On Sun, Aug 09, 2026 at 06:20:10PM +0000, Alexander Graf wrote:
> A device's pool is shared by every virtqueue it has and nothing
> partitions it between them, so a virtqueue that asks late can get
> nothing at all. virtnet_open() pre-fills the receive queues in index
> order and discards the result, and a queue that came up with nothing is
> one the device cannot signal a completion on.
> 
> Withhold a range of the pool from ordinary claims and let a virtqueue
> whose ring is empty draw on it for one descriptor chain.

Why bother? one chain can just go inline in the ring.

> vring_map_reserve_attr() marks those mappings with a new attrs bit,
> VIRTIO_MAP_ATTR_RESERVE, which asks a bounded map implementation to
> serve them out of the withheld range and which it may ignore.
> VIRTIO_MAP_ATTR_MASK collects the attrs bits virtio owns, which
> virtqueue_map_page_attrs() strips before any dma_map_*() call.
> 
> VIRTIO_MAP_RESERVE_PAGES bounds what one chain may draw at 32 pages,
> enough for a page-granular chain at the default CONFIG_MAX_SKB_FRAGS.
> Size the withheld range as one chain's allowance plus one page for each
> virtqueue beyond the one drawing the chain; an allowance per virtqueue
> would be a permanent shortage, since only an empty ring may draw.
> virtio_dmb_note_vqs() takes the count from vp_modern_find_vqs(), which
> counts the administration virtqueue too, and the size it arrives at
> appears in a second probe-time message and in dmb/reserved_pages.
> 
> The new VIRTIO_DMB_KUNIT_TEST option covers the range's geometry and the
> withdrawal of the feature, neither of which we reach on a real device.
> 
> That way a virtqueue that comes up against a full pool publishes its
> first chain and gets a completion to wait for.
> 
> Assisted-by: Kiro:claude-opus-5 checkpatch sparse
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <[email protected]>
> ---
>  .../driver-api/virtio/virtio-dmb.rst          | 178 +++++++++--
>  drivers/virtio/Kconfig                        |  13 +
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_dmb.c                   | 247 ++++++++++++++--
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_dmb.h                   |   6 +
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_dmb_test.c              | 279 ++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c            |  18 +-
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c                  |  84 +++++-
>  include/linux/virtio_config.h                 |  33 +++
>  8 files changed, 784 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/virtio/virtio_dmb_test.c
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/virtio/virtio-dmb.rst 
> b/Documentation/driver-api/virtio/virtio-dmb.rst
> index 610db080dee5..d84f0771f010 100644
> --- a/Documentation/driver-api/virtio/virtio-dmb.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/virtio/virtio-dmb.rst
> @@ -302,15 +302,18 @@ So a device must offer at least::
>                  + sum over virtqueues of
>                      [ ring_pages(num) + num * slots(max_request) ]
>                      * PAGE_SIZE
> +                + reserved * PAGE_SIZE
>  
>    where the leading PAGE_SIZE covers the bytes ahead of the pool, and is
>    a whole page because a device cannot know the guest's page size and so
>    cannot know whether its region base is aligned to one,
>    slots(max_request) is the largest slots(request) value from the
>    formula above the driver can produce for one request on that queue,
> -  and ring_pages(num) is the pages one virtqueue's Descriptor, Driver and
> +  ring_pages(num) is the pages one virtqueue's Descriptor, Driver and
>    Device Areas occupy: ceil(vring_size(num, align) / PAGE_SIZE) for a
> -  split ring, and ceil(num * 16 / PAGE_SIZE) + 2 for a packed one
> +  split ring, and ceil(num * 16 / PAGE_SIZE) + 2 for a packed one,
> +  and reserved is the range withheld from ordinary claims, described
> +  under "The withheld range" below
>  
>  A device that also offers an administration virtqueue pays for it out of
>  the same region: its virtqueue areas are allocated through the same path,
> @@ -391,6 +394,13 @@ the ones it goes on to use: ``virtnet_find_vqs()`` 
> creates
>    floor_slots = rings + Q * B_rx + tx_min + ctrl   multi-queue works: one
>                                                     receive buffer per queue
>    work_slots  = rings + rx_fill + tx_min + ctrl    receive rings full
> +  reserved    = min(32 + V - 1, pages / 2)     withheld, and zero below 256
> +                                               pages; a short last pool
> +                                               area can add to it, see
> +                                               below.  The V there counts
> +                                               an administration virtqueue
> +                                               too where a device has one
> +  region_slots = work_slots + reserved         what a device must offer
>  
>  Every term above assumes ``VIRTIO_F_INDIRECT_DESC``, which is what the
>  ``+ 3`` and the ``ctrl`` table account for.  Without it a chain occupies one
> @@ -402,25 +412,33 @@ so ``rx_fill`` and not ``floor_slots`` is the working 
> figure.  For a split
>  ring, x86_64, 4 KiB pages, ``MAX_SKB_FRAGS`` 17, mergeable receive buffers
>  and ``C = 1``:
>  
> -=====  =====  =======  =========  ============  ==========
> -Q      num    rings    rx_fill    work_slots    work MiB
> -=====  =====  =======  =========  ============  ==========
> -1      256    6        256        287           1.1
> -4      256    18       1024       1127          4.4
> -8      256    34       2048       2247          8.8
> -8      1024   119      8192       8476          33.1
> -16     1024   231      16384      16940         66.2
> -32     1024   455      32768      33868         132.3
> -64     1024   903      65536      67724         264.5
> -=====  =====  =======  =========  ============  ==========
> -
> -Two things to take from it.  ``rx_fill`` dominates: it is 65536 slots of the
> -67724 sixty-four queue pairs come to, so sizing a region for multiple queues
> -is "how many receive buffers will be posted" to within three and a quarter
> -percent, and the virtqueue rings are the smaller part of what is left -- 903
> -slots against ``tx_min``'s 1280.  And the pool areas of the previous
> -subsection do not appear at all, because they cost guest memory rather than
> -region pages.
> +=====  =====  =======  =========  ============  ==========  ========  
> ========
> +Q      num    rings    rx_fill    work_slots    work MiB    reserved  region
> +=====  =====  =======  =========  ============  ==========  ========  
> ========
> +1      256    6        256        287           1.1         34        321
> +4      256    18       1024       1127          4.4         40        1167
> +8      256    34       2048       2247          8.8         48        2295
> +8      1024   119      8192       8476          33.1        48        8524
> +16     1024   231      16384      16940         66.2        64        17004
> +32     1024   455      32768      33868         132.3       96        33964
> +64     1024   903      65536      67724         264.5       160       67884
> +=====  =====  =======  =========  ============  ==========  ========  
> ========
> +
> +``region`` is ``region_slots``, the figure to offer; ``work MiB`` is
> +``work_slots`` in mebibytes and excludes ``reserved``.  The
> +sixty-four-queue-pair row is 265.2 MiB of region against the 264.5
> +``work_slots`` alone comes to.
> +
> +Three things to take from it.  ``rx_fill`` dominates: it is 65536 slots of
> +the 67884 a sixty-four-queue-pair region comes to, so sizing a region for
> +multiple queues is "how many receive buffers will be posted" to within three
> +and a half percent, and the virtqueue rings are the smaller part of what is
> +left -- 903 slots against ``tx_min``'s 1280.  ``reserved`` is small and grows
> +with the virtqueue count rather than with the region -- 160 slots at
> +sixty-four queue pairs, under a quarter of one percent -- but it is not
> +optional, because it is withheld rather than merely spent.  And the pool
> +areas of the previous subsection do not appear at all, because they cost
> +guest memory rather than region pages.
