This series is the start of adding full DMABUF support to iommufd. Currently it is limited to only work with VFIO's DMABUF exporter. It sits on top of Leon's series to add a DMABUF exporter to VFIO:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251106-dmabuf-vfio-v7-0-2503bf390699@nvidia.com
The existing IOMMU_IOAS_MAP_FILE is enhanced to detect DMABUF fd's, but otherwise works the same as it does today for a memfd. The user can select a slice of the FD to map into the ioas and if the underliyng alignment requirements are met it will be placed in the iommu_domain.
Though limited, it is enough to allow a VMM like QEMU to connect MMIO BAR memory from VFIO to an iommu_domain controlled by iommufd. This is used for PCI Peer to Peer support in VMs, and is the last feature that the VFIO type 1 container has that iommufd couldn't do.
The VFIO type1 version extracts raw PFNs from VMAs, which has no lifetime control and is a use-after-free security problem.
Instead iommufd relies on revokable DMABUFs. Whenever VFIO thinks there should be no access to the MMIO it can shoot down the mapping in iommufd which will unmap it from the iommu_domain. There is no automatic remap, this is a safety protocol so the kernel doesn't get stuck. Userspace is expected to know it is doing something that will revoke the dmabuf and map/unmap it around the activity. Eg when QEMU goes to issue FLR it should do the map/unmap to iommufd.
Since DMABUF is missing some key general features for this use case it relies on a "private interconnect" between VFIO and iommufd via the vfio_pci_dma_buf_iommufd_map() call.
The call confirms the DMABUF has revoke semantics and delivers a phys_addr for the memory suitable for use with iommu_map().
Medium term there is a desire to expand the supported DMABUFs to include GPU drivers to support DPDK/SPDK type use cases so future series will work to add a general concept of revoke and a general negotiation of interconnect to remove vfio_pci_dma_buf_iommufd_map().
I also plan another series to modify iommufd's vfio_compat to transparently pull a dmabuf out of a VFIO VMA to emulate more of the uAPI of type1.
The latest series for interconnect negotation to exchange a phys_addr is: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251027044712.1676175-1-vivek.kasireddy@intel.com
And the discussion for design of revoke is here: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20250114173103.GE5556@nvidia.com/
This is on github: https://github.com/jgunthorpe/linux/commits/iommufd_dmabuf
v2: - Rebase on Leon's v7 - Fix mislocking in an iopt_fill_domain() error path v1: https://patch.msgid.link/r/0-v1-64bed2430cdb+31b-iommufd_dmabuf_jgg@nvidia.c...
Jason Gunthorpe (9): vfio/pci: Add vfio_pci_dma_buf_iommufd_map() iommufd: Add DMABUF to iopt_pages iommufd: Do not map/unmap revoked DMABUFs iommufd: Allow a DMABUF to be revoked iommufd: Allow MMIO pages in a batch iommufd: Have pfn_reader process DMABUF iopt_pages iommufd: Have iopt_map_file_pages convert the fd to a file iommufd: Accept a DMABUF through IOMMU_IOAS_MAP_FILE iommufd/selftest: Add some tests for the dmabuf flow
drivers/iommu/iommufd/io_pagetable.c | 78 +++- drivers/iommu/iommufd/io_pagetable.h | 53 ++- drivers/iommu/iommufd/ioas.c | 8 +- drivers/iommu/iommufd/iommufd_private.h | 14 +- drivers/iommu/iommufd/iommufd_test.h | 10 + drivers/iommu/iommufd/main.c | 10 + drivers/iommu/iommufd/pages.c | 407 ++++++++++++++++-- drivers/iommu/iommufd/selftest.c | 142 ++++++ drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_dmabuf.c | 34 ++ include/linux/vfio_pci_core.h | 4 + tools/testing/selftests/iommu/iommufd.c | 43 ++ tools/testing/selftests/iommu/iommufd_utils.h | 44 ++ 12 files changed, 781 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
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