On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 02:11:34PM -0700, Logan Gunthorpe wrote: > > > On 01/03/18 02:03 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > However, what happens if anything calls page_address() on them ? Some > > DMA ops do that for example, or some devices might ... > > Although we could probably work around it with some pain, we rely on > page_address() and virt_to_phys(), etc to work on these pages. So on x86, > yes, it makes it into the linear mapping. This is pretty easy to do with HMM: unsigned long hmm_page_to_phys_pfn(struct page *page) { struct hmm_devmem *devmem; unsigned long ppfn; /* Sanity test maybe BUG_ON() */ if (!is_device_private_page(page)) return -1UL; devmem = page->pgmap->data; ppfn = page_to_page(page) - devmem->pfn_first; return ppfn + devmem->device_phys_base_pfn; } Note that last field does not exist in today HMM because i did not need such helper so far but this can be added. Cheers, Jérôme