block: relax direct io memory alignment
Use the address alignment requirements from the block_device for direct io instead of requiring addresses be aligned to the block size. User space can discover the alignment requirements from the dma_alignment queue attribute. User space can specify any hardware compatible DMA offset for each segment, but every segment length is still required to be a multiple of the block size. Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220610195830.3574005-11-kbusch@fb.comSigned-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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