linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] swiotlb-xen: override common mmap and get

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Message-ID: <20210616153519.GA6476@lst.de>
Date:   Wed, 16 Jun 2021 17:35:19 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Roman Skakun <rm.skakun@...il.com>,
        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@...m.com>,
        Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@...m.com>,
        Volodymyr Babchuk <volodymyr_babchuk@...m.com>,
        Roman Skakun <roman_skakun@...m.com>,
        Andrii Anisov <andrii_anisov@...m.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] swiotlb-xen: override common mmap and get_sgtable
 dma ops

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 11:33:50AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> Isn't the expectation of virt_to_page() that it only works on non-vmalloc'd addresses? (This is not a rhetorical question, I actually don't know).

Yes.  Thus is why I'd suggest to just do the vmalloc_to_page or
virt_to_page dance in ops_helpers.c and just continue using that.