Public bug reported:
The peer_memory_client scheme allows a driver to register with the ib_umem
system that it has the ability to understand user virtual address ranges that
are not compatible with get_user_pages(). For instance VMAs created with
io_remap_pfn_range(), or other driver special VMA.
For ranges the interface understands it can provide a DMA mapped sg_table for
use by the ib_umem, allowing user virtual ranges that cannot be supported by
get_user_pages() to be used as umems for RDMA.
This is designed to preserve the kABI, no functions or structures are changed,
only new symbols are added:
ib_register_peer_memory_client
ib_unregister_peer_memory_client
ib_umem_activate_invalidation_notifier
ib_umem_get_peer
And a bitfield in struct ib_umem uses more bits.
This interface is compatible with the two out of tree GPU drivers:
https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCK-Kernel-Driver/blob/master/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_peerdirect.c
https://github.com/Mellanox/nv_peer_memory/blob/master/nv_peer_mem.c
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Include Infiniband Peer Memory interface
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