From: Matteo Kloiber <kernel@matt3o12.de>
To: dakr@kernel.org, acourbot@nvidia.com
Cc: aliceryhl@google.com, ojeda@kernel.org, airlied@gmail.com,
simona@ffwll.ch, abdiel.janulgue@gmail.com,
daniel.almeida@collabora.com, robin.murphy@arm.com,
a.hindborg@kernel.org, nova-gpu@lists.linux.dev,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, driver-core@lists.linux.dev,
rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Matteo Kloiber <kernel@matt3o12.de>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] rust: honor the maximum DMA segment size
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2026 01:32:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260831233215.287881-1-kernel@matt3o12.de> (raw)
Booting nova-core against a real GSP with CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG=y warns
when the ~60 MiB firmware image is mapped as a scatter-gather table:
DMA-API: nova-core 0000:00:03.0: mapping sg segment longer than
device claims to support [len=62914560] [max=65536]
There are two separate issues behind it.
Patch 1 has nova-core declare the segment size it actually supports. It
re-decomposes every segment into 4 KiB GSP page-table entries, so it has
no upper bound on segment length.
Furthermore, I also checked what other GPUs do, and most do the same:
set the max segment size u32::MAX. So this should be the correct
behavior for nova as well.
Patch 2 has SGTable::new() honor dma_get_max_seg_size() in addition to
dma_max_mapping_size(). The abstraction is generic, so a driver with a
real hardware segment limit would otherwise silently be handed segments
it cannot express in a single descriptor.
Tested on an RTX 5080 (GB203) passed through to a QEMU guest via VFIO
with CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG=y: the warning is gone, and GSP boot and RPC
still work.
Discussed on Zulip:
https://rust-for-linux.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/509436-Nova/topic/nova.20core.3A.20DMA-API.3A.20nova-core.200000.3A00.3A03.2E0.3A.20mapping.20sg.20segme/with/618319830
Matteo Kloiber (2):
gpu: nova-core: declare unlimited DMA max segment size
rust: scatterlist: honor the device's maximum segment size
drivers/gpu/nova-core/gpu.rs | 7 +++++++
rust/helpers/dma.c | 5 +++++
rust/kernel/scatterlist.rs | 12 ++++++++++--
3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
base-commit: cee9395acd8043be0644b25c34bfa86623f2b935
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2.51.2
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2026-08-31 23:32 Matteo Kloiber [this message]
2026-08-31 23:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] gpu: nova-core: declare unlimited DMA max segment size Matteo Kloiber
2026-08-31 23:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] rust: scatterlist: honor the device's maximum " Matteo Kloiber
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