> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] dma-buf/udmabuf: Disable the size limit by
> default
>
> On 28.07.26 22:20, Kasireddy, Vivek wrote:
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> >> Subject: [PATCH v2] dma-buf/udmabuf: Disable the size limit by
> default
> >>
> >> As udmabuf increasingly enjoys popularity - being used in projects
> like
> >> libcamera, Gstreamer, Mesa, KWin and Weston - users more
> frequently
> >> encounter cases where the current default size limit of 64MB is too
> low.
> >> Examples include allocating video buffers at a 8K resolution - and
> even
> >> 4K
> >> is affected when using non-subsampled video formats and high bit
> >> depths.
> >>
> >> In its current form the size limit for individual buffers does not seem
> to
> >> provide any additional level of protection - such as limiting the
> amount
> >> of
> >> memory a process can pin - as the later can just allocate multiple
> >> buffers.
> >> If additional guardrails are desired, they would likely require some
> kind
> >> accounting not limited to individual buffers.
> >>
> >> Therefor let's disable the size limit by default by setting it to the
> >> maximal possible value, INT_MAX.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Robert Mader <robert.mader(a)collabora.com>
> >>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Changes in V2:
> >> - Use INT_MAX instead of 0 in order to not change behavior
> otherwise.
> >>
> >> See
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20260711144814.8205-1-
> >> robert.mader(a)collabora.com/
> >> for a previous attempt to make the value configurable via kconfig -
> and
> >> in particular
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/6764ca6f-b4d8-4baa-9d27-
> >> 2ca867ac2d41(a)amd.com/
> >> for the suggestion and discussion to remove the default limit.
> >> ---
> >> drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c | 4 ++--
> >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c b/drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c
> >> index bced421c0d65..639e93704924 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c
> >> @@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ static int list_limit = 1024;
> >> module_param(list_limit, int, 0644);
> >> MODULE_PARM_DESC(list_limit, "udmabuf_create_list->count limit.
> >> Default is 1024.");
> >>
> >> -static int size_limit_mb = 64;
> >> +static int size_limit_mb = INT_MAX;
> >> module_param(size_limit_mb, int, 0644);
> >> -MODULE_PARM_DESC(size_limit_mb, "Max size of a dmabuf, in
> >> megabytes. Default is 64.");
> >> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(size_limit_mb, "Max size of a dmabuf, in
> >> megabytes. Default is INT_MAX.");
> > Acked-by: Vivek Kasireddy <vivek.kasireddy(a)intel.com>
> >
> > If there are no further concerns/questions from anyone, I'll push it to
> > drm-misc-next soon.
>
> FTR., we already have a first duplicate :P
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20260803144120.11524-1-
> xaver.hugl(a)kde.org/
Yeah, looks like this change seems to be desirable in many use-cases.
I have pushed it to drm-misc-next today.
Thanks,
Vivek
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vivek
> >> struct udmabuf {
> >> pgoff_t pagecount;
> >> --
> >> 2.55.0
>
> --
> Robert Mader
> Consultant Software Developer
>
> Collabora Ltd.
> Platinum Building, St John's Innovation Park, Cambridge CB4 0DS, UK
> Registered in England & Wales, no. 5513718
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Hi Praan,
On 30/07/2026 23:55, Pranjal Shrivastava wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2026 at 06:47:26PM +0100, Matt Evans wrote:
>> Add vfio_pci_dma_buf_find_pfn(), which a VMA fault handler can use to
>> find a PFN.
>>
>> This supports multi-range DMABUFs, which typically would be used to
>> represent scattered spans but might even represent overlapping or
>> aliasing spans of PFNs.