>  
>  The receive buffer mode is a twenty-fold multiplier the device cannot
>  predict.  A driver that negotiates any of ``VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_TSO4``,
> @@ -432,6 +450,83 @@ which is 160.8 MiB instead of 8.8.  A device offering 
> guest segmentation
>  offload without ``MRG_RXBUF`` must size for that.  Offering ``MRG_RXBUF``
>  is the better answer.
>  
> +The withheld range
> +------------------
> +
> +Part of the pool is withheld from ordinary claims so that a virtqueue
> +whose ring is empty can publish a chain whatever the others have mapped::
> +
> +  reserved = 0                            if pages < 256
> +           = min(32 + V - 1, pages / 2)   otherwise, plus the last pool
> +                                          area's page count where that
> +                                          area is short enough to split
> +                                          the range -- see below
> +
> +One page for each of the ``V`` virtqueues, and a chain's allowance of 32
> +pages on top, less the one page already counted for whichever virtqueue
> +draws the chain.  A virtqueue may draw on the range only while its ring is
> +empty, and only for one chain of up to 32 pages, which the ring asks for by
> +setting ``VIRTIO_MAP_ATTR_RESERVE`` on the mapping.  That is the case worth
> +protecting: a virtqueue with nothing published has no completion of its own
> +to be woken by, because the device cannot signal a used buffer on a queue
> +with no buffers posted, so it depends entirely on its owner retrying.  A
> +virtqueue that has published a chain does not need the guarantee, and does
> +not get it.
> +
> +Both terms follow from that restriction.  Because a running virtqueue
> +cannot draw, the range is contended only by the virtqueues that have
> +published nothing; there are at most ``V`` of those, and what each of them
> +needs is the one page that takes its ring from empty to non-empty.  The 31
> +pages left over, plus that virtqueue's own one, are then a whole chain for
> +whichever of them is publishing more than a single page.
> +
> +So the guarantee is: every virtqueue can obtain one page that no running
> +virtqueue can take, and one virtqueue at a time can obtain a whole chain.
> +For virtio_net that is the whole of it at any queue count, because a
> +mergeable receive buffer is one slot and a linear transmit is one slot: the
> +resident draw is ``2 * Q + 5`` pages against the ``31 + V`` withheld, and
> +``2 * Q + 5 <= 2 * Q + 32`` holds for every ``Q``.  What is *not*
> +guaranteed is ``V`` simultaneous multi-page first chains.  A second
> +virtqueue whose first chain needs more than its one page competes for the
> +32 and, losing, gets ``-ENOMEM`` -- the value it got before the range
> +existed, and one every caller answers by retrying later rather than by
> +waiting for a completion it has not got.  Sizing the range for ``V`` whole
> +chains instead would withhold ``32 * V``, which on a small region is a
> +fixed fraction of the pool and is capacity the transmit path then does not
> +have; that trades a rare mapping failure for a permanent shortage, so the
> +quantity is deliberately not the product of the two worst cases.
> +
> +The range is the tail of the pool, and an allocation has to lie inside one
> +pool area, so a whole chain needs 32 of the withheld pages contiguous within
> +one area and not merely free.  Where the last pool area is shorter than 32
> +pages the range straddles the boundary below it, and where the piece above
> +that boundary and the piece below are both shorter than a chain, the range
> +is widened by the short area's length so that the piece below it is a whole
> +``31 + V`` pages.  That costs under 32 pages and only where ``pages`` is just
> +above a multiple of ``area_pages``; no row of the table above reaches it, and
> +neither does any region whose page count is a multiple of ``area_pages`` or 
> at
> +least 32 above one.
> +
> +The guarantee holds for every virtqueue on any pool of 256 pages or more, and
> +below that the range is inert altogether, because it would withhold more than
> +it protects.  Above ninety-seven virtqueues the half-of-the-pool bound is the
> +later of the two conditions, and the pool has to be ``62 + 2 * V`` pages or
> +more instead.  Every row of the table above is far clear of both: the
> +tightest is 287 pages against the 68 three virtqueues need.  That bound is
> +not a policy, only what keeps the ordinary range non-empty; where it does
> +bind, the pool has fewer pages than the virtqueues alone want and the
> +guarantee covers as many of them as it has pages for.
> +
> +This is a floor and not a fair share.  A single busy virtqueue may still
> +use everything outside the withheld range: on a 16 MiB region with eight
> +queue pairs and depth-1024 rings that is 3928 of 4095 pages, the region
> +less the 48 withheld and the 119 the virtqueue areas hold.  The range is
> +sized from every virtqueue the transport creates, which is the driver's
> +count plus an administration virtqueue where the device offers one, and
> +which over-counts a device that offers more queue pairs than the driver
> +uses; over-counting withholds one page per unused virtqueue and never
> +denies capacity.
> +
>  An undersized multi-queue region fails in two ways, and both are
>  properties of the network driver's existing behaviour rather than of the
>  region.
> @@ -439,12 +534,16 @@ region.
>  First, cross-queue starvation.  ``virtnet_open()`` pre-fills the receive
>  queues in index order and discards the result, so queue 0 takes what it
>  needs before queue 1 asks.  A region that cannot hold every queue's fill
> -leaves the later queues with no buffers at all; the device's receive
> -steering then drops whatever it sends to them, and transmit fails on every
> -queue with ``tx_fifo_errors``, ``tx_dropped`` and a rate-limited
> -``Unexpected TXQ`` message.  Pool areas do not help: at
> -``virtnet_open()`` every fill runs on whichever CPU brought the link up, so
> -they all share one home area.  Areas give preference, never reservation.
> +leaves the later queues with far fewer buffers than the earlier ones; the
> +device's receive steering then drops most of what it sends to them, and
> +transmit fails on those queues with ``tx_fifo_errors``, ``tx_dropped`` and
> +a rate-limited ``Unexpected TXQ`` message.  Pool areas do not help: at
> +``virtnet_open()`` every fill runs on whichever CPU brought the link up,
> +so they all share one home area, and areas give preference rather than
> +reservation.  The withheld range bounds how bad this gets -- no virtqueue
> +is left unable to publish anything at all -- but one buffer per queue is a
> +floor for forward progress, not a working receive ring.  Sizing the region
> +for ``region_slots`` is what avoids it.
>  
>  Second, a receive queue that holds no buffers and cannot refill spends
>  softirq time without making progress.  ``try_fill_recv()`` reports failure
> @@ -624,6 +723,14 @@ The claimed range also appears in ``/proc/iomem`` as
>  appears nowhere else at all.  The three counts appear again in
>  ``dmb/pages``, ``dmb/areas`` and ``dmb/area_pages`` below.
>  
> +A second line follows when the driver creates its virtqueues, because the
> +count they come to is not known any earlier::
> +
> +  virtio_net virtio5: device memory buffer withholds 48 of 4095 pages for 17 
> virtqueues
> +
> +That is the withheld range of the previous section, and the virtqueue count
> +it was sized from.  It appears again in ``dmb/reserved_pages``.
> +
>  With ``CONFIG_VIRTIO_DEBUG`` the state of the region is also available
>  under the device's virtio debugfs directory, in ``dmb/``.  The directory
>  exists only while the device has a region, so a device that did not
> @@ -643,11 +750,20 @@ they accept may change or go away.
>    ``area_pages`` divides ``pages``.  Both are fixed when the region is
>    installed and are the same two values the probe-time message prints.
>  
> +``reserved_pages``
> +  how many pages are withheld from ordinary claims so that a virtqueue whose
> +  ring is empty can publish a chain.  Zero until the driver asks for its
> +  virtqueues, and zero for good on a pool too small for the mechanism to
> +  mean anything.  Not subtracted from ``pages``: the withheld pages are
> +  part of the pool and are counted in ``used_pages`` when a virtqueue draws
> +  on them.
