Re: [PATCH 1/2] PCI/P2PDMA: Update DMABUF lifecycle docs after move_notify() rename

From: Christian König

Date: Wed Aug 26 2026 - 07:51:05 EST


On 8/25/26 08:28, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Commit 95308225e5ba ("dma-buf: Rename dma_buf_move_notify() to
> dma_buf_invalidate_mappings()") left the DMABUF section of the P2PDMA
> documentation pointing at move_notify(), a symbol that no longer
> exists. Readers grepping for it find nothing, and this is the only
> place in Documentation/ describing the revocation requirement.
>
> Name the current function and record that importers which cannot unmap
> within bounded time have to be rejected at attach time, which is what
> makes the synchronous unmap on remove() achievable.
>
> Fixes: 95308225e5ba ("dma-buf: Rename dma_buf_move_notify() to dma_buf_invalidate_mappings()")
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>

> ---
> Documentation/driver-api/pci/p2pdma.rst | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/pci/p2pdma.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/pci/p2pdma.rst
> index d3f406cca694..63cff9e4d2c9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/driver-api/pci/p2pdma.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/pci/p2pdma.rst
> @@ -167,9 +167,11 @@ In this case the initiator and target pci_devices are known and the P2P subsyste
> is used to determine the mapping type. The phys_addr_t-based DMA API is used to
> establish the dma_addr_t.
>
> -Lifecycle is controlled by DMABUF move_notify(). When the exporting driver wants
> +Lifecycle is controlled by DMABUF revocation. When the exporting driver wants
> to remove() it must deliver an invalidation shutdown to all DMABUF importing
> -drivers through move_notify() and synchronously DMA unmap all the MMIO.
> +drivers through dma_buf_invalidate_mappings() and synchronously DMA unmap all
> +the MMIO. Importers unable to complete that unmap within bounded time have to
> +be rejected when they attach, which dma_buf_attach_revocable() checks for.
>
> No importing driver can continue to have a DMA map to the MMIO after the
> exporting driver has destroyed its p2p_provider.
>