[PATCH v5 0/4] ASoC: qcom: enable audio on stage-2 protected DSPs (mDSP)

From: Ajay Kumar Nandam

Date: Mon Sep 21 2026 - 15:08:39 EST


On platforms such as Qualcomm Shikra, audio is served by the modem DSP
(mDSP) rather than the ADSP. The mDSP runs in a stage-2 protected context
and cannot use the SMMU, so the PCM buffers it consumes must live in
reserved-memory carveouts that are handed to the consumer VMIDs via a
hypervisor (SCM) memory assignment. This series adds that access model to
the q6apm DAI driver and its binding, alongside the existing stage-1/SMMU
(iommus) path, which is left untouched.

The driver detects the mDSP target at runtime from the GPR domain_id
(GPR_DOMAIN_ID_MODEM) and enables the SCM assignment path automatically.
VMIDs are hardcoded in the driver (HLOS + MSS_MSA + LPASS) rather than
read from DT, following the consensus from v2 review discussion with
Krzysztof Kozlowski and Srinivas Kandagatla.

Tested on Qualcomm Shikra with mDSP audio playback and capture.

Prior versions:
v1 (VMID binding + driver + GPR domain):
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260609064038.492641-1-ajay.nandam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
v1 (memory-region binding + DTS):
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260618113509.2025881-1-ajay.nandam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
v2:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260826-a2a-shikra-vmid-v5-v2-0-c3dc62354eee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
v3:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260918-vmid-v3-v3-0-f1cbf47bf173@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
v4:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260922-vmid-v4-v4-0-5fe21b1365a1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Changes since v4:
- Resend — v4 was partially delivered due to SMTP failure, no code
changes.

Changes since v3:
- Split DT binding changes into a separate patch (3/4) from the driver
implementation (4/4). (Rob Herring)
- SCM-assign the data-path pool (memory-region[1]) as a single whole-pool
operation at probe instead of per-stream in pcm_new()/compr_open().
- SCM-assign compressed audio stream buffers in compr_open() and
unassign in compr_free() when no data-path pool is present. v3 only
covered PCM streams.
- Fix error path in pcm_new: unassign SCM region if memory_map fails
after a successful SCM assign, preventing a resource leak.
- Account for PAGE_SIZE padding in reserved-memory pool budget
calculation. v3 under-reserved by PAGE_SIZE per stream, which could
overflow the pool at maximum concurrent stream count.

Signed-off-by: Ajay Kumar Nandam <ajay.nandam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Ajay Kumar Nandam (4):
ASoC: qcom: q6apm: clear g_apm on driver removal
ASoC: qcom: qdsp6: generalize GPR service domain
dt-bindings: sound: qcom,q6apm-dai: add memory-region and relax iommus
ASoC: qcom: q6apm-dai: add SCM buffer assignment for mDSP platforms

.../devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,q6apm-dai.yaml | 12 +-
sound/soc/qcom/Kconfig | 1 +
sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/audioreach.c | 12 +-
sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/audioreach.h | 22 +-
sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/q6apm-dai.c | 300 +++++++++++++++++++--
sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/q6apm.c | 9 +-
sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/q6apm.h | 2 +-
sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/q6prm.c | 2 +
8 files changed, 326 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 3d5670d672ae08b8c534b7beed6f57c8b44e7b43
change-id: 20260921-vmid-v4-0116efe5937b

Best regards,
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Ajay Kumar Nandam <ajay.nandam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>