[PATCH v4 03/13] dt-bindings: media: qcom,sm8750-iris: Add context bank subnodes

From: Vikash Garodia

Date: Sun Sep 13 2026 - 14:54:01 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/

Update example to the subnode form. Doing so, it picks up the supporting
properties needed on the video-codec node, address-cells, size-cells and
dma-ranges to declare 1:1 DMA translation into the parent.

Co-developed-by: Vishnu Reddy <busanna.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vishnu Reddy <busanna.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vikash Garodia <vikash.garodia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
.../devicetree/bindings/media/qcom,sm8750-iris.yaml | 16 +++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/qcom,sm8750-iris.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/qcom,sm8750-iris.yaml
index c42d3470bdac796cc878090e65becf6b62bd80ca..b6d5ded1aae6a1a6836c2c24b1dae548cdc6f9d2 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/qcom,sm8750-iris.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/qcom,sm8750-iris.yaml
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ required:
- dma-coherent
- interconnects
- interconnect-names
- - iommus
- power-domain-names
- resets
- reset-names
@@ -110,8 +109,6 @@ examples:
"vcodec0_core_freerun";

dma-coherent;
- iommus = <&apps_smmu 0x1940 0>,
- <&apps_smmu 0x1947 0>;

interconnects = <&gem_noc MASTER_APPSS_PROC QCOM_ICC_TAG_ACTIVE_ONLY
&config_noc SLAVE_VENUS_CFG QCOM_ICC_TAG_ACTIVE_ONLY>,
@@ -144,6 +141,19 @@ examples:
"core",
"vcodec0_core";

+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <1>;
+ dma-ranges = <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";


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