[RFC PATCH 2/6] dma-buf: Add get_phys() to describe a physical run

[Fred Griffoul]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 11:46:16AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> I don't want to keep expanding this hack in iommufd. If dmabuf is to
> be used then dmabuf needs to provide a pluggable way to fill the
> iommu_domain that many exporters can plug into. I don't want to
> hardwire every exporter into iommufd, that makes no sense.
>
> The existing arrangement is to motivate solving this problem
> generically, not something to be expanded on.

Agreed. The iommufd registry I mentioned above was never posted, and I
have dropped it.

The series I posted since takes another route, without dma-buf:

  https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261006183235.16576-1-griffoul@gmail.com/

It adds a small interface in mm for drivers that own memory. Such a
driver hands out files, and for each page of a file it tells the caller
which frame backs it. iommufd maps the file with IOMMU_IOAS_MAP_FILE and
builds the iommu_domain itself, and the driver revokes a range when it
changes. So iommufd never knows which driver it is talking to, and there
is no symbol_get(). guest_memfd uses the same files for the guest. The
iommufd part is patch 5:

  https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261006183235.16576-6-griffoul@gmail.com/

The iommufd part is mainly there to show the interface, and it needs
more work. Its revoke unmaps and then remaps, so a device can hit a
hole. I would rebuild it on the REPLACE operation David discussed with
you at LPC, with the scratch page as a quirk on the IOAS.

Is this the kind of generic interface you had in mind, or would you
rather have it hang off dma-buf?

Thanks,
Fred