On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Actually, it looks like something completely general isn't
> easily doable, not without some major dma API work.  Here is what
> should fix nvme, but a few other drivers will need fixes as well:
> 
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> From 745541130409bc837a3416300f529b16eded8513 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 14:55:26 +0200
> Subject: nvme-pci: don't limit DMA segement size
> 
> NVMe uses PRPs (or optionally unlimited SGLs) for data transfers and
> has no specific limit for a single DMA segement.  Limiting the size
> will cause problems because the block layer assumes PRP-ish devices
> using a virt boundary mask don't have a segment limit.  And while this
> is true, we also really need to tell the DMA mapping layer about it,
> otherwise dma-debug will trip over it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Sebastian Ott <[email protected]>

Works for me. Thanks!

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