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<title>kernel/linux.git/include/linux/virtio.h, branch v6.18.21</title>
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<updated>2025-12-18T13:03:24+00:00</updated>
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<title>virtio: clean up features qword/dword terms</title>
<updated>2025-12-18T13:03:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-10-21T14:56:57+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9513f25056b22100ddffe24898c587873b0d022c ]

virtio pci uses word to mean "16 bits". mmio uses it to mean
"32 bits".

To avoid confusion, let's avoid the term in core virtio
altogether. Just say U64 to mean "64 bit".

Fixes: e7d4c1c5a546 ("virtio: introduce extended features")
Cc: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;ad53b7b6be87fc524f45abaeca0bb05fb3633397.1764225384.git.mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>vduse: switch to use virtio map API instead of DMA API</title>
<updated>2025-10-01T11:24:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Wang</name>
<email>jasowang@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-09-24T07:00:45+00:00</published>
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Lacking the support of device specific mapping supported in virtio,
VDUSE must trick the DMA API in order to make virtio-vdpa transport
work. This is done by advertising vDPA device as dma device with a
VDUSE specific dma_ops even if it doesn't do DMA at all.

This will be fixed by this patch. Thanks to the new mapping operations
support by virtio and vDPA. VDUSE can simply switch to advertise its
specific mappings operations to virtio via virtio-vdpa then DMA API is
not needed for VDUSE any more and iova domain could be used as the
mapping token instead.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20250924070045.10361-3-jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eugenio Pérez &lt;eperezma@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>virtio: introduce map ops in virtio core</title>
<updated>2025-10-01T11:24:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Wang</name>
<email>jasowang@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-21T06:46:38+00:00</published>
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This patch introduces map operations for virtio device. Virtio used to
use DMA API which is not necessarily the case since some devices
doesn't do DMA. Instead of using tricks and abusing DMA API, let's
simply abstract the current mapping logic into a virtio specific
mapping operations. For the device or transport that doesn't do DMA,
they can implement their own mapping logic without the need to trick
DMA core. In this case the mapping metadata is opaque to the virtio
core that will be passed back to the transport or device specific map
operations. For other devices, DMA API will still be used, so map
token will still be the dma device to minimize the changeset and
performance impact.

The mapping operations are abstracted as a independent structure
instead of reusing virtio_config_ops. This allows the transport can
simply reuse the structure for lower layers like vDPA.

A set of new mapping helpers were introduced for the device that want
to do mapping by themselves.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20250821064641.5025-7-jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lei Yang &lt;leiyang@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eugenio Pérez &lt;eperezma@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>virtio: introduce virtio_map container union</title>
<updated>2025-10-01T11:24:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Wang</name>
<email>jasowang@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-21T06:46:36+00:00</published>
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Following patch will introduce the mapping operations for virtio
device. In order to achieve this, besides the dma device, virtio core
needs to support a transport or device specific mapping metadata as well.
So this patch introduces a union container of a dma device. The idea
is the allow the transport layer to pass device specific mapping
metadata which will be used as a parameter for the virtio mapping
operations. For the transport or device that is using DMA, dma device
is still being used.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20250821064641.5025-5-jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lei Yang &lt;leiyang@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eugenio Pérez &lt;eperezma@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>virtio: rename dma helpers</title>
<updated>2025-10-01T11:24:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Wang</name>
<email>jasowang@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-21T06:46:35+00:00</published>
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Following patch will introduce virtio mapping function to avoid
abusing DMA API for device that doesn't do DMA. To ease the
introduction, this patch rename "dma" to "map" for the current dma
mapping helpers.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Xuan Zhuo &lt;xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20250821064641.5025-4-jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lei Yang &lt;leiyang@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eugenio Pérez &lt;eperezma@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>virtio_ring: constify virtqueue pointer for DMA helpers</title>
<updated>2025-10-01T11:24:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Wang</name>
<email>jasowang@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-21T06:46:33+00:00</published>
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This patch constifies the virtqueue pointer for DMA helpers.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Xuan Zhuo &lt;xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eugenio Pérez &lt;eperezma@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20250821064641.5025-2-jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lei Yang &lt;leiyang@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eugenio Pérez &lt;eperezma@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost</title>
<updated>2025-08-01T21:17:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-01T21:17:48+00:00</published>
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Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:

 - vhost can now support legacy threading if enabled in Kconfig

 - vsock memory allocation strategies for large buffers have been
   improved, reducing pressure on kmalloc

 - vhost now supports the in-order feature. guest bits missed the merge
   window.

