[PATCH] RISC-V: Define pgprot_dmacoherent() for non-coherent devices

Anup Patel apatel at ventanamicro.com
Wed Aug 20 08:23:16 PDT 2025


The pgprot_dmacoherent() is used when allocating memory for
non-coherent devices and by default pgprot_dmacoherent() is
same as pgprot_noncached() unless architecture overrides it.

Currently, there is no pgprot_dmacoherent() definition for
RISC-V hence non-coherent device memory is being mapped as
IO thereby making CPU access to such memory slow.

Define pgprot_dmacoherent() to be same as pgprot_writecombine()
for RISC-V so that CPU access non-coherent device memory as
NOCACHE which is better than accessing it as IO.

Fixes: ff689fd21cb1 ("riscv: add RISC-V Svpbmt extension support")
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <apatel at ventanamicro.com>
---
 arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 91697fbf1f90..00d8bdaf1e8d 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -653,6 +653,8 @@ static inline pgprot_t pgprot_writecombine(pgprot_t _prot)
 	return __pgprot(prot);
 }
 
+#define pgprot_dmacoherent pgprot_writecombine
+
 /*
  * Both Svade and Svadu control the hardware behavior when the PTE A/D bits need to be set. By
  * default the M-mode firmware enables the hardware updating scheme when only Svadu is present in
-- 
2.43.0




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