On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 03:46:35PM +0300, Oded Gabbay wrote: > After reading the kernel iommu code, I think this is not relevant > here, and I'll add a comment appropriately but I'll also write it > here, and please correct me if my understanding is wrong. > > The memory behind this specific dma-buf has *always* resided on the > device itself, i.e. it lives only in the 'device' domain (after all, > it maps a PCI bar address which points to the device memory). > Therefore, it was never in the 'CPU' domain and hence, there is no > need to perform a sync of the memory to the CPU's cache, as it was > never inside that cache to begin with. > > This is not the same case as with regular memory which is dma-mapped > and then copied into the device using a dma engine. In that case, > the memory started in the 'CPU' domain and moved to the 'device' > domain. When it is unmapped it will indeed be recycled to be used > for another purpose and therefore we need to sync the CPU cache. > > Is my understanding correct ? It makes sense to me Jason
