[PATCH v3 09/13] arm64: dts: qcom: sm8550: Add Iris context bank subnodes
From: Vikash Garodia
Date: Wed Sep 09 2026 - 11:15:39 EST
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 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
A single "iommus" property on the video-codec node puts every stream in
one IOMMU domain sharing one IOVA allocator, so nothing restricts a
non-pixel buffer to avoid 0 to 600MB. Once an allocation lands below
that boundary the hardware faults, which shows up as unhandled SMMU page
faults and spontaneous reboots:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/msm/-/work_items/100
Given that the address range restriction is for specific VPU stream, it
should be ideally be moved to that stream. To achieve the same, a subset
of streams is now represented as subnodes, so that each can be
associated with its respective addressable range. The design was discussed
and agreed by mainatiners here
https://lore.kernel.org/all/c7b956a9-d3e8-4e18-b780-5d08f5cd2ca1@xxxxxxxxxx
In the past, this limitation was addressed with an iommu-map approach,
with the iris driver dynamically creating the devices. That approach
was later concluded to be a hack to avoid having subnodes, and was NAKed
by the iommu maintainers. It was discussed in detail here:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/c7b956a9-d3e8-4e18-b780-5d08f5cd2ca1@xxxxxxxxxx/
The video-codec node includes address-cells, size-cells and dma-ranges
to declare 1:1 mapping for DMA translation to the parent.
Tested-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@xxxxxxxxx>
Co-developed-by: Vishnu Reddy <busanna.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vishnu Reddy <busanna.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vikash Garodia <vikash.garodia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8550.dtsi | 15 +++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8550.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8550.dtsi
index 0e701e709235c6e0a5efd7f8447dfa6ef6f6e21f..38bc5b483007ad797daaf37527b4759bc8924a2f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8550.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8550.dtsi
@@ -3691,8 +3691,6 @@ &config_noc SLAVE_VENUS_CFG QCOM_ICC_TAG_ACTIVE_ONLY>,
resets = <&gcc GCC_VIDEO_AXI0_CLK_ARES>;
reset-names = "bus";
- iommus = <&apps_smmu 0x1940 0>,
- <&apps_smmu 0x1947 0>;
dma-coherent;
/*
@@ -3702,6 +3700,19 @@ &config_noc SLAVE_VENUS_CFG QCOM_ICC_TAG_ACTIVE_ONLY>,
*/
status = "disabled";
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <1>;
+ dma-ranges = <0x0 0x0 0x0 0xe0000000>;
+
+ non-pixel {
+ iommus = <&apps_smmu 0x1940 0x0>;
+ iommu-ranges = <0x25800000 0xba800000>;
+ };
+
+ pixel {
+ iommus = <&apps_smmu 0x1947 0x0>;
+ };
+
iris_opp_table: opp-table {
compatible = "operating-points-v2";
--
2.34.1