> +
>  ``used_pages``
> -  how many of them are allocated.  One counter maintained across all areas
> -  rather than a sum of per-area figures read at different moments, so it
> -  never reports a torn total; it is raised just outside the area lock, so a
> -  read taken during a claim or a release can lag the bitmap by that claim.
> +  how many of the pool's pages are allocated.  One counter maintained
> +  across all areas rather than a sum of per-area figures read at different
> +  moments, so it never reports a torn total; it is raised just outside the
> +  area lock, so a read taken during a claim or a release can lag the bitmap
> +  by that claim.
>  
>  ``used_pages_hiwater``
>    the largest ``used_pages`` has been.  This, rather than a sample of
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
> index 67a7dc1a87df..628ce92edf81 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
> @@ -204,6 +204,19 @@ config VIRTIO_DMB
>  
>         If unsure, say Y.
>  
> +config VIRTIO_DMB_KUNIT_TEST
> +     bool "Device Memory Buffer allocator tests" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
> +     depends on VIRTIO_DMB && KUNIT=y
> +     default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
> +     help
> +       Tests for the geometry of the range the allocator withholds so that
> +       a virtqueue with an empty ring can publish its first descriptor
> +       chain, and for what becomes of a region when a negotiation drops
> +       the feature.  Neither case arises on a device anyone is likely to
> +       build, so a test rather than a measurement is what keeps both true.
> +
> +       If unsure, say N.
> +
>  config VIRTIO_RTC
>       tristate "Virtio RTC driver"
>       depends on VIRTIO
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_dmb.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_dmb.c
> index fe556d585f24..773b5bb38dc6 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_dmb.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_dmb.c
> @@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ struct virtio_dmb_area {
>   * @area_slots: slots one area covers, a power of two; the last area covers
>   *   fewer when @nslots is not a multiple of it
>   * @area_shift: ilog2(@area_slots), so slot >> @area_shift names its area
> + * @nvqs: virtqueues the transport created, which sizes the withheld range
>   * @total_used: slots allocated across every area, exact; CONFIG_VIRTIO_DEBUG
>   * @used_hiwater: the largest @total_used has been since the last reset 
> through
>   *   debugfs, or since init; CONFIG_VIRTIO_DEBUG
> @@ -152,6 +153,7 @@ struct virtio_dmb {
>       unsigned int             nareas;
>       unsigned int             area_slots;
>       unsigned int             area_shift;
> +     unsigned int             nvqs;
>  #ifdef CONFIG_VIRTIO_DEBUG
>       /*
>        * Exact occupancy for the two debugfs files, kept outside the area
> @@ -286,26 +288,116 @@ static void virtio_dmb_inc_alloc_failed(struct 
> virtio_dmb *dmb)
>  #endif /* CONFIG_VIRTIO_DEBUG */
>  
>  /*
> - * Claim @nr contiguous slots from area @i, or -ENOMEM when that one area
> - * cannot satisfy the request.  Takes and drops that area's lock and touches
> - * no other area's state, so no path ever holds two of these locks and there
> - * is no ordering between them to get right.
> + * Slots withheld from ordinary claims so that a virtqueue with an empty ring
> + * can publish a chain even when every other virtqueue has filled the rest of
> + * the pool.  A virtqueue with nothing published has no completion of its own
> + * to be woken by, because the device cannot signal a used buffer on a queue
> + * with no buffers posted, so it depends entirely on its owner retrying; one
> + * that has published a chain does not.
> + *
> + * One page for every virtqueue, and the rest of one chain's allowance on 
> top.
> + * Both terms follow from who can draw: only a virtqueue whose ring is empty
> + * may, so the range is contended by the virtqueues that have published
> + * nothing and never by the ones that are running.  At most nvqs of those
> + * exist, each needing the one page that takes its ring from empty to
> + * non-empty, and VIRTIO_MAP_RESERVE_PAGES less that one page is then what is
> + * left for whichever of them is publishing a chain longer than a single 
> page.
> + *
> + * Withholding a whole chain's allowance for every virtqueue instead would be
> + * sizing for a state the device cannot be in, and it costs
> + * nvqs * VIRTIO_MAP_RESERVE_PAGES -- on a small pool a fixed fraction of it,
> + * which is capacity the transmit path then does not have.  That trades a
> + * mapping failure which is rare for a shortage which is permanent, so the
> + * quantity is deliberately not a product of the two worst cases.
> + *
> + * The range is the tail of the pool, but an allocation lies inside one area,
> + * so a whole chain needs VIRTIO_MAP_RESERVE_PAGES of the range contiguous
> + * within one area rather than merely free.  Where the last area is short the
> + * range straddles the boundary below it and the two pieces are the last
> + * area's length and the remainder; when both fall short of a chain, no area
> + * holds one however much of the range is free.  Widening the range by the
> + * short area's length in that case moves its start down to the boundary,
> + * which gives the piece below a full VIRTIO_MAP_RESERVE_PAGES + nvqs - 1
> + * slots.  It costs the short area's length, which is under
> + * VIRTIO_MAP_RESERVE_PAGES because that is the case being tested for, and it
> + * is reached only where nslots is just above a multiple of area_slots, so no
> + * geometry in Documentation/driver-api/virtio/virtio-dmb.rst pays for it.
> + *
> + * Sized for every virtqueue the transport creates, which over-counts a 
> device
> + * offering more queue pairs than the driver uses.  Over-counting withholds 
> one
> + * page per unused virtqueue and never denies capacity.  The half-of-the-pool
> + * bound is not part of the policy: it is what keeps the ordinary range
> + * non-empty, and where it binds the pool has fewer pages than the virtqueues
> + * alone want, so the guarantee covers as many of them as it has pages for.
> + * Zero on a pool too small for the mechanism to mean anything, where it is
> + * inert rather than crippling, and zero until the count is known.
> + */
> +static unsigned int virtio_dmb_reserved(const struct virtio_dmb *dmb)
> +{
> +     unsigned int nvqs = READ_ONCE(dmb->nvqs);
> +     unsigned int last, reserved;
> +
> +     if (!nvqs || dmb->nslots < 8 * VIRTIO_MAP_RESERVE_PAGES)
> +             return 0;
> +
> +     reserved = min(VIRTIO_MAP_RESERVE_PAGES + nvqs - 1, dmb->nslots / 2);
> +
> +     /*
> +      * reserved is at least VIRTIO_MAP_RESERVE_PAGES here, so the
> +      * subtraction cannot wrap: the branch is taken only where last is
> +      * below it.  Both pieces short of a chain bounds reserved below 2 *
> +      * VIRTIO_MAP_RESERVE_PAGES, and nslots is at least 8 of them, so the
> +      * widened range is still inside the half-of-the-pool bound and leaves
> +      * the ordinary range a whole area less the reserve.
> +      */
> +     last = virtio_dmb_area_len(dmb, dmb->nareas - 1);
> +     if (last < VIRTIO_MAP_RESERVE_PAGES &&
> +         reserved - last < VIRTIO_MAP_RESERVE_PAGES)
> +             reserved += last;
> +
> +     return reserved;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * virtio_dmb_note_vqs() records the count that sizes the range above.  It is
> + * defined further down, next to the other entry points, because it has to 
> test
> + * vdev->map against this file's operations.
> + */
> +
> +/*
> + * Claim @nr contiguous slots from area @i, bounded above at @end_max so that
> + * an ordinary claim cannot reach the withheld range.  Returns the first 
> slot,
> + * or -ENOMEM when that one area cannot satisfy the request.  Takes and drops
> + * that area's lock and touches no other area's state, so no path ever holds
> + * two of these locks and there is no ordering between them to get right.