 - fixes, cleanups all over the place

* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (30 commits)
  vsock/virtio: Allocate nonlinear SKBs for handling large transmit buffers
  vsock/virtio: Rename virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put()
  vhost/vsock: Allocate nonlinear SKBs for handling large receive buffers
  vsock/virtio: Move SKB allocation lower-bound check to callers
  vsock/virtio: Rename virtio_vsock_alloc_skb()
  vsock/virtio: Resize receive buffers so that each SKB fits in a 4K page
  vsock/virtio: Move length check to callers of virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put()
  vsock/virtio: Validate length in packet header before skb_put()
  vhost/vsock: Avoid allocating arbitrarily-sized SKBs
  vhost_net: basic in_order support
  vhost: basic in order support
  vhost: fail early when __vhost_add_used() fails
  vhost: Reintroduce kthread API and add mode selection
  vdpa: Fix IDR memory leak in VDUSE module exit
  vdpa/mlx5: Fix release of uninitialized resources on error path
  vhost-scsi: Fix check for inline_sg_cnt exceeding preallocated limit
  virtio: virtio_dma_buf: fix missing parameter documentation
  vhost: Fix typos
  vhost: vringh: Remove unused functions
  vhost: vringh: Remove unused iotlb functions
  ...
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<entry>
<title>virtio-mmio: Remove virtqueue list from mmio device</title>
<updated>2025-08-01T13:11:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Viresh Kumar</name>
<email>viresh.kumar@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-21T11:33:46+00:00</published>
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The MMIO transport implementation creates a list of virtqueues for a
virtio device, while the same is already available in the struct
virtio_device.

Don't create a duplicate list, and use the other one instead.

While at it, fix the virtio_device_for_each_vq() macro to accept an
argument like "&amp;vm_dev-&gt;vdev" (which currently fails to build).

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;3e56c6f74002987e22f364d883cbad177cd9ad9c.1747827066.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>virtio: introduce extended features</title>
<updated>2025-07-08T16:04:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Abeni</name>
<email>pabeni@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-08T15:54:49+00:00</published>
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The virtio specifications allows for up to 128 bits for the
device features. Soon we are going to use some of the 'extended'
bits features (above 64) for the virtio_net driver.

Introduce extended features as a fixed size array of u64. To minimize
the diffstat allows legacy driver to access the low 64 bits via a
transparent union.

Introduce an extended get_extended_features configuration callback
that devices supporting the extended features range must implement in
place of the traditional one.

Note that legacy and transport features don't need any change, as
they are always in the low 64 bit range.

Acked-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>virtgpu: don't reset on shutdown</title>
<updated>2025-04-18T14:05:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-10T07:16:26+00:00</published>
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It looks like GPUs are used after shutdown is invoked.
Thus, breaking virtio gpu in the shutdown callback is not a good idea -
guest hangs attempting to finish console drawing, with these warnings:

