[PATCH RESEND] dt-bindings: PCI: mediatek-gen3: Allow memory-region for restricted DMA buffer

[PATCH RESEND] dt-bindings: PCI: mediatek-gen3: Allow memory-region for restricted DMA buffer

[Chen-Yu Tsai]

On some SoCs without an IOMMU behind the PCIe controller, the PCIe
controller memory access could be limited to a small region by the
firmware configuring a memory protection unit. This memory region
must be assigned to the PCIe controller so that the OS knows to
use that region. Otherwise PCIe devices would not work properly.

Allow the memory-region property with one item pointing to a
restricted DMA buffer.

Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org>
---
Can we get this merged for v7.2? A matching device tree change was
already merged in v7.2-rc1.


 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/mediatek-pcie-gen3.yaml | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/mediatek-pcie-gen3.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/mediatek-pcie-gen3.yaml
index fbc0378392d4..b88717dec1fa 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/mediatek-pcie-gen3.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/mediatek-pcie-gen3.yaml
@@ -116,6 +116,10 @@ properties:
   power-domains:
     maxItems: 1
 
+  memory-region:
+    maxItems: 1
+    description: phandle to restricted DMA buffer
+
   mediatek,pbus-csr:
     $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/phandle-array
     items:
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Re: [PATCH RESEND] dt-bindings: PCI: mediatek-gen3: Allow memory-region for restricted DMA buffer

[sashiko-bot]

> On some SoCs without an IOMMU behind the PCIe controller, the PCIe
> controller memory access could be limited to a small region by the
> firmware configuring a memory protection unit. This memory region
> must be assigned to the PCIe controller so that the OS knows to
> use that region. Otherwise PCIe devices would not work properly.
> 
> Allow the memory-region property with one item pointing to a
> restricted DMA buffer.
> 
> Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
> Acked-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org>

Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues. It looks great!

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Re: [PATCH RESEND] dt-bindings: PCI: mediatek-gen3: Allow memory-region for restricted DMA buffer

[Manivannan Sadhasivam]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 05:21:15PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> On some SoCs without an IOMMU behind the PCIe controller, the PCIe
> controller memory access could be limited to a small region by the
> firmware configuring a memory protection unit. This memory region
> must be assigned to the PCIe controller so that the OS knows to
> use that region. Otherwise PCIe devices would not work properly.
> 
> Allow the memory-region property with one item pointing to a
> restricted DMA buffer.
> 
> Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
> Acked-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org>
> ---
> Can we get this merged for v7.2? A matching device tree change was
> already merged in v7.2-rc1.
> 

This is not a bug fix, so not sure if this patch can be applied for 7.2. But DTS
change getting applied before the binding change was a mistake first of all.

- Mani

> 
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/mediatek-pcie-gen3.yaml | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/mediatek-pcie-gen3.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/mediatek-pcie-gen3.yaml
> index fbc0378392d4..b88717dec1fa 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/mediatek-pcie-gen3.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/mediatek-pcie-gen3.yaml
> @@ -116,6 +116,10 @@ properties:
>    power-domains:
>      maxItems: 1
>  
> +  memory-region:
> +    maxItems: 1
> +    description: phandle to restricted DMA buffer
> +
>    mediatek,pbus-csr:
>      $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/phandle-array
>      items:
> -- 
> 2.55.0.229.g6434b31f56-goog
> 

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Re: [PATCH RESEND] dt-bindings: PCI: mediatek-gen3: Allow memory-region for restricted DMA buffer

[Manivannan Sadhasivam]

On Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:21:15 +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> On some SoCs without an IOMMU behind the PCIe controller, the PCIe
> controller memory access could be limited to a small region by the
> firmware configuring a memory protection unit. This memory region
> must be assigned to the PCIe controller so that the OS knows to
> use that region. Otherwise PCIe devices would not work properly.
> 
> Allow the memory-region property with one item pointing to a
> restricted DMA buffer.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

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Best regards,
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