On 2/3/25 11:39 PM, Mina Almasry wrote:

Augment dmabuf binding to be able to handle TX. Additional to all the RX
binding, we also create tx_vec needed for the TX path.

Provide API for sendmsg to be able to send dmabufs bound to this device:

- Provide a new dmabuf_tx_cmsg which includes the dmabuf to send from.
- MSG_ZEROCOPY with SCM_DEVMEM_DMABUF cmsg indicates send from dma-buf.

Devmem is uncopyable, so piggyback off the existing MSG_ZEROCOPY
implementation, while disabling instances where MSG_ZEROCOPY falls back
to copying.

We additionally pipe the binding down to the new
zerocopy_fill_skb_from_devmem which fills a TX skb with net_iov netmems
instead of the traditional page netmems.

We also special case skb_frag_dma_map to return the dma-address of these
dmabuf net_iovs instead of attempting to map pages.

Based on work by Stanislav Fomichev [off-list ref]. A lot of the meat
of the implementation came from devmem TCP RFC v1[1], which included the
TX path, but Stan did all the rebasing on top of netmem/net_iov.

Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Signed-off-by: Kaiyuan Zhang <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry <redacted>

Very minor nit: you unexpectedly leaved a lot of empty lines after the SoB.

[...]

@@ -240,13 +249,23 @@ net_devmem_bind_dmabuf(struct net_device *dev,

unsigned int dmabuf_fd,

 	 * binding can be much more flexible than that. We may be able to
 	 * allocate MTU sized chunks here. Leave that for future work...
 	 */
-	binding->chunk_pool =
-		gen_pool_create(PAGE_SHIFT, dev_to_node(&dev->dev));
+	binding->chunk_pool = gen_pool_create(PAGE_SHIFT,
+					      dev_to_node(&dev->dev));
 	if (!binding->chunk_pool) {
 		err = -ENOMEM;
 		goto err_unmap;
 	}
 
+	if (direction == DMA_TO_DEVICE) {
+		binding->tx_vec = kvmalloc_array(dmabuf->size / PAGE_SIZE,
+						 sizeof(struct net_iov *),
+						 GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!binding->tx_vec) {
+			err = -ENOMEM;
+			goto err_free_chunks;

It looks like the later error paths (in the for_each_sgtable_dma_sg()
loop) could happen even for 'direction == DMA_TO_DEVICE', so I guess an
additional error label is needed to clean tx_vec on such paths.

/P