linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 02/23] lib/scatterlist: add flag for indicating P2PDMA segments in an SGL

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Date:   Mon, 13 Dec 2021 21:55:04 +0000
From:   Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanyak@...dia.com>
To:     Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-block@...r.kernel.org" <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
CC:     Stephen Bates <sbates@...thlin.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Don Dutile <ddutile@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        Jakowski Andrzej <andrzej.jakowski@...el.com>,
        Minturn Dave B <dave.b.minturn@...el.com>,
        Jason Ekstrand <jason@...kstrand.net>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Xiong Jianxin <jianxin.xiong@...el.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Martin Oliveira <martin.oliveira@...eticom.com>,
        Chaitanya Kulkarni <ckulkarnilinux@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 02/23] lib/scatterlist: add flag for indicating P2PDMA
 segments in an SGL

On 11/17/21 1:53 PM, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> Make use of the third free LSB in scatterlist's page_link on 64bit systems.
> 
> The extra bit will be used by dma_[un]map_sg_p2pdma() to determine when a
> given SGL segments dma_address points to a PCI bus address.
> dma_unmap_sg_p2pdma() will need to perform different cleanup when a
> segment is marked as a bus address.
> 
> Create a CONFIG_NEED_SG_DMA_BUS_ADDR_FLAG bool which depends on
> CONFIG_64BIT (so there is space in the page link for the new flag).
> CONFIG_PCI_P2PDMA will then depend on this so this means PCI P2PDMA will
> require CONFIG_64BIT. This should be acceptable as the majority of P2PDMA
> use cases are restricted to newer root complexes and roughly require the
> extra address space for memory BARs used in the transactions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@...dia.com>