Re: [RFC 10/20] iommu/iommufd: Add IOMMU_DEVICE_GET_INFO

[hch@xxxxxx]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 09:43:58PM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> Here, we are discussing arch_sync_dma_for_cpu() and
> arch_sync_dma_for_device(). The x86 arch has clflush to sync dma buffer
> for device, but I can't see any instruction to sync dma buffer for cpu
> if the device is not cache coherent. Is that the reason why x86 can't
> have an implementation for arch_sync_dma_for_cpu(), hence all devices
> are marked coherent?

arch_sync_dma_for_cpu and arch_sync_dma_for_device are only used if
the device is marked non-coherent, that is if Linux knows the device
can't be part of the cache coherency protocol.  There are no known
x86 systems with entirely not cache coherent devices so these helpers
won't be useful as-is.