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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: block: DMA alignment of IO buffer allocated from slab
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 09:28:37AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > has e.g. PAGE_SIZE alignment requirement (this would likely imply that
> > it's sector size is also not 512 I guess)?
> 
> Yeah, that can be true if one controller has 4k-byte sector size, also
> its DMA alignment is 4K. But there shouldn't be cases in which the two
> doesn't match.

The general block storage worlds is that devices always need to have
an alignment requirement <= minimum LBAs size.  If they don't they'll
need to bounce buffer (in the driver!).