Thread (124 messages) 124 messages, 18 authors, 2018-03-09

Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] Copy Offload in NVMe Fabrics with P2P PCI Memory

From: Logan Gunthorpe <hidden>
Date: 2018-03-01 21:11:50
Also in: linux-block, linux-nvme, linux-pci, lkml, nvdimm


On 01/03/18 02:03 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
However, what happens if anything calls page_address() on them ? Some
DMA ops do that for example, or some devices might ...
Although we could probably work around it with some pain, we rely on 
page_address() and virt_to_phys(), etc to work on these pages. So on 
x86, yes, it makes it into the linear mapping.

Logan
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