On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 08:45:51PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> > For CC I'm expecting the KVM fd to be the handle for the cVM, so any
> > RPCs that want to call into the secure world need the KVM FD to get
> > the cVM's identifier. Ie a "bind to cVM" RPC will need the PCI
> > information and the cVM's handle.
>
> And keep KVM fd open until unbind? Or just for the short time to call the
> PSP?
iommufd will keep the KVM fd alive so long as the vIOMMU object
exists. Other uses for kvm require it to work like this.
> > But it also seems to me that VFIO should be able to support putting
> > the device into the RUN state without involving KVM or cVMs.
>
> AMD's TDI bind handler in the PSP wants a guest handle ("GCTX") and a guest
> device BDFn, and VFIO has no desire to dive into this KVM business beyond
> IOMMUFD.
As in my other email, VFIO is not restricted to running VMs, useful
things should be available to apps like DPDK.
There is a use case for using TDISP and getting devices up into an
ecrypted/attested state on pure bare metal without any KVM, VFIO
should work in that use case too.
Jason
On 17/03/2025 03:37, feng.wei8(a)zte.com.cn wrote:
> From: FengWei <feng.wei8(a)zte.com.cn>
>
> Use max3() macro instead of nesting max() to simplify the return
> statement.
>
> Signed-off-by: FengWei <feng.wei8(a)zte.com.cn>
> ---
> v3 -> v4
> fix the format of this patch.
> drivers/dma-buf/dma-heap.c | 2 +-
You sent five versions per day of the same patch.
Look what was in v3:
v2 -> v3
fix the format of this patch
So you are doing the same over and over and sending it to us?
Srsly, ZTE, slow down and be sure you follow the process BEFORE you send
flood of patches like that and learn on the go.
Best regards,
Krzysztof
On 12-02-25, 17:35, Jyothi Kumar Seerapu wrote:
> GSI hardware generates an interrupt for each transfer completion.
> For multiple messages within a single transfer, this results in
> N interrupts for N messages, leading to significant software
> interrupt latency.
>
> To mitigate this latency, utilize Block Event Interrupt (BEI) mechanism.
> Enabling BEI instructs the GSI hardware to prevent interrupt generation
> and BEI is disabled when an interrupt is necessary.
>
> When using BEI, consider splitting a single multi-message transfer into
> chunks of 8 messages internally and so interrupts are not expected for
> the first 7 message completions, only the last message triggers
> an interrupt, indicating the completion of 8 messages.
>
> This BEI mechanism enhances overall transfer efficiency.
That sounds good but I dont like the idea that we add a custom interface
for this. Please use DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT instead. Adding this flag should
trigger N interrupts, absence of this should lead to Block events only
--
~Vinod
Following a recent discussion at last Plumbers, John Stultz, Sumit
Sewal, TJ Mercier and I came to an agreement that we should document
what the dma-buf heaps names are expected to be, and what the buffers
attributes you'll get should be documented.
Let's create that doc to make sure those attributes and names are
guaranteed going forward.
Reviewed-by: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier(a)google.com>
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard(a)kernel.org>
---
Changes from v3:
- Add TJ RB
- Fix a few typos.
Changes from v2:
- Remove exhaustive list of names for platforms, and just mention the
alternatives.
- Add MAINTAINERS entry
Changes from v1:
- Add the mention that the cma / reserved heap is optional.
---
Documentation/userspace-api/dma-buf-heaps.rst | 25 +++++++++++++++++++
Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst | 1 +
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
3 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/dma-buf-heaps.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/dma-buf-heaps.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/dma-buf-heaps.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..535f49047ce6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/dma-buf-heaps.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+==============================
+Allocating dma-buf using heaps
+==============================
+
+Dma-buf Heaps are a way for userspace to allocate dma-buf objects. They are
+typically used to allocate buffers from a specific allocation pool, or to share
+buffers across frameworks.
+
+Heaps
+=====
+
+A heap represents a specific allocator. The Linux kernel currently supports the
+following heaps:
+
+ - The ``system`` heap allocates virtually contiguous, cacheable, buffers.
