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Date:   Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:54:57 +0530
From:   Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
To:     Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc:     Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@cern.ch>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: DMA Engine: Transfer From Userspace
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On 19-06-20, 16:31, Dave Jiang wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6/19/2020 3:47 PM, Federico Vaga wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > is there the possibility of using a DMA engine channel from userspace?
> > 
> > Something like:
> > - configure DMA using ioctl() (or whatever configuration mechanism)
> > - read() or write() to trigger the transfer
> > 
> 
> I may have supposedly promised Vinod to look into possibly providing
> something like this in the future. But I have not gotten around to do that
> yet. Currently, no such support.

And I do still have serious reservations about this topic :) Opening up
userspace access to DMA does not sound very great from security point of
view.

Federico, what use case do you have in mind?

We should keep in mind dmaengine is an in-kernel interface providing
services to various subsystems, so you go thru the respective subsystem
kernel interface (network, display, spi, audio etc..) which would in
turn use dmaengine.

-- 
~Vinod