[PATCH 0/5 v2] Fix NVMe driver support on Power with 32-bit DMA

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Oct 3 06:51:06 AEST 2015


On Fri, 2015-10-02 at 13:09 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:

> 1) add a generic dma_get_page_shift implementation that just returns
> PAGE_SHIFT

So you chose to return the granularity of the iommu to the driver
rather than providing a way for the driver to request a specific
alignment for DMA mappings. Any specific reason ?

Cheers,
Ben.



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