>   */
>  static long virtio_dmb_area_claim(struct virtio_dmb *dmb, unsigned int i,
> -                               unsigned int nr)
> +                               unsigned int nr, unsigned int end_max)
>  {
>       struct virtio_dmb_area *area = &dmb->areas[i];
>       unsigned int base = virtio_dmb_area_base(dmb, i);
> -     unsigned int end = base + virtio_dmb_area_len(dmb, i);
> +     unsigned int len = virtio_dmb_area_len(dmb, i);
> +     unsigned int end = min(base + len, end_max);
>       unsigned long flags, slot;
>  
> +     if (end <= base)
> +             return -ENOMEM;
> +
>       spin_lock_irqsave(&area->lock, flags);
>  
>       /*
>        * Exact, and inside the lock.  Written as a subtraction from the
> -      * area's own length rather than as len - used < nr, which underflows.
> +      * length being searched rather than as len - used < nr, which
> +      * underflows.
> +      *
> +      * @area->used counts the whole area, including any withheld slots in
> +      * use, so for the one area that straddles @end_max this is
> +      * conservative: it can refuse an ordinary claim that area could have
> +      * satisfied, and the walk then tries the next one.  It cannot admit a
> +      * claim the area could not satisfy.  That is the only approximation
> +      * here, and it is confined to at most one area out of @nareas.
>        */
> -     if (nr > (end - base) - area->used)
> +     if (area->used >= end - base || nr > (end - base) - area->used)
>               goto not_found;
>  
>       /*
> @@ -314,9 +406,13 @@ static long virtio_dmb_area_claim(struct virtio_dmb 
> *dmb, unsigned int i,
>        * index.  bitmap_find_next_zero_area() returns a value whose sum with
>        * @nr exceeds the size it was given when it finds nothing, so that sum
>        * is the test; the whole-pool "slot >= nslots" form does not transfer.
> +      *
> +      * @area->index is relative to the whole area, so it can point past a
> +      * clamped @end; starting the sweep there would search nothing, hence
> +      * the min().  The second sweep from the base then covers the range.
>        */
>       slot = bitmap_find_next_zero_area(dmb->bitmap, end,
> -                                       base + area->index, nr, 0);
> +                                       min(base + area->index, end), nr, 0);
>       if (slot + nr > end && area->index)
>               slot = bitmap_find_next_zero_area(dmb->bitmap, end, base,
>                                                 nr, 0);
> @@ -325,7 +421,7 @@ static long virtio_dmb_area_claim(struct virtio_dmb *dmb, 
> unsigned int i,
>  
>       bitmap_set(dmb->bitmap, slot, nr);
>       area->used += nr;
> -     area->index = slot + nr < end ? slot + nr - base : 0;
> +     area->index = slot + nr < base + len ? slot + nr - base : 0;
>  
>       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&area->lock, flags);
>  
> @@ -343,9 +439,39 @@ static long virtio_dmb_area_claim(struct virtio_dmb 
> *dmb, unsigned int i,
>       return -ENOMEM;
>  }
>  
> +/* One pass over every area, each bounded at @end_max. */
> +static long virtio_dmb_walk(struct virtio_dmb *dmb, unsigned int nr,
> +                         unsigned int end_max)
> +{
> +     unsigned int i, start;
> +     long ret;
> +
> +     /*
> +      * raw_smp_processor_id() and not smp_processor_id(): the index is
> +      * computed before any lock is taken, so preemption or migration
> +      * between the read and the claim only changes which area is tried
> +      * first.  kernel/dma/swiotlb.c picks its home area on the same
> +      * reasoning.
> +      */
> +     start = raw_smp_processor_id() % dmb->nareas;
> +     i = start;
> +     do {
> +             ret = virtio_dmb_area_claim(dmb, i, nr, end_max);
> +             if (ret >= 0)
> +                     return ret;
> +
> +             if (++i >= dmb->nareas)
> +                     i = 0;
> +     } while (i != start);
> +
> +     return -ENOMEM;
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * Claim @nr contiguous slots.  Returns the first slot, or -ENOMEM when no
> - * area can satisfy the request.  Exhaustion is a routine condition: the
> + * area can satisfy the request.  @reserved permits the withheld tail of the
> + * pool, and is set only for a mapping of the first chain a virtqueue is
> + * publishing.  Exhaustion is a routine condition: the
>   * region's length bounds how much virtqueue data can be in flight.  What a
>   * caller makes of it is the caller's, and it is not always back-pressure: a
>   * network receive fill has nothing to push back on when it cannot post a
> @@ -371,28 +497,32 @@ static long virtio_dmb_area_claim(struct virtio_dmb 
> *dmb, unsigned int i,
>   * bounds the interrupts-off window to a single area's sweep; the total work 
> in
>   * the failing case is a whole-pool sweep either way.
>   */
> -static long virtio_dmb_claim(struct virtio_dmb *dmb, unsigned int nr)
> +static long virtio_dmb_claim(struct virtio_dmb *dmb, unsigned int nr,
> +                          bool reserved)
>  {
> -     unsigned int i, start;
>       long ret;
>  
>       /*
> -      * raw_smp_processor_id() and not smp_processor_id(): the index is
> -      * computed before any lock is taken, so preemption or migration
> -      * between the read and the claim only changes which area is tried
> -      * first.  kernel/dma/swiotlb.c picks its home area on the same
> -      * reasoning.
> +      * The bitmap is its own accounting for the withheld range: bounding
> +      * the search is what bounds the sum, so no counter is added to a
> +      * production build's hot path.
>        */
> -     start = raw_smp_processor_id() % dmb->nareas;
> -     i = start;
> -     do {
> -             ret = virtio_dmb_area_claim(dmb, i, nr);
> +     ret = virtio_dmb_walk(dmb, nr, dmb->nslots - virtio_dmb_reserved(dmb));
> +     if (ret >= 0)
> +             return ret;
> +
> +     /*
> +      * The second walk runs only once the first has failed in every area,
> +      * so the withheld range is a last resort rather than a second pool.
> +      * That is not the same as "only when the pool is full": next fit can
> +      * fail on fragmentation while capacity remains, and this reaches the
> +      * withheld range then too.
> +      */
> +     if (reserved) {
> +             ret = virtio_dmb_walk(dmb, nr, dmb->nslots);
>               if (ret >= 0)
>                       return ret;
> -
> -             if (++i >= dmb->nareas)
> -                     i = 0;
> -     } while (i != start);
> +     }
>  
>       /*
>        * The geometry rather than a free count: there is no instant at which
> @@ -733,7 +863,13 @@ static void *virtio_dmb_op_alloc(union virtio_map map, 
> size_t size,
>               goto no_room;
>  
>       nr = virtio_dmb_slots(size);
> -     ret = virtio_dmb_claim(dmb, nr);
> +     /*
> +      * false: a virtqueue area is structural, claimed when a queue is
> +      * created or resized and never under back-pressure, so letting it into
> +      * the withheld range would consume the reserve for the life of the
> +      * queue rather than for one chain.
> +      */
> +     ret = virtio_dmb_claim(dmb, nr, false);
>       if (ret < 0)
>               goto no_room;
>       slot = ret;
> @@ -811,7 +947,7 @@ static dma_addr_t virtio_dmb_op_map_page(union virtio_map 
> map,
>               return DMA_MAPPING_ERROR;
>  
>       nr = virtio_dmb_slots(size);
> -     ret = virtio_dmb_claim(dmb, nr);
> +     ret = virtio_dmb_claim(dmb, nr, attrs & VIRTIO_MAP_ATTR_RESERVE);
>       if (ret < 0) {
>               /*
>                * Counted here rather than in virtio_dmb_claim(), which
> @@ -1023,6 +1159,21 @@ static int virtio_dmb_alloc_failed_get(void *data, u64 
> *val)
>  DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE(virtio_dmb_alloc_failed_fops,
>                        virtio_dmb_alloc_failed_get, NULL, "%llu\n");
>  
> +/*
> + * A getter rather than debugfs_create_u32(), because the value is derived
> + * from @nvqs and the pool size rather than stored.
