From 94242a62c055700aac8a573853cbf7b45849975e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aleksei Nikiforov
 <103434461+AlekseiNikiforovIBM@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:16:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ggml-zdnn : mark zDNN buffers as non-host (#18967)

While buffers reside in host memory,
additional transformation is needed to use buffers with zDNN.

Fixes #18848
---
 ggml/src/ggml-zdnn/ggml-zdnn.cpp | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-zdnn/ggml-zdnn.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-zdnn/ggml-zdnn.cpp
index 906d25417e..9b6938abf7 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-zdnn/ggml-zdnn.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-zdnn/ggml-zdnn.cpp
@@ -372,7 +372,8 @@ static size_t ggml_backend_zdnn_buffer_type_get_alignment(ggml_backend_buffer_ty
 }
 
 static bool ggml_backend_zdnn_buffer_type_is_host(ggml_backend_buffer_type_t buft) {
-    return true;
+    /* while it resides in host memory, additional transformation is needed */
+    return false;
 
     GGML_UNUSED(buft);
 }