Re: [PATCH] iommu/dma: add missing support for DMA_ATTR_MMIO for dma_iova_unlink()

From: Robin Murphy
Date: Mon Nov 24 2025 - 12:16:00 EST


On 2025-11-24 5:09 pm, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
Commit c288d657dd51 added support for DMA_ATTR_MMIO attribute in the
dma_iova_link() code path, but missed that the CPU cache is being also
touched in the dma_iova_unlink() path. Fix this.

Fixes: c288d657dd51 ("iommu/dma: implement DMA_ATTR_MMIO for dma_iova_link().")
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
index e52d19d2e833..c92088855450 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
@@ -2008,7 +2008,7 @@ static void iommu_dma_iova_unlink_range_slow(struct device *dev,
end - addr, iovad->granule - iova_start_pad);
if (!dev_is_dma_coherent(dev) &&
- !(attrs & DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC))
+ !(attrs & (DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC | DMA_ATTR_MMIO)))
arch_sync_dma_for_cpu(phys, len, dir);
swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single(dev, phys, len, dir, attrs);
@@ -2032,7 +2032,8 @@ static void __iommu_dma_iova_unlink(struct device *dev,
size_t unmapped;
if ((state->__size & DMA_IOVA_USE_SWIOTLB) ||
- (!dev_is_dma_coherent(dev) && !(attrs & DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC)))
+ (!dev_is_dma_coherent(dev) &&
+ !(attrs & (DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC | DMA_ATTR_MMIO))))

This isn't needed, since there's no way an MMIO mapping could have used SWIOTLB.

Thanks,
Robin.

iommu_dma_iova_unlink_range_slow(dev, addr, size, dir, attrs);
iommu_iotlb_gather_init(&iotlb_gather);