On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM Alex Mastro amastro@fb.com wrote:
Not all IOMMUs support the same virtual address width as the processor, for instance older Intel consumer platforms only support 39-bits of IOMMU address space. On such platforms, using the virtual address as the IOVA and mappings at the top of the address space both fail.
VFIO and IOMMUFD have facilities for retrieving valid IOVA ranges, VFIO_IOMMU_TYPE1_INFO_CAP_IOVA_RANGE and IOMMU_IOAS_IOVA_RANGES, respectively. These provide compatible arrays of ranges from which we can construct a simple allocator and record the maximum supported IOVA address.
Use this new allocator in place of reusing the virtual address, and incorporate the maximum supported IOVA into the limit testing. This latter change doesn't test quite the same absolute end-of-address space behavior but still seems to have some value. Testing for overflow is skipped when a reduced address space is supported as the desired errno is not generated.
This series is based on Alex Williamson's "Incorporate IOVA range info" [1] along with feedback from the discussion in David Matlack's "Skip vfio_dma_map_limit_test if mapping returns -EINVAL" [2].
Given David's plans to split IOMMU concerns from devices as described in [3], this series' home for `struct iova_allocator` is likely to be short lived, since it resides in vfio_pci_device.c. I assume that the rework can move this functionality to a more appropriate location next to other IOMMU-focused code, once such a place exists.
Yup, I'll rebase my iommu rework on top of this once it goes in, and move the iova allocator to a new home.
And thanks for getting this out so quickly. We've had an unstaffed internal task to get rid of iova=vaddr open for a few months now, so I'm very happy to see it get fixed.