Thanks to work by Peter Xu, support is introduced in Linux v6.12 to
allow pfnmap insertions at PMD and PUD levels of the page table. This
means that provided a properly aligned mmap, the vfio driver is able
to map MMIO at significantly larger intervals than PAGE_SIZE. For
example on x86_64 (the only architecture currently supporting huge
pfnmaps for PUD), rather than 4KiB mappings, we can map device MMIO
using 2MiB and even 1GiB page table entries.
Typically mmap will already provide PMD aligned mappings, so devices
with moderately sized MMIO ranges, even GPUs with standard 256MiB BARs,
will already take advantage of this support. However in order to better
support devices exposing multi-GiB MMIO, such as 3D accelerators or GPUs
with resizable BARs enabled, we need to manually align the mmap.
There doesn't seem to be a way for userspace to easily learn about PMD
and PUD mapping level sizes, therefore this takes the simple approach
to align the mapping to the power-of-two size of the region, up to 1GiB,
which is currently the maximum alignment we care about.
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
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