> + */
> +static int virtio_dmb_reserved_get(void *data, u64 *val)
> +{
> +     struct virtio_dmb *dmb = data;
> +
> +     *val = virtio_dmb_reserved(dmb);
> +
> +     return 0;
> +}
> +DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE(virtio_dmb_reserved_fops, virtio_dmb_reserved_get,
> +                      NULL, "%llu\n");
> +
>  /*
>   * The files go under the device's existing virtio debugfs directory, and 
> exist
>   * only while the device has a region.  They describe one, so their presence 
> is
> @@ -1049,6 +1200,8 @@ static void virtio_dmb_debugfs_init(struct virtio_dmb 
> *dmb)
>                           &virtio_dmb_hiwater_fops);
>       debugfs_create_file("alloc_failed", 0400, dir, dmb,
>                           &virtio_dmb_alloc_failed_fops);
> +     debugfs_create_file("reserved_pages", 0400, dir, dmb,
> +                         &virtio_dmb_reserved_fops);
>  }
>  
>  static void virtio_dmb_debugfs_exit(struct virtio_dmb *dmb)
> @@ -1068,6 +1221,40 @@ static void virtio_dmb_debugfs_exit(struct virtio_dmb 
> *dmb)
>  
>  #endif /* CONFIG_VIRTIO_DEBUG */
>  
> +/**
> + * virtio_dmb_note_vqs - record how many virtqueues the transport created
> + * @vdev: the device
> + * @nvqs: virtqueues about to be created
> + *
> + * Sizes the range withheld so that a virtqueue whose ring is empty can
> + * publish a chain.  Does nothing unless @vdev is using a Device Memory
> + * Buffer.
> + *
> + * Called before the virtqueues exist, so the ring allocations that follow 
> are
> + * ordinary claims and cannot land in the withheld range; and @nvqs therefore
> + * only ever changes while the device has no virtqueues and so no mappings.
> + * WRITE_ONCE() because the claim path reads it without any lock.
> + */
> +void virtio_dmb_note_vqs(struct virtio_device *vdev, unsigned int nvqs)
> +{
> +     struct virtio_dmb *dmb;
> +
> +     if (vdev->map != &virtio_dmb_map_ops)
> +             return;
> +
> +     dmb = vdev->vmap.dmb;
> +     WRITE_ONCE(dmb->nvqs, nvqs);
> +
> +     /*
> +      * Reported here rather than from virtio_dmb_init(), which runs during
> +      * feature negotiation and cannot know the count.  One line per probe.
> +      */
> +     dev_info(&vdev->dev,
> +              "device memory buffer withholds %u of %u pages for %u 
> virtqueues\n",
> +              virtio_dmb_reserved(dmb), dmb->nslots, nvqs);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(virtio_dmb_note_vqs);
> +
>  /*
>   * Whether the device still has virtqueues.  vqs_list_lock is what protects
>   * that list against a concurrent adder.  No caller here can race one, 
> because
> @@ -1524,5 +1711,9 @@ int virtio_dmb_init(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(virtio_dmb_init);
>  
> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_VIRTIO_DMB_KUNIT_TEST)
> +#include "virtio_dmb_test.c"
> +#endif
> +
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Virtio device memory buffer allocator");
>  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_dmb.h b/drivers/virtio/virtio_dmb.h
> index 69fbcbb9c2c0..38e4c3ecc9cb 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_dmb.h
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_dmb.h
> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ struct virtio_device;
>  
>  int virtio_dmb_init(struct virtio_device *vdev);
>  void virtio_dmb_destroy(struct virtio_device *vdev);
> +void virtio_dmb_note_vqs(struct virtio_device *vdev, unsigned int nvqs);
>  
>  #else
>  
> @@ -23,6 +24,11 @@ static inline void virtio_dmb_destroy(struct virtio_device 
> *vdev)
>  {
>  }
>  
> +static inline void virtio_dmb_note_vqs(struct virtio_device *vdev,
> +                                    unsigned int nvqs)
> +{
> +}
> +
>  #endif /* CONFIG_VIRTIO_DMB */
>  
>  #endif /* _DRIVERS_VIRTIO_VIRTIO_DMB_H */
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_dmb_test.c 
> b/drivers/virtio/virtio_dmb_test.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..d9dff81a8eb3
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_dmb_test.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,279 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> +/*
> + * Tests for the geometry of the withheld range, and for what becomes of a
> + * region when a negotiation drops the feature.
> + *
> + * Included by virtio_dmb.c rather than compiled on its own, so that the 
> tests
> + * reach its static functions and its private structure without widening
> + * either into a header for their benefit.
> + *
> + * The geometry cases test a property rather than a value: that whatever the
> + * pool size, the area size and the virtqueue count, the withheld range holds
> + * VIRTIO_MAP_RESERVE_PAGES slots that are contiguous *within one area*.  
> That
> + * qualifier is the whole point.  An allocation cannot span two areas, so a
> + * range that is merely large enough does not guarantee a chain, and a pool
> + * whose last area is short can withhold a range whose two pieces are each 
> too
> + * small.  A region has to be just above a multiple of the area size to reach
> + * it, which no plausible device offers and so no test on real hardware
> + * exercises.
> + */
> +#include <kunit/test.h>
> +
> +/* Geometry only: virtio_dmb_reserved() reads no more of the structure. */
> +static void dmb_test_shape(struct kunit *test, struct virtio_dmb *dmb,
> +                        unsigned int nslots, unsigned int area_slots,
> +                        unsigned int nvqs)
> +{
> +     KUNIT_ASSERT_TRUE(test, is_power_of_2(area_slots));
> +
> +     dmb->nslots = nslots;
> +     dmb->area_slots = area_slots;
> +     dmb->area_shift = ilog2(area_slots);
> +     dmb->nareas = DIV_ROUND_UP(nslots, area_slots);
> +     dmb->nvqs = nvqs;
> +}
> +
> +static struct virtio_dmb *dmb_test_pool(struct kunit *test)
> +{
> +     struct virtio_dmb *dmb = kunit_kzalloc(test, sizeof(*dmb), GFP_KERNEL);
> +
> +     KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, dmb);
> +
> +     return dmb;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * The longest run of withheld slots that lies inside a single area, which is
> + * the largest chain the range can serve.
> + */
> +static unsigned int dmb_test_longest_run(const struct virtio_dmb *dmb,
> +                                      unsigned int reserved)
> +{
> +     unsigned int i, best = 0;
> +     unsigned int start;
> +
> +     if (!reserved)
> +             return 0;
> +
> +     start = dmb->nslots - reserved;
> +
> +     for (i = 0; i < dmb->nareas; i++) {
> +             unsigned int base = virtio_dmb_area_base(dmb, i);
> +             unsigned int end = base + virtio_dmb_area_len(dmb, i);
> +             unsigned int lo = max(start, base);
> +
> +             if (end > lo)
> +                     best = max(best, end - lo);
> +     }
> +
> +     return best;
> +}
> +
> +static void dmb_test_assert_guarantees(struct kunit *test,
> +                                    const struct virtio_dmb *dmb)
> +{
> +     unsigned int reserved = virtio_dmb_reserved(dmb);
> +     unsigned int run;
> +
> +     if (!reserved)
> +             return;
> +
> +     /* One virtqueue at a time can obtain a whole chain. */
> +     run = dmb_test_longest_run(dmb, reserved);
> +     KUNIT_EXPECT_GE_MSG(test, run, VIRTIO_MAP_RESERVE_PAGES,
> +                         "nslots=%u area_slots=%u nareas=%u nvqs=%u 
> reserved=%u",
> +                         dmb->nslots, dmb->area_slots, dmb->nareas,
> +                         dmb->nvqs, reserved);
> +
> +     /* Every virtqueue can obtain one page no running virtqueue can take. */
> +     KUNIT_EXPECT_GE_MSG(test, reserved,
> +                         min(dmb->nvqs, dmb->nslots / 2),
> +                         "nslots=%u nvqs=%u reserved=%u",
> +                         dmb->nslots, dmb->nvqs, reserved);
> +
> +     /* The range never takes more than half the pool, nor all of it. */
> +     KUNIT_EXPECT_LE_MSG(test, reserved, dmb->nslots / 2,
> +                         "nslots=%u nvqs=%u reserved=%u",
> +                         dmb->nslots, dmb->nvqs, reserved);
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Every area size the allocator can derive, against pool sizes that put the
> + * last area at every length a straddle needs, and virtqueue counts either
> + * side of a chain's allowance.
