[PATCH v6 01/12] block: add BLK_STS_P2PDMA for unsupported peer-to-peer transfers

From: Mykola Marzhan

Date: Sun Jul 26 2026 - 07:35:49 EST


From: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

blk_dma_map_iter_start() reports BLK_STS_INVAL when a P2PDMA transfer
is attempted between two devices whose PCIe topology cannot route it.
blk_path_error() treats INVAL as retryable, so multipath requeues the
I/O forever, and callers cannot tell it apart from an invalid request.
md also ignores it for member failures, so a mirror silently diverges.

Restoring the old BLK_STS_TARGET would stay ambiguous -- nvme maps
NS_NOT_READY, LBA_RANGE and CMD_INTERRUPTED to it too. Add a dedicated
BLK_STS_P2PDMA, non-retryable in blk_path_error(), and return it from
blk_dma_map_iter_start().

Fixes: 858299dc6160 ("block: add scatterlist-less DMA mapping helpers")
Fixes: 7ce3c1dd78fc ("nvme-pci: convert the data mapping to blk_rq_dma_map")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v6.17
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mykola Marzhan <mykola@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/blk-core.c | 3 +++
block/blk-mq-dma.c | 3 ++-
include/linux/blk_types.h | 10 ++++++++++
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 365641266c9e..83cb5464265f 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -177,6 +177,9 @@ static const struct {

/* Command duration limit device-side timeout */
ENT(DURATION_LIMIT, -ETIME, "duration limit exceeded"),
+
+ /* no PCIe P2PDMA route between initiator and target */
+ ENT(P2PDMA, -EREMOTEIO, "peer-to-peer transfer unroutable"),
ENT(INVAL, -EINVAL, "invalid"),

/* everything else not covered above: */
diff --git a/block/blk-mq-dma.c b/block/blk-mq-dma.c
index bfdb9ed70741..e88d6b3524e6 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-dma.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq-dma.c
@@ -189,8 +189,9 @@ static bool blk_dma_map_iter_start(struct request *req, struct device *dma_dev,
*/
case PCI_P2PDMA_MAP_NONE:
break;
+ case PCI_P2PDMA_MAP_NOT_SUPPORTED:
default:
- iter->status = BLK_STS_INVAL;
+ iter->status = BLK_STS_P2PDMA;
return false;
}

diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h
index 8808ee76e73c..c8de7809320a 100644
--- a/include/linux/blk_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h
@@ -165,6 +165,15 @@ typedef u16 blk_short_t;
*/
#define BLK_STS_DURATION_LIMIT ((__force blk_status_t)17)

+/*
+ * BLK_STS_P2PDMA is returned when a peer-to-peer DMA transfer cannot be
+ * mapped (typically because there is no route between the initiator and the
+ * target that the platform's PCIe topology and ACS settings allow). This
+ * is a property of the initiator/target pair, not of the target device's
+ * health. This error should never be retried.
+ */
+#define BLK_STS_P2PDMA ((__force blk_status_t)18)
+
/*
* Invalid size or alignment.
*/
@@ -188,6 +197,7 @@ static inline bool blk_path_error(blk_status_t error)
case BLK_STS_NOTSUPP:
case BLK_STS_NOSPC:
case BLK_STS_TARGET:
+ case BLK_STS_P2PDMA:
case BLK_STS_RESV_CONFLICT:
case BLK_STS_MEDIUM:
case BLK_STS_PROTECTION:
--
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