linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] habanalabs: define uAPI to export FD for DMA-BUF

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Message-ID: <20210928171329.GF3544071@ziepe.ca>
Date:   Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:13:29 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To:     Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        christian.koenig@....com, daniel.vetter@...ll.ch,
        galpress@...zon.com, sleybo@...zon.com,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, dledford@...hat.com,
        airlied@...il.com, alexander.deucher@....com, leonro@...dia.com,
        hch@....de, amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] habanalabs: define uAPI to export FD for DMA-BUF

On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 07:53:08PM +0300, Oded Gabbay wrote:
>  	/* HL_MEM_OP_* */
>  	__u32 op;
> -	/* HL_MEM_* flags */
> +	/* HL_MEM_* flags.
> +	 * For the HL_MEM_OP_EXPORT_DMABUF_FD opcode, this field holds the
> +	 * DMA-BUF file/FD flags.
> +	 */
>  	__u32 flags;
>  	/* Context ID - Currently not in use */
>  	__u32 ctx_id;
> @@ -1072,6 +1091,13 @@ struct hl_mem_out {
>  
>  			__u32 pad;
>  		};
> +
> +		/* Returned in HL_MEM_OP_EXPORT_DMABUF_FD. Represents the
> +		 * DMA-BUF object that was created to describe a memory
> +		 * allocation on the device's memory space. The FD should be
> +		 * passed to the importer driver
> +		 */
> +		__u64 fd;

fd's should be a s32 type in a fixed width uapi.

I usually expect to see the uapi changes inside the commit that
consumes them, splitting the patch like this seems strange but
harmless.

Jason