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charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20251219145957.GD254720@nvidia.com> On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 10:59:57AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 02:44:29PM -0500, Peter Xu wrote: > > > > Or maybe I misunderstood what you're suggesting to document? If so, please > > > > let me know; some example would be greatly helpful. > > > > > > Just document the 'VA % order = pgoff % order' equation in the kdoc > > > for the new op. > > > > When it's "related to PTEs", it's talking about (2) above, so that's really > > what I want to avoid mentioning. > > You can't avoid it. Drivers must ensure that > > pgoff % order == physical % order > > And that is something only drivers can do by knowing about this > requirement. This is a current limitation that above must be guaranteed, there's not much the driver can do, IMHO. If you could remember, that's the only reason why I used to suggest (while we were discussing this in v1) to make it *pgoff instead of pgoff, so that drivers can change *pgoff to make it relevant to HPA. I didn't take that approach as I want to make this simple until it's justified to be required. It holds true for vfio-pci, I hope it holds true forever. If not, this API will stop working, afaict. -- Peter Xu