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

[Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 08:45:42PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 02:54:35PM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> 
> > In truth though, I hadn't tried p2p metadata before today, and it looks
> > like bio_integrity_map_user() is missing the P2P extraction flags to
> > make that work. Just added this patch below, now I can set p2p or host
> > memory independently for data and integrity payloads:
> 
> I think it is a bit more than that, you have to make sure all the meta
> data is the same, either all p2p or all cpu and then record this
> somehow so the DMA mapping knows what kind it is.

Sure, I can get all that added in for the real patch.
 
> Once that is all done then the above should still be OK, the dma unmap
> of the data can follow Leon's new flag and the dma unmap of the
> integrity can follow however integrity kept track (in the
> bio_integrity_payload perhaps?) ??

We have available bits in the bio_integrity_payload bip_flags, so that
sounds doable. I think we'll need to rearrange some things so we can
reuse the important code for data and metadata mapping/unmapping, but
doesn't look too bad. I'll get started on that.