arm64: document the choice of page attributes for pgprot_dmacoherent

Based on an email from Will Deacon.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h

@@ -435,6 +435,14 @@ static inline pmd_t pmd_mkdevmap(pmd_t pmd)
 	__pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL_NC) | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN)
 #define pgprot_device(prot) \
 	__pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_DEVICE_nGnRE) | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN)
+/*
+ * DMA allocations for non-coherent devices use what the Arm architecture calls
+ * "Normal non-cacheable" memory, which permits speculation, unaligned accesses
+ * and merging of writes.  This is different from "Device-nGnR[nE]" memory which
+ * is intended for MMIO and thus forbids speculation, preserves access size,
+ * requires strict alignment and can also force write responses to come from the
+ * endpoint.
+ */
 #define pgprot_dmacoherent(prot) \
 	__pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, \
 			PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL_NC) | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN)