[PATCH v9 0/5] vfio: selftests: Add driver for Intel Ethernet Gigabit Controller (IGB)

From: Josh Hilke

Date: Thu Jul 30 2026 - 19:31:55 EST


This v9 of a series which adds a VFIO selftest driver for the Intel
Gigabit Ethernet controller (IGB), specifically targeting the 82576
device. IGB is fully virtualized in QEMU, making it suitable for running
VFIO selftests without specialized hardware.

v8: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20260729-igb_v3_b4-v8-0-3ed236272b4e@xxxxxxxxxx/

Version 9 enables Pad Short Packets (PSP) to support short packet
transfers, per Sashiko's comments, and fixes an inaccurate comment. I
also squashed patch 2 from v8 into patch 1 so that Sashiko wouldn't
complain about issues in patch 1 that were fixed by patch 2.

Testing
=======
- VFIO selftests builds clean at every commit
- vfio_pci_driver_test passes using IGB driver + QEMU. Use the following
command to run the tests:

vng \
--run arch/x86/boot/bzImage \
--user root \
--disable-microvm \
--memory 32G \
--cpus 8 \
--qemu-opts="-M q35,accel=kvm,kernel-irqchip=split" \
--qemu-opts="-device intel-iommu,intremap=on,caching-mode=on,device-iotlb=on" \
--qemu-opts="-netdev user,id=net0 -device igb,netdev=net0,addr=09.0" \
--append "console=ttyS0 earlyprintk=ttyS0 intel_iommu=on iommu=pt" \
--exec "modprobe vfio-pci && \
./tools/testing/selftests/vfio/scripts/setup.sh 0000:00:09.0 && \
./tools/testing/selftests/vfio/scripts/run.sh ./tools/testing/selftests/vfio/vfio_pci_driver_test"
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Changelog:

v8 -> v9:
- Enable Pad Short Packets (PSP) in TCTL to support transfers < 60 bytes. (Sashiko)
- Correct misleading comment about interrupt delivery in Patch 1. (Sashiko)

v7 -> v8:
- Rebase onto linux-next branch. (Alex)
- Implement retry limit in vfio_pci_device_reset(). (Alex)
- Carry David's reviewed-by tag onto the patches that haven't been
touched since v6.

v6 -> v7:
- Allow the driver to be used on any architecture. (Alex)
- Fix regression in reset logic for the physical device. (Alex)

v5 -> v6:
- Retry on EAGAIN during device reset to handle transient lock contention (Sashiko).

v4 -> v5:
- Reordered igb_remove() to reset the device before disabling MSI-X (Sashiko)
- Refactored hardware reset logic into igb_reset() helper.
- Simplified reset completion check to usleep + assertion instead of retry loop (Sashiko).
- Allow arbitrary test data by enabling Multicast Promiscuous (MPE)
and Broadcast Accept (BAM) modes (Sashiko).
- Fixed igb_send_msi() to use MSIX_VECTOR_MASK instead of magic number (Sashiko).

v3 -> v4
- Enable MSI-X mode in GPIE (Sashiko)
- Fix hardware initilization order to avoid race conditions (Alex/Sashiko)
- Add memory barrier to prevent speculative reads (Alex/Sashiko)
- Clean up stale references in commit messages and comments (Alex/Sashiko)
- Add a comment to address software/firmware semaphore (Alex/Sashiko)

v2 -> v3
- Poll reset bit and document the required wait time (David/Sashiko)
- Fix the logic for enabling PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY (David/Sashiko)
- Fail the test if autonegotation fails (David/Sashiko)
- Handle endianness conversions (David/Sashiko)
- Use real IGB headers at the start of the series (David)
- Add E1000_TXD_CMD_IFCS to the TX descriptor command word (Sashiko)

v1 -> v2
- Removed the chunking loop in igb_memcpy_start() (David)
- Removed redundant writes to status_error and hdr_addr (David)
- Include official IGB header files (David)

Signed-off-by: Josh Hilke <jrhilke@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Alex Williamson (3):
vfio: selftests: Add helpers to re-enable interrupts
vfio: selftests: igb: Factor hardware programming into igb_hw_init()
vfio: selftests: igb: Recover after DMA-read faults

Josh Hilke (2):
vfio: selftests: igb: Add driver for Intel 82576 device
vfio: selftests: Retry on EAGAIN during device reset

.../selftests/vfio/lib/drivers/igb/e1000_82575.h | 1 +
.../selftests/vfio/lib/drivers/igb/e1000_defines.h | 1 +
.../selftests/vfio/lib/drivers/igb/e1000_regs.h | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/vfio/lib/drivers/igb/igb.c | 577 +++++++++++++++++++++
.../vfio/lib/include/libvfio/vfio_pci_device.h | 15 +
tools/testing/selftests/vfio/lib/libvfio.mk | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/vfio/lib/vfio_pci_device.c | 42 +-
tools/testing/selftests/vfio/lib/vfio_pci_driver.c | 3 +-
8 files changed, 639 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 550cab3931e84e8a7701155f4dc40c0e4069d390
change-id: 20260707-igb_v3_b4-49194c14373c

Best regards,
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Josh Hilke <jrhilke@xxxxxxxxxx>