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[2a02:3100:b3d9:b901:402:5aad:ef4:88ac]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-485883c6ba4sm53896552f8f.25.2026.09.09.23.24.47 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:24:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:24:45 +0200 From: Karl Mehltretter To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Russell King , Nicolas Pitre , Marek Szyprowski , Robin Murphy , iommu@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: dma-mapping: split cache maintenance at highmem boundary Message-ID: References: <20260909064443.90544-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.9.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20260909_232450_736281_4E01C0C5 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 17.03 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Wed, Sep 09, 2026 at 09:24:23AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I can see how the fix addresses the problem, but I don't yet see > how you can arrive in this situation. What type of memory allocation > can produce a physically contiguous page range from multiple > zones? > Hi Arnd, You're right that a buddy allocation cannot span zones. I found this issue during code review while investigating another ARM DMA issue. I plan to post a patch for that soon. My Pi test deliberately reserved the last lowmem and first highmem pages in DT. It confirms the crash with a crossing SG entry, but I have not found an ordinary workload that creates one. I should have made that clear in the changelog. In a follow-up QEMU test, sg_alloc_table_from_pages() merged the reserved pair into one 8192-byte entry. It checks that the pages are physically adjacent but does not check page_zone(). I also searched a bit for a real-world example. Rockchip's vendor 4.4 boot-logo code looks like a possible case: it builds an SG table from firmware-reserved pages and calls dma_map_sg() when no display IOMMU is used. Product logs show the boot-logo feature in use, but I found no record of its reserved memory crossing the lowmem/highmem boundary. Such a crossing seems unlikely. I still think the change is worthwhile. For v2, I will update the changelog to make the test setup and its limits clear. I may also drop the Cc: stable tag. Thanks, Karl