I'd always assumed that to be impossible, but... drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c:add_target_store() target_host->virt_boundary_mask = ~srp_dev->mr_page_mask; and /* * Use the smallest page size supported by the HCA, down to a * minimum of 4096 bytes. We're unlikely to build large sglists * out of smaller entries. */ mr_page_shift = max(12, ffs(attr->page_size_cap) - 1); srp_dev->mr_page_size = 1 << mr_page_shift; srp_dev->mr_page_mask = ~((u64) srp_dev->mr_page_size - 1); and it looks like some drivers have ->page_size_cap come from the hardware. Can it actually end up with ->virt_boundary_mask greater than PAGE_SIZE and if it does, how could things like bio_copy_user_iov() possibly work? page_alloc() won't give us alignment better than PAGE_SIZE, after all...