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On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 03:32:16PM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> When we add the bounce buffer between IOVA and physical buffer, the
> bounced buffer must starts from the same offset in a page, otherwise,
> IOMMU can't work here.

Why?  Even with the odd hardware descriptors typical in Intel land that
only allow offsets in the first page, not the following ones, having
a zero offset where we previously had one should be fine.