linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: libsas: Allocation SMP request is aligned to ARCH_DMA

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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:29:16 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@...nel.org>
Cc: Yihang Li <liyihang9@...wei.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>, yanaijie@...wei.com,
	jejb@...ux.ibm.com, martin.petersen@...cle.com,
	chenxiang66@...ilicon.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxarm@...wei.com,
	prime.zeng@...wei.com, yangxingui@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: libsas: Allocation SMP request is aligned to
 ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 04:23:22PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> But I thought that the original issue was that some arch have ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
> down to 8B but hisi driver needs at least 16 ?
> 
> So in the end, you need something like:
> 
> 	size = ALIGN(size, max(16, ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN));
> 
> no ?

I don't think we ever have an 8 byte dma minalign.  With 8-byte
aligned addresses dma_mapping_error could run into problems.