On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 08:16:33PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > kvm is some similar hack added for P2P DMA, see commit > > add6a0cd1c5ba51b201e1361b05a5df817083618. It might be protected by notifiers.. > > Yeah my thinking is that kvm (and I think also vfio, also seems to > have mmu notifier nearby) are ok because of the mmu notiifer. Assuming > that one works correctly. vfio doesn't have a notifier, Alex was looking to add a vfio private scheme in the vma->private_data: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/159017449210.18853.15037950701494323009.stgit@xxxxxxxxxx/ Guess it never happened. > > So, the answer really is that s390 and media need fixing, and this API > > should go away (or become kvm specific) > > I'm still not clear how you want fo fix this, since your vma->dma_buf > idea is kinda a decade long plan and so just not going to happen: Well, it doesn't mean we have to change every part of dma_buf to participate in this. Just the bits media cares about. Or maybe it is some higher level varient on top of dma_buf. Or don't use dma_buf for this, add a new object that just provides refcounts and P2P DMA connection for IO pfn ranges.. Jason
