[PATCH] iommu/rockchip: fix page table allocation flags for v2 IOMMU

Midgy BALON midgy971 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 31 00:50:10 PDT 2026


commit 2a7e6400f72b ("iommu: rockchip: Allocate tables from all
available memory for IOMMU v2") removed GFP_DMA32 from
iommu_data_ops_v2, reasoning that RK356x and RK3588 IOMMU v2 hardware
supports up to 40-bit physical addresses for page tables.  However, the
RK3568 IOMMU page-table walker uses a 32-bit AXI bus: it cannot access
physical addresses above 4 GB regardless of the address encoding range.

On boards with more than 4 GB of RAM (e.g. 8 GB LPDDR4X), removing
GFP_DMA32 causes two distinct failure modes:

1. Direct allocation above 4 GB: iommu_alloc_pages_sz() may return
   memory above 0x100000000.  The hardware page-table walker issues a
   bus error trying to dereference those addresses, causing an IOMMU
   fault on the first DMA transaction.

2. SWIOTLB bounce-buffer poisoning: without GFP_DMA32, page tables land
   above the SWIOTLB window.  dma_map_single() with DMA_BIT_MASK(32)
   then bounces them into a buffer below 4 GB.  rk_dte_get_page_table()
   returns phys_to_virt() of the bounce buffer address; PTEs are written
   there; the next dma_sync_single_for_device(DMA_TO_DEVICE) copies the
   original (zero) data back over the bounce buffer, silently erasing the
   freshly written PTEs.  The IOMMU faults because every PTE reads as zero.

Restore GFP_DMA32 (and DMA_BIT_MASK(32)) for iommu_data_ops_v2, which
currently only serves "rockchip,rk3568-iommu" in mainline.

Tested on Radxa ROCK 3B (RK3568, 8 GB LPDDR4X):
  - MobileNetV1 via RKNN: 5.8 ms/inference (IOMMU mode)
  - YOLOv5s 640x640 via RKNN: ~57 ms/inference (IOMMU mode)
  - No IOMMU faults, correct inference results

Fixes: 2a7e6400f72b ("iommu: rockchip: Allocate tables from all available memory for IOMMU v2")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonas Karlman <jonas at kwiboo.se>
Signed-off-by: Midgy BALON <midgy971 at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/iommu/rockchip-iommu.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/rockchip-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/rockchip-iommu.c
index 85f3667e797..8b45db29471 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/rockchip-iommu.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/rockchip-iommu.c
@@ -1358,8 +1358,8 @@ static struct rk_iommu_ops iommu_data_ops_v2 = {
 	.pt_address = &rk_dte_pt_address_v2,
 	.mk_dtentries = &rk_mk_dte_v2,
 	.mk_ptentries = &rk_mk_pte_v2,
-	.dma_bit_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(40),
-	.gfp_flags = 0,
+	.dma_bit_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(32),
+	.gfp_flags = GFP_DMA32,
 };
 
 static const struct of_device_id rk_iommu_dt_ids[] = {
-- 
2.30.2




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