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Will Deacon
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arch_dma_prep_coherent() is called when preparing a non-cacheable region for a consistent DMA buffer allocation. Since the buffer pages may previously have been written via a cacheable mapping and consequently allocated as dirty cachelines, the purpose of this function is to remove these dirty lines from the cache, writing them back so that the non-coherent device is able to see them. On arm64, this operation can be achieved with a clean to the point of coherency; a subsequent invalidation is not required and serves little purpose in the presence of a cacheable alias (e.g. the linear map), since clean lines can be speculatively fetched back into the cache after the invalidation operation has completed. Relax the cache maintenance in arch_dma_prep_coherent() so that only a clean, and not a clean-and-invalidate operation is performed. Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220823122111.17439-1-will@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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