[PATCH 0/8] dma-mapping: migrate to physical address-based API

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 11:28:18AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 04:40:26PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:

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> > The most reasonable way to prevent DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC leakage is to
> > introduce new DMA attribute (let's call it DMA_ATTR_MMIO for now) and
> > pass it to both dma_map_phys() and dma_iova_link(). This flag will
> > indicate that p2p type is PCI_P2PDMA_MAP_THRU_HOST_BRIDGE and call to
> > right callbacks which will set IOMMU_MMIO flag and skip CPU sync,
> 
> So the idea is if the memory is non-cachable, no-KVA you'd call
> dma_iova_link(phys_addr, DMA_ATTR_MMIO) and dma_map_phys(phys_addr,
> DMA_ATTR_MMIO) ?

Yes

> 
> And then internally the dma_ops and dma_iommu would use the existing
> map_page/map_resource variations based on the flag, thus ensuring that
> MMIO is never kmap'd or cache flushed?
> 
> dma_map_resource is really then just
> dma_map_phys(phys_addr, DMA_ATTR_MMIO)?
> 
> I like this, I think it well addresses the concerns.

Yes, I had this idea and implementation before. :(

> 
> Jason
>