Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] drm/virtio: introduce the HOST_PAGE_SIZE feature
From: Dmitry Osipenko
Date: Fri Oct 24 2025 - 00:04:06 EST
On 4/2/25 20:45, Sergio Lopez wrote:
> 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/CY8PR12MB7195B5E575099CD9CA1F2F39DCAF2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/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 <slp@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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(-)
> ---
> base-commit: acc4d5ff0b61eb1715c498b6536c38c1feb7f3c1
> change-id: 20250402-virtio-gpu-host-page-size-282c99dfe44c
>
> Best regards,
Hi Sergio,
Curious if this feature still wanted. The protocol was updated many
months ago with the VIRTIO_GPU_F_BLOB_ALIGNMENT addition.
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Best regards,
Dmitry