commit 7170130e4c upstream.
As Bert Karwatzki reported, the following recent commit causes a
performance regression on AMD iGPU and dGPU systems:
7ffb791423 ("x86/kaslr: Reduce KASLR entropy on most x86 systems")
It exposed a bug with nokaslr and zone device interaction.
The root cause of the bug is that, the GPU driver registers a zone
device private memory region. When KASLR is disabled or the above commit
is applied, the direct_map_physmem_end is set to much higher than 10 TiB
typically to the 64TiB address. When zone device private memory is added
to the system via add_pages(), it bumps up the max_pfn to the same
value. This causes dma_addressing_limited() to return true, since the
device cannot address memory all the way up to max_pfn.
This caused a regression for games played on the iGPU, as it resulted in
the DMA32 zone being used for GPU allocations.
Fix this by not bumping up max_pfn on x86 systems, when pgmap is passed
into add_pages(). The presence of pgmap is used to determine if device
private memory is being added via add_pages().
More details:
devm_request_mem_region() and request_free_mem_region() request for
device private memory. iomem_resource is passed as the base resource
with start and end parameters. iomem_resource's end depends on several
factors, including the platform and virtualization. On x86 for example
on bare metal, this value is set to boot_cpu_data.x86_phys_bits.
boot_cpu_data.x86_phys_bits can change depending on support for MKTME.
By default it is set to the same as log2(direct_map_physmem_end) which
is 46 to 52 bits depending on the number of levels in the page table.
The allocation routines used iomem_resource's end and
direct_map_physmem_end to figure out where to allocate the region.
[ arch/powerpc is also impacted by this problem, but this patch does not fix
the issue for PowerPC. ]
Testing:
1. Tested on a virtual machine with test_hmm for zone device inseration
2. A previous version of this patch was tested by Bert, please see:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d87680bab997fdc9fb4e638983132af235d9a03a.camel@web.de/
[ mingo: Clarified the comments and the changelog. ]
Reported-by: Bert Karwatzki <spasswolf@web.de>
Tested-by: Bert Karwatzki <spasswolf@web.de>
Fixes: 7ffb791423 ("x86/kaslr: Reduce KASLR entropy on most x86 systems")
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer <pierre-eric.pelloux-prayer@amd.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250401000752.249348-1-balbirs@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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