RE: [RFC 10/20] iommu/iommufd: Add IOMMU_DEVICE_GET_INFO

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> From: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 6:33 PM
> 
> The PTE flags define whether the memory access is cache-coherent or not.
> * WB is cacheable (short for write-back cacheable. Doesn't matter here
>   what OI or RWA mean.)
> * NC is non-cacheable.
> 
>          | Normal PCI access | No_snoop PCI access
>   -------+-------------------+-------------------
>   PTE WB | Cacheable         | Non-cacheable
>   PTE NC | Non-cacheable     | Non-cacheable

This implies that PCI no-snoop supersedes PTE flags when it's supported
by the system?





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