[PATCH v4 15/16] block-dma: properly take MMIO path

Keith Busch kbusch at kernel.org
Fri Aug 29 01:19:20 AEST 2025


On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 08:36:59PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h
> index 09b99d52fd36..283058bcb5b1 100644
> --- a/include/linux/blk_types.h
> +++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h
> @@ -387,6 +387,7 @@ enum req_flag_bits {
>  	__REQ_FS_PRIVATE,	/* for file system (submitter) use */
>  	__REQ_ATOMIC,		/* for atomic write operations */
>  	__REQ_P2PDMA,		/* contains P2P DMA pages */
> +	__REQ_MMIO,		/* contains MMIO memory */
>  	/*
>  	 * Command specific flags, keep last:
>  	 */
> @@ -420,6 +421,7 @@ enum req_flag_bits {
>  #define REQ_FS_PRIVATE	(__force blk_opf_t)(1ULL << __REQ_FS_PRIVATE)
>  #define REQ_ATOMIC	(__force blk_opf_t)(1ULL << __REQ_ATOMIC)
>  #define REQ_P2PDMA	(__force blk_opf_t)(1ULL << __REQ_P2PDMA)
> +#define REQ_MMIO	(__force blk_opf_t)(1ULL << __REQ_MMIO)

Now that my integrity metadata DMA series is staged, I don't think we
can use REQ flags like this because data and metadata may have different
mapping types. I think we should add a flags field to the dma_iova_state
instead.


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