On Wed, Jul 01, 2026 at 11:19:11AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) wrote:
> Move swiotlb allocation out of __dma_direct_alloc_pages() and handle it in
> dma_direct_alloc() / dma_direct_alloc_pages().
> 
> This is needed for follow-up changes that simplify the handling of
> memory encryption/decryption based on the DMA attribute flags.
> 
> swiotlb backing pages are already mapped decrypted by
> swiotlb_update_mem_attributes() and rmem_swiotlb_device_init(), so
> dma-direct should not call dma_set_decrypted() on allocation nor
> dma_set_encrypted() on free for swiotlb-backed memory.
> 
> Update alloc/free paths to detect swiotlb-backed pages and skip
> encrypt/decrypt transitions for those paths. Keep the existing highmem
> rejection in dma_direct_alloc_pages() for swiotlb allocations.
> 
> Only for "restricted-dma-pool", we currently set `for_alloc = true`, while
> rmem_swiotlb_device_init() decrypts the whole pool up front. This pool is
> typically used together with "shared-dma-pool", where the shared region is
> accessed after remap/ioremap and the returned address is suitable for
> decrypted memory access. So existing code paths remain valid.
> 
> Tested-by: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Michael Kelley <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Mostafa Saleh <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) <[email protected]>
> ---
>  include/linux/swiotlb.h |  6 ++++
>  kernel/dma/direct.c     | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  kernel/dma/swiotlb.c    |  6 ++++
>  3 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]>

Jason

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