RE: [PATCH v8 11/11] vfio/nvgrace: Support get_dmabuf_phys

[Tian, Kevin]

> From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2025 5:58 PM
> 
> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Call vfio_pci_core_fill_phys_vec() with the proper physical ranges for the
> synthetic BAR 2 and BAR 4 regions. Otherwise use the normal flow based on
> the PCI bar.
> 
> This demonstrates a DMABUF that follows the region info report to only
> allow mapping parts of the region that are mmapable. Since the BAR is
> power of two sized and the "CXL" region is just page aligned the there can
> be a padding region at the end that is not mmaped or passed into the
> DMABUF.
> 
> The "CXL" ranges that are remapped into BAR 2 and BAR 4 areas are not PCI
> MMIO, they actually run over the CXL-like coherent interconnect and for
> the purposes of DMA behave identically to DRAM. We don't try to model this
> distinction between true PCI BAR memory that takes a real PCI path and the
> "CXL" memory that takes a different path in the p2p framework for now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Alex Mastro <amastro@xxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>