Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Use 63-bit DMA addressing on SAS35 HBA

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On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 06:00:57AM -0400, Suganath Prabu wrote:
> Although SAS3 & SAS3.5 IT HBA controllers support
> 64-bit DMA addressing, as per hardware design,
> DMA address with all 64-bits set (0xFFFFFFFF-FFFFFFFF)
> results in a firmware fault.

Linux will never send a dma address with all bits set anyway, as that
is our magic escape for the dma_addr_t error value.  Additionally to
generate that address you'd need a 1-byte sized, 1-byte aligned buffer,
which we never use.



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