>>
>> Because this is intended to be used in vfio_pci_core.c, we also need
>> to expose the struct vfio_pci_dma_buf in the vfio_pci_priv.h header.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt(a)ozlabs.org>
>> ---
>> drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_dmabuf.c | 153 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>> drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_priv.h | 20 ++++
>> 2 files changed, 160 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_dmabuf.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_dmabuf.c
>> index c16f460c01d6..7c047400dfd1 100644
>> --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_dmabuf.c
>> +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_dmabuf.c
>> @@ -9,19 +9,6 @@
>>
>> MODULE_IMPORT_NS("DMA_BUF");
>>
>> -struct vfio_pci_dma_buf {
>> - struct dma_buf *dmabuf;
>> - struct vfio_pci_core_device *vdev;
>> - struct list_head dmabufs_elm;
>> - size_t size;
>> - struct phys_vec *phys_vec;
>> - struct p2pdma_provider *provider;
>> - u32 nr_ranges;
>> - struct kref kref;
>> - struct completion comp;
>> - u8 revoked : 1;
>> -};
>> -
>> static int vfio_pci_dma_buf_attach(struct dma_buf *dmabuf,
>> struct dma_buf_attachment *attachment)
>> {
>> @@ -106,6 +93,146 @@ static const struct dma_buf_ops vfio_pci_dmabuf_ops = {
>> .release = vfio_pci_dma_buf_release,
>> };
>>
>> +int vfio_pci_dma_buf_find_pfn(struct vfio_pci_dma_buf *priv,
>> + struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>> + unsigned long fault_addr,
>> + unsigned int order,
>> + unsigned long *out_pfn)
>> +{
>> + /*
>> + * Given a VMA (start, end, pgoffs) and a fault address,
>> + * search the corresponding DMABUF's phys_vec[] to find the
>> + * range representing the address's offset into the VMA, and
>> + * its PFN.
>> + *
>> + * The phys_vec[] ranges represent contiguous spans of VAs
>> + * upwards from the buffer offset 0; the actual PFNs might be
>> + * in any order, overlap/alias, etc. Calculate an offset of
>> + * the desired page given VMA start/pgoff and address, then
>> + * search upwards from 0 to find which span contains it.
>> + *
>> + * On success, a valid PFN for a page sized by 'order' is
>> + * returned into out_pfn.
>> + *
>> + * Failure occurs if:
>> + * - A hugepage would cross the edge of the VMA,
>> + * - A hugepage isn't entirely contained within a range
>> + * (including where it straddles the boundary between
>> + * ranges),
>> + * - We find a range, but the final PFN isn't aligned to the
>> + * requested order.
>> + *
>> + * Upon failure, -EAGAIN is returned and the caller is
>> + * expected to try again with a smaller order, which will
>> + * eventually succeed (order=0 will always work).
>> + *
>> + * It's suboptimal if DMABUFs are created with neighbouring
>> + * ranges that are physically contiguous, since hugepages
>> + * can't straddle range boundaries. (The construction of the
>> + * ranges should merge them in this case.)
>> + *
>> + * Finally, vma_pgoff_adjust is used with a DMABUF created for
>> + * a VFIO BAR mmap: a BAR mapped with vm_pgoff > 0 creates a
>> + * DMABUF such that byte 0 of the VMA corresponds to byte 0 of
>> + * the DMABUF and byte 'vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT' into the BAR.
>> + * To avoid double-offsetting in this scenario, subtracting
>> + * vma_pgoff_adjust from this (non-zero) vm_pgoff generates
>> + * the effective offset.
>> + */
>> +
>> + const unsigned long pagesize = PAGE_SIZE << order;
>> + unsigned long vma_off = ((vma->vm_pgoff - priv->vma_pgoff_adjust) <<
>> + PAGE_SHIFT) & VFIO_PCI_OFFSET_MASK;
>
> Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself here.. but it seems like this
> restricts us to only mapping DMABUFs at offsets < 1TB due to the
> VFIO_PCI_OFFSET_MASK (since we have HBMs on PCI devices now, hitting 1TB
> may not be a very distant future).
This is a really good question, thanks for raisiing it. It is not too
forward-thinking at all.
> While I understand this mask is needed to drop the BAR encoding in the
> high bits.
>
> My worry is, if in the future a user were to export a massive
> contiguous DMABUF (e.g., >1TB of aggregated HBM) and tried to mmap deep
> into it (passing an offset >= 1TB), this bitwise AND would silently drop
> the high bits, leading to silent data corruption.
One of the big advantages of DMABUF export was that the range could be
huge and unencumbered by the VFIO_PCI_OFFSET_SHIFT of the traditional
mmap() interface. It's a way to mmap huge BARs without having to change
the user-visible shift). So definitely this is a relevant concern.
> I think we should explicitly reject such an mmap with -EINVAL like:
>
> +const unsigned long pagesize = PAGE_SIZE << order;
> +unsigned long vma_off = (vma->vm_pgoff - priv->vma_pgoff_adjust) << PAGE_SHIFT;
>
> +/*
> + * Prevent silent wrap-around if the user mmaps a DMABUF at an
> + * offset greater than the VFIO index mask allows.
