From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
To: Timo Witte <timo.witte@gmail.com>, iommu@lists.linux.dev
Cc: m.szyprowski@samsung.com,
"robin.murphy@arm.com" <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
joro@8bytes.org,
"alexander.deucher@amd.com" <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] iommu/dma: "Not yet supported" CC_SHARED rejection regresses dma_alloc_attrs() on SME hosts with IOMMU-attached GPUs (commit 8277a12d0d60)
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:45:36 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq5ao6egyn5j.fsf@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANB4YXR7h8V5Xp=MXVZeSdvw9UiriSagp=E+ju5RRDNghoPHLQ@mail.gmail.com>
Timo Witte <timo.witte@gmail.com> writes:
> Commit 8277a12d0d60 ("dma-pool: track decrypted atomic pools and select
> them via attrs") added to iommu_dma_alloc():
>
> /* Not yet supported */
> if (is_alloc_cc_shared)
> return NULL;
>
> dma_alloc_attrs() auto-sets __DMA_ATTR_ALLOC_CC_SHARED whenever
> force_dma_unencrypted() is true. On an SME host (mem_encrypt=on) an AMD
> GPU with a 44-bit DMA mask hits that condition, so every GTT (system-RAM)
> allocation fails with NULL/-ENOMEM, amdgpu init aborts and the system
> boots without a display.
> IOMMU in Translated/DMA-FQ mode (iommu group 29).
>
> Before the mentioned patch it worked: the IOMMU PTE carries the SME C-bit,
> so the memory controller transparently decrypts for the device while pages
> stay
> encrypted at rest. For IOMMU-backed devices force_dma_unencrypted() is a
> false positive - the device DMA mask does not limit addressing once the
> IOMMU translates, so CC_SHARED should not be auto-set for them.
>
This means that, with host memory encryption, DMA does not need to be
forced unencrypted when the device uses the IOMMU?
modified arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <linux/cc_platform.h>
#include <linux/mem_encrypt.h>
#include <linux/virtio_anchor.h>
+#include <linux/iommu-dma.h>
#include <asm/sev.h>
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ bool force_dma_unencrypted(struct device *dev)
* device does not support DMA to addresses that include the
* encryption mask.
*/
- if (cc_platform_has(CC_ATTR_HOST_MEM_ENCRYPT)) {
+ if (cc_platform_has(CC_ATTR_HOST_MEM_ENCRYPT) && !use_dma_iommu(dev)) {
u64 dma_enc_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(__ffs64(sme_me_mask));
u64 dma_dev_mask = min_not_zero(dev->coherent_dma_mask,
dev->bus_dma_limit);
-aneesh
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2026-09-02 9:59 ` [BUG] iommu/dma: "Not yet supported" CC_SHARED rejection regresses dma_alloc_attrs() on SME hosts with IOMMU-attached GPUs (commit 8277a12d0d60) Aneesh Kumar K.V
2026-09-02 10:15 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2026-09-02 18:26 ` Deucher, Alexander
2026-09-07 8:25 ` Marek Szyprowski
2026-09-07 13:55 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2026-09-07 20:35 ` Timo Witte
2026-09-09 11:26 ` Vasant Hegde
2026-09-01 21:09 Timo Witte
2026-09-02 10:20 ` Mostafa Saleh
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