Re: [PATCH v8 1/1] vfio/nvgrace-gpu: Add Blackwell-Next GPU readiness check via CXL DVSEC

[Alex Williamson]

On Tue, 2 Jun 2026 06:30:15 +0000
Ankit Agrawal <ankita@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Add a CXL DVSEC-based readiness check for Blackwell-Next GPUs alongside
> the existing legacy BAR0 polling path. The CXL Device DVSEC offset is
> discovered at probe time. Probe, fault and read/write paths then branch
> on that to use either the legacy BAR0 polling or the CXL DVSEC polling.
> 
> The CXL path polls Memory_Active, requiring MEM_INFO_VALID within 1s and
> MEM_ACTIVE within Memory_Active_Timeout (up to 256s) as per CXL spec r4.0
> sec 8.1.3.8.2. Given the long worst-case wait, the CXL poll runs outside
> memory_lock with only a quick readiness check is done under the lock.
> 
> The poll loops sleep with schedule_timeout_killable() and return -EINTR
> on a fatal signal. This avoids hung-task panics during the long
> uninterruptible wait. Extend this to the legacy based wait as well for
> improvement.
> 
> In the fault handler the wait runs locklessly before memory_lock. If a
> reset races in, the in-lock recheck returns -EAGAIN and the wait is
> retried rather than returning a spurious VM_FAULT_SIGBUS.
> 
> Add PCI_DVSEC_CXL_MEM_ACTIVE_TIMEOUT to pci_regs.h for the timeout field.
> 
> Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Alex Williamson <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ankit Agrawal <ankita@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/vfio/pci/nvgrace-gpu/main.c | 162 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h       |   1 +
>  2 files changed, 151 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Applied to vfio next branch for v7.2.  Thanks,

Alex