Re: [PATCH]: PCI: GART iommu alignment fixes [v2]

[Prarit Bhargava]

> > But I think Prarit is right with this change. If the interface defines
> > this behavior the IOMMU drivers have to implement it. I am just
> > wondering that the problem never showed up before. The GART driver is a
> > few years old now.
> >     
>
> Yeah, I'm not against fixing IOMMUs to make alloc_consistent return
> the reqeuested size aligned memory. My point is that it's not likely
> to fix anything. Even with the patch, we hit the above problem because
> as I explained, the root cause of the problem is the boundary issue;
> we need to fix pci-dma.c
>
>   

Sorry, I misquoted code up there and was looking for a clear example of 
where this would happen.  The issue I'm trying to resolve didn't happen 
on the skge -- it was just a convenient piece of code to examine and 
point out ;)

P.
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