[   20.504464] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 568 at drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vq.c:358 virtio_gpu_queue_ctrl_sgs+0x236/0x290 [virtio_gpu]
[   20.505685] Modules linked in: nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 rfkill ip_set nf_tables nfnetlink vfat fat intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common intel_uncore_frequency_common nfit libnvdimm kvm_intel kvm rapl iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support virtio_gpu virtio_dma_buf pcspkr drm_shmem_helper i2c_i801 drm_kms_helper lpc_ich i2c_smbus virtio_balloon joydev drm fuse xfs libcrc32c ahci libahci crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel libata virtio_net ghash_clmulni_intel net_failover virtio_blk failover serio_raw dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
[   20.511847] CPU: 0 PID: 568 Comm: kworker/0:3 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G        W         -------  ---  5.14.0-578.6675_1757216455.el9.x86_64 #1
[   20.513157] Hardware name: Red Hat KVM/RHEL, BIOS edk2-20241117-3.el9 11/17/2024
[   20.513918] Workqueue: events drm_fb_helper_damage_work [drm_kms_helper]
[   20.514626] RIP: 0010:virtio_gpu_queue_ctrl_sgs+0x236/0x290 [virtio_gpu]
[   20.515332] Code: 00 00 48 85 c0 74 0c 48 8b 78 08 48 89 ee e8 51 50 00 00 65 ff 0d 42 e3 74 3f 0f 85 69 ff ff ff 0f 1f 44 00 00 e9 5f ff ff ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b e9 3f ff ff ff 48 83 3c 24 00 74 0e 49 8b 7f 40 48 85 ff 74
[   20.517272] RSP: 0018:ff34f0a8c0787ad8 EFLAGS: 00010282
[   20.517820] RAX: 00000000fffffffb RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000820
[   20.518565] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ff34f0a8c0787be0 RDI: ff218bef03a26300
[   20.519308] RBP: ff218bef03a26300 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ff218bef07224360
[   20.520059] R10: 0000000000008dc0 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ff218bef02630028
[   20.520806] R13: ff218bef0263fb48 R14: ff218bef00cb8000 R15: ff218bef07224360
[   20.521555] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ff218bef7ba00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   20.522397] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   20.522996] CR2: 000055ac4f7871c0 CR3: 000000010b9f2002 CR4: 0000000000771ef0
[   20.523740] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[   20.524477] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe07f0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[   20.525223] PKRU: 55555554
[   20.525515] Call Trace:
[   20.525777]  &lt;TASK&gt;
[   20.526003]  ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c4/0x2df
[   20.526464]  ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c4/0x2df
[   20.526925]  ? virtio_gpu_queue_fenced_ctrl_buffer+0x82/0x2c0 [virtio_gpu]
[   20.527643]  ? virtio_gpu_queue_ctrl_sgs+0x236/0x290 [virtio_gpu]
[   20.528282]  ? __warn+0x7e/0xd0
[   20.528621]  ? virtio_gpu_queue_ctrl_sgs+0x236/0x290 [virtio_gpu]
[   20.529256]  ? report_bug+0x100/0x140
[   20.529643]  ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x70
[   20.530010]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x70
[   20.530421]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
[   20.530862]  ? virtio_gpu_queue_ctrl_sgs+0x236/0x290 [virtio_gpu]
[   20.531506]  ? virtio_gpu_queue_ctrl_sgs+0x174/0x290 [virtio_gpu]
[   20.532148]  virtio_gpu_queue_fenced_ctrl_buffer+0x82/0x2c0 [virtio_gpu]
[   20.532843]  virtio_gpu_primary_plane_update+0x3e2/0x460 [virtio_gpu]
[   20.533520]  drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes+0x108/0x320 [drm_kms_helper]
[   20.534233]  drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail+0x45/0x80 [drm_kms_helper]
[   20.534914]  commit_tail+0xd2/0x130 [drm_kms_helper]
[   20.535446]  drm_atomic_helper_commit+0x11b/0x140 [drm_kms_helper]
[   20.536097]  drm_atomic_commit+0xa4/0xe0 [drm]
[   20.536588]  ? __pfx___drm_printfn_info+0x10/0x10 [drm]
[   20.537162]  drm_atomic_helper_dirtyfb+0x192/0x270 [drm_kms_helper]
[   20.537823]  drm_fbdev_shmem_helper_fb_dirty+0x43/0xa0 [drm_shmem_helper]
[   20.538536]  drm_fb_helper_damage_work+0x87/0x160 [drm_kms_helper]
[   20.539188]  process_one_work+0x194/0x380
[   20.539612]  worker_thread+0x2fe/0x410
[   20.540007]  ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
[   20.540456]  kthread+0xdd/0x100
[   20.540791]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[   20.541190]  ret_from_fork+0x29/0x50
[   20.541566]  &lt;/TASK&gt;
[   20.541802] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

It looks like the shutdown is called in the middle of console drawing, so
we should either wait for it to finish, or let drm handle the shutdown.

This patch implements this second option:

Add an option for drivers to bypass the common break+reset handling.
As DRM is careful to flush/synchronize outstanding buffers, it looks like
GPU can just have a NOP there.

Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: 8bd2fa086a04 ("virtio: break and reset virtio devices on device_shutdown()")
Cc: Eric Auger &lt;eauger@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jocelyn Falempe &lt;jfalempe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;8490dbeb6f79ed039e6c11d121002618972538a3.1744293540.git.mst@redhat.com&gt;
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