+
+ - The ``cma`` heap allocates physically contiguous, cacheable,
+ buffers. Only present if a CMA region is present. Such a region is
+ usually created either through the kernel commandline through the
+ `cma` parameter, a memory region Device-Tree node with the
+ `linux,cma-default` property set, or through the `CMA_SIZE_MBYTES` or
+ `CMA_SIZE_PERCENTAGE` Kconfig options. Depending on the platform, it
+ might be called ``reserved``, ``linux,cma``, or ``default-pool``.
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst
index b1395d94b3fd..9cbe4390c872 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst
@@ -42,10 +42,11 @@ Devices and I/O
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
accelerators/ocxl
+ dma-buf-heaps
dma-buf-alloc-exchange
gpio/index
iommufd
media/index
dcdbas
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 8e0736dc2ee0..ef0364e65aef 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -6911,10 +6911,11 @@ R: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier(a)google.com>
L: linux-media(a)vger.kernel.org
L: dri-devel(a)lists.freedesktop.org
L: linaro-mm-sig(a)lists.linaro.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
S: Maintained
T: git https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel.git
+F: Documentation/userspace-api/dma-buf-heaps.rst
F: drivers/dma-buf/dma-heap.c
F: drivers/dma-buf/heaps/*
F: include/linux/dma-heap.h
F: include/uapi/linux/dma-heap.h
F: tools/testing/selftests/dmabuf-heaps/
--
2.48.1
Following a recent discussion at last Plumbers, John Stultz, Sumit
Sewal, TJ Mercier and I came to an agreement that we should document
what the dma-buf heaps names are expected to be, and what the buffers
attributes you'll get should be documented.
Let's create that doc to make sure those attributes and names are
guaranteed going forward.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard(a)kernel.org>
---
Changes from v2:
- Remove exhaustive list of names for platforms, and just mention the
alternatives.
- Add MAINTAINERS entry
Changes from v1:
- Add the mention that the cma / reserved heap is optional.
---
Documentation/userspace-api/dma-buf-heaps.rst | 25 +++++++++++++++++++
Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst | 1 +
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
3 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/dma-buf-heaps.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/dma-buf-heaps.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/dma-buf-heaps.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5b92d69646f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/dma-buf-heaps.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+==============================
+Allocating dma-buf using heaps
+==============================
+
+Dma-buf Heaps are a way for userspace to allocate dma-buf objects. They are
+typically used to allocate buffers from a specific allocation pool, or to share
+buffers across frameworks.
+
+Heaps
+=====
+
+A heap represent a specific allocator. The Linux kernel currently supports the
+following heaps:
+
+ - The ``system`` heap allocates virtually contiguous, cacheable, buffers
+
+ - The ``cma`` heap allocates physically contiguous, cacheable,
+ buffers. Only present if a CMA region is present. Such a region is
+ usually created either through the kernel commandline through the
+ `cma` parameter, a memory region Device-Tree node with the
+ `linux,cma-default` property set, or through the `CMA_SIZE_MBYTES` or
+ `CMA_SIZE_PERCENTAGE` Kconfig options. Depending on the platform, it
+ might be called ``reserved``, ``linux,cma``, or ``default-pool``.
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst
index b1395d94b3fd..9cbe4390c872 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst
@@ -42,10 +42,11 @@ Devices and I/O
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
accelerators/ocxl
+ dma-buf-heaps
dma-buf-alloc-exchange
gpio/index
iommufd
media/index
dcdbas
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 8e0736dc2ee0..ef0364e65aef 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -6911,10 +6911,11 @@ R: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier(a)google.com>
L: linux-media(a)vger.kernel.org
L: dri-devel(a)lists.freedesktop.org
L: linaro-mm-sig(a)lists.linaro.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
S: Maintained
T: git https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel.git
+F: Documentation/userspace-api/dma-buf-heaps.rst
F: drivers/dma-buf/dma-heap.c
F: drivers/dma-buf/heaps/*
F: include/linux/dma-heap.h
F: include/uapi/linux/dma-heap.h
F: tools/testing/selftests/dmabuf-heaps/
--
2.48.1