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commit7170130e4cupstream. 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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