Re: [PATCH v6 9/9] vfio/pci: Permanently revoke a DMABUF on request

From: Leon Romanovsky

Date: Mon Sep 14 2026 - 08:19:37 EST


On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 08:58:26AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 02:54:56PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>
> > So I still think that "temporarily revoked" is closer to
> > invalidate_mappings, with some additional dma-buf documentation to lose
> > the expectation that the buffer will become available again.
>
> It really isn't, there is no expectation her that the importer has to
> put things back like with move.

As we discussed with Christian, "move" doesn't have such expectation.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/afb19db0-4154-443c-9d39-f905e7d17806@xxxxxxx/

Thanks

>
> From a DMABUF API this is very much just plain revoke.
>
> Jason