[PATCH rdma-next 4/6] RDMA/mlx5: Add TLP VAR region support and infrastructure

From: Leon Romanovsky

Date: Wed Feb 25 2026 - 09:25:41 EST


From: Maher Sanalla <msanalla@xxxxxxxxxx>

Add support for TLP (Transaction Layer Packet) VAR regions used by
software-defined device emulation. TLP VAR provides dedicated response
gateways for sending TLP responses back to the host in TLP emulation
scenarios.

Signed-off-by: Maher Sanalla <msanalla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
index 835fe2a95ad6..424426a2cd76 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
@@ -2518,6 +2518,15 @@ mlx5_ib_pgoff_to_mmap_entry(struct ib_ucontext *ucontext, off_t pg_off)
return rdma_user_mmap_entry_get_pgoff(ucontext, entry_pgoff);
}

+static void mlx5_ib_free_var_mmap_entry(struct mlx5_user_mmap_entry *mentry,
+ struct mlx5_var_region *var_region)
+{
+ mutex_lock(&var_region->bitmap_lock);
+ clear_bit(mentry->page_idx, var_region->bitmap);
+ mutex_unlock(&var_region->bitmap_lock);
+ kfree(mentry);
+}
+
static void mlx5_ib_mmap_free(struct rdma_user_mmap_entry *entry)
{
struct mlx5_user_mmap_entry *mentry = to_mmmap(entry);
@@ -2533,10 +2542,11 @@ static void mlx5_ib_mmap_free(struct rdma_user_mmap_entry *entry)
break;
case MLX5_IB_MMAP_TYPE_VAR:
var_region = &var_table->var_region;
- mutex_lock(&var_region->bitmap_lock);
- clear_bit(mentry->page_idx, var_region->bitmap);
- mutex_unlock(&var_region->bitmap_lock);
- kfree(mentry);
+ mlx5_ib_free_var_mmap_entry(mentry, var_region);
+ break;
+ case MLX5_IB_MMAP_TYPE_TLP_VAR:
+ var_region = &var_table->tlp_var_region;
+ mlx5_ib_free_var_mmap_entry(mentry, var_region);
break;
case MLX5_IB_MMAP_TYPE_UAR_WC:
case MLX5_IB_MMAP_TYPE_UAR_NC:
@@ -2687,6 +2697,7 @@ static int mlx5_ib_mmap_offset(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev,
mentry = to_mmmap(entry);
pfn = (mentry->address >> PAGE_SHIFT);
if (mentry->mmap_flag == MLX5_IB_MMAP_TYPE_VAR ||
+ mentry->mmap_flag == MLX5_IB_MMAP_TYPE_TLP_VAR ||
mentry->mmap_flag == MLX5_IB_MMAP_TYPE_UAR_NC)
prot = pgprot_noncached(vma->vm_page_prot);
else
@@ -4636,6 +4647,28 @@ static int mlx5_ib_init_var_region(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev)
return (var_region->bitmap) ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
}

+static int mlx5_ib_init_tlp_var_region(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev)
+{
+ struct mlx5_var_region *var_region = &dev->var_table.tlp_var_region;
+ struct mlx5_core_dev *mdev = dev->mdev;
+ u8 log_tlp_var_stride;
+
+ log_tlp_var_stride =
+ MLX5_CAP_DEV_TLP_EMULATION(mdev, log_tlp_rsp_gw_page_stride);
+ var_region->hw_start_addr =
+ dev->mdev->bar_addr +
+ MLX5_CAP64_DEV_TLP_EMULATION(mdev, tlp_rsp_gw_pages_bar_offset);
+
+ var_region->stride_size = (1ULL << log_tlp_var_stride) * 4096;
+ var_region->num_var_hw_entries =
+ MLX5_CAP_DEV_TLP_EMULATION(mdev, tlp_rsp_gw_num_pages);
+
+ mutex_init(&var_region->bitmap_lock);
+ var_region->bitmap = bitmap_zalloc(var_region->num_var_hw_entries,
+ GFP_KERNEL);
+ return (var_region->bitmap) ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
+}
+
static void mlx5_ib_cleanup_ucaps(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev)
{
if (MLX5_CAP_GEN(dev->mdev, uctx_cap) & MLX5_UCTX_CAP_RDMA_CTRL)
@@ -4671,13 +4704,19 @@ static int mlx5_ib_init_ucaps(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev)
return ret;
}

+static void mlx5_ib_cleanup_var_table(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev)
+{
+ bitmap_free(dev->var_table.var_region.bitmap);
+ bitmap_free(dev->var_table.tlp_var_region.bitmap);
+}
+
static void mlx5_ib_stage_caps_cleanup(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev)
{
if (MLX5_CAP_GEN_2_64(dev->mdev, general_obj_types_127_64) &
MLX5_HCA_CAP_2_GENERAL_OBJECT_TYPES_RDMA_CTRL)
mlx5_ib_cleanup_ucaps(dev);

- bitmap_free(dev->var_table.var_region.bitmap);
+ mlx5_ib_cleanup_var_table(dev);
}

static int mlx5_ib_stage_caps_init(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev)
@@ -4737,10 +4776,18 @@ static int mlx5_ib_stage_caps_init(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev)
goto err_ucaps;
}

+ if (MLX5_CAP_GEN(dev->mdev, tlp_device_emulation_manager)) {
+ err = mlx5_ib_init_tlp_var_region(dev);
+ if (err)
+ goto err_tlp_var;
+ }
+
dev->ib_dev.use_cq_dim = true;

return 0;

+err_tlp_var:
+ mlx5_ib_cleanup_ucaps(dev);
err_ucaps:
bitmap_free(dev->var_table.var_region.bitmap);
return err;
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.h b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.h
index 3d0ae52c68a7..5f789291be93 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.h
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.h
@@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ enum mlx5_ib_mmap_type {
MLX5_IB_MMAP_TYPE_UAR_WC = 3,
MLX5_IB_MMAP_TYPE_UAR_NC = 4,
MLX5_IB_MMAP_TYPE_MEMIC_OP = 5,
+ MLX5_IB_MMAP_TYPE_TLP_VAR = 6,
};

struct mlx5_bfreg_info {
@@ -1143,6 +1144,7 @@ struct mlx5_var_region {

struct mlx5_var_table {
struct mlx5_var_region var_region;
+ struct mlx5_var_region tlp_var_region;
};

struct mlx5_port_caps {

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