[SRU][R:linux-gcp][PATCH 2/2] dma-buf: Split sgl by largest page-aligned chunk

Rickey Castillo rickey.castillo.valenzuela at canonical.com
Thu Sep 24 22:52:57 UTC 2026


From: David Hu <xuehaohu at google.com>

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2168494

Currently, `fill_sg_entry()` splits the scatterlist using `UINT_MAX`.
This creates a non-page-aligned DMA length (`0xFFFFFFFF`) for the
first entry, resulting in non-page-aligned DMA addresses for all
subsequent entries.

While the underlying IOMMU mapping may be contiguous, hardware
DMA engines often require explicit address alignment (e.g., page,
cacheline, or storage sector boundaries). Passing unaligned
addresses and lengths can cause explicit failures in DMA descriptor
creation or silent data corruption if lower unaligned bits are
truncated.

In addition, a non-page-aligned sgl length will trigger an edge case
in `ib_umem_find_best_pgsz()`. In case of a discontinuity in later
buffers, we will have a `va` with lowest bit set to 1. That will lead
to `ib_umem_find_best_pgsz()` always return 0, and break the promise
to find best page size for the mapping on the NIC side.

Fix this by splitting the scatterlist by the largest possible page
aligned chunk within `UINT_MAX` (`ALIGN_DOWN(UINT_MAX, PAGE_SIZE)`).
This ensures all scatterlist DMA addresses and lengths remain page
aligned, while minimizing the total number of sgl entries.

Page-aligned entries allow the system to cleanly chunk payloads into
PCIe MaxPayloadSize (MPS) (e.g., 128 bytes, 256 bytes, 512 bytes).
As a result, this may help reduce TLP fragmentation in P2P transfers
and alleviate potential congestion within a logical PCIe switch
partition, especially when Relaxed Ordering is not possible due to
hardware constraints.

Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot at kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260609165431.778061F00893@smtp.kernel.org/
Fixes: 3aa31a8bb11e ("dma-buf: provide phys_vec to scatter-gather mapping routine")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro at nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hu <xuehaohu at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260901170849.4052816-3-dhu@x6u.co
(cherry picked from commit 06dd5e1ae8ce4e129791087c8c66594950f0ba03)
Signed-off-by: Rickey Castillo <rickey.castillo.valenzuela at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-mapping.c | 19 +++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-mapping.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-mapping.c
index 80f6ab2f4809..833be519e1e6 100644
--- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-mapping.c
+++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-mapping.c
@@ -6,16 +6,17 @@
 #include <linux/dma-buf-mapping.h>
 #include <linux/dma-resv.h>
 #include <linux/overflow.h>
+#include <linux/align.h>
+
+#define MAX_SG_ENT_SZ ALIGN_DOWN(UINT_MAX, PAGE_SIZE)
 
 static struct scatterlist *fill_sg_entry(struct scatterlist *sgl, size_t length,
 					 dma_addr_t addr)
 {
-	unsigned int len, nents;
-	unsigned int i;
+	size_t len;
 
-	nents = DIV_ROUND_UP(length, UINT_MAX);
-	for (i = 0; i < nents; i++) {
-		len = min_t(size_t, length, UINT_MAX);
+	while (length) {
+		len = min(length, MAX_SG_ENT_SZ);
 		length -= len;
 		/*
 		 * DMABUF abuses scatterlist to create a scatterlist
@@ -25,8 +26,10 @@ static struct scatterlist *fill_sg_entry(struct scatterlist *sgl, size_t length,
 		 * does not require the CPU list for mapping or unmapping.
 		 */
 		sg_set_page(sgl, NULL, 0, 0);
-		sg_dma_address(sgl) = addr + (dma_addr_t)i * UINT_MAX;
+		sg_dma_address(sgl) = addr;
 		sg_dma_len(sgl) = len;
+		addr += len;
+		/* Unconditionally advance. On last segment, this becomes NULL */
 		sgl = sg_next(sgl);
 	}
 
@@ -42,7 +45,7 @@ static unsigned int calc_sg_nents(struct dma_iova_state *state,
 
 	if (!state || !dma_use_iova(state)) {
 		for (i = 0; i < nr_ranges; i++) {
-			unsigned int added = DIV_ROUND_UP(phys_vec[i].len, UINT_MAX);
+			unsigned int added = DIV_ROUND_UP(phys_vec[i].len, MAX_SG_ENT_SZ);
 
 			if (check_add_overflow(nents, added, &nents))
 				return 0;
@@ -53,7 +56,7 @@ static unsigned int calc_sg_nents(struct dma_iova_state *state,
 		 * for whole IOVA address space, but we need to make sure
 		 * that it fits sg->length, maybe we need more.
 		 */
-		nents = DIV_ROUND_UP(size, UINT_MAX);
+		nents = DIV_ROUND_UP(size, MAX_SG_ENT_SZ);
 	}
 
 	return nents;
-- 
2.53.0




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