From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Leon Romanovsky" <leon@kernel.org>,
"Alex Williamson" <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
"Leon Romanovsky" <leonro@nvidia.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 9/9] vfio/pci: Add dma-buf export support for MMIO regions
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:16:10 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251017121610.GI3901471@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aPHjUP7pdIXuEPIq@infradead.org>
On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 11:33:52PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 06:26:11PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
> >
> > Add support for exporting PCI device MMIO regions through dma-buf,
> > enabling safe sharing of non-struct page memory with controlled
> > lifetime management. This allows RDMA and other subsystems to import
> > dma-buf FDs and build them into memory regions for PCI P2P operations.
> >
> > The implementation provides a revocable attachment mechanism using
> > dma-buf move operations. MMIO regions are normally pinned as BARs
> > don't change physical addresses, but access is revoked when the VFIO
> > device is closed or a PCI reset is issued. This ensures kernel
> > self-defense against potentially hostile userspace.
>
> This still completely fails to explain why you think that it actually
> is safe without the proper pgmap handling.
Leon, this keeps coming up, please clean up and copy the text from my
prior email into the commit message & cover letter explaining in
detail how lifetime magement works by using revocation/invalidation
driven by dmabuf move_notify callbacks.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-17 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-13 15:26 [PATCH v5 0/9] vfio/pci: Allow MMIO regions to be exported through dma-buf Leon Romanovsky
2025-10-13 15:26 ` [PATCH v5 1/9] PCI/P2PDMA: Separate the mmap() support from the core logic Leon Romanovsky
2025-10-17 6:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-17 11:53 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-20 12:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-20 12:58 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-20 15:04 ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-10-22 7:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-22 11:43 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-13 15:26 ` [PATCH v5 2/9] PCI/P2PDMA: Simplify bus address mapping API Leon Romanovsky
2025-10-13 15:26 ` [PATCH v5 3/9] PCI/P2PDMA: Refactor to separate core P2P functionality from memory allocation Leon Romanovsky
2025-10-13 15:26 ` [PATCH v5 4/9] PCI/P2PDMA: Export pci_p2pdma_map_type() function Leon Romanovsky
2025-10-17 6:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-17 12:14 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-20 12:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-20 13:14 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-13 15:26 ` [PATCH v5 5/9] types: move phys_vec definition to common header Leon Romanovsky
2025-10-13 15:26 ` [PATCH v5 6/9] vfio: Export vfio device get and put registration helpers Leon Romanovsky
2025-10-13 15:26 ` [PATCH v5 7/9] vfio/pci: Share the core device pointer while invoking feature functions Leon Romanovsky
2025-10-13 15:26 ` [PATCH v5 8/9] vfio/pci: Enable peer-to-peer DMA transactions by default Leon Romanovsky
2025-10-16 4:09 ` Nicolin Chen
2025-10-16 6:10 ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-10-17 6:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-17 11:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-20 12:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-20 13:08 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-22 7:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-22 11:38 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-22 11:54 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-13 15:26 ` [PATCH v5 9/9] vfio/pci: Add dma-buf export support for MMIO regions Leon Romanovsky
2025-10-16 23:53 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-17 5:40 ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-10-17 15:58 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-17 16:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-17 0:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-17 6:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-17 12:16 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2025-10-17 13:02 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-17 16:13 ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-10-20 16:15 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-20 16:44 ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-10-20 16:51 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-17 23:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-22 12:50 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-26 7:55 ` Shuai Xue
2025-10-27 12:09 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-28 13:46 ` Shuai Xue
2025-10-27 23:13 ` David Matlack
2025-10-28 12:02 ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-10-30 22:28 ` Alex Mastro
2025-10-29 16:50 ` Alex Mastro
2025-10-29 18:21 ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-10-30 0:25 ` Samiullah Khawaja
2025-10-30 6:48 ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-10-30 12:57 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-30 20:38 ` Alex Williamson
2025-10-31 6:48 ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-10-15 21:15 ` [PATCH v5 0/9] vfio/pci: Allow MMIO regions to be exported through dma-buf shinichiro.kawasaki
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