[PATCH 2/2] iommu/amd: Don't allocate kdump device table from DMA32

From: Matt Fleming

Date: Fri Oct 02 2026 - 09:32:30 EST


From: Matt Fleming <mfleming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Booting a kdump kernel with crashkernel=X,high crashkernel=0,low on an
AMD system fails the per-segment device table allocation because there
is no memory below 4G:

swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:9, mode:0x40104(GFP_DMA32|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_COMP)
iommu_alloc_pages_node_sz+0x7f/0x150
alloc_pci_segment+0x4bd/0x650
iommu_go_to_state+0x213d/0x34e0
amd_iommu_prepare+0x39/0xa0
irq_remapping_prepare+0x83/0xd0
enable_IR_x2apic+0x61/0x370

On our E810 systems, the kdump kernel booted but ice MSI-X interrupts
never fired and the TX queues timed out.

Commit b336781b82cc ("iommu/amd: Allocate memory below 4G for dev table
if translation pre-enabled") allocated device tables below 4G. At the
time, the kdump kernel programmed a copy of the old table into the base
register with the IOMMU still enabled. Keeping the table below 4G means
it doesn't matter that the hardware splits that write into two 32-bit
halves.

Since commit 38e5f33ee359 ("iommu/amd: Reuse device table for kdump")
the kdump kernel reuses the previous kernel's table without writing the
base register, so its newly allocated table is discarded when reuse
succeeds. If reuse fails, the previous patch programs the new table only
after disabling the IOMMU. Either way, the kdump kernel's table doesn't
need to be below 4G.

The previous kernel still allocates its table from DMA32, so the kdump
kernel's check that the old table is below 4G still works. Drop
GFP_DMA32 for kdump kernels only.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <mfleming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/iommu/amd/init.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/amd/init.c b/drivers/iommu/amd/init.c
index 0572e1a674f0..16c26d75f46f 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/amd/init.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/amd/init.c
@@ -648,8 +648,19 @@ static int __init find_last_devid_acpi(struct acpi_table_header *table, u16 pci_
/* Allocate per PCI segment device table */
static inline int __init alloc_dev_table(struct amd_iommu_pci_seg *pci_seg)
{
- pci_seg->dev_table = iommu_alloc_pages_sz(GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA32,
- pci_seg->dev_table_size);
+ gfp_t gfp = GFP_KERNEL;
+
+ /*
+ * Keep normal kernel device tables below 4G because a later kdump
+ * kernel only trusts and reuses old tables below that limit. A kdump
+ * kernel's new table is either discarded when reuse succeeds or
+ * programmed after the IOMMU is disabled, so the table does not
+ * need DMA32 memory (which the crashkernel may not have).
+ */
+ if (!is_kdump_kernel())
+ gfp |= GFP_DMA32;
+
+ pci_seg->dev_table = iommu_alloc_pages_sz(gfp, pci_seg->dev_table_size);
if (!pci_seg->dev_table)
return -ENOMEM;

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2.43.0