Re: [PATCH] vfio: selftests: Skip vfio_dma_map_limit_test if mapping returns -EINVAL

David Matlack
2025-11-10T18:00:15Z

On 2025-11-10 08:48 AM, Alex Mastro wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 08:17:09AM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > On Sat, 8 Nov 2025 17:20:10 -0800
> > Alex Mastro <amastro@fb.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2025 at 02:37:10PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 8 Nov 2025 12:19:48 -0800
> > > > Alex Mastro <amastro@fb.com> wrote:
> > > > > Here's my attempt at adding some machinery to query iova ranges, with
> > > > > normalization to iommufd's struct. I kept the vfio capability chain stuff
> > > > > relatively generic so we can use it for other things in the future if needed.
> > > >
> > > > Seems we were both hacking on this, I hadn't seen you posted this
> > > > before sending:
> > > >
> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20251108212954.26477-1-alex@shazbot.org/T/#u
> > > >
> > > > Maybe we can combine the best merits of each. Thanks,
> > >
> > > Yes! I have been thinking along the following lines
> > > - Your idea to change the end of address space test to allocate at the end of
> > > the supported range is better and more general than my idea of skipping the
> > > test if ~(iova_t)0 is out of bounds. We should do that.
> > > - Introducing the concept iova allocator makes sense.
> > > - I think it's worthwhile to keep common test concepts like vfio_pci_device
> > > less opinionated/stateful so as not to close the door on certain categories of
> > > testing in the future. For example, if we ever wanted to test IOVA range
> > > contraction after binding additional devices to an IOAS or vfio container.
> >
> > Yes, fetching the IOVA ranges should really occur after all the devices
> > are attached to the container/ioas rather than in device init. We need
> > another layer of abstraction for the shared IOMMU state. We can
> > probably work on that incrementally.

I am working on pulling the iommu state out of struct vfio_pci_device
here:

https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20251008232531.1152035-5-dmatlack@google.com/

But if we keep the iova allocator a separate object, then we can
introduce it mosty indepently from this series. I imagine the only thing
that will change is passing a struct iommu * instead of a struct
vfio_pci_device * when initializing the allocator.

> >
> > I certainly like the idea of testing range contraction, but I don't
> > know where we can reliably see that behavior.
>
> I'm not sure about the exact testing strategy for that yet either actually.
>
> > > - What do you think about making the concept of an IOVA allocator something
> > > standalone for which tests that need it can create one? I think it would
> > > compose pretty cleanly on top of my vfio_pci_iova_ranges().
> >
> > Yep, that sounds good. Obviously what's there is just the simplest
> > possible linear, aligned allocator with no attempt to fill gaps or
> > track allocations for freeing. We're not likely to exhaust the address
> > space in an individual unit test, I just wanted to relieve the test
> > from the burden of coming up with a valid IOVA, while leaving some
> > degree of geometry info for exploring the boundaries.
>
> Keeping the simple linear allocator makes sense to me.
>
> > Are you interested in generating a combined v2?
>
> Sure -- I can put up a v2 series which stages like so
> - adds stateless low level iova ranges queries
> - adds iova allocator utility object
> - fixes end of ranges tests, uses iova allocator instead of iova=vaddr

+1 to getting rid of iova=vaddr.

But note that the HugeTLB tests in vfio_dma_mapping_test.c have
alignment requirements to pass on Intel (since it validates the pages
are mapped at the right level in the I/O page tables using the Intel
debugfs interface).

> > TBH I'm not sure that just marking a test as skipped based on the DMA
> > mapping return is worthwhile with a couple proposals to add IOVA range
> > support already on the table. Thanks,
>
> I'll put up the new series rooted on linux-vfio/next soon.

I think we should try to get vfio_dma_mapping_test back to passing in
time for Linux 6.18, since the newly failing test was added in 6.18.

The sequence I was imagining was:

1. Merge the quick fix to skip the test into 6.18.
2. Split struct iommu from struct vfio_pci_device.
3. Add iova allocator.

AlexW, how much time do we have to get AlexM's series ready? I am fine
with doing (3), then (2), and dropping (1) if there's enough time.