Re: [PATCH 2/7] RDMA/hfi1: don't pass bogus GFP_ flags to dma_alloc_coherent

Christoph Hellwig
2022-11-16T15:45:23Z

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 03:15:10PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Coherent DMA buffers are allocated by a kernel driver or subsystem for the
> use of a device managed by that driver or subsystem, and thus they
> fundamentally belong to the kernel as proxy for the device. Any coherent
> DMA buffer may be mapped to userspace with the dma_mmap_*() interfaces, but
> they're never a "userspace allocation" in that sense.

Exactly. I could not find a place to map the buffers to userspace,
so if it does that without using the proper interfaces we need to fix
that as well. Dean, can you point me to the mmap code?