Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] vfio/nvgpu: Add vfio pci variant module for grace hopper

From: Ankit Agrawal
Date: Mon Jul 31 2023 - 10:32:59 EST


>> >
>> > Just to confirm, the ask is to just update the comment to reflect the behavior,
>> > right? (I missed to do that in this posting). Because we do redirect the call to
>> > vfio_pci_core_read() here which will perform the read that is within the device
>> > region. The read response to synthesize -1 is only for the range that is outside
>> > the device memory region.
>>
>> This doesn't seem right, vfio_pci_core_read() will use pci_iomap() to
>> get a mapping which will be a DEVICE mapping, this will make the
>> access incoherent with any cachable mappings.
>
> Right, but also vfio_pci_core_read() doesn't know anything about this
> virtual BAR2, so any in-range BAR2 accesses will error the same as
> trying to access an unimplemented BAR. It's not just the comment,
> there's no code here to handle a read(2) from in-bound BAR2 accesses.
> Thanks,

Got it, I would do memremap() to the target device memory physical address
here. The memremap() and the data copy would be done to only the number
of bytes asked with the read/write operation.

Will post that with the next version shortly.