From: Rubin Du <rubind@nvidia.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex@shazbot.org>,
David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v10 0/2] selftests/vfio: Add NVIDIA GPU Falcon DMA test driver
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:43:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260325214329.464727-1-rubind@nvidia.com> (raw)
Patch 1:
Add VFIO_PCI_DRIVER_F_NO_SEND_MSI feature flag for drivers that cannot
trigger MSI interrupts. Drivers that lack MSI support opt-in by setting
this flag.
Change vfio_pci_driver_send_msi() to return int, checking the flag
internally and returning -EOPNOTSUPP when set. Add
fcntl_set_msi_nonblock(self) and update ASSERT_NO_MSI(self) to check
the flag internally.
Patch 2:
Falcons are general-purpose microcontrollers present on NVIDIA GPUs
that can perform DMA operations between system memory and device memory.
Introduce the nv_falcon plugin driver, which extracts and adapts
relevant functionality from NVIDIA's gpu-admin-tools project [1] and
integrates it into the VFIO selftest framework. As a result, any
system equipped with a PCIe slot and a supported NVIDIA GPU can now
run VFIO DMA selftests using commonly available hardware.
The core VFIO selftest infrastructure handles:
- VFIO container/group management
- IOMMU domain setup
- DMA buffer allocation and mapping
- Test orchestration and reporting
The plugin drivers provide device-specific implementations for:
- Probing and initializing device
- Triggering DMA operations
- Verifying DMA completion
- Device cleanup
[1] https://github.com/NVIDIA/gpu-admin-tools
Note on version numbering: v1 through v9 were internal review
iterations that were mistakenly carried over to the upstream
submission. Apologies for the confusion, the internal changelog
has been dropped.
Changes in v10:
- Replaced NULL pointer checks on send_msi() with per-device
VFIO_PCI_DRIVER_F_NO_SEND_MSI feature flag
- Changed vfio_pci_driver_send_msi() to return int with the feature
check moved inside, so callers branch on the return value
- Added fcntl_set_msi_nonblock(self) and updated ASSERT_NO_MSI(self)
macros that check the flag internally
- Moved DMA execution from memcpy_start() to memcpy_wait() so that
memcpy_start() stores parameters and returns immediately, emulating
async behavior to conform to the memcpy_start()/memcpy_wait() contract
- Split GPU_ARCH_PASCAL into GPU_ARCH_PASCAL (P100, PMC reset) and
GPU_ARCH_PASCAL_10X (P4/P40, engine reset) to match per-product
reset behavior
- Minor cleanups: improved size_to_dma_encoding(), fixed DMA address
bits mask
Rubin Du (2):
selftests/vfio: Add NO_SEND_MSI feature flag and MSI helper macros
selftests/vfio: Add NVIDIA Falcon driver for DMA testing
.../vfio/lib/drivers/nv_falcons/hw.h | 365 +++++++++
.../vfio/lib/drivers/nv_falcons/nv_falcons.c | 739 ++++++++++++++++++
.../lib/include/libvfio/vfio_pci_driver.h | 5 +-
tools/testing/selftests/vfio/lib/libvfio.mk | 2 +
.../selftests/vfio/lib/vfio_pci_driver.c | 9 +-
.../selftests/vfio/vfio_pci_driver_test.c | 41 +-
6 files changed, 1142 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/vfio/lib/drivers/nv_falcons/hw.h
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/vfio/lib/drivers/nv_falcons/nv_falcons.c
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next reply other threads:[~2026-03-25 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-25 21:43 Rubin Du [this message]
2026-03-25 21:43 ` [PATCH v10 1/2] selftests/vfio: Add NO_SEND_MSI feature flag and MSI helper macros Rubin Du
2026-03-27 22:04 ` David Matlack
2026-03-30 20:15 ` Rubin Du
2026-03-25 21:43 ` [PATCH v10 2/2] selftests/vfio: Add NVIDIA Falcon driver for DMA testing Rubin Du
2026-03-27 22:38 ` David Matlack
2026-03-30 20:15 ` Rubin Du
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