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Subject: [PATCH 17/20] vfio/cxl: Provide opt-out for CXL feature
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:04:37 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260311203440.752648-18-mhonap@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260311203440.752648-1-mhonap@nvidia.com>
From: Manish Honap <mhonap@nvidia.com>
This commit provides an opt-out mechanism to disable the CXL
support from vfio module. The opt-out is provided both
build time and module load time.
Build time option CONFIG_VFIO_CXL_CORE is used to enable/disable
CXL support in vfio-pci module.
For runtime disabling the CXL support, use the module parameter
disable_cxl. This is a per-device opt-out on the core device
set by the driver before registration.
Signed-off-by: Manish Honap <mhonap@nvidia.com>
---
drivers/vfio/pci/cxl/vfio_cxl_core.c | 4 ++++
drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c | 9 +++++++++
include/linux/vfio_pci_core.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/cxl/vfio_cxl_core.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/cxl/vfio_cxl_core.c
index bda11f99746f..8b42ac05a110 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/pci/cxl/vfio_cxl_core.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/cxl/vfio_cxl_core.c
@@ -373,6 +373,10 @@ void vfio_pci_cxl_detect_and_init(struct vfio_pci_core_device *vdev)
u16 dvsec;
int ret;
+ /* Honor the user opt-out decision */
+ if (vdev->disable_cxl)
+ return;
+
if (!pcie_is_cxl(pdev))
return;
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
index 22cf9ea831f9..a6b0fb882b9f 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ static bool disable_denylist;
module_param(disable_denylist, bool, 0444);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable_denylist, "Disable use of device denylist. Disabling the denylist allows binding to devices with known errata that may lead to exploitable stability or security issues when accessed by untrusted users.");
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_VFIO_CXL_CORE)
+static bool disable_cxl;
+module_param(disable_cxl, bool, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable_cxl, "Disable CXL Type-2 extensions for all devices bound to vfio-pci. Variant drivers may instead set vdev->disable_cxl in their probe for per-device control without needing this parameter.");
+#endif
+
static bool vfio_pci_dev_in_denylist(struct pci_dev *pdev)
{
switch (pdev->vendor) {
@@ -189,6 +195,9 @@ static int vfio_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
return PTR_ERR(vdev);
dev_set_drvdata(&pdev->dev, vdev);
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_VFIO_CXL_CORE)
+ vdev->disable_cxl = disable_cxl;
+#endif
vdev->pci_ops = &vfio_pci_dev_ops;
ret = vfio_pci_core_register_device(vdev);
if (ret)
diff --git a/include/linux/vfio_pci_core.h b/include/linux/vfio_pci_core.h
index aa159d0c8da7..48dc69df52fa 100644
--- a/include/linux/vfio_pci_core.h
+++ b/include/linux/vfio_pci_core.h
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ struct vfio_pci_core_device {
bool needs_pm_restore:1;
bool pm_intx_masked:1;
bool pm_runtime_engaged:1;
+ bool disable_cxl:1;
struct pci_saved_state *pci_saved_state;
struct pci_saved_state *pm_save;
int ioeventfds_nr;
--
2.25.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-11 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-11 20:34 [PATCH 00/20] vfio/pci: Add CXL Type-2 device passthrough support mhonap
2026-03-11 20:34 ` [PATCH 01/20] cxl: Introduce cxl_get_hdm_reg_info() mhonap
2026-03-12 11:28 ` Jonathan Cameron
2026-03-12 16:33 ` Dave Jiang
2026-03-11 20:34 ` [PATCH 02/20] cxl: Expose cxl subsystem specific functions for vfio mhonap
2026-03-12 16:49 ` Dave Jiang
2026-03-13 10:05 ` Manish Honap
2026-03-11 20:34 ` [PATCH 03/20] cxl: Move CXL spec defines to public header mhonap
2026-03-13 12:18 ` Jonathan Cameron
2026-03-13 16:56 ` Dave Jiang
2026-03-18 14:56 ` Jonathan Cameron
2026-03-18 17:51 ` Manish Honap
2026-03-11 20:34 ` [PATCH 04/20] cxl: Media ready check refactoring mhonap
2026-03-12 20:29 ` Dave Jiang
2026-03-13 10:05 ` Manish Honap
2026-03-11 20:34 ` [PATCH 05/20] cxl: Expose BAR index and offset from register map mhonap
2026-03-12 20:58 ` Dave Jiang
2026-03-13 10:11 ` Manish Honap
2026-03-11 20:34 ` [PATCH 06/20] vfio/cxl: Add UAPI for CXL Type-2 device passthrough mhonap
2026-03-12 21:04 ` Dave Jiang
2026-03-11 20:34 ` [PATCH 07/20] vfio/pci: Add CXL state to vfio_pci_core_device mhonap
2026-03-11 20:34 ` [PATCH 08/20] vfio/pci: Add vfio-cxl Kconfig and build infrastructure mhonap
2026-03-13 12:27 ` Jonathan Cameron
2026-03-18 17:21 ` Manish Honap
2026-03-11 20:34 ` [PATCH 09/20] vfio/cxl: Implement CXL device detection and HDM register probing mhonap
2026-03-12 22:31 ` Dave Jiang
2026-03-13 12:43 ` Jonathan Cameron
2026-03-18 17:43 ` Manish Honap
2026-03-11 20:34 ` [PATCH 10/20] vfio/cxl: CXL region management mhonap
2026-03-12 22:55 ` Dave Jiang
2026-03-13 12:52 ` Jonathan Cameron
2026-03-18 17:48 ` Manish Honap
2026-03-11 20:34 ` [PATCH 11/20] vfio/cxl: Expose DPA memory region to userspace with fault+zap mmap mhonap
2026-03-13 17:07 ` Dave Jiang
2026-03-18 17:54 ` Manish Honap
2026-03-11 20:34 ` [PATCH 12/20] vfio/pci: Export config access helpers mhonap
2026-03-11 20:34 ` [PATCH 13/20] vfio/cxl: Introduce HDM decoder register emulation framework mhonap
2026-03-13 19:05 ` Dave Jiang
2026-03-18 17:58 ` Manish Honap
2026-03-11 20:34 ` [PATCH 14/20] vfio/cxl: Check media readiness and create CXL memdev mhonap
2026-03-11 20:34 ` [PATCH 15/20] vfio/cxl: Introduce CXL DVSEC configuration space emulation mhonap
2026-03-13 22:07 ` Dave Jiang
2026-03-18 18:41 ` Manish Honap
2026-03-11 20:34 ` [PATCH 16/20] vfio/pci: Expose CXL device and region info via VFIO ioctl mhonap
2026-03-11 20:34 ` mhonap [this message]
2026-03-11 20:34 ` [PATCH 18/20] docs: vfio-pci: Document CXL Type-2 device passthrough mhonap
2026-03-13 12:13 ` Jonathan Cameron
2026-03-17 21:24 ` Alex Williamson
2026-03-19 16:06 ` Jonathan Cameron
2026-03-23 14:36 ` Manish Honap
2026-03-11 20:34 ` [PATCH 19/20] selftests/vfio: Add CXL Type-2 passthrough tests mhonap
2026-03-11 20:34 ` [PATCH 20/20] selftests/vfio: Fix VLA initialisation in vfio_pci_irq_set() mhonap
2026-03-13 22:23 ` Dave Jiang
2026-03-18 18:07 ` Manish Honap
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