> + */
> +if (unlikely(vma_off > VFIO_PCI_OFFSET_MASK))
> + return -EINVAL;
>
> +vma_off &= VFIO_PCI_OFFSET_MASK;
Agreed, for now this absolutely should not silently wrap if the offset
is > 1TB, and we live with the restriction that a DMABUF sized >1TB
can't be mapped with such an offset. (We can still, say, map all of a
16TB DMABUF with offset=0, which is good.). I'll add a check, thanks
for pointing this out.
I suggest as something to revisit later, we flag for a DMABUF (maybe an
evolution of vma_pgoff_adjust) to differentiate whether this masking
needs to be applied (traditional mmap() path) or not (DMABUF mmap()),
and then offsets can be arbitrarily large.
Cheers,
Matt
>> + unsigned long rounded_page_addr = ALIGN_DOWN(fault_addr, pagesize);
>> + unsigned long rounded_page_end = rounded_page_addr + pagesize;
>> + unsigned long fault_offset;
>> + unsigned long fault_offset_end;
>> + unsigned long range_start_offset = 0;
>> + unsigned int i;
>> + int ret;
>> +
>
>
> Thanks,
> Praan
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## What I Thought: "Getting home will be fine, it's the same city I've been in all week"
**What I know now:** the city functions completely differently right after midnight than it does at any other point during the trip. This was the assumption that caused the most friction in hindsight, mostly because it never occurred to me to question it. Roads that had been open all week closed. Transit that had been manageable became overwhelmed. Rideshare pricing jumped to something that felt almost absurd in the moment.
The lesson here wasn't about a specific mistake so much as a blind spot: I'd planned the arrival to the viewing spot in detail and genuinely never thought about the departure as a separate logistics problem. It is one, and now I plan for it as one.
## What I Thought: "The countdown and fireworks are basically the whole night"
**What I know now:** there's usually a lot more going on. At the time, my entire mental model of NYE in ZSL London Zoo, UK began and ended with the countdown moment itself. It wasn't until afterward, hearing what other people had done that same night, that I realized there were concerts, smaller parties, and local events running in parallel that never showed up in the content I'd been reading beforehand.
I wouldn't say I missed out, exactly — the night I had was fine. But I know now that "fine" and "the version that actually matched what I was looking for" aren't necessarily the same thing, and a bit more research into the broader event landscape would have closed that gap.
## Where This Ended Up
Looking back, none of these were single dramatic errors. They were a version of me applying normal trip-planning logic to a night that doesn't operate on normal trip-planning logic — and only realizing the difference after the fact, one piece at a time.
That hindsight is basically what became **[ https://nye2027insider.com/new-years-eve-2027-in-zsl-london-zoo-uk/ ]** — a full NYE 2027 planning resource for ZSL London Zoo, UK and several other major destinations, built around exactly the gaps outlined above:
- **Hotel recommendations that reflect the real booking timeline**, not generic "few months ahead" advice
- **A genuine comparison of ticketed versus free viewing options**, including the time cost that "free" doesn't advertise
- **Restaurant guidance with realistic reservation windows**, so dinner isn't left for later
- **Transport planning that treats the return trip as its own logistics problem**
- **A fuller view of what's happening beyond the main countdown**, for travelers who want more than just the fireworks
- **Official ticketed and skip-the-line options**, for anyone who'd rather not default to the free option out of habit
If ZSL London Zoo, UK is on your list for NYE 2027, the version of this planning process that took me a full trip to figure out is laid out here: **[ https://nye2027insider.com/new-years-eve-2027-in-zsl-london-zoo-uk/ ]**
## The Actual Takeaway
The gap between what I thought going in and what I know now isn't really about ZSL London Zoo, UK specifically — it's about how differently this one night operates compared to ordinary travel planning. Booking earlier, comparing free against paid rather than defaulting to either, locking in dinner ahead of everything else, and treating the trip home as seriously as the trip there: none of it is complicated in hindsight. It just wasn't obvious going in.
The complete resource, covering all of it in more depth, is available at **[ https://nye2027insider.com/new-years-eve-2027-in-zsl-london-zoo-uk/ ]**.