> + */
> +static void dmb_test_reserve_geometry(struct kunit *test)
> +{
> +     static const unsigned int area_sizes[] = { 512, 1024, 2048, 4096 };
> +     struct virtio_dmb *dmb = dmb_test_pool(test);
> +     unsigned int a, k, tail, nvqs;
> +
> +     for (a = 0; a < ARRAY_SIZE(area_sizes); a++) {
> +             unsigned int area_slots = area_sizes[a];
> +
> +             for (k = 1; k <= 3; k++) {
> +                     for (tail = 0; tail <= 2 * VIRTIO_MAP_RESERVE_PAGES;
> +                          tail++) {
> +                             unsigned int nslots = k * area_slots + tail;
> +
> +                             for (nvqs = 1; nvqs <= 40; nvqs++) {
> +                                     dmb_test_shape(test, dmb, nslots,
> +                                                    area_slots, nvqs);
> +                                     dmb_test_assert_guarantees(test, dmb);
> +                             }
> +                     }
> +             }
> +     }
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * The geometries that showed the guarantee was conditional.  Named so that a
> + * revision that reintroduces the pool-tail bound fails here rather than in
> + * the sweep, where the reason is harder to read off.
> + */
> +static void dmb_test_reserve_straddle(struct kunit *test)
> +{
> +     static const struct {
> +             unsigned int nslots, area_slots, nvqs;
> +     } cases[] = {
> +             { 528, 512, 3 },        /* last area 16, pieces 18 and 16 */
> +             { 527, 512, 1 },        /* last area 15, pieces 17 and 15 */
> +             { 4114, 4096, 7 },      /* last area 18, pieces 20 and 18 */
> +             { 4114, 1024, 7 },      /* same tail, more areas */
> +             { 1048600, 512, 17 },   /* last area 24, pieces 24 and 24 */
> +             { 4097, 4096, 17 },     /* last area 1, but 47 below it: fine */
> +             { 2100, 512, 7 },       /* last area 52: whole range fits it */
> +     };
> +     struct virtio_dmb *dmb = dmb_test_pool(test);
> +     unsigned int i;
> +
> +     for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(cases); i++) {
> +             dmb_test_shape(test, dmb, cases[i].nslots, cases[i].area_slots,
> +                            cases[i].nvqs);
> +             dmb_test_assert_guarantees(test, dmb);
> +     }
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * The sizing table in Documentation/driver-api/virtio/virtio-dmb.rst states 
> a
> + * withheld count for each of its rows, and a device implementer sizes 
> against
> + * it.  Every row's last area is long enough to hold the range, so the area
> + * term must not change any of them.
> + */
> +static void dmb_test_reserve_documented_sizing(struct kunit *test)
> +{
> +     static const struct {
> +             unsigned int nslots, nvqs, reserved;
> +     } rows[] = {
> +             { 321, 3, 34 },
> +             { 1167, 9, 40 },
> +             { 2295, 17, 48 },
> +             { 8524, 17, 48 },
> +             { 17004, 33, 64 },
> +             { 33964, 65, 96 },
> +             { 67884, 129, 160 },
> +     };
> +     static const unsigned int area_sizes[] = { 512, 1024, 2048, 4096 };
> +     struct virtio_dmb *dmb = dmb_test_pool(test);
> +     unsigned int i, a;
> +
> +     for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(rows); i++) {
> +             for (a = 0; a < ARRAY_SIZE(area_sizes); a++) {
> +                     dmb_test_shape(test, dmb, rows[i].nslots,
> +                                    area_sizes[a], rows[i].nvqs);
> +
> +                     KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ_MSG(test, virtio_dmb_reserved(dmb),
> +                                         rows[i].reserved,
> +                                         "nslots=%u nvqs=%u area_slots=%u",
> +                                         rows[i].nslots, rows[i].nvqs,
> +                                         area_sizes[a]);
> +                     dmb_test_assert_guarantees(test, dmb);
> +             }
> +     }
> +}
> +
> +/* Inert below the threshold, and before the transport reports a count. */
> +static void dmb_test_reserve_inert(struct kunit *test)
> +{
> +     struct virtio_dmb *dmb = dmb_test_pool(test);
> +     unsigned int nslots;
> +
> +     dmb_test_shape(test, dmb, 4096, 512, 0);
> +     KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, virtio_dmb_reserved(dmb), 0);
> +
> +     for (nslots = 4; nslots < 8 * VIRTIO_MAP_RESERVE_PAGES; nslots++) {
> +             dmb_test_shape(test, dmb, nslots, 512, 3);
> +             KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ_MSG(test, virtio_dmb_reserved(dmb), 0,
> +                                 "nslots=%u", nslots);
> +     }
> +
> +     dmb_test_shape(test, dmb, 8 * VIRTIO_MAP_RESERVE_PAGES, 512, 1);
> +     KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, virtio_dmb_reserved(dmb),
> +                     VIRTIO_MAP_RESERVE_PAGES);
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * What virtio_dmb_init() does with state an earlier negotiation left behind
> + * when this one did not accept the feature: releases it, and refuses to
> + * release it under a live virtqueue, which holds kernel addresses inside the
> + * mapping.  The refusal is the only error it returns for a device it is 
> taking
> + * the region away from, so it is the one a caller turns into the FAILED 
> status
> + * bit; releasing it is not an error and sets nothing.  Nothing can reach the
> + * refusal, for the reason the function itself gives, so a test is what 
> covers
> + * it.  Its dev_warn() is expected output.
> + */
> +static void dmb_test_withdrawn_feature(struct kunit *test)
> +{
> +     struct virtio_device *vdev;
> +     const struct virtio_map_ops *prev;
> +     struct virtqueue *vq;
> +     struct virtio_dmb *dmb;
> +
> +     vdev = kunit_kzalloc(test, sizeof(*vdev), GFP_KERNEL);
> +     KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, vdev);
> +     vq = kunit_kzalloc(test, sizeof(*vq), GFP_KERNEL);
> +     KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, vq);
> +     prev = kunit_kzalloc(test, sizeof(*prev), GFP_KERNEL);
> +     KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, prev);
> +
> +     spin_lock_init(&vdev->vqs_list_lock);
> +     INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vdev->vqs);
> +
> +     /* Nothing installed: nothing to release, and not an error. */
> +     KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, virtio_dmb_init(vdev), 0);
> +
> +     /* Not kunit_kzalloc(): the last call below frees this. */
> +     dmb = kzalloc_obj(*dmb, GFP_KERNEL);
> +     KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, dmb);
> +     dmb->prev_map = prev;
> +     vdev->map = &virtio_dmb_map_ops;
> +     vdev->vmap.dmb = dmb;
> +     list_add(&vq->list, &vdev->vqs);
> +
> +     /* Installed, under a virtqueue: refused, and left addressable. */
> +     KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, virtio_dmb_init(vdev), -EBUSY);
> +     KUNIT_EXPECT_PTR_EQ(test, vdev->map, &virtio_dmb_map_ops);
> +     KUNIT_EXPECT_PTR_EQ(test, vdev->vmap.dmb, dmb);
> +
> +     /* The same withdrawal with no virtqueue left: released, and no error. 
