Re: [PATCH] vfio: Request THP-aligned mmap for device fds

[Lorenzo Stoakes]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2026 at 10:16:58AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 04:56:06PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > > > What you're saying is that offset 0 of the opened file might correspond
> > > > to a PFN that is not aligned in any way?  I had assumed that when trying
> > > > to do the mapping of (2MB+4KiB to 64MB), that the offset specified to
> > > > mmap was 2MB+4KiB.  But you seem to be saying that the offset in that
> > > > case would be 0 and someone needs to know that it corresponds to a PFN
> > > > that is misaligned?
> > >
> > > I do expect that the pgoff space is usually aligned to the pfn space,
> > > most drivers do that or could be improved to do that. There will be
> > > some off cases, but maybe we don't care, and VFIO should be fine.
> >
> > Some stuff has weird assumptions about pfn=0 at start of the range (DMA for
> > instance).
>
> Do you have a pointer? I'm drawing a blank what "dma" is?

(I am obliged to link https://xkcd.com/138/... :)

dmabuf as in [0], where vma->vm_pgoff must be the page offset
into the DMA buffer.

[0]:https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v7.1/source/kernel/dma/direct.c#L550

>
> Jason

Thanks, Lorenzo