[PATCH 00/23] dmaengine: Smart Data Accelerator Interface (SDXI) basic support

Nathan Lynch via B4 Relay
2026-04-10T13:07:49Z

The Smart Data Accelerator Interface (SDXI) is a vendor-neutral
architecture for memory-to-memory data movement offload designed for
kernel bypass and virtualization.

General information on SDXI may be found at:
https://www.snia.org/sdxi

This submission adds a driver with basic support for PCIe-hosted SDXI
1.0 implementations and includes a DMA engine provider with memcpy
capability. A more limited RFC version was posted in September 2025;
the code has seen multiple substantial updates since then, described
below.

Planned future SDXI work (out of scope for this series):

* Character device for exposing SDXI contexts to user space.

* Support for operation types to be added in future SDXI revisions.

* Greater configurability for control structures, e.g. descriptor ring
size.

The latest released version of the SDXI specification is 1.0:
https://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/technical-work/sdxi/release/SNIA-SDXI-Specification-v1.0a.pdf

Draft versions of future SDXI specifications in development may be found at:
https://www.snia.org/tech_activities/publicreview#sdxi

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Changes in v1:
- Reorder series and introduce functionality incrementally while
remaining buildable and functional at each step. (Jonathan Cameron)
- Use devres APIs where possible for device resources (JC)
- Use cleanup APIs to significantly reduce use of goto-oriented error
unwinding. (JC)
- Drop SDXI_DEBUG config option. (JC)
- Cite SDXI spec version and section number consistently throughout. (JC)
- Combine local variable declarations of same type. (JC)
- Mark descriptor structs __packed. (JC)
- Use designated initializers in descriptor encoding functions. (JC)
- Prefer dev_err_probe() over sdxi_err() in sdxi_pci_init(). (JC)
- Prune unnecessary includes throughout source files. (JC)
- Remove unnecessary/unhelpful comments in several places. (JC)
- Remove SDXI spec material from "Add SNIA SDXI accelerator sub-class"
commit message and reword the remainder. (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Remove unnecessary local for DMA_BIT_MASK() argument in
sdxi_pci_init(). (BH)
- Use "{ }" for final null entry in id table, not "{ 0, }". (BH)
- Replace sample descriptor submission code from the SDXI spec with an
improved API that has unit tests, eliminates a copy step for
callers, and can block until ring space becomes available if
desired.
- Omit the error log facility for now; it can be reintroduced later.
- Use a per-device xarray to allocate context IDs and map them to
context objects.
- Implement interrupt-based completion signaling for memcpy operations
in the DMA engine provider, DMA provider code mostly rewritten.

Non-changes in v1:
- Mario suggested that pci_clear_master() is needed in
sdxi_pci_init()'s error path and in sdxi_pci_exit() (now
sdxi_pci_remove()). However, sdxi uses pcim_enable_device(), which
appears to ensure that master is cleared for the device. Happy to
revisit this if I'm mistaken.

- Link to RFC: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250905-sdxi-base-v1-0-d0341a1292ba@amd.com

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Nathan Lynch (23):
PCI: Add SNIA SDXI accelerator sub-class
MAINTAINERS: Add entry for SDXI driver
dmaengine: sdxi: Add PCI initialization
dmaengine: sdxi: Feature discovery and initial configuration
dmaengine: sdxi: Configure context tables
dmaengine: sdxi: Allocate DMA pools
dmaengine: sdxi: Allocate administrative context
dmaengine: sdxi: Install administrative context
dmaengine: sdxi: Start functions on probe, stop on remove
dmaengine: sdxi: Complete administrative context jump start
dmaengine: sdxi: Add client context alloc and release APIs
dmaengine: sdxi: Add descriptor ring management
dmaengine: sdxi: Add unit tests for descriptor ring reservations
dmaengine: sdxi: Attach descriptor ring state to contexts
dmaengine: sdxi: Per-context access key (AKey) table entry allocator
dmaengine: sdxi: Generic descriptor manipulation helpers
dmaengine: sdxi: Add completion status block API
dmaengine: sdxi: Encode context start, stop, and sync descriptors
dmaengine: sdxi: Provide context start and stop APIs
dmaengine: sdxi: Encode nop, copy, and interrupt descriptors
dmaengine: sdxi: Add unit tests for descriptor encoding
dmaengine: sdxi: MSI/MSI-X vector allocation and mapping
dmaengine: sdxi: Add DMA engine provider

MAINTAINERS | 7 +
drivers/dma/Kconfig | 2 +
drivers/dma/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/dma/sdxi/.kunitconfig | 4 +
drivers/dma/sdxi/Kconfig | 18 ++
drivers/dma/sdxi/Makefile | 16 ++
drivers/dma/sdxi/completion.c | 79 ++++++
drivers/dma/sdxi/completion.h | 24 ++
drivers/dma/sdxi/context.c | 504 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/dma/sdxi/context.h | 105 ++++++++
drivers/dma/sdxi/descriptor.c | 198 ++++++++++++++
drivers/dma/sdxi/descriptor.h | 135 ++++++++++
drivers/dma/sdxi/descriptor_kunit.c | 484 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/dma/sdxi/device.c | 333 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/dma/sdxi/dma.c | 497 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/dma/sdxi/dma.h | 12 +
drivers/dma/sdxi/hw.h | 254 ++++++++++++++++++
drivers/dma/sdxi/mmio.h | 57 ++++
drivers/dma/sdxi/pci.c | 120 +++++++++
drivers/dma/sdxi/ring.c | 158 +++++++++++
drivers/dma/sdxi/ring.h | 84 ++++++
drivers/dma/sdxi/ring_kunit.c | 105 ++++++++
drivers/dma/sdxi/sdxi.h | 149 +++++++++++
include/linux/pci_ids.h | 1 +
24 files changed, 3347 insertions(+)
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base-commit: c03d8b5462bcb0022f9477d09eb37dae66c3a769
change-id: 20250813-sdxi-base-73d7c9fdce57

Best regards,
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Nathan Lynch <nathan.lynch@amd.com>