On 11/30/18 12:21 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 09:56:43AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> For an ITER_KVEC, we can just iterate the iov and add the pages
>> to the bio directly.
> 
>> +            page = virt_to_page(kv->iov_base);
>> +            size = bio_add_page(bio, page, kv->iov_len,
>> +                                    offset_in_page(kv->iov_base));
> 
> Who said that you *can* do virt_to_page() on those?  E.g. vmalloc()'ed
> addresses are fine for ITER_KVEC, etc.

Then how do you set up a kvec based iter with memory you can safely
DMA to/from?

-- 
Jens Axboe

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