From: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: "Jason Gunthorpe" <jgg@nvidia.com>,
"Alex Mastro" <amastro@fb.com>,
"Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
"Alex Williamson" <alex@shazbot.org>,
"Bjorn Helgaas" <bhelgaas@google.com>,
"Logan Gunthorpe" <logang@deltatee.com>,
"Kevin Tian" <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
"Pranjal Shrivastava" <praan@google.com>,
"Longfang Liu" <liulongfang@huawei.com>,
"Mahmoud Adam" <mngyadam@amazon.de>,
"David Matlack" <dmatlack@google.com>,
"Björn Töpel" <bjorn@kernel.org>,
"Sumit Semwal" <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>,
"Ankit Agrawal" <ankita@nvidia.com>,
"Alistair Popple" <apopple@nvidia.com>,
"Vivek Kasireddy" <vivek.kasireddy@intel.com>,
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kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 9/9] vfio/pci: Permanently revoke a DMABUF on request
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:06:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39fdd41d-fd6e-4f88-be35-28ce93482605@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260923165240.GS563127@unreal>
Hi Leon,
On 23/09/2026 17:52, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 04:40:03PM +0100, Matt Evans wrote:
>>
>> So the worry was that the VFIO DMABUF's temp/perm state could be
>> misconstrued as an implication/guarantee about the future availability
>> of that DMABUF to importers, OK. And we want the existing move(false)
>> behaviour still, for dynamic importers that treat it as a move.
>
> This is not a bug; the behavior is intentional.
I wasn't meaning to imply that! :)
> During review of the initial> versions of the revoke mechanism, it was
pointed out that
> `move_notify == invalidate_mappings == revoke`. The initial versions
> introduced a separate function call for revocation, which we abandon in
> favour of move semantics.
That makes sense, and it's good to know that background.
Thank you,
Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-23 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-11 21:41 [PATCH v6 0/9] vfio/pci: Add mmap() for DMABUFs Matt Evans
2026-09-11 21:41 ` [PATCH v6 1/9] vfio/pci: Remove DMABUF export dependency on vdev->memory_lock Matt Evans
2026-09-11 21:41 ` [PATCH v6 2/9] vfio/pci: Un-revoke DMABUFs in LOW_POWER_ENTRY_WITH_WAKEUP resume Matt Evans
2026-09-11 21:41 ` [PATCH v6 3/9] dma-buf: Export dma_buf_set_name() Matt Evans
2026-09-14 11:06 ` Christian König
2026-09-15 13:35 ` Matt Evans
2026-09-11 21:41 ` [PATCH v6 4/9] vfio/pci: Add a helper to look up PFNs for DMABUFs Matt Evans
2026-09-11 21:41 ` [PATCH v6 5/9] vfio/pci: Add a helper to create a DMABUF for a BAR-map VMA Matt Evans
2026-09-15 12:16 ` liulongfang
2026-09-21 13:24 ` Matt Evans
2026-09-22 9:16 ` liulongfang
2026-09-24 12:43 ` Matt Evans
2026-09-11 21:41 ` [PATCH v6 6/9] vfio/pci: Convert BAR mmap() to use a DMABUF Matt Evans
2026-09-11 21:41 ` [PATCH v6 7/9] vfio/pci: Clean up BAR zap and revocation Matt Evans
2026-09-11 21:41 ` [PATCH v6 8/9] vfio/pci: Support mmap() of a VFIO DMABUF Matt Evans
2026-09-11 21:41 ` [PATCH v6 9/9] vfio/pci: Permanently revoke a DMABUF on request Matt Evans
2026-09-13 16:52 ` Leon Romanovsky
2026-09-14 11:36 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-09-14 11:54 ` Leon Romanovsky
2026-09-14 11:58 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-09-14 12:06 ` Leon Romanovsky
2026-09-14 12:08 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-09-14 12:13 ` Matt Evans
2026-09-15 7:20 ` Leon Romanovsky
2026-09-15 11:13 ` Christian König
2026-09-15 14:22 ` Matt Evans
2026-09-16 14:19 ` Christian König
2026-09-21 13:08 ` Matt Evans
2026-09-21 13:22 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-09-21 13:45 ` Christian König
2026-09-21 13:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-09-21 14:09 ` Christian König
2026-09-22 12:41 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-09-22 12:46 ` Leon Romanovsky
2026-09-22 12:54 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-09-22 22:31 ` Alex Mastro
2026-09-22 22:57 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-09-23 15:40 ` Matt Evans
2026-09-23 16:13 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-09-23 16:52 ` Leon Romanovsky
2026-09-23 17:06 ` Matt Evans [this message]
2026-09-24 17:36 ` Alex Mastro
2026-09-22 11:40 ` Leon Romanovsky
2026-09-15 12:35 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-09-15 14:30 ` Matt Evans
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