linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 1/6] iommu: Add cache_invalidate

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Message-ID: <632616b2-ab84-4d2d-bef2-4b564322f78f@linux.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 15:32:55 +0800
From: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@...ux.intel.com>
To: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/6] iommu: Add cache_invalidate_user op



On 11/17/2023 9:07 PM, Yi Liu wrote:
> From: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
>
> The updates of the PTEs in the nested page table will be propagated to the
> hardware caches on both IOMMU (IOTLB) and devices (DevTLB/ATC).
>
> Add a new domain op cache_invalidate_user for the userspace to flush the
> hardware caches for a nested domain through iommufd. No wrapper for it,
> as it's only supposed to be used by iommufd. Then, pass in invalidation
> requests in form of a user data array conatining a number of invalidation

s/conatining/containing/
> data entries.
>