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charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260721124056.GK110966@unreal> On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 03:40:56PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > Why don't we continue the effort to remove "struct page" entirely > from the DMA API internals? > > IMHO, everything not exposed to DMA API users should use > phys_addr_t, including the DMA address pool. The alloc interfaces return a struct page, that is why this stuff is organized like this. Look at dma_alloc_pages() There is also an API that forms a scatterlist that has to be struct page as well Jason