Re: [PATCH RFC v2 4/5] virtio-mmio: read shm region page size

[Sergio Lopez Pascual]

Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 2/14/25 18:16, Sergio Lopez wrote:
>> Use the newly introduced SHM_PAGE_SHIFT register to read the page shift
>> for the shared memory region, derive the page size from it and store the
>> resulting value into virtio_shm_region.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sergio Lopez <slp@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c     | 11 ++++++++++-
>>  include/uapi/linux/virtio_mmio.h |  3 +++
>>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c
>> index 1f594b626d7a7734e8ec58766737a118c26bad94..0f892770739ea84b3e7be5615332773049b10ab1 100644
>> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c
>> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c
>> @@ -537,6 +537,7 @@ static bool vm_get_shm_region(struct virtio_device *vdev,
>>  			      struct virtio_shm_region *region, u8 id)
>>  {
>>  	struct virtio_mmio_device *vm_dev = to_virtio_mmio_device(vdev);
>> +	u8 page_shift = 0;
>>  	u64 len, addr;
>>
>>  	/* Select the region we're interested in */
>> @@ -560,7 +561,15 @@ static bool vm_get_shm_region(struct virtio_device *vdev,
>>
>>  	region->addr = addr;
>>
>> -	region->page_size = 4096;
>> +	/* If supported by the device transport, read the region page size.
>> +	 * The page_shift variable is initialized to zero above, so if this
>> +	 * feature isn't supported it will result in a page_size of 4096, a
>> +	 * default safe value.
>> +	 */
>> +	if (__virtio_test_bit(vdev, VIRTIO_F_SHM_PAGE_SIZE))
>> +		page_shift = (u8) readl(vm_dev->base + VIRTIO_MMIO_SHM_PAGE_SHIFT);
>> +
>> +	region->page_size = 1 << (page_shift + 12);
>>
>>  	return true;
>>  }
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_mmio.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_mmio.h
>> index 0650f91bea6c70f935764070d825d181a2379afb..43348be30eff90ee228b6490b9d3c35ba4c50aa5 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_mmio.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_mmio.h
>> @@ -133,6 +133,9 @@
>>  #define VIRTIO_MMIO_SHM_BASE_LOW        0x0b8
>>  #define VIRTIO_MMIO_SHM_BASE_HIGH       0x0bc
>>
>> +/* Shared memory region page shift */
>> +#define VIRTIO_MMIO_SHM_PAGE_SHIFT      0x0c4
>
> What's the logic behind choosing 0x0c4, why not 0x0c0?

It seems like Linux doesn't support it yet, but in the specs 0x0c0 is
already reserved for QueueReset.

Sergio.