Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] misc: fastrpc: Support mapping userspace-allocated buffers

[David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:11:12 -0800
Rob Clark <rob.clark@oss.qualcomm.com> wrote:


> But looking at the patch, this looks more like mapping an imported
> dmabuf?  Presumably going thru dma_buf_map_attachment() somewhere in
> the existing fastrpc code?

I think I might have had a related problem.
I used dma_alloc_coherent() to get multiple 16kB blocks of kernel memory that
a device can access. The device has an internal 'mmu' that makes them logically
contiguous (from the device point of view).
I then wanted to mmap() a 4k (page) aligned sub-range of that kernel memory
into userspace so that it saw part of the same logically contiguous memory
as the on-device hardware.
Different parts of the devices (max 512 * 16kB) master window are used for
different things, so mmap() offset zero is different for different mmap() requests.
One of the 'old' methods still works provided the pages are physically
contiguous - which isn't the default for systems with an iommu.
IIRC there is a function that will map a single dma_alloc_coherent() allocated
buffer into userspace - but that doesn't let you offset the addresses
not join up multiple buffers.
I can't have been the only person trying to do that?

	David