[PATCH v7 2/2] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Default queue depths to one page in a kdump kernel
From: Kiryl Shutsemau
Date: Fri Sep 25 2026 - 10:23:33 EST
From: "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>
All three queues are sized from the maxima the hardware advertises in IDR1
and allocated at probe, up to 4 MB each on a 4K-page kernel. The capture
kernel already disables two of them: arm_smmu_device_reset() drops
CR0_EVTQEN and CR0_PRIQEN. It still allocates both at full size.
A kdump capture kernel runs from a small crashkernel reservation, and every
SMMUv3 instance pays that cost again, up to 12 MB apiece. It goes to queues
that either serve the handful of devices used to save the dump or are
switched off outright, and it is memory the dump itself needs.
Size all three queues at one page worth of entries when is_kdump_kernel().
The queues carry commands and fault records rather than DMA data, so dump
throughput is unaffected. A shallower command queue only bounds how many
commands may be in flight before a sync, which does not matter for the few
devices that save the dump. The cmdq_max_n_shift parameter therefore does
not apply in a capture kernel.
Suggested-by: Kyle McMartin <jkkm@xxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: LLM
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Yuanhe Shu <xiangzao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
index 810d3ce75089..a5ad57432dfd 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable_msipolling,
static unsigned int cmdq_max_n_shift = CMDQ_MAX_SZ_SHIFT;
module_param(cmdq_max_n_shift, uint, 0444);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(cmdq_max_n_shift,
- "Cap on the command queue depth, as log2 of the number of entries. Defaults to the hardware maximum; the queue never shrinks below one page.");
+ "Cap on the command queue depth, as log2 of the number of entries. Defaults to the hardware maximum; the queue never shrinks below one page. A kdump kernel always uses one page.");
static const struct iommu_ops arm_smmu_ops;
static struct iommu_dirty_ops arm_smmu_dirty_ops;
@@ -4424,6 +4424,8 @@ static struct iommu_dirty_ops arm_smmu_dirty_ops = {
* @ent_sz_shift: log2 of the queue entry size in bytes
* @limit_n_shift: log2 depth to cap the queue at
*
+ * A kdump capture kernel gets one page worth of entries whatever the limit.
+ *
* @limit_n_shift is floored at one page, because coherent DMA is page
* granular: a shallower queue occupies the same memory as one that fills the
* page, and arm_smmu_init_one_queue() stops shrinking at a page too.
@@ -4433,10 +4435,27 @@ static u32 arm_smmu_queue_max_n_shift(u32 hw_max_n_shift, u32 ent_sz_shift,
{
u32 floor_n_shift = PAGE_SHIFT - ent_sz_shift;
+ if (is_kdump_kernel())
+ return min(hw_max_n_shift, floor_n_shift);
+
limit_n_shift = max(limit_n_shift, floor_n_shift);
return min(hw_max_n_shift, limit_n_shift);
}
+static inline u32 arm_smmu_evtq_max_n_shift(u32 hw_max_n_shift)
+{
+ /* Capped to ensure natural alignment */
+ return arm_smmu_queue_max_n_shift(hw_max_n_shift, EVTQ_ENT_SZ_SHIFT,
+ EVTQ_MAX_SZ_SHIFT);
+}
+
+static inline u32 arm_smmu_priq_max_n_shift(u32 hw_max_n_shift)
+{
+ /* Capped to ensure natural alignment */
+ return arm_smmu_queue_max_n_shift(hw_max_n_shift, PRIQ_ENT_SZ_SHIFT,
+ PRIQ_MAX_SZ_SHIFT);
+}
+
/*
* Command queues are also allocated by the Tegra241 CMDQV for its VCMDQs, which
* need the same depth decision.
@@ -5191,7 +5210,6 @@ static int arm_smmu_device_hw_probe(struct arm_smmu_device *smmu)
if (reg & IDR1_ATTR_TYPES_OVR)
smmu->features |= ARM_SMMU_FEAT_ATTR_TYPES_OVR;
- /* Queue sizes, capped to ensure natural alignment */
smmu->cmdq.q.llq.max_n_shift =
arm_smmu_cmdq_max_n_shift(FIELD_GET(IDR1_CMDQS, reg));
if (smmu->cmdq.q.llq.max_n_shift <= ilog2(CMDQ_BATCH_ENTRIES)) {
@@ -5206,10 +5224,10 @@ static int arm_smmu_device_hw_probe(struct arm_smmu_device *smmu)
return -ENXIO;
}
- smmu->evtq.q.llq.max_n_shift = min_t(u32, EVTQ_MAX_SZ_SHIFT,
- FIELD_GET(IDR1_EVTQS, reg));
- smmu->priq.q.llq.max_n_shift = min_t(u32, PRIQ_MAX_SZ_SHIFT,
- FIELD_GET(IDR1_PRIQS, reg));
+ smmu->evtq.q.llq.max_n_shift =
+ arm_smmu_evtq_max_n_shift(FIELD_GET(IDR1_EVTQS, reg));
+ smmu->priq.q.llq.max_n_shift =
+ arm_smmu_priq_max_n_shift(FIELD_GET(IDR1_PRIQS, reg));
/* SID/SSID sizes */
smmu->ssid_bits = FIELD_GET(IDR1_SSIDSIZE, reg);
--
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