[PATCH 18/22] arm64: dts: qcom: sdm630: Reserve low IOVA range for Venus

From: Vikash Garodia

Date: Fri Aug 07 2026 - 04:33:12 EST


Venus VPU reserves IOVA addresses below 0x25800000 (600MB), primarily for
secure non-pixel buffers. DMA into that range, from any other stream id
would triggers unhandled SMMU page faults that cause spontaneous device
reboots. This is readily reproduced with one or more browser tabs
driving multiple concurrent video decode streams.

Add a reserved-memory IOVA reservation node covering [0, 0x25800000]
and reference it from the venus node so the IOMMU layer keeps DMA
allocations above that boundary.

Fixes: f468ecf105de ("arm64: dts: qcom: sdm630: Add disabled Venus support")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Vikash Garodia <vikash.garodia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm630.dtsi | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm630.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm630.dtsi
index a41ba0da380bb97cefd8861837d06848f5d0f584..a80ae33f2c45c054cfce5f51b8cbc93c587304bf 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm630.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm630.dtsi
@@ -518,6 +518,17 @@ mdata_mem: mpss-metadata {
size = <0x0 0x4000>;
no-map;
};
+
+ /*
+ * The Venus VPU reserves IOVA below 0x25800000 (600MB),
+ * primarily for non-pixel buffers using different Stream IDs.
+ * DMA into that range triggers unhandled SMMU faults and
+ * spontaneous reboots, so reserve it to keep IOMMU
+ * allocations above this boundary.
+ */
+ venus_iova: venus-iova {
+ iommu-addresses = <&venus 0x0 0x25800000>;
+ };
};

smem: smem {
@@ -2243,7 +2254,7 @@ venus: video-codec@cc00000 {
<&mmss_smmu 0x42d>,
<&mmss_smmu 0x411>,
<&mmss_smmu 0x431>;
- memory-region = <&venus_region>;
+ memory-region = <&venus_region>, <&venus_iova>;
power-domains = <&mmcc VENUS_GDSC>;
status = "disabled";


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