Re: [PATCH 2/2] media: venus: Fix iova allocation from restrict region
From: Dmitry Baryshkov
Date: Tue Aug 18 2026 - 03:06:34 EST
On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 04:25:59PM +0530, Vishnu Reddy wrote:
> The VPU issues DMA through several SMMU streams, and the hardware does
> not give every stream the same addressable range. The non-pixel stream
> cannot address the low 600MB of IOVA space, while the pixel stream can
> address the full range:
> +-----------------------------------------------------------+
> | non-pixel stream addressable range (600 MB - 3.5 GB) |
> | 0x25800000 - 0xe0000000 |
> +-----------------------------------------------------------+
> | pixel stream addressable range (0 - 3.5 GB) |
> | 0x00000000 - 0xe0000000 |
> +-----------------------------------------------------------+
Does this split apply to all generations of Venus? We support MSM8916,
for example. There has been work to enable MSM8974.
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With best wishes
Dmitry