (vfio_noiommu && (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_VFIO_CONTAINER) && !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IOMMUFD_VFIO_CONTAINER)))
+ return true;
+
+ return false;
+}
+
static inline bool vfio_device_is_noiommu(struct vfio_device *vdev)
{
return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_VFIO_NOIOMMU) &&
@@ -190,6 +202,11 @@ static inline void vfio_group_cleanup(void)
{
}
+static inline bool vfio_null_group_allowed(void)
+{
+ return false;
+}
+
static inline bool vfio_device_is_noiommu(struct vfio_device *vdev)
{
return false;
--
2.34.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-03 5:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-03 5:11 Jacob Pan
2026-04-03 5:11 ` [PATCH V3 01/10] iommufd: Support a HWPT without an iommu driver for noiommu Jacob Pan
2026-04-03 5:11 ` [PATCH V3 02/10] iommufd: Move igroup allocation to a function Jacob Pan
2026-04-03 5:11 ` [PATCH V3 03/10] iommufd: Allow binding to a noiommu device Jacob Pan
2026-04-09 17:06 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-04-10 16:51 ` Jacob Pan
2026-04-03 5:11 ` [PATCH V3 04/10] iommufd: Add an ioctl IOMMU_IOAS_GET_PA to query PA from IOVA Jacob Pan
2026-04-09 18:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-04-10 21:20 ` Jacob Pan
2026-04-03 5:11 ` Jacob Pan [this message]
2026-04-09 18:44 ` [PATCH V3 05/10] vfio: Allow null group for noiommu without containers Jason Gunthorpe
2026-04-10 23:09 ` Jacob Pan
2026-04-03 5:11 ` [PATCH V3 06/10] vfio: Introduce and set noiommu flag on vfio_device Jacob Pan
2026-04-03 5:11 ` [PATCH V3 07/10] vfio: Enable cdev noiommu mode under iommufd Jacob Pan
2026-04-09 18:48 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-04-13 22:43 ` Jacob Pan
2026-04-03 5:11 ` [PATCH V3 08/10] vfio:selftest: Handle VFIO noiommu cdev Jacob Pan
2026-04-03 5:11 ` [PATCH V3 09/10] selftests/vfio: Add iommufd noiommu mode selftest for cdev Jacob Pan
2026-04-03 5:11 ` [PATCH V3 10/10] Documentation: Update VFIO NOIOMMU mode Jacob Pan
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