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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead•org>
To: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail•com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung•com>,
	Linux-Arch <linux-arch@vger•kernel.org>,
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	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead•org>,
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	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>,
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	"Maciej W . Rozycki" <macro@orcam•me.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] arch/*/: remove CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 23:21:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YrvvfpW4MmQiM47H@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9f812d3d-0fcd-46e6-6d7e-6d4bf66f24ab@gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 11:09:00AM +1200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> And all SCSI buffers are allocated using kmalloc? No way at all for user
> space to pass unaligned data?

Most that you will see actually comes from the page allocator.  But
the block layer has a dma_alignment limit, and when userspace sends
I/O that is not properly aligned it will be bounce buffered before
it it sent to the driver.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-29  6:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-17 12:57 [PATCH v2 0/3] phase out CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-17 12:57 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] scsi: dpt_i2o: drop stale VIRT_TO_BUS dependency Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-21  8:43   ` Hannes Reinecke
2022-06-17 12:57 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] scsi: BusLogic remove bus_to_virt Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-17 14:02   ` Robin Murphy
2022-06-21  8:45   ` Hannes Reinecke
2022-06-21 21:56   ` Khalid Aziz
2022-06-23 14:47     ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-24 15:38       ` Khalid Aziz
2022-06-24 15:43         ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-17 12:57 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] arch/*/: remove CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-18  1:06   ` Michael Schmitz
2022-06-24  9:10     ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-26  5:21       ` Michael Schmitz
2022-06-26  8:36         ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-27  8:09           ` Michael Schmitz
2022-06-27  8:26     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-06-27 21:12       ` Michael Schmitz
2022-06-28  3:25         ` Michael Schmitz
2022-06-28  7:03           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-06-28 21:03             ` Michael Schmitz
2022-06-28 21:50               ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-28 23:09                 ` Michael Schmitz
2022-06-28 23:50                   ` Bart Van Assche
2022-06-29  0:01                     ` Michael Schmitz
2022-06-29  0:14                       ` Michael Schmitz
2022-06-29  6:21                   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-06-30 19:21                     ` Michael Schmitz
2022-06-30  8:04                   ` David Laight
2022-06-30  9:40                     ` Christophe Leroy
2022-06-30 10:32                       ` David Laight
2022-06-28  7:08           ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-28 21:38             ` Michael Schmitz
2022-06-28 21:55               ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-28 23:43                 ` Michael Schmitz
2022-06-29  6:25               ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-06-30 19:26                 ` Michael Schmitz

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