Re: [PATCH v11 1/1] vfio/nvgpu: Add vfio pci variant module for grace hopper

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 02:00:30AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 7:34 PM
> > 
> > On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 08:42:13AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > > > From: ankita@xxxxxxxxxx <ankita@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Sent: Sunday, October 8, 2023 4:23 AM
> > > >
> > > > PCI BAR are aligned to the power-of-2, but the actual memory on the
> > > > device may not. A read or write access to the physical address from the
> > > > last device PFN up to the next power-of-2 aligned physical address
> > > > results in reading ~0 and dropped writes.
> > > >
> > >
> > > my question to v10 was not answered. posted again:
> > 
> > The device FW knows and tells the VM.
> > 
> 
> This driver reads the size info from ACPI and records it as
> nvdev->memlength.

Yes, the ACPI tables have a copy of the size.

> But nvdev->memlength is not exposed to the userspace. How does the virtual
> FW acquires this knowledge and then report it to the VM?

It isn't virtual FW, I said device FW. The device itself knows how it
is configured and it can report details about the the memory
space. The VM just DMA's a RPC and asks it.

Jason