From: Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@google.com>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
iommu@lists.linux.dev
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, maz@kernel.org,
oliver.upton@linux.dev, joey.gouly@arm.com,
suzuki.poulose@arm.com, yuzenghui@huawei.com, joro@8bytes.org,
jgg@ziepe.ca, mark.rutland@arm.com, qperret@google.com,
tabba@google.com, vdonnefort@google.com,
sebastianene@google.com, keirf@google.com,
Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v8 25/25] KVM: arm64: Add documentation for pKVM DMA isolation
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:12:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260922131259.2975334-26-smostafa@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260922131259.2975334-1-smostafa@google.com>
Populate the section for DMA isolation in pKVM with the newly
added KVM IOMMU and pKVM SMMUv3 driver details.
Signed-off-by: Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@google.com>
---
Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst
index 514992a79a83..ce67e2ae1f9a 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst
@@ -77,7 +77,28 @@ Status: **Unimplemented.**
DMA isolation using an IOMMU
----------------------------
-Status: **Unimplemented.**
+Status: Supported for devices behind SMMUv3 supporting dual stages
+of translation.
+
+With ``CONFIG_ARM_SMMU_V3_PKVM``, the hypervisor will take over the SMMUs
+on the system and provide an architectural emulation to the kernel SMMUv3
+driver.
+
+If some devices are not behind an IOMMU or behind another IOMMU architecture,
+DMA isolation is not supported, as a driver must be provided for that.
+
+DMA isolation is enforced by dual stages of translation; similar to the CPU
+where a driver can register their ops through ``kvm_iommu_register_driver``
+and implement ``host_stage2_idmap`` to shadow the CPU page table.
+
+The page tables for the stage-2 SMMUv3 will be allocated from a pool created
+at boot with size configured from the command line "kvm-arm.iommu_pgt_mem"
+The size must cover the worst case scenario for leaf mappings of system memory.
+
+This implementation trusts the system firmware not to allow the untrusted
+host kernel to bypass the SMMUv3.
+For example, by resetting the power. In that case, it is the firmware's
+responsibility to save/restore the SMMUv3 state.
Proxying of Trustzone services
------------------------------
--
2.55.0.1082.g2b9226bbc0-goog
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-22 13:12 [PATCH v8 00/25] KVM: arm64: SMMUv3 driver for pKVM (trap and emulate) Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 01/25] KVM: arm64: Donate MMIO to the hypervisor Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 02/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Move Queue and STE functions to header Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 18:23 ` Nicolin Chen
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 03/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Introduce RangeInval encoding helpers Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 18:45 ` Nicolin Chen
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 04/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Move IDR parsing to common functions Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 05/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Move hitless machinery to common code Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 06/25] KVM: arm64: iommu: Introduce IOMMU driver infrastructure Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 07/25] KVM: arm64: iommu: Shadow host stage-2 page table Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 08/25] KVM: arm64: iommu: Add memory pool Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 09/25] KVM: arm64: iommu: Support DABT for IOMMU Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 10/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Add SMMUv3 driver Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 11/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Add the kernel driver Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 12/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Probe SMMU HW Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 13/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Add MMIO emulation Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 14/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Shadow the command queue Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 15/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Add CMDQ functions Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 16/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Emulate CMDQ for host Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 17/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Shadow stream table Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 18/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Shadow STEs Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 19/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Share other queues Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 20/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Emulate GBPA Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 21/25] iommu/io-pgtable-arm: Support io-pgtable-arm in the hypervisor Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 22/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Shadow the CPU stage-2 page table Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 23/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Invalidate the SMMU TLBs Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` [PATCH v8 24/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Enable nesting Mostafa Saleh
2026-09-22 13:12 ` Mostafa Saleh [this message]
2026-09-22 18:07 ` [PATCH v8 00/25] KVM: arm64: SMMUv3 driver for pKVM (trap and emulate) Nicolin Chen
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