Re: [PATCH 00/12] iommu: qcom_iommu: implement support for instances on MSM8974
From: Dmitry Baryshkov
Date: Tue Sep 08 2026 - 10:27:45 EST
On Mon, Aug 24, 2026 at 12:04:57PM +0200, Luca Weiss wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> On Tue Aug 11, 2026 at 2:43 PM CEST, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 12:16:19PM +0200, Luca Weiss wrote:
> >> Hi Dmitry,
> >>
> >> Many thanks for working on this and sending this patch series!
> >>
> >> On Sun Aug 9, 2026 at 10:15 PM CEST, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> >> > Qualcomm MSM8974 platform has five SMMU instances, used by display, GPU,
> >> > Venus, VFE (camera) and JPEG encoder. Each of them follows ARM SMMU v1
> >> > spec, however they differ from other Qualcomm platforms in the
> >> > implementation-specific registers and also in interaction with TZ.
> >> > Venus, MDP and VFE SMMUs are secured and require programming only of
> >> > CBs, while GPU and JPEG require full programming.
> >> >
> >> > This series skips IOMMUs which can't be tested right now (VFE and JPEG),
> >> > and adds only MDP, GPU and Venus (although untested, it is required for
> >> > display to work) SMMU instances.
> >>
> >> I do have a patch series (sent years ago to the mailing lists as well)
> >> for CAMSS so I can definitely test this in the future.
> >
> > Ok, let's land these first, unless VFE IOMMU blocks display on your
> > platform (Venus was blocking display on APQ8074 DragonBoard).
> >
> >> > Note, to get display to work properly one fix is necessary, [1]
> >> >
> >> > [1] https://patch.msgid.link/20260809-msm8974-mmcc-fix-v1-1-50f2dcf18d2e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >> I've applied this series on v7.2-rc7, with the extra commits between
> >> that and linux-next for qcom_iommu.c backported so that your series
> >> applies without conflicts.
> >>
> >> So far I'm stuck with the GPU not being able to probe, adding some
> >> printk's shows that in msm_iommu_new() the call for
> >> iommu_attach_device() is failing.
> >>
> >> [ 5.971154] msm_mdp fd900100.display-controller: failed to load adreno gpu
> >> [ 5.972991] msm_mdp fd900100.display-controller: failed to bind fdb00000.gpu (ops a3xx_ops [msm]): -16
> >> [ 5.974073] msm_mdp fd900100.display-controller: adev bind failed: -16
> >> [ 5.974152] panel-s6d6fa1 fd922800.dsi.0: error -EBUSY: Failed to attach to DSI host
> >> [ 5.974230] panel-s6d6fa1 fd922800.dsi.0: probe with driver panel-s6d6fa1 failed with error -16
> >
> > See the patch [1], it's picked up for 7.3
>
> I missed replying to you, with this patch the display lights up again!
>
> Unfortunately the GPU still seems to have issues, I don't have a log
> right now (I think even SSH was dropping then with a bunch of log lines
> appearing in kernel log on screen). I assume kmscube + more complex
> workloads worked fine for you?
I was mostly using kmscube, but I can try running the CTS once I get
back to it, sorry for the delays.
--
With best wishes
Dmitry