[RFC PATCH net-next v7 04/14] netdev: support binding dma-buf to netdevice

[Mina Almasry]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 11:28 AM Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 03:50:35PM -0700, Mina Almasry wrote:
> > Add a netdev_dmabuf_binding struct which represents the
> > dma-buf-to-netdevice binding. The netlink API will bind the dma-buf to
> > rx queues on the netdevice. On the binding, the dma_buf_attach
> > & dma_buf_map_attachment will occur. The entries in the sg_table from
> > mapping will be inserted into a genpool to make it ready
> > for allocation.
> >
> > The chunks in the genpool are owned by a dmabuf_chunk_owner struct which
> > holds the dma-buf offset of the base of the chunk and the dma_addr of
> > the chunk. Both are needed to use allocations that come from this chunk.
> >
> > We create a new type that represents an allocation from the genpool:
> > net_iov. We setup the net_iov allocation size in the
> > genpool to PAGE_SIZE for simplicity: to match the PAGE_SIZE normally
> > allocated by the page pool and given to the drivers.
> >
> > The user can unbind the dmabuf from the netdevice by closing the netlink
> > socket that established the binding. We do this so that the binding is
> > automatically unbound even if the userspace process crashes.
> >
> > The binding and unbinding leaves an indicator in struct netdev_rx_queue
> > that the given queue is bound, but the binding doesn't take effect until
> > the driver actually reconfigures its queues, and re-initializes its page
> > pool.
> >
> > The netdev_dmabuf_binding struct is refcounted, and releases its
> > resources only when all the refs are released.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb at google.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Kaiyuan Zhang <kaiyuanz at google.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina at google.com>
>
> ...
>
> > +int net_devmem_bind_dmabuf_to_queue(struct net_device *dev, u32 rxq_idx,
> > +                                 struct net_devmem_dmabuf_binding *binding)
> > +{
> > +     struct netdev_rx_queue *rxq;
> > +     u32 xa_idx;
> > +     int err;
> > +
> > +     if (rxq_idx >= dev->num_rx_queues)
> > +             return -ERANGE;
> > +
> > +     rxq = __netif_get_rx_queue(dev, rxq_idx);
> > +     if (rxq->mp_params.mp_priv)
> > +             return -EEXIST;
> > +
> > +     err = xa_alloc(&binding->bound_rxq_list, &xa_idx, rxq, xa_limit_32b,
> > +                    GFP_KERNEL);
> > +     if (err)
> > +             return err;
> > +
> > +     /* We hold the rtnl_lock while binding/unbinding dma-buf, so we can't
> > +      * race with another thread that is also modifying this value. However,
> > +      * the driver may read this config while it's creating its * rx-queues.
> > +      * WRITE_ONCE() here to match the READ_ONCE() in the driver.
> > +      */
> > +     WRITE_ONCE(rxq->mp_params.mp_ops, &dmabuf_devmem_ops);
>
> Hi Mina,
>
> This causes a build failure because mabuf_devmem_ops is not added until a
> subsequent patch in this series.
>

My apologies. I do notice the failure in patchwork now. I'll do a
patch by patch build for the next iteration.

> > +     WRITE_ONCE(rxq->mp_params.mp_priv, binding);
> > +
> > +     err = net_devmem_restart_rx_queue(dev, rxq_idx);
> > +     if (err)
> > +             goto err_xa_erase;
> > +
> > +     return 0;
> > +
> > +err_xa_erase:
> > +     WRITE_ONCE(rxq->mp_params.mp_ops, NULL);
> > +     WRITE_ONCE(rxq->mp_params.mp_priv, NULL);
> > +     xa_erase(&binding->bound_rxq_list, xa_idx);
> > +
> > +     return err;
> > +}
>
> ...



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Thanks,
Mina