> */
> +     list_del(&vq->list);
> +     KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, virtio_dmb_init(vdev), 0);
> +     KUNIT_EXPECT_PTR_EQ(test, vdev->map, prev);
> +}
> +
> +static struct kunit_case virtio_dmb_test_cases[] = {
> +     /* Slow: the sweep is tens of thousands of geometries. */
> +     KUNIT_CASE_SLOW(dmb_test_reserve_geometry),
> +     KUNIT_CASE(dmb_test_reserve_straddle),
> +     KUNIT_CASE(dmb_test_reserve_documented_sizing),
> +     KUNIT_CASE(dmb_test_reserve_inert),
> +     KUNIT_CASE(dmb_test_withdrawn_feature),
> +     {}
> +};
> +
> +static struct kunit_suite virtio_dmb_test_suite = {
> +     .name = "virtio_dmb",
> +     .test_cases = virtio_dmb_test_cases,
> +};
> +
> +kunit_test_suite(virtio_dmb_test_suite);
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c 
> b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c
> index c43c1fc6e843..635ff8012f4c 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
>  #define VIRTIO_PCI_NO_LEGACY
>  #define VIRTIO_RING_NO_LEGACY
>  #include "virtio_pci_common.h"
> +#include "virtio_dmb.h"
>  
>  #define VIRTIO_AVQ_SGS_MAX   4
>  
> @@ -803,8 +804,23 @@ static int vp_modern_find_vqs(struct virtio_device 
> *vdev, unsigned int nvqs,
>  {
>       struct virtio_pci_device *vp_dev = to_vp_device(vdev);
>       struct virtqueue *vq;
> -     int rc = vp_find_vqs(vdev, nvqs, vqs, vqs_info, desc);
> +     int rc;
>  
> +     /*
> +      * Before vp_find_vqs(), so that no virtqueue exists yet: the ring
> +      * allocations it makes are ordinary claims and cannot land in the
> +      * range this withholds.
> +      *
> +      * nvqs counts the virtqueues the driver asked for.  vp_find_vqs()
> +      * creates one more when the device offers an administration
> +      * virtqueue, and that one draws on the guarantee like any other -- its
> +      * only response to a refusal is a cpu_relax() spin -- so count it here
> +      * rather than leave it as the one virtqueue without a floor.
> +      */
> +     virtio_dmb_note_vqs(vdev, nvqs +
> +                         virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_F_ADMIN_VQ));
> +
> +     rc = vp_find_vqs(vdev, nvqs, vqs, vqs_info, desc);
>       if (rc)
>               return rc;
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> index 641ab07be931..6cd82d418c37 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> @@ -527,10 +527,44 @@ static int vring_map_errno(const struct vring_virtqueue 
> *vq)
>       return -ENOMEM;
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * Whether this mapping may draw on capacity a bounded map implementation
> + * withholds, and account it against the chain's allowance if so.
> + *
> + * Only while the ring is empty, which is exactly the window in which this
> + * virtqueue has no completion of its own to be woken by: the device cannot
> + * signal a used buffer on a queue with no buffers posted.  Every
> + * virtqueue_add_*() path decrements num_free after its mapping loop, so the
> + * test is true for every mapping of a chain going into an empty ring and
> + * false for every mapping after it, with nothing to keep in step.
> + *
> + * @chain_pages accumulates within one virtqueue_add_*() call and dies with
> + * it.  It is charged whether or not the mapping later fails, and a chain 
> that
> + * fails half way therefore over-counts its own allowance and nothing else, 
> so
> + * no bookkeeping can leak.
> + */
> +static unsigned long vring_map_reserve_attr(const struct vring_virtqueue *vq,
> +                                         unsigned int *chain_pages,
> +                                         size_t size)
> +{
> +     unsigned int pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(size, PAGE_SIZE);
> +
> +     if (*chain_pages + pages > VIRTIO_MAP_RESERVE_PAGES)
> +             return 0;
> +
> +     if (vq->vq.num_free != vring_num(vq))
> +             return 0;
> +
> +     *chain_pages += pages;
> +
> +     return VIRTIO_MAP_ATTR_RESERVE;
> +}
> +
>  /* Map one sg entry. */
>  static int vring_map_one_sg(const struct vring_virtqueue *vq, struct 
> scatterlist *sg,
>                           enum dma_data_direction direction, dma_addr_t *addr,
> -                         u32 *len, bool premapped, unsigned long attr)
> +                         u32 *len, bool premapped, unsigned long attr,
> +                         unsigned int *chain_pages)
>  {
>       if (premapped) {
>               *addr = sg_dma_address(sg);
> @@ -577,7 +611,9 @@ static int vring_map_one_sg(const struct vring_virtqueue 
> *vq, struct scatterlist
>        */
>       *addr = virtqueue_map_page_attrs(&vq->vq, sg_page(sg),
>                                        sg->offset, sg->length,
> -                                      direction, attr);
> +                                      direction,
> +                                      attr | vring_map_reserve_attr(vq, 
> chain_pages,
> +                                                                    
> sg->length));
>  
>       if (vring_mapping_error(vq, *addr))
>               return vring_map_errno(vq);
> @@ -587,13 +623,15 @@ static int vring_map_one_sg(const struct 
> vring_virtqueue *vq, struct scatterlist
>  
>  static dma_addr_t vring_map_single(const struct vring_virtqueue *vq,
>                                  void *cpu_addr, size_t size,
> -                                enum dma_data_direction direction)
> +                                enum dma_data_direction direction,
> +                                unsigned int *chain_pages)
>  {
>       if (!vq->use_map_api)
>               return (dma_addr_t)virt_to_phys(cpu_addr);
>  
> -     return virtqueue_map_single_attrs(&vq->vq, cpu_addr,
> -                                       size, direction, 0);
> +     return virtqueue_map_single_attrs(&vq->vq, cpu_addr, size, direction,
> +                                       vring_map_reserve_attr(vq, 
> chain_pages,
> +                                                              size));
>  }
>  
>  static void virtqueue_init(struct vring_virtqueue *vq, u32 num)
> @@ -717,6 +755,7 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add_split(struct 
> vring_virtqueue *vq,
>       unsigned int i, n, avail, descs_used, err_idx, sg_count = 0;
>       /* Total length for in-order */
>       unsigned int total_in_len = 0;
> +     unsigned int chain_pages = 0;
>       int head;
>       bool indirect;
>       int err;
> @@ -783,7 +822,8 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add_split(struct 
> vring_virtqueue *vq,
>                               flags |= VRING_DESC_F_NEXT;
>  
>                       err = vring_map_one_sg(vq, sg, DMA_TO_DEVICE, &addr,
> -                                            &len, premapped, attr);
> +                                            &len, premapped, attr,
> +                                    &chain_pages);
>                       if (err)
>                               goto unmap_release;
>  
> @@ -804,7 +844,8 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add_split(struct 
> vring_virtqueue *vq,
>                               flags |= VRING_DESC_F_NEXT;
>  
>                       err = vring_map_one_sg(vq, sg, DMA_FROM_DEVICE, &addr,
> -                                            &len, premapped, attr);
> +                                            &len, premapped, attr,
> +                                    &chain_pages);
>                       if (err)
>                               goto unmap_release;
>  
> @@ -821,7 +862,8 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add_split(struct 
> vring_virtqueue *vq,
>               /* Now that the indirect table is filled in, map it. */
>               dma_addr_t addr = vring_map_single(
>                       vq, desc, total_sg * sizeof(struct vring_desc),
> -                     DMA_TO_DEVICE);
> +                     DMA_TO_DEVICE,
> +                     &chain_pages);
>               if (vring_mapping_error(vq, addr)) {
>                       err = vring_map_errno(vq);
>                       goto unmap_release;
> @@ -1601,6 +1643,7 @@ static int virtqueue_add_indirect_packed(struct 
> vring_virtqueue *vq,
>       struct vring_packed_desc *desc;
>       struct scatterlist *sg;
>       unsigned int i, n, err_idx, len, total_in_len = 0;
> +     unsigned int chain_pages = 0;
>       u16 head;
>       dma_addr_t addr;
>  
> @@ -1624,7 +1667,8 @@ static int virtqueue_add_indirect_packed(struct 
> vring_virtqueue *vq,
>               for (sg = sgs[n]; sg; sg = sg_next(sg)) {
>                       if (vring_map_one_sg(vq, sg, n < out_sgs ?
