[Linaro-mm-sig] Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 04/10] vfio/pci: Add a helper to create a DMABUF for a BAR-map VMA

On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 02:04:08PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:

AIUI, this affects what the user sees in /proc/<pid>/maps, right? Previously a memory range could be clearly associated with a specific vfio device, now, only for vfio-pci devices, I think the range is associated to a nondescript dmabuf.

Probably

If so, is that an acceptable, user visible, debugging friendly change (ex. lsof)? Thanks,

IIRC there is a way to attach a string to the inode that lsof can display, if we do that right it should be good enough.

Jason