[PATCH v2 4/4] iommu: Get DT/ACPI parsing into the proper probe path

Robin Murphy robin.murphy at arm.com
Thu Mar 13 06:06:59 PDT 2025


On 2025-03-13 12:23 pm, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> On 13.03.2025 12:01, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> On 2025-03-13 9:56 am, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>> [...]
>>> This patch landed in yesterday's linux-next as commit bcb81ac6ae3c
>>> ("iommu: Get DT/ACPI parsing into the proper probe path"). In my tests I
>>> found it breaks booting of ARM64 RK3568-based Odroid-M1 board
>>> (arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3568-odroid-m1.dts). Here is the
>>> relevant kernel log:
>>
>> ...and the bug-flushing-out begins!
>>
>>> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
>>> 00000000000003e8
>>> Mem abort info:
>>>      ESR = 0x0000000096000004
>>>      EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
>>>      SET = 0, FnV = 0
>>>      EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
>>>      FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
>>> Data abort info:
>>>      ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000
>>>      CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
>>>      GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
>>> [00000000000003e8] user address but active_mm is swapper
>>> Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
>>> Modules linked in:
>>> CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc3+ #15533
>>> Hardware name: Hardkernel ODROID-M1 (DT)
>>> pstate: 00400009 (nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
>>> pc : devm_kmalloc+0x2c/0x114
>>> lr : rk_iommu_of_xlate+0x30/0x90
>>> ...
>>> Call trace:
>>>     devm_kmalloc+0x2c/0x114 (P)
>>>     rk_iommu_of_xlate+0x30/0x90
>>
>> Yeah, looks like this is doing something a bit questionable which can't
>> work properly. TBH the whole dma_dev thing could probably be cleaned up
>> now that we have proper instances, but for now does this work?
> 
> Yes, this patch fixes the problem I've observed.
> 
> Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
> Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
> 
> BTW, this dma_dev idea has been borrowed from my exynos_iommu driver and
> I doubt it can be cleaned up.

On the contrary I suspect they both can - it all dates back to when we 
had the single global platform bus iommu_ops and the SoC drivers were 
forced to bodge their own notion of multiple instances, but with the 
modern core code, ops are always called via a valid IOMMU instance or 
domain, so in principle it should always be possible to get at an 
appropriate IOMMU device now. IIRC it was mostly about allocating and 
DMA-mapping the pagetables in domain_alloc, where the private notion of 
instances didn't have enough information, but domain_alloc_paging solves 
that.

Cheers,
Robin.



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