linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] block: Generalize physical entry definition

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Message-ID: <20251115-nvme-phys-types-v1-0-c0f2e5e9163d@kernel.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2025 18:22:44 +0200
From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>
Cc: linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] block: Generalize physical entry definition

The block layer code is declared "struct phys_vec" entry which describes
contiguous chunk of physical memory. That definition is useful for all
possible users of DMA physical address-based API.

This series changes NVMe code to support larger chunks of memory by changing
length field from u32 to be size_t, which will be u64 on 64-bits platforms,
and promotes "struct phys_vec" to general place.

---
Leon Romanovsky (2):
      nvme-pci: Use size_t for length fields to handle larger sizes
      types: move phys_vec definition to common header

 block/blk-mq-dma.c      | 17 ++++++++---------
 drivers/nvme/host/pci.c |  4 ++--
 include/linux/types.h   |  5 +++++
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 79bd8c9814a273fa7ba43399e1c07adec3fc95db
change-id: 20251030-nvme-phys-types-988893249454