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Lu Baolu fc57475754 iommu/vt-d: Optimize iotlb_sync_map for non-caching/non-RWBF modes 
commit 12724ce3fe upstream.

The iotlb_sync_map iommu ops allows drivers to perform necessary cache
flushes when new mappings are established. For the Intel iommu driver,
this callback specifically serves two purposes:

- To flush caches when a second-stage page table is attached to a device
  whose iommu is operating in caching mode (CAP_REG.CM==1).
- To explicitly flush internal write buffers to ensure updates to memory-
  resident remapping structures are visible to hardware (CAP_REG.RWBF==1).

However, in scenarios where neither caching mode nor the RWBF flag is
active, the cache_tag_flush_range_np() helper, which is called in the
iotlb_sync_map path, effectively becomes a no-op.

Despite being a no-op, cache_tag_flush_range_np() involves iterating
through all cache tags of the iommu's attached to the domain, protected
by a spinlock. This unnecessary execution path introduces overhead,
leading to a measurable I/O performance regression. On systems with NVMes
under the same bridge, performance was observed to drop from approximately
~6150 MiB/s down to ~4985 MiB/s.

Introduce a flag in the dmar_domain structure. This flag will only be set
when iotlb_sync_map is required (i.e., when CM or RWBF is set). The
cache_tag_flush_range_np() is called only for domains where this flag is
set. This flag, once set, is immutable, given that there won't be mixed
configurations in real-world scenarios where some IOMMUs in a system
operate in caching mode while others do not. Theoretically, the
immutability of this flag does not impact functionality.

Reported-by: Ioanna Alifieraki <ioanna-maria.alifieraki@canonical.com>
Closes: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2115738
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250701171154.52435-1-ioanna-maria.alifieraki@canonical.com
Fixes: 129dab6e12 ("iommu/vt-d: Use cache_tag_flush_range_np() in iotlb_sync_map")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250703031545.3378602-1-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250714045028.958850-3-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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