Re: [PATCH 08/21] riscv: dma-mapping: only invalidate after DMA, not flush

[Palmer Dabbelt]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 05:13:04 PDT (-0700), arnd@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> No other architecture intentionally writes back dirty cache lines into
> a buffer that a device has just finished writing into. If the cache is
> clean, this has no effect at all, but if a cacheline in the buffer has
> actually been written by the CPU,  there is a drive bug that is likely
> made worse by overwriting that buffer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/mm/dma-noncoherent.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/dma-noncoherent.c b/arch/riscv/mm/dma-noncoherent.c
> index d919efab6eba..640f4c496d26 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/mm/dma-noncoherent.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/dma-noncoherent.c
> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ void arch_sync_dma_for_cpu(phys_addr_t paddr, size_t size,
>  		break;
>  	case DMA_FROM_DEVICE:
>  	case DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL:
> -		ALT_CMO_OP(flush, vaddr, size, riscv_cbom_block_size);
> +		ALT_CMO_OP(inval, vaddr, size, riscv_cbom_block_size);
>  		break;
>  	default:
>  		break;

Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>