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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