[PATCH v10 2/6] KVM: arm64: Update the check to detect device memory

[Catalin Marinas]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2025 at 07:17:13AM +0000, ankita at nvidia.com wrote:
> From: Ankit Agrawal <ankita at nvidia.com>
> 
> Currently, the kvm_is_device_pfn() detects if the memory is kernel
> mapped through pfn_is_map_memory. It thus implies whether KVM can
> use Cache Maintenance Operations (CMOs) on that PFN. It is a bit
> of a misnomer as it does not necessarily detect whether a PFN
> is for a device memory. Moreover, the function is only used at
> one place.
> 
> It would be better to directly call pfn_is_map_memory. Moreover
> we should restrict this call to VM_PFNMAP or VM_MIXEDMAP. Non PFMAP
> or MIXEDMAP VMA's must always contain normal pages which are
> struct page backed, have KVA's and are cachable. So we should always
> be able to go from phys to KVA to do a CMO.
> 
> Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com>
> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
> Tested-by: Donald Dutile <ddutile at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ankit Agrawal <ankita at nvidia.com>

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>