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Message-ID: <d25b2895-63b6-158d-ff73-f05e437e0f91@amd.com>
Date:   Fri, 10 Dec 2021 14:28:50 +0100
From:   Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     Shunsuke Mie <mie@...l.co.jp>, Zhu Yanjun <zyjzyj2000@...il.com>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Jianxin Xiong <jianxin.xiong@...el.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        Maor Gottlieb <maorg@...dia.com>,
        Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
        Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-rdma <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        Damian Hobson-Garcia <dhobsong@...l.co.jp>,
        Takanari Hayama <taki@...l.co.jp>,
        Tomohito Esaki <etom@...l.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 0/2] RDMA/rxe: Add dma-buf support

Am 10.12.21 um 14:26 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 01:47:37PM +0100, Christian König wrote:
>> Am 10.12.21 um 13:42 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe:
>>> On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 08:29:24PM +0900, Shunsuke Mie wrote:
>>>> Hi Jason,
>>>> Thank you for replying.
>>>>
>>>> 2021年12月8日(水) 2:14 Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>:
>>>>> On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 12:51:44PM +0900, Shunsuke Mie wrote:
>>>>>> Hi maintainers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could you please review this patch series?
>>>>> Why is it RFC?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm confused why this is useful?
>>>>>
>>>>> This can't do copy from MMIO memory, so it shouldn't be compatible
>>>>> with things like Gaudi - does something prevent this?
>>>> I think if an export of the dma-buf supports vmap, CPU is able to access the
>>>> mmio memory.
>>>>
>>>> Is it wrong? If this is wrong, there is no advantages this changes..
>>> I don't know what the dmabuf folks did, but yes, it is wrong.
>>>
>>> IOMEM must be touched using only special accessors, some platforms
>>> crash if you don't do this. Even x86 will crash if you touch it with
>>> something like an XMM optimized memcpy.
>>>
>>> Christian? If the vmap succeeds what rules must the caller use to
>>> access the memory?
>> See dma-buf-map.h and especially struct dma_buf_map.
>>
>> MMIO memory is perfectly supported here and actually the most common case.
> Okay that looks sane, but this rxe RFC seems to ignore this
> completely. It stuffs the vaddr directly into a umem which goes to all
> manner of places in the driver.
>
> ??

Well, yes that can go boom pretty quickly.

Not sure what they want to use this for.

Christian.

>
> Jason

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