linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lib/scatterlist: Provide a DMA page iterator

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Date:   Mon, 14 Jan 2019 10:46:14 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@...el.com>
Cc:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Imre Deak <imre.deak@...el.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        "linux-media@...r.kernel.org" <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
        Yong Zhi <yong.zhi@...el.com>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Bingbu Cao <bingbu.cao@...el.com>,
        Tian Shu Qiu <tian.shu.qiu@...el.com>,
        Jian Xu Zheng <jian.xu.zheng@...el.com>,
        Sinclair Yeh <syeh@...are.com>,
        Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>,
        "dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/scatterlist: Provide a DMA page iterator

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 01:03:05PM -0600, Shiraz Saleem wrote:
> Well I was trying convert the RDMA drivers to use your new iterator variant
> and saw the need for it in locations where we need virtual address of the pages
> contained in the SGEs.

As far as i can tell that pg_arr[i] value is only ever used for
the case where we do an explicit dma coherent allocation,  so you
should not have to fill it out at all.