Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <[email protected]>

On Thu, 2025-11-13 at 17:03 -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
> The flush page DMA address is stored in a special register that is not
> associated with the GPU's standard DMA range.  For example, on Turing,
> the GPU's MMU can handle 47-bit addresses, but the flush page address
> register is limited to 40 bits.
> 
> At the point during device initialization when the flush page is
> allocated, the DMA mask is still at its default of 32 bits.  So even
> though it's unlikely that the flush page could exist above a 40-bit
> address, the dma_map_page() call could fail, e.g. if IOMMU is disabled
> and the address is above 32 bits.  The simplest way to achieve all
> constraints is to allocate the page in the DMA32 zone.  Since the flush
> page is literally just a page, this is an acceptable limitation.  The
> alternative is to temporarily set the DMA mask to 40 (or 52 for Hopper
> and later) bits, but that could have unforseen side effects.
> 
> In situations where the flush page is allocated above 32 bits and IOMMU
> is disabled, you will get an error like this:
> 
> nouveau 0000:65:00.0: DMA addr 0x0000000107c56000+4096 overflow (mask 
> ffffffff, bus limit 0).
> 
> Fixes: 5728d064190e ("drm/nouveau/fb: handle sysmem flush page from common 
> code")
> Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/fb/base.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/fb/base.c 
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/fb/base.c
> index 8a286a9349ac..7ce1b65e2c1c 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/fb/base.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/fb/base.c
> @@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ nvkm_fb_ctor(const struct nvkm_fb_func *func, struct 
> nvkm_device *device,
>       mutex_init(&fb->tags.mutex);
>  
>       if (func->sysmem.flush_page_init) {
> -             fb->sysmem.flush_page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
> +             fb->sysmem.flush_page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA32 | 
> __GFP_ZERO);
>               if (!fb->sysmem.flush_page)
>                       return -ENOMEM;
>  
> 
> base-commit: 4ea7c1717f3f2344f7a1cdab4f5875cfa89c87a9
> prerequisite-patch-id: c1c0d02765eea952f4658f4f78d18d4842937e11

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Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat

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