Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] riscv: Implement Zicbom-based cache management operations

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 11:59:43PM +0200, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
> The Zicbom ISA-extension was ratified in november 2021
> and introduces instructions for dcache invalidate, clean
> and flush operations.
> 
> Implement cache management operations based on them.
> 
> Of course not all cores will support this, so implement an
> alternative-based mechanism that replaces empty instructions
> with ones done around Zicbom instructions.
> 
> As discussed in previous versions, assume the platform
> being coherent by default so that non-coherent devices need
> to get marked accordingly by firmware.

The subject here seems somewhat odd.  Yes, it does implement the
low-level cache management ops, but more importantly it adds
support for devices that are not DMA coherent.

Otherwise looks good:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>