[PATCH net-next v2 2/4] udmabuf: emit one sg entry per pinned folio

From: Bobby Eshleman

Date: Thu Jun 11 2026 - 12:17:59 EST


From: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@xxxxxxxx>

get_sg_table() emitted one PAGE_SIZE sg entry per page even when the
underlying folio was larger.

Instead, walk folios[] and emit one sg entry per folio. When folios
represent large pages (as is for MFD_HUGETLB), each sg entry is a large
page. Normal PAGE_SIZE sg tables are unchanged.

This is helpful for importers like net/core/devmem that expect dmabuf sg
entries to be size and length aligned. Prior to this patch udmabuf
handed over one PAGE_SIZE sg entry per page, so devmem only saw
PAGE_SIZE chunks regardless of the underlying folio size.

dma_map_sgtable() does not always merge contiguous pages for us, so we
do this internally before exporting.

Signed-off-by: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c b/drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c
index 94b8ecb892bb..9b751dd98b12 100644
--- a/drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c
+++ b/drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c
@@ -141,26 +141,68 @@ static void vunmap_udmabuf(struct dma_buf *buf, struct iosys_map *map)
vm_unmap_ram(map->vaddr, ubuf->pagecount);
}

+/* Return the number of contiguous pages backed by the folio at @i.
+ * A udmabuf may map only part of a folio, or reference the same folio
+ * in multiple non-contiguous runs, so folio_nr_pages() can't be used.
+ */
+static pgoff_t udmabuf_folio_nr_pages(struct udmabuf *ubuf, pgoff_t i)
+{
+ struct folio *f = ubuf->folios[i];
+ pgoff_t j;
+
+ for (j = 1; i + j < ubuf->pagecount; j++) {
+ if (ubuf->folios[i + j] != f)
+ break;
+ /* Same folio, but not a sequential offset within it. */
+ if (ubuf->offsets[i + j] != ubuf->offsets[i] + j * PAGE_SIZE)
+ break;
+ }
+ return j;
+}
+
+/* Count the contiguous folio runs in @ubuf, one sg entry per run.
+ *
+ * Coalescing folios into a single sg entry up front lets importers actually
+ * see large chunks. We can't rely on dma_map_sgtable() to do this for us as
+ * the dma_map_direct() path preserves the input scatterlist lengths verbatim.
+ */
+static unsigned int udmabuf_sg_nents(struct udmabuf *ubuf)
+{
+ unsigned int nents = 0;
+ pgoff_t i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < ubuf->pagecount; i += udmabuf_folio_nr_pages(ubuf, i))
+ nents++;
+ return nents;
+}
+
static struct sg_table *get_sg_table(struct device *dev, struct dma_buf *buf,
enum dma_data_direction direction)
{
struct udmabuf *ubuf = buf->priv;
- struct sg_table *sg;
struct scatterlist *sgl;
- unsigned int i = 0;
+ struct sg_table *sg;
+ pgoff_t i, run;
+ unsigned int nents;
int ret;

+ nents = udmabuf_sg_nents(ubuf);
+
sg = kzalloc_obj(*sg);
if (!sg)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

- ret = sg_alloc_table(sg, ubuf->pagecount, GFP_KERNEL);
+ ret = sg_alloc_table(sg, nents, GFP_KERNEL);
if (ret < 0)
goto err_alloc;

- for_each_sg(sg->sgl, sgl, ubuf->pagecount, i)
- sg_set_folio(sgl, ubuf->folios[i], PAGE_SIZE,
+ sgl = sg->sgl;
+ for (i = 0; i < ubuf->pagecount; i += run) {
+ run = udmabuf_folio_nr_pages(ubuf, i);
+ sg_set_folio(sgl, ubuf->folios[i], run << PAGE_SHIFT,
ubuf->offsets[i]);
+ sgl = sg_next(sgl);
+ }

ret = dma_map_sgtable(dev, sg, direction, 0);
if (ret < 0)

--
2.53.0-Meta