kernel/linux.git/include/uapi/rdma/ib_user_ioctl_cmds.h, branch linux-7.0.y

RDMA/uverbs: Add DMABUF object type and operations

2026-02-09T04:50:41+00:00

Expose DMABUF functionality to userspace through the uverbs interface, enabling InfiniBand/RDMA devices to export PCI based memory regions (e.g. device memory) as DMABUF file descriptors. This allows zero-copy sharing of RDMA memory with other subsystems that support the dma-buf framework. A new UVERBS_OBJECT_DMABUF object type and allocation method were introduced. During allocation, uverbs invokes the driver to supply the rdma_user_mmap_entry associated with the given page offset (pgoff). Based on the returned rdma_user_mmap_entry, uverbs requests the driver to provide the corresponding physical-memory details as well as the driver’s PCI provider information. Using this information, dma_buf_export() is called; if it succeeds, uobj->object is set to the underlying file pointer returned by the dma-buf framework. The file descriptor number follows the standard uverbs allocation flow, but the file pointer comes from the dma-buf subsystem, including its own fops and private data. When an mmap entry is removed, uverbs iterates over its associated DMABUFs, marks them as revoked, and calls dma_buf_move_notify() so that their importers are notified. The same procedure applies during the disassociate flow; final cleanup occurs when the application closes the file. Signed-off-by: Yishai Hadas Signed-off-by: Edward Srouji Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260201-dmabuf-export-v3-2-da238b614fe3@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky

IB/core: Add query_port_speed verb

2026-01-05T07:43:05+00:00

Add new ibv_query_port_speed() verb to enable applications to query the effective bandwidth of a port. This verb is particularly useful when the speed is not a multiplication of IB speed and width where width is 2^n. Signed-off-by: Or Har-Toov Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch Signed-off-by: Edward Srouji Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky

IB: Extend UVERBS_METHOD_REG_MR to get DMAH

2025-07-23T05:42:11+00:00

Extend UVERBS_METHOD_REG_MR to get DMAH and pass it to all drivers. It will be used in mlx5 driver as part of the next patch from the series. Signed-off-by: Yishai Hadas Reviewed-by: Edward Srouji Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2ae1e628c0675db81f092cc00d3ad6fbf6139405.1752752567.git.leon@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky

RDMA/core: Introduce a DMAH object and its alloc/free APIs

2025-07-23T05:42:10+00:00

Introduce a new DMA handle (DMAH) object along with its corresponding allocation and deallocation APIs. This DMAH object encapsulates attributes intended for use in DMA transactions. While its initial purpose is to support TPH functionality, it is designed to be extensible for future features such as DMA PCI multipath, PCI UIO configurations, PCI traffic class selection, and more. Further details: ---------------- We ensure that a caller requesting a DMA handle for a specific CPU ID is permitted to be scheduled on it. This prevent a potential security issue where a non privilege user may trigger DMA operations toward a CPU that it's not allowed to run on. We manage reference counting for the DMAH object and its consumers (e.g., memory regions) as will be detailed in subsequent patches in the series. Signed-off-by: Yishai Hadas Reviewed-by: Edward Srouji Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2cad097e849597e49d6b61e6865dba878257f371.1752752567.git.leon@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky

IB/core: Add UVERBS_METHOD_REG_MR on the MR object

2025-07-23T05:42:10+00:00

This new method enables us to use a single ioctl from user space which supports the below variants of reg_mr [1]. The method will be extended in the next patches from the series with an extra attribute to let us pass DMA handle to be used as part of the registration. [1] ibv_reg_mr(), ibv_reg_mr_iova(), ibv_reg_mr_iova2(), ibv_reg_dmabuf_mr(). Signed-off-by: Yishai Hadas Reviewed-by: Edward Srouji Link: https://patch.msgid.link/5a3822ceef084efe967c9752e89c58d8250337c7.1752752567.git.leon@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky

RDMA/uverbs: Add a common way to create CQ with umem

2025-07-13T08:00:34+00:00

Add ioctl command attributes and a common handling for the option to create CQs with memory buffers passed from userspace. When required attributes are supplied, create umem and provide it for driver's use. The extension enables creation of CQs on top of preallocated CPU virtual or device memory buffers, by supplying VA or dmabuf fd, in a common way. Drivers can support this flow by initializing a new create_cq_umem fp field in their ops struct, with a function that can handle the new parameter. Signed-off-by: Michael Margolin Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250708202308.24783-2-mrgolin@amazon.com Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky

RDMA/uverbs: Add support for UCAPs in context creation

2025-03-09T17:13:02+00:00

Add support for file descriptor array attribute for GET_CONTEXT commands. Check that the file descriptor (fd) array represents fds for valid UCAPs. Store the enabled UCAPs from the fd array as a bitmask in ib_ucontext. Signed-off-by: Chiara Meiohas Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ebfb30bc947e2259b193c96a319c80e82599045b.1741261611.git.leon@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Yishai Hadas Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky

RDMA: Pass entire uverbs attr bundle to create cq function

2024-06-27T19:28:21+00:00

Changes the create_cq verb signature by sending the entire uverbs attr bundle as a parameter. This allows drivers to send driver specific attrs through ioctl for the create_cq verb and access them in their driver specific code. Also adds a new enum value for driver specific ioctl attributes for methods already supporting UHW. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ed147343987c0d43fd391c1b2f85e2f425747387.1719512393.git.leon@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Akiva Goldberger Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe

RDMA/uverbs: Add uverbs command for dma-buf based MR registration

2021-01-20T20:07:52+00:00

Implement a new uverbs ioctl method for memory registration with file descriptor as an extra parameter. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1608067636-98073-4-git-send-email-jianxin.xiong@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jianxin Xiong Reviewed-by: Sean Hefty Acked-by: Michael J. Ruhl Acked-by: Christian Koenig Acked-by: Daniel Vetter Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe

RDMA/uverbs: Expose the new GID query API to user space

2020-10-02T00:20:11+00:00

Expose the query GID table and entry API to user space by adding two new methods and method handlers to the device object. This API provides a faster way to query a GID table using single call and will be used in libibverbs to improve current approach that requires multiple calls to open, close and read multiple sysfs files for a single GID table entry. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200923165015.2491894-5-leon@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Avihai Horon Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe