[PATCH v4 0/6] drm/msm: DMABUF_DEBUG fixes

From: Rob Clark

Date: Fri Oct 30 2026 - 17:35:00 EST


With DMABUF_DEBUG=y, the page information is stripped from the sgt that
we get for an externally allocated buffer that is dma-buf imported (as
opposed to an exported GEM buffer that is re-imported). This is a bit
unfortunate, since we need that information for mapping the buffer in
both paths:

1. Userspace GPU pgtables (TTBR0), where we use io_pgtable directly.
Fortunately this we can fix ourselves easily.

2. Iommu managed pgtables (scanout, kernel GPU buffers (TTBR1)). In
normal usage that iommu subsystem envisions the dma-mapping and
iommu-mapping are combined. We can't really work around this but
we can stop trying to pretend to be a normal iommu user and just
go directly to the iommu_domain_ops.

This all depends on being dma_map_direct() for the dma_map_sgtable()
to work. This should be the case on modern things that use arm-smmu.
It's less clear when it comes to older pre-arm-smmu hw. It's possible
that this series causes those things to catch fire. If so, look to
commit 0e764a01015d ("iommu/arm-smmu: Allow client devices to select
direct mapping") for inspiration.

Note, for older pre-arm-smmu devices, this iommu series is a dependency:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261029212344.346069-1-robin.clark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

v4:
- Fix get_pages() error path
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261027230452.130031-1-robin.clark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

v3:
- Fixing missing tlb flushes in error paths harder
- Do a single dma_map/unmap_sgtable()
- More paranoid error checking on map path
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261027152821.51144-1-robin.clark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

v2:
- Fix missing tlb flushes in error paths
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261006131000.81501-1-robin.clark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Rob Clark (6):
drm/msm: Cleanup if pages_to_sg() fails
drm/msm/gem: dma_map/unmap_sgtable()
drm/msm: Extract out map/unmap helpers
drm/msm: Convert iommu map/unmap to helpers
drm/msm: Convert map helper to use dma-address
drm/msm: Treat !mapped as an error

drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem.c | 96 +++++++--------
drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_iommu.c | 210 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------
2 files changed, 187 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-)

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