[v2,0/2] drm/virtio: introduce the HOST_PAGE_SIZE feature

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Sergio Lopez April 2, 2025, 5:45 p.m. UTC

There's an incresing number of machines supporting multiple page sizes
and on these machines the host and a guest can be running, each one,
with a different page size.

For what pertains to virtio-gpu, this is not a problem if the page size
of the guest happens to be bigger or equal than the host, but will
potentially lead to failures in memory allocations and/or mappings
otherwise.

To improve this situation, we introduce here the HOST_PAGE_SIZE feature.
This feature indicates that the host has an extended virtio_gpu_config
structure that include it's own page size a new field.

On the second commit, we also add a new param that can be read with
VIRTGPU_GETPARAM by userspace applications running in the guest to
obtain the host's page size and find out the right alignment to be used
in shared memory allocations.

There has been a discussion in virtio-comments about whether the
information about alignment restrictions must be shared in a generic or
in a device-specific way, favoring the latter:

https://lore.kernel.org/virtio-comment/[e-mail]/T/#t

v2:
 - Rebase on top of current upstream.
 - Make a reference in the cover to the discussion about how device
   page alignment restrictions should be shared with the driver.

Signed-off-by: Sergio Lopez <[e-mail]>
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Sergio Lopez (2):
      drm/virtio: introduce the HOST_PAGE_SIZE feature
      drm/virtio: add VIRTGPU_PARAM_HOST_PAGE_SIZE to params

 drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_drv.c   |  1 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_drv.h   |  2 ++
 drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_ioctl.c |  5 +++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_kms.c   | 13 ++++++++++---
 include/uapi/drm/virtgpu_drm.h         |  1 +
 include/uapi/linux/virtio_gpu.h        |  5 +++++
 6 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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base-commit: acc4d5ff0b61eb1715c498b6536c38c1feb7f3c1
change-id: 20250402-virtio-gpu-host-page-size-282c99dfe44c

Best regards,