On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 10:00:36AM -0700, Logan Gunthorpe wrote: > Allow userspace to obtain CMB memory by mmaping the controller's > char device. The mmap call allocates and returns a hunk of CMB memory, > (the offset is ignored) so userspace does not have control over the > address within the CMB. > > A VMA allocated in this way will only be usable by drivers that set > FOLL_PCI_P2PDMA when calling GUP. And inter-device support will be > checked the first time the pages are mapped for DMA. > > Currently this is only supported by O_DIRECT to an PCI NVMe device > or through the NVMe passthrough IOCTL. Rather than make this be specific to nvme, could pci p2pdma create an mmap'able file for any resource registered with it?