Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] habanalabs: define uAPI to export FD for DMA-BUF

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Tue Sep 28 2021 - 13:13:40 EST


On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 07:53:08PM +0300, Oded Gabbay wrote:
> /* HL_MEM_OP_* */
> __u32 op;
> - /* HL_MEM_* flags */
> + /* HL_MEM_* flags.
> + * For the HL_MEM_OP_EXPORT_DMABUF_FD opcode, this field holds the
> + * DMA-BUF file/FD flags.
> + */
> __u32 flags;
> /* Context ID - Currently not in use */
> __u32 ctx_id;
> @@ -1072,6 +1091,13 @@ struct hl_mem_out {
>
> __u32 pad;
> };
> +
> + /* Returned in HL_MEM_OP_EXPORT_DMABUF_FD. Represents the
> + * DMA-BUF object that was created to describe a memory
> + * allocation on the device's memory space. The FD should be
> + * passed to the importer driver
> + */
> + __u64 fd;

fd's should be a s32 type in a fixed width uapi.

I usually expect to see the uapi changes inside the commit that
consumes them, splitting the patch like this seems strange but
harmless.

Jason