Re: [PATCH 1/2] uio: introduce UIO_MEM_DMA_COHERENT type

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Jan 31 2024 - 16:30:34 EST


On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 11:17:31AM -0800, Chris Leech wrote:
> Add a UIO memtype specifically for sharing dma_alloc_coherent
> memory with userspace, backed by dma_mmap_coherent.
>
> This is mainly for the bnx2/bnx2x/bnx2i "cnic" interface, although there
> are a few other uio drivers which map dma_alloc_coherent memory and
> could be converted to use dma_mmap_coherent as well.

What other drivers could use this? Patches doing the conversion would
be welcome, otherwise, again, I am very loath to take this
one-off-change for just a single driver that shouldn't be doing this in
the first place :)

thanks,

greg k-h