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Commit c44094ee authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon Committed by Catalin Marinas
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arm64: dma: Drop cache invalidation from arch_dma_prep_coherent()



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: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220823122111.17439-1-will@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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