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Date:      Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:34:58 +0000
From:      Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@freebsd.org>
To:        Andrew Turner <andrew@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@FreeBSD.org>, "dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org" <dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org>, "dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org" <dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org>, Sarah Walker <sarah.walker2@arm.com>
Subject:   Re: git: 1d13d938fe6c - main - virtio: Ensure power-of-two alignment for indirect queue
Message-ID:  <8F587FE2-CF54-4605-9CD6-581FC1D98D34@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <69b939d7.26113.1aca36de@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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On 17 Mar 2026, at 11:24, Andrew Turner <andrew@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> The branch main has been updated by andrew:
> 
> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=1d13d938fe6c7639d2bb4cb5248a1f81275b6891
> 
> commit 1d13d938fe6c7639d2bb4cb5248a1f81275b6891
> Author:     Sarah Walker <sarah.walker2@arm.com>
> AuthorDate: 2026-03-17 10:54:30 +0000
> Commit:     Andrew Turner <andrew@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2026-03-17 10:56:27 +0000
> 
>    virtio: Ensure power-of-two alignment for indirect queue
> 
>    Some platforms enforce power-of-two alignment for bus_dma tags. Rounding up
>    the natural size may result in over-alignment, but should be safe.
> 
>    PR:             293770
>    Reviewed by:    andrew
>    Fixes:          c499ad6f997c ("virtio: Use bus_dma for ring and indirect buffer allocations")
>    Sponsored by:   Arm Ltd
>    Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55843
> ---
> sys/dev/virtio/virtqueue.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sys/dev/virtio/virtqueue.c b/sys/dev/virtio/virtqueue.c
> index b7fdb4703ccb..10b5179bd3d5 100644
> --- a/sys/dev/virtio/virtqueue.c
> +++ b/sys/dev/virtio/virtqueue.c
> @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ virtqueue_init_indirect(struct virtqueue *vq, int indirect_size)
> align = size;

Why is this the alignment in the first place? Pre-busdma it just used
malloc with no explicit alignment. Given:

  size = indirect_size * sizeof(struct vring_desc);

can’t this get quite large? Except VIRTIO_MAX_INDIRECT looks to be
rather stale, tied to the malloc rather than busdma world...

Jessica

> error = bus_dma_tag_create(
>    bus_get_dma_tag(dev), /* parent */
> -    align, /* alignment */
> +    roundup_pow_of_two(align), /* alignment */
>    0, /* boundary */
>    BUS_SPACE_MAXADDR, /* lowaddr */
>    BUS_SPACE_MAXADDR, /* highaddr */
> 



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