>                                            DMA_TO_DEVICE : DMA_FROM_DEVICE,
> -                                          &addr, &len, premapped, attr))
> +                                          &addr, &len, premapped, attr,
> +                                    &chain_pages))
>                               goto unmap_release;
>  
>                       desc[i].flags = cpu_to_le16(n < out_sgs ?
> @@ -1647,7 +1691,8 @@ static int virtqueue_add_indirect_packed(struct 
> vring_virtqueue *vq,
>       /* Now that the indirect table is filled in, map it. */
>       addr = vring_map_single(vq, desc,
>                       total_sg * sizeof(struct vring_packed_desc),
> -                     DMA_TO_DEVICE);
> +                     DMA_TO_DEVICE,
> +                     &chain_pages);
>       if (vring_mapping_error(vq, addr))
>               goto unmap_release;
>  
> @@ -1740,6 +1785,7 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add_packed(struct 
> vring_virtqueue *vq,
>       struct vring_packed_desc *desc;
>       struct scatterlist *sg;
>       unsigned int i, n, c, descs_used, err_idx, len;
> +     unsigned int chain_pages = 0;
>       __le16 head_flags, flags;
>       u16 head, id, prev, curr, avail_used_flags;
>       int err;
> @@ -1799,7 +1845,8 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add_packed(struct 
> vring_virtqueue *vq,
>  
>                       err = vring_map_one_sg(vq, sg, n < out_sgs ?
>                                              DMA_TO_DEVICE : DMA_FROM_DEVICE,
> -                                            &addr, &len, premapped, attr);
> +                                            &addr, &len, premapped, attr,
> +                                    &chain_pages);
>                       if (err)
>                               goto unmap_release;
>  
> @@ -1899,6 +1946,7 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add_packed_in_order(struct 
> vring_virtqueue *vq,
>       struct vring_packed_desc *desc;
>       struct scatterlist *sg;
>       unsigned int i, n, sg_count, err_idx, total_in_len = 0;
> +     unsigned int chain_pages = 0;
>       __le16 head_flags, flags;
>       u16 head, avail_used_flags;
>       bool avail_wrap_counter;
> @@ -1961,7 +2009,8 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add_packed_in_order(struct 
> vring_virtqueue *vq,
>  
>                       err = vring_map_one_sg(vq, sg, n < out_sgs ?
>                                              DMA_TO_DEVICE : DMA_FROM_DEVICE,
> -                                            &addr, &len, premapped, attr);
> +                                            &addr, &len, premapped, attr,
> +                                    &chain_pages);
>                       if (err)
>                               goto unmap_release;
>  
> @@ -3880,9 +3929,15 @@ dma_addr_t virtqueue_map_page_attrs(const struct 
> virtqueue *_vq,
>                                          page, offset, size,
>                                          dir, attrs);
>  
> +     /*
> +      * Strip the bits virtio owns before the DMA API sees them: it defines
> +      * DMA_ATTR_* over the same word, and a bit outside that set has no
> +      * defined meaning there.  A map implementation is the only reader of
> +      * them.
> +      */
>       return dma_map_page_attrs(vring_dma_dev(vq),
>                                 page, offset, size,
> -                               dir, attrs);
> +                               dir, attrs & ~VIRTIO_MAP_ATTR_MASK);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(virtqueue_map_page_attrs);
>  
> @@ -3907,7 +3962,8 @@ void virtqueue_unmap_page_attrs(const struct virtqueue 
> *_vq,
>                                     map_handle, size, dir, attrs);
>       else
>               dma_unmap_page_attrs(vring_dma_dev(vq), map_handle,
> -                                  size, dir, attrs);
> +                                  size, dir,
> +                                  attrs & ~VIRTIO_MAP_ATTR_MASK);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(virtqueue_unmap_page_attrs);
>  
> diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_config.h b/include/linux/virtio_config.h
> index a6780aa85966..a25552862ec4 100644
> --- a/include/linux/virtio_config.h
> +++ b/include/linux/virtio_config.h
> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
>  #define _LINUX_VIRTIO_CONFIG_H
>  
>  #include <linux/err.h>
> +#include <linux/bits.h>
>  #include <linux/bug.h>
>  #include <linux/virtio.h>
>  #include <linux/virtio_byteorder.h>
> @@ -219,6 +220,38 @@ struct virtio_map_ops {
>       size_t (*max_mapping_size)(union virtio_map map);
>  };
>  
> +/*
> + * Pages one virtqueue at a time is guaranteed to be able to map through a 
> map
> + * implementation with a bounded pool, whatever the other virtqueues of the
> + * device have mapped.  Enough for one page-granular descriptor chain at the
> + * default CONFIG_MAX_SKB_FRAGS: a network receive buffer in the 
> non-mergeable
> + * case is MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 2 scatterlist entries plus an indirect table, 
> which
> + * is 20 pages where a page is 4 KiB and MAX_SKB_FRAGS is 17.  A chain larger
> + * than this -- a raised CONFIG_MAX_SKB_FRAGS, or entries spanning more than 
> a
> + * page each -- draws on the reserve for as much of itself as fits and is not
> + * guaranteed.  Neither is a second chain of more than one page concurrent
> + * with the first: what every virtqueue is guaranteed is the single page that
> + * takes its ring from empty to non-empty.  Both hold on any pool of eight
> + * times this many pages or more, which is where an implementation withholds
> + * anything at all; below that there is no range and no guarantee.
> + */
> +#define VIRTIO_MAP_RESERVE_PAGES     32u
> +
> +/*
> + * map_page() attrs bits owned by virtio rather than by the DMA API.
> + * DMA_ATTR_* occupies bits 1 to 13 today; these sit above it, and
> + * virtqueue_map_page_attrs() masks them off before any dma_map_*() call, so
> + * the DMA API never sees one.  The gap is deliberate headroom rather than a
> + * partition: whoever grows either range has to check the other.
> + *
> + * VIRTIO_MAP_ATTR_RESERVE: this mapping is part of the first descriptor 
> chain
> + * a virtqueue is publishing, and an implementation with a bounded pool 
> should
> + * satisfy it from capacity withheld for that purpose if it has no other.
> + * An implementation that ignores the bit behaves exactly as before.
> + */
> +#define VIRTIO_MAP_ATTR_RESERVE              BIT(24)
> +#define VIRTIO_MAP_ATTR_MASK         VIRTIO_MAP_ATTR_RESERVE
> +
>  /* If driver didn't advertise the feature, it will never appear. */
>  void virtio_check_driver_offered_feature(const struct virtio_device *vdev,
>                                        unsigned int fbit);


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